Happy first summer weekend!
My roses are doing well this year with more and more blooms everyday. The clematis were amazing, but this past week the petals finally fell off. Oh well, I have photos!!
Here are this week’s posts from The Beauty Spotlight Team. Happy browsing!
Are you into essential oils? Pammy Blogs Beauty sure is! Find out what she thinks of the C.O. Bigelow Aromatherapy oils and Apothecary style skincare.
When the Makeup Wars Team selected their favorite night creams, Lola’s Secret Beauty Blog immediately knew that there was only one cream to feature, and unsurprisingly it is the utterly sublime and ultra-luxe
African Botanics Fleurs d’Afrique Intensive Recovery Cream. It really doesn’t get any better than this! #AfricanBotanics
Now that summer is officially here, Prime Beauty has the low down on the newest innovations from the sunscreen experts, Supergoop!
Remember Mr. Bubble bubble bath? Never Say Die Beauty has been relaxing in the tub with a slew of delectable, hydrating bath additives from Luxe by Mr. Bubble, the new line for grownups!
What’s your feeling about travel size products? Do you love them for taking with you? Do you like them to test out products? Or could you do without. See Beauty Info Zone’s collection of ones from IT Cosmetics and maybe even win some.
Ten years ago, China Glaze released the OMG! Collection featuring a groundbreaking new holographic finish. Fans have been eagerly waiting for their return, and this summer China Glaze will be re-launching six of them! Jen of Laugh, Love, Contour got ahold of this 10th anniversary collection early and has swatched them on her blog to help you decide which ones you need this season.
There have been a lot of requests for Polarbelle’s hauls from The Makeup Show NYC. This week, Pat McGrath Labs, Stilazzi and Smith Cosmetics hauls are up for your viewing pleasure.
Does it intimidate you to buy a drugstore foundation since there are no testers? Shipra of Taneja’s Bride took the plunge with Cover Girl True Blend Matte. See what her final thoughts are of this new foundation.
Now that you’ve seen the foundation what about other Cover Girl products from Beauty Judy. You might be surprised at what you see.
Are you ready to take your skin care routine more seriously? 15 Minute Beauty is sharing her favorite anti-aging night creams, have you tried any of them?
Some beauty subscription boxes are good, while others are not. Stacie from Makeup Obsessed Mom says she found a winner this month from BeautyFIX.
Love the 💐 Especially the 🌹 roses! My Ross are pale pink tea roses and hard to see. They were Dick’s roses and the first one of the season opened up on the anniversary of his death 🌷💐
What a wonderful sign from the beyond, Sandy! I love pale pink tea roses. <3
What a lovely garden! Roses hate me. They hate my mother too. But HER mother…. man oh man did roses love that lady. She had rose bushes lining the back of her house and they were such growers that they were trying to crawl in the back door! And they weren’t even a creeper/crawler/climber/rambler variety!
I think we make up for our rose deficit with the clematis though. The dark purple one is trying to eat the shed, so I think it’s safe to say that it, at least, is quite the happy camper. 😛
I’m jelly, Rach, of your green thumb with clematis! My purple clematis had the best year it’s ever had, but it is still nothing like yours. I had tried putting clematis in the front yard going up the light fixture, but the frigid winter winds would kill every vine I planted there. So I planted my clematis against the fence where it’s protected from the wind. My friend Sue gave me a pink striped clematis that I love, but she didn’t tell me that it had a problem and part of the vine would die after it grew and before it bloomed. If I’m lucky, I get 3 blooms from it, but it’s too pretty to rip out. Do you know anything about this issue? I wish I had your grandmother’s good luck with roses. Mine are doing OK, but I don’t have quite enough sun in the parts of the yard that get enough sun and are protected from the wind in winter. How are your lilies doing?
Awww I wish I could get your pink striped one to behave! The one that’s eating the shed here is probably just dumb luck. 😉
Actually here it seems that they’re either great, or they’re total non-starters. Just put in a new one (can’t for the life of me remember what colour it’s supposed to be) and since it survived the first month (oh the tricky first few weeks of “will anyone remember to water this?!?” along with outside cat intervention, not to mention the local marauding raccoons!) I have high hopes. We can’t really put them in non-sheltered areas either. People in town can put them around their mailboxes and such and a lot of them survive, but it’s just a little too open where we are.
My daylilies are getting fat and sassy. Well, the older ones are at least. I think everyone is finally over the traumatic backhoe incident and all the “candy” varieties are blooming away. They usually come on the earliest. The newer plantings (well, the ones that didn’t disappear… did I mention the great disappearing daylilies of 2017? planted SIX- all disappeared. poof.) are steadily progressing. I think I’ve lost one out by the clothesline though. There is supposed to be a purple one there and I’m not seeing anything……..Methinks the peonies swamped it. Will have to do a little investigating and perhaps move it out of there.
Oh, wow! Sounds like it could be a banner year for your lilies. What are “candy” varieties? I don’t have any lilies that disappear, but I do have some that have stopped blooming. Do you feed your lilies in the early spring before they come up? I have some lilies that look like they’ll have a lot of blooms, and others that may have none, waaaah. Thanks for confirming that clematis need protection – it was a trial and error thing for me. Now I have images in my mind of “marauding raccoons” running around your yard in the dark with their little masks on 😀
When my mother and I first became obsessed with the daylilies we wound up getting plants from a grower who must have liked lilies named “candy” or something. Strawberry Candy, Wineberry Candy, Custard Candy, Blueberry Candy, Vanilla Candy…. They’ve done pretty well for us. We would feed them in spring if we ever remembered to, but in reality I’m more of a “better late than never” feeder, hahaha. Mulch is also useful, though I do not care for how it looks. But if it keeps the weeds at bay…. So far the only times they haven’t sent up scapes (aside from trauma like the backhoe) are when they’ve become too shaded (like if the peony towers over it and keeps it from getting any light at all *gives peony the side-eye*) and all have recovered nicely once moved to a better location where they don’t have to expend all their energy just trying to survive. I know if their clump becomes too thick that can also keep them from blooming though. All the different fans start competing for the nutrients and nobody gets enough to make flowers. Could that be what’s happening with the ones you have that aren’t blooming? Maybe they just need divided?
The six that disappeared here are just plain gone. I will consider it a floral miracle if they somehow come back next year after taking this summer off. I think they’re just dead and I’m wondering if something ate them? They were very VERY small plantings, so I suppose that could have happened. Or maybe they just did not get established enough before last winter set in? It was a very mild winter here though, so that seems less likely than the early spring critter-snack scenario. Masked raiders in the dark really is EXACTLY what happens! The little bandits are cute, I’ll give em that. But they’re a nuisance and they’re feisty. And they’re not all that scared of me, which I’m thinking is not such a good thing.