October 2006 

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What's Hot

Feature this month is Hair Care!

November’s skin care issue will be included in the Winter 2007 issue due January 2007.

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A message from Shirley

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fall is here. The kids are settled back in school, routines are
re-established and now Christmas is coming!

In our hectic lives, Thanksgiving is a time do to just that,
give thanks!

Let us take a quiet moment to reflect on the good things in our lives. Positive affirmations bring on a sense of joy and peace.

As I count my blessings, you, the Looking Your Best clients, bring sunshine everyday. I send a heartfelt thank-you for believing you can “Look Your Best”.

Warmly,
Shirley Borrelli

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Fashion

This fall, layers are in!

Here are 10 tips on how to layer successfully:

Monochromatic layers: Tristan & America

1. Monochromatic layers - black with charcoal, brown with camel gives a modern twist to “same colour dressing from head to toe”. Slimming if layers are kept neat!
2. Keep proportions in balance – balance a wide pant with a narrow top (good for curvy body shapes) OR skinny jeans with a big volume top (beware hourglass).
3. Add a single accent colour to your monochromatic outfit. Try RED!
4. Accessories are piled on this fall. Try:
   1. Opaque or textured tights
   2. Ruched gloves
   3. A scarf or two
   4. A big belt (round body shapes beware)
   5. Hat (knitted cap)
   6. Hobo bag or satchel
   7. Round toe shoe or boot
5. Pull the layer together with a wide belt cinched at the waist.
6. High heeled platform shoes are hot! (Best for the under 35 crowd!)
7. Stilettos are out! (Wear a more subtle heel.)
8. Mix textures when layering:
   1. Corduroy with suede or faux fur
   2. Fine knits with chunkier knits
   3. Cashmere/tweed/ruffles
9. Dark neutral colours (wear your darkest neutral tone from your personal book of colour).
10. Only for the tall (5’7”+) neo-grunge: loose layers on top slouchy pants on the bottom.

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Beauty: Hair Care

Fall is a time that you are probably ready for a new “look”. Here are some ideas:

SHORT HAIR: try a pixie-style with several layers.

LONG HAIR: add some wave with large rollers.

Hair colour for fall:

• keep your colour natural for the least amount of maintenance
• jazz up your look with a few pieces of colour like toffee, chocolate brown, plum, red
• to know exactly what colour, consider Looking Your Best’s Colour Analysis Package. Take all the guess work out of your hair colour and makeup choices - www.lookingyourbest.biz for more info

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Hair Products

Thick, coarse, curly hair:

• use a moisturizing hair masque once/week
• have your hair trimmed regularly
• ask your stylist if you need a protein based product to build flexibility and strength in your hair

Leave-in conditioner

• for detangling and reducing frizzies
• protects your hair from the heat of curling or flat irons and blow-drying

Silicone Serums

• detangles fine hair and works great mixed with gels or waxes to “loosen” them up
• provides amazing shine

Colour Treated Hair

• extend your hair colour 115% longer with specially formulated colour shampoos and conditioners. They provide a weightless seal to smooth, moisturize and maintain your hair colour

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We Recommend

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What's New

Welcome to your “renovated” newsletter. Looking Your Best will be moving to a quarterly newsletter publication starting in January 2007 with our winter issue, then Spring (April 2007), Summer (July 2007) and Fall (October 2007). Look for special release issues intermittently throughout the year as well.

Please send any beauty and fashion questions you have to Looking Your Best and Shirley will be glad to publish them along with the answer in the next newsletter.

Thank you to Win Day from WildRose Websites (www.wildrosewebsites.com) for her dedication to bring you the best newsletter format possible.

Featuring:

Sheri Chute

"A wonderful experience… It is great to feel beautiful."

Win Day

"Thank you! I was looking for a new, updated, more professional image for me to accompany the complete rebranding and refocus of my business, and you sure came through!"

Archives

View the Looking Your Best article archives online:

September 2006
"Fall Fashion Trends"

July 2006
"Make-up Essentials"

June 2006
"Sun & Swim"

May 2006
"What is Your Image?"

Q&A

Q. In your September issue, you said the make-up trend for fall is a smoky eye and bold lip. What is a smoky eye and how do I do it?

A. The smoky eye is an attractive eye shadow placement technique that basically means it’s all smudged and usually uses darker eye shadow colours.

Here’s how:
Choose a darker eye shadow colour and a lighter eye shadow colour. With an eye shadow brush, apply the darker shade up to your crease (basically cover your entire lid and the stroke just before it becomes the fleshy part of your eye). From your crease, use the lighter colour up to your eyebrow. Next, wet an angled eye shadow brush and use the same darker eye shadow as eyeliner along the top and bottom lashes. Keep the liner smudged into the lash line. Blend the darker colour well into the lighter colour. Key: no definite line. You want a smudgy/smoky affect. Lastly coat lashes with volumizing mascara.

Q. Open-toed shoes are in for fall. What kind of hosiery should I wear?

A. Opaque tights (dark neutral); 60’s fishnet or a patterned black tight. The tight and shoe doesn’t have to be all one colour. However, petites and triangles who want to lengthen their legs should keep the hose and shoe in the same tone.

White tights may look great on the runway but are a definite NO! on the street.

Linen coloured hose from the 80’s should also be traded in for a deeper skin tone colour.

Q. What is the best way to freshen up my look now that I’ve turned 40?

A. This is a great question that I actually get asked quite often. Here are 3 simple ways to ensure you Look Your Best going into your 40’s:

1. Stop dressing like your teenage daughter! Only a few inverted triangles and round body shapes or the very lean should wear low riders. Go for a mid-rise (1-2 inches below your belly-button) and straight leg pant shape that looks more like trouser.

2. Stop backcombing and using hair spray. Try a softer style that moves with you.

3. No more black eye liner all the way around your eyes. Try this fall’s smoky eye with shades of plum, charcoal or chocolate brown.

Have a beauty or fashion question for Shirley?  Submit them to Looking Your Best here and look for a response in the next newsletter.