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Think Pink this October …. Brands Giving Back for Breast Cancer Awareness
From your face to your feet, you can still look your best while supporting a worthy cause. These perfectly pink products are helping to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Each brand will donate a portion of proceeds in the month of October to fighting breast cancer. Nothing like doing a little shopping for a good cause!
MUSELY HYDROGEL BYE BYE EYE BAGS – 50% TO THE YOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION $39 (box of 10), musely.com These FIRST-TO-MARKET overnight hydrogel eye masks soothes and cools the skin while the prickly pear seed oil brightens under eye circles. The masks are specially designed to have holes that can trap liquid and slowly release them to the skin overnight. Antioxidant-dense cucumber fruit extract works to counteract the signs of environmental damage.
BABY FOOT PINK RIBBON BOX – 10% TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY $25, www.BabyFoot.com Baby Foot is a revolutionary Japanese foot exfoliant that will make your feet as smooth and soft as a baby’s foot. The unique formula allows your feet to exfoliate naturally, leaving them highly moisturized. The gentle fruit acid penetrates into the layers of dead skin cells and breaks down the desmosomes, which hold the layers together. After peeling, your feet are reborn just like a baby’s foot, giving you healthy, beautiful feet.
STERLING FOREVER “THINK PINK” – 20% TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 14K ROSE GOLD PLATED PINK CZ SOLITAIRE RING
$48, www.SterlingForever.com This beautiful vintage style rose gold ring houses a candy-colored pink 7mm CZ solitaire stone and is surrounded on each side by sparkling CZ paves. Feminine and unique, this ring is available in sizes 5-10.
BELLA SCHNEIDER ROYAL ROSE STEM CELL MASK– 20% TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY $55, www.labelledayspas.com
This ultra-hydrating and divinely scented mask instantly hydrates, calms, brightens, and replenishes skin. Moisturizing and nourishing shea & jojoba, soothing rose oil, anti-oxidizing mallow, and strengthening grape cell extract restore skin with added youthfulness, plumpness, and health. Wonderful for all skin types.
Cheeky Physique’s Shimmer Sleek Firming Body Illuminator Gives Back to Breast Cancer Awareness
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, *Cheeky Physique will donate 20% of sales of their diamond powder infused Firming Body Illuminator to support **Bright Pink, the only national non-profit focused on the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer in young women. Bright Pink has quickly become one of the country’s fastest growing non-profit organizations, impacting and saving thousands of lives each day.
Shimmer and shine as you soak up this wonderfully scented firming body illuminator. This unique body cream visibly blurs imperfections and brings out the radiance of your natural skin tone. It has done wonders for my arms as my skin was transformed from parched to supple within minutes. You can see the pearly white cream ready to work its magic with the first pump full. Use Shimmer Sleek on your arms, legs, face, shoulders and Décolleté for a luxurious feel. Cheeky Physique Shimmer Sleek is formulated with PURE DIAMOND POWDER, PEPTIDE COMPLEX and CAFFEINE…What exactly do these 3 ingredients do for your skin?
*Caffeine is known to smooth skin and produce better skin tone.
*Peptides once applied topically to the skin can send a signal to collagen to prompt the formation of new collagen resulting in youthful skin.
*Pure Diamond Powder nourishes and exfoliates the skin.
Cheeky Physique’s Limited Edition Pink Ribbon Shimmer Sleek Firming Body Illuminator benefitting **Bright Pink retails for $46.00 for 4 oz. and is available for purchase at cheekyphysique.com.
*About Cheeky Physique
Cheeky Physique is a San Diego-based beauty brand that creates results-driven body care products for women who want to look their best with minimal effort. With a philosophy of “More results, less work,” their products are developed to help maximize your assets while minimizing trouble spots…all, in less time than it takes to pour a glass of champagne. The secret? They’ve combined the most effective natural ingredients with clinically proven actives for visible results in all the right places. And since they like their “beauty cheats” to be guilt-free, their products are proudly cruelty free and formulated without parabens, phthalates, sulfates, petroleum, or mineral oil. The Cheeky Physique collection is available in select spas, salons, catalogs, and beauty retailers, as well as online at CheekyPhysique.com
**About Bright Pink
Bright Pink is the only national non-profit focused on the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer in young women. The organization is on a mission to save women’s lives from these diseases by empowering them to live proactively at a young age. Bright Pink’s innovative education and support programs educate and equip young women to develop personalized strategies to reduce their risk for these diseases or detect them at early, non life-threatening stages. Learn more and brighten up on breast and ovarian health at BrightPink.org.
Today is National Love your hair day
October 10th is National Love Your Hair Day, the day for all people to stop fussing about their hair problems and embrace their locks as a unique, diverse form of self-expression. Whether you have tameless curls, sleek hair, mermaid colors or beachy waves, this holiday is the day to look yourself in the mirror and say, “This is my hair, and I love it!”
To celebrate, I’ve rounded up It’s a 10 Haircare’s best all-inclusive hair products that celebrate all types of hair and perfect unique styles instantly, so everyone can feel like a “10” on 10/10!
Healing Soles
After eight rounds of chemotherapy treatment and a double mastectomy, Stephanie Seager was still working 10-hour days as one of the top loan closers at a title company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She loved her job, but it was stressful, and it took her away from her 6-year-old daughter, 5-month-old son and high school sweetheart of a husband. And after surviving one of the more aggressive subsets of breast cancer, the 35-year-old truly understood how short life could be.
During a visit home, she heard her aunt talking nonstop about a new beauty product called Baby Foot that she was distributing. An innovative foot care product that launched in Japan, Baby Foot makes feet as smooth and soft as a baby’s foot by exfoliating dead skin cells. After returning home, Seager called her aunt to see how she could get involved.
“She was starting at the ground level trying to get it going here, so I had her send me some,” Seager says. “People were buying it like hotcakes at my work. ‘There’s something to this,’ I thought. ‘This is crazy how people feel about this product.’ I got passionate about it quickly, too.”
Spirited, striking and strong, Seager had always been a natural saleswoman. When she worked as a server after high school, patrons would wait for hours for to sit at one of her tables, even if there were other seats available in the restaurant. Even in the midst of cancer treatment, she charming, confident and cheerful.
“Before cancer, I didn’t know what I was capable of, though,” Seager says. “I never had the courage to think I could do something like this.”
She served at the title company for 15 years — and lived two years cancer-free — before she resigned and became one of Baby Foot’s first sales consultants.
One of her first calls was to a health club that had recently opened in town. She spoke with a manager, told him about Baby Foot and sent him a few samples, but she didn’t hear back from him. Two weeks later, her phone rang. They wanted to carry Baby Foot nationwide. “Nationwide?” Seager asked. “What do you mean?” Unbeknownst to Seager, Life Time Fitness has more than 150 locations across the country.
Although anyone can benefit from the foot peel, some of Seager’s most passionate customers are cancer survivors. One of the side effects of targeted cancer therapy drugs is dry skin. Skin can become dry, brittle, itchy and scaly and may even crack open, especially on the feet.
“Using Baby Foot is really satisfying,” says Shannon Baldwin, a fellow breast cancer survivor. “Plus, it was something I could do with my girls. There are a lot of things you can’t do with your kids. But we’d sit there and do Baby Foot. It made us forget we were in the middle of cancer. It was a lot of fun.”
A national sponsor of the American Cancer Society, Baby Foot is donating 10 percent of proceeds from its limited edition pink boxes to the American Cancer Society during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
“This is going to sound crazy, but [getting cancer] was the best thing that ever happened to me,” Seager says. “Well, it was the worst thing but best thing because it completely changed my life.”
Now that Seager is self-employed, she has a much better work-life balance. “I’m so focused on my family,” she says. “I don’t stress in the mornings. I can make eggs and toast. I don’t miss any of my son’s stuff at school — I’m a homeroom mom! — or any of my daughter’s softball games. I’m making up for lost time.”
Elizabeth Arden’s White Tea
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Elizabeth Arden White Tea is inspired by the simple pleasure that accompanies the first sip of tea. Exquisitely uncomplicated, this new fragrance invites you to revel in the moment.
A musky-woody floral, it preludes with sparkling Italian Mandarin and sensual Sea Breeze Accord. Its Zen-like heart of White Tea Extract and Mate Absolute Paraguay steeps in graceful femininity while Madras Wood, Ambrette Seed Absolute and a Trio of Tranquility Musks lead to a harmonious finale. For the woman who wants to immerse herself in the moment.
White Tea is a crisp, blissful new addition to the Elizabeth Arden fragrance portfolio. The perfect escape for your senses, it is an invitation to indulge in warm memories and delight in the white tea vapors, blue skies and cotton-like clouds.
Did you know?
White Tea is not rolled or oxidized, resulting in a flavour characterized as "lighter" than green or traditional black teas. White Tea generally includes young or minimally processed leaves.
Launched just this year, Elizabeth Arden's White Tea fragrance captures the simplicity and purity of White Tea (as described above). It's an intoxicating but not overpowering blend with a White Tea core and notes of citrus and wood. The fragrance is very zen-like. I love it! I wore it yesterday, today and it is sitting front and center on my bedside vanity tray for a light spray before bed tonight. Thank you Donna Raheb for introducing me to this fine fragrance.
It’s OCTOBER and a great time to enter It’s a Glam Thing’s Surprise Beauty Box Giveaway
One lucky winner will receive an It’s a Glam Thing Beauty Box™ (valued at over $200.00). Your Beauty Box™ will include the newest, most unique, tested and true beauty products that we love and adore. Each box will include a selection of Full Size products chosen especially for you from our team of beauty experts. Enter today!
Baby Foot is working hard this month to promote breast cancer awareness with their limited edition Pink Box. Baby Foot is an all natural foot exfoliant containing 17 natural extracts that help get your feet back to looking and feeling like baby feet. Ten percent of proceeds from their limited edition pink box will be donated to the American Cancer Society. Retail is $25 at www.BabyFoot.com.
Nicknamed “Genius in a Jar,” Mirakle Cream is the secret recipe of Natalya Rachkova, an Uzbekistanian aesthetician with 29 years experience. With the perfect blend of nature and science, Mirakle Cream is a one-stop, skin-saving, problem-solving, all purpose cream that cures over 25 ailments and counting. Handcrafted with love and natural ingredients such as beeswax, coconut oil, sea buckthorn, shea butter, cocoa butter, aloe and soothing algae to help moisturize, soften, balance and brighten skin. Perfect for day or night. Throughout October, they will be donating 20% of their October sales to the American Cancer Society as well. Retail is $34 for 2 fl. oz jar at www.TheBetterSkinCo.com.
Give Your Natural Curls Life
Taking care of your natural hair is time consuming and tough. You must be militant like with your hair care so your curls will look fresh and defined. You know what I mean? Each and every night you must allow at least 30 minutes prior to bedtime so you can lock, detangle, twist/braid etc. your hair. You have to be diligent for those fresh curls, or do you? Well, let me tell you about this product Mixed Chick’s Morning After Redefining Foam. This foam is just what us curly girls need in our lives. We can actually come home late and go to bed! Yass, I said go to bed, no need to worry about those curls. When you get up the next morning all you have to do is apply a generous amount of Morning After Redefining Foam into hair and boom, your curls are back! It gives your curls a reboot and you didn’t have to cut into your night time activities. Your curls will be reshaped and ready for the day. Check it out, https://mixedchicks.net/products/hair-products/style-control/morning-after-redefining-foam-8oz/. Give your flat, lifeless curls life!
A Glamorous Chat With Top Model Sharam Diniz
Sharam Diniz has come a long way since growing up and starting her modeling career in a small town in Luanda, Angola, Southwest Africa. Now in her mid-twenties, Sharam is walking the runways for the world top designers, being showcased at multiple Victoria’s Secret fashion shows, starring in campaigns for Chanel, Tom Ford, Ralph Lauren, Seven For All Mankind and Clinique, and to top it all off, becoming the first Angolan model to appear on the cover of Vogue Magazine. Not a bad resume!!!
With her career continuing to become more and more successful, Sharam is in the midst of launching her own hair extension product line and helping to work with other young models to advise them on their careers.
It’s A Glam Thing sat down with Sharam out of her current home in New York City to find out more about her own style, her favorite trends & career moments, and what goals are next.
NICK NORTHSTAR: How would you describe your own personal style – both while at home and while out in public / on the red carpet?
SHARAM DINIZ: I have a very versatile style. I like feeling confident with whatever I’m wearing. I consider myself a little lazy as well, when it comes to putting a whole look together so usually I wear dresses or jumpsuits, which are easy-to-go pieces, or simply jeans and sneakers whenever I’m traveling. When it comes to red carpets or galas, I mostly wear gowns.
NN: What are some of your favorite beauty products that you use to get red-carpet ready?
SD: Lots of mascara. Lip gloss is also key, as a dry lip can ruin your night and a smile always.
NN: As a model, who are some of your favorite fashion designers?
SD: I love feeling chic, elegant and sexy… some of my favorite designers are: Balmain, Carolina Herrera, Versace and Roberto Cavalli.
NN: What is your favorite Instagram filter? Or #NoFilter?
SD: It depends, but I usually embrace the colors of the images, I would say the filter I use the most is 50% of “Claredon” and 5% of sharpen.
NN: What Top 3 Fashion Trends do you LOVE right now?
SD: The short hair trend… I just did a hair cut and I’m loving it. I’m also a big fan of hats and in terms of make up the ‘natural look’.
NN: Out of all your runways & campaigns, which were your favorite to be a part of?
SD: Calzedonia and Victoria’s Secret, for the simple fact that as models we could interact more with the public and be ourselves.
NN: What is your advice to other models in Angola that want to come to the United States and pursue a full-time career in modeling?
SD: I would say once you find a good agency, stay focused and dedicated because it is a very competitive market. If you “fall asleep” it is hard to get up again, but most important of all, enjoy the ride.
NN: What is your definition of “Glam”?
SD: Glam for me means beauty and elegance.
NN: How does the style in New York compare to that in Hollywood and Angola?
SD: I feel like New York is everything about art and fashion, Hollywood can be more “chilled” and Angola even though is a tropical country, during the day people might be seen in comfortable looks but in the evening women change completely, that’s one thing you should know about Angolan women, we are vain.
NN: What are your goals for the next few years?
SD: Acting is still my dream and I am continuing in developing my hairline extension brand “Sharam Hair” in different markets such as America, Europe and Africa.
For more on Sharam, follow her on Instagram at: @sharamdiniz
Pamper Your Dog With Custom Designed and Created Celebrity Canine Couture by Christine Litteral
ENJOY A SAMPLING VIEW OF SOME OF THE CELEBRITY CANINE COUTURE CREATIONS BELOW:
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2. VICKI: What’s ‘your’ favorite part of your business?
CHRISTINE: Meeting our clients – the dogs and their people. I get to know their lifestyles and the special times they share together.
Seeing how great the dogs look in all the different designs, fabrics and colors and knowing the dog is comfortable is very rewarding. I’ve made many dear friends and think of them while I’m sewing to make each outfit special for them.
4. VICKI: What inspires you?
CHRISTINE: My visits to the shelters always stay with me – all the dogs that need homes. That’s what keeps me going, doing my part to help as many as possible find a loving home.
By the way, Christine also works with celebrities and offers