Recently, I was hanging out with one of my good friends at our favorite cosmetics store and she spent nearly $400, mostly on Dr. Hauschka products.
Is she loony? Not at all – she’s actually super smart. Dr. Hauschka is pricey – but it’s worth every penny.
Dr.Hauschka Skin Care is one of the leaders in holistic skin care, and is the favorite of many of the estheticians and make-up artists I work with.
That said, I love the idea of spending half as many pennies! Until midnight Wednesday at Gilt Groupe, Dr. Hauschka is having a mega sale!
Items like the Daily …read more

Did you know that artificial lighting can do damage to your skin? Many people protect their skin from the sun’s harmful rays with sunscreen, but don’t protect themselves indoors.
Artificial lighting emits high levels of blue light which penetrates all the way to the dermis level. The blue light can cause free radical damage to cell membranes, leading to accelerated skin aging – and who needs that!
Bioelements Lutein Indoor Protective Day Crème is the first and only product on the market designed specifically to address harmful blue light.
This new, rich cream moisturizer utilizes 100% natural lutein derived from the petal …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
SHOPPING
NY Spender suggests that “if you buy only one pair of shoes this fall, buy one with stacked heels.“
Her Accessories is celebrating the cooler weather with a roundup of her favorite fall jackets.

Gleaming Things loves Givenchy’s look of layered chains, but they just aren’t in the budget right now – these picks are though!
Shopalicious finds a very stylish quilted handbag — with an eco-friendly twist! (Plus a coupon for 10% off!)
Chic by Nature has a great wrap top that you can wear out and then to bed.
There’s …read more

Today is the day.  Through the end of the day today, you can use the offer code MACFF8 on MACcosmetics.com ONLY, and receive 15% off of all of your purchases.  w00t!
I would love to recommend the *coolest scrub evah* – the Volcanic Ash Exfoliator, but it is sold out (*sob*).  Watch for this to reappear online, or get thee to the store and pick it up.  It is a big 4.5 oz  tub of the neatest, blackest, most effective scrub you have ever seen (Tia, you will love this if you haven’t tried it – it is a SCRUB, …read more

Dr. Nicholas Perricone’s cosmeceutical skin care line has had a makeover.  Out are the medical looking jars and bottles, and in is a sleek new look for each product and a new name, PerriconeMD Cosmeceuticals.
PerriconeMD’s Lynda Berkowitz, VP of Sales, tells WWD the reason for making these changes to the aesthetic of the system: “It used to be that she relied on the recommendation of her dermatologist or aesthetician. Now she has the confidence to make her own decision.”  Good for you!
The line now is divided into color coded categories (which I think is a GREAT change for the …read more

I have had some big fun playing with some Nicole Paxson cosmetics of late. Nicole has designed a range of foundations that are meant to have great coverage in order to cover up skin disorders due to – well, any reason you might have. Nicole has Lupus, which has caused her a wide variety of unpleasant skin reactions – rashes and photo-sensitivity among them. Her range includes powder (one color works for all), cream foundations, liquid foundation, bronzer and concealer. Each product has a nice SPF – from 15 (powder) to 30 (most foundations) with both …read more

Vichy Laboratories, which is currently a division of L’Oreal, has been around since 1931 and have had a strong foothold in Europe.  Up until recently I hadn’t been very familiar with their line, not for any particular reason other than I just hadn’t made it around to check them out.  But I have now a little, and I do like very much what I’ve seen.  All of their products contain Vichy Thermal Spa Water (with the one exception of their Nutrilogie Lip product), a mineral filled spring water from Vichy, France,water which has been recognized by the French Academy …read more

 
And starting today! Actress Emma Samms (love love love her!) and Dr. Victor will be on ShopNBC the first part of this week selling his skin care line, stevenvictormd. My best girlfriend is a HUGE fan of this line – it is very luxe (and I expect they will have some really good deals on ShopNBC) and has some wonderful anti-aging components that you don’t want to miss.
Here is the schedule:

Dr. Victor on ShopNBC

Monday

March 24, 2008

3pm Central

4pm Eastern

Monday

March 24, 2008

7pm Central

8pm Eastern

Tuesday

March 25, 2008

5am Central

6am Eastern

Tuesday

March 25, 2008

11am Central

12pm Eastern

Image: stevenvictormd.com

Ok, I admit it.  Sometimes I get sucked in by great sales pitches on HSN (and QVC, and my alma mater JTV).  Such a thing happened a few days before I left for SXSW.  I was having a sleepless night and watching M. Asam present on HSN.  They have a line of anti-aging face care that really, compared to what I spend on my skin care normally, is quite a reasonable price.  I was doing well resisting until they pulled out the Perfect Teint.  I wish I had a clip of the video, because MAN was it convincing.  What …read more

‘ Tis the season for lizard skin.  It is for me anyway.  This time, every year like clockwork, my skin turns pasty white and disgustingly scaly.  Really, its not cute.  So I am always searching out body creams desperately this time of the year.  There are, of course, no shortage of good ones out there, but the one I have been using most recently is the new Vitalization from Bioelements.  Bioelements is one of my all time favorite skin care brands so I always really love to check out what they have out that is new, and Vitalization is, not …read more