Archives for October 2019

October 28, 2019

Support Your Fellow Mamakind with Mom Culture

 

Mom Culture recognizes the importance of mothers being supported during their transition from womanhood into motherhood and the years ahead. Sarah realized that the resources for mamas of all stages were slim, so she began growing her online community as a place for women to connect. Mom Culture knows the unconditional love you have for your kids. Wouldn’t it be great to receive some in return? Look to Mom Culture for inspiring gifts that extend to dads and teachers as well. We’re all part of the village raising these tiny humans after all!

Gift items include:  Tanks and tees,  Hoodies and outerwear,  Hats and accessories, “Tiny human” apparel,  Drinkware and  Specialty coffees and wines.

The rainbow mama tees were created to honor pregnancy and infant loss and the various routes to motherhood. Rainbow mamas are those who have experienced pregnancy or infant loss and have a subsequent child. Dr. Jessica Zucker, founder of the #IHadAMiscarriage campaign, made these tees with the hope of inspiring conversations about loss and the experience of pregnancy and life after. Mom Culture is privileged to expand our motherhood community by partnering with the #IHadAMiscarriage campaign.

Sarah Komers founded Mom Culture with the belief that although each mom is unique in her own way of parenting, her core values and culture are the same.

About Mom Culture: Sarah Komers founded her lifestyle brand in 2013 taking her sewing hobby to a whole new level. The wife and mom based out of Temecula, CA found herself altering every piece of clothing she owned growing up making everything she wore into her own unique style. Mom Culture focuses on parenting apparel for real moms and dads, which is why you’ll never see a model in their marketing material. In addition to supporting the realities of raising tiny humans, the brand gives back to various organizations to support maternal mental health and moms in need. Mom Culture is also a member of the Female Founder Collective, a network of businesses led by women, supporting women for the purposes of empowerment and impacting communities, both socially and economically.

 

This link will direct you to that charitable page: https://momculture.com/collections/rainbow-mama-rainbow-babe

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October 28, 2019

EZBra Supports Breast Cancer Awareness

 

 

EZBra is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness. EZBra is  a sterile disposable & feminine, all-in-one advanced breast dressing. Its innovative design enhances quality of care in accordance with surgeon post-op requirements, while providing a tailored breast dressing that allows patients to recover with dignity.

EZBra still is donating through the end of the month to BCA organizations to show their support.

Charity information:

  • Consumers will have the opportunity to purchase and donate an EZbra(s) to an organization of their choice and EZbra will donate $3 from every purchase to the selected organization.

The organizations consumers can choose to donate to are as follows:

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October 28, 2019

Healthy Skin. The Beauty of Nature & Power of Science

Most of our lives, we’ve been taught that avoiding all oily substances was the key to healthy skin. But as science continues to advance our understanding of skincare, we now know that oils are actually beneficial for our complexion. When we strip our skin of its natural oils, we lose out on valuable moisture and nutrients that have natural protecting and healing properties.

K-Lab Luxury brings you the power of oil to clean, moisturize and rejuvenate your skin. It’s not your mom’s pore-clogging cooking oil. These natural, botanical products combine science and holistic medicine to bring a healthy balance to your skin.

Kind to Your Skin & Kind to the Earth

  • No shelf-sitting here! Get the skincare that’s freshly made. K&K Skin Products are handmade in a Certified Organic Facility in New Mexico, USA.

  • Uses ingredients you don’t need “WebMD” to understand. Formulas include essential oils, vitamins, herbs and botanicals depending upon the product. No artificial preservatives or fillers!

  • Comes in recyclable packaging. Even their production methods are sustainable.

For more information, visit https://kkskinproducts.com/

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October 28, 2019

Cannabeauty; CBD in Beauty Products

Cannabidiol, popularly known as CBD, is a non-psychoactive component found in marijuana plants. Its association with general wellness and medicinal benefits continues to propel its popularity across the globe. Unlike cannabis sativa’s “high” effect, CBD doesn’t make consumers high, a concept that has seen more people flooding cannabis clinics for CBD’s health benefits.

CBD’s popularity has seen its use being embraced in different industries, among the trending being the beauty field. Today, you will find lots of beauty products listing CBD as one of the active ingredients in their products. Here is a look at popular beauty products you can find here and how CBD helps to improve their performance.

Sleep masks and facial serum

D you wear a sleep mask?  Sleep masks smoothens your skin and make it glow. Wearing overnight, however, can be less effective, especially if you can’t gather enough sleep. Among the known CBD’s benefits is improved sleep, and combined with its antioxidant properties, sleep masks and night creams are more effective with CBD as an active ingredient. As a natural ingredient, the anti-aging serums with CBD improves your skin and overall help as you can get quality sleep, promoting your body’s capability to repair from the day’s wear and tear.

Moisturizers, creams, lotions, and lip gloss and balm

Locking in that moisture works wonders, and with effective moisturizers, you can spot a glowing and smooth skin. With its anti-inflammatory properties, moreover, CBD helps to reduce breakouts, soothe irritated, dry and inflamed skin, not forgetting promoting healthy repair. These features help you to comfortably maintain a healthier and smoother skin for long, allowing you to maintain a glowing and youthful look.

Shampoo, bath bombs, and conditioners

Taking a bath allows you to relax and achieve a calm feeling after a long day at work. Among the popular CBD’s health benefits is anxiety management, and including it in your bath goes a long way in achieving a longer-lasting relaxation and calm feeling, a primary reason it is included in bath bombs. Conditioners, shampoos, and other hair products also deliver CBD’s qualities, promoting healthier hair growth.

CBD beauty products also offer additional benefits such as its anti-bacterial properties and are rich in vitamins A, C, and E.  The vitamins stimulate collagen as well as cells responsible for healthy skin, ensuring that the skin remains firm. With a range of beauty products with CBD to choose from, you no longer have a reason to try the trending cannabeauty.

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October 23, 2019

Five Way “Over The Shoulder” Essential For Women On The Move – MotoChic

We love this bag!

The Valerie is the perfect accessory for taking your essentials with you. This stylish and versatile bag can be worn in 5 different ways: cross-body, hand, shoulder, waist or around the wrist. Six card slots and an interior zippered pocket with custom moto print ensure speedy access to all of your necessities.  MotoChic is a San Francisco-based lifestyle brand that combines leading-edge design with innovative materials to create Stylish Gear for Women on the Move. Travelers, professionals, and life enthusiasts will find what they need in MotoChic.  MotoChic answers the need for high quality, design-conscious clothing, and accessories for women with fast-paced lifestyles.
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October 23, 2019

Lucky Chick Creamy Matte Lipsticks Made from Coffee Oil

 Coffee oil is a little known beauty secret in the world of essential oils. It’s made from extracting residual oil from coffee beans. Lucky Chick’s creamy matte formula uses coffee oil as a key ingredient. Your favorite morning pick-me-up as an essential oil has multiple benefits for skin including your lips.

Lucky Chick’s ultimate one swipe application does more than leave a beautiful color behind. Here’s how coffee oil can improve your lips:

  • Prevents dehydration

  • Softens skin

  • Smoothes skin

In addition to using natural oils instead of chemicals, Lucky Chick’s products are vegan, cruelty-free, paraben-free, peg free, D-5 free, gluten-free and made in the USA.

For more information, visit https://luckychick.com/

About Lucky Chick: Stephanie Sakoff Miklosvary founded Lucky Chick in 1999 as she was putting her art degree to work as a shoe designer in New York City. Nicknamed “Lucky Chick” by a friend for living in her LC (Lobby C) apartment, she decided to create a persona around her new name inspired by life’s indulgences. Each color from this cosmetics brand is precisely picked from the painting of the Poppy flower created by the founder’s mother. Given a project to create a painting every day as a meditation while she was going through breast cancer treatment, Stephanie’s Mom turned it into a collection of inspiring creations. The entire brand is rooted in art, grounded in nature and blossoming with color. Ignite your own creativity with some artistic and highly pigmented colors that range from deep reds and oranges, pinks and calming nudes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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October 22, 2019

7 Essential Beauty Treatments For The Holiday Season

 

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year are all right around the corner, so what does that mean? It’s party season! And you want to look your best, right? Now it’s got colder, and the weather has gone a bit miserable, you need something to look forward to, and you’re going to want to look perfect, but with minimal effort. With so many parties and occasions, you want to be able to transition from day to night, from office to party, and not have to do the whole regime for every occasion, and with just a little bit of prep in advance, you can do this. Just book yourself in for the following treatments now, and you’ll be set. 

 

Manicure and Pedicure

It’s simple, it’s a classic, but it’s necessary. Get some festive colors on because it’s good to get in the spirit of things Glitter or red or silver or gold; you get the idea. Either go matching on your fingers and toes or go wild and get different on both, one standout finger or add some sparkle on there too. 

 

Permanent Makeup

How amazing would it be to wake up in the morning and have your eyebrows, lip liner, eyeliner, and lipstick already on? Imagine the time you’d save, not to mention how good you’d look. Getting permanent makeup tattooed on is a popular procedure to have, and it can be a lifesaver when you have finished work and need to get changed in the loos to go straight out. 

 

Perfect Teeth

Think of all those photos you’ll be taking. If you’re conscious about your teeth, then consider teeth whitening or dental implants so that you feel at your very best.

 

Eyelash and Eyebrow Tinting

If your eyeliner and lipstick are already on then, then you may as well treat yourself to some Natural-looking Brows and get your eyelashes tinted too to complete the look. It’s incredible the difference this can make when you’re feeling exhausted from a long day at work or a party the night before. 

 

Visit A Hair Salon

Before the holiday season is here, make sure you visit the hairdresser, even if it’s just to get a trim. Book it as soon as you can as it’s their busiest time of year.

 

Laser Hair Removal

If you start going for this treatment now, then eventually you won’t have to go anymore. Getting laser hair removal means you can say goodbye to shaving, tweezing, waxing and hair removal creams, and you can remove unwanted hair from the face, leg, arm, underarm, bikini line and you should be able to enjoy permanent hair loss after an average of three to seven sessions.

 

Fake Tan

Whether you do it yourself or you book in for a spray tan at a beauty salon, it’s good to do this because it’s cold and wintery, and it’s good to have a bit of color. Again it works well for the next day, helps if you have your legs out, and gives you that bit more confidence. 

 

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October 22, 2019

M∙A∙C Cosmetics Launches Holiday ‘Starring You’ Collection

This holiday, M·A·C Cosmetics plays with a classic symbol of the celebratory season with its Starring You collection, taking the twinkling star in all-new directions – on packaging, in a glittering lineup of products and kits, and in dazzling new looks. More than just the inspiration behind shimmering hues, the star is YOU. A legendary lineup for eyes, lips and face encourages everyone to create, make a name for themselves and claim center stage.

“Upon working with the Starring You collection, the first word that came to my mind was ‘opulent,'” said Fatima Thomas, M·A·C Senior Artist. “The finishes are reflective, varying from moderate frost to high-beam metallic, and apply smoothly. The colour palette is sophisticated and urbane. After the predominantly fiery coppers and rusts of SS19, it’s refreshing to create looks with rich plums, pinots, irons and garnets laced with sparkle.”

In the new collection, stars are born this holiday season. All-new glitter-coated Kiss Of Stars Lipstick serves subtle glam or full-on glitz with creamy, eye-catching shimmer in six shades. Newly returned Spellbinder Shadow is another must-have, with magnetically charged ionized pigments that cling to eye lids. Four deep velvety shades provide intense, dimensional colour payoff. For Pro-worthy application, Thomas suggests starting with a layer of Prep + Prime 24-Hour Extend Eye Base, then spritzing Prep + Prime Fix + onto a brush loaded with Spellbinder Shadow before patting onto lids.

The color collection also stars six high-shine Lipglass hues, two Opalescent Powders for the face, one Powerpoint Eye Pencil, one lush Lash set and one Star Studs lip adornment – all in limited-edition glimmering packaging.

M∙A∙C Cosmetics will also have 33 holiday gift sets priced into four tiers, so there’s something to leave everyone on your list star-struck, including the Stars Of Skincare Kit or the Star-Dipped Face Compact for the complexion-obsessed, the Starlit Lip Bag or the 12-piece Taste Of Stardom Mini Lipstick Kit for the lip lover and an Advent Calendar or Collector Of The Stars Kit, featuring 20 coveted full-sized lip shades. Collectable pouches, special packaging and limited-edition shades secure A-list gifting status.

Products are available starting now at all M∙A∙C locations and online. Visit maccosmetics.com to learn more about the Starring You Collection.

 

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October 22, 2019

A Guide To Becoming An Empowering Feminist

Feminism gets a lot of flack these days, but that flack usually comes from people who do not understand it. Contrary to popular belief, feminists do not want to rule over men (and those that do would be considered extremists). Feminists simply wish to be equal to men, and no matter how many people shout that we don’t need feminism anymore because we are equal, are wrong. Women still get paid less for doing the same job. Women are still being harrassed day in, day out, both on the street and at work. Women are still being treated entirely differently to how men would be treated in similar situations, meaning they have to work harder to be noticed in the workplace. In other parts of the world, women are even being forced to marry men they don’t want to marry, and genital mutilation is rife. You can become a feminist whatever gender you identify with – below, we’ll quickly tell you how! 

Make Sure Your Feminism Is Inclusive

Inclusivity means feminism for women of every color and nationality, for those with disabilities and those who may have transitioned. You can’t be feminist if your feminism is only cis-gendered, able bodied, and white. 

Learn As Much As You Can About Women’s Struggles

Read books and listen to podcasts. Watch videos, and follow famous activists. Educate yourself. The infographic below can give you a brief idea of women in theater, helping you to see how this is one industry still dominated by men (no, men aren’t just ‘better’). Spread the word! 

 

 


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October 22, 2019

Places Where A Portable Water Purification System Is Handy

The human body comprises roughly 80% by weight as water and every healthy person needs to have a sufficient intake of water to maintain good health.  Thus the importance of water to drink cannot be stressed enough at this juncture. What is still more important is to have a safe source of water to drink as well; as this is one component that can be polluted at the slightest instance.  

One of the positive properties of water is that it can dissolve a large number of substances and if something is mixed with it, at the very least, it forms a colloid. It is this attribute that makes water one of the most sought after components to be purified.  The impurities need to be removed from the body of water before it can be safely consumed. Some impurities of water can cause illness and even prove to be fatal in nature.  

Places Where a Water Purification System Is Useful 

  • Sports activity 

During the sporting activity, the sportsmen tend to sweat a lot. It is thus natural that a safe source of water is identified to replenish the body as it is drained of the material.  Most sporting arenas have a system to deliver safe drinking water to the participants and it would be convenient to access them too. 

Often with the sportsmen, a clean source of water is important but at the same time additives need to be used with the water to make it suited to the high-intensity activity that most modern-day sports happen to be.  It is possible to have ready mix components as well as additives to serve this purpose. 

  • Educational institutions  

One of the most common places where a portable water purification system would come in handy is in the schools and colleges where children and adolescence study.  A good part of the activities in educational institutions is physical in nature. Thus people tend to lose a lot of fluids most of the time. A portable source of water would help the students remain hydrated right throughout the day.  

A common feature with educational institutions is that they tend to be rather well spread out in area thus this would be an ideal situation to have a portable purification system to use. Fill2Pure water purification systems have proven to be portable as well as practical to use. It is thus a suitable option to be used in schools and colleges at a reasonable cost too. 

  • Outdoor physical activity 

The outdoors is an area that is usually flooded with sunlight during the day times. Most people and nature enthusiasts, in particular, tend to spend a lot of time out in the sun on trekking trails and other physical activity. It would be convenient to have a portable water purification system to care of the needs for water at this juncture. 

It is possible that most outdoor locations would have some water source or the other. But they could hardly be termed as being potable water if at all. Thus a portable solution to turn the water drinkable would be welcomed by one and all. 

  • Disaster sites 

Calamities are part and parcel of everyday life and there can be no more acute a need than to have sufficient clean and clear drinking water all the time. No matter the location of the disaster, there has always been felt the need to provide the affected people with clean drinking water to start with. Most disaster management teams would stress the need to have a clean water line running as soon as possible when they first reach the site. 

A portable water purification system helps as it is a source of a continuous flow of potable water. The water can be generated at the instance that it is required and not be stored for use. With water storage systems, they tend to be rather bulky to handle and also chances of the water getting further contaminated cannot be ruled out completely. 

  • For home use 

A lot of people might not consider having portable water purification systems at the homes but it is an essential requirement as it could well turn out to be.  It helps people that move out of the homes to go to work as it is a ready source of drinkable water all the time. Not everyone’s office is the same and there are people that need help to secure a clean source of drinking water at the places of work. 

Conclusion 

As far as a portable water purification system is concerned, it needs to do three things. Firstly it needs to remove any suspended particles. Then it needs to remove any dissolved substances from the water and lastly it needs to free the water from disease causing bacteria. There are a number of solutions that handle these actions all rolled into a single canister and they are the current in demand water purification solutions. 

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