Dear Readers,
The Beauty Blog is signing off until January 7th when I’ll be back from holidays. Therefore, suffice to say, I wish you all a very special New Year’s holiday spent with close friends and family, and every success in the promising forthcoming year.
Have a safe, happy and beautiful holiday. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who has also topped a Reuters AlertNet poll of the best celebrity humanitarians of 2007, uses £200-a-time treatment extracted from the eggs of Baerii sturgeon.
The caviar-based cream, which is produced by extracting vitelline - or yolk sac - from the sturgeon eggs, reportedly contains phospholipids and is key to hydrating and softening. According to azcentral.com, Baerii sturgeon is reared on farms in the South of France to produce the culinary delicacy of fish eggs.
The Daily Mail reports that Jolie has become a fan of Sturgeon, after being seen with bulging veins on her arms, hands and forehead.
The British daily quotes Jenny Harding, a skincare specialist from the London-based Dynasty clinic, as saying,
“It is true there are omega 3 fatty acids in caviar, but you might as well put cod liver oil on your face.”
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that nothing is as serious as it first sounds, and that Angelina Jolie will be able to combat her bulged veins.
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Smoky Eyes Powder Pencil from Elizabeth Arden is a creamy powder pencil with a smudger on the other end. This special pencil is used as an eyebrow definer in a pinch and is available in five colors.
According to bellasugar, Smoky Eyes Powder is easy to use.
To use it, just line your eyes and then use the spongey smudge tip to “smokify” your look.
Beauty pro devision has used this product and is excited with the results.
I have Sueded Browns and Velvet Plumtones, both gorgeous, rich colors. If you have hazel eyes, both of these palettes look amazing. The pigments are great and the colors are long lasting
Makeup minute keeps this pencil almost always and carries everywhere. “ I used the eyeshadows in conjunction with Elizabeth Arden’s Smoky Eye Powder Pencils (Espresso and Smokey Black). Totally loved how easily and effortlessly the line blended using the foam tip to create that gorgeous sexy smoky eye.”
This beauty product is available on Beauty.com for $16.
Photo: © PoppyW.
Now that Santa has come and gone and Christmas is officially over, our thoughts start turning to New Year’s resolutions. Actually, with just a few days to go before 2008 is ushered in, it’s officially time to do so.
While some will vow to lose 20lbs, quit smoking or drinking, or start working out on a regular basis, beauty bloggers are perhaps more realistic, and certainly concentrate on resolutions that are smaller, simpler and nicer.
For example, that’sfit blogger has made it her New Year’s resolution to rethink her eyebrows.
Sure I attempt to shape them and create the perfect arch but I know that I often work with the wrong tools and go way overboard, resulting in red blotches from tweezing too hard and a way-too-thin shape.
The blogger behind Culture In The City, resolves to make herself look fabulous.
My fashion resolution is to wear more pretty things (baby food stained tee shirts be gone!) and I’m going to start with this cute and versatile dress from Yu Clothing.
Real Girl Beauty says she will spend next year trying a whole new list of products.
All of these resolutions are very worthwhile, but I will stick to our major beauty blog resolution, to work hard and to make every second worthwhile.
Victoria Beckham, the Spice Girl known as Posh and just as well known as the wife of David Beckham, has graced the latest cover of Elle
Msense reports that Beckham has blogged about the shoot live from Paris, and quotes her commenting on the cover.
“I’m writing my blog to you from a cover photo shoot for American Elle which I’m doing in Paris. It’s going really well so far and the clothes I’m wearing are incredible.”
The blogger behind Celebrity Vortex, who is also a subscriber of Elle
She looks great! I love the androgynous look she’s rocking. I have a subscription, so once it comes, I’ll be certain to scan it for you!
Beckham truly looks nice, and we hope that she enjoyed the whole project.
Gabrielle Reece, the professional volleyball player turned model, author, magazine columnist and television sports commentator, is expecting her second child with husband Laird Hamilton early next year. She has also recently opened up about her favorite beauty products, splurges and secrets.
Reece, 37, poses for the cover and an inside spread in the December issue of Pregnancy magazine. The blog, Showing pregnancy fashion, reports that Reece confesses that she uses many product items, but that there are some she cannot live without.
“Epicuren sunblock, Alafia African black soap for my face, 100% coconut oil for the skin on my body, mascara, and now that I have kids who fly with me often, I shamefully admit a portable DVD player.”
According to Celebrity Baby Blog, in announcing her second pregnancy, Reece also made mention of her future plans to introduce fitness routines for each trimester. Reece and her personal trainer Mike Monroe will create three new workout DVDs, which will be available in January 2008.
Celebrity Baby Blog quotes Reece as saying pregnancy is not going to slow her down.
I’m a little over three months pregnant. I try to tell women, ‘You’re not dead. You’re not fat. You’re pregnant.’
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Pixel Pink, the fourth and last limited-edition shade in the Lancôme Pout-à-Porter series, will be available from March 2008. Pixel Pink is co-designed with Gucci Westman, Lancôme’s erstwhile artistic director, who recently ended her tenure with the cosmetics giant.
This sheer and glossy berry pink has been seen at the Thakoon Spring 2008 runway show this past September. All of the models in the show sported the lipstick. Pixel Pink will be available in limited quantities exclusively at Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Lancôme’s five U.S. boutiques and Lancome-USA.com with a suggested retail price of $24.
Blogdorf Goodman comments on what some think it might be the last product from the Gucci Westman and Lancome collaboration.
She has her finger on the pulse of what beauty junkies need and covet. I am hoping that Lancome continues to work with a makeup artist and develop lippies that make us all bombard the stores with orders and general begging.
The waiting list for Pixel Pink should reportedly start from February 2008.
Mary Kay has joined the team of mineral cosmetic producers. Mary Kay is one of the companies in the list of mineral makeup lines.
According to The Mineral Makeup Blog, L’Oreal, Neutrogena, Physician’s Formula, Laura Mercier, MAC Cosmetics and ELF are also in this list.
Mary Kay’s new mineral makeup line is already in the market, and includes really good undereye concealers, brush sets and Creme Lipsticks.
Shades of Pink Keeping Life Balanced had a chance to use this new product line and seems to be happy about it.
I’ve had it on for about 15 minutes. Yea, I know, not a long time. I’ll probably have more to say about it after tomorrow–when I wear it for a full day at work and in the weather!
We hope this new product line will find a place on your beauty table among other items.
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A Canadian makeup artist and hair stylist with over 25 years of experience in the beauty industry, David Scott, is now bringing his new line of cosmetics to market.
After his experience in the beauty industry, Scott says he feels the need for a product line to deliver all aspects of quality and beauty to women and men. As both a makeup artist and a stylist, Scott has worked with some of the most famous brands in the world, including Aveda, Guerlain, Ben Nye, Cinema Secrets and Shiseido. Scott has also been an educator for world-renowned stylist Paul Mitchell.
The Beauty Counter Blog reports as saying that Scott has never been short on experience in the beauty and cosmetic industry.
A nominee of the Contessa Awards for Best Canadian Hair Stylist for seven consecutive years constant fixture on Canadian beauty television shows throughout Canada, David brings his knack for making a woman look and feel her best to the US with his new cosmetics line.
This new realization will help Scott to cultivate his passion for beauty. Developing his own exclusive collection of cosmetics, skincare and hair care products will allow him to input all his knowledge and skills for the sake to make world more and more beautiful. Best of luck on his new start!
Photo: © See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Hairdressers in Iraq have been forced underground due to violent attacks on beauty salons by Moslem extremists. The Global Report From Down Under reports that besides beauty salons, militants have also targeted liquor stores and barber shops.
Hardline Muslim extremists who believe it is sinful for women to flaunt their beauty in public have forced many beauticians to move their trade underground. The extremists began blowing up salons roughly two years ago. Since then, they have killed several stylists and bullied others into putting down their scissors and makeup brushes for good, all in an effort to stamp out what they view as the corrupting spread of Western culture.
According to Pat Dollard, the latest attack on a salon was on 13 December in the city of Mosul northwest of the capital. Gunmen stormed the home of a woman who was running a beauty parlor out of one room.
Despite this, however, Have you heard about Iraq Time Tables says that beauticians and women alike are resilient.
To those outside of Iraq, the prospect of being killed just for frequenting a hair salon might seem a convincing reason not to go. But despite being targeted by militants, stylists say women here still want to look good - and stylish. Refusing to get a haircut or having their makeup done would be giving in to the violence and despair surrounding them.
It isn’t known how many secret salons exist in Iraq, but many women work on clients at home. Such “underground arrangements” cut into profits because the beauticians can easily deal with women they already know.
Photo: © Sailing (Ronn) “El Vioje”
