Cold Weather Beauty Musts — As Seen On “Seattle Refined”

Every season presents its own set of beauty challenges, but winter can be particularly brutal.
Every season presents its own set of beauty challenges, but winter can be particularly brutal.
Whether you’re spending the holidays at home with your immediate family members, attending Zoom parties with friends and family, having socially distanced get-togethers in your backyard, or taking the littles on outings to check out holiday lighting displays, you always want to look as glamorous as you would have in years past.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas so, to make sure you fulfill all your Santa duties with panache this year, I have some gift ideas that are sure to please everyone on your list!
There’s always a new “it” ingredient in the beauty space — whether it’s nutrient-dense superfoods like açai, matcha, chia seeds, quinoa, goji berry, and turmeric, or a more complex-sounding active such as ceramides, bakuchiol, retinol, nianicamide, or panthenol.
It’s officially World Vegan Month!
To quote Betty Caruso and Jodi Deitz (Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph’s characters in their now-iconic “Bronx Beat” skit for Saturday Night Live), we’re officially in the midst of “sweater weather.” From pumpkin patches and hayrides to colorful foliage, freshly baked apple pies, cron mazes, pumpkin spice lattes, and bonfires and s’mores, autumn has a plethora of delights in store for us.
Today marks the official start of the fall season — and, while you may already be sipping on gingerbread lattes, baking pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and hanging up harvest-themed wreaths replete with dried wheat stalks, faux pumpkins, pine cones, the truth is we’re still slowly tiptoeing our way into sweater weather.
August is National Wellness Month, so there’s no time like the present to focus on your health and wellness.
Father’s Day is right around the corner –and, even if you’re sheltering at home with your family and postponing all social outings —it’s important to make all the papa bears out there feel appreciated.
While summer doesn’t officially start until June 20th, here in Austin, we’re already experiencing temperatures in the upper 90s and off-the-charts UV index readings, so it’s safe to say the season has arrived in early bird fashion.