Product Appeal

Lovely Liquid Eyeliner

Wanna take your regular eye make-up from regular to wow? It's all about liquid eye liner. One swoop and your look becomes more flirty, more mysterious, more femme fatale.  These are a few of our favorites.

Guerlain Liquid Eyeliner: This sexy liquid eyeliner paints thin to heavy with the slightest flick of the wrist. Designed like a calligraphy tool, the handle is ultra long, the brush is ultra thin, and the result is ultra fab.

Bobbi Brown Espresso Ink Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner: Award-winning. Easy. Attention-grabbing. This gel-based formula liquid eye liner is known near and far as being one of the best in the business. We love how it looks, and its long wear. 

 Too Faced Liquif-Eye: The genius behind this product (and really, it is genius), is the ability to turn any powder into a liquid eyeliner. Just dab the brush into your favorite pot of powder or across your daily eye shadow and viola! A long-wearing liquid!

 Bobbi Brown Espresso Ink Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner

 
Too Faced Liquif-Eye

Portable Powder Brushes

 

Hey doll, looking to get dolled up when you're out-and-about? These portable powder brushes may be small, but they provide perfect coverage. For the road, restaurant touch-ups or to keep in your car. It's a beautiful thing - to go.

Surely you aren't too busy to buff! The Bare Escentuals Buff & Go Retractable Face Brush is small enough to take with you on your travels, but holds just the right amount of powder to provide you with a flawless finish.

Plush, silky, luxurious. These are just a few words to describe the Becca Cosmetics Retractable Kabuki Brush. Just because you're not at home, doesn't mean you have to sacrifice.

What's not to love about Stila? Great products, fun packaging and extremely easy to use. The Stila #31 Retractable Powder Brush is all that, and a bag of chips.

Bare Escentuals Buff & Go Retractable Face Brush

Becca Cosmetics Retractable Kabuki Brush Stila #31 Retractable Powder Brush

Favorite Lip Balms

 dermalogica AGE smart renewal lip complex

 

dermalogica AGE smart renewal lip complex, (despite some rather unfortunate packaging), is an amazing lip treatment. I specify lip treatment vs lip balm because the levels of poly-peptides, Hyaluronic Acid and vitamin e are so intense that users are advised to only apply twice per day. And twice a day is all you need. For me, it was love at first application. It's pricey, but worth the extra pennies.

 Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm

These days it's hard to find anyone who hasn't used Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm. There's a reason for that - the stuff is amazing and everyone knows it. This is my very favorite, the one lip balm I go back to again and again and again. Puts Chapstick to shame.

 Origins Conditioning Lip Balm

Origins Conditioning Lip Balm is the product I reach for when I'm feeling fancy. Developed with Dr. Andrew Weil (the world-famous, Harvard MD and natural health guru), this product feels good and natural and works like a charm, every time. Soothing and comforting and an instant fix for dry, chapped lips. Like my Burt's Bees, I always make sure I have this lip balm on hand.

2010 Favorite Skincare Roundup

 

 Peter Thomas Roth Instant Mineral Powder SPF 45

Peter Thomas Roth Instant Mineral Powder is a sunscreen. But it's a mineral poweder - not a cream. Yes - I'm serious, and yes - it works. I keep a cylinder in my purse for super-easy, on-the-go application. And my son squirms at the thought of a cream, but he coats every inch of bare skin with this stuff. I love it. love love love.

 Comforté

Made from Calatropis Procera (from the primordial forests of Africa; Carapa Procera (used by African tribal women for thousands of years to reduce swelling and bloating);  Menthol (warmth and a carrier for plant extracts; 100% Raw Shea Butter (promotes skin hydration and Soya Bean extract (skin softening), Comforte is an all-natural, topical PMS cream. Comforte was developed by a 13-year-old girl during her first period, and is a great drug-free way for young women to control their pain. But it's a topical pain relief cream for anyone, anywhere on the external body. It relaxes and soothes all aching, sore muscles - it's ultra portable and is a perfect addition to any gym bag. I've even used it to help with headaches!

 

IQ Derma Firmaceuticals Firming Body Gel

There are a million cellulite products on the market, but none of them work. Except for this one. And this one really, really works. I know, I used to work for the company. During a meeting, they showed us before and after photos and one of the designers asked if the after photo had been touched up. It hadn't. The room went silent. Later, we each received our own tube to try. Let me tell you, I no longer work for the company, and I buy my own IQ Derma Firmaceuticals Body Gel now. It's amazing.

The Perfect Red Pout with Nars Jungle Red Lipstick

Gwen Stefani's glam red lip

Gwen Stefani  is rarely seen without a shellacked red lip. Maybe it's because there's something so glamourous about a bold colored pout. Whatever the reason, she pulls it off with aplomb.  As much as I like the idea to try for myself, finding the right red lipstick shade can be a challenge. Enter Nars Jungle Red lipstick.

 

Warm undertones means this true red will be flattering on most skin tones. The semi-matte finish isn't too drying and the coverage is long lasting. What more could a girl ask for?

New Nail Polish

 

Calgel Nail System

With the onset of the holiday season comes a whole new set of fabulous colors - including new nail polish. These are some of my favorites:

 

Lippman Superstar nail polish 

Warm fudge-colored baseboat with flecks of firey copper. Hot! Lippman nail polish is made with high quality ingredients, but no toluene, formaldehyde, DBP, and it isn't tested on animals.

 

OPI Matte nail polish

 

 

Dark and dramatic - and different. Matte nail polish has been in for awhile now and there's no sign of the trend going anywhere. Unlike standard nail polish, matte nail polish - as the name suggests - isn't shiny. It's captivating in its flatness. It's also one of the cooler cosmetic trends to hit the runways.
 

Zoya Veruschuka nail polish
 
 

Zoya has long been one of my favorite kinds of nail polish. It's free of toluene, formaldehyde, DBP and camphor and has been "awarded as the longest wearing natural nail polish by an independent panel in Women’s Health Magazine." And green is hot this fall; the Veruschuka is my favorite of the new nailpolishes.

Work It: Workout Tank Tops for Men



I have  to admit being bummed about this blog post. The title is "Workout tank tops for men" right? But I don't want to look at pictures of Workout tops for men. I want to see pictures of men who have been working out. Pictures of strong, rippling manly men, glistening with sweat from an intense workout. Pictures of toned bodies and taut muscles.

Instead, I'm left to browse photos of workout gear for men. Although maybe that's not a bad thing. I guess that workout gear for men is the first step toward more of those abs I want tied with a ribbon and given to me on my birthday, with a side of whipped cream... Hmm. Well. Guess this post turned out ok, after all.

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Salon Plus Restore & Renew Serum

 

Salon Plus Restore & Renew Serum

Effective skin care solutions don’t have to be expensive. As a matter of fact you can find cost effective anti-aging products right at at your corner (or on-line) drugstore! Take Salon Plus Restore & Renew Serum for example, available for $2.95 at Rite aid. 

This elixir not only aids in the appearance of younger looking skin, it offers a non-greasy moisturizing solution.  Imagine being able to kill two birds (wrinkles and dryness) with one for $2.95!

Get It Straight: Brocato Vibrastrait Flat Iron

Brocato Vibrastrait Flat Iron

I get my hair professionally straightened. I love how it looks and how it feels, but I have a hard time spending so much money on my Brazilian Blowout every few months. Instead, I'm contemplating spending the money on this: The Brocato Vibrastrait - a top-of-the-line flat iron with ceramic tourmaline plates that vibrate up to 7,500 times per minute. Unlike a lower-end flat iron, the Brocato Vibrastrait glides effortlessly through hair - no more pulling and tugging, it heats up super quickly, and can reach temperatures of 450 degrees. It even automatically shuts off after 50 minutes! 

Now, what to do with all that extra money...

 

Naughty But Nice: NARS Makeup

 

Orgasm Illuminator

With color names like "Orgasm," "Sexual Healing," "Torrid," and "Sin," NARS makeup definitely gets some attention! But NARS cosmetics aren't just flash - consistently placed on best-of lists and a perennial favorite of both makeup artists and "regular people," NARS knows what it's doing. 

For a fabulous complexion that gives you a lovely...glow...there's no better choice than NARS Orgasm Illuminator. Use like a foundation, mix with foundation, or just apply as a highlighter in those areas that need some attention. NARS Orgasm Illuminator is light and sheer and transforms skin without being heavy or greasy. It feels like the next best thing to wearing nothing...

 NARS 'The Multiple' Stick

 

Do you want more, more, more? That's no problem with NARS The Multiple Stick. Use this multi-purpose wand as eye color, cheek color, on your lips and on your body. The amazing formula goes on as a cream for easy blending and then sets as a powder. NARS The Multiple Stick can also be used as a highlighter and as your next favorite, can't-live-without-it cosmetic.