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my beauty tips are featured in a new latina book!

I wrote a great piece on Latinas and beauty that was just featured on "The new Latina guide to a fabulouis 2011 year!" Please visit http://newlatina.net/ Angélica Pérez-‐Litwin, PhD is the Founding Editor and proud Latina who created the e-book which features articles from 17 Latinas and 1 Latino (yours truly!)


The New Latina Guide to a Fabulous 2011! Featuring makeup tips by Luis Casco

The e-book features "words of inspiration on motherhood, career, beauty, lifestyle and work!"

Thanks for all your hard work Angelica and keep up your awesome work!!!

Kudos to Latina magazine!

So happy to see the March issue of Latina magazine which features Gray's Anatomy's Sara Ramirez. Just love the way that they are embracing her latina beauty and curves!
The hair and makeup is a mix of Hollywood vintage and modern vixen. Que bella!

Salma Hayek's new cover of "V" Spain

She looks absolutely gorgeous! Wearing Alexander McQueen and shot by Karl Lagerfeld!!!!
Love the contoured cheeks and those eyes!!! cool..

Salma Hayek "V" España. Invierno 2010/2011

New Cosmo shoot with Max Palacio out now

Hey everyone! I've been away from the blog for a couple of weeks-busy working which is a good thing and that means that I will have lots of news and tips to share with you.
Check out my work in the September issue of Cosmopolitan en Español. It's a fashion story which features Argentinian actor/model Max Palacio. You might remember him as Kelly Bensimon's hot date in the Real Housewifes of NY- Also, he had a cameo appearance in "Sex in the City 2" as well as Telemundo's "12 Corazones".
Here are some of the shots as well as a backstage video from the shoot. The female model was wearing a fall sexy, smoky eye with eyeliner all around the eyes.
Photos: Dominick Guillemont, Styling: Brett McCall, Hair:Terry Millet at Magnet, Makeup:Luis Casco

My work in May's Vanidades

Here are some new shots that have just come out in "Vanidades" It's a story about eyebrows. And my hand gets its print modeling debut :)

They are from the May 2010 "Vanidades" issue in newstands now. It has all my "tips" in it.

Meet Lisalla Montenegro she is the new Maybelline girl

21 year old brazilian model will be representing for Latinas and joins Christy Turlington, Erin Wasson and Julia Stegner. Look for her ads starting in June.

Montenegro is a "morena" who has been seen in many campaigns and walked the runways of Hermes, Michael Kors and Armani to name a few. On the editorial end, she's been on Glamour, GQ, Nylon and Vogue. And did I say she's gorgeous?

Congratulations Lisalla!

Celebrating Selena!!

March 31 of this year marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Selena Quintanilla. After living in Texas for a while in the 90's I experienced the phenomenon that Selena had become and was definitely sad when the Latino community lost such a positive role model and ultimately icon. Whether you liked her music or not, Selena was truly a Latina beauty who had a bright future ahead of her. I'm happy that at least she won a Grammy award while still alive.

Just imagine where Selena would be in the music industry today?

Que descanses en paz Selena!!!

Here are some of my favorite pictures of her as well as video of one of her last interviews and live performances.

Gaultier show celebrates Mexico!

A friend of mine who covers the Couture show for a publication was so excited to let me know about yesterday's (Jan 27) Jean Paul Gaultier Couture show in Paris. Seems like it was a big Mexican celebration! Models came down the catwalk wearing sombreros and even walking to a mariachi band.

The finale starred a famous french chanteusse who sang a Carmen Miranda- cool!

Check out the hair and makeup- Trenzas and all! Jungle like colors were used on the eyes and the lips by head makeup artist Tom Pechaux, amazing textures on the lips and eyes (lots of MAC pigments seen backtage) Look at some of the pictures:

the look

Notice all the power under the eyes to catch the eyeshadow fall out

the nails

cool eyes!!

Latina Sessilee Lopez getting ready to walk out...

And here's a short video:

Ramona Gonzalez "Nite Jewel"- new Latina singer!

Bjork? Portishead? who is that? It's Ramona Gonzalez, she's from LA and a singer who started by performing at local Art exhibits. She attended Occidental College in LA and says she gets her inspiration primarily from "1980"s freestyle and electronic disco and early "90's R&B.
She records exclusively on a portable eight-track cassette recorder, building up her songs with layers of analog synths and drum machines before adding her melodically ethereal vocals. After a self-released six-song CD-R titled My CD, which caught the ear of New York's tastemaking Other Records, and the What Did He Say 12" in 2008, Nite Jewel issued the full-length Good Evening through Human Ear Music.
Check her out on their website at www.nitejewel.com.
And here's a video of one of their songs performed live. Support Chicas!!

Covergirl's Clean for Clean Contest

Covergirls Dania Ramirez and Queen Latifah announced the charitable partnership between it Clean brand of amkeup and Children's Safe Drinking Water program (CSDW) and organication dedicated to addressing the critical, global need for clean,safe drinking water. Covergirl launched the campaign with a one-time $500,000 contribution to CSDW.

In addition, COVERGIRL is making it possible for their consumers to join the global effort to supply clean, safe drinking water to children in need.
Covergirl consumers can eneter an online contest by submitting a short video explaining how you give back to make the world a better place and why this makes you beautiful, inside and out. For every entry, COVERGIRL will provide one week's worth of clean drinking water to a child in need. Entrants also have a chance to win a humanitarian trip to Africa as part of the next Clean Makeup for Clean Water mission.
You can help by visiting www.covergirl.com/cleanforclean and enter to help provide safe drinking water to children in need.

Watch this video of Dania who returned to her native Dominican Republic in September to help kick off the campaign by delivering a year’s supply of clean drinking water to villages in need:

A Latina model walks most runway shows during 2009!

Her name is Marina Perez and she is from Madrid, Spain where she was born in 1984. She started modeling at the age of 12 and moved to NYC at 18. I kept seeing her face over and over in most of the important shows lately and I was so happy to know she is Hispanic!

I will post a lot of pictures of her now that will illustrate what these girls have to go through during these "fashion weeks" that go on all over the world. From personal experience I can tell you that they can be quite grueling sometimes having 30 min to get hair and makeup completely changed from one show to the other. There's a lot of running around in a frenetic crazy pace!
On the other hand, you can see this pictures and whenever you can't figure out how to change your makeup look- think about all the looks that makeup artists have created on this one face!
Just remember all these are pictures of THE same girl. Enjoy!

These first looks focus on her eyes: