Wholesale Mineral Makeup

April 21, 2010

Looking for wholesale mineral makeup for your business?  Searching for that perfect makeup line for your business can be a frustrating endeavor.  You can’t really get the sense for a product unless you use it first.  So, you have to get tons of samples and test them out one by one.   Or, you can just look at the ingredients in each product and compare prices.  If you know what makes up a great mineral makeup line, you don’t have to invest a single penny before making your decision.  So, let’s take a look at some of the ingredients in leading mineral makeup brands and what they do for your look.

Bismuth Oxychloride: Bismuth compounds are used in cosmetics and medicines. As the toxicity of lead has been brought to the surface in recent years, uses for bismuth metal as a replacement for lead have become an increasing part of bismuth’s commercial importance.  It creates that natural “shine” everyone is looking to achieve when using a natural based makeup. 

Boron Nitride: A mineral that provides cosmetics with a soft matte finish and also provides the adhesion necessary for the makeup to result in a flawless finish.

Kaolin Clay: A creamy mineral, very absorbent & used in small amounts to increase adhesion or oil absorption.

Magnesium Stearate: High adhesion mineral also used to create a matte finish.

Micronized Titanium Dioxide: Translucent, used for UV protection.

Rice starch: Translucent with fair cohesion. Considered to be a skin soother & emollient.

Sericite Mica: Translucent mica with fair absorbency & good adhesion. Used to add shine to a mineral makeup formula. Silky to the touch.

Talc: Translucent, silky mineral. Has less of a dehydrating affect than kaolin clay.

Titanium Dioxide White: High coverage mineral whitener. Natural UV protection.

Zea Mays: Technical name for corn starch. Very translucent with good absorbency & silky texture.

Our company creates our mineral makeup line in the USA with the highest quality ingredients, including the ones listed above.  Natural minerals, renewable natural moisturizers, soy protein and vitamin E are some of the ingredients that make our products superior to other cosmetic lines.  We never use animal derived ingredients or animal testing to develop our products.

Soy Protein:  Acts as a moisturizer while aiding in increased collagen formation and tissue density.  It helps improve your skin’s elasticity and regeration.

Vitamin E:  A natural anti-oxidant that works by inactivating destructive free radicals at the skin, thus slowing down the skin, thus slowing down the skin aging process.  It also contains significant moisturizing properties to decrease the appearance of fine lines while helping to maintain your skin’s elasticity.

Still need to test out the products first?  It’s simple to order online!  Click here to start shopping, or if you haven’t registered to order yet, click here

Don’t want to pay retail?  No sense in ordering retail when you can just sign up for one of our wholesale programs and receive an automatic discount!  Click here.


Free Makeup Samples

February 3, 2010

As expensive as makeup can get, especially if you wear it every day, I can understand why so many women out there are scouring the internet to find free makeup samples. I did that for a while myself and probably got one free makeup sample for every 3 hours I spent looking for free makeup samples, entering contests for free samples, requesting free samples, and filling out surveys to get my free samples… wow, that gets tiring!

In the end, I realized that all of that time I spent looking for free samples could have been spent building my business and helping others make money building their business. I stopped scouring the internet for those free makeup samples and started investing my time in my makeup business. Now, the money I make in three hours can buy much more than a little sample sized tube of makeup.

I realize that building a business is not for everyone, so if you’d like to continue your quest for free samples, by all means go right ahead. I’ll even get you started by offering you a free sample of our own mineral based foundation (Click Here to request a catalog that will come with a free sample.)

If you’re excited about the chance to make money from home selling cosmetics and offering beauty demonstrator services to the women in your community, don’t be shy!  Come join our team of professionals working from home doing something they love.  Read more…


How Much Should Beauty Demonstrators, Makeup Artists, Charge?

September 4, 2009

makeup_artistIf you look at the average cost of a makeup application at a salon or spa, you’ll find the price to be quite high. Why? Well, salons need to cover for more than just the makeup artist’s salary. They use a portion of that fee for supplies, rent, taxes, the manager’s salary, electricity, and the list goes on. If the makeup artist is a sought after professional, the fee will be significantly higher.

So, how much should you charge for your services?

You will also want to take your salary and expenses into consideration like the salons and spas do. Think about your desired annual income and your desired annual hours of work. How much do you think your time is worth, basically? If you are a professional makeup artist, meaning you went to beauty school and have a certificate or degree, you will want to be charging at least $15/hour base pay. If you are a skilled makeup artist, but not a professional, you may want to decrease that pay a bit. But, if you feel that you’re as qualified or more qualified than most professionals, by all means adjust your pay accordingly.

For those of you that have no experience with makeup application, I would encourage you to look into taking a few classes at your local Technical College or Beauty School. If that is not possible, find some good friends and family members to practice on. I’m sure you’ll find plenty of people to help you out.

Base Pay

Once you are confident in your ability as a beauty demonstrator/makeup artist and you’ve established your base pay, you’ll want to also consider the hours you’ll be working your first year in business. Most likely, you’ll be working only a few hours a week until you’ve established a good client base. Take this into consideration and prepare financially for your first year.

Next, you’ll want to consider your annual expenses. Now, these shouldn’t be very high if you plan on running the business out of your home or traveling to your clients homes. You WILL have expenses, though. For in-home beauty demonstrations, you’ll want to add a service charge for gas and travel expenses. For beauty demonstrations done at your own location (home or business), you shouldn’t be charging any service fees.

Here’s an easy formula for calculating your hourly rate.

Desired Annual Salarycost
+ Annual fixed costs (overhead)
+ Desired annual profit
÷ Annual billable hours

_______________________________
= Hourly Rate

In addition to your hourly rate, you will be making at least a 30% profit on all retail sales (our mineral makeup line.)

So, is that an hourly rate you could get used to?

Are you looking to put cash in your pocket the first day you get started with your beauty demonstrator business?

Get started with the Beauty Demonstrator Package and run the following promotion for a scheduled date.  To get the best results, make your scheduled date the morning of your local high school’s prom or maybe a holiday when everyone will be going to parties.  Take out an ad in the local paper and post online to Craigslist.org or any other local classified website.  State that you will be having a beauty demonstrator open house and will offer a free beauty demonstration/makeup application with purchase of $25 or more in mineral cosmetics.  State the date, time, location, and contact information.  You may also want to offer door prizes or feature a contest of some sort that will require contact information from each person that attends your open house.  Get creative and go with it!  If funds are available for paid advertising, go ahead and get a print ad created to make your open house stand out.  Put up flyers at your local library, grocery store, fitness center, etc.  And, don’t forget to send out invitations to friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and anyone else you can think of.

Don’t forget to have marketing materials, price sheets, and catalogs available for the open house, in addition to products on-hand for cash and carry.  If you’re looking to add other products to your home based business, consider our gourmet natural wax candles and bath & body products.  You can get the Complete Package that will save you over $300 as opposed to purchasing all of the products at wholesale price individually.  So, you’re actually getting all of the products BELOW wholesale price.  For more information on started a Complete Candle and Cosmetic Business, go to www.LightaMiaBella.info.  All starter packages are listed on the Getting Started Packages page you can navigate to from the top tabs on the website.

To get started with our Autoship Wholesale Program right now, Click HERE

How much could you make at your first open house?

Let’s say you invite around 50 people and put an ad in your local paper.  Now, lets say only 10 people show up to your open house (you’ll most likely have more if you advertise.)  Those 10 people each purchase the minimum requirement of $25 in mineral cosmetics to get their free beauty demonstration (most will purchase more than $25.)  Now, lets say you purchased the Complete Candle and Cosmetic Package and you have all of the products out for cash and carry.  Lets say you sold one 16oz. jar candle to each of those ten people.  So, each person has a retail purchase of $43.95.  This is a very low estimate.  You will most likely have more than 10 people and higher sales, but we’ll use this scenario to make a point.

10 People X $43.95 = $439.95 in sales

Now, lets say you only get 30% of that (you’ll get more based on the candle sales that normally yield 50%)

$439.95 X 0.30 = $131.99

Not bad for one days work, huh?  Now, just think about if 20 people came, 30, 40, or 50?  And, imagine that each person purchase $50 in cosmetics, along with two 16oz. jar candles each.  What would your profit be then?

Remember, this is only the beginning.  Your goal is to acquire the contact information of each person in attendance, including their e-mail address for your mailing list, and follow up with them periodically by phone, mail, and e-mail.  Keep them in the loop on all of our new products (the company comes out with a new fragrance each month) by sending them a monthly newsletter.

If you are open to beauty demonstration parties, you may want to have information out at your open house to have people schedule to host one.  Emphasize any hostess gifts you will be giving and try getting them to book a party right on the spot by offering a free gift for that day only.  Beauty Demonstrator Parties are a fantastic way of putting cash in your pocket month after month.

Ready to get your Beauty Demonstrator Business Launched?

Get started by choosing the Autoship Program (you have options for your autoship package each month.)  You’ll receive the following when you sign up for the Autoship Program:

1. Company Website – Example: www.BreathofHeaven.Scent-Team.com
2.  Online Retail Shopping Site – Example: www.LightaMiaBella.com
3.  Distributor Backoffice for Placing Orders and Tracking Sales
4.  Training Calls and Videos
5.  Team Website – Example: www.LightaMiaBella.info
6.  Autoship Package $39.95 – Choose from the following:

  • One 16oz. Jar, 12 pack of votives, and 1 soy cleansing bar, plus the company website
  • Two 16oz. Jars and 1 soy cleansing bar, plus the company website
  • Two Foaming Hand Washes, two lotions, and two soy cleansing bars, plus the company website

*More options may become available in the future and may be changed whenever you wish

Read about the benefits of joining our team – Click Here

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Guide to Becoming a Makeup Artist

August 26, 2009

Need help with your new makeup artist business? Do you want to be a makeup artist that knows exactly what she’s doing and is confident in succeeding as a makeup artist? There is a makeup artist eBook I’d like to show you that will teach you the following:

  • How to start a freelance makeup artist/beauty demonstrator business for as little money as possible
  • Links to all the information you may need about the “business” side of things (permits, insurance, etc.)
  • Your options for where to set up your makeup artist business
  • Working out of your home
  • Working in a salon or spa
  • Setting up a storefront
  • Choosing a name for your makeup artist business
  • Where to find suppliers of makeup products  (of course, you’ve already found us!)
  • Pricing your makeup artist services by the hour or service
  • Identifying potential clients
  • Creative ideas to market yourself effectively
  • Preparing promotional materials
  • How to get photos of your work 
  • How to create a professional portfolio
  • What to include on your comp cards
  • How to get photographers and businesses to refer clients to you
  • How to do a client consultation
  • How to get work through a makeup artist agency
  • What you need to know about unions if you want to work in the entertainment industry

All of this and MORE!  There are so many things you can do with your makeup artist business.  Makeup artists have the options to keep it simple and work for themselves, within their homes, and serve only clients in their area.  Makeup artists also have the option to travel, work with prestigious agencies, and even provide their services as a makeup artist to celebrities.  A home based business as a makeup artist/beauty demonstrator will provide you with unlimited opportunities and unlimited income potential when using our best home business model.

Your beauty demonstrator business, makeup artist business, will be about relationships.  It will be about achieving your dreams while helping others achieve their dreams as a makeup artist, home business owner, celebrity, model, bride, newscaster, or even a stay-at-home mom!  

To view the details of this information packed eBook Click Here 


The Best Business Model for Home Based Businesses

August 25, 2009

After searching through endless opportunities to work from home, I’m sure you’re exhausted and not entirely sure what to think about having your own home business now.  Whether you’re a trained beautician or makeup artist, you’re a stay-at-home mom just looking to make some extra money from home, or you’re just looking to change careers, there’s still a lot of work to be done if you hope to succeed in making money from the comfort of your home and on your own terms.  

There are thousands and thousands of people in this country that want the same thing that you do.  They want to work from home doing something that they love doing.  They want the flexibility that comes from being their own boss.  And, they want the financial rewards that come from working hard for themselves and their family and not for someone else.  What most of these people don’t accept is that it takes a lot of work when you first start out WORKING from home.  The majority of the people that are online searching for work at home opportunities right now are looking for a quick way out.  A way out of their struggle with time and money.  They want it to be easy.  

In order to be successful working from home, you need to get the idea that you can make easy money out of your mind.  This shouldn’t come as a surprise to you, but I’m sure it will for some of you.  There is NO SUCH THING AS EASY MONEY!  Don’t let the get rich quick schemes fool you and don’t ever pay someone to give you information on how to make money from home.  It’s a scam!  You will lose money if you’re not willing to work.  It’s that simple.  If you work hard building your home based business, then it will work hard for you for years to come.  And, don’t worry, the time will come when you won’t have to work as hard and you’ll still see your income rising each month.  

You might be wondering how that’s possible, to work less and less and still have your income rise each month.  Well, I’m here to tell you that it IS possible and you CAN achieve financial freedom by having your own home business.  Like so many other businesses out there, a home business started from scratch would take years and years of foundation building before it made ANY significant amount of profit.  If you were to start making cosmetics in your basement, how long do you think it would be before you had a full cosmetic line ready to present to people?  How much money do you think you’d have to invest in supplies, equipment, and ingredients?  Not to mention how many trial and errors you’ll have to go through in order to get a superior product that someone would actually want to buy.  

Starting a business from scratch is quite impossible when you’re going it alone.  But, what if you already had a product line available to you?  One that has already been proven to please the masses.  A simple product line that can be offered to anyone at anytime without worrying whether or not you have that particular item in stock or whether or not you’ll have the time to make it for that eager customer.  What if you had an entire company working for you?  A company that is run by hard working home business owners like yourself?  What if you had an entire team of beauty demonstrators ready to go out and sell those products for you?  Wouldn’t an entire company working for you, in addition to an entire team selling for you, help you achieve financial freedom?  

Building a successful home business is VERY possible with the right business model.  In the past, many have used this business model to mislead others into thinking they could make easy money with it.  Those kinds of people still exist today in any kind of business, but many of us in this particular business are honest people and will calling it like it is.  My own response to this business model went from disgust to amazement after watching an in-depth video presentation discussing what the business model was exactly.  You see, the reason I was disgusted by it at first was because the only thing I knew about it was what I had heard from some of my friends.  That is why it is SO important to educate yourself on ALL matters before jumping to conclusions.  

Please take a few moments to watch this in-depth video presentation on the business model that our company uses.

CLICK HERE


Make Money With Makeup?

August 12, 2009

littlegirl_lipstickAre you a bit skeptical about how much money you can actually make being a mineral makeup consultant?

Well, let’s take a look at a report on the Mineral Makeup Trend to start off.  Click Here

What do you think would have happened if you had bought stock in one of those major cosmetic companies mentioned when they first launched? You’d be financially free by now, wouldn’t you?

Becoming a representative in any Network Marketing company is similar to purchasing stock, except it’s much less risky. You make an investment and you expect it to grow, right? Well, when you purchase stock, you have no control over the value of it. You’re not the one calling the shots in the company. The only shot you’re calling is the shot to bail out!

In any Network Marketing company or home based business, you start out with a single investment. But, you don’t just sit back helplessly and watch the value of your investment drop to the floor. You’re in control! You’re in control of your investment, and it’s up to you to make that value shoot through the roof. The company itself has very little to do with the success of your business.  But, we should still look at what a Network Marketing Company needs to ad to the value of your investment.

Company Check List

There are 5 essential characteristics that a company must have to survive long-term in this industry. As I go through these five areas, take note and see if what you have done before you might find that one or more of these areas were missing or lacking, thereby reducing your possibilities of success. I’m going to list them and let’s see how our company stacks up.

  1. LOW UNIT COST – In other words, a broad segment of the American population must be able to afford these products.
  2. IT MUST BE HIGHLY CONSUMABLE – You must be able to make a sale and have the product get used up or consumed and re-purchased over and over again by the same consumer.
  3. THERE NEEDS TO BE A CERTAIN MYSTIQUE OR EXCLUSIVITY – That is to say you can’t run down to your local Wal-Mart and buy this same quality of product at the same price or less money.
  4. THERE NEEDS TO BE AN ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT TEAM IN PLACE – Proven leaders who have been there done that, and willing to bring on qualified people to build a worldwide company.
  5. THERE NEEDS TO BE AN ADEQUATE PROFIT MARGIN – To fund both the company and the distributors network.

How Does Our Company Stack Up?

  1. Does it Have Low unit Cost? Cost is within the reach of every American family and right in line with best selling competitors.
  2. Is it Highly consumable? You be the judge.
  3. Mystique or Exclusivity? Formula that nobody else has that allows for a healthier, glowing complexion.  Also helps improve skin elasticity and re-generation.
  4. Adequate management? Integrity and a desire to help people make money is the driving force behind our company, along with the desire to create the best performing products on the market. Years of experience in the field as distributors has given our leaders the experience and empathy for the distributors challenges. They know what we do and know what it takes to build a business. They also know how to run a business. They put a lot of time and effort into making things right for us.
  5. Adequate profit margin? 50-100% markup – Unheard of in most network marketing or direct sales opportunities! How about getting paid on 10% of the commission able volume of every person you sponsor and 5% on every person they sponsor, and 5, 5, 5, and a whopping 10% on level six.  Building a large “organization” has never been easier with our team’s exclusive marketing system!  View the compensation plan HERE.

How You Get Paid

1. Retail

There are so many ways to retail our mineral makeup, bath and body products, and candles. Here are a few:

  1. Home Parties: This is turning out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of our program. At first we heard from distributors with absolutely no home party experience doing over $1,000 in a single home party but now we are also attracting distributors simply because our home party business is so easy to do and so much more lucrative than traditional home party companies. Why? Because we allow you to literally double your money when you sell our products!
  2. Shows/Booths: Many of our distributors are doing small and big shows and booths and they are having incredible success at not only making huge retail profits but signing on new distributors directly at those shows!
  3. Three Foot Rule: (walking and talking) the show, smell, tell, and sell program. It doesn’t get any easier than this. Simply ask anyone if he or she wears makeup or burns scented candles and when you get a yes, pull out your mineral makeup, lotion samples, or open the top of one of our scented candles and do the “smell and sell” demonstration! Talk about putting money in your pocket with ease and comfort!
  4. Demonstrations:  Are you a beautician?  Or, is there one inside of you screaming to get out?  If you’re a makeup artist or would like to be one, this would be the best way for you to work for yourself.  Simply take our cosmetics with you wherever you go and give demonstrations.  The mineral makeup industry NEEDS demonstrators because many people are not familiar with the application process.  It’s the perfect way to present our natural mineral makeup to women in all stages of life.  

2. Fund-Raisers

Many network marketing companies have tried to get into the fund-raising arena but not many have succeeded simply because of the pricing of their products. Our company represents a product that is not only highly competitive in the fund-raising market but also represents one of the hottest products in fund-raising… candles!

We are already seeing distributors who are putting together fund-raisers that are selling hundreds of candles. In fact, on our company website we feature a story about a young high school girl whose group earned over $3,000 in profits in one small fund-raiser!

The potential for distributors to earn incredible part time AND even full time income in fund-raising alone is available thru this program!

3. Sponsoring and Team Building

PHASES OF GROWTH IN NETWORK MARKETING: A lot of people are under the impression that the ONLY time to get involved in a network marketing program is at the very beginning. Well, the truth is that this is probably one of the WORST times to get involved.

There is no product, company or income recognition during the first 18 months of a company’s growth. The 2nd phase of growth is usually one of the best times to get involved and our company has just entered that phase of growth. We are already seeing record breaking volumes and sign ups each month because we have entered this stage of growth.

As we go thru our 2nd and 3rd stage of growth into momentum we will see a consistent upward growth and people who never dreamed of being successful in this kind of business will see themselves earning more money, meeting more incredible people and traveling to more luxurious places in the next 5 years than they could have had happen in a lifetime without it!


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