Spring, Summer Beauty Guide: How To Look Your Best This Season!

It’s finally warming up and that means we can amp up our beauty game since we don’t have to worry about scarves covering our mouths and ruining our lipstick, hats hiding a gorgeous hair, turtle neck sweaters stained with foundation and just all the hassle of looking flawless while you have to deal with freezing temperatures. As nature blooms, so should we, so why not do it with these amazing products that will have you looking like a beauty queen in no time! In this guide, I’m focusing on hair, face, nails and body and giving you recommendations of products that I’ve tried and loved as they actually work wonders.

Hair:

Want to look like your hair was styled by a celebrity stylist but without the cost? First you need healthy hair, and there’s no other way to get it than with John Frieda’s Luxurious Volume 7 Day Volume In-Shower Treatment. This is a semi-permanent treatment that boosts hair’s thickness and volume, starting in your own shower! Your hair will look visibly fuller, softer and will last for up to seven days with this transformative, lightweight treatment, and the best part is that you can get it for only $9.99 in any food, drug and mass retailers nationwide.

Now that you’ve got your amazing hair, you want to make sure it looks fab when you go out! We all know that with changing temperatures hair tends to get a bit frizzy and untamed, especially if you live in areas where humidity is a big deal. For that, we recommend John Frieda’s Frizz Ease Beyond Smooth Collection. This formula helps treat frizz from the inside and create more manageable, smoother hair over time. We personally love the Frizz Ease KeraFlex Flexible Hold hairspray as it gives you the perfect finish for a beautiful hair. This hairspray is infused with keratin and especially in the summer, you spray a little bit before you leave your home, and you won’t have to worry about looking like Mufasa while you deal with your commute. Also, the “flexible hold” allows your hair to flow naturally without looking too stiff.

Face:

As I said before, it’s time to up your makeup game! But before anything, you gotta make sure your lovely face is ready to go! And what better way to do that than with a full night’s sleep with Avon’s ANEW Clinical Overnight Hydration Mask. This is Avon’s first overnight sleep mask and boy did they threw it out of the ballpark with this one! This cream has the cutting-edge technology of encapsulated Hyaluronic Acid and penetrates deeply into the skin’s surface layers plumping, smoothing and providing ultimate hydration. And another plus, is that it’s great for sensitive skin like mine.

Once you get your full night’s sleep and wake up looking like a baby thanks to Avon’s ANEW Hydration Mask, you really won’t need a lot of makeup to look good, just the essentials. I love giving my eyes a “pop” with NYC New York Color’s eyeshadows. They’re super easy to put on, because they come shaped like a big pencil and they have amazing colors too. I personally love “East River Romance,” which is a deep blue that Demi Lovato has been seen wearing! (Talk about looking like a star!) And to finish up my eye game, I apply Lancôme’s Hypnôse Waterproof custom volume mascara, which increases my lash volume up to 6 times and lasts up to 16 hours!

Once my eyes are ready, I go straight to my lips! I’m completely obsessed with Avon’s Ultra Color Indulgence lipsticks. Besides making your lips look great, they actually hydrate them. My personal favorite is Pink Blossom and I like to finish the look with NYC New York Color’s Expert Last lip lacquer, which gives it a luscious glossy feel. The color that I like to pair with my Ultra Color lipstick is Lincoln Square Love Affair. Not even Angelina Jolie will have better lips than yours after this!

Nails:

Now that we don’t have to wear gloves anymore, there’s no better way than to showcase your lovely hands with funky manis! O.P.I has amazing colors in its new Hawaii Collection featuring my all-time favorite: “Pineapples Have Peelings Too!” It’s a gold shimmer with a lot of colorful sparkles. But if you’re on the calmer side, there’s the Softshades Collection that has he lovely “This Silver’s Mine” which looks tame but with an edge. Another obsession of mine is the textured looks and Sally Hansen’s Velvet Texture nail polish is everything right now! My favorite is “Crushed,” a fuchsia that will sure have everyone asking to touch your nails because they do look like velvet!

Body:

After such a cold winter, it is good to treat your whole body, hydrate it and protect it from the summer sun. Jergens BB Protect Perfecting Body Cream with Sunscreen not only does that, but it also corrects, refines and protects your skin. I started seeing the results 5 days into using it, and my body has definitely appreciated it. Another product that has been my savior now that we’re transitioning seasons has been the Jergens BB Hand Perfecting Cream with Sunscreen. I wash my hands all the time and the water dries them, and I’m constantly moisturizing but most creams leave my hands feeling sticky. Not this one. And besides hydrating and smoothing your skin, it helps protect your hands from the sun and rejuvenate them.

And last, but not least, summer’s hottest fragrance right now to finish your whole Spring/Summer makeover: Outspoken Fresh by Fergie. The name says it all. It’s a perfume you can wear in the mornings and it’s not going to be triggering your allergies. It’s very soft but the scent lasts the whole day and you end up smelling fantastic. It has citric flavors with a little bit of blackcurrant and sandalwood. It smells delicious!