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. …
Finally, A Great Facial
Back in in the day, my college roommate introduced me to Georgette Klinger, a day spa before before the term “day spa” came into being. Georgette Klinger, an immigrant from what is now The Czech Republic, started her career by creating some simple facial skincare products in her kitchen. She opened her first “salon” in …
OWN Firming Silk Concentrate
Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to try OWN Firming Silk Concentrate, an anti-aging product, from OWN Skin Health. Like the OWN Lifting Eye Cream and Refining Moisture Night Cream, I received it from iFabbo, an organization for beauty and style bloggers. I liked those two products, and I am a serum user, so …
8 Beauty Treatments You Can Do at Home – Daily Glow
8 Beauty Treatments You Can Do at Home – Skin Care Tips – Skin & Beauty – Daily Glow. In the summer, it seems even easier to take ingredients that I have at home and mix them up into potions for moisturizing and tightening. With all the fresh fruits and veggies available, it’s hard to …
Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Summer Gift at Macy’s
OMG, now here’s another one! The Estée Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Summer Gift begins at Macy’s on Memorial Day Monday in the U.S., May 27 and goes through June16, 2013. In order to qualify for the gift, you must spend $35 or more on a SKINCARE or FOUNDATION purchase. The promotion is quite similar to the …
OWN Refining Moisture Night Cream
For years, I was true to my favorite moisturizer/night cream. It did a great job, was readily available, and affordable. I still really like it, but since becoming a blogger I have discovered other wonderful moisturizers. OWN Refining Moisture Night Cream is one that I’ve been cheating on Olay Regenerist with lately. I “bought” OWN …
Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Summer Getaway Gift: Photos of My Gift
I think the Lilly Pulitzer lovers among us like to get all the info on the Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer gifts for 2013 that we can find. So here’s an update with details on the Summer Getaway Gift. Just returned from a business trip to Houston, and I found the Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer …
Guerlain Le Top Coat Gel: Manicure Savior?
Today’s product review is from my friend, Sybille: fashionista, beauty product aficionado, and guest writer. Born in Germany but living in the U.S. for quite a while now, Sybille still keeps up with German publications, and her product recommendation comes from something she recently read in a German magazine. Sybille always finds cool stuff. A …
essence Coverstick Concealer
A couple of weeks ago at Ulta, I picked up another bargain, essence Coverstick concealer. Down at the bottom of the essence display, I spied testers with three tubes representing three shades of concealer. The lightest shade, 01 Matt Sand, was a perfect match for me. I tried the tester, and I was happy …
Algenist Concentrated Reconstructing Serum
Several months ago while getting my hair re-redded at Vidal Sassoon, I was reading Vogue to pass the time. I saw an ad for a free sample of serum at Sephora from Algenist, a brand unknown to me. When I get my hair colored, I don’t bother wearing makeup since it would come off anyway. …
Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Dillards Summer Getaway Gift May 2013
Kimberley has alerted me to the fact that Dillard’s is doing the same Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Summer Getaway Gift now, May 2013, that’s running at Lord & Taylor. And she found the Dillard’s website much easier to negotiate. Please see my post from last week for the details on the Lilly Pulitzer seashell print …
L’Oreal Age Perfect Hydra Nutrition Golden Balm Eye Cream
I’m a big fan of L’Oreal Revitalift Eye Cream Anti-Wrinkle + Firming, and I’ve been using it for years. photo credit: L’Oreal websiteA couple of years ago, I started seeing the ad campaign with Diane Keaton for the Age Perfect product line, and I thought maybe those products, targeted to older women, might be the …
Dealing with Adult Acne – The Daily Glow
Dealing with Adult Acne – Aging Skin – Skin & Beauty. Several months ago, I posted a blog post Win-Win: Eat Dark Chocolate, Look Younger. The gist of it was eating an ounce of dark chocolate per day provides health benefits: it improves cardiac health and even skin health. Some of my friends on Facebook …
Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Lord & Taylor Summer Getaway Gift May 2013
I just discovered there’s a new Estée Lauder/Lilly Pulitzer gift with purchase for Summer 2013 at Lord & Taylor, and I want to tell you about it if you haven’t heard. The Estée Lauder Lilly Pulitzer promotion that’s been going on since the end of December 2012 has been a big one, and I’m glad …
Nuance Salma Hayek AM/PM Anti-aging Super Eye Treatment
Since I’m a big fan of Nuance Salma Hayek Daytime Moisturizer with SPF, I decided to branch out and try an eye product from the Nuance brand. I chose the Nuance Salma Hayek AM/PM Anti-aging Super Eye Treatment. I just finished up the bottle, and I liked it. It’s a pump bottle, and I found …