As a minor update in Aly-land gossip, I am no longer going to Mexico next week. I am now going to LA (my favorite part of America, anyway!), and Mexico in two weeks.
It’s a press trip, so while fun in the sun is on the agenda, I will be spending time in meeting-like activities and formal dinners. I will need to look my best!
A great kit to get all of my travel face essentials is Laura Mercier’s Flawless Face.
It’s awesome: It has foundation primer, illuminating powder, and everything else you need to keep your oil-free foundation needs covered, complete with …read more

If you haven’t noticed by my obsessive coverage, I’m totally a set/collection/kit sort of girl.
Stila’s Made in Your Shade is awesome, it’s a collection of six of Stila’s best complexion products  – each works great in its own right, but designed to work together to create that often unobtainable but always deeply valued goal – the flawless face.
Lets face it – even the hottest eye makeup exhibition ever looks like garbage without good skin.
Each item in the kit has different levels of coverage and  finishes – perfect since our skin’s needs change with time (and even times of the month!)
In …read more

As far as kits go, Cargo’s new 7 in 7 kit is pretty darn impressive.
The mission behind it is to get you “pretty and out the door in 7 minutes,” which is a pretty lofty claim!
I got the light-medium kit (obviously) and inside it was:
OneBase™ (02)
- Essential Palette (Warm Neutral)
- Eye Pencil (Brown)
- LashActivator™
- BeachBlush™ (Sunset Beach)
- Reverse Lip Liner (01)
- Classic Lip Gloss with Timestrip Technology (Tobago)
My favorite part is that the kit comes with in-detail directions, to let you know how to use each of the 7 products. This saves time, and gets the best possible results out …read more