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John Legend Is Taking Time to Reflect on His Favorite Sperry Footwear
John Legend and his bulldog, Paul, make staying home look so good
Winter is coming and holiday is coming. It is the best timing to look for holiday gifts for your family, as well as for yourself. If you are struggling about men’s gifts, I would love to introduce the Sperry Legend Edit, a selection of John Legend’s favorite Sperry boat shoes, sneakers, and loafers. A good man always needs good shoes.
“I chose the shoes I really loved, that I would put in my wardrobe.” – John Legend.
John Legend, multi-platinum artist and Sperry’s 2020 Global Brand Ambassador, shares his fall closet
must-haves—from classic styles to just-in silhouettes. Check out The Legend Edit to see what John Legend
is wearing this season. Classic boat shoes. Road trip-ready driving mocs. Sporty-meets-stylish sneakers. It’s hard to promise you Legend-level singing skills. But his confident, cool style? It’s yours all season long.
I’D WEAR THIS ON VIRTUALLY ANY OCCASION. NO BOAT REQUIRED.- John Legend.
Men’s Authentic Original Leather Boat Shoe
- SUIT YOURSELF
Pack the suiting pieces, and leave your loafers at home: Sperry’s A/Os are a stand-in for all occasions on your calendar.
- THE RIGHT CUFF
Go on—roll those hems, and leave the socks at home. Whether heading out to sea or off for a nightcap, the A/O is built to bare some ankle.
- BOLDER = BETTER
When it says the A/Os are versatile, it means works-with-the-boldest-pattern-you-can-find versatile. (Their classic lines tend to play well with those out-there statements.)
DESCRIPTIONThe one that started it all, the Authentic Original is a tried-and-true icon of prep style. True to Sperry’s heritage, they’re still hand-sewn using time-honored craftsmanship, with premium materials and the wet/dry traction that made them legendary. Effortlessly setting the bar for what a real boat shoe should be, seafarers love the A/O’s capability; street-farers crave its classic cool.- Full-grain, unlined leather uppers resist effects of salt and freshwater to provide long lasting wear
- Two-eye design with rust-proof eyelets and functional one-piece rawhide laces
- Genuine hand-sewn moccasin construction conforms to your foot for durable, broken-in comfort
- 360° Lacing System™ for a customized fit, as relaxed or tightened up as you’d like
- Shock absorbing heel cup and Ortholite® insole provides added stability and comfort
- The original razor-cut Wave-Siping™ for ultimate wet/dry traction provides sure footing boat deck to back deck
- Stitched on non-marking, rubber outsole, providing long-lasting durability and flexibility
“THIS FRESH MODERN TAKE ON THE CLASSIC BOAT SHOE IS VIBRANT AND VERSATILE.”
– John Legend.
Men’s Bahama II Sneaker
DESCRIPTION
50 percent boat shoe, 50 percent sneaker—this boat-sneaker hybrid comes with double the wearability. Pair it with swim trunks on the boardwalk or Nantucket red chinos for a clambake. There’s nowhere these versatile kicks won’t take you.
- Say hello and sail away with our much-loved boat-sneaker combo
- Canvas upper featuring rawhide laces with our 360° Lacing System™ for a customized fit
- Non-marking flexible rubber outsole with molded Wave-Siping™ provides the ultimate no-slip traction
“AN UPDATED CLASSIC — WORN WITHOUT SOCKS OBVIOUSLY.” – John Legend.
Men’s Gold Cup Harpswell 1-Eye Driver
DESCRIPTION
When a driver style has seafaring DNA, you’re in for a memorable ride. And here, it’s smoother than ever—with Anti-Shock and Vibration technology™ for next-level comfort from Point A to Point B, and beyond.
- Rich, full-grain leather uppers
- Rust-proof eyelets (18K gold-plated in select styles) and functional one-piece rawhide laces
- Hand-sewn construction for durable comfort and easy-on, easy-off wear
- Anti-Shock and Vibration (ASV) technology™ reduces the effects of shock by up to 30% for top-tier performance
- Luxury lambskin lining surrounds the foot in softness
- 360° Lacing System™ for a customized fit, as relaxed or tightened up as you’d like
- Full-length, cushioned foam footbed molds to the foot for all-day comfort
- Driver construction means low-profile styling, with molded rubber soles built for traction
LOVE THIS CHUNKY BOOT FOR FALL. CORDS AND A JACKET OR JEANS AND A SWEATER?…BOTH!
– John Legend.
Men’s Gold Cup Authentic Original Lug Chukka
DESCRIPTION
A substantial, carefully crafted lug sole helps provide sure footedness across seasons. Both editorial and wearable, the Gold Cup Authentic Original with a lug outsole is the ultimate in seasonal versatility.
- Sperry’s iconic Authentic Original gets a modern twist with an autumn-ready lug outsole, extending its versatility across seasons
- Premium full-grain leather uppers in a genuine hand-sewn construction feature rich lambskin linings and rawhide laces with our 360º Lacing System™ for a customized fit
- Shock-absorbing, removable Ortholite® insert delivers all-day comfort, and a non-marking, molded rubber lug sole provides all-terrain traction
SPERRY BOAT SHOES & ACCESSORIES
For over eighty years, Sperry has built a legacy of effortless, heritage products. Whether for men, women, kids, or babies, Sperry’s selection of hand-crafted footwear includes Sperry’s iconic Sperry boat shoes, sandals, loafers, flats, slippers, espadrilles, boots, sneakers, and oxfords. Available in an inspired range of colors, styles, and materials, Sperry’s timeless shoes transcend boundaries and span generations and genders with a shared commitment to quality, reliability and comfort. Sperry is the original prep icons, as they have been since 1935. Get instant access to new arrivals, best sellers, top-rated items, sales, extended sizes, and online exclusives.
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Trilogy Laboratories Launches Home Facial Kit to Keep Skin Glowing During COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic is keeping many spa and salon clients at home, creating challenges for skincare specialists. For aestheticians and spas seeking ways to continue connecting with clients, Trilogy Laboratories’ Botanical Home Facial kit allows professionals to continue generating business and promoting their own brand when clients are unable to visit.
Thanks to the Azul Skin Health Facial Kit, you will experience a full and relaxed spa time at home. Thinking of a Friday night, you just finish a whole week’s heavy work no matter it’s a real job or the house works, all you want is to rest. Doing a facial mask is nice, but how about doing something even cooler? Let’s bring the spa home. Azul Skin Health Facial Kit includes everything that a professional spa has, and it gives you a clear and detailed instruction. No worries about the process, because it surprisingly very simple.
What I love about this set is they even include the hair band and brush, you can definitely reuse them. When I opened the Blueberry AHA Home Peel, the nice smell makes me feel like it’s fresh fruit juice. That’s because they really use all the great ingredients to make sure you totally have the best experience.
I believe it skin health facial kit is not only for these days that we couldn’t go out, but also great for the normal days that you just want to stay home, without driving and going anywhere else. You can open your favorite wine, watching your favorite TV Shows at the same time!
This home care kit comes with everything you need to pamper yourself at home. Keep your skin glowing in between going to your favorite skin care specialist.
Azul Skin Health Facial Kit
“Many of the spas we work with are looking for a way to continue to stay connected and care for their clients’ skin during these challenging times. We’ve developed a luxurious home kit to provide some much-needed pampering until in-office treatments become routine again,” said Kristen Flaharty, PharmD, Founder of Trilogy Laboratories.
The Botanical Home Facial kit is a four-step luxury treatment suitable for all skin types. One kit includes enough product for at least four at-home facials. Products include:
- Botanical gel cleanser with green tea
- Blueberry alpha hydroxy acid peel with mandelic acid and enzymes
- Magic moisture hydrating mask
- Green tea moisturizer with aloe, cucumber and calendula extracts
- Cosmetic bag
- Foundation brush (to apply peel)
- Terry cloth hair band
Trilogy Laboratories continues to develop innovative products to serve the needs of retailers, skincare experts and beauty brands during COVID-19. It recently released a moisturizing hand mask to treat skin irritation due to over-sanitizing and washing.
To seamlessly launch or grow any brand, Trilogy Laboratories provides turn-key private labeling of luxury skincare products. From packaging to graphic design, Trilogy helps retailers create the perfect skincare line using premium medical-grade skincare products.
To purchase your facial kit at https://www.azulskinhealth.com/product/home-facial/ and let’s get ready for a professional home-sweet-home style spa!
About Trilogy Laboratories
Trilogy Laboratories was founded in 2014 by Dr. Kristen Flaharty, who has more than 20 years of ethical pharmaceutical product development experience. She was the driving force behind the development of the Azul brand of medical grade skin care products for Dr. Patrick Flaharty’s world-class Azul Cosmetic Surgery and Medical Spa. Trilogy Laboratories manufactures highly effective private label skin care products for physicians, medical professionals, salons and spas, using scientifically proven ingredients at therapeutic concentrations. Trilogy brands include Integraderm, Azul SkinHealth and Minerale Makeup. Its manufacturing facility is an entirely self-contained innovative cosmetic and OTC-registered production facility, creating and manufacturing some of the highest quality and most effective skin care products in today’s market.
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A Men’s Grooming Tool To Help You Look Good and Feel Good!
With the hard news received in California a couple of weeks ago, that we have been going back into lockdown, I hope all of you are staying safe and healthy. In the midst of everything going on, I wanted to introduce a product to help the man of the house survive another quarantine lockdown and this time, with the right tools in his bathroom arsenal.
Get rid of your plastic bag and that old smoothing pad! The Wave Glyder is a patent pending smoother created to lay down the hair & enhance your waves. Created for all wavers at any stage of the game, Wave Glyder is the perfect fit to any waving routine.
Wave Glyder was invented in Sunny South Florida by a barber looking to reinvent your hair’s smoothness and accentuate your wave pattern. This handheld men’s styling tool tackles stubborn hairs and helps you to effectively apply product to your hair at the same time. This novel tool smoothes hair in a hassle-free way and accepts additional oils and moisturizing products at the same time so men can achieve the healthy, frizz-free shine they’re looking for. Do note that it doesn’t replace your need for brushing.
Wave Glyder
Wave Glyder is the ultimate hair smoother. It is designed to lay down your hair & accentuate your wave pattern, not replace the brush.
Wave Glyder is the first of its kind! It allows you to not only smooth down those stubborn hairs but you can also apply hair product at the same time! It’s interchangeable attachments give you the flexibility to choose what works best for your hair height & hair texture.
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Enjoy The Outdoor Activities with HOO-RAG
Hoo-rags products are all about head wear. Bandanas, hats, balaclavas, neck gaiters, and headbands to name a few. Protect yourself from the elements while you are Headed For Adventure! Whether it’s fishing, yoga, mountain biking, hunting, or just spending your time on the water, Hoo-rags makes something for you that is useful and stylish.
Hoo-rags are revolutionary headwear that are worn by thousands of male and female outdoor enthusiasts and athletes all over the world.
On their website, Hoo-rags introduce a few of the most popular ways you can wear yours, but in reality you can use your Hoo however you want. The Hoo-rag is made of 100 percent polyester microfiber that wicks away moisture and protects you from the sun’s harmful rays! Rated to 30 UPF.
FACE COVER MASK
Perfect for desert journeys, ranching, sun protection, and paintball, Face Mask style boasts extreme versatility and protection. Cover your mouth and nose with your Hoo-rag to prevent dust, dirt, and non-toxic paint from getting into your lungs.
Using as a FACE COVER MASK is one of the most popular ways to rock the rag and ideal for any type of weather. The Hoo-Rag is made of lightweight, breathable material that will protect your pretty mug from the sun, wind, cold and dust- making this style a favorite among hunters, anglers, snow bunnies, bikers and more! Here are some of my favorite designs.
JEEPER REAPER FACE MASK BANDANA
The Jeeper Reaper is original Hoo-rag art that is sure to turn some heads. It’s based on the Original Skull Face Mask. Featuring grungy vertebrae and mean-looking grill, this mask is a must-have for your Hoo-rag collection.
THIN BLUE LINE AMERICAN FLAG BANDANA
This Thin Blue Line Hoo-rag is for all Hoo-rag brothers and sisters in blue. Heroes, civil servants, and protectors of peace – they now more than ever want to show their respect and support to police officers who work every day to keep our streets safe.
THE WALKER FACE MASK BANDANA
The Walker is here! All of you Zombie enthusiasts will love this new design. It features rotting flesh, nasty teeth, and eye-popping features. This face mask is ready to go and is quickly becoming one of the most popular designs. Get yours today and make sure to check out the other Skull Daddy face masks!
You can wear Hoo-rags as face masks, neck gaiters, headwraps, scarves, beanies, hat liners, helmet liners and more. The Hoo-rag has a UPF30 sun protection rating made of 100% moisture-wicking polyester microfiber.
All of the three items above are approx. 19” x 8.5”. One size fits most. Machine wash cold. Line dry.
The Original Hoo-rag downsized to make the perfect kids bandana, perfect for both girls & boys youth ages 3 to 13+! Now approximately 17.5 inches by 8.5 inches, this should be small enough for even your tiniest companion. It has the same UPF 30+ protection to keep your children’s skin safe from the elements, with fun designs that will make them excited to wear it.
BEARY DIGITAL FACE MASK
Your hunting buddy can look super fierce, or super cuddly, in this beary adorable face mask. The bear face rests upon Hoo-rag popular full-size Digi-Knit design, and is made for kids! You can wear a Hoo-rag worn as face masks, neck gaiters, scarves, beanies, hat liners, helmet liners and more. Stretches to fit most kids aged 3-13. Up to 30 UPF sun protection rating. 100% moisture-wicking polyester microfiber. Approx. 17.5” x 8.5”. Machine wash cold. Line dry.
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Keep Kids Smart with ART for Your Staying at Home Kids
A new series of free online programs called Keep Kids Smart with ART will aim to help parents and their children who are home from school, along with other new digital online visual arts programs at no cost for all ages, including seniors who are keeping social distance and who might feel isolated.
The team at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, and the teachers at its Art School campus, are creating these new free online initiatives for parents and students. This new series of free online programs, featuring Keep Kids Smart with ART will begin this Friday, March 20th. The link will be here. *The first content will be added on Friday.
These ideas resulted from consulting with an American father who lives abroad with his family. He shared his experience, strength and hope about the challenges his family has faced while staying at home due to school closures because of the coronavirus.
The Museum team sees this as a way to give back to the community and to be of service during this challenging time. Also further below are tips for parents on how to use art at home with their children, to keep kids engaged.
Eye to I: Self Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery
The Ultimate Collection of “Selfies” by America’s Leading Artists: from 1901 through 2015
The term self-conscious takes on a whole new meaning in today’s social media era. At a time when millions of selfies are posted every day and identity is proving to be more fluid, this exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery shines a new light on self-portraiture and representation.
C/NPG.2017.122 Untitled, from the series When I am not Here, Estoy alla, by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Dye diffusion transfer print (1996). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Julia P. and Horacio Herzberg. © María M. Campos-Pons.
Chosen as the cover for the exhibition catalogue, the artist used her own body to map out feelings of translocation from place to place.
The bilingual title is in half-Spanish and means When I am not Here, I am There.
She stands with her eyes closed, as though transported between territories while holding on to her Afro-Caribbean talismans.
NPG.94.81 Elaine de Kooning Self-Portrait. Oil on Masonite (1946). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Mirror, Mirror; Mulatta Seeking Inner Negress II by Alison Saar. Woodcut on chine-collé (2015). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
NPG.77.239 Lee Simonson Self-Portrait. Oil on canvas (c. 1912). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Karl and Jody Simonson; Frame conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee
NPG.2012.71 Shimomura Crossing the Delaware, by Roger Shimomura. Acrylic on canvas (2010). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of Raymond L. Ocampo Jr., Sandra Oleksy Ocampo, and Robert P. Ocampo © 2010, Roger Shimomura
Dr. Brandon Brame Fortune.
“These individuals have approached self-portraiture at various points in history and using different tools, but their representations ─ especially when seen together ─ all raise important questions about self-perception and self-reflection,” said Brandon Brame Fortune, chief curator, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
“Some artists reveal intimate details of their inner lives through self-portraiture, while others use the genre to obfuscate their private selves or invent alter egos.”
Following is the updated statement from Irvin Lippman, the executive director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art:
“Art, culture, and creativity have always made a difference in powerful ways, especially during challenging times. We are grateful for your support and plan to give back to the community.”
“Being inspired and creative have not been canceled.”
“A special new series called Keep Kids Smart with ART will be available online to help parents and their children who are home from school. You will also find other new digital programs especially made by the Museum, for all ages. We will continue our service to the community by creating new virtual educational and enriching experiences online and via our social media channels. Follow and connect on social media (@bocamuseum, #BocaMuseumfromHome).” Read the full statement about the Museum’s temporary closing here.
— Irvin Lippman, executive director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art
According to the National School Boards Association, kids who study art are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement. Studies show that art helps kids earn higher report card grades because skills developed through art lead to better learning in other areas.
Tips for parents and students on using art in your home:
- Provide a special “creative zone” at home.
- Make sure that your “creative zone” is mess-friendly and able to stand up well to spills and art-related fun.
- Focus on the fun process, not on the outcome.
- Create a special area to showcase your child’s artwork.
- Watch and encourage your children as they work on their art.
- Ask them questions to engage them while they create.
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Miami Based Unisex Skincare Brand CTRL Cosmetics Nominated For 2 IBE “Best In Show” Awards
Nominations for the prestigious 2019 Independent Beauty Expo “Best In Show” awards have been announced and CTRL Cosmetics, the new Miami based skincare brand created by designer Nina Steinberg, has been nominated in 2 categories:
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From BeautyIndependent.com November 27th
“The companies that produced the nominated items come from a pool of over 600 exhibiting brands that participated at one or more of the five editions—Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, London and Berlin, which debuted in March—of IBE in 2019. The Best In Show program, which began in 2015 after the first ever IBE in New York, has expanded significantly this year, with the number of merchandise categories increasing to 40 from 30 last year.”
“Each year, these forward-thinking founders bring to market new products that not only fill gaps in the beauty and wellness space, but also continue to find white space in an increasingly crowded market,” says Jillian Wright, overseer of the Best In Show Awards and co-founder of IBMG, owner of Beauty Independent. “It’s important that the Best In Show awards recognize the new categories these brands are creating.”
“The BIS nominated products are evaluated by a panel of seasoned retail buyers, investors, influencers and editors. Alison Ryu, managing director at venture capital firm Able Partners; Beth Santos, vice president of merchandising at Target-owned beauty e-tailer Dermstore; Melissa D’Aquila, beauty buyer at department store retailer Lord & Taylor; Deanna Utroske, editor at beauty industry trade publication Cosmetics Design; and Rachel Anise, the influencer known as Beauty Professor, are all on the panel. They’re given specific categories to judge over three months, examining the products within them for functionality, efficacy, texture, durability, packaging, scent, ingredients, performance, design and social responsibility.”
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