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Valentine’s Day Essentials!
Whether you’re getting glam for Valentine’s Day (or Galentine’s Day J), IT Cosmetics will give you that certain something that will make you feel like your most beautiful you! Their #1 best-selling shade Je Ne Sais Quoi™ provides the perfect pop of pink – just enough to make cupid blush! One swipe on the lips and cheeks is all you need to look perfectly polished day or night!
NEW! Bye Bye Pores Blush™ $24
Bye Bye Pores™ Blush is NOW AVAILABLE in our most coveted shade – Je Ne Sais Quoi™! This award-winning Bye Bye Pores™ formula is infused with optical-blurring pigments which instantly diffuse the look of pores and discoloration! It’s filled with skin-loving ingredients like anti-aging silk, hydrolyzed collagen, antioxidants and peptides which will give you a youthful flush. One quick swipe of this talc-free formula will make your heart skip a beat!
Your Je Ne Sais Quoi™ Complexion Perfection Award-Winning Face Palette $42
This palette includes four must-have, talc-free powder formulas that instantly enhance and brighten your features: new Sunshine in a Compact™ Matte Bronzer, new Perfect Lighting™ Luminizer, new Bye Bye Pores Blush™, and award-winning Bye Bye Pores Pressed™ Poreless Finish Airbrush Pressed Powder.
Je Ne Sais Quoi™ Hydrating Color Awakening Lip Treatment $24
This ultra-hydrating formula locks in moisture and reacts with the warmth of your lips to create your perfect flush of color!
Your Lips But Better™ Waterproof Lip Liner Stain $20
Defines your lips while keeping your favorite lipsticks and glosses in place—can also be used as your all-over matte stain!
Vitality Lip Flush Stain™ Gloss $24
Glides on like a lightweight serum, drenching your lips in intense hydration and rich pigment that lasts all day.
Vitality Lip Blush™ Hydrating Gloss Soft Stain $24
Delivers high shine and 50% less stain than the original for softer, sheerer color that’s equally as beautiful.
Vitality Lip & Cheek Flush Stain™ Anti-Aging Color Reviver $24
Hydrates your skin while delivering a naturally pretty pop of pink to your lips and cheeks.
Vitality Lip Flush Stain™ 4-in-1 Lipstick $20
Combines your balm, gloss, stain and lipstick into one lip-loving formula that doesn’t come off until you take it off!
Blurred Lines™ Smooth-Fill Lipstick $24
Smooths on nourishing, highly pigmented color that blurs away lip lines and evens your lip tone for a younger-looking smile.
CC+ Blush™ Anti-Aging Crème Blush $24
The hydrating, color-correcting crème formula gives your cheeks a vitality-filled flush that lasts!
This best-selling powder blush doubles as your highlighter, and transforms your skin with a matte-to-radiant flush of color!
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Don’t Break the Bank: Affordable Serums from Art Naturals
An essential skincare step for glowing, smooth, skin shouldn’t be costing you an arm and a leg. From aging and sun spots to fine lines, wrinkles and bags, facial serums from Art Naturals have got you covered!
Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizing Serum
A blend of hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E and jojoba seed work together to fight wrinkles, fine lines, blemishes, dryness and protect from irritation. Your skin will be left nourished and moisturized!
Price: $15, available online via www.artnaturals.com.
Enhanced Vitamin C Serum with Hyaluronic Acid
Organically infused, reducing signs of aging and sun spots all while restoring youthful, glow and minimizing existing wrinkles while preventing new wrinkles from forming. A gentle and rapid absorption allows it to be used along with makeup and daily moisturizers!
Price: $15, available online via www.artnaturals.com.
Enhanced Retinol Serum
This serum is ideal for reducing fine lines and wrinkles, crow’s feet, age spots and under eye bags. The antioxidant properties will restore skin’s healthy and youthful complexion and shine.
Price: $15, available online via www.artnaturals.com.
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Fight Aging: Drinkable Beauty Shots
Revolutionary supplement from Osmosis Skincare helps reverse daily sugar damage to prevent sagging and wrinkles
Sugar. We are surrounded by it at almost every meal yet sweets are often one of the most overlooked causes of so many skin, gut, and general health issues. In particular, an overabundance of it in your diet is speeding up one process: aging. At fault is a natural occurrence called glycation and Osmosis Skincare’s Sugar Detox Harmonized Water is a revolutionary supplement created to curb its effects on the skin.
All of us are experiencing the effects of aging from Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs). This results from excess sugar in our blood stream attaching to collagen making it tough and aging it before its time which leads to wrinkles. The sugar-protein bonds form these new molecules called AGEs. Over time AGEs become more permanent and affect the ability of our fibroblasts to create collagen. They also produce free radicals increasing the aging process even more.
Osmosis Skincare’s Sugar Detox Harmonized Water is specifically designed to address all aspects of sugar and sweetener overload. This Harmonized Water contains frequencies that help balance the pancreas, improve sugar utilization, detox sweeteneres from the liver, balance nerve damage associated with diabetes, help control sugar levels and reduce the effects of gylcation in the body. With daily use, there is now less sugar available to cause damage and help stop AGE-ing.
Price: $30 from www.osmosisskincare.com/S
ugarDetox.aspx?cn=11482 Directions: Take 5 pumps AM and PM. If more than 175 lbs, take 7 pumps.
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Dermatoporosis: Will Your Skin Survive the Passing of the Years?
Everyone knows that as we get age we are at risk of developing a condition called osteoporosis that causes our bones to get brittle and break. However, not many know that your skin may suffer from a similar problem: dermatoporosis. Dermatologists are calling this condition a real problem.
Dermatoporosis
It may sound scary, and it is, but the good news is that there is a lot you can do to help your skin transition from one decade to another and the sooner you begin, the better your skin will fare. It is characterized by many features. If you haven’t been executing a skin care regimen that helps to build a strong barrier function, there is no time like the present to start. This is because of many of the later- in-life problems actually begin in your 30’s and 40’s. There is a very gradual thinning of the skin and as this process progresses, skin becomes more fragile and vulnerable to insults that might not have bothered it earlier.
Bruising becomes a bigger issue as skin becomes thinner. While there are other factors that contribute to easy bruisings such as sun damage and medications that thin the blood, building a stronger barrier can help. The use of bruise products such as DerMend® Moisturizing Bruise Formula may help thinning or fragile skin withstand daily bumps and bruises.
DerMend® Moisturizing Bruise Formula
A dermatologist-recommended cream that is clinically proven to help improve the appearance of bruised skin. The formula’s targeted ingredients such as ceramides, Retinol, Arnica Oil and Glycolic Acid, work together to rejuvenate and help restore the skin’s natural barrier. So, if you’re in your 30’s and already puzzled by black and blues that seem to come out of nowhere, you need to prepare for the future.
No one has the same skin. Some genetic factors may make your skin more thin and vulnerable. For those of us who love the Vitamin D in the summer, your skin may also be more prone to developing signs of dermatoporosis.
So, what’s the takeaway? Start building your skin barrier as early as you can and make it a priority. As people with the early signs of osteoporosis know, early intervention is crucial. Speak with a dermatologist to learn how to get your skin on the right track because tomorrow is always right around the corner……and you don’t want to “bump” into it.
DerMend® Moisturizing Bruise Formula ($29.99) is available at CVS, Walgreens and WalMart stores or online at LovelySkin.com. For optimum results, apply twice daily to areas prone to bruising.
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How to Keep Oily Skin from Causing Breakouts
Oils produced by the body help keep skin healthy, but there can be too much of a good thing. Excess oil can lead to blemishes and acne flare-ups. Dr. Jennifer Linder, Chief Scientific Officer for PCA SKIN provided some interesting insight for those of us that struggle with oily skin, along with why excess oils lead to breakouts and what we can do to keep it in check!“Oily skin tends to be a “sluggish” skin condition, meaning it does not effectively shed dead surface cells as easily as normal skin due to the increased oil production acting almost as the glue holding the dead cells together. It is important to add in an exfoliating treatment on a weekly basis that also assists in purifying the pores. PCA SKIN’s Purifying Mask is a clay-based mask with micro-fine pumice that draws out impurities, helps to minimize oil production while also providing gentle exfoliation. Nighttime products containing pure retinol are also a fantastic way to regulate cellular turnover and oil production. I highly recommend PCA SKIN’s Intensive Clarity Treatment at night to increase cellular turnover while regulating oil production.”
PCA SKIN Purifying Mask ($56; PCASKIN.com)An at-home clay-based treatment mask that exfoliates, detoxifies and removes impurities, leaving skin smooth, clear and bright.
- A well-balanced botanical blend to promote a clear complexion
- Clay-based mask that eliminates built-up impurities in pores
- Micro-fine pumice to gently exfoliate built-up surface debris
Key Ingredients:
Algae – detoxifies and hydrates the skin.
Clay – detoxifies, and absorbs oil and impurities.
Pumice – gently exfoliates built-up surface debris and impurities from the skin.
Tea tree leaf oil – promotes a clear complexion.
PCA SKIN Intensive Clarity Treatment ($106; pcaskin.com)Vital for acne skin, this salicylic acid formula includes retinol, niacinamide and hexylresorcinol to dramatically reduce and prevent breakouts, while ethyl linoleate, retinopeptide and lilac stem cell extract reduce sebum production and inflammation. With patented OmniSome delivery technology, the ingredients are delivered deeper into the skin for improved results.
- Salicylic acid (2%) – is for the treatment of acne. Helps keep skin clear of new acne pimples, blackheads.
- 0.5% Retinol (Vitamin A) – is converted to retinoic acid in the skin. Vitamin A helps to promote a clear complexion and an even skin tone.
- Niacinamide (4%) –is a potent and calming antioxidant that delivers multiple important benefits to the skin. It helps to reduce transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and improve barrier function. This is critical for clear,even skin. Additionally, niacinamide helps to reduce redness and improve the overall appearance of an uneven skin tone.
- Hexylresorcinol –helps to promote an even skin tone and reduce inflammation in the breakout-prone skin.
- Ethyl Linoleate – has been shown to reduce inflammation, keratinization and other common causes of breakouts.
- Myristoyl Nonapeptide-3 –this retinopeptide mimics retinoid activity to support breakout-fighting and collagen-building.
- Bakuchiol – is an effective complement to retinoids for fighting breakouts.
- Syringa Vulgaris (Lilac) Leaf Cell Culture Extract – helps regulate sebum and reduce inflammation in the breakout-prone skin and/or whiteheads.
Be sure to check out these products and much more at pcaskin.com!
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Mother’s Day with Look Beauty
Give that special woman in your life the rest and relaxation she deserves for Mother’s Day – without breaking the bank! Pamper her with an at-home spa day thanks to Look Beauty’s Masque Bar Collection. These treatment masks infused with fruit and natural botanicals extracts, soften and smooth for beautiful, healthy looking skin from head to toe.
Masque Bar by Look Beauty Brightening Sheet Mask helps illuminate and correct dull skin, especially after the long days spent at work. This facial sheet mask minimizes the appearance of dark spots and various pigmentation irregularities for a more even complexion and radiant skin thanks to ingredients like Orange Extract, Licorice Root and Vitamin C. ($9.99 for three masks; Amazon.com)
Replenish dry, rough overworked hands with the Handtreat Mani by Look Beauty Moisture & Nourishing Hand Mask! This intense moisture treatment filled in a newly designed “Glove-type” hand mask penetrates quickly & deeply to protect, nourish and restore moisture to skin. ($9.99 for two complete pairs; Amazon.com)
After being on her feet all day, she can kick up tired and achy heels with the Feetreat Pedi Exfoliating Foot Mask by Look Beauty. These foot exfoliators and treatments are easy to use wearable socks that removes calluses. With key ingredients like chamomile, natural botanical and papaya extracts, feet will be perfectly smooth within two weeks. ($9.99; amazon.com)
