1. Dry Lips

One of the most common complaints relating to harsh holiday weather is dry chapped lips. Not only are dry lips uncomfortable, but they can interfere with lipstick application and certainly look unsightly. Here's a tip guaranteed to deliver smooth, hydrated luscious looking lips. You won't believe how silky, plump and smooth your lips will look. Goodbye dry chapped lips forever!

1. After removing your lipstick, use a wet (wrung out) washcloth to vigorously "buff" the lip area. This provides just the right amount of exfoliation and removes dead dry skin, leaving behind a smooth surface.
2. Rub everything you use on your face – and over your lips – and be generous. This means moisturizers, Retin-A, AHA's, etc.
3. Finish with a sealant. Use something that is thick and emollient. This idea is to leave behind a barrier that sits on your lips throughout the night and prevents moisture from escaping. Some great examples are plain old Vaseline®, Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream, or Janet Sartin Superfatted Cream.
4. In the a.m., make certain you again massage your facial products onto your lip and finish with sunscreen.

C-ESTA Lips actually repairs the appearance of the aging and sun-damaged lip area. C-ESTA Lips can reduce the appearance of vertical lip lines (bleed lines), help plump and define lip contours, and give you smoother, softer, more hydrated lips.

2. Dark Undereye Circles

The second most common female complaint is dark circles. The primary cause of dark circles is hereditary influences. In particular, individuals with dark circles have blood vessels closer to the surface that are more visible through the thinner lower eyelid skin. However, as our dark circle sisters will attest, late nights, allergies, and the common cold, to name a few, can create fluctuating and inconsistent under eye area.

However there is help. Factor-A Eyes for Dark Circles contains a number of factors including Vitamin K and Retinol that can help to stabilize and minimize this temperamental area. The combinations of synergistic agents can dramatically address the appearance of dark circles. In addition continuous use ensures that under eyelid skin is more consistent throughout holiday partying, the cold winter season and life's other stressful challenges.

3. Dull Winter Skin

Whether your skin is dry or oily, colder winter weather can make any complexion look duller and less vibrant. While increased moisture helps to provide a protective barrier in harsh temperatures, moisturizers don't address skin that seems sluggish and looks like it's half hidden behind a dull layer of skin.

Even in winter months, exfoliation is a must for keeping facial skin looking polished and luminous with that perfect "airbrushed" look.

Some resurfacing agents can have an anti-inflammatory effect and can also boost the skin's ability to manufacture substances that retain water. A combination of acids, such as Bioclear, are perfect for this task. Plus these same agents can assist in keeping skin blemish-free as well as lessening the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. When your skin looks fresh and dewy, you look rested as well.

4. "Party Skin" Prevention and Maintenance

Believe it or not, a supplement can actually increase your skin's hydration and volume, making you look like you are glowing and moisturized from within.

Regardless of how much water you consume, as you age, you produce less of the substances that allow your body and skin to retain water. These substances are partly responsible for giving you that plumped up luscious moist quality as opposed to the more gaunt, less dense appearance of older and sun damaged skin.

C-ESTAMINS® with Biocell® delivers a revolutionary form of internal hyaluronic acid that is attached to a peptide, allowing for absorption. In the body, each molecule of hyaluronic acid absorbs and retains approximately 10,000 times its weight in water. This amazing breakthrough technology can and does make a rapid, visible improvement in skin texture and moisture content. Perfect prevention and maintenance for dehydrated party skin!

5. Dreaded "Before Party" Acne Breakout

I guarantee you that the unexpected and unwelcome breakout you have today was brewing long before it emerged to ruin your perfect holiday party. The best and most effective solution is prevention. The first must is a stellar, consistent skincare program designed to meet your specific needs and goals. Must #2 is a specific preventative measure that really works.

Step 1. Cleanse as usual in the PM.
Step 2. Apply your usual AHAs, serums, moisturizers, etc.
Step 3. Apply Benzoyl Peroxide 5% or 10% over your other products, only on the area or areas where breakouts tend to occur.

Putting the Benzoyl over the other products over the other products prevents unnecessary dryness. But keep in mind that this is a fabulous preventative, so you must continue even when you are breakout free.

6. Holiday Sun Protection

What's my #1 anti-aging tip? You've heard it before, but I can't stress it enough! Sunscreen. While short wave length UVB rays are weaker in the winter months, not so with UVS. The long UVS wavelengths are the same intensity all year long, even when it is cloudy, raining, or snowing. These rays penetrate your skin like an invisible X-ray, destroying collagen and elastin, and damaging the foundation of your firm youthful-looking skin. This damage may not show up for some time, but you can be certain that the groundwork has been imprinted into your DNA and it will manifest itself in unsightly lines and wrinkles, brown spots, coarse texture and sagging contours. Undisputed research confirms that faithful daily sunscreen users will be rewarded with softer, smoother, more youthful skin than their counterparts.

7. Pale Winter Skin

Here's the dilemma: You feel like your facial skin looks pasty white and your sunless tanner looks a little overdone for mid-winter. So how do you achieve that flawless, barely sun-kissed flattering glow? Put a dollop of your favorite moisturizer in your hand and add a pea to a dime-size amount of sunless tanner and mix them together. Then apply to entire face just like you would apply moisturizer. It's mistake-proof and delivers a subtle glow. You can incorporate this into your daily routine to maintain the perfect reflective hue.

8. The Dreaded "Bleeding" Lipstick or Lipgloss

Festive occasions hampered by cold drab winter call out for lipstick that features juicy reds and plumy wines, along with all the traditional vibrant deep shades. However even the most adept lipstick wearer is challenged by migrating lipstick that creeps into even nearly invisible lipliner and ruins a nicely defined lipline.

Here's a tip that is guaranteed to keep any lipstick or gloss from bleeding. (I can personally attest to a 23-hour plane trip to Brazil with a still perfect lip outline when I deplaned).

1. Exfoliate your lips to create a smooth canvas.
2. Moisturize.
3. Apply foundation over or around lips and blend thoroughly.
4. Take what is known as morticians' wax or clean eyebrow wax or (Benefit makes a product called DeGroovy). Use a flat line brush and apply the wax sparingly around your lipline, patting as you go. It should look like the wax is invisibly disappearing into the skin.
5. Dab translucent pressed powder over the top with a "pressing" motion.
6. Apply lipliner and lipstick or gloss.

You have now created an invisible barrier that will maintain the perfect lipline through hours of partying – including eating and drinking!

9. Ragged Dry Cuticles

Cold winter weather not only dries facial skin but also has the potential to ravage already dry cuticles. Here's a tip that's guaranteed to remove dead, ugly cuticles without cutting and leave behind soft, smooth skin around the nail area. This is accomplished via a technology that dissolves and dislodges dead, dry skin without harming normal skin. The result is miraculous!

1. Clean hands with a proteolytic enzyme cleanser (e.g., Clean Zyme Enzyme Cleanser).
2. Apply a proteolytic enzyme mask over cuticle area (e.g., Skin Zyme Enzyme Mask) or over entire hand. Leave on for 10-20 minutes.
3. Remove with Clean Zyme and rinse. Towel-dry and apply an emollient hand cream.

10. Put on Your "Party" Face

Look like you have just had an expensive facial by using Age Intervention Regeneration Facial Mask.

Apply the night before your special event and you will be amazed at how hydrated and flawlessly radiant your skin will appear. Not only will your skin immediately look gorgeous and refined, but the glow will last for days. Better yet, the anti-aging longevity molecule Resveratrol along with a powerful blend of anti-inflammatories, antioxidants and peptides will make your skin look progressively better with each application.

11. Another Year Younger in 2010

Start the New Year by "resetting your skins' "aging clock." You can actually look younger in 2010 than you did in 2009 with the miracle of telomerase enzyme. This emerging technology may hold the key to extending our lifespan and rejuvenating our entire body.

The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was recently awarded to three scientists who solved a major challenge in biology: how to protect chromosomes against degradation. The Nobel Laureates showed that the solution can be found at the ends of chromosomes in telomeres — long, thread-like DNA molecules that carry our genes — and in an enzyme that forms them — telomerase.

If the telomeres are shortened, cells age. Conversely, if telomerase activity is high, telomere length is maintained, and premature cellular aging is delayed. By helping to stabilize the telomere, we may be able to slow down the process of skin aging and provide the mechanism to assist our cells in "resetting their aging clocks."

Age Intervention Regeneration Booster combines telomerase enzyme with anti-inflammatory agents, select peptides and other proven significant skin enhancing ingredients, enabling the skin to appear dramatically younger. An independent clinical study demonstrates measurable and lasting improvements in the appearance of:

• Lines and wrinkles
• Elasticity
• Firmness
• Texture
• Discoloration
• Overall radiance, suppleness and hydration

Now you can benefit from a simple six week program that will have you looking years younger.

Viva the New Year and your new skin!