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Better Skin For The New Year
For those ladies who always hunt for good skin cares, here is the best gift for them. Who don’t want the better skin for the next year? Let’s take a look of the gifts from Better Skin Company.
Below are the products I recommend.
Nicknamed “Genius in a Jar,” Mirakle Cream is the secret recipe of Natalya Rachkova, an Uzbekistanian aesthetician with 29 years experience. With the perfect blend of nature and science, Mirakle Cream is a one-stop, skin-saving, problem-solving, all purpose cream that cures over 25 ailments and counting. Handcrafted with love and natural ingredients such as beeswax, coconut oil, sea buckthorn, shea butter, cocoa butter, aloe and soothing algae to help moisturize, soften, balance and brighten skin. Perfect for day or night.
Key Benefits:
– Reduced signs of aging
– Reduction in fine lines and wrinkles
– Improved elasticity
– Improvement in collagen production
– Firm, toned and tightened skin
– Increased in radiance and luminosity
– Increased hydration
– Rapid re-hydration
– Increased moisture retention in the skin
– Reduction/Prevention or Elimination of dry, rough scaly skin
– Decrease in hyper pigmentation (sun spots, age spots and other related dark spots)
A daily cleanser, exfoliating scrub and revitalizing mask. Skin cleansing volcanic lava from France enriched with nourishing calendula, sweet orange and grapeseed oils, cucumber, parsley, and chamomile for healthy radiant, more youthful looking skin.
Key Benefits:
– A cleanser, scrub & mask
– Excellent antibacterial, anti-viral, anti-yeast fighting skin cleanser
– Buffs away dull surface cells creating a youthful glow
– Retexturizes skin, leaving it soft, smooth and younger-looking
– Helps diminish the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and acne scars
– Absorb excess skin oils
– Anti-inflammatory
– Helps prevent acne outbreaks
– Stimulates collagen production
– Helps calm rosacea, psoriasis and eczema
– Rich in minerals
– Minimizes pores
– Minimizes blemishes
Zit No More is a super strength zit stopper in an easy breezy rollerball. Zit apocalypse got you down? Roll over those unsightly visitors and watch the healing magic begin. This wonder potion contains salicylic acid wrapped in THREE healing essential oils. Dry up those pore- offending criminals while nature’s warriors moisturize and heal the skin. The formula is boosted with PhytoVie®, stopping pollution in its tracks and providing you with the ultimate zit shield. Results are so fast your friends may never know you had a visitor.
Better Skin Co. Gift Set, $75, www.BetterSkinCo.com
: This set is a one-stop, skin-saving, problem-solving solution to better skin. The set includes the only 3 skin essentials your multi-tasking friends needs to look her best. The all-purpose Mirakle Cream moisturizes, softens, balances and brightens skin, Zit No More stops zits in their tracks even on the go, and Lava Magik is a cleanser, scrub and mask all in one! 
The Story:
The Better Skin Company, creators of Better Skin Mirakle Cream, was founded in 2015 by the dynamic duo of Natalya Rachkova and Murphy D. Bishop, II. In search of the American dream, Natalya and her family emigrated from The Republic of Uzbekistan to Seattle, WA. Tucked away carefully with her most prized possessions was her secret recipe for her famous miracle cream.
Murphy convinced Natalya to allow him to take her precious recipe to chemists in hopes of scaling up the small-batch, home-brewed cream to meet the growing demand. The chemists succeeded and The Better Skin Co. was born.
Natalya is now a proud US citizen and Better Skin Mirakle Cream is ready to be shared with the world. Better Skin Mirakle Cream is filled with love, history, natural ingredients, a bit of science, and a good measure of great karma so that everyone can radiate their best skin ever.
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Van Der Hagen Luxury Badger Shave Set
I know this year’s Father’s Day was already in the history, but why not show your love to dad not limited in that one day. Your dad deserves something luxurious at an affordable price! Van Der Hagen’s Luxury Badger Shave set allows men to receive that one of a kind shave achieved at the barber shop right in their own home! Let the patriarch in your life get spoiled with this set for only $39.99.
Luxury Badger Shave Set, $39.99
- Badger shaving brush is soft on your skin
- Use the hypoallergenic shave soap to lather up, resulting in a smooth shave without skin irritation or razor bumps
- Acrylic stand is designed to hold both shaving brush and razor for easy storage
The Van Der Hagen Luxury Badger Shave Set is available at Bed Bath & Beyond, Whole Foods, Target, Walgreens, Walmart, Duane Reade, Stop & Shop, Rite Aid and Vanderhagen.com.
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Donut Day Ideas from BigMouth
Here has more fun stuffs for Donut Day from BigMouth.
Frosted Donut Serving Ring:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X4167P4
What will everyone remember about the party you hosted? The food! We made it fast, easy, and fun to put out a great spread—just inflate our serving rings, and fill ’em with ice, snack bowls, party favors, beverages—whatever you can think of. They wipe down easily and deflate for compact storage.
Price $7.99
The Donut Worry Be Happy Garden Gnome:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XJ8MRTP/
This Garden Gnome has his life sorted out—relaxin’ on a donut pool float, drink in hand, and ready for a day full of nothing. Post our Donut Worry Be Happy Garden Gnome in your garden, near the pool, beach, or anywhere you need a reminder to just chill.
Price: $19.98
Frosted Donut Lunch Tote:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MT86DSU
Donut Touch My Food! Our new Lunch Tote collection brings the fun back to lunch time, and this Frosted Donut Lunch Tote does it in the “holiest” way. The EVA-lined tote is hard-walled and insulated to keep your lunch fresh without getting crushed—perfect for a nice healthy lunch of salad donuts. The handle and stitching ooze quality, so it will survive the work week with ease. Even better, this Lunch Tote unzips wiiiide open—no struggling to pack and unpack large containers or ice packs.
Price: $14.99
Giant Donut Hole Beach Ball:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ENR5C30
What’s better than a tiny, tasty donut hole? *spoiler* A humongous 20-inch donut hole you can play with in the pool, that’s what! Take your donut beach ball for a dip this summer!
Price: $10.99
Pass the Donut Flying Food:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CEU6JHQ
There’s a time and a place for throwing food. This strawberry frosted donut goes the distance—because it’s actually a flying disc. Go ahead and chuck one at your best friend…just be sure to give them a “heads up!”. It makes a great beach companion for the Gigantic Frosted Donut Beach Blanket, Donut Float, Giant Beach Ball, and Beverage Boats.
Price: $10.99
Gigantic Frosted Donut Beach Blanket:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016QQJD2W
Normally, drying off with a donut would create a sticky mess, but this humongous beach blanket will do the trick without having people question your sanity. At 5 feet wide, it makes a great companion for the beach or pool. Don’t forget your donut float, flying food, and beverage boats.
Price: $24.99
Frosted Donut Beverage Boats:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BXDW1PO
Add some sweetness to the pool party. These beverage boats keep your standard size drink afloat with flair. Plus, with three styles, you will always know which drink is yours. Sold as a 3-pack, each package contains these frosted donuts; strawberry, chocolate, and berry.
Price: $10.99
Giant Donut Pool Float:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Q2KZU0
It looks good enough to eat, and in fact, someone took a bite out of our best selling Giant Frosted Strawberry Donut Float. At 4 feet wide, it’s comfy enough for an entire day at the pool or beach—and hysterically fun.
Price: $19.99
The Donut Hole Mug:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A95R59Y
There are some things that were just meant to be, and coffee+donuts is one of them. Our clever new mug combines the two, bringing us that much closer to utopia. Simply pour yourself some java, slide your donut into the slot, and get back to saying “now why didn’t I think of that?”
Price: $14.99
Coffee and a Donut USB Mug Warmer:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JN8OH3A
There’s nothing worse than crafting the perfect cup of coffee, only to let it go cold because you got distracted by someone flapping their gums about their weekend. Instead, this mug warmer keeps your drink warm with your computer’s USB port! Simply plug it in, and place your ceramic mug on top. The results? A nice warm drink, ready to sip.
Price: $15.99
The Donut Mug:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008DIR4L4
Coffee and donuts are so good together, they should be their own food group. Until that happens, use this donut-shaped mug to hold 12 ounces of lava-hot java.
Price: $12.99
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PAPYRUS has the Sweetest “Sweets” to get you ready for Donut Day
We would like to blissfully inform you that June 2 is Donut Day!
For your sweet Donut Day celebrations, I wanted to send you some really AWESOME products from PAPYRUS – to make the celebration tastier and more exciting! You can shop at more than 200 PAPYRUS locations in the US and Canada as well as online at www.papyrusonline.com.
Handmade Felt Donuts Boxed Notes (Set-of-8)
https://www.papyrusonline.com/handmade-felt-donuts-boxed-notes-set-of-8
A yummy way to send a greeting, these frosted doughnuts are finished with felt and beads. Blank inside for your message.
Price: $19.95
Sweets and Treats Assorted Boxed Notes (Set-of-20):
https://www.papyrusonline.com/sweets-and-treats-assorted-boxed-notes-set-of-20
Brighten their day with one of these darling note cards. The glittery treats are sure to bring a smile to their face.
Price: $12.95
Herbie Desserts Apron Set (Set-of-2):
https://www.papyrusonline.com/herbie-and-desserts-apron-set-set-of-2
Tasty treats decorate this delightful set of aprons along with Herbie the bear and his friends. They’re sure to add a fun touch to baking days with the little one.
Price: $29.95
Herbie and Desserts Tea Towel:
https://www.papyrusonline.com/herbie-and-desserts-tea-towel
Tasty treats decorate this fun tea towel along with Herbie the bear and his friends. It’s sure to brighten up your kitchen.
Price: $7.95
Pink and Donuts Letterpress Birthday Card:
https://www.papyrusonline.com/pink-gold-donuts-letterpress
Scrumptious pink & gold foiled donuts are the highlight of this letterpress birthday card. Representing decades of heartfelt connections, Marcel Schurman embodies a sensibility all its own.
Price: $5.95
Treat Yourself Folio Gift Card Holder:
https://www.papyrusonline.com/treat-yourself-folio-gift-card-holder
A polka-dot turquoise grosgrain ribbon tie brings together this gift card holder featuring sweet treat tip-ons embellished with glitter. Great for any occasion, treat someone special!
Price: $5.95
Sweets Printed Journal:
https://www.papyrusonline.com/sweets-printed-journal
Find inspiration for your next writing project with this sweet soft-cover journal. Delightful images of tarts, donuts, and other yummy desserts decorate the cover with a pretty pink satin ribbon to mark your spot.
Price: 15.95
Illustrated Donuts Boxed Notes (Set-of-20):
https://www.papyrusonline.com/illustrated-donuts-boxed-notes-set-of-20
Send a friend a sweet message of hello or thanks with this fun note card that features an array of illustrated donuts.
Price: $15.95
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Everyday is a happy Valentine’s Day
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a Valentine. Treat yourself and your friends nice everyday seems like you have Valentine everyday. Beauty yourself and waiting for the beautiful moment happen to your life.
Here are some products you may consider to bring to your happy life.
Exfoliate and smell delicious with the Lavanila Laboratories The Healthy Vanilla Bean Creamy Body Scrub. The vanilla bean has been used for years to protect, condition, and repair the skin. The essences of this plant are rich in polyketones and polyphenols that work together to deliver youthful-looking skin texture and powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity. This ultra-creamy, non-greasy body scrub is formulated with crushed Madagascar vanilla beans blended with whipped shea butter and five nourishing essential oils. It whisks away dry, dead skin cells—revealing soft, hydrated, glowing skin. ($40; Lavanila.com)
Get a bigger pout without needles using the, InstaPlumper Natural Lip Plumping Treatment by Violent Lips. A lip-plumping treatment that’s like no other – the longer you can take the intense tingle, the bigger and bolder your results. Made with 6 natural ingredients to deliver the ultimate in plumping power (cinnamon oil, capsicum oil, sunflower oil, peppermint, black pepper oil, and coffee bean oil), InstaPlumper lasts up to 8 hours and will leave you with lips that rival the look of professional injections. ($18 for a pack of 8 applications; ViolentLips.com)
Prep your skin before makeup with the KORRES Wild Rose Vitamin C Active Brightening Oil. This innovative brightening oil infused with real wild rose petals pays homage to the legendary wild rose oil ingredient that started it all. This ultra-concentrated vitamin C oil is rich in omega 3, 6, 9, fatty acids, and vitamins A and C. It provides significant antioxidant action while repairing the look of fine lines and wrinkles and improving skin’s overall tone and texture. ($54; Sephora.com)
Create some show-stopping waves with the Cuvée Beauty Champagne Spray. Incredibly shiny, beautiful hair transformed by the nurturing properties of champagne and other luxurious, top-of-the-line ingredients. For a lived-in, tousled look, this texture spray creates instant “second-day” hair with just a few quick spritzes. It also provides powerful antioxidant protection that conditions and strengthens hair, leaving behind locks that are perfect and piece-y. It’s safe for color and chemically treated hair, and is sulfate- and paraben-free. ($42; CuveeBeauty.com)
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Google Home Review – Smart, Real Smart
As the world of home automation gets closer and closer to Disney Channels “Smart Home” (I may have given away my age a bit), we’re starting to see various products talk to each other more and more. From Smart Locks, all the way to changing colors on your Living Room, there seems to be no end to making your home interact in a highly modular setting. A lot of contenders have entered the scene, most notably Amazon’s line of Smart Home products (Alexa, Echo). But Google recently unveiled to the world why they are the king of A.I and are not to be taken lightly with the Google Home.
Design
The Google Home might look basic from a design stand point. But as noted from their flagship Smartphone (Pixel/XL) its trying to keep a minimalist approach, while fitting in within the walls of your home. I currently have two; one is located perfectly in the kitchen, while I have the other in my room. It isn’t anything too flashy, and I think that’s what drives the appeal to it. Of course, if you want to bring a bit more flair to it, they offer different colored bases (metal and fabric) for $20.
Blends very well with my kitchen! It has a slight slant on top to use the capacitive touch buttons to control the volume. On the back, you have a mute button, if in case you don’t want Google constantly picking up what you’re saying. Google Home does a great job at picking up what I say. The sound quality is great for an apartment, but if you are looking for a substitute for your main speakers, I would hold off on that. There is no distortion of sound at maximum volume, but in larger homes/apartments, they don’t fill up the place, but rather keep the volume to that room solely. Regardless, it still carries quite a bit of sound.
Back of Google Home. One of the main reasons that I was keen on playing with Google Home was for the Multiroom Functionality. Many companies have had something like this before. But Google would rather play nice then separate themselves from the competition. With big audio companies like Harmon Kardon and BOSE that will soon offer their hand in being ‘Cast-Friendly’, it will never be easier to set up an entire house with Wi-Fi enabled speakers. And for those who already have speakers and don’t want to get rid of them, Google has Chromecast Audio. Just plug it in an audio jack, and you now have a ‘Cast-Ready’ speaker without having to spend $150+ on new audio speakers.
Not only is the hardware compatibility great, but the various amount of Cast Ready Apps that are for available use. With Google apps like Youtube and Google Play Music, and the inclusion of a 6-Month Trial Free Program for Yotube Music, you have a huge library of music you can listen to. Couple with the fact that it also teams up with other Smart Homes (Samsung Smart Things, IFTTT), it won’t ever cause an issue on your ever growing Smart Home.
Software
However, while the idea is cool, the simplicity is not. Downloading the Google Home App is perhaps the easiest part of it. When it comes to pairing the speakers, its not as easy as you would have hoped for. It’s a bit of a learning curve. First off, be mindful that that the account that you connect Google Home to will be the account that will have music played from. So if for example your roommate is listening to a song on Google Home and you are also on the same app, it will stop one of you from listening to music. Also, depending how close your router is, you often will get a bit of delay within all your speakers. Often while playing music through my Smart Phone, I’ll hear one speaker drop but come back within a few seconds. However, casting is very simple and anyone can cast music as long as they are in the same WiFi.
A look into Google Home. The Google Assistant itself is far from perfect but it does a good job at just about anything you throw at her. I often asked Google Home to set an alarm, remind me of an event and it will do it with no problem. You will get instances where she doesn’t quite understand what you say. I asked for the Moana Soundtrack, and instead gave me another Album. You also have to be mindful with the music app that you wish to play from, especially when asking Google Home. Another BIG issue for me is that Google Home does not have any other language pack aside from English. However, when I asked to play a song in Spanish, it understood what I was saying (even if she repeated it back in a broken dialect). I personally wish I could customize my greeting to Google Home, but I understand that Google wants to keep it all around.
At least someone thinks I’m cool. Final Thoughts
If you are looking to begin your journey into a Smart Home, I think this is a solid place to start. The Google Home is far from perfect, but it is a good start into something great. And with the current price of $129, it doesn’t hurt to pick one up for the Holidays.
