Valentine's Day Sweetness 101

Make this Valentine's Day a little sexier with these 2 NEW beauty essentials for kissable lips and a dangerously sweet scent! 

Limited Edition Sweet Like Candy by Ariana Grande ( 1.7 oz/50 ml: $49, ULTA.com)

The irresistible fragrance takes dangerously sweet to a new level bursting with a mix of succulent fruits that trail into a flirtatious blend of bright floral notes. With a red hot finish of sensual musks, seductive liquid amber and lightly sweetened marshmallow, this fragrance is sure to turn heads

Fragrance Notes:

· Top (Dangerously Sweet) - Juicy red berries, Italian bergamot, pear
· Heart (Irresistibly Flirtatious) - Red frangipani, jasmine sambac, dewy honeysuckle
· Drydown (Seductively Tempting) - Sensual musks, liquid amber, crème de cassis, marshmallow, cashmere woods

Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Kiss Cupuaçu Lip Butter ($18; Sephora.com)

Sensuous Brazilian lips have a secret, a lip butter infused with nourishing Cupuaçu Butter, Açaí and Coconut Oil, leaving them soft and delicious, with a dewy sheen that intensifies your natural lip color and feels like no other. For lips meant to kiss. The Brazilian Beijo, our kiss, is a full-on, full-body experience that begins with the lips and takes over like a Rio wave. Try at your own risk.

· Deeply nourishing: Cupuaçu Butter is the Amazonian super fruit fave and packed with soluble super nutrients to deeply nourish lips
· Sooth and protect: Also infused with Açai, the powerful and protective anti-oxidant, and Coconut Oil to sooth and condition
· Deliciously kissable: Doce de Leite fragrance

Get The Look: Gretchen Mol with Honest Beauty

Great movie and Gretchen Mol, actress in the nominated film Manchester by the Sea, was shining in all the right places at last night's SAG’s red carpet thanks to Honest Beauty. 

To achieve this glow from within look, Honest Beauty Creative Color Consultant & Celebrity Makeup Artist Daniel Martin prepped skin with the new *Honest Beauty Everything Organic Facial Oil ($55) to add a dose of moisture prior to applying foundation. * I am addicted and use it daily!

To ensure Gretchen was camera ready, Daniel Martin lightly dusted the Honest Beauty Invisible Blurring Powder ($28) across her t-zone allowing radiance to come through but also helping skin to not appear overly shiny or greasy in photos.

Honest Beauty products are available at HonestBeauty.com.

New from HUM Nutrition: Hair Sweet Hair

Something sweet is happening at HUM Nutrition ...their latest launch, Hair Sweet Hair, is hitting shelves nationwide on January 27th. Show your hair just how sweet you can be with the vegan vitamin gummy formulated with a proprietary blend of plant extracts, minerals, and vitamins including Zinc, Vegan Biotin, Folic Acid and more. This clinically researched formula gives hair a natural color boost while leaving hair stronger and healthier.

Hair Sweet Hair will be available for $20 at HumNutrition.com, Sephora Stores nationwide + Sephora.com beginning January 27th.

Cover Your Gray: Hair Care 101

Re-Introducing Cover Your Gray: A Beauty Cult Classic for a Quick Fix Efficient, Low Cost, No Fuss Gray Hair Solution. For me, I need to go every 4 weeks as my gray comes in so quickly. This is a great alternative to making your color last if even for another 1 to 2 weeks.

Re-introducing Cover Your Gray, the multi-use beauty collection for gray and/or thinning hair. An easy fix for those hard to reach stubborn, pop up, un-wanted grays, CYG is designed to cover, camouflage and boost confidence “on the go”. Perfect for extending time between salon visits, this temporary hair color disguises unsightly roots and provides superb coverage and affordable ease.

Created for all ages and all ethnicities, this multi-piece product line keeps hair healthy, youthful and strong while also boosting up pesky flat hair in times of need. CYG offers a wide array of easy to use and targeted product applications that include fill- in powders and brush-in wands. Waterproof items include the Root Touch-Up, Brush-In and pencil. Additionally, the brand offers a Total Brow-Eyebrow Sealer & Color for a more defined effect. 

Cover Your Gray first launched over twenty years ago and now is introducing its new revamped look and hero product offerings. 

Key picks include:

● Color Cover - Color Cover is a Gray Hair Color Touch-Up Spray, which conceals gray hair and/or roots in only a matter of seconds. Color Cover boosts hair volume and doesn’t flake or rub off even after brushing.

● Waterproof Root Color Touch up -Precision Waterproof Root Color Touch Up is for areas requiring heavier yet targeted coverage closer to the scalp. Doe foot applicator provides heavier coverage for areas of gray hair or re-growth in the temples, part or around the forehead. (Also available in wash-out formula)

● Touch-Up Stick – The touch-up stick is used for the perfect cover up for areas around the hairline, broad areas of gray hair, side burns and roots.

● Brush In-Wand - Instant touch up to cover your gray hair with a practical brush that helps you target specific areas in your hair. Perfect cover-up for sideburns and scattered gray hairs throughout the head

● Fill-In Powder (pictured above) - This matte powder instantly fills-in thinning and balding areas to produce the appearance of thick, full hair. Blends in seamlessly and matches your hair color perfectly. No one can tell you have it on!

Cover Your Gray retails from $6 - $16 is available at Bed Bath and Beyond, Ulta, Walgreens and http://www.coveryourgray.com/ . The product is offered in variety of colors including, black, dark brown, medium brown and light brown/blonde.

Skindinavia: Post-Makeup Recovery Spray

You must read this if you wear product on a daily basis like I do. The Post-Makeup Recovery Spray by SKINDINAVIA seems to be a necessity in our daily routine. If you wear makeup every day, you know when your skin has had enough!

Their first launch in over three years has already become a favorite of top makeup artists to keep skin clear and radiant in between, and after, makeup applications.

I love makeup, but did you know that it can clog pores and deplete skin of key minerals? Cleansing it all away further strips hydration and vital nutrients that support clear, glowing skin.

Their NEW Post-Makeup Recovery Spray delivers a quick boost of key nutrients, including powerhouse mineral Zinc that is clinically-proven to help prevent breakouts and clear clogged pores. Sprayed on within 5 minutes of removing makeup, their cutting edge delivery system quickly delivers a winning formula of zinc, magnesium and willow bark to keep skin clear, healthy and radiant the moment your skin needs it the most!

- Zinc is clinically proven to reduce breakouts by up to 50%.

The result is clear, luminous, skin ready for your next picture-perfect makeup application.

RETAIL PRICE: 4oz | $26 // 8oz | $36

THE FLAWLESS FACTS:

Ultra-fast penetrating formula is applied when pores are most receptive to nutrients, within five minutes of removing your makeup.
Our hero ingredient: Zinc. Research shows supplementing skin with can reduce breakouts by 50%.
Zinc also protects skin’s lipids and fibroblasts (the cells that make collagen) and reduces oil production, preventing clogged pores.
Developed in conjunction with top makeup artists looking to keep skin clear and luminous between applications. Used as a quick fix between long shoots.
All SKINDINAVIA products are paraben-free and hypoallergenic. Cruelty-free.