PRODUCTS OF THE WEEK

Breakouts can really ruin your day! It does not matter if you’re a teenager, woman or man. No one likes to grapple with whiteheads and blackheads on any day. So naturally many individuals resort to seeking out the best acne skin care treatment product. However, with so many blemish treatments and skin care products available in stores all across the nation, it can be a challenge finding one to really meet your needs and skin condition. Not merely a topical acne cream or gel that dries up a zit. But rather an acne skin care treatment product that heals while preventing new breakouts.

It’s a cinch to say that over the years a deluge of acne skin care treatment products have graced the shelves of local drugstores and super markets. So of them dried out the skin, some of them lead to redness, and others irritated the complexion and caused more breakouts. Yikes! If you suffer from acne, this is certainly not what you have in mind to remedy your current skin condition. Fortunately at this point many acne skin care treatment products have dramatically improved.

Let’s take a look at some of the more popular blemish treatments and acne creams offered today. Although each of them claim to be the best acne skin care treatment product on the market, one may be more suitable for some individuals, while others are ideal for other acne sufferers. One skin care line that is geared toward acne breakouts is Murad. This is considered a high-end skin care line that can be purchased in select stores and online through the official website. Another popular blemish treatment line is called Clearasil. They currently offer on-the-spot treatments for existing pimples, face washes to clear away bacteria that leads to more acne, and overnight treatments that can prevent new whiteheads and blackheads from forming.

How can you determine which acne skin care treatment product is ideal for you and your individual skin condition? Well, this can be a tough part. One way to learn more is by visiting a skin care specialist or even a cosmetic counter employee. Either one can ask you a few simple questions and help you determine what skin type you have. This will help lead you to the right skin care treatments for your acne breakouts and blemishes. Needless to say, there are different types of acne, and each one may call for a different kind of acne skin care treatment product. Once you discover the one that is right for you, it won’t be long before your complexion is clean and clear of blemishes like it should be. With all of the effective acne products on the market today, there is no reason to wait.

Fashion design and fashion design schools like Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) and Parsons the New School of Design have generated more public interest in fashion thanks to programs like Project Runway (finally running season 6!), which boosts the fashion design career of the winning contestant by giving them prizes such as a vacation trip and $100,000 to start their own clothing line. For the remaining contestants, the idea is that they get some exposure for themselves and their designs on TV and they can still make it big.

Fashion is a brutal industry. Like Heidi says, “One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out.” You constantly have to keep your balance on the cutting edge to prevent yourself from becoming sliced into yesterday’s news. You have to promote yourself relentlessly to get noticed and sought after. If you can’t find an organization or clients that like your work, you’re out—out of business. You need people to buy your clothes, and you need to keep them wanting to buy them.

That’s why Project Runway is “the chance of a lifetime.” 100 grand to support your fashion design career is unlikely to present itself anywhere else unless you’ve somehow managed to win a very generous benefactor. Winning Project Runway is big bucks plus national exposure and the opportunity to meet the most notable figures of the fashion industry. But of course, this generosity comes with a price. In order to win the prize, you’ll be faced with all sorts of outlandish clothing requests that you’d probably never get in real life that need to be completed in an unrealistically short amount of time. For some fashion designers, this might be even more grueling than simply trying to make it in the fashion business on your own.

But the question is, does Project Runway really give fashion designers the boost they need? Critics contend that Project Runway is more about promoting good television and not a fashion design career. None of the past Project Runway winners has become a force to reckon with except for Christian Siriano, though it must be conceded that Jay McCarroll rejected his prize. As for the other contestants, they do get exposure but often their fame is largely based on being reality show contestants rather than good designers.

Maybe season 6 will be different. Christian has been dubbed “the next Marc Jacobs” by Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn, and maybe he’ll have equal praise for the next winning contestant. In any case, most of those pursuing a fashion design career will continue to endeavor the old school way, and the rest of us will anticipate Project Runway on Thursday evenings.