Celebrity makeup artist Pat McGrath recommends applying a light metallic shadow on the inner corners of your eyelids and beige liner to your inner eye rims. This adds a little brightness around your eyes and helps maximize the wattage of your glow. (Try COVERGIRL Intense Shadow Blast in Beige Blaze, $7.99.)
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Sweep on some shimmer
Give your face a bronze glow like Selena Gomez's using this trick used by makeup artists Dick Page and Sue Devitt: Dust a translucent, shimmery blush or bronzer all the way across your cheekbones, forehead and jawline, and down the bridge of your nose. (Try COVERGIRL TruBlend Minerals Bronzer, $7.99.)
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Add a bronze finish
Self tanner can give your entire body a soft, healthy-looking glow, but an even easier and faster technique is to do what celebrity makeup artist Heba Thorisdottir did for Kristen Wiig at the Academy Awards: Use a brush to dust bronzing powder along your d�colletage and shoulders, and down your arms (try Vincent Longo Sun Bronzer for Face and Body, $32).
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Glow from the inside out
Boost your skin's natural glow with skin-plumping foods that contain anti-inflammatory, omega-3 fatty acids (i.e., oily fish such as salmon or mackerel, walnuts, flaxseeds), as well as fresh vegetables and berries. Also, drink more water and green tea, which contains skin-friendly antioxidants.
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The #1 skin-dulling habit you should quit ...
Dermatologist Andrew Weil, MD, attributes extremely dry skin, wrinkles, puffiness, and sensitivity to abnormal inflammation of the skin, which can be aggravated by tobacco smoke. So if you want skin that radiates from within, put down those cigarettes!
You can have your of-the-moment neon polishes and orange lipsticks. But whatever the season and whichever the year, beautiful, glowing, healthy skin is always paramount in style. That's why, regardless of "who" they're wearing or which pro did their makeup, red-carpet posing celebs and strutting cat walkers all seem to have a shine to their skin when the rest of us look lackluster. What are they doing that we aren't?
As it turns out, not much. For all their wealth and pelf and fame, stars have skin problems too. (I know -- I've seen an A-lister actually apologize to her makeup artist for breaking out. Such a fun moment!) They also get dull and flaky skin, broken blood vessels, scars, and all those other pesky imperfections, just like the rest of us.
The difference is that while they have access to teams of beauty pros who can erase the evidence and transform them into radiant goddesses, we are left to our own devices -- and, in today's case anyway, some valuable secrets I managed to eke out of a few top-notch beauty teams.
From how to clean your face to what you put in your body, here are my favorite pro tips on getting, maintaining, enhancing, and even faking your way to a gorgeous glow. I use them all the time, and now you're going to want to use them, too.
