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This rich moisture therapy cream uses plant emollients, humectants, exfoliating fruit acids and antioxidants to really nourish dry, damaged skin and actually help diminish the signs of aging.

Throughout the month of October you can purchase Aveda Hand Relief to benefit BCRF up Aveda Experience Centers, participating salon locations and online at aveda.com.

Many women concentrate on the skin on their face and neglect their hands, which definitely can show your age! Be sure to use a moisturizing cream like this one on a daily basis to keep your hands looking and feeling soft and young!

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The top is textured with tousled volume, and the sides are smooth, and slicked back, with a straight-yet-messy knot at the nape of the neck.

It was pretty hot – as were the designs!

Here’s a look at some backstage footage:

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Backstage with Aveda at Yigal Azrouel

Keen’s Steakhouse hosted the John Patrick Organic show one that reflected a fun bohemian style both in the designs – and in the hair design.

“I wanted to dig deep below the surface of Bohemian style and create a free-spirited look that’s chic, pretty, and fresh,” says designer John Patrick.

The hair for this show was styled by Odile Gilbert for Aveda. “I call this chic-bohemian look ‘the wave,” said Odile.

Odile says Patrick was inspired by a picture taken in the Krazy Kat Club in the 1920’s, where the girls embodied a “wholesome Bohemia” This inspiration turned into a look that was part seductive modern girl, part speakeasy fun.

Their goal was “distinctive, intellectual, and very pretty—yet fun-loving and young.” The did this with hair that was smooth and shiny on top with soft, free-flowing curls below the cheekbone and volume at the front—pulled back into a barrette, adding a girly touch.

Don’t you LOVE it? It’s totally glam in a vintage calendar way that I’d love to recreate.

If you want to try to do this yourself, here’s some tips from the team:

* Prep hair with Aveda Phomollient Styling Foam to add body, volume, and shine.

* Brush hair through and create a deep side part.

* Divide hair into three sections: bottom, sides/top and middle, and secure in place with hair clips. Spray each section generously with Aveda Air Control Hair Spray for shine and hold.

* Starting with the nape of the neck, curl small sections of hair using a 1 inch barrel curling iron. Once curled, roll each piece into a loop using your index finger, and hold in place with a single-pronged hair clip. Continue curling hair, working around the sides toward the top of the head, leaving a one inch piece of hair untouched. Spray each curl with Aveda Air Control Hair Spray for added hold.

* Curl the one inch piece of hair forward and secure with a single-pronged hair clip to allow the hair to cool.

* With the exception of the front curl, remove all hair clips and brush curls through to create soft, full waves.

* Rub Aveda Light Elements Shaping Wax between palms and smooth over the top of hair to reduce flyaways and add shine. Hair is now smooth from crown to cheekbones becoming full, loose curls.

* Remove clip from top curl and twist slightly to create volume and lift in front. Secure hair in place with two small hair pins, and then pull back with a larger barrette that matches hair color. Spray Aveda Air Control™ Hair Spray directly on the lifted section of hair to add volume and hold.

* Finish the look with a final misting of Aveda Air Control Hair Spray.

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We Go Bohemian at John Patrick Organic

This year for Mother’s Day, I think I’ll treat her to a new Aveda product that I know (okay, I’m pretty sure) she hasn’t tried before. The Green Science Kit is a 4 step system to smooth out and lift skin so it always looks healthy and radiant.

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From the reviews on the site, it seems this is a good solution for mature/combination skin (that’s my Mom) and uses a Moroccan argan oil, which has been used for medicinal, culinary and cosmetic purposes among Berber locals for centuries. The oil is rich in linoleic acid, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and Vitamin E – a powerful antioxidant.

The kit contains:

• Green Science Lifting Serum
• Green Science Firming Face Creme
• Green Science Firming Eye Creme
• Green Science Line Minimizer sample
• Free travel bag (only available for a limited time)

If ou try and like the super concentrated Green Science Line Minimizer sample, you can purchase ten individual application tubes separately too.

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Aveda’s Green Science Kit

Tourmaline Cleanser

Tourmaline Cleanser: Infused with jojoba and light exfoliating beads, this will get your skin scrubbed and smooth in no time, without irritation. Also contains mango butter to comfort your skin once the dead cells have been removed. 5 oz. for $29.

Dual Nature Sunscreen

Dual Nature Face Protection SPF 15: Protect your skin from the sun and all the toxins your face encounters throughout the day with this wonderfully light SPF 15 sunscreen. All natural, plant and mineral derived, this is one power packed formula for your face. 1.7 oz. for $26.

Hand Relief

Hand Relief: I have used this hand cream for years and always been crazy about how soft it leaves my hands…without your typical moisturizer greasy feel. I also appreciate that this is not one of your overly scented moisturizer varieties.  4.2 oz for $19.

For all three products, you’re looking at $74…a little bit over the $60 minimum, but since you’re already placing the order, you might as well find some good stuff that will last you a while, right? To get your free gift,  just use MOM49 when you check out!

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Lucky for us, we’ll at least have good hair!

Aveda locations nationwide are giving us some fabulous freebies this April 15th as the world undoes a filing frenzy. Most are beauty related (and will be covered in eBeautyDaily of course), but among the offerings is a free Stress Relieving Scalp and Shoulder Ritual!

Why does your hair need this? A good scalp massage – even for a few minutes at a time – helps to stimulate blood flow, which will keep those hair follicles well-fed. It can also help to prevent and fight avoidable hair loss, and reestablish the natural development of healthy hair. In addition to all this, it is extremely relaxing, calming, and helps relieve headaches and migraines.Talk about the tastiest (and most free!) medicine ever.

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For the man in your medicine cabinet, I highly recommend Aveda Pure-formance Grooming Clay.

Perfect for guy needs (the jar is even dark and manly!), it maintains control and hold without adding shine.

It’s also great for adding thickness to their hair, and has a spicy (ok, sexy…), aroma made of spearmint, vetiver, and lavender.

Ladies, we don’t want our men to smell like guava and vanilla. Let them have their own styling products.

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Aveda Men Pure-formance Grooming Clay

Did you know that Aveda has raised more than 8 million for environmental and social causes. You can read more about the “giving back” part here.

Here are a couple of my favorite products:

Pure-Fume Absolute Aveda Love

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Fragrance notes: Sandalwood, Jasmine, Rose, Ylang ylang
Portable fragrance tube with rollerball applicator – .24oz/7ml $22
Shampure Shampoo

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Shampure is a gentle shampoo with Morikue protein, Wheat conditioners, Coriander oil, Eucalyptus oil, Lavender oil, Orange oil bitter, and Babassu

8.5 oz/250 ml $9.50

For a limited time, you can get free samples of Aveda’s Green Science Lifting Serum and Be Curly Curl Enhancer, with free shipping and handling if you use the offer code CLINICAL29 at checkout.

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Free Products From Aveda

The skin tech used the products on me and the change was swift, it felt like the bumps were smoothing over. He explained that they were a reaction of stress and that the products would counteract the blemishes (my first lesson in aromatherapy). I don’t remember the exact science, it was a long time ago and like any facial I’d been a party to before or since, I was relaxed and sleepy.

The point of my story is that Aveda products have always had a sort of magical feel to me. They smell incredible, in particular, the Shampure shampoo. The Shampure fragrance is also available in a candle. It has one of those scents that make me feel like I want to bury my nose in it and sniff  deeply (okay, yeah, that sounds silly, but it’s my honest reaction).  Shampure’s fragrance is a combination of over 25 pure  organic flower and plant essences, among them lavender, ylang-ylang, bergamot, rosemary, peppermint, and orange.

Today only, Aveda is currently offering free shipping and in addition, you will receive a free gift - a sample size Calming Body Cleanser.  To receive the free shipping and sample, be sure to use the code FREESHIP128 at check out.

Take a look at the gift sets currently offered at Aveda – they have come up with something really special in regards to their packaging. 

Aveda gift sets—with sustainably sourced ingredients and certified organic essential oils, pure flower essences and plant-based aromas—what’s inside is truly extraordinary.

And what’s on the outside serves an even greater purpose—to help sustain families and forests in Nepal. Our special boxed gift sets embellished with paper handcrafted by men and women in Malika and Dalika—two regions high in the Himalayas—help them improve their lives and reverse deforestation. Aveda began partnering with these communities in 2002 and we continue to strengthen this relationship. The purchase of these gift sets helps employ 1,282 women and men, preserve 90,000 acres of Himalayan forest and send the children of 500 families to school.

Here are a few of my favorite gift sets.For the man in your life, try Aveda’s shaving ritual for men

Be smooth. Give him all the tools he needs to make his grooming ritual a comfortable, soothing experience.

•	Aveda Men Shampoo Bar—7 oz/200 g
•	Aveda Men Shave Creme—8.5 oz/250 g
•	Aveda Men After-Shave Balm—3.4 fl oz/100 ml
•	Blue Oil Balancing Concentrate—.24 fl oz/7 ml

This gift is filled with items sure to induce a feeling of spa-like luxury, it’s ultimate sanctuary …

Nurture with gifts of pure relaxation:

This gift set features two of my favorite Aveda hair products and it offers  100% comfort

Show you care, from head to toe.

Do you know someone in need a boost?  This set will make them tingle all over…

Create an invigorating feeling from head-to-toe with some Aveda favorites.

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