Showing posts with label style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style. Show all posts

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Perfume - An Extension of Your Personality

Wearing a certain fragrance is the most common part of our pampering and beauty regime. We choose and buy them according to our taste, and change every now and then depending on our mood, fashion styles and trends, and even based on whether it`s day or night, summer or winter. Perfume is the extension of our personality, our trade mark, recognizable mark and it must suit us and be similar to our nature. This cosmetic product is well accepted worldwide by both men and women, and the variety of smells is amazing, so each personality basically can find a custom option.

How does perfume work? Fragrance comes into our body, through the skin pores, mixes with our body and "starts working". Since it mixes with our natural body smell, it is very important to match the smell with your normal skin scent. For instance, sweet perfumes smell excellent on some people, and too strong and unappealing on other. You also might know that fragrance never smells the same on two people and the reason is their unique body chemistry.

When you are buying fragrance (or even better - creating your own) you must consider the body chemistry as a very important factor. That is the reason you will not have the real impression on how will fragrance fit you, without actually testing it on your skin. Perfume should be tested on your hand wrist, and after few moments, you will have an impression of the smell, and know if it fits you or should you keep looking. This testing spot will also show if you are allergic on some substances in the fragrance, which can also sometimes be the case.
The smell of fine perfume should be noticeable immediately after the applying of a small amount of fragrance. The fragrance should not be too aggressive, but it still has to be noticeable around the person wearing it. A good fragrance is highly sustainable, it should stay for hours and you should not have to re-apply it often. It should be hypoallergenic, and must not leave any marks on your skin. And also it should be completely color free.The strength of the fragrance depends on the concentration of the aromatic concentrated oils in a perfume. That defines the lasting of a sense and the smell intensity. This is the classification you should memorize, based on the concentration of aromatic oils:


Perfume is the strongest version of a fragrance, Eau De Parfum is next, slightly lighter, Eau De Toilette follows with even milder sense, and finally Cologne and Body Splash follow as the mildest and most discreet ones.

How to wear it? For the best and most lasting effect, apply perfume on your pulse points. Best spots for putting the perfume on are elbows, wrists and sometimes neck, and behind the ears area. If you are a lady, you can consider putting some fragrance on the cleavage, or behind the neck area.

When choosing the right smell, be sure to find a note similar to your personality. It will and should be an addition to your image, style and appearance, so keep that in mind when visiting the perfumery.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Buying Designer Perfume Is Worth The Extra Cost

When you go to an event or a function, and there are hundreds of people in the room, you want to stand out and be an individual. You don't want to be the same as all the other hundreds of people in at that event. There are a few ways to make sure you show your individuality. You can wear your own special blend of makeup which brings out the best in your looks, and makes you look very attractive. You also will want to make your hair up so that it enhances your beautiful looks and makes you appear even more appealing. You will wear clothing that makes you look as best you can. It makes you seem especially wonderful, and attractive. Jewelry is another major factor in boosting you appearance; jewelry makes you look wonderful and special. One more thing you will want to do is wear a lovely smelling perfume.

The beauty of perfume is the absolute attractiveness of it.
People will be attracted to you just by smelling the pleasant scent that you will be wearing and spreading around you. If you walk into a room where there are many people, before anyone even sees you, you will be attractive because of the scent that you are spreading. One of the beautiful things about perfume is that you from afar people can sense that you are there and are special and they don't have to be looking at you or standing right by you. 

Perfume is also a very individual thing. 
Each person has their own personal style and taste when it comes to scents. Perfumes can have a very different scent and smell depending on their base and all the ingredients that go into them. There are people who work all the time at coming up with new and different and exciting new scents, to please all kinds of people, with all kinds of tastes.

Because people are so individual and have a personal style with their perfume there are so many types of perfume with so many different kinds of bases and elements. Different people will go for different styles of scents, depending on age, gender, personality, and taste. This is why most stores will have testers for all their scents, where you can spray a sample of the perfume onto a tester strip and have a taste of what the scent will be like. Once you have sampled the perfume you will know if the scent matches your style, and you can then decide which perfume to purchase.
 Have you thought of designer scents? Do you have a favorite designer brand? Most people have a preferred designer brand for clothing or makeup, and even for perfume. Each designer has their own style, and certain people will go for that style, others will go for a different style. Designer perfumes are usually a little pricier but they are worth it because the designer's team will spend many hours and a large amount of money to make sure that their scent is special and does justice to their brands name. They have a special style to bring across and a certain standard to uphold so their perfume will have a special quality to it that other scents may not have.