Beauty Squared Round-Up - December 7, 2014

Good morning and a happy Sunday to you.

We hope you are having a good weekend and that you'll find the links we've gathered for you this week to be interesting, informative and entertaining.

• Yves St. Laurent beauty counters at Bay stores in Toronto and Montreal are featuring Google Glass makeup applications. What happens is the YSL MUA wears Google Glass while doing your makeup so you can watch the video recorded later and see exactly what makeup was used and how it was applied so you can recreate the look at home. Here's Janine of Beauty Geeks talking about her experience with this.
  
• Three ways to make your lipstick last, no matter what you're eating and drinking or who you're kissing.
  
• XOVain takes a look at the makeup and hair of the 1940s, when American women took active roles in the war effort and beauty was seen as patriotism.
  
• How to apply liquid eyeliner quickly and easily.
  
• Alle of XOVain shows us her minimal makeup routine. 

Beauty Squared Round-Up - December 22, 2013

Hello lovelies! We hope you're staying warm and full of holiday cheer. There are only three days until Christmas!

If you need a break from baking or family or wrapping gifts, here are some beauty links for you....

• Fashion Magazine's Beauty Panel share their best beauty tricks and tips.
• Nylon has a sneak peek of Cara Delevingne's new Yves St. Laurent campaign and tells you how to get her beauty look. 
• Steal actor Elizabeth Olin's secretly sparkly eye look. 
• Nylon claims that actor Margot Robbie's got her eye makeup matching her earrings. I don't see it myself, though both her earrings and her makeup are fantastic. Nylon does tell you how to achieve the look though, so that's worth it!
• It's so easy to make your own body scrubs and body scrubs are skin savers at this time of year, aren't they? Here's one that uses coconut oil and granulated sugar - yes, you can eat it too.
• Waterproof nail polish? I didn't know nail polish wasn't waterproof. But then I read this. 
• Love how false eyelashes can look but hate that they can look so fake? New Beauty has some tips on how to make false lashes look real. 
• MUA Andi Yancey shares her tips on creating a cat eye on different eye shapes - almond eyes, hooded eyes, monolid eyes and round eyes. 
• Sam of Pixiwoo has done a video tutorial on Alexa Chung's edgy, polished and sexy eye makeup - one of my all-time favourite looks.
• Artist Anna Hill has created a series of fake ads by using commonly used image editing tools to alter photos of herself in order to critique the overuse of Photoshop in today's mainstream advertising. 
• Jenna Talackova is best known as the Miss Universe contestant who was disqualified when it came to light that she had been born a male even though she's had gender reassignment surgery and has identified as a female since she was 19. Elle Canada has a feature on the actor and model.