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How To Achieve the Older Look With Makeup by Christina Flach

Consider yourself lucky if you were blessed with a youthful face, but it's completely understandable the frustration that comes with remarks about looking younger than your actual age. This is where makeup can come into play. Using the following tips and tricks will allow your features to be more pronounced, yet not overwhelming.

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How to Prevent "Pale Blondes" Using Makeup

1. Using your favorite foundation add a tiny drop of a foundation that’s three shades darker to just warm up your skin a bit. It adds a touch of warmth and color without being too much.

2. Filling in your brows frames your eyes , gives a very polished look. When hair is very light you can look incredibly washed out with pale brows. Using a taupe shade of a brow pencil or a shadow, gives a soft subtle touch that will definitely accentuate your eyes.

3. Having light hair means that your lashes are typically very light . Using a dark brown or black mascara will definitely give a pop to your lashes and brighten up your eyes.

4. A classic red or fuchsia lip give a classic Hollywood touch.

5. A swipe of bronzer to cheeks,forehead and chin will give that look of being in Cabo for the weekend without the damage to your

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Adventure Attitude Podcast

Bay Area celebrity makeup artist and CEO of Pretty Girl Makeup,
Christina Flach joins us to talk about her amazing career, how she started the company and also an advocate for Sepsis awareness (her husband and pro tennis player Ken Flach passed in '18) plus how to be aware of this silent killer and she also shares very inspirational stories! Find out more about this very special lady at www.christinaflach.com !

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Japonesque Brow Partnership

Over the course of time, as everything else has, brows and brow shape have evolved as well. We’ve come a long way since the 20's; the poor brows were shaved and drawn back in. Dramatized in the 40’s by Joan Crawford, famous Mommy Dearest, was the queen of dramatic brows. Shortly after, Marilyn Monroe, American icon, had the ideal brow that was both full and wide set while simultaneously short and heavily arched. Brooke Shields had big and powerful brows in the 80's, followed by the super skinny brows of the 90's. These powerful women in America didn’t let their brows fall short as they’re both prominent and powerful features of the face. These women have laid the foundation for what would become the brow obsession today’s women have found themselves lost in trying to obtain the optimal, yet not overdone, brows that we see in all of Kim Kardashian West’s selfies.

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Natural Women

For women who cannot be bothered to spend several minutes contouring and highlighting their faces, 2020 will be a welcoming year. Pretty Girl Makeup creator and CEO Christina Flach predicts a resurgence in the natural, less dramatic look. The key is not to try to change the natural contours of the face but to promote its natural, innate beauty. Dew you! In keeping with the natural look, Christina Flach further predicts that dewy skin will be in this year. Women with dewy skin are perceived to be healthy and young-looking. In order to attain this look, we recommend trying out dewy finish foundations such as L’Oreal True Match and Max Factor Miracle Touch foundations. Original post featured on Allure

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Virtual Makeup Lessons with a Celebrity Makeup Artist

We are all trying our best to find our new normal, while at the same time looking something fun and productive to do during the Stay At Home Order.

I am sure each of your closets, garage, house and drawers are perfectly organized, so now what?

Each day, I am trying to do things that I normally don't have the time to do.

I must admit, I am used to going a million miles an hour being a Makeup Artist, Sepsis Advocate, Mother and being the CEO of Pretty Girl Makeup .

My photo shoots have all been put on hold, that my agent Brandi Moore of Artist Services has set up. The good news.. As soon as this passes, we will all be busy again and hopefully having learned some balance during this time. I have already seen that this "time out" is showing me that I need to slow down. Lesson learned Universe!

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WMAP Radio With Christina Flach

I had the pleasure of speaking with the lovely Capriani from WMAP Radio.

You can check out the interview here.

about all things Pretty and some things in my life that aren't so pretty, but are my reality. It's amazing how we all have many components of our life that are beautiful and exciting and then, of course, there is the reality of parts of our lives that are real and not always the most pleasant. But all these pieces of our life make us who we are and who we decide to be.

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