“Wedding season” is here and your girlfriend’s are gearing up the biggest night of their life. As a guest, the search is on for the perfect cocktail dress, shoes that are comfortable to dance in all night and a hot date!

The bride is sure to look stunning and flawless on her day. And, with the endless opportunities for pictures and mingling, you should look your best, too! Keep our 3 tips in mind to get ready for the big night. With these guidelines, you won’t look underdone, overdone or unlike yourself – in fact, you’ll look just right – stunning and flawless.

• Even It Out - Most women simply do not need heavy foundation. Applying a thick, liquid foundation ages your look. Opt for a light, easy-to-apply product such as Mineral Pressed Powder. This provides just the right amount of coverage and tint. Apply with a large kabuki brush and make sure to tap off any excess powder. Quickly buff all over your face, paying special attention to your cheekbones.

• Choose One - One of the biggest makeup mistakes that is made is women who think that they need to highlight both their eyes and their mouth with a lot of color. To achieve a balanced look, decide which to highlight and which to downplay. How do you decide? Which of those features get you the most compliments on a regular basis? Do people comment on your bright blue eyes or are they a little jealous because you seem to have acquired an Angelina Jolie type pout naturally? If you choose to focus on your lips, then this is not the night for subtle colors! Reds are great choice for most skin tones - Long Lasting Lipcolor in Shelly is a flattering choice. For those women who aren’t feeling bold enough to carry off a red all night, then a deep pink shade like Janice is a great, fresh alternative. If you decided that the eyes have it, then the smoky eye is a fabulous look and easier to achieve than you might think. Dramatic color, luscious mascara and a great eyeliner like Potted Luxe Creme Eyeliner make the eyes pop. When your eyes are dramatic, make your lipcolor a light, neutral shade with just a subtle amount of gloss to it - Nudo or Carlina Lucious Lip Colors would be great choices!

• Smile! - However fabulous your make-up look is, you still won’t sparkle in those pictures unless you add a great big smile. After all who doesn't look more beautiful when they are happy and smiling?

Once winter gives way to spring, make up changes, too - or at least it should. What works in harsh winter is just too much for the days of sunny summer skies. That is especially true when it comes to you lips.

For a spring make-up look to be season-appropriate, you must find a good balance of colors. Although it is often considered very trendy, a candy red lip simply looks too harsh. However, don’t go bare and resort to lip gloss that will leave you feeling less than glamorous. As a beautiful, flattering alternative to red, the in-color for 2012 is the orchid lip.

An orchid lip - one by definition that is a purplelish-pink - adds color without being too striking or overpowering. Our favorite lip look for spring is created using our Fluhme Tiffany long lasting lipcolor, the perfect shade of orchid because it is sedate enough for the office but dramatic enough for a night out after work is done.

Beauty tip: all you need to do to transform a work look to a night look is add a slightly more dramatic eye.

When you combine the glow of being in love, with a dose of excitement and a fabulous wedding dress it would be hard to not look stunning on your wedding day. Having said that, there are certain things you can do as a bride to help ensure that you feel like you look your best all day long. This is especially important when it comes to facing the inevitable flash of the camera that will trail you all day. Read below for Flume Wedding and Event Make-Up’s 5 Wedding Day Beauty Tips for the bride:

1. Less Can Be More - The key to great bridal make up is that the look should be you - just you enhanced a little. That means if you are normally the kind of girl who sticks to a lighter natural look -- that is the look your future husband fell in love with. Choosing your wedding day as the day you switch a neat neutral lip for a bright red just for the sake of “glamor” will make you look like someone else.
2. Tan Tips - Many wedding dresses expose more than a little skin. We’ve seen many brides disappointed when she realized that tan lines ruined the pictures. Don’t forget your sunscreen—a beauty tips we always believe in. Have a professional give you an airbrush spray tan a few days before the big day. When you hire a wedding day make-up artist, ask if she offers this special service.
3. Hire a Make Up Artist to Come to You - Rather than adding to the inevitable stress of the day by rushing around town from hair salon to make-up counter and then back home to get dressed and touch-up, a prepared bride should hire a professional make-up artist to come to you. The wedding day make-up artist comes directly to your home or bridal suite. Your bridesmaids will enjoy the reduced stress of not having to do their own make-up, so that they can enjoy their champagne and attend to you.

Mineral make-up has been popular for several years and is a top choice among professionals and make-up lovers alike for it’s luminous, flawless look. Many women have yet to give mineral make-up a try, because they are not sure of the benefits over traditional powder or liquid foundation.

The most popular forms of mineral makeup are is mineral foundation powder. These products offer a number of advantages over liquid foundation and heavy talc-based powders. Advantages include:

• Kind to Skin - Mineral foundations and powders contain no talc. Talc is a comedogenic substance that clogs pores and tends to over-dry skin. Mineral powders are non-comedogenic and much healthier for the skin.
• Mineral makeup provides excellent coverage but does not feel or look heavy on the skin. Mineral powders offer a natural, well-blended look. This is the way to avoid the liquid foundation “mask” that makes women look artificial and over made up.
• Mineral powder lasts longer. In order to get a beautiful, flawless look, you do not need to use a large amount – a little goes a long way.
• Less messy! Since mineral make-up is applied with a brush, like a Kabuki brush, there is less mess during application.
• Mineral powder is the dermatologist’s choice for those with sensitive skin or acne-prone skin. A number of the minerals in most mineral make up offer a certain degree of natural sun damage protection and have anti-inflammatory properties as well. Many dermatologists suggest it for their patients who suffer from chronic acne or even eczema.

Make-up Tip: Layer your Mineral Powder over tinted moisturizer for a fuller coverage look. Fluhme offers the popular Mineral Pressed Powder in popular signature colors such as Ivory, Light, Medium and Dark.

Although a home-based business takes work, it is perfectly possible to mix business with pleasure. Let’s take a Fluhme Beauty Event as an example. A Fluhme Beauty event is a fun party with friends. A gathering of family, friends and colleagues all there to have fun and experiment with gorgeous, high quality cosmetics and expertly created skincare to create looks.

There is an initial investment to be made to become a member of the Fluhme family of Independent Beauty Artists, but it is under $200 and you get a great turnkey business package in return. In addition to a supply of Fluhme’s popular cosmetics, you receive training and support, and plenty of it, before you ever host your very first event.

No, you won’t hit it rich overnight. But, you have the opportunity to build your own business and earn a good living, working as much or as little as you want. Hundreds of women have signed-up for Fluhme’s business opportunity as Independent Beauty Artists and have made extra income by throwing parties, providing make-overs and giving women more confidence.

Although a home-based business takes work, it is perfectly possible to mix business with pleasure. Let’s take a Fluhme Beauty Event as an example. A Fluhme Beauty event is a fun party with friends. A gathering of family, friends and colleagues all there to have fun and experiment with gorgeous, high quality cosmetics and expertly created skincare to create looks. There is an initial investment to be made to become a member of the Fluhme family of Independent Beauty Artists, but it is under $200 and you get a great turnkey business package in return. In addition to a supply of Fluhme’s popular cosmetics, you receive training and support, and plenty of it, before you ever host your very first event. No, you won’t hit it rich overnight. But, you have the opportunity to build your own business and earn a good living, working as much or as little as you want. Hundreds of women have signed-up for Fluhme’s business opportunity as Independent Beauty Artists and have made extra income by throwing parties, providing make-overs and giving women more confidence.

Done right, lip color totally transforms your look. Done wrong, you run the risk of looking a little like a clown. How best to apply lip color depends to a great extent on the natural shape of your lips, however, we have a few basic tips for perfect lips every time:

General Lip Color Tips

• To help your lip color last all day, first use a complementary colored lip pencil all over your lips, apply your lip color over it and then blot carefully.
• For a fuller lip look, line lips with a good lip pencil like but blend the edges with a sponge applicator to avoid harsh lines. Apply a clear lip gloss to complete the fuller look. If you really want a pouty look, reserve the gloss for just the center of your upper lip. For a lip gloss that is not sticky and has the maximum wear, try Fluhme’s Lip Lust Lip Gloss.
• One trick that Fluhme Beauty Artists use is to highlight lips with a light eyeshadow that coordinates with the lip color, adding just a dab to the center of both the upper and lower lip.

Lip Color Tips For Fuller Lipped Ladies

If you are genetically blessed with fuller lips, there are a lot of us who envy you! However, full lips overwhelm your face if you are not careful.

• Fuller lips really don't need any help from a defined lip liner, but if you do like the look, soften a lip liner's effect by blending carefully at the corners.
• Avoid very glossy shades, they will make you lips look just a little too prominent in most cases.

Lip Color Tips For Thinner Lipped Ladies

• For a full lip illusion, use a neutral colored lip pencil to draw slightly beyond your real lip line and then apply your color. You will find that your lip color will “catch” that line, giving you plumper looking lips.
• Avoid very dark lip color shades as these tend to make small, thin lips look even smaller.

There are very few people in the world right now who are not looking to supplement their income in some way. And for a growing number of driven women, they are choosing to take their destiny into their own hands and become a Fluhme Beauty Artist, working from home doing something they love.

The one thing that causes some women to hesitate about embarking on his new career is a fear that they are just not “cut out” for direct sales. However, starting your own business as a Fluhme Beauty Artist and earning your own income on top of luxurious incentive rewards is far easier than you think.

Even in bad economic times, there are very few women who are willing to give up buying cosmetics. Go to work bare faced? A nightmare for most of us! Cosmetics and beauty is a recession-proof business. In 2012, even the most budget-conscious women are looking for higher quality products that will provide them with value for money as well as beautiful style, which is exactly what Fluhme cosmetics provide.

All Fluhme Beauty Artists have access to ongoing training and support from beauty veterans. Most Fluhme Beauty Artists discover that hosting a Beauty Event feels very little like selling at all. A Beauty Event is most often a party, and who doesn't love to throw a party? Let’s face it: most women have been playing “dress up” with cosmetics since they were kids, so getting together with girlfriends, having a makeover and enjoying a night out is fun for them. The sales part really comes naturally because the Fluhme products “speak” for themselves once the women try on the colors.