Just got inspired to share a bit of my 30 years experience as a make-up artist with you.

These are the Sisley products from France,  not to be confused with the clothing line from Italy.    Of all the products on planet earth I have to say these are my favorites!  The company is still family owned.  I think they are the 3rd or 4th most important skin care brand in France and that has to tell you something,  those French girls always have the best skin.    This line of products is so pure,   I think of it as homeopathic medicine for the skin.    The first product here is a very gentle foaming cleanser,  the second an excellent gentle exfoliator,   the third a fantastic toner and the fourth a MAJOR STAR among products:  Hydra- Flash  the most wonderfu hydrator I have ever used.... 

 I volunteer at the AECC (Association  Español Contra Cancer)  and give make-up classes to the ladies recovering from treatment  and surgery.  I never hesitate to use these products because they never irritate the skin.      I have to admit they are rather expensive, but what are you going to buy that is more important than your skin?  24/7, 365 days a year....   please invest in yourselves ladies,  you are worth it girlfriends!

besitos from Madrid,    Paula XXX 

OKAY,  here it is from the horses mouth.  I have been using this method since I was in my late teens, suffering from acne and too many breakouts.  Over the years I have substituted other products for the Lazlo brand,  but I have never stopped doing the 30 spashes.... Yes  THIRTY,   please do try this it will leave your skin feeling fantastic I promise.   Fill the basin with fairly warm water,  apply a gentle cleanser to your face and massage it well.... then start to rinse with the same water over and over.......

"IF WATER DIDN'T EXIST, I WOULD HAVE HAD TO INVENT IT..."  Dr. Erno Laszlo

One of Dr. Laszlo's great breakthroughs was to harness the power of water. He devised formulas that maximize the skin's ability to benefit from the cleansing and replenishing properties of water. Each of his skincare Rituals require 30 splashes in warm or comfortably hot water to:

 Deeply and Thoroughly Clean the Skin            

  Exfoliate Skin Cells                        

 Flush Out Damaging Toxins                        

 Plump and Soften the Skin                        
 
 Exercise and Strengthen the Capillaries

Accelerate Cell Renewal

 Enhance the Absorption of Hydrators and Moisturizers

Stimulate Collagen Production

Gabriela Hernandez, the founder of Besame Cosmetics is a GENIUS!!!!   I have been a makeup artist for more than 25 years.  I am always searching for the best.  You can not imagine how excited I was Monday morning picking up a package she'd sent from California.  Everything about this line screams  luxury and perfection.   The wieght of the compact,  it's burgundy velvet case.... The beautifully etched flowers on the gold mascara case.... the eyeshadows  (shown here)..... dense, rich,  beautiful enhancing colors, the texture of the powders,  precision of the pencils......  the taupe eyebrow pencil is probably the most perfect eyebrow pencil in the UNIVERSE!!!!

It takes a lot to impress me....   they sent me the Tom Ford line from Esteé Lauder,  it was lovely no doubt,   but  the heart and soul of Besame is head and shoulders above.

Thank-you Gabriela for doing your best!!!!    besitos,    Paula Owen in Madrid 

Ps.  see the website  on  www.besamecosmetics.com   !!!!!

The scent of these lipsticks is beyond heavenly....one of my very, very favoritest is Champagne.... dense with pigment, long lasting,  so absolutely flattering! Please treat yourself, girls!

Finding Treasures like these is a rare occurance, please remember:  BESAME!!!!

New York   NEW YORK....  a place so nice they named it twice. 

Getting ready to board my Delta flight to JFK.... I am soooo excited!  Going to see my old friends Greggory, Johnny, Sid,  David Parsons, Takeesha White and meet lots of new friends like Vivianne from Splendora!   

If you are in New York from  Nov. 7th- 11th you should really come to see Maria Pagés dance at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Hells Kitchen.  The tickets are only 25 bucks, the place is small (100 seats),  really a once in a lifetime experience if you love dance.

Please come backstage and say  hello,  I'd love to meet more of my Splendora sisters!

big besos,    Paula

 ps. for tickets  go  to      http://www.baryshnikovdancefoundation.org/self-portrait.html

 I  offer this peak into   "A day at the Circus"  ....  The Circo Price was founded by the Englishman Thomas Price in the late 19th century, Madrid's best-loved circus got a permanent home in 1880. Two times a day for the next ninety years — except for a prolonged break during the Spanish Civil War — the Circus Price delighted adults and children alike with its jugglers, trapeze artists, and magicians.

 This is my interpretation of the glamorous trapeze artist, Maria.... 

The photographer I worked with on these pictures is called Ouka Leele. She is one of the most important contemporary artists in Spain today. One day everyone will have heard of

"La Movida"........ ask Pedro Almodovar what it was all about.   They say that if Pedro Almodovar was the King of "La Movida"  then Ouka Leele was the Queen.

I love this image.... it looks like something Jean Paul Gautier would like to use.

I needed to create new images for a classic European circus.... here is the contortionist.... one of the  gorgeous   "new" clowns.....

The circus has everything we need.   Fantasy,  strong men,  horses,  showgirls and people who fly through the  air....