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.

Bag for life catwalk

Plastic bags will be soon a memory and stores begin competing for the most fashionable bag for life. In its early days now, soon the limited edition designs will become the must of fashionists. Here’s a selection of the ones we put kitty eyes to.

• The Body Shop:” Green it’s not a colour, it’s a state of mind”, announces the bag for this season. Made of organically grown cotton, allows 500 children in India to receive a better education.
• Yves Rocher: Pliable, it fits everywhere. A different floral print every season.
• Lush: A canvas bag retro looking, with black background, yellow sides, and big logo on front that you can use and reuse until you drop.
  

• Misako: Famous for its trendy bags at high street prices it also has cotton bags for your shopping afternoons or for keeping anything from newspapers to cosmetics. Their minimal design includes their logo in white over a black background.
• HMV: This messenger bag, black and with the white logo of the dog, will carry your books and cds, even your picnic food.
• Waitrose: Even the weekly shopping will look good in this fitting all bag.

Shopping points

• The Body Shop
  www.thebodyshop.com
• Yves Rocher
  www.yves-rocher.com
• Lush
  www.lush.co.uk
• Misako
  www.misako.cat
• HMV
  www.hmv.co.uk
• Waitrose
  www.waitrose.co.uk

Get The Look Of Rachel Weisz

Amenábar has chosen her for playing the role of the defender of culture in the Antique Greece in Agora, but she already shined in films as The Constant Gardener and The Mummy. Get inspired by her look in Cannes with Max Factor.

• Concealer: Mastertouch Concealer
• Foundation: Miracle Touch Liquid Illusion Foundation
• Pressed powder: Crème Puff Compact
• Powder blush: Flawless Perfection Blusher 215 Sable
• Eye shadow: Colour Perfection Eye Shadow 425 Dawning Gold
• Eye liner: Kohl Pencil 20 Black
• Mascara: False Lash Effect Mascara Black
• Lipstick: Colour Collections 825 Pink Brandy and Lipfinity Colour and Gloss 580 Crystal Bronze

Limehead

Often used to accent the flavours of food and beverages, limes are sweeter than lemons and are a good source of Vitamin C. In beauty, they are the key for the reviving effect in aromatheraphy and giving spice to perfumes. Discover the secrets of a forgotten fruit.

Always seen as the youngest brother of lemon, it’s a must in Mexican and Thai dishes, not to forget in cocktails like caipirinha and mojito. Produced over all in India, Mexico, and Argentina, his properties are spread worldwide due to its inclusion in cosmetics. Body cleansers and butters take the best part.

Recomendations

Shower gels: 1) Nivea Massage Beauty Crème Oil with Lime and Massage Pearls, 2) Fruttini Lime Mint Cooling Effect Shower Effect, 3) Original Source Pure Lime Shower Gel, 4) Bomb Cosmetics Lime&Clary Sage Shower Serum.

Body milk: 1) Fruttini Lime Mint Cooling Effect Body Lotion, 2) Hawaiian Tropic Lime Colada Body Butter, 3) Elle McPherson Firm and Flawless Body Lotion, 4) Love The Planet Body Butter.

Others: 1)Elle McPherson Sweet Lime Spray: Revives and refresh the senses, 2) Elemis Pure Essential Oil.

Shopping points

• Original Source
  http://www.originalsource.co.uk
• Bomb
  http://www.bombcosmetic.com
• Fruttini
  http://www.fruttini.de
• Elle McPherson
  www.boots.co.uk
• Love The Planet
  http://www.lovetheplanet.co.uk/
• Elemis
  http://www.debenhams.com/

Got to have it: No 7 Compact Trimmer

Unwanted hair in eyebrows and bikini line becomes history with No 7. Don’t be fooled by its size, it’s as small as effective.

If you are one of those that have a hypersensitive skin, you’ll appreciate this electrical solution for eliminating the facial hair that grows out of place, a killer for leafy eyebrows without over irritating and the solution for a cheeky moustache. Easy to use, easy to clean and easy to keep, you can carry it with you everywhere. Just put on an AA size battery.


Shopping points

• No 7
  www.boots.com

Bourjois Make Up Autumn-Winter 2009/2010: Fashion Paradise

Sophisticated, playful, and trendy, that’s the style of the new collection of Bourjois, a world where plants and animals rule and human are just pets in cages.

Beautiful as leafy trees, splendorous as multicoloured birds, and enigmatic as geishas, Bourjois looks that far in its new collection with shadows green as the ocean (Ombre Strecht 11 Infinite Green) and brown as the muddy land (Ombre Strecht 12 Taupe Modulable) and with eye pencils in brown (Regard Effet Duochrome Eye Pencil 62 Brun Mordore).

Candidness and quietness it’s suggested by the pastels of cheeks (Blush 35 Lune D’Or) and lips (Sweet Kiss 44 Praline Distingué or Rouge À Lêvres Effet Poudré So Delicate 41 Beige Élégant).

For make the most of these products with a make up session, visit

http://www.bourjois.fr/home/make_up_class/les_looks_tendance/tendance_automne_hiver_2009_fashion_paradis/step_1

Eat natural, live better

In a society that goes so fast cooking properly becomes a nightmare. Then, our health faces the results, as we eat more prefabricated products than we should. Giving an eye to our diet would bring us a more enjoyful moments.

There’s no need to read the ingredient list to notice if a product it’s loaded with additives, colourants, fats, and salt, our taste notices it fast, and our health, no long after. Babies are introduced into nutrition with purees with no salt at all but when we grow up, we seem not to get enough of it. When we are forced to return to the diet without salt, we complain. For example, studies have revealed that the corn we eat in the cinema has an insane amount of salt and other snacks –like fries and peanuts- are no further.

When choosing the most appropriate food, follow this single rule: the longer best before date, the most additives.

Increasingly we find more organic stores in which they sell food that have been not treated chemically and that have reduced amounts of salt. Trying them it’s a wise way of reducing our excesses step by step and discovering a world of new tastes, the world our grandparents lived in.

Musicotheraphy: Ten songs for not giving up

Music is one of the biggest arts but also a nice way to improve our lifes. The appropriate melody and lyrics can change your mood from insane nihilism to healthy hope. Like a true friend, music is always there when most needed. Here’s a selection of songs to stimulate the good vibes.

1. The Ark : It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane (Album: We Are The Ark, 2000)
   Trying to be as expected from you can only result in unhappiness, but to be yourself takes courage and doing things out of common. Who cares if the rest don’t like it?


2. Alaska y Dinarama: A Quién Le Importa (Album: No es pecado, 1986)
   It’s one of the most successful songs in Spanish music as it’s a hymn to self-determination. “Who cares about what I do/who cares about what I say/I’m like that/that’s the way I’ll follow/ I will never change”, rhymes. Every human being it’s unique and there’s not the right way to be.


3. Whitney Houston: The Greatest Love Of All (Album: Whitney Houston, 1985)
   The greatest love of all and the most difficult to achieve is to loving oneself, as we are our most severe judge. And it’s a good self-esteem and indulgence with our mistakes that makes the difference between happiness and misery.


4. George Michael: Faith (Album: Faith, 1987)
   “I need someone to hold me/but I’ll wait for something more”. Sometimes the desperation or the insecurity can lead to stay as we are even when we don’t like it because we are afraid of fighting for our right to happiness. If we leave a relationship, a friend, or a job we are dissatisfied with think ourselves without resources for finding a new one. But it’s just a question of time and of hard work.


5. Gun: Taking On The World (Album: Taking On The World, 1989)
   The full album it’s a reflection about the society of late 80s, but this song it’s the resume. There are sometimes that things overwhelm you and here’s an invitation for don’t let them break you and see the other side.



6. Right Said Fred: I’m Too Sexy (Album: Up, 1992)
   "I’m too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt/ So sexy it hurts/ And I’m too sexy for Milan too sexy for Milan/New York and Japan”.A joke or not, this track has become a classic of the 90s and frequent for movies and catwalks because of its injection of narcissism, from its speedy rhythms to its ironic lyrics. Humour it’s one of the key elements for overcoming the difficulties as well as boosting our own appeals and reducing our flaws.


7. Whitesnake: Here I Go (Album: 1987, 1987)
   “I don’t know where I’m going/but I sure know where I’ve been/hanging on promises/on songs of yesterday/and I’ve made up my mind/and I’m not wasting no more time/but here I go again”. We come alone to this world and most of times we have to make the hardest decisions. Knowing the way to go takes making mistakes over and over again.


8. Irene Cara: What A Feeling! (Album: Soundtrack of Flashdance, 1983)
   If Flash Dance movie it’s the story of a stripper becoming a dancer, the main song performed by Irene Cara, it’s the fight of this woman and the KO to her fears. You can never get it if you don’t try. Then, what’s lesson within? “Take your passion and make it happen”, she recommends.


9. Sangre Azul: No Mires Atrás (Album: El silencio de la noche, 1989)
   When there’s nothing that can be done, it’s time to turn the page and start again. It can be even be needed a trip for that.



10. Peter Gabriel&Kate Bush: Don’t Give Up (Album: So, 1986)
    The song starts with a feeling of defeat. “I was taught to fight/ taught to win/ I never thought I could fail (…)/ No one wants you when you lose”. Still, afterwards listens to an inner voice that recommends him not to give up and that thing will get better.

Shopping points

• Amazon http://www.amazon.com/

The Meaningful beauty of Cindy Crawford or aging with style

Top model and author of successful workout videos in the 80s-90s, Cindy Crawford represented the American Dream. She was the one every woman envied and that every man wanted in his bed. Now in her forties, she bottles her magic with the help of Dr Jean Louis Sebagh through her skincare line, Meaningful Beauty.

A reality that every model has to face it’s when the cosmetic brands drop them because they don’t look twenty anymore though they are promoting a product for female in their forties. Lately another trend it’s imposing, to use an icon in cinema, delete with photoshop the wrinkles that Mr Surgeon didn’t do yet and swear by God that youthness was due to the cream.

To show their own standards many celebrities have created their own brands, to choose their own models and to translate to reality the treatments of their favourite beauticians. Crawford’s travel began in 1999, the web of the brand tells, when in Paris she met Dr Sebagh, worried by the fact that the drawbacks of her job were beginning to damage her skin. Becoming a mother, it got increasingly difficult to her to travel so frequently, so she asked the doctor to bottle the formulas. Because “beauty shouldn’t cost a fortune”, in own Cindy’s words, she joined Guthy-Renker group. Meaningful Beauty, the age maintenance line, was born.

And which are the focus of these products? Cleansing, protecting, repairing, revitalizing, purifying and conditioning with antioxidants, botanicals, proteins, and vitamins, for forever young eyes, face, and neck. Try the full range with the 30-Day Kit for less than $30.

Recommendations

• Glowing Serum: Brings back to skin the lost luminosity and life.
• Masque Facial Masque: Deep cleans and revives.
  

Shopping points

• Meaningful Beauty
  http://www.meaningfulbeauty.com

Get The Look Of Kate Beckinsale

The actress of films as Underworld, The Last Days of Disco, and Serendipity, has been named the most wanted woman of the year by the readers of Esquire, leaving Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox biting the dust. Recreate her appeals with Gosh products.

• Foundation: X-ceptional Wear Make Up 12.
• Powder blush: Natural Blush Electric Pink.
• Eye shadow: Quattro Eye Shadow Q22 Driftwood.
• Eye liner: Khol Eye Liner Black.
• Mascara: Amazing Lengh&Build Mascara.
• Lipstick: Velvet Touch Lipstick 43 Tropical Pink.

Shopping points

• Superdrug www.superdrug.com

Salon at home

If centuries ago queens and royalty dictated the trends, now hairdresser’s have become most important than the celebrities they work for. Taking off in the 70s, new decade encourages their stardom, and makes available at your home the treatments you enjoy at salon.

Marie-Antoinette was famous for her outlandish hairdos and Mozart was so obsessed with the wigs to say that he needed more than one head to wear them all. In the 18 th century excess was the style code until French Revolution and started chopping heads.

The complicated hairdos, in a time that women wore a extremely long hair, required assistance and as they were to keep in the height of the fashion and eclipse other women, they had to look their best. The visit to the hairdresser was as important as the one to the taylor.

In 20 th century, with the development of cinema, actresses began to set trends, from the hair like men of the 20s to the waves of the 40s and the fully developed middle class started demanding their stylists.

If Vidal Sassoon was the man for United States, Llongueras and Ruppert were the saviours in Spain; in the 80s Ruppert was the star of a very successful advertisement in which celebrities told “Ruppert, I need you”. In 2001 Llongueras wrote his autobiography, Llongueras tal cual (Planeta), telling his most memorable moments: from talking to Dali to singing with Carreras.

Nowadays, the stylists of Madonna and Natalie Portman, for mentioning a few, recreate their looks for prestigious magazines and create their own styling lines, from everything to shampoos to colouring.

Recomendations

• Charles Worthington: he’s won twice British Hairdresser of The Year, and has become a must in red carpets. Celebrities as Mena Suvari, Goldie Hawn, and Jerry Hall can’t live without him. Salon Shine Results it’s the name of his brand, with shampoos, intensives, and stylers. His best:
  Full volume shampoo: Volumes up and smells too good.
  Boosting mousse: Volumes up and gets shine.
  


• Toni and Guy: Forty years in the industry. They began in London and now they have academies worldwide, a reputation of innovation and one of the widest ranges of products. His best:
  Daily style bag: Shampoo, conditioner, protein protection mist, funky gum, mini paddle brush, and bag.
  Detox Shampoo: For get rid of the residues of styling products and of pollution.
  Joystick Control Dryer: The professional hairdryer, long-lasting, and wide heating levels.

• John Frieda: A must in British Vogue and Harpers&Queen, in the 80s he seduced celebrities of Hollywood, high society and royalty. In 1988 created the first products of her line, with the help of Boots, and succeed.
  Frizz ease heat defeat and trade protective styling spray: It works with heat appliances to stylish your hair and protects it.
  Luminous colour glaze sheer blonde platinum to champagne: Revives the shine and offers a glossy touch for blondes.

Shopping points

• Charles Worthington, Toni and Guy
  www.boots.co.uk
• John Frieda
  In department stores worldwide

Picture of the model: Llongueras trend 2010

Got to have it: Soap and Glory Mighty Mouth Lipcare and Plumping Kit

You won’t need more for pouting lips: smoothness, softness, and volume. Soap and Glory reinvents lipcare with two treatment bars and a lipgloss, packed as only 40s divas would have done.

Take the granulated side of the black stick, rub for smoothness, and clear away with water. After, moisten with the balm and let dry. Finally, pump the volume of your lips with the full volume gloss. Apply as often as needed.

Shopping points

• Soap and Glory
  www.soapandglory.com

Jemma Kidd JK Make Up Autumn-Winter 2009/2010: Punk Look

With sister 90s top model Joddie Kidd modelling, make up artist Jemma Kid introduces the last trend in her collection JK: defiant look in dark shades and almost bare lips. Strike a Pose Palette and Fashion Palette are the items to steal.

Don’t look any further if you are into a cut down to size make up collection, as Kidd, with her 12 years experience, will offer you what you need: Jemma Kidd Make Up School for classic women and JK for trendy. Hyper sophisticated punk it’s the motto, with black shades and black kohl (I-conic Eyes Mini Liners in 08 Screen Siren or Silver Screen Mascara Duo 03 Rhinestone), natural cheeks (Cheek ID Colour Adapt Blush, looks different in every cheek), and nude lips. Face it’s full of life with an illuminating base as Mannequin Skin Complexion Enhancer.

For having it all in one, go for the Strike A Rose Palette -above- (for a day version) or for Fashion Palette -below- (for glamorous nights).

Shopping points

• Jemma Kidd
  www.jemmakidd.com
  
  
  

It’s a dog’s world

Having a pet it’s more than playing with an amusing plush, it’s about enduring and knowing unconditional love.

Thousands of pets are abandoned each year and the lucky ones are adopted. Other thousands are bought in pet shops and raised in homes as another member of the family.

As children, they can be obstinate sometimes, but they are unbelievably thankful and loveable, always welcoming you warmly; a little affection it’s always returned endlessly. Walking and playing can keep you fit and give you the time of your life. They’re really smart and adventurous, and loyal over all. They comfort when you are sad, keep by your side when you are ill, and warn you when they notice something strange. And they are always funny and surprising.

Companion for an average of 14 years, they can teach you things you would have never expected, and certainly improve your quality of life. In exchange you just got to walk them, feed them, and keep them clean.

Photograph of Nika sleeping on vacation by Wildgirlsins

Fifteen gifts for an unforgettable birthday

Stuck and lacking of ideas for the birthday? Take a look to our suggestions and give away to impress.

1. Lush You’re A Star Hat Box: A selection of the favourites of Mischa Barton, Eva Green, and Halle Berry, just to start.


2. Soap&Glory Soaper Heroes: Body mist, body butter, body scrub, shower gel, and hair mask travel sized.


3. Fcuk Smoky Eyes Kit: Shadows, mascara, fake eyelashes and everything after for a look that kills.


4. Benefit Kitten Classic: Shimmering powder to indulge your body. Caress with the puff all over.


5. Ted Baker London Lippy Kit: Five shades and a double ended brush.



6. Too Faced Glamour To Go Palette: Eight eye shadows, four lip gloss, and one blush in a vintage package.


7. Playboy Calender Lipstick: A lipstick for every month.


8. Radox Relaxation Kit: Relax bath soak, shower gel, do not disturb door hanger, and relaxing eye mask.


9. Volumax Triactive: Night and day treatment for full volume lips.


10. The Body Shop Mini Brush Set.



11. Bobbi Brown Make Up Manual: All the tricks of make up artist Bobbi Brown, illustrated with plenty of photographs.


12. Sephora Pink Palm Bag Selection: Hanging bag, zip pouch, make up case, and canvas tote inspired in Juicy Scottie dog.


13. Philosophy The Sweet Shoppe Shampoo Set: Just picture a bag imitating a sweet shop with three shampoos in it, smelling to red fishy, to watermelon, and to bubblegum.



14. Origins Calm To Your Senses Oil For Bath and Body: Lavender and vanilla unite for a lotion that will bring you to nirvana since first smell.


15. Yves Rocher Les Plaisirs Naturelles Blueberry Candle: Light it up and let home smell to blueberry.
    
    

Shopping points

• Lush
  www.lush.co.uk
• Soap&Glory, Fcuk, Ted Baker
  www.boots.co.uk
• Sephora,Too Faced, Benefit, Phylosophy
  www.sephora.com
• Radox, Playboy
  www.superdrug.com
• Volumax
  www.phergal.com
• The Body Shop
  www.thebodyshop.com
• Bobbi Brown
  www.bobbibrown.com
• Yves Rocher
  www.yves-rocher.com
• Origins
  www.origins.com

Perfume: Scarlett by Cacharel

If in 1987 the release of Loulou caused a stir, Scarlett has the charme to become another classic. Don’t be fooled by its vintage design, there’s more bite than meets the eye.Famous for its mysterious women, with the allure of 20s, 30s, and 40s, Cacharel chooses an indie cover of the classic Close To Me of The Cure, to introduce this new woman played by Skye Stracke. If with Loulou they just called her and she replied “oui, c’est moi” (“yes, it’s me”), they prefer to keep the secret with Scarlett; when the man asks “Scarlett, who are you?”, she remains silent, the only answer it’s the logo “the secret lays within”. A secret of powdery stylesque tones, of a naughty Lolita that reminds Liv Tyler, smelling to a blend of jasmine, tea, honey, sandal, poire, and honeysuckle.

On the other hand, we find one of the most beautiful containers seen in a while, a top with impressed flowers, a precious sculpture to keep on everybody’s sight.

The range starts with cologne in sizes 35 ml, 50 ml, and 80 ml, and completes with a deodorant (150 ml) and a body cream (200 ml).

Get The Look Of Megan Fox

Considered the most wanted woman by the readers of FHM USA, confessed bisexual, and keen on juicy comments, actress Megan Fox seems to be omnipresent since she starred Transformers. Now releases Jennifer’s Body, where she plays a beauty queen possessed by a demon. Recreate her style with Cover Girl.

• Concealer: Fresh Complexion Under Eye Concealer.
• Foundation: Queen Collection Natural Hue Liquid Foundation.
• Pressed powder: Smoothers Press Powder.
• Powder blush: Cheeks Bronzer Golden Tan.
• Eye shadow: Queen Collection 1-Kit Eye Shadows Hot Toffee and Champagne, and Queen Collection Eye Quads Lion Queen.
• Eye liner: Perfect Blend Eyeliner Basic Black.
• Mascara: Lash Blash Volume Blasting Mascara Very Black.
• Lipstick: Queen Collection Vibrant Hue Color Cherry Bomb and Queen Collection Lip Gloss Diamond Drop.

Barefoot

Feet support the weight of the whole body and, still, are the most forgotten area. After a long working day, spoiling them can make the difference.

Hidden, we notice them barely but when spring comes and we start wearing sandals, then we come across the disaster, feet that seem eager to play a horror film, dry and rough. To keep them like a baby takes some nice and easy pampering every day.

Doubtless, heels make look fabulous, optically enlargening our legs and making us look better proportioned, but they are harmful mostly if they are over 5 cm and stilettos. Not for free, they are the cause of several low labor and in United Kingdom, according to The Telegraph newspaper, in late September it’s been debated to banned them at work, as the wearers could suffer of “short-term health problems or longer terms injuries to their knees”, Lorraine Jones, of the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists says. So, whenever possible avoid them and remember that very flat shoes are as harmful for your health.

If you work standing, use compression stockings for improving your blood circulation and if you use safety footwear, use socks off that would make your feet feel more comfortable.

At home, use a massage roller for feet. It’s made of interconnected rollers that will relax your sole after walking over them. Then you can go for a bath or if you need an extra, a spa (Scholl Party Feet Foot Spa or Ufesa Foot Spa Aqua Plus Relax). Pour bath salt (The Body Shop Peppermint Reviving Foot Soak), and enjoy for a few minutes. Next, clean with the appropriate washer, dry your feet, and apply a cream to soften them, better with lavender or mint in its formulation (Yves Rocher Lavande Essentielle High Comfort Foot Cream or Lush Fair Trade Foot Lotion).

Weekly, you can go for a pedicure, with a scrub (The Body Shop Peppermint Soothing Scrub) and a mask (Yves Rocher Lavande Essentielle 3-minute Restorative Mask Sore Feet or The Body Shop Peppermint Purifying Foot Mask), and sleep with moisturising socks (Bliss Softening Socks). When partying, don’t forget in your bag the plasters (Compeed Blister Hydrocolloid Plasters) and cold spray (Boots Botanics Cooling Foot and Leg Spray or Scholl Party Feet Cool&Refresh Spray).



Shopping points

• Yves Rocher
  www.yves-rocher.com
• The Body Shop
  www.thebodyshop.com
• Scholl, Botanics, Bliss
  www.boots.co.uk
  www.superdrug.com
  www.sephora.com
• Ufesa
  www.ufesa.es
  

Got to have it: Comodynes Urban Vision Eye Dual Treatment

Few hours sleep and need an eye rescue? Comodynes hands the solution, with an eye cream and a concealer in the same container for fitting in your bag or in your hand luggage.

You have no excuses anymore to keep young and refreshed your eye zone. The cremez deletes in one stroke wrinkles, puffiness, and dark circles. The concealer, oil free and that fits every skin tone, hides party nights, lack of sleep, and bad days.


Shopping points

• Spain
  Pharmacies and drugstores
• France
  bioes@bioes.com
• Switzerland
  reception@bergerach.com
• Austria
  info@itfcosmetics.de
• Italy
  info@itfcosmetics.it
• Cyprus
  info@paepellinas.com.cy
• Germany
  info@itfcosmetics.de
• Denmark, Norway, Sweden
  tone.pettersen@cosmetictrading.no
• United States
  http://www.comodynes.tv/
• Canada
  www.massonltd.com

Estée Lauder Make Up Autumn-Winter 2009/2010: Sensuous Gold

Nudes and roses evoking a Californian beach look and the 80s of Brooke Shields are the flagship of this season. So wearable, that in many places it’s already a sold out.

Known because it’s elegance and its sophistication, Esteé Lauder has always have been supported for women like Willow Bay, Paulina Porizkova, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Liya Kebede. Now Hillary Rhoda takes a hint of the sensuality of Gucci for a limited edition must have.

Illuminate your face with a shimmer powder (Gilded Rose Marbleized Powder) and remark your eyes with eye shadows (Signature Eyeshadow Quad with Hammered Gold Design Rose Gold or Rose Amethyst). Turn your lips suggestive with Signature lipstick (Hydralustre with Gold Shimmer Terracotta or Cinnamon) and applying a coat of lip gloss over (Pure Color Multi Shimmer Rose Gold). Complement with the nail lacquer (Pure Color with Rose-Gold Toned Cap Rose Gold) and the perfume Sensuous.

A walk in the nature

Since Antique times human being has wondered about the sense of life and how to achieve lasting happiness. With evolution, societies became more complex, still, are simple things that bring the greatest pleasure. Contemplating the view without expectations can be a nice way of disconnecting from the stressing common life.

We are bombed with million of advertisements that not approached with common sense can make our life miserable. If we are to believe them, we are the worst of the worst without all those products. Then, why most of those models don’t use them or are retouched in a devilish way (losing wrinkles and kilos, enlargening their legs, and improving their teeth and scalps, for mention a few)? Present day that religion has lost most of their inductive and making feel guilty power, we have promotion, and sinners are those who decide to live smartly, without the compulsive brandholism of characters like those portrayed in the books of Brett Easton-Ellis.

Is that only rich and beautiful can be happy? And if so, are they always happy? Yellow press tends to shows they can suffer as everyone else. And at once, people that seem to have lost it all, show overjoyed. What’s the secret for happiness? Making the most of ourselves, being indulgent, and appreciating small things.

Every person it’s unique and, at once, needs to belong to a group, and sometimes the group pushes so hard as to make the individuals quit their real being to fit and this resignation causes grief and frustration. If there were not rebels –those who would reclaim their right to be themselves-, society would be made of toneless mass produced members, as those suggested in 1984 and A Brave New World.

“Be free or die”, said Camille Desmoulins. In times of French Revolution, intellectuals differed about human kind being evil by nature or corrupted by society, and those who preferred to be free (Rousseau) than rich. That was the time when many rich families had properties in the countryside to play the return to nature, the symbol of perfect happiness. But that was an idealized attempt.

Life, in its complexities, it’s beautiful, because they lead to love the simple. As it was suggested in the film American Beauty, the beauty it’s in a bag rocked by the wind. Happiness lays in contemplating the dusk. Happiness lies in contemplating ducks swimming in the river and feeding their breeding. Happiness lays in smelling fig trees and apple trees, in collecting blackberries. Happiness lies in walking barefoot in the sand. Happiness lays in hearing the tweet of the birds. Happiness lies in return to the essence of life.

Pictures: By Wildgirlsins

• Picture 1: Statue in the Port of Barcelona (Spain).
• Picture 2: Fishes in the pond of the Retiro Park (Madrid).

Cinematheraphy: Twenty films for laughing like Julia Roberts

In a week ruled by the timetable, controlled by alarm, by ticking, and by sirens, weekend offers the oasis for enjoying spare time without agendas and expiry dates. Films always offer a productive way to relax, overall if it’s comedy. Experts say we should laugh more frequently to prevent depression.

• Meet The Parents (2000)
  Meeting the parents of your girlfriend can be a terrifying experience, mostly if your father-in-law it’s obsessively protective (Robert De Niro).


• Analyze This (1999)
  A depressive gangster who can’t do his job properly anymore (Robert De Niro) and a psychologist that has to cure him or … die (Billy Crystal).


• Wilt (1989)
  Henry Wilt it’s a teacher who is dissatisfied with his life. Walking the dog fantasises with assassinating his wife Eva. When they meet an extravagant American couple and his wife disappears, he finds it hard to prove to police he hadn’t killed her.
  As in the book, that’s an acid critic of the stereotype o the educated British class. Moreover it’s starred by the humorists Griff Rhys Jones (Henry Wilt) and Mel Smith (Inspector Flint), famous from Alas Smith and Jones (broadcasted from 1982 to 1998 on the BBC).


• Groundhog Day (1993)
  What would happen if you were impelled to live the same day forever? And would happen if you were a character played by Bill Murray?


• Something About Mary (1998)
  Mary (Cameron Diaz) is the dream girl of everyone, beautiful and charming. He (Ben Stiller) was to go to the ball with her but something embarrassing came in the middle. Years later, he hires a private eye (Matt Dillon) to find her, and when he finally does, everybody start a race for winning Mary’s heart, which ends in all kind of twisted situations.



• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  After a robbery, the jewel it’s hidden in a fish called Wanda. None of the burglars trust each other, and then no trick it’s too good to fool each other and get the prize.
  Deadly funny, it’s played by Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and John Cleese.


• Bowfinger (1999)
  When a producer (Steve Martin) fails to get for his low budget film the star he wants (Eddie Murphy), he shots the film including him without telling.
  One of the most hilarious films of Steve Martin.


• The Banger Sisters (2002)
  When the best friend of youth (Goldie Hawn) comes back, everything can happen, mostly when she keeps the same and the other (Susan Sarandon) is a respected rich housewife who wouldn’t like her husband know about her past.

• Coming To America (1988)
  An African king (Eddie Murphy) comes to North America searching for the perfect wife, but as she has to love him for himself, he dresses up and starts working in a fast food chain.

• Bad Boys I (1995)
  Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are two policemen in Miami Vice stylesque that are as good in their job as paranoid about each other.


• The Visitors (1993)
  A knight of the 11 th century (Jean Reno) and his loyal servant (Christian Clavier) travel in time to Paris in the present day and face situations they can’t handle.
  
• The Sweetest Thing (2002)
  Three man eaters (Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, and Selma Blair) hang out for comforting Jane (Selma Blair) that has broken down with her boyfriend. But that night Christina (Cameron Diaz) knows the man of her life, but she doesn’t want to look anxious, until she knows his brother it’s getting married.
  Unforgettable the scene starring the song of Aerosmith and the one based on the song of Right Said Fred was banned for the US release (but available on Europe).
  
  
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989).
  They are friends but he (Richard Pryor) it’s blind and he (Gene Wilder) it’s deaf so when a crime happens and police don’t believe they witness it, they have to collaborate for coming across.


• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
  A spy so skilled at his job as with women, a celebrity in 60s (Mike Myers), frozen himself as his enemy, Dr Evil, does, to fight him. When Dr Evil comes back in 1997, Ministry of Defence decides to defrost Austin Powers.
  A freaky über James Bond looking like a geek and classless.



• Bedazzled (2001)
  Elliott Richards (Brendan Fraser) is secretly in love with Allison (Frances O’Connor), but he would never have a chance. His co-workers can’t stand him and he’s the closest to a freak. But the devil (Elizabeth Hurley) hears his prays and offers him her love in the exchange of his soul. Though the devil doesn’t advise it wouldn’t be easy.


• As Good As It Gets (1997)
  A fussy writer (Jack Nicholson), misogynist, homophobic, outspoken, and unbearable meets a waitress in trouble (Helen Hunt) who turns him into a better person, not without its ups and downs.


• Mars Attacks (1996)
  When extraterrestrials attack Earth, the weaknesses of human kind are revealed, and there’s only left to survive, anyway possible.


• In&Out (1997)
  A teacher of a town where never happens something out of common (Kevin Klein) and ready to marry his fiancée (Joan Cusack), awaits moved for the moment when one of his pupils (Matt Dillon) is nominated to an Oscar for playing a gay soldier. But his life changes when the pupil dedicates the Oscar to this teacher, saying that is also gay and the teacher has to prove hardly he’s not.

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  The classic history of the Holy Grail reinterpreted by Monty Python: acid, irreverent, and absurd humour.


• The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
  Oz (Matthew Perry) is a dentist who lives with a wife that wants him dead (Rosanna Arquette) and sees his life change when a gangster (Bruce Willis) becomes his neighbour.
  
  

Shopping points

• Amazon www.amazon.com

Iman Cosmetics, for every woman

Model, actress, fashion designer, writer, business-woman, and involved in several charities, Iman has been a role model since the 70s, when she left Africa to start in fashion business. In 1994 she gave a step further with the creation of Iman Cosmetics, addressed to every race, and with the release of her book The Beauty Of Color (2005).

Iman, last from left to right.

When a black model appearing in a make up campaign seemed an utopia, Iman reigned over the catwalk with her feline style. It took several years to find different races in brands as Estée Lauder, Maybelline, Bobbie Brown, L’Oreal, Mac, and Revlon, and that’s what impulsed Iman to create her own brand.

Iman Cosmetics design face treatment line according the skin type (combination, oily skin, dry, hyperpigmented), has 12 foundation shades, and a design basic and refined as the ones of Nars and Mac.

Her web, among others, helps to recreate some looks of her shoots (New York and Company or Hello Canada), shows the trend for this Autumn (Femme Fatale), and cosmetic makeover videos.

Products

• Under Cover Agent Oil Control Primer: Minimizes the appearance of pores, eliminate shine, and creates a uniform skin to help the foundation to last more.
• Time Control All Day Moisture Complex SPF 15: For dry, overexposed to sun, or mature skin moisturizer.


• Luxury Moisturizing Lipstick: Creamy, long-lasting, and in 12 shades. Try daring ones as Opal, Blackbrandy, or Scorpion.

Shopping points

• Find stores at
  http://imancosmetics.com/findastore_landing/

Get The Look Of Denise Richards

Expert on playing the bitch in films such as Wild Things (1998) with Matt Dillon and Valentine (2001) with David Boreaneaz, she has earned the fame of bad girl, and appearing in The World It’s Not Enough (1999) as a Bond girl, confirmed her as a sex-symbol. Recreate her style with Cargo.

• Concealer: One Base Concealer and Foundation In One.
• Foundation: Blu Ray High Definition Matifier, Big Bronzer.
• Pressed powder: Blu Ray Highlighter.
• Powder blush: Beach Blush Coral Beach.
• Eye shadow: Eye Shadow Palette Ibiza.
• Eye liner: Eye Pencil Black, Eye Lighter.
• Mascara: Better Than Waterproof Mascara.
• Lipstick: PlantLove Botanical Lipstick Lola, Purse Gloss Paris.