Category Archives: Product Reviews

Summer Beauty Products: A Minimalist Routine

In the deepest, hottest part of summer, it’s just too hot for a regular beauty routine. Everything sweats or slides off, and the heat saps any energy to do much more than pour a cold drink. But there are ways to compact your beauty routine, and keep your beauty cool as well. Here are some products that can take the heat – some of them are from my working makeup kit, some have been introduced to me through Wild Beauty, …

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Product Review: Hold Me Bag

Often the biggest challenge for makeup mavens isn’t what product or tool to use – it’s finding that product in a mess of a makeup bag. I hate digging as well, so I usually solve the problem by keeping my personal kit down to the absolute minimum. And if I don’t see it, I don’t use it.

Lucky for me, I got offered a Hold Me Bag to try. The Hold Me Bag was designed to be an elegant solution …

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Natural Beauty Gift Ideas: Indie Companies You Want to Buy From

In the last year I’ve come across some really cool natural beauty products – some through Wild Beauty, and some through people I work with. So how could I not share? Most of these companies are run by one or two people. Some of them have international fair trade as part of their business plan. But what they all share is an emphasis on craft, on ingredients, and a newcomer’s fresh belief that it’s the product that matters, not just …

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Product Review: Molton Brown Ultrasmooth Coco de Mer Body Lotion

The Coco de Mer is a giant palm tree found only in the island nation of Seychelles. Before the 18th century, the palm was known only by its seeds, which used to float from the then uninhabited region to the Maldives. These seeds were known by various racy names, including the “bum seed,” a name given by sailors because their double shape reminded them of a woman’s rear end.

When Victorian explorers discovered the palms in the Seychelles, they were …

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Product Review: Bite Beauty Luminous Crème Lipstick

It’s pretty much a given that when we wear lipstick, we ingest a lot of it. With the average lipstick-wearing woman reapplying about five times a day, it seems only natural that more lip products should be created from edible ingredients.

With this in mind, Susanne Langmuir created Bite Beauty, a lip-centered line made exclusively from food grade ingredients and pigments, and fortified with the “red wine” antioxidant Resveratrol. But Bite goes beyond natural, with sleek, witty packaging, and chic …

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