The summer season may be winding down (hopefully, it is so HOT), but, you can smell like summer all year round with SummerByKenzo perfume. Kenzo’s description of this sunny scent is:
Emerging from a burst of sunshine, SUMMERBYKENZO blends an array of opposites: Sensual and Modern, Refreshing and Warm, Floral and Sweet to create a sultry and succulent fragrance that caresses the skin. The sun’s rays shine through the golden lines of its leaf-shaped bottle.
What I think: Because of the combination of bergamot, citrus and musk, this sexy scent is perfect for all seasons, not only summer. This is perfect for women who want a lighter scent, but not one that is too fruity or floral. It’s light without being too girly.
Visit www.kenzousa.com to learn more and to purchase this fab scent!
“My intention has always been to provide ease, balance, grace and style to my clients. My weightless moisture collection does just that. I am achieving a life-long goal and it is an amazing feeling. To be able to give back to the people who matter most—my clients— and to provide products that speak specifically to their needs is tremendously exciting for me.”
– Anthony Morrison
Anthony Morrison is a celebrity hair stylist, winner of Bravo’s Shear Genius and hair makeover artist on TLC’s 10 Years Younger. He loves transforming client’s hair into something beautiful and has recently created a line of hair care products to make your hair moisturized without wearing your hair down!
The products in the line are:
HYDRAcleanse — a sulfate-free, color-safe moisturizing shampoo that gently cleanses and deeply conditions hair.
HYDRAnourish — a daily conditioner that delivers the extra moisture everybody needs without making hair flat.
HYDRAlock — a nourishing shine serum that locks in moisture and fabulous shine.
HYDRAboost — a lightweight spray that provides hair with amazing volume and shine that lasts all day.
HYDRAtame — a blow dry cream that helps anybody struggling with unruly or frizzy hair to keep their locks in line.
HYDRAsmooth — a thermal protecting crème that smoothes while protecting and leaves your hair exceptionally frizz-free, soft and shiny.
HYDRArestore — a deep conditioning masque that doesn’t leave you with a heavy head of hair.
What I think: The shampoo and conditioner are very thick and I was worried that my thin hair might get weighed down or greasy. Instead, after showering my hair was soft and bouncy! I use these two products about every other day when I shampoo my hair plus the HYDRArestore once or twice a week for deep conditioning.
The other products are fantastic, too! I especially like the HYDRAboost, I spray it on my roots first and then all over for lift and hold and I use the HYDRAtame and HYDRAsmooth before I blow dry or straighten my hair. The scent of all of the products is very soft and pretty, but does not overpower my perfume.
Visit www.AnthonyMorrisonhaircare.com to learn more about these products. Anthony is also launching his collection on ShopNBC and ShopNBC.com for two appearances:
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Korres Quercetin and Oak Instant Lift Age-reversing Eye Cream
Is eye cream an integral step in your skin care routine? It is for me. I use eye cream around my entire eye in the morning and night. It makes a huge difference in helping me look younger. When I skip this step, after a few days my eyes begin to look tired.
So I am always looking for a new eye cream to perk up my peepers. Korres Quercetin and Oak Instant Lift Age-reversing Eye Cream ($42.00 USD) is a great one to try.
The info: Based on Nobel Award-Winning research, Patent-Pending Quercetin&Oak Instant Lift Eye cream is clinically proven to reverse the signs of aging – where you need it most. Revolutionary technology stimulates cell growth and protein synthesis to dramatically reduce eye wrinkles, significantly increase skin elasticity and reduce puffiness and dark circles. Skin is instantly lifted, rejuvenated and returned to its youthful state.
Clinical Results show:
· 97% saw a reduction in wrinkles
· 97% saw visibly firmer skin
· 94% saw a reduction in eye puffiness
· 84% saw a reduction in dark circles
· 100% saw improved skin texture
What I think: This is an exceptional cream that is priced well for what it does. This is creamy, but not greasy, and feels great! I notice that the skin around my eyes looks tighter and smoother immediately after use, and after using for a few weeks my eyes looks much younger. So nice!
Visit www.korresusa.com to learn more and to purchase this great eye cream!
Need to fix your tired, damaged hair instantly? Try what has been named “makeup for hair”, White Sands Porosity The Fix.
Product Information: For hair that has become delicate from coloring, perming, and heat styling, White Sands presents the re-launch of its revolutionary treatment Porosity The Fix ($19.00 USD). Featuring a brand new packaging design and enhanced formulation, this leave in protects tresses from future damage caused by hot tools and environmental elements by correcting the appearance of extreme dryness and damaged texture patterns.
Fashioned as “makeup for hair”, this product acts as a coveted concealer, filling in the blemishes found in each strand. This revitalizing feature instantly creates illuminating, flawless strands. The Fix will transform damaged, dry locks, revealing youthful, shiny hair.
Based after the hair’s ability to absorb and retain moisture, unnaturally high and low levels of porosity are the main causes of fragile and brittle locks. The Fix instantly reverses this unbalanced state, creating healthy, flawless hair through its restorative properties and unique ingredients including gentle silicones and natural oils. The formula’s light weight silicone membrane instantly “locks in” this moisture, while providing a revolutionary “Timed” Drying Process: the ratio of Cyclomethicones adjusts for drying time to provide maximum shine.
What I think: Fantastic! I apply this two ways: on damp hair as a leave in and on dry hair to instantly add shine and stop the frizzies. Plus this does not make my hair look greasy. It also smells really pretty, like a soft perfume.
Want to splurge on a luxury foundation? Colorescience Pro foundations provide the customizable coverage you need to even out your skin tone and enhance features. These lightweight, highly pigmented foundations provide beautiful color that can be blended and layered for a flawless finish that lasts all day.
Sheer Creme Foundation ($45.00 USD) — This one is rich in Vitamins A, C, and E and nourishes as it blends uneven skin tone and other imperfections. It is designed to fuse with powders to create a flawless finish.
What I think: This foundation is quite lovely. The texture is a silky mousse that once applied reminds me of a primer that is perfectly tinted for my skin tone, and it is so nice to be able to skip the primer step in my makeup routine! It also gives my skin a beautiful glow. For even more coverage, I layer the Loose Mineral Foundation over the creme.
Loose Mineral Foundation SPF 20 ($60.00 USD) takes the mess out of minerals with a simple, self-dispensing powder brush. Covers, balances skin tone and gives glowing radiance. This lightweight powder formula feels as smooth as a cream and doesn’t dry the skin. Colorescience Pro foundations provide the customizable coverage you need to even out your skin tone and enhance features.
Benefits:
available in 11 shades
recommended by the Skin Cancer Foundation
convenient powder brush for easy application
brush refills available
active ingredients: zinc oxide and titanium dioxide
What I think: I’m not the biggest fan of mineral foundations because I find them drying and they usually settle in my pores. But this one makes my skin even and smooth– it is definitely not drying! The built-in brush also makes it very easy to use and portable. Very much worth the price.
Sheer curtains dance in an open window.
Polished wood floors glow in a sunlit room.
Fresh cut flowers scent the air. Welcome home.
This is the lovely description of the Casa scent from Apothia. I was lucky enough to try Apothia’s new Hand and Body Wash ($28.00 USD) in this beautiful, crisp scent.
The modern formula in this wash is paraben and sulfate free. Using agents naturally derived from glucose, apricot kernel oil, oat and coconut oil, it leaves your skin clean yet feeling smooth and moisturized. It also includes sweet almond protein, aloe vera and vitamin E to moisturize, emolliate, and soothe your skin.
What I think: I think this is a great quality wash. It leaves hands clean and soft, not stripped of moisture. The Casa scent is so nice, too. It is green-smelling like cut grass and very crisp. The wash is also available in seven other fresh scents.
CoverGirl’s Blast line includes a variety of products to make you look bolder. Their eye collection has recently introduced some really great new additions that will really make your eyes pop! They are:
Smoky ShadowBlast ($7.99 USD) — This two-ended creamy shadow stick, can make lots of different looks. The rounded end is the lighter color and can be used all over the lid, or a highlighter. The two different, specially contoured ends of our ShadowBlast stick make it easy to create a bold, colorful, smoky eye.
Liquiline Blast ($7.99 USD) , combines the intensity and staying power of a liquid with the ease and blendability of a waterproof pencil. It is very soft and easy to play with. You can use the liner as-is for intense definition or smoke-it-out with the built-in smudger end for a subtle, smoky look. I like to first line the eyes with the tapered end of the ShadowBlast and then do a sharper line with the Liquiline.
LashBlast Fusion ($9.99 USD) is CoverGirl’s first ever volume + length mascara! The fiberstretch formula and oversized brush claim to make every little lash bigger, fuller, longer -looking and more dramatic. And I have to agree. It separates my lashes while it lengthens and volumizes. I would love it if they made a waterproof version. That would be perfect.
Visit www.covergirl.com to learn more and you can purchase at mass market retailers near you. Have fun!
FusionBeauty has introduced a product that both fills in lines and wrinkles and highlights areas of the face that need a bit of a boost! The product is IllumiFill Line Filling Luminizer with Amplifat™ ($49.00 USD). This roll on cream is described as, “this formula’s light-reflecting particles impart a youthful glow and instantly disguise wrinkles and shadows, especially on the cheeks, nasal-labial lines, and forehead lines. A dose of hyaluronic acid instantly fills out lines and wrinkles. A concentrate of Amplifat™ and No-line™ suspended in calcium-based microspheres helps stimulate the body to produce collagen, promoting increased density and facial volume over 28 days, when applied twice daily.”
What think: The roller application is fantastic, especially in the summer, it feels so cool — almost cold — on my face. I also just roll the applicator under my eyes without the product for the cool feeling it gives. The formula is also fabulous. The glow that you get is so subtle and pretty. I like to apply this to my cheeks, nasal-labial lines, and forehead. It really does give the appearance of youth, because my lines appear smaller. I apply it under my makeup in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon over my makeup. So nice!
LipFusion always creates innovative lip plumping products. Their newest one is a tinted lip balm with the added benefit of SPF.
The LipFusion Conditioning Stick SPF 15 ($22.00 USD) is a minty, moisturizing lip balm that claims to plump, hydrate, protect, and imparts a hint of tint. It is available in 5 shades:
Berry (sheer plum)
Bitten (sheer strawberry)
Buff (sheer nude)
Butterscotch (sheer mauve)
Clear (transluscent)
The description of the product is:
This lightweight, delectable, luxurious lip essential is made with nourishing oils and creamy butters that provide the perfect level of comforting hydration, along with SPF 15. It works to soothe cracked or chapped lips without being sticky or tacky, and comes in a convenient “retractable bullet” format for on-the-go application. Doses of AmpliFat™ and marine collagen filling spheres help to increase lip fullness, immediately and over time. Paraben free and proven to increase water content of the skin by 6000% in four weeks, this high-payoff treatment suits all skin types. It is dermatologist tested and not tested on animals. What I think: First, the metal bullet tube is one of the most chic lip balm package I have seen. I have the Bitten and Buff and both shades are soft and pretty. Unlike LipFusion’s glosses, you can’t really feel the plumping and it isn’t very noticeable to see. But love the light moisture it gives and the SPF. Also, I have noticed that my lips are less dry than they were when I first began using the conditioning stick.
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