KORRES: Upcoming Launches Starting August 28th on HSN

SAVE THE DATE of August 28th! You know I am a fan of KORRES and this collection is sure to be a winner- not to mention there will also be an exclusive sneak peak of their upcoming global launch.

KORRES Pure Greek Olive Oil Elasticity Boosting & Anti-Wrinkle Body Cream Collection is debuting on HSN on August 28th. Featuring a trio of the brand’s Pure Greek Olive Oil Body Creams – including the exclusive NEW world launch of the Olive & Orchid scent, as well as an exclusive sneak peak of the brand’s upcoming global launch: Hydra-Biome!

The rich KORRES creams are formulated with the brand’s proprietary blend of Olive Leave Cell Extract and organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil that deliver age-defying benefits, resulting in a youthful-looking, soft and supple skin. The Body Cream Trio features two of the best-selling Greek Olive Oil scents – Olive & Sea Salt and Olive & Blossom – as well as the new Olive & Orchid scent that boasts a fresh floral aroma, evoking a soft spa-like essence.

· NEW! Olive & Orchid: Fresh blooming wild orchids blended with sweet mandarin and a touch of warm vanilla

· Olive & Sea Salt: Derived from Aegean Sea Salt and blended with notes of Rosemary, Mint and Lemon

· Olive & Blossom: Soft white flowers that create the olive fruits from tree

As an exclusive bonus, the brand is also including a travel-sized KORRES Hydra-Biome™ Probiotic Superdose Face Mask. Debuting this fall globally, the revolutionary mask is formulated with cutting-edge microbiome rebalancing technology, to hit the reset button on stressed, red, dull, itchy, scaly and blotchy skin. The mask will transform dull and dehydrated skin into a healthy and glowing complexion after one use.

Availability: Starting August 28th on HSN for $48.

Korres: Lip Butter, Black Pine Super Eye Serum and Pomegranate Balancing Cream Gel Moisturiser

Ever since trying products from Korres many years ago, I have been hooked on quite a few. I like that their Founders Greek Pharmacist George Korres and Chemical Engineer Lena Korres believe in the potency of using natural ingredients.  

In the summer months, my skin, under eyes and lips get super dry and Korres products (shown above) give me back not only the hydration I so desperately need but also make my skin (pores are minimized), eyes  (show less fatigue) and lips (feel supple) and soft to the touch. I also like that their products, although rich in ingredients, are affordable through both Sephora.com as well as KorresUSA.com.

If you aren't already in love with this brand...I urge you to give them a try as the variety of products they have are extensive (and effective).

KORRES: The Wild Rose Collection Featuring Vitamin C

I love this brand as it always hydrates and brightens my skin. This collection is delightful and feels weightless on the skin not clogging pores nor leaving your skin looking shiny. Only radiance abounds!

The Wild Rose collection from KORRES features Vitamin C as a key ingredient in creating a brighter and more radiant complexion. This collection focuses on the power of wild rose oil, a natural source of Vitamin C, delivering a boost of nutrients to even, tone and revitalize skin. 

Made with natural ingredients and free from parabens, petrochemicals, synthetic dyes and GMOs, this collection restores your skin’s luminosity for a perfectly radiant look. The Wild Rose collection is available for purchase online at Sephora.com.

Wild Rose 24-Hour Moisturising & Brightening Cream ($39): Best-seller deep hydrating cream inclusive of imperata-cylindrica extract to repair skin through the regulation of moisture equilibrium. The cream helps to reduce fine lines and discoloration resulting in a brighter complexion.

Wild Rose Smoothie Brightening Priming Moisturiser ($45): Weightless moisturizer providing hydration, brightening and priming effects as well as the elimination of excess shine and decongestion of pores. Skin preparation product for makeup application and all day wear.

Wild Rose Advanced Brightening Sleeping Facial ($48): More than just a mask and more than just a night cream. Overnight facial-in-a-jar delivering brighter skin by the morning. With each use, the appearance of skin discoloration and dark spots continue to improve.

Wild Rose Vitamin C Active Brightening Oil ($54): Award winning brightening oil boosted with super C providing antioxidant action in addition to repairing fine lines and wrinkles, while also improving the skin’s overall tone and texture.

KORRES: GREEK YOGHURT SMOOTHIE PRIMING MOISTURIZER

I have been using Korres products for years as they are a results driven brand. Now you can prep skin for your marathon days with NEW Greek Yoghurt Smoothie Priming Moisturizer, the lightweight answer for heavyweight hydration. 

This protein-packed booster preps, hydrates and strengthens skin with 26% Greek Yoghurt proteins in every serving. An ingredient used for centuries in Greece for its smoothing and strengthening properties, Greek Yoghurt contains two and a half times the protein of regular yoghurt. By boosting your skincare routine with protein-rich Greek Yoghurt, you deliver the same benefits to your skin that protein delivers to your body – helping to nourish, strengthen, and repair.

Greek Yoghurt Smoothie is a weightless, multi-action priming moisturizer packed with probiotics, proteins, and minerals to deeply nourish and smooth skin, while also prepping it for flawless makeup application and all-day wear. Formulated with three types of hydrating hyaluronic acid and powerful skin-saving antioxidants and extracts, the smoothie gives skin inner strength for healthy-looking skin on the surface.

KORRES GREEK YOGHURT SMOOTHIE PRIMING MOISTURIZER

· Greek Yoghurt Concentrate boosted with a complex of probiotics smooths, soothes and strengthens, while providing skin with superior nourishment.

· Formulated with three types of hyaluronic acid of varying molecular weights to provide continuous hydration, promote skin elasticity & firmness, and smooth surface imperfections. This combination primes skin for makeup application by leaving the complexion soft, smooth and evenly textured.

· Packed with an antioxidant rich superfood blend of blue-green microalgae extract, citrus, broccoli and aloe and wrinkle fighting Kakadu plum extract.

How to Use: Apply to the face and neck as the final step in your skincare routine before makeup application.

Available January 2017 at Sephora and KORRESUSA.com for $42.

August 15, 2016: National Relaxation Day

This year has been an extremely rough one for me and I appreciate all of the relation I can get! August 15th marks National Relaxation Day, so it's an excuse for us all to take a me day and focus on ourselves! With these picks, you're ensured to kick back, relax and feel revived in no time.

Treat yourself to a spa night at home with the KORRES Wild Rose Vitamin C Petal Peel. Peel, heal, and reveal brighter, petal-soft skin—naturally. A powerful natural alternative to chemical peels, this advanced vitamin C brightening system supports natural cell renewal, helps smooth the appearance of fine lines and discolorations, and gives skin an instant boost of radiance ($64; Sephora.com).

Scrub off the stress with the Lavanila Laboratories Healthy Vanilla Bean Cream Body Scrub. Blended with whipped shea butter and five nourishing essential oils, it whisks away dead skin cells—revealing soft, hydrated and, glowing skin ($40; Lavanila.com).

Don’t waste all of your energy on drying your hair when you can use DreamDry’s Dream Turban™, and cut drying time in half. Made from an incredibly plush, extra-absorbent fabric, the Dream Turban™ gets the job done, leaving your hair healthy and shiny ($30; DreamDry.com).

Kick up your heels and let your feet relax thanks to the PediSpa Intensive Moisturizing Foot Mask! These treatment filled wearable socks noticeably smooth, soften and repair dry creaked, calloused feet and heels. With ingredients like Shea butter, apple extract and peppermint, this foot mask significantly improves the look and feel of even the driest feet. ($9.99 for two complete pairs; Exclusively at Target Stores in the Foot Care Aisle and Target.com).

Shower Time Upgrade

Ahhh, showers (and I am not talking about rain showers, I am talking about the kind that can relax and soothe your body, mind and spirit). Whether it’s to wake up in the morning or unwind before bed, showers can be the best part of the day, especially if it involves these wonderfully natural products!

From florals, extracts to warm, soothing vanilla, boost your shower time experience with these cleansing essentials and ensure you will never want to step out!

KORRES Showergels provide a moisturizing effect and help maintain the natural moisture level of the skin. They contain emollients and humectants that provide a lasting moisturizing effect and help to maintain the natural moisture level of the skin ($19.50; Sephora.com).

Lavanila Laboratories The Healthy Vanilla Bean Creamy Body Scrub is formulated with crushed Madagascar vanilla beans blended with whipped shea butter and five nourishing essential oils. It whisks away dry, dead skin cells—revealing soft, hydrated, glowing skin ($40; Sephora.com).

ESPA Purifying Shampoo is a natural plant cleanser that creates a rich and creamy lather that gently yet effectively removes excess sebum and product build-up without irritating the hair or scalp. Follow with the ESPA Nourishing Conditioner, which contains a protein-rich Soy, Wheat and Corn Extracts that cleverly imitate the natural amino acids in hair, ensuring it absorbs and retains moisture, leaving hair looking rejuvenated and healthy. ProVitamin B5 hydrates, soothes and strengthens, so even dry, brittle or heat-damaged hair looks and feels glossy and in beautiful condition! ($28 each;us.espaskincare.com)

Korres: New Mandarin Lip Butter Sticks

Fall brings us fun activities, delicious food and crisp weather…and chapped lips. Keep your lips moisturized and hydrated with KORRES Mandarin Lip Butter Sticks. Just look at these wonderful Fall colors!

Repair and protect with this deeply nourishing lip treatment formulated with a luxurious blend of softening oils, butters, and waxes. Mandarin oil refreshes and soothes dry, chapped lips while rich shea butter and sunflower waxes deeply nourish for long-lasting care and comfort. Each healing stick also features vitamin E, known for its advanced antioxidant properties. With four colors to choose from, you will make a statement wearing these and you will be able to protect your lips from the cold season approaching ($16.50; Sephora.com).

Just call me Aurora! Products That Help You Feel Rejuvenated

I literally wear shirts that say "Must Sleep More" as I am a single Mother of 2 and hardly ever get a full night's rest as my brain feels like it never fully calms down. Even with meditating, I still never feel completely rested. I basically feel exhausted a lot is what I am trying to relay to you... 

With that being said, I still take my beauty nighttime skincare routine seriously. Below are beauty products to help create a whole new meaning for the phrase “beauty sleep”. With these necessities, you’re guaranteed to wake up looking (and feeling) like new.

For firmer skin by morning, Korres Black Pine Active Firming Sleeping Oil is an overnight beauty booster that delivers firming, lifting, and anti-wrinkle action while replenishing essential skin moisture overnight. Black pine polyphenols help restore skin suppleness, volume, and contour for noticeable results by morning ($62; Sephora.com).

With Christie Brinkley Authentic Skincare Recapture 360 Night Anti-Aging Night Treatment you can repair the damages from the sun and turn back signs of aging overnight. This night cream works with the skin’s circadian cycle to revitalize the skin, reduces wrinkles while improving firmness, smoothness and elasticity and increases cellular energy for a rejuvenated appearance ($69; Kohls.com).

More Valentine Ideas from Korres and Lavanila

Finding the perfect Valentine’s Day gift idea for friends is always a struggle. This year show someone how much you truly care with a gift that will leave them looking, smelling and feeling fresh.

While many get flowers or chocolate for Valentine’s Day, take a different route and gift them a rose in the form of beauty!

Korres The Brightest Skin Wild Rose Collection features three steps for your brightest skin. Formulated with wild rose oil, a powerful natural source of vitamin C, this regimen includes the iconic Wild Rose Brightening & Refining Buff Cleanser and Wild Rose 24-Hour Moisturizer paired with the best-selling Wild Rose Sleeping Facial.

Available for $48 from Sephora.com

Send them a scent that not only they will fall in love with, but also everyone around them. There is also No Aluminum or Parabens in their line making your gift a HEALTHY choice as well! Lavanila’s The Healthy Passion Fruit Collection. This fragrance is a crisp, tropical explosion of Passion Fruit, Guava and Peach Nectar steeped in a warm base of sandalwood and Madagascar vanilla. You're sure to fall in love with this romantic blend of powerful aphrodisiacs prized for their seductive properties (wink, wink).

This amazing scent comes in Lavanila’s Healthy Fragrance ($42), Deodorant ($14) and Roller-Ball Fragrance ($19).

Available at Lavanila.com

  

On a side note, the above deodorant came highly recommended by a friend who has a sister with breast cancer. In the hospital, Lavanila was recommended to her. I have been using it ever since. So, give it some thought as you are not only giving it as a gift, but you are also helping a loved one/friend opt for a healthier product/collection/brand.