Makeup helps face look slimmer, consultant says

New York” The holiday season is a catch-22 for ladies who like to look their best.

More than other times of the year, the holidays and their accompanying parties and social engagements offer an opportunity to put on one’s finest frocks and show them off to a crowd. But once at these gatherings, one usually nibbles at the plentiful bowls of chocolates, cookies and other sweets that can leave one feeling full ” and looking full in the face.

Diane Kendal, a consultant for Calvin Klein Cosmetics, says it is possible to use makeup to make your face look a little slimmer.

“The trick is to not get something that shows the line of demarcation ” always blend. It’s all about the placement of the makeup when trying to make the face appear thinner,” she says.

Kendal suggests using a bronzing powder in the hollow of the cheeks. The bronzer also can be used to heighten the cheekbones, contrasting between light and dark on the skin.

If you wear foundation, try using a product one or two shades deeper than your natural skin tone to produce a difference in texture of the skin, she says. The same deeper-shade theory works for powder, says Kendal, and make sure the powder is translucent.

Designer honored by Ovarian Cancer fund

New York ” Designer Donna Karan and her friend, the late Liz Tilberis, are being recognized by the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at the charity’s first Legends Gala.

Karan receives the inaugural Liz Tilberis Humanitarian Award. Tilberis, the former editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar, served as president of the research fund and died of ovarian cancer in 1999.

The Super Saturday fund-raiser, a giant designer garage sale held on Long Island, N.Y., each summer, was created by the fashionable Karan-Tilberis team, and Karan has continued to lead the event, which this year raised $1 million, says Jamie Boris, current president of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

L’Oreal Paris is sponsoring the Legends Gala.

The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research, raising awareness and finding a cure for ovarian cancer.

Neiman Marcus gifts raise money for hospital

New York ” The 2002 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, the high-end retailer’s seasonal catalog, offers some gifts that give twice.

When a shopper purchases items such as a Lulu Guinness beaded handbag, a fringed Burberry scarf or a stretch-velvet Chetta B ruffle top, Neiman Marcus will donate a portion of the proceeds to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Also, Neiman Marcus will be selling its own private label leopard-print and brocade umbrella in its stores to raise money for St. Jude, a biomedical research center dedicated to finding cures for childhood diseases.