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Daily Facial Care Done Right: Alba Botanica
Lately, my skin hasn’t been feeling or looking as great as it should. Who’s to blame? Winter in New York! I have been looking for a new cleanser to help draw out the dirt and oil while moisturising my skin. I also have very sensitive skin, so I needed something that didn’t cause irritation. If you have been having the same issue here is my top suggestion: Alba Botanica.
Alba Botanica is cruelty-free, made with 100% vegetarian ingredients and without harmful ingredients. Each collection delivers concentrated doses of botanical ingredients that detox and act as a fast fix for your skin and body. Each mask is saturated with its key ingredient (coconut, Camu Camu & more!) to target specific skin concerns (from wrinkles to acne!)
Alba Botanica Hawaiian Detox Facial Care
Each product in the Hawaiian Detox facial care collection is formulated with Volcanic Clay, a mineral-rich natural substance that draws out dirt, oil, and grime from deep within pores before being washed away. This action helps clear problematic impurities which immediately brightens and refreshes skin. The clay’s unique physical texture also polishes away dead surface cells, leaving skin with a smooth, even, mattified glow. Each formula is powerfully effective, yet also hypo-allergenic.
Hawaiian Detox Cleanser (6oz., $11.99, Whole Foods)
Gentle yet effective daily detoxifier lathers away problematic impurities
Hawaiian Detox Scrub (4oz., $11.99, Whole Foods)
Distinctive black lathering scrub gently exfoliates, clears and brightens skin
Hawaiian Detox Sheet Mask (single mask, $3.49, Whole Foods)
Micro-extraction mask loosens stubborn impurities for intensive detox action
Hawaiian Detox Facial Towelettes (30ct, $5.99, Whole Foods)
Multi-tasking towelette whisks away makeup, detoxifies and tones without rinsing
Alba Fast Fix Sheet Masks (SRP: $3.49, Target, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods & natural food stores) Individually wrapped, serum-soaked fiber masks contour to your face to deliver concentrated doses of active botanical ingredients. In as little as 5 minutes, skin experiences a powerful beauty-enhancing treatment! 100% vegetarian ingredients, no animal testing, synthetic fragrances, artificial colors or parabens.- Coconut Water Hydrate Sheet Mask: an infusion of coconut water, cucumber and chamomile provide a mega-moisture oasis to return skin to healthy, hydrated happiness
- Camu Camu Anti-Wrinkle Sheet Mask: Camu Camu, cocoa, and caffeine fight the good fight to help firm, tone and tackle those pesky lines and wrinkles
- Papaya Anti-Acne Sheet Mask: the zit-zapping trio of papaya, lemon balm, and salicylic acid penetrates pores to give pimples their proper punishment
- Grapefruit Even Tone Sheet Mask: grapefruit, charcoal, and turmeric vanish visible pores, soothe redness and help lighten shadows, to give skin a soft, even glow
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Holiday Season Gift Ideas: Jennie Links Jewelry
Winter is coming so this can only mean one thing: the holiday season is near! Now is the time to start your gift search for that special woman in your life, and what a better gift than to frost up your lady with a little ice.
Launched this September, Jennie Links is a fine jewelry brand composed of handmade-to-order pieces produced in New York City. Founder and Creative Director Jennie Jackson’s design aesthetic is based on bringing refined minimal essentials direct- to-customer through online only sales on www.jennielinks.com.
The Jennie Links collections are meant to seamlessly fit any wardrobe with perfectly fitting customized creations. Designed with both the minimalist and maximalist in mind, Jennie Links encompasses the necessary elements needed to complete the perfect jewelry chest. With the added value of direct-to-customer pricing, these minimal accents are the ideal ‘link’ for both the simplistic architect of fashion and the layering maven.
Jennie Links is a revolutionary approach to fine jewelry pricing and customization. As a fashion industry professor, Jackson became frustrated with the degree to which fine jewelry is marked up because of expensive ads and storefronts.
The pricing is set to disrupt the luxury jewelry market and ranges from $200 – $6,500. Offering only 18K gold and VS G color diamonds, Jennie Links is for the discerning customer with impeccable taste.
All rings are offered in quarter size increments, allowing the customer to have a final piece that is their size without any rigged adjustments. While shopping for her wedding ring, Jackson realized perfectly fitting rings were not a concern of the large luxury houses. In order to solve this problem, and offer customers a true fit, she founded Jennie Links as a way to finally have the pieces she desired in exactly the right size and color of gold. All pieces are offered in yellow, white and rose gold. Customers choose what color or combination of colors they want per piece.
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Wraps Launch Special Edition Skull Wristband Headphones
Following the success of the Classic and Talk Wraps wristband headphones, Wraps is now launching a limited edition Skull Bead Wraps to celebrate the spooky Halloween season. Based on the Natural Walnut wooden bead Wraps but with added Skull charms to bring this look to life, you can now rock out while you are enjoying your pumpkin soup, getting together with friends and neighbors or trick or treating with the kids! The new skull bead edition will be available for a limited time only so get yours while you still can!
Using Wraps headphones has fast become as much about how good you look wearing them as it is how good they sound. Not only do the earphones look and sound great, they also solve the daily frustration of those that are easily broken, tangled or lost. Wraps solve 3 inherent problems all earphones have: storage, anti- tangle and style simply by enabling you to wear them on your wrist while you’re not using them. #WearYourSound with pride and bring your outfit to life while also having your favourite music ‘on hand’ whenever you want it.
The Skull Beads Wraps feature:
- built in headset microphone
- 3.5mm gold plated jack
- light, spherical ABS housing helps control the sound
- choice of small, medium and large silicon tips to provide a comfortable and secure fit
- large 10MM dynamic speaker, tuned by world-renowned British Audio sound engineers, to deliver exceptional sound quality
When worn on the wrist, the unique patented slider system keeps the lightweight heads, slider and jack plug all connected together for a secure compact fit. The cables are kept in perfect alignment and remain tangle free and always close to hand! The British designers blended materials and colors to craft a fashionable headphone that can stylize your outfit and coordinate your look so whether you’re travelling to work, to a Halloween party or heading off to school, there is a Wraps headphone for you! - Asian, Austin, Australia, Baltimore, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, WorldWide
Fall Beauty Essentials: Million Dollar Tan
It may be time to say farewell to summer, but that doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to your sexy tan. Million Dollar Tan’s new limited edition self-tanner, Summer Sun is finally here. Now, you can be a bronzed goddess all year round!
Have a beauty lover on your holiday list? Summer Sun is the ultimate sunless tanning mousse that compliments every skin tone. Nourishing and rich, this ultra-bronze self-tanner is made with raw, organic DHA, and contains ZERO parabens. It’s formulated with TANlock technology, a proprietary blend of botanicals designed to make your tan last longer and fade more evenly.
Summer Sun is a buildable tanning product, mea
ning you have full control over how rich or light you want your golden tan to look. Unlike other self-tanners, this one leaves zero sticky residue and is streak-free, guaranteeing a flawless tan each time. Ultra-gentle and natural, this tanning mousse will not damage your skin or clog your pores. Made with natural botanical extracts, your skin will appear healthy and radiant. Farewell sunburns, premature aging and sunspots! For a limited time only Million Dollar Tan is introducing Summer Sun, The Ultimate Sunless Tan:
- Formulated with TANlock TM Tan Perfecting technology
- Contains Deoplex, a natural odor neutralizer that keeps tanning totally fresh and revitalizing
- Light and airy mousse
- Can be applied quickly and easily
- Leaves your skin streak-free
- Absorbs quickly
- Works on all skin types
- Does not clog pores
- Ultra-gentle
- Cruelty-free
- No fillers
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Don’t Break the Bank: Affordable Serums from Art Naturals
An essential skincare step for glowing, smooth, skin shouldn’t be costing you an arm and a leg. From aging and sun spots to fine lines, wrinkles and bags, facial serums from Art Naturals have got you covered!
Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizing Serum
A blend of hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E and jojoba seed work together to fight wrinkles, fine lines, blemishes, dryness and protect from irritation. Your skin will be left nourished and moisturized!
Price: $15, available online via www.artnaturals.com.
Enhanced Vitamin C Serum with Hyaluronic Acid
Organically infused, reducing signs of aging and sun spots all while restoring youthful, glow and minimizing existing wrinkles while preventing new wrinkles from forming. A gentle and rapid absorption allows it to be used along with makeup and daily moisturizers!
Price: $15, available online via www.artnaturals.com.
Enhanced Retinol Serum
This serum is ideal for reducing fine lines and wrinkles, crow’s feet, age spots and under eye bags. The antioxidant properties will restore skin’s healthy and youthful complexion and shine.
Price: $15, available online via www.artnaturals.com.
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Fight Aging: Drinkable Beauty Shots
Revolutionary supplement from Osmosis Skincare helps reverse daily sugar damage to prevent sagging and wrinkles
Sugar. We are surrounded by it at almost every meal yet sweets are often one of the most overlooked causes of so many skin, gut, and general health issues. In particular, an overabundance of it in your diet is speeding up one process: aging. At fault is a natural occurrence called glycation and Osmosis Skincare’s Sugar Detox Harmonized Water is a revolutionary supplement created to curb its effects on the skin.
All of us are experiencing the effects of aging from Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs). This results from excess sugar in our blood stream attaching to collagen making it tough and aging it before its time which leads to wrinkles. The sugar-protein bonds form these new molecules called AGEs. Over time AGEs become more permanent and affect the ability of our fibroblasts to create collagen. They also produce free radicals increasing the aging process even more.
Osmosis Skincare’s Sugar Detox Harmonized Water is specifically designed to address all aspects of sugar and sweetener overload. This Harmonized Water contains frequencies that help balance the pancreas, improve sugar utilization, detox sweeteneres from the liver, balance nerve damage associated with diabetes, help control sugar levels and reduce the effects of gylcation in the body. With daily use, there is now less sugar available to cause damage and help stop AGE-ing.
Price: $30 from www.osmosisskincare.com/S
ugarDetox.aspx?cn=11482 Directions: Take 5 pumps AM and PM. If more than 175 lbs, take 7 pumps.
