National Lipstick Day: Sassy Lips

On National Lipstick Day this Saturday the 29th, why don’t you add some flowers to your pout with Sassy Lips?! These are 6 handcrafted translucent, limited edition lipsticks infused with gold flakes and a real flower.

Encapsulated within every lipstick in this collection are gold flecks and a single wild chrysanthemum flower.

While only a quarter of the blossoms—which are handpicked and trimmed—are the right size and color for the lipsticks.

That’s not all: The lipsticks turn to different shades of glossy pink and fuchsia and vary according to your body temperature.

The Make the Moment collection feels like a balm and lasts like a stain!

Jelly-like texture feels soothing and hydrating, it offers the high shine of a gloss with the comfort of a lipstick.

Gold flakes inside impart a subtle shimmer to your lips.

Shades: When The Party Gets Going (pale yellow), When Your Crush Walks In (light red), When You're Playing Hard To Get (pale blue), When Bae Looks Your Way (fuchsia), When Your Song Comes On (orange) and When The Night Is Young (violet).

Available at www.sassylips.us

Price $25.00

National Blow Out Day- July 28, 2017

I have been a loyal consumer for years! I cannot even count the years I had been using Frizz Ease when I had curly hair. Now, it's all about the keratin straightening for me but behold, I now have a teenager with extremely curly hair!

Feel like you have no time to stop at the salon? That’s ok! With National Blowout Day, John Frieda Hair Care is here to help you show the world your gorgeous blowout that speaks to your best self, all from your bathroom vanity. With these products, you can give yourself a statement making blowout right from home.

For those with curly hair: Use the below products to smooth out your curls and keep strands straight.

John Frieda Frizz Ease Secret Weapon Touch-Up Crème ($5.99, Food, Drug and Mass Retailers Nationwide)

The Frizz Ease Secret Weapon Crème is the essential finishing touch to any style, keeping your hair shiny and frizz-free. The innovative formula is designed to instantly transform puffy, parched hair into a perfectly smooth and supple look. It can be reapplied as often as necessary and will help camouflage imperfections and split ends, while restoring moisture and replacing natural oils lost through heat styling. The result is healthy-looking and ultra-shiny hair.

John Frieda Frizz Ease Extra Strength Six Effects Serum ($9.99, Food, Drug and Mass Retailers Nationwide)

Instantly transform your wiry, unruly frizz for ultra-sleek, purely polished, super-shiny results with this serum. It will not only block your frizz and repel against the humidity, but will also leave your hair extremely supple, easy to manage and healthy-looking. Added bonus- it has sunscreen it, perfect for this time of year!

For those with fine hair: Use these Luxurious Volume products to pump up your style and make it bouncy.

John Frieda Luxurious Volume Perfectly Full Mousse ($9.99, Food, Drug and Mass Retailers Nationwide)

Give your fine hair texture and movement with this light, airy foam that instantly pumps limp strands, and builds in natural body for hair that feels three times thicker. The mousse contains an advanced network of lightweight polymers that swells the hair shaft, leaving fine hair magnificently lush, bouncy and manageable.

John Frieda Luxurious Volume Volume Refresh Dry Shampoo ($6.99, exclusively at ULTA)

With a spritz of this dry shampoo, you can give your hair touchable body that lasts. Formulated for fine hair, it is the ultimate way to extend your favorite styles and give them a boost of body. The revitalizing formula instantly refreshes, revives and restores limp locks, while also absorbing dirt and oil for hair that feels clean, healthy and light. Keep one handy at all times, ensuring you never go anywhere without a fresh dose of volume.

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ELEMIS x Misha Nonoo Exclusive Collaboration Luxury Travel: Essentials for Her Gift With Purchase

How I love a great collaboration! So many wonderful products are packed into this gorgeous, designer bag. It looks wonderful and certainly makes for a great gift. You must order products totaling $110 or more, then enter the code YOURGIFT at checkout to add this gift (worth $98).

ELEMIS x Misha Nonoo Exclusive Collaboration 

Luxury Travel: Essentials for Her 

Misha’s international perspective, she was born in Bahrain, lives in NY and studied in London and Paris and her covetable collections encapsulate her philosophy of “day to play” for multifaceted women on the move. This sense of fun is translated into the jaunty abstract pattern in bold primary colors Misha has produced for ELEMIS. 

With ELEMIS’ classic heritage in mind and inspiration from Bauhaus drawings, Misha designed the beauty bag and carefully curated selections best for travel, including her Pro-Collagen Marine Cream (the key to keeping her skin youthful!) and the Frangipani Monoi Body Oil (her secret to combat a dehydrated complexion) along with five other TSA approved skincare essentials.

Each luxury bag contains the following products:

Pro-Radiance Cream Cleanser 30ml
Balancing Lavender Toner 50ml
White Flowers Eye & Lip Make-Up Remover 28ml
Papaya Enzyme Peel 15ml
Pro-Collagen Marine Cream 30ml
Frangipani Monoi Shower Cream 50ml
Frangipani Monoi Body Oil 35ml

Available at www.elemis.com.

New Launches from Laura Geller

I have loved Laura Geller since my wedding days! 1997 to be exact. Her products are results driven and work. Below are her new launches for this month...

Laura Geller Filter Corrector Color Correcting Balm

This new color-correcting balm was made to create flawless, instantly enhanced-looking skin. With three different shades in one compact, each layer helps to address all complexion concerns. Dab away redness with the green shade, blend away dull skin with illuminating blue, and spot correct dark circles and hyperpigmentation with peach. This must-have handles every major complexion concern, like a pro.

Price: $32, Available at LauraGeller.com and Ulta.com

Laura Geller Full Size Eyeliner Collection

This eyeliner trio brings three fan favorites together in one luxe collection. With a curated selection of blacks and browns, it’s all about creating iconic eye looks you love—hello, batwings and smoky eyes!—and experimenting with new ones. The trios includes Kajal Longwear Eyeliner, INKcredible Waterproof Gel Eyeliner and Eye Calligraphy Liquid Eyeliner. Available in two shades, Downtown Cool and Uptown Chic.

Price: $25, Available at LauraGeller.com and Ulta.com

Laura Geller Iconic New York Collection Eye Shadows

These soft and sophisticated baked eyeshadow palettes complement any eye creation perfect for a day or night out. These blendable colors range from rich saturated hues and midnight plums, to rose-hued neutrals and matte mauves. Each palette contains 12 shades of silky, smooth texture and a weightless finish that will last all day or night. Available in two shades: Downtown Cool or Uptown Chic.

Price: $42, Available at LauraGeller.com and Ulta.com

Elemis Top Picks For Healthy Summer Skin

It may be super hot outside yet you do not want your skin to suffer. With soaring temperatures and unruly humidity, oil production can come to an all-time high meaning chaos for your skin but before you reach for your old harsh teenage toner, conquer & control oil with a few tips from ELEMIS VP of Global Education Annet King.

Oil Dissolves Oil – Plant oils have the ability to decongest and deep clean sebum packed pores easily lifting excess dirt, sebum and waxes away. Cleanse away with this oil based balm promoting skin health and supple skin.Try ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm ($64, ELEMIS.com) 

Go Herbal – Adding an herbal mask with purifying ingredients and kaolin clay will deeply cleanse, decongest and heal blemished skin. Use twice a week for 10 minutes to refine pores and bring a refreshing zing back into your skin. Try ELEMIS Herbal Lavender Repair Mask ($50, ELEMIS.com) 

Spritz It Up – Avoid harsh alcohol based toners and spritz with a balancing toner instead. To balance oil secretions and purify skin, spray over make up throughout the day or whenever is needed. Try ELEMIS Balancing Lavender Toner ($36, ELEMIS.com) 

Everyday Essentials: Haircare and Skincare

With summer in full swing, you can pack your bag with the below essentials and be well prepared to face any day! Fight the frizzies, have beautifully clean skin, sport a soft ponytail holder and use less product by trying a silicone applicator. 

Conair Quick Blow-Dry Pro Vent Brush 

With Conair Quick Blow Dry Pro Vent, Brush Vents allow airflow from blow-dryer to reach hair for fast drying and styling. Use to add volume and lift to hairstyles. Professional quality results. Contains 10% copper coating.

Scünci Heathered Knotted Ponytailers 

Scünci's Heathered Knotted Ponytailers are soft ponytail holders, providing comfort all day long.

DDF Advanced Micro-Exfoliation Cleanser 

Sloughing off dead surface skin cells to reveal new skin is a must in any skincare regime. Too harsh and your skin gets irritated, too soft and you’re not getting the needed results. This ultra hydrating, creamy, glycerin-based cleanser gently exfoliates with natural rice bran particles to reveal fresh new skin. Improves skin hydration up to 3 hours after cleansing alone!

Philip B. Crème of the Crop Hair Finishing Crème 

Brilliantly transforms dry, puffy strands into smooth, glossy, piecey perfection. Great for medium to thick hair types.
Intense conditioning and shine with supple hold adds sexy definition to both straight and wavy styles. Calms frizz and flyaways, seals thirsty ends and leaves hair silky-soft. Contains botanical hydrators (Silk Proteins, Hydrosoy 2000™ and pure extracts of Carrot and Vanilla) which restore precious moisture lost to heat styling and lend curls a pretty, ringlet-y effect. Phthalate free; color & keratin-treatment safe

Makeup Drop

This Silicone Makeup Applicator was designed to completely eliminate wasted makeup and skincare. While sponge applicators soak up large amounts of makeup during application, the MakeupDrop™ perfectly applies and blends your foundation, blush, highlighter, concealer, moisturizer, and primer without absorbing one drop! Only half the amount of product is needed as compared to a traditional sponge or brush applicator.

Tweezerman x HudaBeauty Special Limited Edition Beauty Tool Collection

You know how much I love when Tweezerman collaborates with another brand and this one is absolutely fabu-lips! Tweezerman partnered with Huda Kattan for this wonderful limited edition beauty tool collection and I am in love with their results driven products.

The Tweezerman x Huda Beauty Special Edition Collection is NOW available on Sephora.com. Designed by the beauty guru herself, these iconic tools feature Huda’s signature lip prints and will have you ready to pucker up and pluck!

Special packaging shown here for PR purposes only. 

Tweezerman x Huda Beauty Special Edition Collection includes the following:

Huda Slant Tweezer, $26
Huda Mini Slant Tweezer, $17
Huda Mini Slant Tweezer & Mirror, $34
Huda Beauty Kit: Slant Tweezer, Brow Scissors, Spoolie, Mirror & Bag, $65

Available TODAY on Sephora.com (in-stores at Sephora July 24th). Share your experience, your #PRhaul, your #hudabeautybows and of course, #TweezermanxHudaBeauty!

RITUALS: The Ritual of Hammam

I have loved this brand for years. The products I use are calming, soothing and simply delightful on my skin. It's time to transform your bathroom into a luxurious spa with the NEW Ritual of Hammam.

Close your eyes and experience the heat of your own wellness ceremony. Inspired by one of the oldest cleansing traditions in the world, The Ritual of Hammam has been carefully designed to meet the needs of modern times. 

Enjoy the range of luxury body products that relax our body and purify the mind with the revitalizing fragrance of refreshing eucalyptus. 

For the re-launch, Rituals introduced new luxury packaging design that makes the updated and sophisticated Hammam fragrance even more appealing. Create your own luxury home spa with their renewed Hammam collection and discover a purifying ceremony that promotes well-being for body and soul.

YOUR HAMMAM RITUAL IN 5 STEPS:

1. After you’ve set the mood, start your cleansing ritual with the NEW Black Soap ($15). This nourishing black soap deeply cleanses and purifies the body, removing old skin cells and leaving the skin silky soft and prepared for exfoliation.

2. Follow with the Hot Scrub ($29), which contains purifying sea salt, warming ginger and refreshing eucalyptus, immediately reducing fatigue and boosting your mood. Apply on top of the Black Soap for an even smoother result.

3. Continue with the Body Mud ($17) with mineral-rich rhassoul clay, a mud that intensively purifies and polishes the skin by helping to remove dead skin cells.

4. Use the Foaming Shower Gel ($15), containing a purifying, refreshing fragrance that pleasantly and softly cleanses the skin. The gel also soothes and helps the skin to repair itself.

5. After you shower, apply the soothing NEW Body Cream ($33) to the body for a nourished and toned skin.

Available at Rituals.com and Rituals stores throughout NYC.