Can’t imagine stuffing your boyfriend’s/husband’s/brother’s stocking with manly make-up or an exfoliating scrub? Well get ready, because new research from Mintel Beauty Innovation shows male grooming is picking up heat bigtime – as are the sexier male results!
Mintel Beauty Innovation has seen a dramatic increase in the number of new personal care products launched for men. So far in 2008, they have tracked over 500 new men’s personal care products in the …read more

On days when your curls just won’t cooperate, do you:
a. Don a scarf
b. Pose for a picture
c. Let them run wild
d. Dive for the flat iron
e. Visit NaturallyCurly.com to take their weekly poll!
NaturallyCurly.com has expanded its popular weekly polls to include a series of questions sponsored by Bumble & bumble.
When asked: “On unruly days do you…don a scarf, pose for a picture, let them run wild or dive for the flat iron,” a huge forty-nine …read more

Red is a must-have this holiday season!
According to a recent survey commissioned by Target, more than 60 percent of women and men think that when a woman adds an extra punch of color to her beauty palette, she’s signaling that she feels fabulous about herself – and after all, added confidence is the ultimate accessory.
Additional Target poll findings:
o Almost 40 percent of women who wear red lipstick put on the touch of rouge to feel feminine, while 37 percent do so to feel sexy.
o To dress up an outfit, 44 percent of women …read more

Black Friday is almost upon us, and a lot of us will be waking up at arse-crack of dawn to pile our way through the masses.
I remember all through my younger years (and possibly to be repeated this year), I’d hook up with my mom at around 4 am, get coffee to go, and hit whatever random sale was tickling our fancy – and often leave disappointed.
Whether or not it is a worthwhile excursion is not my right to say – but I can help you be prepared when you get there!
I have eight $5 gift cards to the Coffee …read more

The annual Allure Catalyst Report polled American women about their beauty and beauty-buying habits. While this poll is mostly designed to be used more by the beauty companies themselves, here are some of the results. I would love to hear where you fit in on these:

Women use 13 beauty products at least once a week and use 7 brands regularly.
It would cost $199 to replace all of her beauty products.
The Kaybots and the like (um, Mary Kay and other home sales) are getting 19% of your beauty dollars (this surprises me a little), while Sepora and the like …read more

If’fn you are one of those folks that like to vote (I am, obviously…LOL), The Best of Sephora poll is open until June 12. I had a dreadful time making it work – it never did for me – and now it says I have already voted, so I don’t have any great insights on what the categories are, or the choices. *sigh* I hate it when technology doesn’t work for me!! Anyway, if you can make it work for you, it will also enter you into a drawing for $1000. Not a bad deal!!

Head on over to Glam.com to see the list of winners in their Beauty Awards poll!
This page shows two sets of winners, one the winners from all of the Glam.com membership that voted and the other from the Glam.com editors. And here is the Glam.com bloggers list of winners.
It is kind of interesting to compare the 3 lists – and was sort of notable to me that there isn’t but one MAC product in the editors lineup, and bare Minerals makes a good showing in the bloggers list (and the members list as well). …read more

Did ya go vote yet? I did – you can see what my choices were here. Granted, a few of these things I have never used before, and unfortunately there was no room for write in votes, so I did the best I could via what I know from other people. For instance, the lovely, lovely perfume, L’Eau d’Issey by Issey Miyake is my very best friend, Suzzann’s signature fragrance, so although I dont use it (and she would just kill me if I started now), I know it is the best.
The Beauty Awards are open until …read more

You *might* have noticed all of the template changes around here the last couple of weeks, we have had to wiggle into a new outfit that Glam liked a little better, but we are fairly settled in for now and happy to announce the alliance! Glam has long sponsored some of my favorite fashion blogs, and is now venturing into the beauty realm, picking up eBeautyDaily along with several other of my favorite beauty sites.
Currently going on at Glam are the Beauty Awards – I love to share my opinions, so things like this are right up my …read more

Please look to the right sidebar for a new poll!
The question is: How long does it take you to get ready for a really special event? Think an elegant party or even a really special first date. Something like a wedding could be stretched out over a week, so skip that kind of getting ready.
I hope to hear from you on this poll, I will be interested to see if I am really out of the ordinary here, but based on the study I referred to below, I doubt I am.