Foot Tools: I’m always on the look out for quick and easy tools to help my sometimes dry cracked feet. Especially in the summer time, I wear flip flops a lot living in Arizona which takes a toll on my feet. My latest great discovery is: Tweezerman Pink Travel Pedro Callus Stone, $12, (also comes is in light aqua green). Amazing! It actually works in gently filling off my dry skin on my heels. I use it on dry feet, in the shower, and on my at-home pedicure days. I also find the shape of the Pedero very comfortable to hold and to ‘operate’. After exfoliating my feet I like to use body lotions by Jergens, Curel, or Lubriderm my drugstore jewels! Success:)

Lancôme Trésor Eau de Parfum Rollerball is the modern way to wear this classic fragrance and the perfect stocking stuffer. It comes in a sparkly red packaging and looks very Christmas.

Lancôme Trésor is a perfume I remember from my older cousin’s wife, Mira. This was her signature perfume. When visiting her back in Vienna Austria we actually went to buy one in a local mall. I also wore this perfume few times some years ago and I remember getting compliments. This perfume is a true Lancôme classic!

Bree Turner is an actress who began her journey in Hollywood as a professional dancer. Bree was a background dancer in such hit films as The Big Lebowski (1998), She’s All That (1999) and Mike Myers’ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Bree’s love for performing and being on stage makes acting a natural transition. Most recently, Bree Turner can be seen opposite Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in The Ugly Truth.

I caught up with Bree Turner via telephone from Los Angeles early in the morning few months ago, to talk about her beginnings in Hollywood, her role film The Ugly Truth opposite Katherine Heigl, future career plans and even some beauty secrets!

Actress Bree Turner

Marta Walsh: How did you decide on a career in acting, and what were some of your first breaks as an actress?
Bree Turner: I started out as a dancer which got me on stage. I was pretty shy as a kid so my mom decided to enroll me in a dance class, and I fell in love with being on stage and performing. I danced all through my teens and early 20’s. Dancing brought me down to Los Angeles with a dance scholarship in UCLA. I heard that you can actually make money as dancer, so I got a dance agent and began working in commercials, music videos, and the Grammys. I did that for about 6 years. I then decided to pursue acting. I was so in love with being on set and movie making. I loved movies since I was a baby. It was the only thing that would calm me down. I was very colicky as a child so my mom would take me to watch movies. Grease was the movie that would stop me from crying. Dancing, performing, and being on stage is all I’ve done forever, it’s all I really know.

As the holiday season approaches, we prepare ourselves for Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations. As seen backstage for Tamara Pogosian Holiday 2010 fashion show in NYC, it was all about colored cheeks or bold lips. Makeup Artist Stephanie Flor created the makeup look. It was fun and original, and perfect for any occasion.

Inspired by the movement of Twilight: New Moon, Stephanie muted the colors on the face to add a dramatic effect with an intense dark red lip and angel white eyes.

Using a rich white shadow (Cover Girl Golden Sunset) Stephanie covered the upper lid and blended it to the brow bone. The eyebrows were combed upward with clear gel. White liner (Covergirl starlightening white) was applied to the inner rim of the models eye’s to add that special touch.

Anyone heard about the Wonderbar facial bar? First time for me. The description is quite interesting. Makes Marta want to try:)

The Wonderbar is not a soap, it is a facial bar which is enhanced by the unique combination of Chlorey’nahre, our proprietary complex extracted from algae, with 3000 year old Heilmoor clay of Austria, a natural therapeutic ingredient. The use of nanotechnology to develop Chlorey’nahre results in quick & complete absorption into your dermis to help your skin stay supple, radiant and youthful.