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    Keep Skin Smooth at Holidays – for You and Your Friends

    You deserve to have a happy holiday, at the same time, you also deserve to have a good skin in this dry weather. Smooth skin deserves to be seen all winter long! Here are some ideas for you and your friends to keep skin smooth through this whole winter.

    Bioré Charcoal Products

    Enjoy a spin on the traditional lump of coal this holiday season with the beauty essentials that everyone will love – whether they’ve been naughty or nice! Bioré Charcoal Products are the perfect stocking stuffers or clever grab bag gifts to pick up during your holiday shopping trips. The invigorating scents of peppermint pays homage to the holiday season while having a fun twist on giving them the gift of char-“coal” that also cleans and smooths skin.

    • Bioré Pore Penetrating Charcoal Bar ($6.49) draws out and binds to deep down dirt and oil for 2.5 times cleaner pores than a basic cleanser. With jojoba beads and peppermint, the formula gently exfoliates and leaves skin feeling refreshed and smooth.
    • Bioré Self Heating One Minute Mask ($7.99) warms to open pores in just one minute, draws out and dissolves 2.5 times more dirt, oil, and surface toxins than a basic cleanser, and rinses them clean away with an invigorating cooling sensation without stripping the skin.
    • Bioré Deep Cleansing Charcoal Pore Strips ($6.49) is a twist on a beauty staple – Bioré skincare experts added natural charcoal powder to the iconic Pore Strips! With next generation proprietary c-bond technology and potent charcoal, the strips remove clogs and weeks’ worth of buildup and while refining pores to diminish their appearance over time.

    Where to purchase: Select food, drug and mass merchant stores. For more information visitwww.biore.com

    Spa @ Home by Masque Bar Oxygen Bubble Sheet Mask

    Get bubbly during the holidays and give them a spa-day at home they’ll love (that’s selfie worthy)! The Oxygen Bubble Sheet Mask immediately turns into an oxygen-rich foam, revitalizing skin with oxygen as it deep cleanses, exfoliates and moisturizes skin. They oxygen foam deeply penetrates into the skin to eliminate pore-clogging impurities to help prevent blackheads, and dead skin cells, while it helps brighten and uneven skin tones.

    Price: $9.99

    Retailer: Walgreens

    PediSpa by Look Beauty Intensive Moisturizing Foot Mask

    Stuff your loved one’s stocking with the gift of soft feet this year! PediSpa Intensive Moisturizing Foot Mask noticeably smoothes, softens and repairs dry, crack, calloused feet and heels, significantly improving the look and feel of even the driest feet. As an added bonus for the holiday,

    Price: $9.99 for 2 complete pairs

    Where to purchase: Exclusively at Target Stores and Target.com

    Pretty Animalz by Look Beauty

    Give your secret santa a playful gift that’s under $5! Pretty Animalz by Look Beauty Sheet Masksare affordable gifts for smooth, selfie-worthy skin that come in a Panda Calming Sheet Mask andTiger Moisturizing Sheet Mask.  Soothe irritation, reduce redness, and calm unbalanced skin with the playful, panda-faced mask infused with honey extract, lavender flower water, and camellia extract. The Tiger Moisturizing Sheet Mask is formulated with soybean extract, mushroom extract, and witch hazel water, to hydrate, soften, and smooth dry skin for a glowing and nourished complexion.

    Price: $3.99 for 1 mask sachet each

    Retailer: July through December 2016 (limited), Target stores nationwide

    RADICAL BEAUTY: How to Transform Yourself from the Inside Out
    Give them the gift of healthy living with the new, groundbreaking book, Radical Beauty! Authors of New York Times Bestsellers, Deepak Chopra, a leading pioneer of mind-body medicine, and Kimberly Snyder, renowned celebrity nutritionist, combine their expertise to offer an innovative program that includes practical tips, tools, innovative routines, and foods that will allow you to achieve your highest potential of beauty and health. Based on the authors’ six pillars of healthy living—including internal and external nourishment, beauty sleep, primal beauty, movement, and spiritual beauty—Radical Beauty offers cutting-edge information on metabolic health, beauty-boosting circulation, and anti-aging skincare regimes. Radical Beauty also includes the tools to let go of external comparisons and reclaim inner peace, and ultimately provide guidance to establish our natural beauty’s highest potential.

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    Travel-Sized Beauty: Holiday ’16 Edition

    Packing your beauty collection for a holiday getaway can be quite the daunting task. Especially when subject to the restrictions of the airlines’ liquid rules for carry-on luggage. You can often find yourself leaving behind your most loved beauty items and dreading the condition of your skin and hair upon your return. If you’re headed on a carry-on-only holiday – because everyone wants to avoid baggage claim – don’t leave before you’ve checked the below guide to the best travel-sized beauty products.

    So good-size and good-quality beauty products are so important to you as you travel a lot, especially at holidays. For me, I always have traveling skin issues, since I don’t have so much time to think about what I prepare for my skin in this dry weather.

    But this time, I think I should study about this and keep my skin good during the travel. Below are the products I will carry with me for my holiday trip!

     

     

     

     

    Morning Rejuvenation: If you’re addicted to the jane iredale Beauty Prep Skincare ritual – as so many are – then you’ll understandably be reluctant to leave it at home. Luckily, the brand is offering handy travel sets to set the stage for beautiful, glowing skin. ($8.50-$18.00, sold separately at janeiredale.com)

    BeautyPrep™ Face Cleanser Mini – Infused with our own micellar water and dual cucumber extracts

    BeautyPrep™ Face Toner Mini – Refreshing, pH balancing, and pore-refining

    BeautyPrep™ Face Moisturizer Mini – Locks in hydration for smooth makeup application

     

    On-the-Go Hydration: the jane iredale Hydration Spray Minis not only refresh and protect skin, but are also perfect for on-the-go touch-ups and pick-me-ups – much needed for long flights. ($10 each, sold separately at janeiredale.com)

    Balance Hydration Spray Mini – Controls oil production

    POMMISST™ Hydration Spray Mini – Disguises pores and fine lines

    D2O Hydration Spray Mini – Plumps skin and sets makeup

     

     

    In-Flight Hair Repair: Look after your hair the gentle way, with The Mane Choice Ancient Egyptian Anti-Breakage & Repair Antidote Split-End Treatment Serum. This two ounce serum passes airline size requirements and will last for the full holiday. It contains some of the most rare and robust natural oils such as Kalahari Oil, Oleaster Oil, Mongongo Oil, and Baobab Oil to strengthen, repair and add remarkable shine!($21.99 at TheManeChoice.com)

     

     

    Must-Have, Mineral-Rich Mud: A holiday is a good opportunity to try out a new beauty look, but that means some hardworking skincare to ensure your complexion is up to par. The fango ESSENZIALI Wow Me Set, will allow you to treat any skin concern with this collection of masks created to moisturize, purify, calm and energize.($18.00 at Macy’s and Macys.com)

     

    Moisturize: Delivering a revitalizing surge of hydration, essential oils like olive and blood orange work to nourish, deeply moisturize and balance skin’s pH levels while improving skin’s texture and color.

    Purify: Transform skin by ridding it of dirt and impurities to help minimize the appearance of pores.  Infused with ingredients like pink grapefruit and pink peppercorn, this mask acts as a natural astringent and helps protect skin from premature aging.

    Calm: Calm irritated skin and ease tightness with this skin soothing mask. Made with natural botanicals like lavender extract and lemon seed extract, CALM will also reduce tightness and fight against pollutants on the skin.

    Energize: Coffee seed oil, caffeine, and activated charcoal stimulate collagen, produce elastin, and detoxify skin, resulting in a toned, smooth and healthy glow.

    Youthful Brows: Ensure suppleness and shine to your brows no matter your location with neuBROW brow enhancing serum. It contains sweet almond protein which creates a protective layer, bringing softness and brilliance to the brow line. ($100, at skinresearchlabs.com or Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s)

    Pretty Nails: Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2017 is Greenery. SpaRitual provides several vegan nail lacquer shades that are perfectly on-trend. (Mindful and Take A Stand GOLD longer-wear formula $18, at SpaRitualCaring and Sublime $12, at SpaRitual.)