The most successful post by far on Never Say Die Beauty’s Facebook fanpage is a recipe for a DIY foot soak and dead skin/callous remover. (Check out the NSDB FB page if you haven’t already!) I’ve gotten lots and lots of “likes”, and lots of comments from women who’ve tried it. In fact, a number …
Skincare Ingredient Glossary and Ingredient-Based Product Recommendations
Allure is a great source of information for me on all things beauty. I often turn to Allure for new product information, product recommendations, how-to tips, and what’s new in anti-aging. Skincare Glossary Recently at allure.com, I found a terrific glossary of skincare ingredients and terminology, and I had to share it with you. There …
At-Home Hair Color Gets Closer to Salon?
I’ve been coloring my hair at Vidal Sassoon since, well, forever. I decided way back that I was meant to be a redhead. On a business trip to London, I thought I could either go to sleep after the long flight or get my hair colored red. I chose red hair. Actually, the colorist at …
ipsy Beach Beauty Bag July 2013: Instagram Video Teaser
In this short post, I’d like to highlight two new things for me: Instagram video and the beauty sample box service, ipsy. Instagram makes it possible to upload 15 second videos, and I think I’ve figured out how to get them into my blog (at least it works with Safari and Firefox). Unfortunately, 15 seconds …
Bruising and Aging
Last week I noticed I had a big bruise on my torso. I had no clue where it came from. Was it from carrying the metal-edged laundry basket against my rib cage as I brought it upstairs from the laundry room? I was trying to remember what I could have done to myself. Today, I …
Sunscreen and UV Protection Future Breakthrough via Daily Glow
Breaking News: Sunscreen and UV Protection in a Pill from Daily Glow Truth be told, I detest wearing sunscreen. Since I usually go for the mineral based sunscreen, I am always applying heavy creams. In the hot weather, they make me feel hotter and greasier. So I was so excited to read that researchers discovered …
Summer Fun: Best/Worst U.S. Cities for Your Skin via Daily Glow
Best/Worst U.S. Cities for Your Skin It’s summer, and time to have a little fun. The Daily Glow ranked 55 major U.S. cities on how skin friendly or unfriendly they are. The study took into consideration factors like lifestyle including exercise, pollution, amount of sun, weather, number of dermatologists, and even the propensity for tanning …
“The Ever Insightful Nick Ward!” artist interview from Sloane Merrill Gallery
Artist Interview: The Ever Insightful Nick Ward! — Sloane Merrill Gallery. Nick Ward is the artist whose work, Ready or Not Here I Come, I use at the masthead for my blog. I met him a year and a half ago at the Open Studios in Southie in Boston. I bought a print of Ready …
Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Summer Gift at Macy’s: Real Photos of Gift
For the Estée Lauder and Lilly Pulitzer lovers, here are some pix of the gift with purchase at Macy’s that ends on June 15. You must make a $35+ foundation or skincare purchase, which is a bit limiting since I was after the Youth Dew bath oil. Here’s what the Lilly Pulitzer sand dollar print …
Gluten-Free Makeup
My friend, Laura, has been gluten-free for a few years now, and she feels better since she gave up eating foods with gluten: wheat, oat, barley, and rye. A while back, she told me that she started having the old symptoms that she used to feel when she ate gluten but couldn’t figure out why. …
Is Your Face Cleansing Brush Doing More Harm Than Good? – HuffPost; Should I Buy One?
Is Your Face Cleansing Brush Doing More Harm Than Good? Derms Address This Beauty Myth. I have been seriously wanting a Clarisonic Mia Cleansing Brush or any of its sisters for ages now. Like my electric toothbrush, it works via sonic technology. I read that a lot of beauty bloggers received them, including the Clarisonic …
Estee Lauder Mad Men Collection for Spring 2013
The two-hour Season 6 premiere of “Mad Men” is on Sunday, April 7 from 9:00-11:00 on AMC, less than a month away, and I can hardly wait. Although va-va-voom Joan should be my role model (a buxom redhead, of course), icy, bitchy, screwed up Betty is my fave. I think it’s so fascinating that a …
Estee Lauder and Lilly Pulitzer Spring/Summer 2013 Gift Promotion
For those of you who know me, I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I love Lilly Pulitzer. I have pants, shorts, dresses, skirts, and tops in Pulitzer fabrics from the 1990s-2000s. Wish I had some of the vintage patterns! Gotta hit the consignment shops, I guess. The brightly colored fabrics, both new …
Gel Manicures: the Good, the Bad and the Who Knows
We all love some of the benefits of a gel manicure. Your nails look almost blindingly shiny. The polish doesn’t chip at all, not a bit, for at least 2 weeks. It just doesn’t come off till you have it taken off. What a great invention, right? Recently The New York Post, no shrinking violet …
50 Beauty Products to Buy Before You Die from allure.com
50 Beauty Products to Buy Before You Die: Beauty Products: allure.com. Click on the link above to see a fun post from Allure.com listing their picks for the 50 beauty products they can’t live without. It’s a list of classics as well as of-the-moment beauty musts. “nothing to disclose” I’m embarrassed to say, or not, …