If your hair is dehydrated, brittle, color-treated, or damaged by sun exposure, straightening treatments, and heat styling tools, you may be so focused on smoothing frizz and preventing future breakage that the mere prospect of a silky, caressible mane has turned into a pipe dream.
As their name implies, beauty balms are designed to make skin appear dewier, to smooth the skin’s surface and boost overall radiance via a combination of nourishing ingredients, light-reflecting particles, and pigments that deliver enough coverage to conceal minor imperfections.
If you follow me on Twitter (@sickathanavg), you’ve already heard me profess my passionate, torrid, epic love of Lancôme’s new Rouge in Love lipstick collection.
Inside a Roman palazzo replete with vaulted ceilings, majestic Doric columns, gilded doorways, intricate wall sculptures, ad ancient marble statues positioned at the end of the vast space’s many chandelier-lit transepts, a group of male waiters in full uniform, replete with white gloves, carry a five-tiered cake covered in white frosting up a small flight of stairs.
Here’s one of my pet peeves: going into a pharmacy or beauty supply store in search of a lightweight makeup remover that can effectively swipe off everything from stubborn eye shadow and mascara to tinted moisturizer, liquid foundation, and mineral powder, only to discover shelves lined with eye makeup remover bottles, with only a handful of options available for cleansing the entire visage.
Though most laypersons associate 19th century artist Claudet Monet with his beautiful water lily pond paintings, the French Impressionism pioneer derived inspiration from many of nature’s wonders — in fact, while living in Argenteuil from 1873 to 1878, Monet turned his attention to the rural landscapes around his domicile, producing a series of oil canvas paintings capturing the expanses of grass covered with bright red poppy blossoms.
Gone are the days of eye pencils being used to punctuate poetic makeup sentences relying on poignant eye shadow adjectives and dynamic mascara adverbs.
By now, you’ve likely heard the term “Beauty Balm” about a million times — MAC released three different BB shades as part of last summer’s Prep + Prime collection, Clinique unveiled its Age Defense BB Cream SPF 30, Estée Lauder launched its own Daywear Anti-Oxidant Beauty Benefit Creme SPF 30, and the list goes on.
Last week, I walked into a Sephora store with the intention of killing time before a morning meeting but, as tends to happen with us beauty junkies, what started out as an innocent store visit turned into a pocket-hurtin’ experience.
For years, I had a handful of glossing and smoothing creams that received top shelf treatment: the Fekkai Smooth Hair Hydrating Hair Cream, the Arrojo Frizz Control, and the Oscar Blandi Seta Silk Polishing Cream.I first discovered the Oscar Blandi Seta Polishing Cream around 2006, on a humid day when my curly hair was acting particularly cantankerous, with frizzy strands springing up and ruining the low ponytail I had tried so arduously to make appear sleek and refined.
