Not more than a couple of weeks after proposing that argan oil may be the next “it” ingredient in skin and hair care, I find that my prediction may be dated. Skin care trends seem to have the pace of fashion trends. Gladiator sandals? Please, girl, those are so last summer. While I’m not willing to concede that argan oil is so yesterday, I’m excited to see  Read more…

It’s a beautiful thing when effective ingredients come at reasonable prices.  That is exactly what the stunning Salma Hayek has claimed to do with her new skin care line, Nuance. Hayek partnered with CVS to develop the ambitious collection, sold exclusively at the US chain. Nuance seems to dabble in everything from makeup, skin care (both face and body), to hair care! Inspired by Hayek’s Mexican heritage, the Nuance collection boasts a proprietary formula that blends exotic and ancient ingredients with modern science, delivering the most effective results.  Read more…

Whether you pluck, thread, or wax your eyebrows, there is always the phase where your strays come to the surface. Be it that they’re too short to tweeze out, or you’re trying to grow them out for your next wax, it’s no fun looking like teen wolf  Read more…

Do you ever wonder how celebrities get those oh-so-sexy shiny legs? Moisturizing isn’t enough to get those stems glowing; you need to learn some tricks to look like you’re red-carpet ready. There are a few things you can do to achieve this look. This includes anything from shimmer powders and creams, oils, petrolatum (e.g. Vaseline), and certain lotions.

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Skin care and beauty trends are as dynamic as fashion and iPhones. Something is always brewing to change the market – to be better than the last “it” product. So I’m constantly looking at what the beauty industry is doing in terms of innovation, but sometimes some trends come right out of left field. Turns out, my kind of Asians – South Koreans, have really taken a liking to a Chilean skin care ingredient that has been shown to have great skin benefits…snail slime. Yeah, that’s right.  Read more…

A few months ago, a friend and I were talking about natural skin care and discovered we both shared a love for natural oils. Lankika mentioned she particularly enjoyed using argan oil. I hadn’t heard of it, strangely; but that quickly changed. Literally within a week of our conversation, I began to hear about argan oil all over the place – from QVC, then HSN, then in my Google news alerts, and in magazines! I gained enough exposure to decide to pick up a bottle of this “liquid gold” at Wholefoods, sold by Soelle. I hate gimmicky euphemisms like this (this is what they used to call  Read more…