Another great tip from DJ's makeuponline blog.  She has such a great site with so many great tips, you just have to visit often, or better yet sign up for her RSS feed.

Why use a powder when I use a liquid foundation?

Using a translucent powder over your liquid foundation will extend your foundation's wear-time, will eliminate the shine often associated with liquid foundations, and help maintain a fresh look throughout your day with a little powder touch up. They don't call lady's restrooms "powder rooms" for nothing!

Hint: Don't over-apply powder. Too much powder causes fine lines to appear more prominent. Also, use a powder brush, not a buff pad to help you avoid over-application.

To load your brush:

1. Touch the flat head of your natural bristled brush lightly into the powder.
2. Tap the excess from the brush.
3. Draw the powder into the bristles by swirling the brush onto the empty lid of your powder container.
4. Tap the tip of the handle onto a hard surface.

Begin applying the powder first to the outside edges of the face and move inward. Apply lightly, or not at all, around the eye area

Posted by DJ at www.makeuponline.blogspot.com

I don't know where she comes up with this stuff, but DJ over at www.makeuponline.blogspot.com  has the most interesting stuff ever.

Today it is about Crisco and your makeup, read on.

If you are caught without your makeup remover, try using a small amount of Crisco for a temporary substitute. It will remove your makeup and act as a moisturizer too.

 There you go simple advice to pass on to your customers and they will love you for it.

Some interesting facts I just read today.  According to the Direct Selling Association, there are nearly 15.2 million direct sellers in the United States and over 57 million worldwide doing an estimated 97 billion dollars in sales. 85.2% of all direct sellers are women.

That's a lot of people doing direct sales!  If you want to know how to run your direct sales business easier and faster, please visit my website at www.pinkrenegade.com

4 Tips To A Happy Hostess

The true secret to home party success, is a happy hostess. A happy hostess is motivated to get people to her party and can be a big help in getting the people at her party to buy your products. It really doesn't matter if you are holding the party in your hostesses home or having an online party.  A happy hostess means the difference between great sales or mediocre sales. Here are some tips for keeping your hostess happy and excited about her party.
Get Her Excited About Her Own Party
The first thing you should do is get your hostess excited about all the free and discounted products that she can receive by having a fantastic party. Help her become enthusiastic by showing her all the great items that she will get. She will be thrilled to do what she can to have a great party.
Train Your Hostess To Hold A Successful Party
Make sure she knows all the ways to ensure her guests attend her party. (Reminding them before the event, personally touching base with them, advertising, etc.) A printout or checklist can really help you here. Guarentee contact with everybody that is supposed to come to the party.  Get your hostess to give you names and email addresses of all those who are supposed to come to the party and you personally contact them and let them know how excited you are to meet them.  Tell them how your hostess is also very excited that they are coming.  Now,they know two people are counting on them being there.
Add an Extra Incentive
Offer your hostess an extra incentive. Is there a particular piece of jewelry that she is just in love with? Perhaps a set of candles or maybe a bath and body set has caught her eye? Set a goal for her to have a certain amount of guests invited to the online party by a set date. Or you could challenge her to have a set dollar amount of sales made before her party. Offer the hostess the item that she wants if, and when, she meets your challenge.
Games and Fun
Plan some super simple games and giveaways during your hostess’s party. People love to have a chance to win something for free and if they need to make a purchase to enter a drawing all the better for your hostess. Everyone will have fun playing the games that you have set up and your hostess will have a blast racking up sales to put toward getting free items.
The Internet is a fantastic resource for finding more ideas that will make for a wonderfully fun party for your hostess and will create a profitable party for yourself.  In the end your success as a home party plan business owner all depends on how happy your hostess is and how well her party goes.  Do everything you can to make your hostess comfortable and happy and your home party plan business will flourish.

How To Increase Your Bookings Dramatically.

When you do a class, you were probably told, do Satin Hands, then skin care, then color, right? Well, I say you need to do things a little differently - I never do color at my classes, let me tell you why.

I start my party with Satin Hands, Do skin care and foundation - but never color.  If someone wants to try color, I tell them it is for the next class and schedule a facial for her.  You then tell her it is just as easy for you to do several faces as it is for one and invite her to invite a few friends (no more than 4 or 5).

For those guests at the color class, do only color.  If they want skin care, schedule them for a skin care class.

Why do it this way?

Time. The class is shorter this way and makes people more willing to book.

Incentive. There is a reason to book the facial/class - it will be different from the class they just had!

Referrals. Get more referrals which then increases your bookings, vice versa you increase the number of referrals.

Recruits. If you have a simple, teachable method for doing the business, others will see how simple it is and will want to try it for themselves.

Want to see how the numbers stack up? Let's take a short look.

You have a party with 4 people.  From those four, let’s say you get three referrals from each.  That is 12 referrals.

You also book 2 Color classes.  Each of those classes has 3 people (besides the hostess).  You get 3 referrals from each guest (not counting the hostess).  That gives you 21 referrals.

From the one original class, you got upwards of 20 referrals!  Not to mention the sales you made in the classes themselves.

I find this method works a lot better then doing facials and color together. Try it, see if it doesn't work for you.