Stila — Changing Directions?

June 27, 2008

I was wading through my emails tonight, and one of them was entitled Stila’s 4 Simple Steps to Complexion perfection — and when I linked to the 4 Steps, I got a little sad. One of the reasons I had moved to Stila (and Bobbi Brown) from Laura Mercier was that they did not push […]

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Sex in the City Product Placement

June 23, 2008

As I mentioned in my second SATC musings post, the only makeup brand product placement I noticed in the movie was L’Oreal. Turns out I did not miss any others according to Vanity Fair’s SATC Product Placement Roundup. And while you are on the Vanity Fair site, check out their beauty page, which includes a […]

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Weleda Sighting at Target!!

June 19, 2008

I was at Target last night, and saw Weleda products!! How exciting. I really hope this means they are more mass marketed in the U.S. now, and it’s not just because my Target is in Brooklyn within two subway stops of Manhattan. Weleda products are all natural and paraben-free. Their Skin Food is a cult […]

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Beach in the City – Comptoir Sud Pacifique

June 18, 2008

Beach in the City – A seasonal feature about bringing the beach to the city even when you can’t take a vacation. I have been travelling a fair bit lately, and have taken with me at least one of the Comptoir Sud Pacifique’s two basic vanillas with me, and I finally noticed that instead of […]

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100% Pure Pretty Naked Face Palette

June 14, 2008

So I have a long-time ongoing affair with 100% Pure. I have been very happy with their facial care and their bath and body. They are also now moving into fruit-pigmented cosmetics which are 100% pure as well — the color pigments are all derived from fruit. How cool is that? Their glosses are lovely […]

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Beach in the City – Keeping Your Eyeshadow On

June 11, 2008

Beach in the City – A seasonal feature about bringing the beach to the city even when you can’t take a vacation. While I have lofty aspirations about this seasonal feature, there’s days surviving the summer in a big city as being just as important. The heat is awful here in New York — and […]

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Pedicure at Dashing Diva

June 10, 2008

Last week I made good of my promise of greening my nailcare and went to Dashing Diva for a pedicure. It was a great experience and I highly recommend it. I went to the Dashing Diva on the Upper West Side, but appearance-wise and offerings-wise, the locations are all identical. The pedicure setting is lovely […]

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Beach in the City – Nordstrom Beauty Gift with Beach Bag

June 4, 2008

Beach in the City – A seasonal feature about bringing the beach to the city even when you can’t take a vacation. Around this time, Nordstrom.com always has a beauty gift with lots of summery product samples and a beachy tote which is usually remarkably useful. The minimum purchase has not changed in years — […]

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Greening My Nail Care

June 3, 2008

It’s time for me to think about “greening” my nail care. I have not done anything different towards that in a couple of years sinceI decided to always bring my own paraben-free hand and foot creams (usually the Burts Bees Naturally Nourishing Honey Foot Cream and the Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Creme) to every manicure […]

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Beauty Products and Sex and the City Musings Part 2

June 2, 2008

So I loved the movie. On the makeup front, I did not notice many product placements, though at one point in the Duane Reade Halloween scene, Carrie picked up L’Oreal Voluminous mascara, which is one of my favorites. I did notice that only Miranda’s makeup was at all different than in the show — she […]

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Beauty Products and Sex and the City Musings

May 31, 2008

I have not been following the SATC lead-up events and news as much as others, although I have to say I am thrilled to be seeing Carrie and her friends on the big screen. SATC was a Sunday night treat for me for several years — I firmly believe watching the series and past seasons […]

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Two weeks to the Bathed and Infused Sale

May 29, 2008

As I mentioned before, Bathed and Infused is more of a summer indie etailer for me — I prefer their lotion to their other moisturizers, so I also tend to gravitate towards their more summery scents. Fortunately, BI has an Anniversary Sale in June every year. This year it is on June 16 — so […]

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Blue Disk Found!!

May 25, 2008

So this afternoon I checked the CVS on Court Street in Cobble Hill — that was the *one* place there had been an actual sighting of the elusive Sally Hansen La Cross Foot Smoothing Disk. My friend who loves it actually bought hers there. I had checked there five weeks ago, but no luck. I […]

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Beach in the City – Getting your Beach Sandals Groove on

May 23, 2008

Beach in the City – A seasonal feature about bringing the beach to the city even when you can’t take a vacation. No, this is not a post about pedicures, but rather about a lovely new scent that Bathed and Infused now carries — it’s called Beach Sandals. Originally, it was very limited edition (just […]

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LAVANILA – A Wonderful Concept

May 22, 2008

I am going to preface this by saying I have tried all four perfumes in the LAVANILA line several times and the scents do not work on me at all. On my skin the vanilla scents just do not stay, and get replaced by the other notes. BUT The concept is way too great to […]

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