Celebrity Face Designer Tim Quinn advises his clients to protect their skin everyday, “I always recommend using a product with SPF beneath your makeup. The Crema Nera OMC³ is perfect because of the lightweight texture, which hydrates perfectly without smothering the skin, allowing the makeup to look flawless while protecting the skin from the sun’s damaging rays.” As fans of the line, Camilla Belle, Sophia Bush, Michelle Tractenberg, and America Ferrera may certainly consider including this new must-have face cream in their makeup bags – not only for vacationing, but for everyday use! Whether under makeup or under the sun, OMC³’s nourishingly rich texture is lightweight and fresh, protecting skin from both UVA and UVB rays.

Crema Nera OMC³ has a suggested retail price of $185. It will be available at fine department stores next month, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bloomindales and Barney’s.

Image:  Giorgio Armani

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Right now, Saks is having a great La Mer Beauty Event where you can get this great La Mer Skin Care Collection with your $300 purchase form La Mer at Saks.

In the collection: Crème de la Mer (.24oz), The Lifting Face Serum (.17oz), The Cleansing Foam (.5oz), The Treatment Fluid Foundation – Natural (.12oz). To redeem this offer, enter the code LAMER8 at checkout.

If you need any suggestions on which La Mer products to add to your basket, revisit some of my La Mer favorites:

The Treatment Fluid Foundation
The Hand Treatment
The Eye Concentrate
The Radiant Infusion

Let me know if you splurge.

image: saks.com

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Could it be that we complain about $4.29 for a gallon of gas but will not complain about a $300 per ounce of our favorite eye cream or our $150 vial of perfume. I still see ladies lining up at the La Mer counter for their miracle broth.

If we like it and can afford it, I think we continue to spend on our beauty products – or products that make us feel beautiful anyway. I know I do and have yet to complain.

Have you cut back on your spending of your luxuries – particularly those that make you look and/or feel beautiful? Or do you feel that it is worth it to begin with and simply do not look at the price if it works? Also, say if your favorite luxury cream went up by 15% in just a few months time or fluctuated by price on a day to day basis, would you still splurge on it? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. I would love to hear what your thinking on still spending on life’s luxuries is.

image credit: LaMer

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Elemis is now taking on the at-home anti-aging body care with the Pro-Collagen Radiantly Smooth Body Cream. Collagen is well known for it’s wonderful facial properties, and Elemis now brings it to us for our entire body – head to toe.

This ground-breaking product helps to smooth out crepey skin texture, leaving the body feeling deeply hydrated with an illuminating youthful radiance.  A network of Proteins, plus Micro-Lattice Technology ensures a mesh-like support system is provided over sagging skin whilst helping to restore cell cohesion. Combining a luxurious soufflé texture with iridescent sheen and nurturing aroma of Rose and Mimosa, the sensuality on application of this targeted, Anti-Aging Body Cream will also deliver an instant feel-good factor. 

Elemis Pro-Collagen Radiantly Smooth Body Cream is available for $162 at Nordstrom.com and TimetoSpa.com.

image credit: Elemis

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The Radiance Collection is made to “Lift, firm, resurface, brighten, and de-age the skin”.

Cellular Radiance Concentrate Pure Gold – $550

Cellular Radiance Cream – $550

Cellular Radiance Eye Cream – $275

If you had the money to spend, would you splurge on this?

images from NeimanMarcus

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Based on Dr. Max Huber’s (the founder of La Mer) legacy, La Mer has become an expert at combining both sea ingredients and the magnetic energies of minerals to achieve amazing results. Recently, The Max Huber Research Labs have created this new eye treatment that builds on this heritage – The Eye Concentrate. With two new forms of La Mer’s signature “Miracle Broth”, this concentrated, luxurious treatment does a lot. It deeply conditions, smoothes and hydrates the eye area – just what we need as we age. La Mer’s The Eye Concentrate significantly reduces the appearance of dark circles and puffiness, lines and wrinkles, improves clarity and tone making the entire eye are look more healthy and awake.

Even the applicator has a purpose. It is specifically designed to pick up the precise amount of product needed for each application, as its silver tip helps to cool the skin, thus improving microcirculation.

The Eye Concentrate is available for $160 and just arrived on counters select Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and lamer.com.

This is definitely in the top ten of my Christmas list.

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They feature the following products with nice little descriptions and pictures:
La Mer Essence
$2,100 for 1.5 oz
RéVive Peau Magnifique Youth Recruit
$1500 for 0.03 fl oz
La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream
$650 for 3.4 oz
Crème de La Mer Miracle Broth
$1,200 for 16 oz
La Prairie Cellular Radiance Concentrate Pure Gold
$525 for 1 oz
Sisleÿa Elixir
$435 for .7 oz
Sisleÿa Daily Line Reducer
$405 for 1 oz
Elemis Pro-Collagen Wrinkle Smooth
$339 for .5 oz
SK-II Ultimate Revival Cream
$300 for 1.7 oz
Darphin Stimulskin Plus Rejuvenating Lifting Serum
$295 for 1 oz

Seriously, if money were no object, would you spend $1500 for 1/3 ounce of product?erhaps if you were one that believes in miracles!

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So luxurious, this cream is featured on the new Fabulous Life: Hollywood Hotness on VH1 this month.

Kanebo Sansai Premier – The Cream is formulated to promote DNA repair in skin by using an extract from a Japanese seaweed called gigartina tenella.

This 1.4 oz. jar will set you back a cool $650 – that is if you can find it!

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I have never used anything from Amore Pacific, but in just glancing through the product line-up at Neimans, I noticed very expensive, creams, lotions, serums, and more.

Amore Pacific Exclusive Time Response Pure Essence 100 Skin Renewal Serum comes in a 1 ounce bottle, for $500.00

Time Response Pure Essence 100 Skin Renewal Serum is the very first globally patented age-correcting serum treatment containing the essential oil of the Green Tea Flower and an unprecedented blend of 100 of the world’s most healing botanicals.

Energizes dramatic anti-aging activity locked within the green tea leaves, seeds, and potent EGCG polyphenols culminating optimum radiance, and petal soft texture to skin, from intensive, comprehensive 24-hour care when applied morning and evening.

If you have ever used anything from Amore Pacific, please do share your thoughts.

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