Tuesday, March 15, 2016

ESTÉE LAUDER Introduces The Limited Edition Bronze Goddess Summer Glow Makeup Collection

Oh my, are these beautiful reminders that Spring has sprung?! The hues are so inviting they make me want to ditch my winter clothes and lounge around in soft, pastel colored linens! My body feels warmer just looking at the collection...

Capture the radiance of the sun for an endless summer glow. Estée Lauder introduces NEW Bronze Goddess Summer Glow, a curated collection of glowing, illuminating and bronzing products to achieve an enviable sun-kissed radiance.


Eyes, lips, cheeks and face are touched with drops of liquid summer, brilliant sun-drenched powders and colorful, creamy balms for a flawless, healthy-looking flush. Including two new palettes, a new multi-tasking lip and cheek essential, a luxurious liquid illuminator and cult favorite bronzers, the NEW Bronze Goddess Summer Glow Collection for summer 2016 extends the season of brilliant, sunny days and sultry, hot nights with unforgettable, desirable glowing looks.

NEW Limited Edition Summer Glow Eyeshadow Palette
, $50.00

Shades of summer and seduction come together in a new palette of six curated sunlit shades that highlight, define and dramatize eyes. With textures and finishes that range from brilliant shimmers to softened mattes, each shade helps sculpt and define eyes for a smoldering and sultry effect. Designed to complement a sun kissed bronzed skin tone, shades range from sun drenched neutrals, softened corals to brilliant aquatic teals. Palette includes a dual-ended applicator in a chic golden case and shadows are ophthalmologist-tested and fragrance-free.

NEW Limited Edition Summer Glow Multi-Palette
, $50.00

Illuminate. Glow. Blush. New expertly designed multi-benefit face palette helps perfectly sculpt and define your look with soft shimmering color for a natural glow – it’s the beginning of everlasting summer skin. Each powder – bronzer, illuminator, and blush – is shaded to enhance natural features and deliver customizable radiant, sun-kissed color. Featuring a geometric inspired powder design in a golden compact, the powders were developed using Prisma Technology – a tribrid of liquid, powder and gel that deliver the smoothest finish with incredible color projection. Each shade utilizes a unique suspension of pigments and pearls to create a spectrum of finishes delivering a bronzed sun-kissed face, beautifully flushed cheeks and an exquisitely luminous glow.

NEW Limited Edition Lip and Cheek Summer Glow
, $34.00

New dual-ended 3-in-1 multi-tasking color stick for lip and cheeks delivers a covetable summer glow instantly. Combining an effortlessly blendable lip and cheek cream color and a water-light liquid lip shine in one dual-end stick, this perfectly portable and travel ready multi-tasker is this summer’s new makeup essential. On one side, the hydrating cream color stick adds a burst of revitalized color to cheeks and lips for a naturally pretty flush. It is infused with anti-oxidants and a blend of nourishing oils and emollients that help leave skin and lips feeling soft and moisturized. As a finishing touch, use the opposite end to apply a fresh pop of color with a glossy finish. The balmy lightweight liquid lip shine can be worn alone or on top of lip color for added dimension to lips. Available in three shades: Fuchsia Lights, Peach Glow and Sunburst.

NEW Limited Edition Summer Glow Illuminator
, $32.00

A drop of liquid summer – this new fluid face illuminator glides on to enhance a sun-kissed bronzed look and revive radiance. Sheer, lightweight liquid instantly illuminates skin - choose to highlight and contour cheeks, brow bones, or give face an allover glow. Indulgent liquid sun illuminator is housed in a sleek glass dropper bottle to deliver the purest light reflecting illumination for skin. With just a drop, this formula melts onto skin seamlessly for a glowing sun kissed look, lit from within. Infused with a blend of light sculpting, smooth prismatic optics that attract and reflect light, skin is left looking luminous and is enhanced with dimension. Oil-free formula can be worn alone or layered with foundation to add luminosity to skin and is perfect for all skin types and tones.

Limited Edition Gelee Bronzer, $32.00

Universally flattering, creamy and weightless to the touch, gel bronzer glides onto the skin to create a luminous sun-kissed healthy glow. The balmy, sheer texture allows the natural skin tone to show through, and creates a subtle veil of healthy-looking, sun kissed color. The versatile and innovative gel formula easily blends into skin for even coverage and can be worn over foundation.

Bronze Goddess Powder Bronzer, $37.00

This silky powder bronzer imparts a beachy glow to face shoulders and décolletage to enhance a tan or summon the sun on overcast days. Brush it across the high plains of the face, along the hairline and cheekbones where the sun hits your face, and don’t forget to sweep it down the center of your neck and onto your collarbones as the finishing touch. Available in four warm shades to suit every skin tone—light, medium, medium deep.

All Bronze Goddess Summer Glow products are ophthalmologist-tested and fragrance-free.




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Availability: NEW Bronze Goddess Summer Glow Collection for summer 2016 will be available at Estée Lauder counters nationwide beginning March 2016.

Monday, March 14, 2016

New Products from Josie Maran

Josie Maran has two amazing new products to jump start your spring. Refresh your skin with a hydrating new eye treatment and get a flawless look with a new fluid foundation that not only provides coverage but also energizes your skin and gives it the essential nutrients it craves. 

Vibrancy Argan Oil Foundation Fluid







So vibrant. So Good. Activate your skin’s health and vitality with Vibrancy Argan Oil Foundation Fluid. For the first time ever and with great intention, we have created an unparalleled skincare foundation fluid powered by 100% Pure Argan Oil. The lightweight, medium-to-full coverage formula is carefully curated for sensitive skin and designed to interact and adapt to the movements of your skin with delicate fluidity for a vibrant, smooth supple, baby-skin finish that is alive with energy and color.
Price: $45
  
Argan Milk Devotion Intensive Hydrating Eye Serum

Argan Milk Devotion harnesses the nourishing power of Pure Argan Milk Intensive Hydrating Treatment and a proprietary complex of naturally-based actives that improve the look of fine lines and coarse wrinkles around the eye area. The light, silky, hydrating milk treatment absorbs quickly for an instant lifting and line-smoothing effect while the natural cushion around your eye area is enhanced for a plump, supple, radiant look. Pure Argan Milk plumps and protects skin while golden root reduces puffiness, lifts, firms, oxygenates, and energizes the eye area. 
Price: $60

Thursday, March 10, 2016

The BUST Craftacular will be back in April!

Yes, the BUST Craftacular is making it's way back to Brooklyn for a Spring edition. It's sounds amazing and I truly hope to join in the festivities...

The indie craft fair will highlight over 100+ trendsetting makers selling handmade and vintage treasures, accessories, clothing, beauty products, original art, delicious treats and offering tutorials at their booths. 

The BUST Craftacular is the spot to get you ready for a whole new Spring season. The first 200 attendees will get a free swag bag! Admission is free.

The all day shopping party will take place on Saturday, April 23rd on Factory Floor at Industry City, located at 220 37th Street, Brooklyn, NY.

In addition, guests can check out more things to do:

· Braid Bar with beauty brand and new Williamsburg salon, amika:
· Nail Art Bar with Floss Gloss featuring hard-to-find shades of their vegan polish.
· Makeover Bar with Bed-Stuy private spa, Girlz Time featuring Bobbi Brown organic makeovers with free crafts for kids.
· Live Portrait Painting with artist Akane Ogura
· Friendship Bracelet Bar with Sublime Stitching
· DIY Flower Crown station

Plus attendees can check out free craft tutorials and demos, grab a drink and dance with DJs all day. 

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Products With A Cause

Hain Celestial Group, Inc. personal care brands – Alba Botanica, Avalon Organics and JASÖN – have a three-year charitable partnership with CARE dedicated to eliminating barriers to education for women in third world countries.





This year, they’re launching The Qach'umilal Girls’ Education and Leadership Project, which benefits over 150 indigenous girls and adolescents from low income families in western Guatemala by promoting their access, retention and promotion in primary school. This program, Qach U’milal, or “Guiding Star,” helps girls build self-esteem through songs, art and time with mentors and friends. In partnership with CARE, the three brands are contributing $25,000 from the sales of new limited edition products directly to help these girls thrive.

The story behind the products is truly unique…

When the CARE team first started working with these schools, they tried to implement an exercise for the girls to draw images of things that inspire them. The girls did not know where to begin; they were so isolated, and their education so restricted, that the notion of creativity and self-expression was totally foreign to them. Alba Botanica, Avalon Organics and JASÖN are taking actual drawings that these girls have since created and using them to wrap limited edition personal care products whose proceeds will be donated directly back to the local schools.

Alba Botanica Very Emollient Honey Mango Bath & Shower Gel

The art for this limited edition bottle was created by Manuela (age 13), a student at Escuela Caserío Chuatarrás in rural Guatemala.

A hypo-allergenic formula nourishes and softens with aloe vera, botanical extracts and fragrant herbs – mango, honey and pure vanilla. Its ingredients are 100% vegetarian, and it is made without animal testing, artificial colors, parabens, phthalates or harsh sulfates.

Price: $16.99 (32 oz), available for a limited time at AlbaBotanica.com, Amazon.com and Whole Foods; Learn more at www.care.org/alba

Avalon Organics Nourishing Lavender Shampoo

The art for this limited edition bottle was created by Isabela (age 12) a student at Escuela Caserío Sacasiguán, in rural Guatemala.

A gentle, plant-derived formula is enriched with Wheat Protein, Babassu Oil, Vitamin E, Aloe and Lavender, which nourish hair for smooth, healthy-looking results. Its formula is NSF/ANSI 305 Certified: made with at least 70% organic ingredients and free of Parabens, Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate, Petrolatum, Artificial Colors and Phthalates.

Price: $19.99 (32 oz), available for a limited time at AvalonOrganics.com, Amazon.com and Whole Foods; Learn more at www.care.org/avalon

JASÖN Calming Lavender Body Wash

The art for this limited edition label was created by Pascuala (age 12) a student at Escuela Caserío Chuatarrás, in rural Guatemala.

A gentle formula cleanses with botanical surfactants and safely nourishes with Vitamin E and Pro-Vitamin B5. A blend of calming Lavender and Marigold Extracts softens and balances skin.

Price: $14.99 (30 oz), available for a limited time at Amazon.com and Whole Foods; Learn more at www.care.org/jason 

Introducing: Skin Inc.

Allow me to introduce you to Skin Inc, an innovative serum-based Japanese skincare brand of potent formulas that target specific skin concerns for instant, visible results without the fuss.

Each serum is silicon-free and made with Glycerin and Aloe Humectant which are very smooth on the skin. All of the little capsules in each bottle are actually the active ingredients encapsulated in seaweed! You can find a cheat sheet about the nine different serums HERE. $45 each or 3 for $90. When you take the skin test, it recommends three serums that you then blend together in a larger glass bottle, with 84 possible combinations to truly customize your skincare.





Other Skin Inc products include the revolutionary non-abrasive Pure Revival Peel which gently removes dead skin cells to restore skin’s natural radiance, a sulfate-free foaming cleanser, and the Pure Deep Sea Hydrating Mask which is a gel you can either sleep in or rinse off that hydrates, clarifies, and visibly brightens skin in one simple step.

Feel free to take the Skin Identity Quiz to see which serums are recommended for you. Skin Inc is sold exclusively on their own site and at Sephora.