November 25, 2015

IT’s Your Cyber Monday Deal Come True from IT Cosmetics!

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Available for one day only on November 30, 2015, Your Wish-List Tote features four full sizes of your favorites in a luxe carryall. It’s an absolute must-get at an incredible Cyber-Monday price of $49 (valued at $123).
Your Wish-List Tote includes:
· Tightline™ Full Lash Length Black Mascara Primer: The award-winning game-changer that is your lash primer, mascara and Tightline™ liner in one.

· CC+™ Radiance Ombre` Blush Color Correcting + Anti-Aging Blushing Veil in Je Ne Sais Quoi: Your gorgeous flush of vitality-filled pink, radiance and color correction sweeps on your face beautifully.

· Naturally Pretty Eyeshadow Trio Luxe High-Performance Eyeshadow with Age Reverse and Prevent in Pretty in Smoke: An ultra-luxe shadow combo is packed with skin- and lid-loving ingredients that are high-performance and last all day.

· Vitality Lip Flush Butter Gloss with Anti-Aging Collagen, Peptides and Antioxidants in Joyful: This super-hydrating, lip gloss and serum combination is your lips’ sheer, naturally pretty flush of rich pink.

itcosmetics.com/cybermonday-it-girl-exclusive

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November 25, 2015

Get Glam This Holiday Season with CeraVe

NOTHING SAYS “TIS THE SEASON” LIKE HEALTHY LOOKING SKIN (AND SHIMMERING ACCESSORIES!)

The holiday season is upon us and for most people that means a jam-packed calendar. Transitioning from day to night for festive party after party may be required, but it doesn’t have to leave you looking as tired as you may feel. Here are a few tips to help you look your best:

Tip No.1 – Moisturize and Repair

· The foundation of any great look is a healthy looking complexion. Get a head start on your day by maximizing time the night before, when skin is less available to the elements and environment. Apply CeraVe® Skin Renewing Cream Serum and CeraVe® Skin Renewing Night Cream to your face and neck before bed. The products in this duo each help to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and repair and restore the skin barrier, so you can wake up to skin that looks refreshed and renewed.

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· CeraVe® Skin Renewing Cream Serum contains an encapsulated 1% retinol and ceramide complex to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles without the harsh effects of most other retinols. CeraVe® Skin Renewing Night Cream was designed to work with the circadian rhythm of your skin to soften and renew the look of tired looking skin overnight. Both contain essential ceramides, hyaluronic acid and niacinamide. They each feature patented MVE® technology to control the release of valuable ingredients into the skin over time.

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Tip No.2 – Exfoliate regularly

Don’t skip exfoliation, it better prepares skin for essential hydration by sloughing off dead skin cells while cleansing. Try CeraVe® Renewing SA Cleanser which contains ceramides, Vitamin D, and salicylic acid (SA) to exfoliate and detoxify to remove dirt and oil, while softening and smoothing skin. Remember, the goal of effective cleansing is to remove dirt, excess oils, and dead skin cells without causing irritation. Unlike many exfoliating cleansers, CeraVe® Renewing SA Cleanser doesn’t contain harsh beads or gains so it gently cleanses and helps restore the skin’s natural barrier

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Tip No.3 – Create an effortlessly beautiful hairstyle
· A smooth ponytail is an easy, yet chic work and party appropriate style. To ensure your ponytail looks polished, smooth pesky flyaways. Simply spray a reusable mascara wand with hairspray. Then, comb the wand over the hairline once the ponytail is set, especially in front of the ears and at the nape of the neck for a sophisticated, rather than sporty look.

Tip No 4. – Shine bright

· Embrace the holiday spirit and add a touch of shimmer to your look with a bold clutch, glitter-filled nail polish or swipe of metallic eye shadow. With this added touch, no one will confuse “office you” with “party you.”
Follow these simple tips and smile as you bite into your 100th-holiday cookie, knowing you look your best!

· CeraVe® Skin Renewing Cream Serum (1.0 oz. tube) and CeraVe® Skin Renewing Night Cream (1.7 oz. jar) are available at Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, and Target with an SRP of $17.99 each.
· CeraVe® Renewing SA Cleanser (8 oz. bottle) is available at Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, and Target with an SRP of $12.99.

For more information, please visit: www.cerave.com or www.valeant.com.

About Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America LLC:

Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America LLC, is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of pharmaceutical products primarily in the areas of dermatology, eye health, consumer healthcare and other pharmaceutical products.

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November 23, 2015

Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals from your favorite beauty products

BLACK FRIDAY SALES

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Scentbird & Scentbird Men – $5 Off 1 gift box or $30 off 3 Scentbird Giftboxes from 11/26/15 – 11/30/15

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Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics – Free U.S. Ground Shipping for $50 or more. Also launching F/W collection “ Asphalt World” on Black Friday at occmakeup.com (more details to come on the new collection)

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Love With Food – All subscriptions will be 15% off on Black Friday.

 

CYBER MONDAY SALES

Scentbird & Scentbird Men – $5 Off 1 gift box or $30 off 3 Scentbird Giftboxes from 11/26/15 – 11/30/15
Love With Food – All subscriptions will be 15% off on Cyber Monday.
L. – Offering buy one, get one free site-wide!
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics – Original packaging Lip Tar is only $5.00 on Cyber Monday
Color Me – Receive Color Me’s silver travel pouch plus a set of Pro Edition Universal Sponges, free gift ($22 value) with Pro Edition Applicator purchase!

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November 17, 2015

Duri Cosmetics Offers ​a Helping Hand to Paris

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The world over are showing their solidarity with the people of Paris by overlaying the colors of the French flag on their Facebook profile pictures and other social media. Now beauty mavens can unite and wave hands (and toes) in unity.

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Duri Cosmetics encourages showing support with a “high ten” manicure customized with their 3-Free, chip resistant, long lasting nail polishes. Wave the flag with a coat of Baton Rouge Blue (a humble periwinkle), I Do (solid white), and Parisian Tango (a pigmented brave red) At $6 each an effortless way to pay respects and show support.Très beau!

 

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November 16, 2015

Seven Most Important Things to Consider When Choosing A Watch

 

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So many to options!

When you walk into a shop with all kinds of watches – different brands, different styles and designs, different features – it can be pretty difficult to make a choice. This is especially true if you are buying a watch for someone else because you have the added pressure of choosing what they would like.

Some people sweat the small stuff when making final decisions on a watch. They get caught up in the number of jewels inside, which doesn’t really change the value or function of the watch. Alternatively, they could get hang up on movement details that may not be important unless you are buying a unique watch or one that costs over $10,000.

What’s really important…

So we’ll look at seven of the most important elements you should consider when buying a watch.

  1. Price

The best way not to get confused in a shop is to decide how much you are willing to spend on the watch. If you want to get a luxury watch, you should plan to spend well over $1,000. You can also get good watches for between $300 and $700, or simpler fashion and sports watches for $60 to $200. Once you determine your price limit, you can go ahead and look at the other features.

  1. Brand

There are watch brands that are better known and more trusted than others given their history of quality products. Checking the brand is especially important when buying luxury watches since there tends to be knock-off watches carrying the brand name.

Ask around about the manufacturer on internet forums, or friends and family who own the brands you are thinking about.

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  1. Store

You can buy a watch from the internet or an actual store. The choice should be based on the kind of watch. For luxury watches, you can get new and used ones from specialist online stores.

  1. Style

This refers to your personal style (or the one you’re buying the watch for) as well as the style of the watch. There are three basic styles: Dress watches, designer watches and sports watches. You can choose any of them depending on the person and the occasion for the watch.

  1. Size

The rule is, the bigger you are, the bigger the face of the watch should be and vice versa. Proportion is important.

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  1. Life expectancy

The watch should serve you for as long as possible without too many visits to the repair shop. Mechanical watches tend to have this quality and their parts can be found easily which is not the case for quartz watches.

  1. Maintenance requirements

The kind of maintenance needed will be determined by the kind of watch you get. Mechanical watches need servicing every three years, quartz range between two to five years for battery replacements while watches running on LID batteries can run up to 10 years.

Author Bio:

David Kuttner is a photographer, writer, and a father. When he’s not busy writing, he’s most likely spending time with his wife and their two mischievous dogs, Lily and Bart. He is also a self-styled luxury watch connoisseur with a small collection of used pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

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November 13, 2015

Create “Stunning Braids” and Hair Styles this holiday season

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Don’t wait until after the holidays for stunning braids, Monae’ Everett’s book, Stunning Hair Braids, will teach you step-by-step, how to create fabulous and stylish hairstyles. You will look amazing this holiday season with looks like the “Vintage Hair Cheat”, “Queen Bee” and “Knotted Updo”, all shown above. Following the easy step-by-step instructions, my daughter created this “Side Braid Pony” and is currently working on her next look.

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Stunning Braids is designed for all hair types. The are easy and fun to create.  This DIY guide was written by New York City celebrity hairstylist Monaé Everett and  “presents easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photos for creating beautiful looks”. With over 20 stylish braids and Hair-dos to choose from, you will also learn the prep work for some of these intricate hair creations.

Stunning Braids also has a chapter explaining different types of styling equipment needed and braiding preps. Everything you need to know is right in the book. I even created a hairstyle from Sunning Braids and if I can do ityou definitely can too! What are you waiting for? Start practicing your Stunning Braids. Get you copy at Amazon today.

 

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November 12, 2015

Exciting news from DOVE: Dove Love Your Curls Emojis

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Have you ever taken a close look at your Emoji keyboard and noticed that one very popular hair type is missing? If you are part of the 1 in 3 women in the U.S. with curly hair, chances are you have.

Today, Dove Hair will put an end to this #CurlyHairProb by launching the Dove Love Your Curls Emojis. This is an extension of Dove Hair’s Love Your Curls mission, and is a Global launch with a purpose – to help women and girls embrace and love their curls by ensuring they see accurate reflections of their hair in their everyday lives.

· 1 in 3 women in the U.S. have curly hair, and 74% of people in the U.S. report using Emojis daily. Yet there continues to be no representation of curly hair available in the Unicode Emoji keyboard.

· While Emojis are diversifying (as evidenced by the last update), there is still a “one size fits all” for hair – straight and sleek, the traditional beauty ideal. Reports on the next round of Emojis to be added to the official keyboard still do not include curly hair, either.

· Knowing it takes extensive time to petition Unicode to update its keyboard, Dove Hair will offer an immediate solution for all of the curly women and girls who currently have no accurate representation of their hair when “speaking” in the increasingly common social language of Emojis.

· How to get the Dove Love Your Curls Emojis:

Available for free download in the App Store or Google Play (this Smart-URL: http://bit.ly/DoveKB will direct users to the correct app store based on their device)
· Additionally, today, Dove Hair will kick off a partnership with Twitter, so every time someone tweets “#LoveYourCurls, a curly Emoji will automatically appear within the tweet right after the hashtag.

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Research Findings:
· Girls are growing up in a world of technology, but 3 in 5 women say they cannot accurately depict how they look using emojis

· 82% of curly-haired women say they would like to see more female emoji options depicting what their hair looks like

· 72% of curly-haired women want to use an emoji that looks like them when expressing emotions via text
Expert:
· We are also working with Sali Tagliamonte, a Linguist who specializes in the field of language variation and change. She is available to speak to the cultural conversation taking place about how adolescents see Emojis as a new, social language – and the importance of accurate self-expression and representation in all aspects of language.

 

 

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November 10, 2015

How to Look Glam at Work

We’ve all known that one colleague who breezes into the office looking utterly fabulous every day, here’s how to steal her style & do it your way!

At some point in our working lives most of us will have had “that colleague”. Every morning she breezes into the office looking ridiculously fabulous in her own unique way, seemingly without even trying – at 9AM! How do they do it? Is their wardrobe an endless world of work-appropriate gorgeousness?

If you’re bored of button up blouses and sensible work trousers, it’s time to branch out and discover “that colleague’s” workplace styling secrets. There’s no need for a huge budget or a massive wardrobe, in fact a few key pieces and a fresh approach to “professional dressing” are all you could need to get a little more glam at work. Why not start with our top tips…

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Channel a Trend: Keeping abreast of current trends will help your work wardrobe feel more contemporary and cutting-edge. But don’t jump on every fashionable bandwagon around. Instead, select a style you like which can easily be incorporated into your work wardrobe. Picking out each season’s key prints, tones or textures can be a great way to do this. For example, in SS15, bold geometric stripes are proving to be a huge trend. Team them with your work wear for an instant fashion upgrade.

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Try a Colour Pop: Little freshens up an outfit or brightens up a drab workday like a cheerful burst of colour. To add a little extra glam to your work ensembles, choose “just one item” which really pops, whether that’s a sky blue blazer or a sunny yellow a line skirt, then team it with a more neutral palette to add a splash of colour without looking like a crazy rainbow.

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Splash Out with Your Silhouette: Who says workwear has to be boring? We’re not all part of the sausage machine, you know! The combination of a blazer with a pencil skirt or sensible trousers creates a really predictable silhouette without much personality. Try playing around with the proportions of your work wear to make a stylish change. From full bodied, A-line skirts and high waisted culottes, to cropped tops and oversized shirts, there are lots of chic ways to mix up your work look to create a more contemporary, glamorous style.
unnamed-21Revamp Your Accessories Collection: Updating your accessories can have a huge impact on your workday glamour quotient! Classic pieces you can wear time and time again are great to have in your collection, but when you want to update your workplace look, indulging in some of fashion’s flightier (but super fun) jewellery and accessory trends will help bring your look bang up to date. This season it’s all about aquatic inspired charms (a la Valentino SS15), solid cuffs and chokers (see: Balmain) and mixed natural materials (from raw wood to feathers).

Contributed by Sam Butterworth at Lush Hair Extensions

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November 3, 2015

Caregiver Appreciation Event at Adam Broderick Salon & Spa In honor of National Family Caregiver Month

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Renowned salon offering complementary services for caregivers on November 6th, 2015

Ridgefield, CT (October 2015) – In honor of National Family Caregiver and Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month in November, Adam Broderick Salon & Spa has teamed up with the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter for its third annual Caregiver Appreciation Event. The salon will provide complementary beauty pampering and grooming services for caregivers to those who are affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias. In the state of Connecticut, there are over 177,000 caregivers who are friends and family providing over 201 million unpaid hours of care that are valued at $2.5 billion.

Adam Broderick Salon & Spa will have estheticians, massage therapists, stylists, nail technicians and makeup specialists available for complementary consultations on November 6th, 2015 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. In addition to the consultations, complementary services are available for fun purple hair extensions, beard or facial hair trimming for men, chair massages, ab private sunless tanning, light makeup applications, and nail lacquer applications.

An array of accessories from the ab beauty boutique will also be available for purchase in many colors, including purple. With every purchase of merchandise or gift cards, Adam Broderick Salon & Spa will donate a percentage back to the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter.
The event will take place on November 6th, 2015 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Adam Broderick Salon & Spa, a newly redesigned and renovated salon and spa located at 89 Danbury Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

About Adam Broderick Salon & Spa
Adam Broderick Salon & Spa is an award winning salon and day spa with two locations, one in Ridgefield, and the other in Southbury, CT that attracts clients from around the state of Connecticut, as well as New York. The salons and spa combine the best of urban chic with the convenience of a suburban lifestyle. A highly sought after motivational speaker and consultant, Adam Broderick is at the helm of both locations with his team of top colorists, stylists, estheticians and nail and spa therapists, along with a management team that works together to create a premier experience for every client.

Beauty brands partners include Bumble & Bumble, Kerastase, Oribe, T3 Tools, Nars, Clarins, Baxter of California, Eminence, Environ, Kiehl’s, Kneipp, Natura Bisse, Obagi, Skinceuticals and Somme Institute. Fashion brand partners include selects styles from Gucci, Marc Jacobs and Balenciaga Eyewear, Missoni, Botkier, Linnea Pelle and Annabel Ingall.

The Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter
The Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter estimates there are more than 73,000 people in Connecticut with Alzheimer’s disease and a growing population of early onset Alzheimer’s in the state. There are 177,000 caregivers who provide more than 200,000 hours of unpaid care each year to family, friends and colleagues. Alzheimer’s disease is the 6th leading cause of death and the only one of the top ten that has no way to be slowed, stopped or prevented. There is no cure. The Alzheimer’s Association offers care and support through the 24/7 Helpline, support groups, care consultations and community education. To find out more contact the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter at 860-828-2828 or visitalz.org/ct.

Alzheimer’s Association
The Alzheimer’s Association is the world’s leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. It is the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer’s research. The Association’s mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Its vision is a world without Alzheimer’s.

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October 30, 2015

ROCKSTAR White is featured in Beauty Store Business

Beauty Store Business, November 2015

Beauty Store Business magazine, November 2015

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