Welcome Beauty Enthusiast!

Hello Beauty Enthusiast! Welcome to my new blog. I am so excited to share my experiences, my knowledge, and ultimately my passion with you! Rest assured I am the Make-Up and Anti-Aging Guru and it is my desire to share all of the best tips and tricks. I can't wait to introduce you to what I call the dream team that I work with, have fun with, and continue my education with....everyone necessary to find the fountain of you!


A couple years ago, I turned my passion into a reality by launching my own cosmetic line, Bisou Cosmetics. You can check it out at http://www.bisoucosmetics.com/. With years of special training and expertise in the beauty and skincare industry, it has been my goal to deliver a line that was for every-woman.


While I have a plethora of info to share from soup to nuts- we must all agree with one thing first. You can put lipstick on a pig but a pig is still a pig. In other words the term "beauty" is just not on the surface. Beauty doesn't strictly come from within jars, bottles, and syringes - if you are going to make the effort to beautify your outside let's also take a journey to match that outer beauty with your inner beauty! Yes we will do some soul searching on this blog also.


Having said that......It is my firm belief that no woman should be left alone to wander the cosmetic counters. Just take a look at that junk drawer of useless and endless beauty products that looked great on the shelves when you made that impulsive purchase but fell short of delivering what they promised. Now would be a good time to empty out that drawer and start from scratch. My motto is - If you haven't used it in 6 months chances are you are NEVER going to use it. Don't be afraid to trash items. Making space in every area of your life is super healthy- it is great for welcoming in the NEW AND IMPROVED YOU!


Today thousands of women have experienced Bisou Cosmetics as not only a cosmetic product but also an informational forum on how to make the most out of your make-up. Now I would like thousands of people to know me as just THE MAKE-UP GURU!


My experiences as a make-up artist in travel, life, and business has left me with a lot to say. Having a cultural background I have tried things from all over the world from what you would consider the stangest beauty ideals like spackling my face with sugar cane to 90210 Red Carpet lavish diamond tip microdermabrasion. I know the secret behind why Kim Kardashians eyes pop and how Jennifer Lopez's skin glows.

Ask me about any product on the market from CVS to Neiman Marcus - I will tell you what is the bombdiggity and what quite frankly what sucks lemons.

In the over saturated world of beauty and unrealistic stereotypes, I want to make one thing clear. My goal is not to transform you into a celebrity look-alike. I want you to feel and look like a celebrity in your own right.

I hope to make you a loyal reader and follower of this beauty blog where life imitates beauty. So now I ask you to pour your glass of Vino and embark on this fantabulous beauty journey with me. :)

xoxoxox

Leslie Welton
THE MAKE-UP GURU


Sunday, May 2, 2010

EMBRACE DON'T ERASE














A LESSON IN CHANGE

(SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS)
"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind." (Henry Wadsworth)


As I listened to a very profound message at church today, I started to feel like perhaps I was right where I was suppose to be. It was obvious that powers beyond me and my control wanted to remind me of core messages that I seemed to have abandoned these past few weeks. You see, I like most of you reading this blog have my moments when I get stuck reflecting on memories that are bitter sweet. The times I call SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS. Moments that are nice to reflect on but hinder your progression to make new memories if you are not careful.


Pastor Mark very eloquently said "When your memories exceed your dreams your life is over." I am here to remind you not to live in the past. To have joyful memories we have to make new memories daily. Let's face it, we are all going to die one day. Some of us may be given more time than others but, we are all going to pass on eventually. That doesn't mean we have to go out and party like it is 1999 Prince Style and be reckless, but it means we need to be AWARE with gratitude that we have been given another breath of air to make a new memory for today - to speak, share, touch and be used as a vessel!


I recently had the misfortune of burying someone I really cared about, my uncle Fernando. His life was one of promise and hope until he allowed himself to be frozen in time. He reached his "thought to be" pinnacle of success in the 90s. (Business, expanding family, and love...you name it.) Eventually he would lose everything in what seemed to be an instant but really it was a long 15 year process. He slowly allowed an alcohol addiction to make him believe that he would never have his dreams surpass his past memories. It was very painful to watch how one man's inability to make new memories made a stream of hearts stagnant all around him.



For years all of us as a family watched and listened to him reflect on pictures, moments, and feelings of the past. Conversation would never be about tomorrow. As we all became busy making new memories he was still talking about childhood memories, achievements, and people. With each drink he would delve further back in time until he was paralyzed by his own defeat.

I have to believe that my uncle's recent death, in addition to the message at church was a nudge for me to share my thoughts on this topic. ABANDON the memories of yesterday. Use today as the stepping stone to your new stair well to the future. Life isn't meant to be repeated or be done over, it is meant to be a journey of self acceptance and love. What you were yesterday is nothing compared to what you can be tomorrow.

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you." (unknown)


Today's Blog is a lesson in Embrace Don't Erase:









On a daily basis women shy away from embracing their age! Are we so conditioned to do everything we can to "look and feel younger" that we can't love the age we're in? At the same time this message is not a green light to let one self go but perhaps be more gentle.


When Dove launched it's Pro Age campaign I was thrilled, but I didn't have much hope for the survival of this campaign. Having worked in the stereotypical high fashion industry, I found it amazing that women of all shapes and sizes collaborated to let it all hang out and change the face of acceptable.
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Three years later I am elated to announce that this campaign is still going strong. This just proves that we, as a society, are starving to change the image of perfection and beauty.
In a day where runway fashion models are dropping dead like flies from anorexia to meet the norm among their coworkers and role models, IT IS ABOUT FLIPPING TIME we enjoy the day and embrace a curvy booty and smile lines - for it may be our last day to express that smile or show off those dangerous curves ;). _______________________________________________TODAY IS THE DAY - you are worthy to make new memories and not live in yesterday's size 2 image or nostalgia of yesterday's love. Evolving is a wonderful and BEAUTIFUL thing - it is the difference between diapers and toilets. ENJOY THE DAY AND LAUGH!
BOATS AGAINST THE CURRENT - GREAT CLIP
xoxoxoxo Leslie (R.I.P. FERNIE you are loved)
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