• New York,  WorldWide

    IT Cosmetics – for Valentine’s Day!

    Whether you’re getting glam for Valentine’s Day (or Galentine’s Day J), IT Cosmetics will give you that certain something that will make you feel like your most beautiful you! Our #1 best-selling shade Je Ne Sais Quoi™ provides the perfect pop of pink – just enough to make cupid blush! One swipe on the lips and cheeks is all you need to look perfectly polished day or night!

    Let us get some inspiration from Grammy Awards Performer & Billboard’s 2016 Powerhouse Award Winner Andra Day, whoes look with IT Cosmetics at-a-glance below and in-depth product information beneath that.

    Makeup by Emily Garrido for IT Cosmetics

    INSPIRATION:

    “The inspiration behind Andra Day’s look was 70’s flower power. We wanted to focus on hydrated beautiful skin that glowed within. We also did a subtle liner with a purple cut crease to give a 70’s vibe.”

    SKINCARE:

    Make tired eyes look instantly more awake! Developed with plastic surgeons, this clinically shown anti-aging, moisturizing eye cream visibly smooths lines and brightens while reducing the appearance of dark circles and puffiness. Perfect for all skin types, even the most sensitive, the deeply nourishing, quick-absorbing formula delivers powerful results to leave your eye area looking younger and well-rested.

    This luxurious cream’s exclusive “dark shadow minimizing” blue tint brightens even the darkest eye circles. Collagen, essential oils and caffeine help nourish and firm your delicate eye-area skin, while vitamin C, copper, blue algae and peptides give you loads of anti-aging benefits. Plus, hyaluronic acid and cucumber extract hydrate, cool and help attract and maintain moisture to enhance suppleness and restore radiance.

    • Clinically shown to reduce the look of lines and wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness!
    • Exclusive “dark shadow minimizing” blue tint brightens even the darkest under-eye circles
    • Anti-aging copper, caffeine, vitamin C, collagen, cucumber extract and peptides

    FACE:

    • ITCosmetics Confidence in a Compact in Medium Tan – NEW!!!

     

    Developed with plastic surgeons, Confidence in a Compact starts its life as your first-ever, clinically shown anti-aging solid serum, and is infused with full-coverage pigments and SPF 50+ UVA/UVB broad-spectrum physical sunscreen. It truly delivers all the skincare benefits of your best-selling Confidence in a Cream, plus your full-coverage foundation and SPF 50+ in one simple step! The groundbreaking solid serum technology combined with anti-aging hydrolyzed collagen, hyaluronic acid, squalane, antioxidants and a super ceramide cream transform your skin.

    Perfect for even the most sensitive skin, Confidence in a Compact helps boost your skin’s natural regenerative cycle. The proprietary Anti-Aging Armour Regenerative Concentrate is activated upon contact to immerse your skin in moisture, restore visible radiance, reduce the look of pores, discoloration, lines and wrinkles, and improve the look of firmness. You’ll see powerful results instantly and more dramatic results over time.

    Say “bye bye” to redness and hello to your most flawless complexion in just one step! Bye Bye Redness™ is your color-infused skincare that starts its life as a skin-calming cream and completely cancels redness from view—all while delivering long-wearing, color-correcting full coverage. Rich in anti-aging peptides, colloidal oatmeal, hydrolyzed collagen, aloe and avocado, it camouflages any red-toned skin discolorations including rosacea, broken capillaries, blemishes, skin irritations, sun damage, scars, age spots and more. This soothing, cutting-edge, super-blendable cream truly provides perfect coverage that never creases or cracks, and makes your skin appear supple, even and youthfully radiant all day long! One universal shade works for all skin tones!

    • First-ever skincare cream that covers redness
    • Full-coverage formula, clinically shown not to crease or crack
    • Can be worn alone or under makeup
    • Universal shade, perfect for all skin tones
    • Anti-aging, skin-loving colloidal oatmeal, peptides, aloe and collagen!

    Experience your most skin-loving, airbrushed look from a compact! Developed with plastic surgeons, Bye Bye Pores Pressed™ finishing powder is designed to visually blur the appearance of pores and imperfections with Bye Bye Pores Optical Blurring Technology™. The universal translucent shade imparts all skin tones with a silky, skin-perfecting finish, while the anti-aging blend of peptides, silk, hydrolyzed collagen and antioxidants pampers skin for a more youthful, airbrushed complexion. Can be applied throughout the day for on-the-go touch-ups, and doubles as a blotting powder, too!

    • #1 best-selling, award-winning powder formula
    • Airbrushing in a compact
    • Bye Bye Pores Optical Blurring Technology™ blurs imperfections for a flawless finish
    • Universal translucent shade for all skin tones
    • Anti-aging silk, hydrolyzed collagen, antioxidants and peptides!

    CHEEKS:

     

    A 4-in-1 multi-tasker powerhouse- It will take the place of your powder blush, cheek stain, Antioxidant defense and hydrating skin conditioner all in one innovative technology! The cutting edge micro-milled long-wear, powder stain is also Talc-free so it never clings to fine lines and wrinkles, plus it gives you that glow of a stain, without any of the side effects of liquid stains such as skin sensitivity or disturbing the finish of foundation!

    Developed with plastic surgeons, this hydrating, brightening and Anti-Aging blush gives the perfect naturally pretty flush of color to the cheeks and lasts all day long, until you take it off. This truly innovative, yet natural formula contains IT Cosmetics® Hydra-LuxeTM technology including ingredients such as Plum Oil, Cherry oil, Hyaluronic Acid, Pomegranate, Seaweed Extract, Grape Seed, Aloe and Jojoba that all work together to treat, hydrate, condition, and nourish your skin. Plus Vitality Cheek Flush is packed with Anti-Aging Antioxidants including Vitamins A, C, E, Acai, Green Tea and White Tea to protect and ward off free-radicals all day long. This Made in the USA formula is also Paraben-free.

    • Infused with Anti-Aging technology
    • Long wearing, micro-milled powder
    • Sheer buildable pigments for just the right touch of color
    • Brightens and hydrates the skin

    EYES:

    Developed with plastic surgeons, this creamy pencil utilizes proprietary No-Tug Technology™ to glide on rich, saturated color without tugging on your delicate eye area! The innovative formula is infused with anti-aging peptides, hydrolyzed collagen, silk, antioxidants, and vitamins A and E to treat and nourish your eyelids while instantly diffusing the look of lines—plus, it’s clinically shown waterproof even after 12 hours of wear. Choose from 10 long-lasting, completely wearable shades that enhance every eye color and give you truly youthful, eye-opening results!

    • No-Tug Technology™ for smooth-glide application of rich, saturated color
    • Anti-aging collagen, silk, peptides and antioxidants help diffuse the look of lines for younger-looking lids
    • Clinically shown waterproof, even after 12 hours of wear!

     LIP:

    A clinically shown waterproof automatic lip liner pencil that is also a stain, so it truly lasts! Hydrating primer, and long-wear stain that doesn’t dry out lips and keeps your favorite lip product in place!

    Developed with leading plastic surgeons, YLBB® stands for Your Lips But Better™ and that is exactly what this product is all about! An ultra-luxe, ultra creamy, clinically shown, waterproof automatic lip liner pencil that is your lip liner, lip primer, long-wear liner stain and reversible lip liner all in one! This truly innovative formula is infused with Peptides, Collagen, Hyaluronic Acid, hydrating Avocado Oil, Shea Butter, Aloe, and Jojoba that work together to treat, hydrate, condition, sooth and nourish your lips all while minimizing the appearance of lip lines and keeping your lip color in place! Also packed with Anti-Aging antioxidants including Vitamins A, C, E, Acai, Green Tea and White Tea to protect and ward off free-radicals all day long.

    Paraben-free. Wear alone or with your favorite lip color.

    • First ever lip liner stain!
    • Clinically proven waterproof after 8 hours of wear
    • Infused with hydrating Anti-Aging ingredients
    • Prevents your favorite lip product from feathering

    Hydrating skin illuminator that conditions and nourishes your skin while giving you the perfect touch of natural-looking radiance. It gives you a healthy lit-from-within glow, that leaves skin silky, velvety and supple without using glitter, plus it never settles into lines and wrinkles!

    It’s like the look of a face lift in a stick. Developed with leading plastic surgeons, it’s packed with Anti-Aging ingredients such as Hydrolyzed Collagen, Peptides, Hyaluronic Acid, Real Silk Vitamins A, C, E, Grapeseed, Green Tea and Aloe for the perfect “lit-from-within” glow.

    • Drops of Light Technology® uses light-refracting microspheres to provide a lit-from-within glow
    • Infused with skin-loving ingredients
    • Universal shade that works with all skin tones
    • Multi-purpose, on-the-go highlighting stick
  • Asian,  Austin,  Australia,  Baltimore,  Chicago,  Las Vegas,  London,  Los Angeles,  Miami,  New York,  Technology,  Toronto,  Vancouver,  WorldWide

    Create Mini “Hairs” with Osmosis Eyebrow Gel

    No brows? No problem! Create natural strokes that mimic real hair with this water-resistant, smudge-proof eyebrow gel! Gone are the days of overdrawn, penciled in eyebrows. Whether you’re looking to camouflage sparse spots, add dimension or cover up greys, the Osmosis Colour Brow Gel Collection does it all. Available in 4 shades, this water-resistant, smudge-proof gel lets you fill in, shape, and color brows without flaking or fading. They glide on like a cream and set to last all day. It won’t move until you want it to.

    Complete with an angled brush for a precise application, each glide will make a stroke so natural looking, you would never know it wasn’t real hair. Formulated with emollient beeswax, this unique gel formula dries quickly while mimicking actual hairs to give you full arches in a flash. Great for covering grey hairs, simply dip a clean mascara wand into your brow color, painting each side the desired color. Mix and match tones to coordinate with hair color.

    Gluten-Free | Oncology Friendly

  • New York,  WorldWide

    Be Your Own Valentine This Year!

    It’s time for the girls to take over Valentine’s Day this year and GLOW for a cause is here to help women around the country feel fabulous this February 14th with their Inspire scent!

    Be inspired this Valentine’s Day with GLOW for a cause!

    Instead of letting Valentine’s Day be run by Hallmark, it’s about time ladies take a front seat and take this opportunity to empower each other. GLOW for a cause was created to pamper and empower women around the world to be their own inspiration February 14th!

    Who says you need a man to make your Valentine’s Day? GLOW for a cause believes that you’re fabulous enough to be your own Valentine! We live in an amazing world with so many inspiring women that it’s about time we celebrate everything the ladies bring to the table! This Valentine’s Day, pamper yourself and the ladies you admire with the delightful floral and citrus scent “Inspire”!

    GLOW for a cause “inspire” Scented Products Include:

    • Body Butter
    • Solid Perfume
    • Solid Perfume Vegan Blend
    • Roll-On Perfume
    • Roll-On Perfume Vegan Blend

    If you’re looking for additional products to indulge yourself with, GLOW for a cause has an entire collection of fabulous gifts!

    Additional GLOW for a cause products include:

    • Facial Creams
    • Facial Clay Masks
    • Facial Clay Scrubs
    • Lip Balm
    • Makeup Bag

    Not only will you be giving yourself the gift of pampered beauty, you will also be giving back to charities that GLOW for a cause gives back to with every purchase you make!

    Charities GLOW for a cause Gives Back to Includes:

    • Cowgirls vs. Cancer
    • Boston Firefighter’s Burn Foundation
    • The Red Sox Foundation
    • MaxFund Animal Adoption Center
    • The Gathering Place
    • Berni’s Journey

    Learn more about the love at http://www.glowforacause.com/.

    About GLOW for a cause

    GLOW for a cause is a beauty company unlike any other. What started out as a quest to create the purest and highest quality body care products and soy candles has evolved into a glowing movement. Founded by artist, teacher, and skincare productista, Johanna Querry Smith, GLOW for a cause is a passion project that makes both people and the world just a little more beautiful.GLOW for a cause products are made from the finest and purest ingredients available. Every time you buy a GLOW for a cause product, you are not only pampering yourself, you are giving back 5% to our partner non-profit organizations. Now that’s beauty that GLOWS on the inside and out.

  • New York,  WorldWide

    Grab Your Girls for GALentine’s Day!

    Although many people spend Valentine’s Day with a significant other, who says you can’t feel the love if you’re riding solo? This February 14, gather your girlfriends for GALentine’s Day — stay in, or spend the night out on the town with these must-have products!

    Beth Quinn Designs

    Beth Quinn Designs has something for all the women you know that will make them feel extra special! Designer Beth Quinn believes in honoring women with little affirmations to bring them joy and inspiration, and celebs like Jenny McCarthy are fans! Choose from an array of bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and more with meaningful messages. Beth Quinn Designs has something for every woman’s home and heart that will bring them a smile. Check out some of her Valentine’s Day/heart-themed pieces for your girlfriends!

    Starlooks

    Get glam this GALentine’s Day with Starlooks!Starlooks has created an amazing variety of gorgeous, professional quality, HD cosmetics that have become a favorite brand inside the world’s beauty subscription boxes. Founder Marci Star found a calling within herself to truly impact the ways in which people of all shapes, colors, sizes, and even skin conditions, can shine with their inner beauty reflected on the outside too. An important part of the Starlooks’ mission is to help others dream big and in their own small way let their inner beauty out! That’s why a portion of all proceeds goes to the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles, whose mission is to keep women safe and off LA’s Skid Row by putting them into schooling, housing, food, etc.

    RSVP Skinnies

    Make some cocktails for the girls with RSVP Skinnies! This delicious beverage brand is the first zero calorie, all natural cocktail mixer that foodies are loving! Small enough to fit in your pocket, RSVP Skinnies are guilt-free drink mixers – guaranteed to make the perfect cocktail every time. Choose from a variety of mouth-watering flavors that are perfect for toast to GALentine’s Day!

    • Zero calories, no sugar
    • Made with 100% plant based ingredients
    • Convenient packets to take on-the-go!
    • $6.00 per box of 6 packets
    • Purchase on Amazon or www.rsvpskinnies.com.

    Ecco Bella 

    Transform your look this GALentine’s Day with Ecco Bella! From makeup to hair care to skin care and fragrance, Ecco Bella has beautiful and cruelty-free lines that help you look better as the day goes on. Have clear skin, beautiful hair, fabulous makeup and smell absolutely amazing! Ecco Bella also uses flower color to help you stay beautiful all day long.

    Mezzi

    Surprise your girlfriends, or gift yourself! Keep your phone fully charged throughout the busy night (and look stylish doing so) with Mezzi’s cute (and handy!) clutches! Mezzi is a fashion and technology brand based in Vancouver, Canada. The Italian word MEZZI translates to: “having the means needed for a particular purpose.” Their products are for those that demand more, want something designed with much more care and functionality than anything they’ve ever owned before. Their bags are designed to be technology specifically for women – something that doesn’t seem to happen enough in this world of “make it pink or put polka dots on it.” Every collection is decided upon based on their community’s feedback to create and provide the most innovative products possible, created on principles of design, innovation and authenticity. 

    GLOW for a cause 

    Be your own Valentine and spoil yourself with GLOW for a cause! Look and feel your best this season with GLOW for a cause products! From body butter to lip balm and perfumes, you will smell divine and look fine at all times! Their delicate products will keep you feeling fresh all day, and you can feel good knowing that with each purchase, you are helping one of the many charities that GLOW for a cause donates to. Not only will you be giving yourself the gift of beauty, you will also be giving back to those in need. Try their Wish Body Butter today!

    Mother Trucker & co.

    Celebrate the #SINGLE life with Mother Trucker & co.! 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 perfect to describe every occasion of her life and personality.

    IMAD

    The perfect accessory for animal lovers! Bring an animal lover and their pet a little closer together this GALentine’s Day with a special gift from IMAD. These fun, pet-themed charms are perfect for those with a soft spot for furry friends and for endangered animals. IMAD is a jewelry company that uses fashion as a way to raise awareness for the injustice animals face worldwide, such as pollution, puppy mills, dog fighting and more. The Domestic & Endangered Animal Pendant Collection gives a voice to the voiceless by assisting in the preservation of animal life. The clever acronym IMAD stands for “I Made A Difference.” When you purchase an IMAD pendant, $1 of that sale will be donated to the Animal Welfare Institute, an organization dedicated to the better treatment of all animals.  

    Aminocare is Everything You Need for Cold Weather Skincare Essentials!

    Treat yourself and the girls with Aminocare’s high-performance products, which leverage the power of nature and science to create the most effective anti-aging beauty remedies. Their skincare line is a MUST – especially for those with sensitive skin. Aminocare’s advanced formulas will help keep your skin radiant and soft during the cold weather season! Choose from over 30 everyday skincare essentials with nourishing ingredients such as amino acids, potent anti-oxidants, hyaluronic acid, argan oil, and vitamin E, such as Aminocare Reverse Face Cream. This soothing face cream will leave your skin feeling noticeably plump, more youthful, and as soft as a baby’s butt all year long!

    • Natural Ingredients
    • Anti-aging
    • Hydrates skin
    • Renews damaged skin cells
    • Repairs imperfections
    • NO parabens, dyes, or mineral oil
    • Never tested on animals

    Trust Fund Beauty

    Is she ready to make a statement with her lipstick? Do her nails need a fashion pick-me-up? Try the high fashion and trendy colors with Trust Fund’s lipstick and nail polishes! Their shades are sure to be the perfect complement to any outfit! Although each of their products have quirky and fun titles, Trust Fund Beauty takes beauty seriously, ensuring you can “trust” them to make you feel beautiful. Trust Fund sells nail polish and lipstick products formulated with love in the U.S.A. and EU, which are always vegan and cruelty-free.

  • My dog Cami

    Cami’s Favorite Things February Edition

    Cami is almost 9 months old now and so far she has been on a raw diet! We are open to letting her try various treats and foods out there as long as they are top notch quality! A lot of people have asked me what my ‘goals’ are and intent in feeding Cami such high quality food. I guess I have a few answers. One, I want to make sure she thrives and not just survives. I want her to be healthy, happy and eating what is BIOLOGICALLY appropriate for her. If I feed a bird Snickers bar instead of seed and worms that it’s suppose to have, you will feel strange right? I think dogs need what they are designed to eat, meat. Yet I know living in urban cities and homes, sometimes you need alternatives. So we have found a bunch of stuff that’s awesome, nutritious and accessible! Hope you enjoy our list for this month!

     

    1. Health Extension has been keeping pets healthy since 1963 by offering nourishing recipes that pet parents can feel good about serving to their pets. Each recipe is crafted with super premium ingredients to help support stronger bones and immune system. Made in the USA, their diets include:
    • Grain Free Dry Dog food varieties offer all the health benefits of the Holistic Health Extension System in a grain-free formula. You won’t find any added hormones – just high-quality meat as the first ingredient – because sensible protein levels are the first step to a healthy life. Available in: Buffalo & Whitefish, Chicken & Turkey, Salmon, Duck, Venison, and Buffalo & Whitefish Little Bites.

    • Grain Free Stews for dogs are a superb source of high-quality protein. The formulas also provide an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. Your dog will enjoy and benefit from the stew due to its lack of growth hormones, steroids, meat by-products, and allergy related fillers. Available in: Chunky Chicken Stew, Tasty Turkey Stew and Savory Beef Stew.

    We recently tried the Savory Beef Stew and I mix in a spoonful along with her breakfast. She loves it!

    We always read the ingredients label so here it is:

    beef broth, chicken, beef, Carrots, dried egg whites, potato starch, dried egg product, peas, Guar gum, salt, added color, Tricalcium Phosphate, dried potatoes, sodium phosphate, beet pulp, ground flaxseed, potassium chloride, natural flavor, Ferrous Sulfate, Xanthan Gum, Choline Chloride, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin E Supplement, Copper Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Pyridoxine Hydrocloride, Vitamin D3 Supplement, folic Acid.

    2. We tried vension from Nature’s Logic! This brand is dedicated to offering diets that are made exclusively with whole foods and 100% natural ingredients. Available for both canines and felines, the diets:

    • Are free of common allergens and include no corn, wheat, rice, soy, potato, tapioca, peas, or sweet potatoes
    • Contain natural antioxidants from fruits and vegetables grown in the USA
    • Do not contain any man-made synthetic vitamins, minerals or amino acids, nor any genetically engineered fruits, veggies, nuts, grasses, or seeds
    • Have probiotics and enzymes that help increase nutrient absorption and aid in digestion
    • Are nutrient dense and highly digestible

    This one is more like a pate type of consistency and was easy to scoop out. It is moist and has no ‘gravy’. Cami loves this one too! One of the interesting ingredients in this food is clay. I know it has wonderful minerals and used often in products for detox.  This is probably the easiest way for me to feed and give Cami liver!

    3. Cami graduated from Puppy School! We decided to check out 2 schools in the last few months and I recommend them both! One is more of a formal class with 6-8 students and held at Smarty Paws and the 2nd one is by Tino (Peace Love and Pitbulls) held at a outdoors at Desert Breeze Park. What I liked about taking Cami is learn is that she can be around dogs without always being in ‘play’ mode and she learned a lot! Even though I had Jacob for 11 years, it is always good to get a refresher course for new puppies! Puppies are brand new and need a lot of exposure to various situations.

    4. Toy Store! One of our friends from school told us about the Dog Supplies Outlet store so we went to check it out.  It was filled with toys, treats and the best part was Cami got a chirpy ball from JW and an orange monkey fist knot rope. Very successful and tons of fun.

    5. Treats ++ This brand is so cool. I and Love and You dog treats are Nice Moist Jerky and can be used for training. We used these in school and Cami learned ‘down’. They are easy to tear into small bits and the Chicken and Duck are so yummy and considered a ‘high value’ treat that’s perfect for training. We also trained with their dry kibble… They are heart shaped! Grain free and filled with Probiotics for easy digestion.

    6. Uber for Dogs? No really. This is the first on demand Dog Walking App! I haven’t tried it yet because they don’t service Vegas but I’d love to be a walker. Check out Wag App.

    7. I saw this funny dog tag on BADTAGS.com. This is not Cami but it looks a lot like her! ha ha!

    8. One of the oldest brand of dog treats I recall is the Bil Jac Liver in the milk carton type packaging! I am so happy to see their brand update includes the ORIGINAL recipes still! This one is a fan favorite and Cami loves when I hide these in her toys and Kong! A word from Bil Jac:

    • Because of our unique processing, no fat is added to Bil-Jac Super Premium Dog Food.
    • We use much more REAL CHICKEN and REAL CHICKEN ORGANS than other leading brands.
    • We never use grain gluten meals or grain protein concentrates as a source of protein in our formulas.
    • Our use of carbohydrates is to provide nutritional balance and energy — not as a substitute for protein.
    • Our unique processing method may eliminate the perceived “allergic” symptoms dogs exhibit when carbohydrates in their diet are not properly processed.