May 24, 2013

12 Best Bronzers to Fake a Tan.

May 24, 2013/

Yay for the long weekend coming up. With Memorial Day upon us and it being the unofficial start to summer, it is time to start thinking bronzers for faking that summer glow. Just a little bit of bronzer can do wonders for warming up your face and bringing a bronzed look to it.

Best Bronzers

Bronzer is really easy to use and the best part is that you can control how much you apply it too. If you want to just look a bit more warm, dust it on your cheeks lightly. If you want to look like the sun kissed your face, apply it with a brush where the sun would hit you - cheekbones, nose, center of forehead and your chin. If you want to look like you have a great tan, dust bronzer on like you would a powder - all over your face.

I have talked about bronzers a lot before. Last summer I even categorized them into my Favorite Drugstore Bronzers and my Favorite Luxury Bronzers. This list of bronzers are either bronzers that I continually use or have just discovered but have already become part of my bronzer rotation. You will notice that some were on my favorites list too. Think of this as my overall favorite bronzer list, updated for 2013.

Best Bronzers to Fake a Tan

1. Guerlain Terracotta 4 Seasons Bronzing Powder - $75.00
This luxury bronzer is perfect as it is "tailor made" for skin tones with four shades of bronzer in one palette. You can use each bronzer separately for each season or swirl them together like I do to get

Urban Decay NAKED Flushed.

February 19, 2013/

Urban Decay has expanded its' NAKED franchise even further with their latest, NAKED Flushed. NAKED Flushed is my kind of product. It is the perfectly sized compact with a Bronzer, Highlighter and Blush in one pan.

Urban Decay NAKED Flushed

Made with Urban Decay's new micronized, jet milled formula, the finish is super silky and feels luxurious on the skin. The colors couldn't be more perfect. The bronzer is a sheer medium bronze satin; the Blush is a Dusty Rose Satin with just a hint of shimmer; the Highlighter is a soft pink champagne shimmer.

Of course you can use each shade individually, but I especially like it when I blend them all together to create just the right effect on my cheeks. It simply makes my skin glow in a gorgeous sunset pink shade. I like to apply it by using UD's Good Karma Optical Blurring Brush. I swirl it into the compact, concentrating it more on the bronzer then picking up just a bit of the highlighter and blush, then gently swirl it onto my cheeks.

NAKED Flushed retails for $30.00 and is available from Sephora, ULTA and Macy's, beauty.com and urbandecay.com.

Urban Decay NAKED Flushed