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Hooked on Beauty

Hooked on Beauty

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Featuring the latest and greatest in beauty products, photos and videos with step-by-step instructions on how to achieve your perfect look. Carissa, a longtime makeup artist, focuses on products that are quick and easy to use to help you spend wisely at the cosmetic counter.

posts and product reviews

Philosophy Gingerbread Contest

11/19/2009 at 11:33AM

Philosophy is giving away 5 prizes every day in their instant win game which lasts until December 17th. One lucky winner will receive a $2500 Philosophy shopping spree!You can Enter Here once a day throughout the contest's duration. Stumble It!var...

PCA Skin C-Quench

11/17/2009 at 02:28PM

Vitamin C is one of those rare one-size-fits-all ingredients that most women should incorporate into their skin care routines. I've gone over the benefits of Vitamin C, especially in the form of L-ascorbic acid. More specifically, L-ascorbic serums i...

LUSH Holiday Gift Sets

11/16/2009 at 03:10PM

LUSH has their holiday sets out now and they are adorable! Here are a few of my favs. Their So White Bath Bomb is the best named of the 10 products in their Fairy Tale box set, but Cinders Bath Bomb isn't that far behind. With a price that breaks dow...

June Jacobs

11/16/2009 at 01:23PM

June Jacobs is a 30-year veteran of the spa industry and a visionary in the field of hi-tech skin luxury. She has created around 100 products for skin and body using high-potency hydrosols (essential oils distilled from plant matter), powerful antiox...

Blinc Mascara

11/15/2009 at 03:36PM

Although the technology has started to spread to more mainstream cosmetic companies, the original 'Kiss Me' mascara (they've since changed their name to Blinc) was the first to feature their tube technology that has become an instant cult classic. On...

Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solutions

11/15/2009 at 02:09PM

Up until very recently, if you had troubled skin and were looking for a natural solution, you'd be stuck with tee tree oil- which is mild (and somewhat effective) but didn't really stand up to the problem on its own.Of course I was surprised to see t...

Three Custom Color Specialists Opaline Creme Eye Definers

11/12/2009 at 11:00PM

At first glance, I thought it was just a purple creme eye liner. But wait, that's not purple, it's actually...brown?In one of the coolest uses of color theory, Three Custom Color Specialists take black and brown creme liners to a whole new level. The...

Vitamin D

11/11/2009 at 08:22PM

So this isn't the usual beauty stuff, but this article on the importance of vitamin D is a really good read. It's by Dr Frank Lipman a.k.a Gwyneth Paltrow's doctor and he speaks of vitamin d's ability to protect our bodies from all sorts of illnesses...

Cosmopolitan's Kisses for the Troops

11/11/2009 at 10:45AM

Hurray to Cosmopolitan Magazine for celebrating Veteran's Day the way a girly mag should. If you live in NYC, you're in for a treat, check out their 12-hour schedule to 'collect kisses' HERE and be a part of the fun! Stumble It!var OB_platformType...

Laura Mercier Baked Eye Color Palette and Petite Eye Palette

11/09/2009 at 12:49PM

Tis the season to get new makeup! Even pre-Thanksgiving you'll find that most cosmetic lines have their Holiday '09 value sets out on the counters looking for new homes for a fraction of what they'd sell for separately.Laura Mercier's eye palettes we...

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