Category Archives: Spa
By May | October 31, 2008
 It’s nice to know that in an industry focused on facade and outer beauty, there is still an emphasis on creating inner beauty through charity.
October was Breast Cancer Awareness month, a time during which many of beauty’s biggest brands — from Lancome to Estee Lauder to YSL to Too Faced to Shiseido — launch special edition products to raise funds for breast cancer research and to go along with that signature pink ribbon.
Other beauty brands are socio-economically conscious, too, working with organizations and high-profile figures to better the greater good of man, health and the environment.
Also posted in Bath and Body, Beauty Trends, Brands, Celebrities, Charity, Collaborations, Health, Limited Editions, New Product, Organic | Tagged Avon, Avon Empowerment fund, beauty, brad pitt, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Celine Cousteau, charities, Charity, charity donation, charity foundation, charity fundraising, charity organization, charity work, domestic violence, Ghana, Jacque Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, jpf eco systems, kiehls, La Prairie, Ocean Futures Society, Reese Witherspoon, The Body Shop, The Canadian Women's Foundation, Tungteiya Shea Butter Association, United Nations Development Fund for Women
By May | October 21, 2008
 Ji Baek — the pretty and, er, polished proprietress of uber-chic Rescue Beauty Lounge in New York — went from playing professional violin to managing a restaurant to owning one of the top nail salons known in the industry.
Her client base among the fashion set burgeoned after she opened her first salon in 1999, thanks to signature nail designs in covetable patterns like Burberry plaid. In 2003, Baek decided to leave her clients to their own nail devices when they couldn’t make it into the salon by launching her own polish line throughout North America.
Also posted in Books, Brands, Nails | Tagged book, Burberry, Fashion, Ji Baek, nail, nail care, nail tips, polish, Rescue Beauty Lounge, Rescue Your Nails, salon
By May | October 17, 2008
 Admit it.
You like gold on your fingers, around your wrist, dangling from your ears and hanging from your neck.
But how about having it slathered all over your face?
 The thing about living in an apartment with vertical blinds is that said vertical blinds don’t always do the best job of keeping light out when you really, really feel like sleeping in.
A girl I know literally saved my sleeping in schedule by giving me a stylish silk sleep mask (printed with a quote in cursive, too) from Gentle Fawn, and I can’t stop extolling the health, sanity and beauty benefits of such an unassuming gift.
Also posted in Brands, Obsessions | Tagged beauty, Bobbypin, fleece, Gentle Fawn, gift, Health, Jeffery Fulvimari, lavender, sanity, satin, sleep, sleep mask, wool, YSL Touche Eclat Radiant Touch
 Gone are the days when men sneak into their ladies’ bathroom cabinets for a squirt of body wash or a scoop of La Mer.
More and more, men are turning to brands like Jack Black, Anthony Logistics and French-based Sothys Homme, particularly that latter because of the brand’s male-friendly ingredient phytomalt, a hydroglycolic complex that comes from the distilled malt of Scottish whiskey.
Also posted in Brands, Men, Product Reviews | Tagged after shave, age-defying, amino acids, Anthony Logistics, body wash, cleansers, deodorant, detoxifying, Dr. Hotz, epidermis, face, French, Jack Black, La Mer, Men, minerals, phytomalt, products, proteins, scrubs, skin, Sothys, Sothys Homme, sugars, vitamins
By May | September 29, 2008
 First it was hot rocks. Then it was suction cups. Now it’s snakes.
People will do anything to when it comes down to beauty and pampering, especially if the result is rest, relaxation and the preservation of youth.
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