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Double the Whitening But With Essential Oils
Have you ever wondered whether whitening toothpaste is really good for you? So did the inventors of Luster White 7 Toothpaste, a tooth whitener with essential oils for whole mouth health.
Developed in France by a medical doctor, dentist, and PhD research scientist, the holistic toothpaste contains 7 whitening agents with double the whitening power of other whitening toothpastes. Formulated with 45 essential oils and anti-microbial properties, the minty toothpaste also helps to promote fresh breath.
Hydrating Bronzer with an Oil-Free Formula
Which celebrity does it best when trying to capture a sun kissed look? It has to be Jennifer Aniston, who despite being on the fair side, always seems to pull it off. Along with promoting The Bounty Hunter (her latest film with Gerard Butler) in Europe, Jennifer Aniston has been showing off a flawless, Mediterranean glow.
One of the bronzers that Jennifer Aniston’s makeup artist uses for creating a warm glow is Chanel’s moisturizing bronzer, Soleil Tan de Chanel. The illuminating bronzing powder in four shades contains an oil-free formula that doesn’t look dull or flat. With a velvety texture, the powder provides even coverage without caking up or smearing throughout the day.
Does Binging on Junk Food Trigger Addiction?
Scientists at Scripps Research Institute in Florida recently found that over-consumption of junk food by laboratory rats triggered addiction-like responses similar to being dependent on cocaine and heroine.
Keys to Creating a Fresh Looking Finish
Ask any makeup artist what they can’t live without and they’ll probably answer their tools. Having the right brushes can change the way your makeup looks from average to outstanding.
Allure recently asked makeup artist, Troy Surrat, how he chooses the right tools for applying makeup. Surrat, who’s worked with celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, swears by these tips for selecting makeup brushes.
Best Beauty Tips From Carmindy and Her Readers
Carmindy, the beauty guru from TLC’s hit show What Not to Wear, has released her third book featuring beauty tips and tricks for time-challenged women.
Crazy Busy Beautiful: Beauty Secrets for Getting Gorgeous Fast offers hundreds of beauty secrets that Carmindy has learned from her many years as a worldwide makeup artist.
The book is organized by features with everything from eyes to cheeks to skin care. Whether you’re looking for advice on creating smoky eyes or choosing the perfect foundation, Carmindy provides tips for day and night, traveling, and all the times in your busy life when you want to look great.
Here are a few of the easy and economical tips you’ll find in the book:
- Elmer’s Glue is an alternative to pore strips for removing blackheads from your nose.
- Mascara can double as an eyeliner by using a brush to pick up color from the mascara wand and smudging it into the lash line.
- A cotton ball dipped in mineral oil removes stubborn makeup like blush.
- Lemon juice applied to age spots at night helps fade them. Never apply lemon juice to the skin right before sun exposure.
Look for Carmindy’s latest beauty bible on bookshelves starting March 30th 2010. You can also check out a Q&A with Carmindy regarding the book at Tempatalia.
Skincare Staples Delivered Twice a Year
Even though men have now jumped on the cosmetics bandwagon, they still have preferences that set them apart from women. You may love to spend hours sampling cleansers and eye serums in a beauty boutique, but your partner likely prefers to shop online especially if he’s shy about sharing his grooming secrets.
Bread and Butter Skincare offers the perfect solution with a subscription service for men’s skincare products. For an annual cost of under $100 (CDN), men receive a kit twice a year including products that are ideal for the upcoming season. The summer kit features 2 face cleansers, 2 moisturizers (with SPF 15) and 1 shaving gel as a bonus sample. The winter kit includes 2 face cleansers, 2 moisturizers (with SPF 15), 1 lip balm, and 1 body moisturizer as a bonus sample.
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Glorious and Free Online Dating
Now that the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics have wrapped up, Canadians can go back to what they usually do: online dating.
According to a web measurement company, comScore, Canadians spend more days per month and minutes a day checking out online dating sites than users in the US, UK, France, and Germany.
Be a Sleeping Beauty
Even though it’s well known that getting plenty of sleep has huge health benefits, most people deprive themselves of much needed rest and risk their health every day.
When it comes to your skin, getting enough shut eye could be one of your best weapons against aging. Quality sleep produces noticeable results from repairing damage from sun exposure to reducing the gravitational stress on your face.
If you want to improve your sleep hygiene and your skin, Kiehl’s has introduced Midnight Recovery Concentrate. The lightweight concentrate works during the night when your skin is most receptive to repairing itself.
Gentle Body Wash for Glowing Skin
At the beginning of every season, it’s a good time to kick start your exfoliation routine for removing dry patches and scaly skin. Instead of relying on a harsh body scrub that may irritate your skin, why not try a cream body wash with gentle peeling properties.
AHAVA Mineral Botanic Micro Peeling Cream Wash with Water Lily & Guarana is a velvety body wash, free of harsh detergents, for normal to dry skin. Prepared with minerals from the Dead Sea, the body wash features Sunflower oil and Olive and Apricot seed powder for gentle exfoliation. The formula is also enhanced with Water Lily to promote calmness and Guarana to gently stimulate your senses.
Prep for Colour Collection
Just like an artist working with watercolours or pastels, you want to create the prefect canvas for applying makeup.
The Prep for Colour Collection from MAC Cosmetics includes everything you need to get the perfect makeup look for spring from skin protecting face primer to lip gloss in the latest shade of pink.
Prep + Prime Face Protect SP F 50—Prime your skin for the sun with a skin-protecting cream with SPF 50. This featherweight oil-free primer helps prevent oil breakthrough while guarding your skin against discoloration and premature aging.
Water Resistant, Long Lasting Brow Color
Most of us with skimpy eyebrows have tried just about everything from pencils to powder to fill in the thin spots. Your brows may look good when the makeup is newly applied, but after a couple of hours your brows disappear back into oblivion.
MAKE UP FOR EVER Waterproof Eyebrow Corrector goes where no brow makeup has gone before with waterproof brow defining cream in a tube. Available in four colors that work well with just about everyone, the cream helps you fill in the gaps with natural looking color that stays in place.
Aloe Vera Essence Moisturizes Your Pet’s Skin
You’re not the only one who needs a shampoo that works best for your hair and scalp. You also need to carefully select a shampoo that cleanses dirt and excess oil from your dog.
HOTdog Shampoo with Natural Extracts from Fruits & Passion is formulated with concentrated Aloe Vera essence to moisturize and purify your dog’s skin. Other beneficial ingredients include chamomile flower and ivy leaf extract with anti-inflammatory and regenerating properties for your dog’s skin and coat.
Slow Down the Effects of Aging
You can spend hundreds of dollars on anti-aging creams or injections that don’t always give you the results you’re hoping for. Or, you can easily prevent wrinkles using these time-tested tips.
1. Avoid Repeated Facial Expressions
Some people call them “the elevens”. They’re the vertical lines that show up between your eyebrows from repeatedly creasing your brows. Wrinkles can also occur when you repeatedly squint your eyes. You don’t have to eliminate expression from your face, but you can prevent wrinkles by keeping your face relaxed throughout the day.
Peachy Pink Lip Color for Spring
Two hot colors for lips this spring are pink and coral. If you’re not a huge fan of either color, why not go for a peachy pink look that combines the best of both worlds in a more subtle way.
Chantecaille Lip Gloss SPF 15 in Dragonfruit—This lip balm with velvety smooth color offers nourishing protection of SPF 15. Natural bran and safflower oils allow for even application, while green tea, Aloe Vera, and Vitamin E calm and protect your lips.
Fragrance that Blends Femininity and Modernity
If you’re big on romance and poetry, Nina Ricci is launching the perfect fragrance for spring called Le Paradis de Nina.
The sweet scent with delicious notes of orange and mandarin zest is inspired by the aroma of French Madeleine cake, a delicate tea cake originated by pastry chefs in the town of Commercy.
In addition to the citrus elements of orange and mandarin blossom, the sparkling fragrance also features delicate almond, glazed apple, and gardenia.
Base notes provide freshness with ingredients like sandalwood, white wood, patchouli, and vanilla.
Shape and Define Your Face
For those who aren’t ready to go under the knife, there’s still hope for getting sculpted cheeks. Defined cheeks are a hot trend and easy to “fake” with the latest sculpting powders.
Depending on your skin tone, the best colors to work with are rose, peach or bronze which all offer a naturalness when used correctly. Just remember that less is more, if you don’t want contouring to look obvious.
New Innovation for Fuller, Thicker Lashes
If you use eye makeup regularly, it’s a fact of life that you’ll lose some lashes when removing eye shadow, eye liner, or mascara. If you don’t want to give up on eye makeup completely, you need a way to prevent lash loss and breakage.
Lash Boosting Serum from L’Oréal Paris helps you get stronger, thicker looking lashes without spending a small fortune. With Lash Boosting Technology, the serum strengthens each lash while building its resilience. The breakthrough formula contains Centella Asiatica Extract (a conditioning plant extract) and Arginine (an amino acid that boosts lash health) to reinforce, condition, and protect lashes.
Softness in the Palm of Your Hands
Even though the debate is still raging over hand sanitizers, you still need to wash your hands to prevent infection and illness.
You can keep your hands clean and looking their best with a liquid hand wash that leaves skin moisturized. Jergens Fine Liquid Hand Wash gives your hands the attention they deserve whether they’re suffering from the cold weather outside or dry, overheated air inside.
Since you wash your hands on an average of 10 times a day, why not use a hand wash with natural silk proteins and conditioners for soft skin. If the hand wash comes in a light scent with crushed tea leaves, citron and wild bergamot, that’s even better. Or, try one of the other scents like fruity exotic vanilla if you can’t get away for a beach vacation.
Jewelry Inspired Makeup Collection
Known for her sparkly jewelry designs, Tarina Tarantino has now crossed over into beauty products with a new cosmetics collection.
As a former makeup artist, Tarantino has the perfect background for taking makeup where it’s never been before. Sold exclusively at Sephora, her luxury line of cosmetics features color-rich formulas and luxurious packaging.
Award Winning Makeup
Glamor set the stage at the 82nd Academy Awards, which often reflect upcoming spring styles. This year’s makeup trends saw a range of dramatic looks from pale complexions to smoky eyes with a metallic twist.
Foundation that Increases the Moisture Level of Your Skin
With so many foundation choices out there, finding makeup that works with your skin is no simple task. If the foundation helps fight aging skin, that’s even better.
New Age Anti-Wrinkle Make-Up from Marcelle is an oil-free foundation that suits even the most sensitive skin type. The formula has active ingredients in a silky finish that leaves your skin with a healthy glow.
Easily blendable, the hypo-allergenic and perfume-free makeup offers medium coverage that helps conceal imperfections and reduce the signs of fatigue. With six shades to choose from, you can use the foundation alone over clean skin or with other products like concealer. With light reflecting pigments and nourishing amino acids, the result is radiant skin that can only get better.
Linen Helps Smooth out Skin
Getting rid of wrinkles may now be as simple as sleeping on the right bedding. SkinGlow™ Cupron® Copper Technology bedding features copper-infused linen that promises to restore your skin’s texture and tone.
According to a clinical study by the manufacturer, sleeping on the copper-oxide containing pillowcase for at least four weeks “will reduce the appearance of wrinkles and crows feet around the eyes and will improve the skin’s overall appearance while you sleep.”
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Sandra Bullock Mostly Like to Sell Oscar Fashion
The Academy Awards ceremony is often anticipated more for the fashion of its nominees than the awards they receive. According to the Wall Street Journal, fashion at the Oscars and other award shows is so big that some actresses are ranked according to their ability to inspire viewers to buy the outfits they wear.
Who is currently sitting at the top of the list for selling fashion to red carpet viewers?
StyleSpot.com, an Internet shopping resource featuring celebrity looks and sites where you can purchase them, found that Sandra Bullock wearing Vivienne Westwood at the People’s Choice Awards had one of the top looks that site viewers checked out at a linked retail site.
Pollution-Fighting Urban Essential
If you live in a large urban area, toxins and free radicals attack your skin every day. Impurities from pollutants like cigarette smoke and exhaust fumes attach to your skin, mix with natural oils, and generate free radicals and toxins.
Urban Express Mousse from Paris-based SAMPAR provides the best defense against city living with a powerful antioxidant shield that cleanses your face and removes makeup without irritation.
The mousse features Urban Advance Complex to soothe your skin and neutralize the lead and chlorine found in tap water. Geranium essential oil balances your skin’s production of oil and jump starts an antibacterial action that purifies the skin.
Ali is Returning as the Star of The Bachelorette
ABC made the right choice in announcing Ali Fedotowsky as the next Bachelorette on The Bachelor finale.
It will help fans of the show who have a hard time understanding Jake Pavelka’s proposal to Vienna Girardi (the bling is a Neil Lane diamond and platinum ring). If his family came around to accepting her, hopefully his fans will too.
National Day of Yoga for Arthritis and Autoimmune Conditions Research
Although there is no cure for arthritis and autoimmune disorders, some people experience relief when practising yoga.
Dorna Chee, a yoga instructor, discovered the power of yoga after being diagnosed with lupus. She decided to share her experience with others including Erin Moraghan, an active yoga practitioner, who founded the Power of Movement to raise funds for arthritis and autoimmune research.
Morning Makeup and Hair in a Flash
Maybe you partied too hard at the closing ceremony of Vancouver 2010. Or, you stayed up late dishing Bachelor Jake Pavelka’s engagement to Vienna Girardi. Either way, you may have trouble getting started in the morning.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed and pressed for time, follow these tips to speed up your beauty routine.
