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Fashion In Living Color — A Rainbow’s Worth of Style Finds

There’s a spirit of liberation and adventure that accompanies the summer season — everything seems brighter, livelier, more exciting and uninhibited…

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When You Whish Upon A Star — All-Natural Three Whishes Body Butter

It’s officially summer and, here in New York City, the weather has certainly lived up to the season’s expectations, with temperatures rising above the 90-degree mark.

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Pureology Precious Oil Versatile Caring Oil — Green Seal Certified and Consumer Approved

Pureology Precious Oil

Whereas most hair care brands have undergone major transformations, tweaking their formulas to make them more eco-friendly and less reliant on harsh chemicals that can prove abrasive to strands and toxic for the environment, being green is part of Pureology’s DNA, insisting on natural ingredients, biodegradable and recyclable packaging, and sustainable practices from its very inception.

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FACE Stockholm Summer 2012 Makeup Collection — A Midsummer Tale

FACE Stockholm founder Gun Nowak looked to her native Sweden when musing about the colors she’d integrate into the Summer 2012 collection.

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Father’s Day Gift Guide — All About Dad

Whether you’re celebrating the man who taught you how to ride a bike, who helped you with your math homework, who cheered you on at soccer games and track races or you’re toasting the father of your own children, that special fella who tucks the kids in at night, teaches them the importance of discipline and hard work, tends to their scrapes and cuts, makes them roar in laughter with his silly antics, and treats them to the best BBQ in town, we’ve got a Father’s Day gift that will make the lucky guy beam happily this coming Sunday.

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Cream of the Curl Crop — Ouidad Introduces Two New Ringlet-Defining, Coil-Moisturizing Cream Products

 

It’s only been three years since Ouidad landed in Sephora stores across the nation, but the woman behind the soon-to-be-ubiquitous line was far from a newcomer to the beauty industry — in fact, before her eponymous line’s Sephora launch, she’d spent 25 years tending to curly-haired gals like herself (in 1984, she opened the country’s first salon catering to curly hair).

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Facial Moisturizers For All Seasons — Skin Quenchers You Can Use Year-Round

Mother Nature seems to be playing tricks with us East Coasters.

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Guerlain Terracotta Blush Sun Shimmer Highlighter — Off You Glow!

This season, powder blushes, bronzers,  sculpting powders,  and illuminating beauty powders are taking a backseat, allowing their creamy counterparts to take the wheel and spearhead the mission of providing women with a natural-looking, Jennifer Lopez-esque glow that seems to radiate from within, luring onlookers as efficiently as fireflies do when they woo their insect mates by flaunting their bioluminescent lower abdomens.

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Napoleon Perdis Nude Bar Collection — Beauty in the Buff

Celebrity coverage has always centered on fantasy, with movie stars and musicians being depicted as virtually flawless, trouble-free creatures cavorting from one Hollywood hot spot to the next, lounging on yachts in Saint- Tropez, and vacationing in Hawaii or Turks & Caicos.

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Bumble and Bumble Color Minded Collection — A View To A Hue

If, like me, you approach changing your hair color with the same cavalier attitude typically reserved for scooping up under-$10 accessories, then you know that the consequences of your rash action can range from riotously satisfying (turns out you’re a fierce redhead!) to glaringly glib (that blue black dye transformed you into a veritable Addams Family member).

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