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Step Up Your Selfie Game
Step up your Selfie Game
Achieving a flawless selfie is easy with the new Hard Candy Powders! The Hard Candy Sheer Envy Bake, Brighten & Set Loose Finishing Powder transforms the under eye area while the Hard Candy Fast & Fabulous Translucent powder mattifies the face! Say goodbye to dull selfies and hello pictures that will have your friends and followers begging you to share your beauty secret!
Hard Candy Sheer Envy Bake, Brighten and Set Loose Finishing Powder, $6
Baking” is a makeup artist technique that prevents creasing and gives a natural radiance to your undereye area. 5 minutes to day-long perfection! Banana baking powder prevents creasing and offers a natural radiance.
Hard Candy Fast & Fabulous Translucent Loose Setting Powder, $6
A weightless, translucent finishing powder for all skin tones creates a soft matte finish. Apply powder over makeup to set your look and control oil.
Here are also other products I recommend from Hard Candy.
Limited Edition Radiant Primer, $5
A primer is the 1st step to neutralizing skin concerns! These primers are formulated with hydrating ingredients that blend easily into the skin and provides a neutral base. Apply after cleansing and moisturizing. Rub into skin until absorbed. When dry, continue with your makeup routine!
Green: neutralize skin redness due to sunburn, rosacea, uneven skin tone, or acne
Yellow: neutralize mild skin redness due to mild sunburn or acne
Pink: neutralize dullness and sallowness (Fair to Light skin tones)
Lavender: neutralize dullness and sallowness (Medium to Dark skin tones)
Peach: neutralize dark circles and spots (Fair to Light skin tones)
Orange: neutralize dark circles and spots (Medium to Dark skin tones)
LIMITED EDITION EXPERT CRÉME WAND, $5
A créme color corrector that targets skin imperfections! This lightweight formula is easy to apply and easily blends into skin. Flexible brush tip applicator is soft to touch and fits into the contours of your skin… don’t forget the nose area!
Green: neutralize skin redness due to sunburn, rosacea, uneven skin tone, or acne
Yellow: neutralize mild skin redness due to mild sunburn or acne
Pink: neutralize dullness and sallowness (Fair to Light skin tones)
Lavender: neutralize dullness and sallowness (Medium to Dark skin tones)
Peach: neutralize dark circles and spots (Fair to Light skin tones)
Orange: neutralize dark circles and spots (Medium to Dark skin tones)
Limited Edition Expert Stick, $5
A creamy, blendable, pastel stick that camoflages skin imperfections! This pencil is precise and easy to apply. You’ll never need a sharpener for the soft, retractable corrector point… don’t forget the nose area!
Green: neutralize skin redness due to sunburn, rosacea, uneven skin tone, or acne
Yellow: neutralize mild skin redness due to mild sunburn or acne
Pink: neutralize dullness and sallowness (Fair to Light skin tones)
Lavender: neutralize dullness and sallowness (Medium to Dark skin tones)
Peach: neutralize dark circles and spots (Fair to Light skin tones)
Orange: neutralize dark circles and spots (Medium to Dark skin tones)
Hard Candy Glamoflauge Mix-in Pigment Makeup Drops, $7
Hard Candy Turn Me Matte Glamoflauge Mix-In Drops are concentrated liquid drops that can be used to change the finish of your liquid and cream makeup to matte. Simply mix several drops of the transformer into your liquid or cream foundation and then apply the mixture to skin as you normally would. Even the dewiest foundations will instantly transform to a matte finish without compromising the look or feel of your foundation. The mattifying drops reduce shininess on the face, especially in the T-Zone, absorb excess oil and sebum, and minimize and blur pores to create a matte complexion. Skin will be more blurred, with pores becoming less visible. Turn Me Matte drops can also be used throughout the day to absorb oil buildup and refresh your makeup.
Hard Candy Glamoflauge Mix-In Drops:
- Use to change the finish of your liquid and cream makeup to matte
- Even the dewiest foundations will instantly transform to a matte finish without compromising the look or feel of your foundation
- Mattifying drops reduce shininess on the face, especially in the T-Zone, absorb excess oil and sebum, and minimize and blur pores to create a matte complexion
The Hard Candy products are available at Walmart and Walmart.com
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The New Kind of Stress That’s Affecting Your Skin
ARE YOU EYESUP?
MURAD LAUNCHES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND CAMPAIGN
ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO RE-CONNECT
WITH EACH OTHER BY DISCONNECTING FROM DIGITAL DEVICES
Leading Prestige Skincare Brand Hopes to Halt the Effects of Cultural Stress on the Skin by Enabling the Power of Human Connections
In today’s always-on world, people are more digitally-connected than ever before – yet less connected to one another in meaningful ways. That’s why Murad®, the pioneering clinical skincare brand, is launching the EyesUp Campaign, a new initiative designed to educate people about the danger of digital-only relationships and the power of real-world human connection. Through the campaign, Murad is encouraging people around the world to go “EyesUp” and connect with one another in real life.
Renowned as the “Father of Internal Skincare,” Dr. Murad’s groundbreaking work and research over the past decade has centered on helping people cope with Cultural Stress™, or the stress of modern living. The hallmarks of Cultural Stress include digital dependency, the inability to disconnect from work, and lowered self-esteem due to increased social expectations.“As a dermatologist, I believe that healthy skin is a direct reflection of how you live your life. But today, nearly all of us are living in an increasingly stressful, always-on environment,” said Dr. Howard Murad, Murad. “The irony of technological advancement is that we are more digitally connected than ever before, yet less connected to one another in meaningful ways. This has profound implications for our skin, health, and ultimately happiness.”
In fact, this type of constant and pervasive stress has tremendous health consequences, which are particularly visible on the skin. Chronic stress, like that from Cultural Stress, has been shown to weaken immunity, increase inflammation, and accelerate aging[1]. Through the EyesUp campaign, Murad hopes to use its brand expertise on the topic to empower people to connect by disconnecting, thereby taking action against their own form of Cultural Stress.
The campaign kicks-off today with the launch of an educational film created to raise awareness about the power of human connection. The campaign video, directed by acclaimed director Kassim Norris and produced by HECHO EN 72, the production company situated inside award-winning creative agency 72andSunny, depicts the physical and emotional tolls digital dependence takes through the lens of various people living in social isolation.
Murad is also launching a content hub (www.EyesUp.com) to educate people about digital dependence and social isolation, and take the EyesUp pledge. The in-depth resource will include new research, tips and tools for unlocking the power of human connection, and articles from expert contributors including neuroscientist and mind-body expert Dr. Claudia Aguirre and the renowned research organization Sputnik Observatory, dedicated to the study of contemporary culture.
To coincide with the external consumer launch of EyesUp, Murad is unveiling an innovative employee engagement program. Beginning today, each employee is invited to take the EyesUp Diagnostic Quiz to measure their own levels of Cultural Stress. Based on this diagnostic tool, Dr. Murad will host EyesUp “Office Hours” for employees to get a
prescription for coping with their unique source of Cultural Stress.Additionally, Murad has installed EyesUp Digital Device Stations in each conference room to encourage device-free meetings and deeper connections with one another throughout the day. The organization has also created “EyesUp Zones” throughout the office where employees are encouraged to talk with one another face-to-face over complimentary drinks and water-rich fruits and snacks.
Throughout 2017, the EyesUp campaign will be supported by a robust social media campaign, public relations efforts, and in-store retail activations. This is the first in a multi-year commitment to helping people unlock the power of human connection.
Here are some products I recommend:
City Skin Duo $135
2-piece setEvery day, our skin is faced with the harmful effects of the world around us; blue light from devices, pollution from cars and smog, infrared radiation from warming devices like stoves or microwaves, and of course, UV rays from the sun. Care for your skin around the clock with the City Skin® collection of breakthrough formulas. Shield skin during the day from the main causes of damage with City Skin® Age Defense Broad Spectrum SPF 50 PA++++ and detoxify and revitalize skin overnight with City Skin® Overnight Detox Moisturizer for a radiant glow by morning.City Skin® Age Defense Broad Spectrum SPF 50 PA++++ shields skin from:
- 96% of pollution*
- 89% of Blue Light from devices**
- 52% of Infrared Light*
Rapid Resurfacing Peel $44
16-PackIn 1989, Dr. Murad revolutionized anti-aging skincare with breakthrough Glycolic Acid technologies. Today, Glycolic Acid is the gold standard for exfoliation and Dr. Murad remains a leading expert on its use to renew skin’s youthful appearance.
Experience Dr. Murad’s renowned glycolic anti-aging treatment at home. This extra-strength peel helps reverse signs of aging and detoxify skin. A powerful blend of 10% Glycolic Acid and Vitamin C instantly retexturizes skin, enhances radiance, and evens tone without irritation. Textured towelettes allow for targeted application of active ingredients and removal of surface cells exposed to toxic pollutants that have accumulated throughout the day.
Exfoliating Acne Treatment Gel $452.0 FL. OZ.This lightweight, yet powerful treatment gel helps treat acne and prevent breakouts while gently exfoliating for clearer, healthier-looking skin. Exfoliating Acne Treatment Gel’s Hydrogen Peroxide delivery system maximizes the efficacy of Salicylic Acid, Retinol, and Glycolic Acid, going to work immediately to help clear skin.
ABOUT MURAD, INC.
Founded in 1989, Murad is a pioneering clinical skincare brand dedicated to encouraging people to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives. Backed by 19 unique patents and a 30-year legacy of research and clinical testing, Murad’s unique philosophy, called Connected Beauty, is a whole person approach to health and beauty that inspires people to nourish their skin, awaken their body through physical activity, “eat” their water by consuming water-rich fruits and vegetables, and be kind to their mind. To learn more about Murad and its products, visit www.murad.com.
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LDC Launches NEW Intense Skincare Line
Created in a FDA-approved, scientifically advanced laboratory, these products use clinically-proven active ingredients work simultaneously to repair, hydrate and rejuvenate skin.
La Difference Cosmetics (LDC™) (ladifferencecosmetics.com), announced today the launch of its all-new Intense Skin Therapy product line with eight new products (available in travel and full sizes) that provide immediate and lasting results. LDC, the makers of the internationally-bestselling La Différence Cosmetics Instant Face Lift, have been working on the formulas for the Intense Skin Therapy line for over two years to make sure the professionally-developed anti-aging skin care products provide dramatic results including lifting and firming skin, providing instant results, tightening and strengthening skin that contain antioxidants to fight free-radical damage.
Created in a FDA-approved, scientifically-advanced laboratory, Intense Skin Therapy uses plant stem cells as well as clinically-proven ingredients that work on a cellular level to provide instant rejuvenation and hydration of the skin, while powerful tightening actives work to reduce visible fine lines and wrinkles. Founded by three women who saw a void in the marketplace of effective and natural anti-aging skincare that actually works, LDC™ truly perform beyond expectations.” The idea was conceived to have a line so versatile, it would easily adapt to any beauty and maintenance regime for women and men.
LDC Plumping Hand Cream uses natural and powerful actives to help compensate for the loss of volume, and revive the healthy appearance of your hands and posterior thanks to their adipose stimulating properties, which positively influences your skin’s genetic proclivity to stimulate collagen cells.
Features and Benefits
- Helps increase hand volume
- Helps improve the contour and curves of the hand
- Uses safe and natural ingredients
- Helps reduce fine lines and wrinkles
INTENSE Anti-Aging Night Repair Cream is the added boost you’ll need to counter that aging process and restore your skin back to its youthful shimmer. This invigorating product will repair dry, flaky and damaged skin, leaving you with a silky smooth and healthy condition. Simply apply the cream at night and awake with radiant, refreshed and revitalized skin in the morning.
Features and Benefits
- Restores dry and damaged skin
- Helps alleviate dark circles
- Revitalizes shine and complexion
- Fights the aging process
- Contains safe and natural ingredients
INTENSE Hyaluronic Miracle Cream contains a powerful blend of moisturizing and antioxidant ingredients to ensure that the skin remains hydrated and balanced to prevent signs of aging. Well-moisturized skin is one of the most important secrets to achieving younger looking skin. When the skin experiences moisture and balance, it is able to regenerate new cells and counteract the aging effects of dry skin.
Features and Benefits
- Moisturizes the skin
- Helps promote new collagen and elastin growth
- Helps regenerate new skin cells
- Plumps and firms the skin
INTENSE Vitamin BCE + Ferulic Serum is a comprehensive antioxidant super serum that takes advantage of each of the unique antioxidant delivery methods and chemical interactions to combat oxidative stress, and provide additional hydration and skin lightening benefits. The scientific compatibility and enhancement that these selected ingredients provide, help combat oxidative stress on multiple levels, for a deeper, more satisfying antioxidant treatment.
Features and Benefits
- Provides unrivaled antioxidant benefits
- Actives work synergistically to boost one another
- Hydrates and moisturizes
- Helps lighten the skin
INTENSE Hydrating Serum for 40+ with Squalane is a pure moisturizer derived from the bountiful goodness of olives. It is a simple, safe and extremely efficient conditioner, excellent for managing skin and smoothing out wrinkles. It also exhibits amazing regenerative, antioxidant and antibacterial properties. And INTENSE Cucumber Eye & Lip Cream uses a blend of Cucumber Extract, Peptides, Vitamin E and Retinyl Palmitate to provide generous skin nourishment and hydrating qualities that help alleviate dark circles, stimulate collagen growth, reduce wrinkles and fine lines, and restore a youthful and energetic appearance to your gaze.
About La Différence Cosmetics
La Différence Cosmetics™ was founded with one goal: to provide consumers with the best professionally formulated anti-aging skin care products. La Difference Cosmetics™ luxury creams diminish signs of aging while nourishing skin with the most natural and effective ingredients available. Created in a scientifically advanced laboratory, their products use clinically proven-ingredients that work on a cellular level to provide instant rejuvenation and hydration of the skin, while powerful tightening actives work to reduce visible fine lines and wrinkles. La Différence Cosmetics™ products are made in the USA and manufactured in a state of the art FDA approved laboratory, by a team of highly experienced chemists. -
Mom Needs These Cheeky #Tees
This Mother’s Day, why not give moms a gift they’ll love to wear with VooChic’s sassy fashion that will make them smile? These fun-loving, must-have tees have just right cheeky attitude for those high-spirited moms on your list.
Celebrate Your Family’s First Ladies with Handcrafted Apparel that Says It All
Salute your family’s first lady this Mother’s Day with the love-filled fun of VooChic fashion. With just the right cheeky attitude for those high-spirited women in your life, VooChic celebrates all the glory of motherhood with tongue-in-cheek messages that those ardent mamas will love to show off.
VooChic is a unique brand that stands out like no other. Modern and hip, VooChic uses high-quality materials in different and unusual designs that you won’t find anywhere else.
All of VooChic’s handcrafted apparel is printed, rhinestoned, glittered, or screen-printed with love and care as they are created. Entirely original, each piece is made with high-spirited designs that are sassy, lively and befit any proud, fiery woman wearing them.
VooChic offers a wide-range of fun-loving messages and styles including the following:- Let all the hot mamacitas sport the loud and proud Latina MAMACITA Black & White Handcrafted Tanky made with 100% cotton. The relaxed fit is perfect for everyday wear, as a beach cover or a workout tank ($28).
- Tell everyone she’s a one-of-a-kind with a flowy-cuffed Mother Like No Other muscle tee. This simple yet eye-catching tee is made with soft viscose and polyester, and topped with black-screen print that tells the world she’s outstanding.
VooChic is created by Dallas-Cowboys enthusiast and LEO (law enforcement officer) wife, Yvette Faulkner. As a LEO wife and motherof three, Yvette came up with the concept to create unique designs for women to wear and share while supporting their LEOs. Yvette’s passion for being distinctive comes to life in the fun-spirited boutique apparel that is perfect for any occasion.
Check out all the fun styles at www.Voochic.etsy.com or https://www.instagram.com/
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Mother’s Day: Local Entrepreneur and New Mother of Triplets
GetHappy Entrepreneur and New Mom of Triplets Offers Gourmet Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day
Celebrate mom with personalized delectable gift options from GetHappy!
As a veteran mother, entrepreneur and new mother of triplets, GetHappy Founder Lindsay Erickson knows exactly what moms want this Mother’s Day.Her Midwest gourmet confectionary company, GetHappy, has been serving both local and national consumers the world’s most delicious handmade chocolates, a global collection of gummies, and gourmet caramel apples served alongside a special personalized message.
“GetHappy is about taking the time to let someone know that you care, and show the person who brought you into this world that you appreciate them this Mother’s Day,” said founder Lindsay Erickson. “My team at each of our seven GetHappy locations have been busy putting together innovative and exciting gift packages to show Mom just how much she’s cared for.
Erickson’s love of creating gift packages for others and sending unexpected greeting cards to show that you care was the impetus for launching GetHappy at Mayfair Mall in September of 2011. Since launch, GetHappy has grown to seven locations in Wisconsin and Illinois as well as successfully breaking into the e-commerce market, allowing nationwide shipping. Between her brand’s success, an eight-year-old son, and new triplets, Erickson is determined to pass the joy onto others this Mother’s Day.The GetHappy Special Gift Basket is designed to make a mother’s mouth water. It features a delectable, handcrafted caramel apple and an assortment of the finest Belgian chocolates, each carefully nestled in a gourmet chocolate container and tied together with their beautiful, signature blue ribbon.
For a special thank you to the chocolate lover, GetHappy has created a decadent Belgian Box Tower. Weighing in at a pound and a half, this box features an assortment of all her favorite chocolate truffles. As a bonus, they’re offering special Mother’s Day pricing of only $40. As always, all their creations can be personalized completely free of charge!
“A mother is a teacher, a leader, a protector, and a disciplinarian all rolled into one,” said Erickson. “Mother’s Day isn’t just about indulging or treating, it is about showing appreciation for all that they do.”
About GetHappy:
Lindsay Erickson launched GetHappy to brighten up other peoples’ lives using sweet treats from around the world. Since its launch at the Mayfair Mall in September of 2011, GetHappy has grown to seven locations in Southeast Wisconsin and Illinois, and now has a growing online retail business.
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7 Last Minute Mother’s Day Gift Ideas! :)
It’s almost time to celebrate the moms in our lives!
Are you scrambling for a last minute gift?
If so, we’ve got you covered!
We’ve included 7 products below that are sure to make mom smile on her special day. 🙂
Baby ZalaLA designer Laura ODonnell knows that being a new mom is a tough act to balance. That’s why every piece from her hip new line, Baby Zala, is designed to help make moms’ lives easier and more fabulous! The Baby Zala brand has a variety of multi-functional mom essentials with a luxurious look and feel, to help moms look and feel their best! Men- if your wife has a newborn, take note: these make great gifts for Mother’s Day!
Moms with breastfeeding babies are loving these gorgeous Infiniti Shawls: perfect for cooler spring and summer nights as they are light weight, versatile, and ideal for on the go moms. They can be worn a variety of ways, and can even convert into a stroller canopy for your baby with a snap of a few buttons.
If she’s a traveling mama, she will swoon over these gorgeous Italian Leather travel bags complete with all the pockets she could need for a laptop, ipad, phone, baby goods, and more! Or, if you want to gift her with something more fit for a date night, you can’t go wrong with a sophisticated leather clutch, like this one.
SKINFOOD
Mom will look and feel radiant with SKINFOOD! Healthy skin starts with food. Food contains vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are good for the body inside and out. SKINFOOD uses these nourishing elements in all their products to deliver targeted nourishment and care. Brazilian black sugar, South Asian royal black honey, French grapes – these are just some of the good-for-you ingredients they include in their product development. The key to maximizing beauty can be found in the food around us. For a clean and smooth complexion, try their amazing Black Sugar Honey Mask Wash Off.
BeliBea
Moms deserve to enjoy their newborn without having to worry about their undergarments. Those sweet moments in between feeding can now be cherished because BeliBea allows moms to wear just ONE bra for breastfeeding and for hands-free pumping. No more changing, pumping, changing, nursing, changing, pumping, and so on. The BeliBea allows for easy access while providing prime coverage so you and your baby can have a pleasant experience. Built for comfort and functionality the BeliBea is the best nursing and pumping bra on the market!
Mother Trucker & co.
Take your spring/summer fashion to the next level with Mother Trucker! This great brand has the perfect items that will make anyone stand out and look great! As seen in Life & Style Magazine and US Weekly, Mother Trucker is a California-based trucker hat company that is dazzling, sexy and full of personality. Founded in the summer of 2015, Mother Trucker co. features specially designed trucker style hats with fun and hip phrases worn by celebs such as Tori Spelling, Candace Cameron Bure, Christina El Moussa and many more! Don’t let mom leave for the beach without a NEW Mother Trucker beach bag, available this May!
ModerneChild Shoppe
If you know a fashion forward mom with a “mini-me,” get her these adorable clothes from SoCal Fashion designer and “mompreneur,” Kim Landi! Landi designs stunning outfits and accessories for children and women! Recently featured on The Today Show, celebrities such as Tori Spelling and Amanda Stanton love dressing their daughters in her line, ModerneChild Shoppe. ModerneChild Shoppe offers high-quality, unique attire and accessories that are deemed what fashion bloggers call “cuteness overload.” Choose from an array of super stylish outfits and accessories – shop their adorable Mommy & Me Collection that will have mom and daughter looking fabulous.
- Affordable, high quality chic designs
- Celeb favorites!
- “Mommy and Me” matching outfits
- Prices: $14-$36
- 6 months – 12 years; and select adult sizes!
- Bottoms, dresses, outerwear, skirts, suits, sets and accessories
- Shop online at modernechild.com.
Hot Chocolate Design (HCD)How can a pair of shoes reflect style and mood and make you feel super unique? Hot Chocolate Design (HCD) has figured out that exact formula. Through exceptional design, imagination and creativity, this Venezuelan company has become internationally known for their fun and funky shoe designs. The founders are constantly influenced by different styles, tastes and eras, which they channel in their designs to create one-of-a-kind shoes that are loved equally by young and old, mainstream and non-mainstream, fashion-forward individuals. Beautifully packaged in a cake-themed decorative box, shoes from Hot Chocolate Design make a spectacular gift for the bold shoe lover on your holiday list. Take a look at HCD’s top picks from their marvelous Chocolaticas® and Double Topping line, available in a wide variety of prints and designs, perfect for mom this Mother’s Day!
Happy Yellow Dress
Achieve a classic look with Happy Yellow Dress – a company on a mission to bring the femininity back to fashion with classic styles inspired by the ‘40’s and ‘50’s. This lovely line of clothing gives any modern woman a quintessential look that will make the boys whistle. A labor of love, all the pretty pieces are carefully crafted from high quality cotton, rather than blends or polyester. As an added bonus, all of the delightful dresses and skirts have hidden side seam pockets, making it easy for mom to throw on a number and get out the door!
