Thursday, September 21, 2006

Seeking Beauty through Nutrition

Sales of oral beauty supplements to consumers accelerated at a phenomenal rate between 2000 and 2005 at an average annual growth rate of 17.0% across Europe and the US.
Future growth will remain strong as more consumers become convinced of the benefits of seeking beauty through nutrition.
French consumers spend the most per head on oral beauty supplements due to a traditionally stronger acceptance of the beauty from within concept.

BB Editor: More about how French women are so beautiful sigh... first they weren't fat - now
they are more supplement savvy. When will it end?

Mirenesse Skin Smooth As Velvet

Mirenesse Skin Smooth As Velvet Makeup KitMirenesse Skin Smooth As Velvet Makeup Kit
Does your skin look and feel imperfect? Mirenesse's Skin Smooth As Velvet Makeup Kit helps provide a flawless appearance with a velvety soft, color-correcting finish that lasts all day. Mirenesse Velvet Line Smoothing Collection Includes:
.4 oz. Velvet Skin Line Minimizing Dual Powder - this is a color-correcting and moisturizing powder that helps provide the look of flawless, velvet-textured skin. It can be used wet or dry, and comes with a foundation brush and makeup sponge. 1 oz. Absolutely Smooth Treatment Primer - contains Australian Botanical Peptisome Complex, which helps smooth the appearance of tired, lined skin. It helps fill in lines and reduce the look of uneven skin tone. Velvet Lip Lift Moisture Shine - provides glamorous glossy shine and lips drenched with moisture. Self-renewing color pigments adhere to lips for long-lasting wear in our versatile Nude color. Luscious Lips Duet - award-winning Vitamin Capsule lipstick paired with a perfectly matched, long-wearing and anti-feathering lip liner in one sleek, easy-to-carry case. This beauty treatment duo is formulated with Vitamins C, E, F and phytosphingosine ceramide to help leave lips looking plump and perfect all day. The color is Bonnie & Clyde (soft brown). .05 oz. Secret Weapon Black Mascara - exclusive breakthrough formula for really full, curly, lush, thick, sexy lashes. Secret Weapon is extremely long-wearing, smear-proof, sweat-proof, smudge-proof, flake-free and water-resistant - no more panda eyes! Power Lift - a sample foil packet of our beauty treatment that helps hydrate, smooth and reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles, helping your skin look younger from the first application

About Mirenesse...Advanced pharmaceutical technology created from 3 to 5 years of product research helps set apart this beautifully-packaged cosmetics and skin care line.

Skinny Models Given The "Pink Slip"

According to a global study, two-thirds of women strongly agree that the media and advertising set an unrealistic standard of beauty that most women can't ever achieve. Inspired by these findings, Dove launched the Campaign for Real Beauty in September 2004. This campaign, featuring six brave women who faced the world in nothing but their underwear and a lot of "sassy attitude," was launched with the hopes of changing the way women perceive their bodies, and their beauty, by widening the definition of what it means to be beautiful. Dove's "real women with real bodies and real curves," were embraced by women worldwide.

BB Editor: We need more than Dove to step up to this plate (no pend intended). Maybe sending those skinny anorexic models packing will help. Giving new meaning to the words "Pink Slip" in the fashion
industry.

Multivitamin Power Concentrate by Dermatologica

Dermatologica Multivitamin Power Concentrate 45capsDermatologica Multivitamin Power Concentrate 45caps
Key Ingredients: Vitamin A increases elasticity and moisture content. Antioxidant Vitamin C stimulates natural collagen synthesis to restore suppleness. Antioxidant Vitamin E promotes healthy tissue regeneration.
Essential oils of Grapefruit, Lime, Orange and Mandarin Orange soothe and calm the skin. Fragrance free. Includes Free Travel Container. For External Use Only.

Ashanti - Beauty From The Inside Out

Ashanti revealed her beauty secrets on how to maintain a youthful complexion and health-conscious lifestyle within a routinely hectic work schedule to Market America independent distributors. The R&B icon live on-stage, in front of this capacity crowd, pioneering a new vision of "wellbeing" and product development.
The Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum singer/songwriter, actress and author, announced the launch of her innovative OPC-3(TM) Beauty Blend with the company.
Ashanti's OPC-3 Beauty Blend is a technologically advanced combination of unique ingredients from the Market America Isotonix Dietary Supplement range, to provide optimal skin health and "Beauty From The Inside Out." Ashanti worked with Market America's scientific affairs division to create a unique powdered formula derived from the company's best-selling product OPC-3 - an isotonic-capable food supplement containing a combination of grape seed, red wine and pine bark extract, to help replenish essential vitamins and minerals for the skin, and to provide an improved antioxidant defense. Ashanti's OPC-3 Beauty Blend is priced at $67.95

Loving Philip B Lovin' Leave-in Conditioner

Philip B Lovin' Leave-in Conditioner 6.5 ozPhilip B Lovin' Leave-in ConditionerA leave-in hair conditioning creme that revitalizes hair from roots to ends. Restorative Soy and Wheat Proteins together with strengthening Amino Acids rejuvenate your hair with every application. Protects your hair color from fading without weighing it down. Philip B® Lovin' Leave-in Hair Conditioning Creme moisturizes and soothes dry brittle ends, adds lustrous shine, and supple smoothness. With nurturing extracts of Aloe, , Nettle, Chamomile, Horsetail and Henna ,Lovin' Leave-in is ideal for all hair textures and types.

Professional Stylist Profile: Sharz Din

SHARZ DIN, HAIR STYLIST
SIENNA MILLER and Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O have the sexiest hairdos, according to top stylist Sharz.
Sharz, 39, from Glasgow, has worked for Vidal Sassoon for 17 years and spends much of his time jetting round the world looking at the latest hair trends.
The job: I am creative director at Vidal Sassoon in Glasgow. My job is to give the rest of the staff direction plus I am in charge of training and fashion work.
How I did it: I swept floors at my local barber in Wimbledon before getting a traineeship with Chris Sorbie in London. I spent the next two years as a creative director with Alan Stewart in Glasgow, where I got a lot of experience doing show work.
I was working for Vidal Sassoon in London when the Princes Square store opened in Glasgow.
I jumped at the chance to come up. Vidal Sassoon are the best company to work for. They nurtured my career and taught me all about technique and communication, which is vital if you are to become a rounded worker. We run a hair school which does an NVQ with additional training. We take 10-12 people on every year. You can take that training and work in a salon anywhere in the world.
I have done shows in Madrid and Russia and I am off to Rome in a couple of weeks. They are a great way of getting inspiration for your work.
Perks: Being able to blend creativity with business

From Eye Shadow to Liquid Liner in Just A Drop

Paula Dorf Transformer 0.33 oz Paula Dorf Transformer Transform your eye powder from shadow to liquid liner with this unique product from Paula Dorf. Just put a few drops of the Transformer liquid into the lid of your eye color container, then dip the Eye Transformer brush first into the liquid, then into the color. Transfer the color to eyes by pressing the Transformer brush on the upper inside root of your lash line. Now, use an eye liner, angle liner, or eye definer brush to line your lashes for a dramatic look. Great for use with mineral makeup powders.

Professional Beauty Profile: Paula Dorf

Paula Dorf is one of the most sought-after makeup artists in television, film, and music. Inspired at a young age by her mother's love of fashion & beauty, Paula pursued a career in makeup artistry and eventually, created a basic color line of shadows, blushes, and lip colors that are easy to use and whose vibrant colors compliment a variety of skin tones. The collection is a smash hit and has been embraced by celebrities, fashionistas, beauty authorities and every day makeup lovers, and Paula leads the beauty industry with her mainstay, easy to apply colors and products that allow everyone to become their own makeup artist.

BB Editor: So don't be afraid of your "girly girl " girl. She may grow up to be the next Paula Dorf or possibly push you into being a little hipper. :) Either way its all good.

Smooth Start with Paula Dorf Perfect Primer

Paula Dorf Perfect Primer OilyPaula Dorf Perfect Primer Just like you would prime a wall before painting, it is essential to start with a smooth and perfect surface. - Paula Dorf (Normal/Oily Skin): Even skin tone and stop oil and shine with this exclusive formula with special oil-inhibitors and micronized cotton powder, nature's perfect shine- stopper. (Normal/Dry Skin): Keep foundation and makeup colors dewy-fresh hours longer with this primer nourished with mango butter, rosemary leaf extract and cotton powder to minimize lines, even skin tone, and keep colors fresh all day.

Vitamin D : The FAT Thats Good for Skin

It is well known that an adequate supply of vitamin D, either from the diet or from the skin, is important for maximum bone health throughout life.

"An evaluation of surgically obtained skin (age range, 8-92 yr) revealed that there is an age-dependent decrease in the epidermal concentrations of provitamin D3. To ascertain that aging indeed decreased the capacity of human skin to produce vitamin D3, some of the skin samples were exposed to ultraviolet radiation and the content of previtamin D3 was determined in the epidermis and dermis. The epidermis in the young and older subjects was the major site for the formation of previtamin D3, accounting for greater than 80% of the total previtamin D3 that was produced in the skin. A comparison of the amount of previtamin D3 produced in the skin from the 8- and 18-yr-old subjects with the amount produced in the skin from the 77- and 82-yr-old subjects revealed that aging can decrease by greater than twofold the capacity of the skin to produce previtamin D3.

Recognition of this difference may be extremely important for the elderly, who infrequently expose a small area of skin to sunlight and who depend on this exposure for their vitamin D nutritional needs."-J MacLaughlin and M F Holick

"Research also suggests that vitamin D may help maintain a healthy immune system and help regulate cell growth and differentiation, the process that determines what a cell is to become.
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that is found in food and can also be made in your body after exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. Sunshine is a significant source of vitamin D because UV rays from sunlight trigger vitamin D synthesis in the skin"-NIH.gov

The Twelve Colors of Avanya Mineral

Avanya Mineral Foundation FoundationAvanya Mineral Foundation Foundation
Avanya's mineral foundation provides flawless coverage without leaving you feeling like you're wearing makeup. It covers common skin disorders such as acne and rosacea while providing your skin with the benefits of the cosmeceutical properties of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, both of which are known to calm inflammation and protect the skin from harmful UVB and UVA rays. It is free of any talc, perfumes, dyes, or preservatives and is scientifically designed to be water resistant, even under extreme conditions such as exercise. It can be applied wet or dry.
Plus it has great range of colors that you dont normally see in mineral makeups. Now that's better.

Ivory (fairest complexion with a light pink undertone)
Porcelain (fair complexion with yellow undertone)
Nude (medium complexion with pink undertone)
Natural (light complexion with a deep yellow undertone)
Natural Beige (medium complexion with yellow undertone)
Rose Beige (medium complexion with pink undertone)
Deep Beige (tanned complexion with yellow undertone)
Light Tan (tanned complexion with a reddish/pink undertone)
Medium Tan (dark complexion with a reddish/brown undertone)
Hazelnut (dark complexion with reddish brown/yellow undertone)
Mocha (dark complexion with a dirty brown/yellow undertone)
Chocolate (very dark complexion with a reddish/blue undertone

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Go Brit! NO MORE HANGERS!

British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell stated in a statement, I applaud the decision taken by Madrid to ban super-thin models, and urge the organizers of London Fashion Week to do the same."
Jowell went on to say, "The fashion industry's promotion of beauty as meaning stick thin is damaging to young girls' self image and to their health." She also stated that a young girls aspire to look like the catwalk models when those models are unhealthily underweight it pressurizes girls to starve themselves to look the same."


It's not only "damnaging" (my word) to young but all women in general. In fact now mature older women are now starting to be one of those categories that are suffering from eating disorders especially anorexia. I saw one fashion designer saying "You don't want to see womens breast or hips . They are supposed to look like a hanger." A HANGER!!!!????
Too bad they don't sell their fashions to a hanger- they would have the income they deserve.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Proactiv Solution: I'd like to thank the Academy

This is the seventh consecutive year that ProActiv
Solution has been nominated at the award ceremony and the esteemed brand's
seventh win, making the Proactiv show the winningest (is that a word?)infomercial of all
time. Over the past eleven years, ProActiv has gained an enviable
reputation throughout the skin care category and beyond with its
unparalleled production values and an impeccable use of A-list celebrities.
Lindsey Lohan is the latest to boast its benefits.

The 16th Annual Electronic Retailing
Association (ERA) Awards Gala in Las Vegas were recognizing the best
in the electronic retailing industry and honored ProActiv Solution with
"Infomercial of the Year," "Best Short-Form Health and Beauty" and "Best
Short-Form of the Year," featuring Jessica Simpson.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Alice Fakier , Design Star : Beauty, Brains & Humility

Just who is Alice Fakier? She the classy lady who took Second in the HGTV Design Star competion. She is so stylish in her manner & dress.


In truth Alice was a winner already because of her friendly heart and southern civility. I am so proud of her. Not only is she a gracious beauty, she is shining example of beauty not being just about a physique. We would all do well imitate her style.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Must have Pomegranate Product

Murad Energizing Pomegranate Moisturizer Spf15 size: 2 ozMurad Energizing Pomegranate Moisturizer Spf15 size: 2 oz Unisex.

An energizing pomegranate moisturizer SPF15. Hydrates your skin while delivering sun protection. Helps stimulate healthy cell function effectively. Incredibly safeguards your skin from free radicals.

Pomegranate: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

Similar to pomegranate juice and extract, the oil from the seeds of the pomegranate provides a powerful anti-oxidant benefit, fighting free radicals that damage and age the skin. But pomegranate oil is also a potent source of punicic acid, an Omega 5 conjugated fatty acid, beneficial phytoestrogen and a rare plant based source of CLA.

A new study from the University of Michigan Medical School, published in the February 2006 Journal of Ethnopharmacology, shows that pomegranate seed oil stimulates keratinocyte proliferation, promoting regeneration of the epidermis. This study joins a growing body of research supporting the benefits of pomegranate seed oil as a skin treatment, including a South Dakota State University study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food that showed that a topical application of pomegranate seed oil significantly decreased the incidence of skin cancer in mice that had been exposed to cancer causing chemicals.

Clear Travel on the Road with Lancôme

Clear luggage may be the next TSA travel security rule but until then here's this clear bag with the best of Lancome for every skin type. Try it out for little money and big results!
Lancome Five Piece Travel Kit 5 Piece SetLancome Five Piece Travel Kit 5 Piece Set
Take your skincare regime on the road with out all the mess and hassle of your full size bottles. This exclusive set from Lancôme includes: Clarifiance Purifying Foaming Face Gel (1 fl oz.); Effacil Cleansing Lotion for the Eyes (0.57 fl oz.); Clarifiance Gentle Alcohol Free Astringent (0.50 fl oz.); Galatee Cleansing Milk (0.50 fl oz.) and an Empreinte de Beaute Deep Cleansing Mask with Rapid Action (0.25 fl oz.) This set is perfect for vacations or to try out new products.You save: 43%!

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Hilary Duff With Love

"I love wearing a beautiful fragrance and don't feel completely dressed without one," said Hilary Duff. "I love to layer my fragrances with perfumes, bodygels and dusting powders. I am looking forward to working with ElizabethArden's fragrance team to create a product line that is fresh and innovative. A fragrance that everyone will enjoy wearing, including me."

Hilarys new fragrance will be called "With Love"-editor Beauty Bulletin

Radiating Sunshine! With Out the Sun Damage






For some of us the sun isn't as bright in this season. The one thing I don't want to hear is: "Are you okay? ...Feeling sick?" This can happen to me with out some sort of color on my face.

Dust this peaches and cream powder lightly all over your complexion then brush on the apples of your cheeks for a warm, happy glow. The sheer peach shade looks beautiful on all complexions, and the delicate peach scent will leave you radiating sunshine! It also looks great dusted on the eye lids.
Tips and tricks: Sweep the brush across the powder a few times, then tap off any excess. Brush lightly on to the apples of your cheeks in an outward motion. For the final touch, lightly brush all over your complexion