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November 02, 2009

Office Party Makeup Rules

By Jackie Burns MSN Shopping Contributor

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With Halloween safety behind us, we can now turn our attention towards the next dress-up party! While it's all about making clowns of ourselves on Oct. 31, that's precisely what we want to avoid for the office holiday party. As well as drunken close-talking with the company CEO, we should also resist the urge to lather on too much makeup. Angie Miller, principal proprietor of The Little Black Dress, Toronto-based personal shoppers and image consultants, says that while it may be tempting to go all out with our cosmetics, they should be applied in moderation when partying with co-workers. Miller says that while deep, berry-coloured lips and purple-toned smokey eyes are the hottest makeup trends for Holiday '09, she warns against applying all of them at once. “You want to make sure that if you are doing a very strong coloured lip that you’re taking it down a notch with everything else,” she says. “You aren’t wearing the heavy blush or the heavy eye with the very strong coloured lips.” Despite wanting to look more natural for the office party environment, at the same time you want to appear as if you've put a bit of effort in, she adds. “Doing it in moderation that will keep it tasteful is key.”

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Me Jackie Burns

Jackie Burns is a Toronto-based freelance writer and frequent contributor to MSN Shopping. She has spent more than 15 years in the media industry working as an online editor, newspaper reporter and TV producer for ...

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