Clare MaAfee is a professional makeup artist who will do an extreme makeover on you and then capture this in a professional photograph that you can savour today and forever. She's also a wig specialist. Check out this fab video she has made to highlight some of the extreme before and after makeovers she's completed over the past couple of years. Her site is at wiggoddess.com

We might want to think twice before applying a lot of face paint on our kids this Halloween.

Some children's face paints contain lead, a neurotoxin that can harm the brain at low doses, according to new product tests documented in a report from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of nonprofit health and environmental groups.

"Parents are stunned when they learn that these products made for kids have lead and other toxics in them. We don't understand how our government is so lax, nor why the manufacturers are so negligent," said Joan Blades, co-founder of Moms Rising, a coalition member and national advocacy organization focused on family health and economic security.

See more about this here. Photo above is via weglet.

Here's a good idea for a home-made Halloween costume. See how to create an Egyptian Queen makeup look and headband in the video tutorial below.

Here's a tutorial on how to shape your eyebrows. Professional makeup artist Vinnetta Scrivo tells us that the most common problem is that people overpluck their eyebrows and then end up with very thin eyebrows, or eyebrows that start too far from the center of the face. So whatever you do, do not overpluck your eyebrows because they never really grow back as before.

Here's a great makeup tutorial for women over 40. Kandee (who looks just like her mom!) uses her beautiful mother as the model.

The New York Times has a good article today discussing the competition between the Sephora and Ulta chains of beauty stores. Ulta opened 65 stores last year and now has 331 stores nationwide. Sephora has about 230 stores in the U.S.

Check out the discussion about their different business strategies at Can Ulta Mess Up Sephora?

Here's a video interview with Susan Boyle looking very good on the Today show with Meredith Vieiras.

Check out also a video on Susan Boyle's makeup makeover.

One of the leading online makeover sites, TAAZ.com, is featuring the best makeup videos available on YouTube on their home page. They usually select a new video each Friday. Their current pick is the Scarlett Johansonn inspired makeup look created by Katie at Before and After TV.

See also the top ten makeup channels on YouTube.

Here are some beautiful photos featuring sultry gold eyeshadow.

Taaz.com is a website where you can try doing your own makeover. You start by uploading your own picture and then can begin trying out thousands of shades in products ranging from foundation, concealer, eyeshadow, lip gloss and even colored contact lenses. You can also change your hairstyle and hair color.

Start your makeover here.

Here's a video showing some extreme examples of facial tattoos and eyebrow tattoos. The subjects are mostly men, but there are also a few women shown here.

See more about eyebrow tattoos for overplucked eyebrows here.

L'Oreal is offering several of their products at a super low price (up to 50 percent off) at local drugstores and other mass market retailers during June and July. This is to celebrate their 100th anniversary.

Check out Angela Slowik's ranking of the five best L'Oreal makeup products of all time.

Susan Boyle didn't take first place in the finals of Britan's Got Talent. She came in second after Diversity. But she sang beautifully and a big record contract is undoubtably on the way. Here's a video of her final performance;

See a video on her makeup makeover here.

Susan Boyle looked quite elegant this weekend at the second round of Britian's Got Talent. Here's a YouTube video by Katie Stiles of Before and After TV discussing how the new sophisticated but understated makeup look was achieved.

e.l.f. Cosmetics has a fun virtual makeover game. You can upload a photo of yourself (or choose one of ten that looks most like you) and then try on hundreds of different celebrity hairstyles, makeup and accessory looks. Check it out at elf cosmetics.