Theresa Taylor Grutzeck

Make-up Lessons for the Modern Woman

June 9, 2018 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

By educating yourself with a make-up lesson from a professional you will not only discover exciting new secrets of what colors look good with your skin tones, you will learn about trendy and updated techniques that look perfect on you!

What Makes You Look Captivating? Is it your lip color? Is it how you apply your eye-liner or eye shadow? What makes you look distinctive? Choosing the right make-up colors is key to owning your own look and standing out, also staying up on the trends and having confidence.

In this issue we explore the power of make-up by mixing the natural with modern reality with texture and color. There’s something about offhanded style and strong, modern femininity that feels exactly right this year. Keeping it real may just be the ultimate luxury. We want to create a special artistic space for you to explore and to achieve your beauty goals on your terms with the help of our highly educated make-up professionals. There are no rules on how to do make-up, there is just better colors and techniques that can make you look more refined, youthful and a better version of yourself. The trick is to use colors that make the skin look fresh and eyes look more focused and younger. You want to use lip colors that are modern and go with your skin tone color. Balance is everything. What used to seem familiar to you is now being transformed to a modern color palette. It gives way to positive change from naturalism to modernism.

Blushers Now
The familiar one color blush shades are being redefined and modernized with smoothing kaleidoscope sheen textures. The new blush fusions are taking over, combining highlights and special colors to craft a true blush modernity. This year the most beautiful looking complexion is soft and uncomplicated, while looking like you aren’t wearing blush. A hard thing to achieve in make-up is effortlessness. If you work hard at it, it looks harsh and over-done. Use colors that will enhance and accent your skin tone, while giving the skin an all-in-one sweep of simplicity.

Bright and Beautiful Eyes Modernized
An artful life begins with self-love. The unusual beauty of the ordinary inspires curiosity and makes the fresh feel familiar. This year the beauty movement is all about color choice and how to make it look like you’re not wearing make-up. Choosing colors and textures that are close to your skin tone is the key to getting that just-right look and requires some very simple techniques. You can use the new cream eye-shades that are super easy or powder eye shadow trios to get that super modern pop.

Lip Shift
Sometimes the lines blur between surprises. Things are not always what they seem. New textures like the new lip shines are very deceiving, while they look darker than then are, they are surprisingly light and beautiful. Lip shines are always an interesting choice of finishes with a special formula including antioxidants vitamin E and Vitamin C that smoothes the lips with superior hydration and looks super modern!

The Rouge offers make-up lessons and new seasonal modern trend make-up updates. Why do a make-up lesson? Not everyone knows how to do make-up nor do they have time to research the latest trends. Make-up lessons help you understand your creative power for your own personal style. How do you learn? You educate yourself with a professional make-up artist that has years of knowledge and expertise to help you understand color theory and what looks best on you, while staying true to yourself. Make-up has always been sparked by constant movement and new trends, with better technologies and new surprises around every corner.

Timeless. True. Transcendent.
It is the essence of everything we believe in. Some of our favorite Fleur Visage summer colors will be perfect for that natural, no make-up-modern-girl. The natural and modern have never coexisted so beautifully.

5 Ways to Make Life Easier

May 7, 2018 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

(And More Stylish This Season)

1. The Make-up Pros at The Rouge are Spring Ready and can help you achieve all your beauty goals this season. Learn how to contour with the latest smoothing highlighters and get the perfect lip color naturally selected just for you. Lighten-up with a new soft blush color effortlessly chosen for your skin tones. Trend-up on the new Spring eye shadow palettes to give your eyes that fresh, updated and youthful look, ready for Spring. Get your Spring-on, all at an easy One-Stop-Shop!

2. The Rouge Cosmetics carries the super popular HD Mascara that is simply the best mascara on the planet. Its special formula thickens, lengthens, and smoothes on for that lush volume you crave, drying to a true black. It’s attractive and stylish leaving the lashes beautifully lush with enticing results. No smudging ever!

3. Now flawless skin can be yours with their Fleur Visage Custom Blended Foundations that perfectly match your skin tone color. Fleur Visage technology takes pride in their long-wear formula giving the skin that second skin look with a balanced flex guard to ensure no separation, with weightless coverage and smooth application. The Rouge’s professional staff are available 7 days a week and drop-ins are always welcome anytime. Love Your Complexion Today!

4. Do You Need hydration? Do you want fewer wrinkles? Do you want smoother skin? Who Doesn’t? Explore the newest Skin Care Technologies by Ongrien’s Advanced Skin Treatments. Their Extreme Peptide Formula is here to rescue your skin from aging, wrinkles, and sun damage, while created to give your skin the moisture surge it needs to smooth wrinkles on contact. This special complex of Neuropeptides helps to heal the skin deep within the epidermis repairing damaged cells, giving the skin a smoother and more youthful appearance. All-In-One Anti-Aging serum to make life’s choices so much more effective and simple.

5. Ongrien Advanced Technologies have done it again with their new Rescue Creamy Skin Cleanser. A unique, deep pore cleanser for ultra sensitive skin types. It gently cleanses the skin for people who suffer from rosacea, eczema, or any type of sensitive skin disorder. It is also recommended for people that have had lazer treatments, retinol treatments or face lifts. Its calming effect on the skin helps to relieve redness, calm the skin and deeply cleanse the pores to reveal beautiful more radiant skin. All-In-One cleansing for a trouble-free lifestyle.

The Rouge Cosmetics offers the finest in skin care and cosmetics. With over 25 years of knowledge, backed by science and research, their products are purely exceptional, with the highest-grade contents, including nutrients, vitamins, peptides, and antioxidant ingredients, to reduce wrinkles, smooth skin, repair cells and slow down the aging process. Try Ongrien Advanced Anti-Aging Skin Care today—because with Ongrien Advanced Skin Care, aging is optional.

Eyebrow Trends 2018

April 8, 2018 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

Say what you will about 2017, but there’s no getting around the fact that last year was the year of the brow. From bold to super arched, to ultra-thick, it seemed like the ultra- thick brows were the new must-have, and trends changed faster than we could scroll through Instagram.

Now that 2018 is well underway we can say goodbye to that bold arched eyebrow and say hello to a gentle looking natural brow.

If you’re a bit wary about plucking away at your brows on your own, book a consultation with an expert brow artist near you. And if you weren’t #blessed with the thick, fluffy brows of your dreams, there are endless ways to make them look thicker and fuller, whether it be a brow balm, brow growth serum, texturing brow gel or a good old-fashioned eyebrow pencil. There are so many ways to reshape the brows and make them look magazine ready and gorgeous—just ask your brow artist.

At The Rouge Cosmetics they like to shape the brows according to each individual’s face shape and what can realistically be done. The key to having good brows is all about their shape, and every person needs something different. You cannot use a stencil to shape your brows, as they will end up too short or misaligned with the center being “off.” And by all means, do not go to a nail salon to get you’re your eyebrows shaped, as they do not have the knowledge nor the experience to shape brows; only licensed brow artists are “in the know.”

Ditch the dark pencil and bold eyebrow look—it is so “last year”—2018 is here, and trends are changing for the better. This year is the year of super natural brows along with glowing skin, lightly enhanced eyes, and beautiful pink pouts.

Tons of make-up junkies will still do wacky things for Instagram, but that shouldn’t stop you from having the best brows of your life offline. Most girls and young teens can do a straight brow (barely touched) as is popular with the Youtube set. It will look super natural and have a nice, forward, trendy look.

Framing the eye is essential in mastering beauty. Grooming eyebrows with a soft arch is not only beautiful, it enhances the eyes bringing more focus to the eye itself and it is extremely fashion-forward as of late.

The Rouge offers expert eyebrow shaping and brow updating, along with many tools to enhance brows, including brow balms, texturing gels, brow growth serums, brow pencils and brow highlighters.

Stop by and try a little confidence booster, while looking fabulous this year with the new look in brows.

Welcome to The Season Of Self-Expression

March 8, 2018 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

March represents a special season of change at The Rouge. With spring just around the corner it brings softer colors in cosmetics. There is a sense of transformation and awareness; a time of renewal and an opportunity to reinvent yourself with a new palette of cosmetic colors. When thinking about Spring this season, try new colors that will bring new freshness and softness to your beauty wardrobe.

Welcome to the season of self-expression. Customize like never before with multiple new ways to showcase your creativity by mixing and matching soft shades. Spark your imagination with a relaxed mauve tone followed by a fresh navy liner or use a balmy soft pink with an impressive army green liner. Play with colors using soft iridescent peach eye shadow colors with a hint of a spicy olive-green accent, followed by a scrumptious peachy pink lip color. Blend in by using a soft pink highlighter sheen on the cheeks accenting with a shimmery peach fusion blusher. It’s make-up made your way and we can help you take advantage of your best assets and enhance your best features with new colors by Fleur Visage Cosmetics. Fleur Visage offers an exceptional, modern, edgy vibe that works for teens and beyond to give everyone that youthful current freshness we as women deserve.

Meet Your Favorite Mate. Our poreless, perfected and impeccably superior custom foundation by Fleur Visage with flex guard goes on effortlessly, leaving the skin looking beautiful and smooth with instant coverage, giving the complexion a second skin look, while blending to perfection. It’s like you don’t look like you have anything on at all, only your skin looks more youthful and flawless. Blend in and love your complexion by using our state of the art custom blended foundations, blended to give you exactly what you need and want.

The Rouge Cosmetics is offering Complimentary spring Trend Make-overs through April 15th. You will discover the new trends for spring, while amping-up your fashion wattage. Please call for an appointment or drop by to sample their Custom Blended Foundations to discover a more flawless, beautiful, and smoother complexion.

Spring-in to a Bright New Style

February 8, 2018 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

We all crave change. We love the thought of starting something new, but it is so hard to take those first few steps, which is why The Rouge Cosmetics offers Mini Make-0vers. You can try something new as part of a self-love enhancement while following some simple changes in cosmetic colors that are uplifting, updated, and fun.

I realize that when it comes to cosmetics and suggestions on how to improve one’s self, our troublesome tendencies or habits can get in the way of our progress. It can seem like just one more rock to push up the hill, which is why we try to keep the make “over” part to a minimum while pushing the make “better” with the hope that you’ll take it in the spirit intended.

With this being the beginning of Spring and time to reinvent ourselves, think about how good the change is; it is positive and it’s time to refresh our psyche. That said, get ready for a Mini Make-Over, designed to renovate your look into a modern, updated version of a more youthful, beautiful you.

Spring Looks 2018

Spring Eyes

Think cool, fresh, pale-nude colors because that’s what you will be seeing a lot of this season. Put aside the bold eyeliner and indulge in some beautiful, modern colors. Try a soft gray crease color rather than a brown. Own your style by using a soft, pale, peachy-nude eye shadow on the eyelid rather than a cream colored one. Invite a new color in your wardrobe until you get used to the idea. That mysterious hipness just might delight your shift in attitude.

Spring Cheek Colors

Now we’re talking super-sheer fusion blush colors for cheeks—and in a big way. Beeline to your nearest cosmetic boutique to try on a cool pink shimmer blusher, while staying true to your urban coolness. Without uttering a word and spiking up your fashionista per se, you will add some spice to your trend-watching swagger. It’s nice to be in the know, and to wear it well you need to add just a hint of this enduring color to the cheeks to pull off this elite fashion re-shift with confidence.

Spring Lips

With all the new modern colors swirling around this season, lips take on a whole new natural wave with baby palette essentials. Think cool light pink nudes, soft peach nectars, and flawless angelic plums. Dabble in a world of beautifully-crafted change without sacrificing all the home-grown principles you still identify with. Instead of using just a clear gloss, use a lip shine with a hint of peach. Or check out a nude pink lipstick rather than a gloss. The possibilities are endless and so much fun.
Spring Forward this season and let yourself in on something fun! You never know until you try it and you may be delighted you tried something new!

The Rouge Cosmetics will be offering Mini Make-Overs for Spring starting February 12th through March 31, 2018. Come in to discover a newer and brighter fun you, while experimenting with all the new and exciting colors for Spring!

Custom Foundations: The Best New Year’s Resolution

January 11, 2018 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

Do you wear a foundation? Are you correctly protecting your skin from the Sun’s damaging effects on the skin? Dermatologist are now recommending all women wear foundations instead of sunscreens. Researchers have found that sunscreen protects the surface of the skin, but does not give protection to the layers underneath the skin, so you cannot get the level of protection needed. The fact is, with only sunscreen, the delicate collagen under the skin is still damaged. Wearing a good foundation gives the skin a maximum blanket of protection against the Sun’s damaging effects.

Swap Your Foundation for a Custom Blended Foundation
Having a custom foundation made is the best way to go for color matching your skin, with perfect skin tone harmony and ideal, medium coverage. While matching your skin tone perfectly you will achieve confidence and self-assurance with an unmistakable, perfectly matched custom blend, that will smooth the skin and give it a youthful glow, all without lines around the chin or that “dirty face” syndrome. Make your new year so much better by knowing you have the most beautiful skin possible—perfectly matched and protected.

What A Custom Foundation Can Do for You
Fleur Visage Custom Foundations provide second skin coverage stability with a seamless flex formula, providing the skin with a perfectly balanced color made to match each and everyone’s unique skin tone and color. This all-in-one formula provides medium coverage, giving the skin that youthful, flawless and naturally-smooth appearance. Perfect for all skin types, this unique formula contains beneficial antioxidant ingredients with a SPF 25 sunscreen to protect and deflect the Sun’s damaging effects on the skin.

Dermatologist recommended
Dermatologist have discovered that applying a foundation everyday with SPF 25 not only protects the skin, it minimizes wrinkles, reduces sagging skin, and reduces damage from the Sun. With a shield of protection it’s like wearing a sweatshirt on the skin when using the correct foundation. While dermatologists recommend using a foundation everyday for complete protection, what better way to have a foundation that is perfectly matched and color-balanced to your own unique skin tone color.

The Rouge Cosmetics offers expertly and perfectly created, custom-blended foundations with second skin coverage and full protection SPF 25. They offer free consultations and walk-ins are always welcome.

Get protected for the New Year and save your fabulous skin!

Gift Ideas For The Holidays

December 10, 2017 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

What We Love

It’s the time of year when our store comes alive with excitement with gifts galore in every corner. To keep up with all the excitement we have put together some of our favorite beauty gift ideas to help you find that perfect gift for your loved ones. We aspire for our store to be precisely where your gift list and happiness intersect. Nothing makes us happier than helping to make holiday dreams and wishes come true.

What We Love: Comfort Technology Lip Gloss with Peptides, Fleur Visage

Why You’ll Love It:

This extraordinary Lip Gloss has powerful peptides to keep your lips twice as nice while hydrated and smooth, giving you a perfect pout and extra twinkle this holiday season.

What We Love: Cream Eye Shadows, Fleur Visage

Why You’ll Love It:

Glow like a super model this holiday season with these incredible Cream Eye Shadow colors. Super Shimmery to brighten up your eyes and make them look decadent and irresistible for the holidays!

What We Love: Shimmery Bronzing Dust, Fleur Visage

Why You’ll Love it:

Girls will love to find our gorgeous Bronzing Shimmer Dust in their Christmas stockings this year. It’s all the craze this season. Shimmer your hair, shimmer your skin and shoulders for that amazing glow and for that special night out! All the requirements for a beautiful holiday season!

What We Love: Premier Firming Eye Cream, Ongrien Advanced Skin Care

Why You’ll Love It:

With the hustle and bustle of the holidays and everyday life, getting a full night’s sleep, which is vital for healthy skin, can seem like a luxury. Apply this triple action eye cream around the eyes massaging nightly to decrease puffiness, minimize fine lines and to restore hydration for youthful looking eyes and you’ll look caught up on your Zs-even if you’re not.

What We Love: Ultimate Cellular Repair, Ongrien Advanced Skin Care

Why You’ll Love It:

Quenching a Thirsty complexion takes a good dose of this nourishing treatment. Skin will soak up the healthy Nuero-Peptide based nutrients, which refines the skin and gives the complexion a toned appearance. This cream repairs sun damage and visibly reduces wrinkles. We love this fine anti-aging treatment, and you will too when you notice your skin is smoother and more beautiful than ever.

At The Rouge they only carry the finest cosmetic products with the highest grade of ingredients on the market. Don’t know what to get for Christmas? We have holiday gift certificates and wish lists available.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Challenges in Skin Care and The Confusion.

November 11, 2017 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

Among the greatest challenges of today’s modern and always connected life is finding balance. Whether riddled by the desire to lean in or be offline, our days can be filled with an astonishing number of choices.

At The Rouge our mission is to improve skin health and choose the best beauty and skin care collections and most important trends for you. Recognizing your quest for balance we have created a skin care regime that is dramatically effective, uncomplicated and easy enough to adjust into your busy schedule. Our wellness shop, dedicated to offering clean beauty products, will make you look and feel great from the inside out, complete with vitamins and nutrients found to repair the skin not only on the outside, but is beneficial for the inside too.

Better than organic skin care, researchers have found by using key vitamins found or lacking in the body can actually repair the cells of the skin. These powerful vitamins include Esther C, Lipoic Acid, Neuro-Peptides, Co-Enzymes and DMAE. While you cannot get these important vitamins in organic products, they have infused plant-based products with potent vitamins to keep your skin care clean and effective for anti-aging concerns. This comprehensive take on skin care with powerful antioxidants are the only products that have been scientifically tested to improve skin health and decrease premature aging. With all the confusion on what works to stop the aging process they are dedicated on developing advanced skincare backed by science and this has earned them a strong reputation with the medical community.

To maintain and improve skin health, an effective skincare regime must contain three fundamental elements—prevention, protection and correction. Cleansing, toning and moisturizing are essential to beautiful skin and doing this twice a day is vital. At The Rouge we do not use a one-size-fits-all skin care—we customize a skin care program that is specifically to your skin needs. After all, your facial skin is exposed all day and you want to treat it gently, yet effectively with the correct products so your skin will function properly.

We pride ourselves on how we balance beauty trends and advanced skin care. Our goal is to help simplify your busy life and give you the best possible service and advice. To that end, we offer expert advice in our store and website. With 25 years in business with Ongrien Advanced Skin Care and Fleur Visage Cosmetic Collection we are just a quick text, instagram, email or phone call away.

Theresa Taylor-Grutzeck
The Rouge Cosmetics
925.736.3900

Make-Up Colors and Textures for Fall

October 12, 2017 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

Seasonal change in make-up is not only enjoyable, it is healthy and gives you a nice pick-me-up, allowing yourself some much deserved self-love. Subtle, natural, sophisticated, or modern changes—it’s time to get the creative juices flowing with some new fall colors to reflect the person you are and to redefine your beauty routine. The quest for beauty is not vanity, but a ritualistic form of self-love that nourishes the soul. It’s a philosophy that promotes good habits, a healthy well-being, and confidence. For today’s busy, juice-amped, gluten free, yoga-fied woman, it only makes sense to do some soul-searching while getting inspired, all while redefining yourself as you receive an updated look for fall.

What to Look Forward To

Silky Looking Skin. Applying modern face shimmers and highlighters gives the skin that ultra smooth, youthful sheen. I’m not talking sparkle, I’m talking about modern highlighters with a sheen to make the skin look fresh, young, natural, and gorgeously smooth!

No-Make-up Blush. Applying a soft matte light brown pink color to the cheeks makes your skin look modern, updated, velvety, and beautifully natural.

Modern Lip Balms. With these ingenious balms, your lips will feel soft and smooth. Better than Chapstick, they include powerful antioxidants, along with Vitamin C and E to give your lips the organic nourishment it needs. Lips feel silky smooth with a surge of moisture, and the best part is: you have many colors to choose from.

New Modern Matte Lip Colors. Fall seasonal changes include swapping your light pinks to a deeper lip color. Deeper hues include changing to a modern nude, mauve, or deep pink. It will enhance your fall trends, while it is essential to go with deeper colors in make-up for darker hues and your fall wardrobe.

Fall Eye Forecast. Cream eye shadows have become the essential fall accessory for eyes. They are creamy, yet dry and contribute to a beautiful, smooth look. It’s so easy to apply and looks sensational all day, without fading, smearing, or smudging.

HD Mascara. While not new to the locals, we had to include the HD Mascara in our fall preview because of the extraordinary benefits this product has to offer. This fast drying mascara not only delivers revolutionary thickness and buildable lashes, it dries black, creating beautiful, luscious, full lashes. A definite must-have!

Skin Savers for Fall

Feeling a little lackluster? Enhance your skin’s natural radiance with Ongrien’s Ultra Cellular Renewal Peptide Serum. This serum features a proprietary illuminating complex “Neuro-peptides,” for rejuvenating, repairing and smoothing the surface of skin, diminishing fine lines and wrinkles. It’s excellent for combating the effects of environmental damage and early signs of aging.

The Make-Up Pros at The Rouge Cosmetics. Book your appointment today for a Mini Fall Make-Over now through October 30, 2017, or drop by to see all the new color possibilities waiting for you and discover a new fall updated, modern you.

Fall Beauty Forecast

September 10, 2017 by Theresa Taylor Grutzeck Leave a Comment

In a world where all aspects of our lives are customized—from our Netflix queues to our coffee orders and Pinterest picks, the mass appeal of “One system for everyone” beauty line just won’t cut it. This is why make-up artist and skin care specialist, Theresa Taylor-Grutzeck, went super-niche with her Fleur Visage Cosmetic Line—a complete collection of products focused on her specialty: Beauty.

This line of cosmetics includes a one-stop-shop of beauty products, full of perfectly selected, trendy, modern products and beauty tools, all customized for women of all ages and backgrounds. This assortment includes custom foundations and powders, trendy tailor made custom compact eye colors, and popular smudge proof lip liner stains. These tools flip the script on how most women apply cosmetics, making the art-of-beauty fun, uncomplicated and easy to apply. “Lots of women are afraid and intimidated to go to beauty counters for fear of looking like a glam queen,” says Theresa. “Today more women want to look like themselves with a modern sensibility, and I want my line to prove that it’s almost embarrassingly easy, fun and effortless to do makeup,” she adds.

With all the cosmetics Sephora or department stores might have to offer, The Rouge Cosmetics has made it easier for beauty customers, with their full line of expertly hand-picked products that work seamlessly to create a realistic look, customized for each individual. Truly, it’s a one–stop-shop for everyone to enjoy, tailor made to be effective, straight-forward and uncomplicated.

Modern Makeover Expert

When beauty retailer The Rouge Cosmetics asked customers about their beauty influences, they kept hearing the same thing: Women loved watching makeup tutorials online, but were intimidated by the finished looks and had trouble figuring out which vloggers were legit makeup artists. To the rescue: totally legit pro Theresa Taylor and Tia Woodson, are the go-to beauty gurus, who know what’s in and what’s out; what will make you or break you. They will show you what is updated, trendy, and in fashion, not to mention you can see the results in real time in less than 30 minutes!

You don’t need to watch beauty tutorials and endure hours of frustration; and you won’t get the overdone visages that populate the vlogosphere. As Theresa says, “While I love the creativity shown with all those ultra-perfect doll-looks on YouTube, it’s unattainable in real life and it doesn’t look real. The collection of cosmetics we offer merges trends with wear-ability. I worry about women trying to achieve that version of perfection with their makeup. Instead, I like to bring out the real person, not a fabrication of someone they’re not.”

Fall In Line

“Beauty is a spiritual journey,” says Theresa Taylor, “Like the changing of the seasons the makeup industry is forever changing with them.” With fall approaching it is appropriate to start with a subtle change, especially if you are wearing darker colors or fall’s newest fashion trends. A key color element this season is neutral. Eyes and lips are hyper real, while looking ultra youthful, with skin looking silky smooth as satin. Brows and lips take center stage in the new era of definition and refinement. Toned down neutral fuller lips, sculpted contours, and eye opening brows usher in a new focus on features. Subtle, natural, sophisticated, or modern—it’s time to get creative and redefine your beauty routine. “The quest for beauty is not vanity, but a ritualistic form of self-love that nourishes the soul,” Theresa says. It’s a philosophy that would have sounded fringe a decade ago, but for today’s juice-amped, gluten free, yoga-fied woman, it only makes sense to do some soul-searching while getting one hell of a updated beauty makeover!

Fall in line with the fall trends and book your make-overs starting at The Rouge Cosmetics September 1^st through October 30^th! Appointments available Tuesday through Saturday.