Celebrity Brand: Carla Bulgaria Roses Beauty by Carla Royo-Vilanova

In 2008 the wife of Kyril of Bulgary presented her range of cosmetics made of six products based on rose water and eco friendly. This year she added a perfume.

Toner, cleanser, moisturizer, nutritive cream, body lotion, and calming gel were the products selected for starting a new brand addressed to sensitive skins and those who look for minimizing their wrinkles. Rose water it’s a must for reactive skins since our grandmother’s era and at once rose has always been the sign of Romanticism, as Carla confesses herself a romantic to the bone. Then, don’t get surprised with names as Rain of Roses, Light of Roses, and Moon of Roses.

The roses of her brand are picked up in Bulgary, in the territory known as the Valley of Roses, to 200 km of Sofia (the capital of the country). Concerned about environment, it uses the minimum package.


Shopping points

• Carla Bulgary Roses Beauty
  http://www.carlabulgaria.com
  
  

Get The Look Of Leona Lewis

One of the best female singers of our time, discovered by X-Factor talent tv program, she’s also one of the most beautiful and glamourous women of this decade. Listen furiously to her album Spirit and evoke her look with Yves Saint Laurent.

• Concealer: Touche Eclat Radiant Touch Highlighting Pen.
• Foundation: Perfect Touch Foundation and Complexion Enhancer.
• Pressed powder: Pressed Powder.
• Powder blush: Blush Variation 18.
• Eye shadow: 5 Colour Harmony For The Eyes Garden of Eden and Eclat de Givre Frozen Eye Shadow 1.
• Eye liner: Long Lasting Eye Pencil Black.
• Mascara: Mascara Singulier 01 Deep Black.
• Lipstick: Lip Twins 5 and Touche Brillance Sparkling Touch For Lips 1.

Teatotal

Through the centuries, expeditions have spread the culture of their conquests. Nowadays we can’t picture ourselves without eating potatoes or tomatoes, or drinking coffee and tea. Tea was made in popular in Europe in the 17 th century, and since then the uses have evolved from the infusion to the cosmetic uses. Almost every brand includes it.

Introduced in the court with the marriage of King Charles II to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza (1660s), tea contributed to the global dominance of the British in 18th century and it’s seen as a symbol of their nationality. Known in India for ages as a medicinal plant, it was not used as a drink until the influence of British.

Tea provides vitamins and minerals, reduces cholesterol, improves defences, fights anaemia with its copper and iron, it’s diuretic and sugarless it has no calories. There are five types of tea: black, green, red, white, and blue.

• Black tea: The most used, helps to keep awaken, reducing tiredness, increases the blood circulation in brain, fights headache and hypotension.
  
• Green tea: Diuretic, improves blood circulation, prevents diabetes and high pressure, prevents aging and degenerative diseases, and inforces inmunitary system.


• Red tea: Emperor’s tea, as in the beginning it was only drank by them. Helps to lose weight, reduces cholesterol, detoxes and depures, helping to eliminate the stored alcohol, and helps with little depressions.


• White tea: Also known as Longevity tea it helps to stops aging process.


• Blue tea or oolong: Relaxing and good for skin and heart.
  
  
  
  Recommendations
  
  The wider ranges are Elizabeth Arden Green Tea and Origins A Perfect World, but take a look at the others, too.

• Facials for oily skin: 1) The Body Shop Tea Tree range, 2) Boots Tea Tree and Witch Hazel range, 3) Superdrug Tea and Peppermint Face range.


• Anti aging facials: Korres White Tea.


• Hair care: 1) Burt’s Bees Green Tea and Lemongrass range, 2) Herbal Essences Dazzling Shine range: Includes tea, with berry, and orange.


• Body care: 1) Radox Bath Tea Infusions range: White tea and green tea goodies, 2) Dove Go Fresh Cucumber and Tea range, 3) Jergens Naturals Age Defying range: Mint leaf extract, green tea, and sage for younger skin, 4) Estée Lauder Body Performance: Black Tea and caffeine for preventing and eliminating cellulite.


• Foot: 1) The Sanctuary Reviving Foot Soak: With tea tree and lavender.


• Perfumes: 1) Bulgari: Declined in White and Green Tea, 2) Heno de Pravia with White Tea.

Shopping Points

• Boots http://www.boots.com/
• The Body Shop http://www.thebodyshop.com/
• Superdrug http://www.superdrug.com/

Got to have it: Demak Up Eye Make Up Remover Anti Bags and Anti Shadows

After hard partying, last thing on mind seems to be putting your make up off. Demak Up gives you no excuse: with this remover lotioned pads, you’ll be ready for dreaming in the blink of an eye.

Save space in your hand luggage: forget about remover and pads, find it altogether in these pads with a lotion that not only removes the make up but that helps to reduce bags and shadows, thanks to red vine decongestives. Moreover, it’s non greasy, brushes away even waterproof products, and you’ll find it hardly for more than 3 euros.

Shopping points

• Demak Up www.demakup.es

Helena Rubinstein Make Up Autumn-Winter 2009/2010: Delicious Beauty

What would happen if a premium beauty brand and a French chocolatier would come together? Helena Rubinstein meets Pierre Hermé for creating a collection enjoyed with full senses. Who can resist to a lipstick smelling to lavender and caramel? Add Wanted Elixir to your wish list.

Only a wicked mind could mingle the magic of colourful macarons with the artistry of make up palettes. Only a wicked mind could conceive a lipstick that offers long lasting high intensity colour, sophisticated and moistening, including jelly and on the top of that smells to lavender and caramel. Call the miracle Wanted Elixir. Call the emotion obsession. Boost its effect with the sparkling Wanted Gloss, and match nails.

Candlemania

Colours can change our moods and added to smells, boost their effect. Candle are charming and allow to relax as well as to perfume the room. Prepare your beauty ritual and relax.

Choose your right moment to use them, while having a bath, in good company, or reading, for example. Choose the most desirable effect: relaxing, energizing, or sensual. Now even you can bring them with you in your luggage, with travel size models.

Just remember not to leave a candle unattended or close to a flammable object. ´



Recommendations

• Relaxing: 1) Knackered Cow Relaxing Travel Candles: Lavender and eucaliptus for letting your mind drift away, 2) Elle Mini fragrance Candles, 3) Shearer Mango Spa Candle.


• Energizing: 1) Marks&Spencer In Bloom Lime Blossom & Bergamot Fragranced Candle, 2) Debenhams Mandarin Spice Layered Candle.



• Sensual: 1) Sephora Bougie Candle Monoï Tiaré: Bring home the smell of the beach.

Shopping points

• Knackered Cow, Elle www.boots.co.uk
• Shearer www.sainsburys.co.uk
• Marks&Spencer www.marksandspencer.co.uk
• Debenhams www.debenhams.com
• Sephora www.sephora.com

Perfume: Revlon Charlie Red

There are colognes that get old-fashioned with the change of season, but this is one has become a classic. The best pick for a teenager with wild spirit, it’s also suitable for a sophisticated lady. Red alert, the girl’s coming.

In the early 90s, when I was a teenager, it was one of my favourites, as I considered it luxurious and glamorous for a ridicule price of around 8 euros of the time, so I was broken hearted when it stopped being made in Spain. But, by chance, I rediscovered in a trip to London in 2007, and still as fascinated as 15 years before, I included it in my hand luggage.

Jasmin, ylang, musk, orange flower, plum, and other ingredients come together for an unique blend, feminine and sensual. Charlie Red it’s the mysterious girl that would drive you insane without uttering a word, classy, sexy and exuberant, as models like Cindy Crawford or Cameron.

The complete range it’s made of cologne in sizes 50 ml and 100 ml and of 75 ml body spray.

Now find an exclusive deal in Boots (www.boots.co.uk), Duo Gift Set –including 100 ml cologne and 75ml body spray- for 9.99 pounds. Only for residents in United Kingdom.