From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Light & Lively: Marc Jacobs Splash

30 June 2008

Since the temperature’s begun to hold steady in the 20-degrees-plus range, I’ve been obsessed with the airy freshness of this summer’s limited-edition Marc Jacobs Splash trio. The sorbet-inspired scents, Basil, Pear and Grapefruit, are refreshing sensory antidotes to heavy, humid weather.

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F is for 'Fessing Up, 5-Factor Fitness and Forecasting

27 June 2008

Here I am beaming with L.A.-based personal trainer Harley Pasternak when he was in town recently to launch Nestea Vitao, a new line of natural, antioxidant-rich iced tea. A Canadian fella, he’s helped hone the physiques of Benjamin Bratt and Halle Berry.

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Lipstick Jungle: Beauty and Candace Bushnell

26 June 2008

I didn’t ask her a single thing about her skincare and makeup regime. Not a thing.
Doesn’t mean I didn’t figure a few things out about Candace Bushnell and beauty, though. Here’s what I learned about the author of Sex & the City and Lipstick Jungle at a P&G Beauty cocktail gathering this week:

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Summer Pretty: Lise Watier La Toscana makeup collection

25 June 2008

I feel as bright and shiny as a new copper penny. I prefer copper over bronze (the usual colour of summer), actually. Copper has more golden undertones; it’s more flattering for a wider range of skin tones, including mine, and it’s aces for every eye colour.

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Working Wardrobe: SunSoul Clothing for Better Skin

25 June 2008

I thought I made my wardrobe work hard, what with my unceasing demands that it make my Tweedledee figure-type look good. SunSoul ups the ante by promising to make skin look good, in a new-millennia having-your-colours-done* kind of way.

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Good Clean Fun: Lush Rehab Clarifying Shampoo

23 June 2008

Hard water and styling products such as wax and gel sometimes gang up on hair to leave Build Up. Suddenly, curls aren’t so soft, the texture feels a bit waxy, the hair’s misbehaving and someone’s turned your shine factor way down. Time for an intervention: clarifying shampoo.

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F is for "Friend:" Ditched for Ben Affleck

20 June 2008

Oh yeah, I meant it. Yep, “friend,” as in “some friend she is.”
Let me introduce you: the girlie in this photo is my delightful friend Heather Buchan, Associate Editor for Hello! Canada.
Heather and I had a get-together planned for last weekend. We were going to get together to play with makeup in preparation for her [...]

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F is for Fair? Notsomuch: Estella Warren is Genetically Gifted

20 June 2008

Estella Warren loves rich, gourmet meals.
That was not in the beauty-secrets swag bag I got at my coming out party.

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Discomblogulated: please ditch the e.mail and go for the reader instead

14 June 2008

Yes, it’s true, I’m about to advise valued beautygeeks e.mail subscribers to unsubscribe. And get this: I’ve unsubscribed as well. E.mail notifications are soooo slow! (I’m learning right along with everyone else new to blog subscriptions. Sheesh. And I can hear tech-savvy reader-subscribers having a giggle — dudes, I’ll say it again: I’m a beauty [...]

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F is for Fun Footwear. Or Freaky. Or Freakin' Heelarious.

13 June 2008

If you’ve left your sense of humour at the door with your footwear, go back and get it before you read this. Seems you’re never too young to be glam. To the max. We’re talking stilettos for tots (don’t freak, they’re just for fun).

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The Lipstick Queen's Oxymoron: Matte Gloss

12 June 2008

I’ve always loved the fresh-faced, English-rose beauty: pale skin, flushed cheeks, bee-stung lips. It’s a just-woke-up prettiness. Of course, I’d like to wake up and looked like Kiera Knightley or Jennifer Ehle (Lizzy in the tremendous A&E version of Pride and Prejudice). But that’s just me.
“It’s Jane Austen beauty,” says Poppy King, the woman behind [...]

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Need a present? Enter here to WIN one of two Herbal Essences beauty baskets!

11 June 2008

Who needs a present? Beautygeeks has a giveaway! You could WIN one of two “Herbal Essences Hair to Toe” gift baskets. Post a comment on what makes you a beautygeek, and you could snag a bundle of stuff that includes shampoo, conditioner and hair colour, plus Olay body treats, CoverGirl nail polish, either a Braun [...]

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Dermalogica Age Smart Skin Resurfacing Cleanser: See ya, Dull Face!

10 June 2008

Okay, so I’m not the quickest person in the bathroom in the morning — or ever for that matter. Good thing I don’t have to share. (Clive-O has his own place across the pond. Keeps the romance alive.) Still, I do appreciate a time saver in my A.M. routine. Dermalogica Age Smart Skin Resurfacing Cleanser [...]

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Venus Embrace: Smooth Pins

9 June 2008

I’ll never really freak about a bad haircut. My hair grows insanely quickly: two weeks and everything’s better. But quick-grow hair isn’t always a good thing.
I get 5 o’clock shadow.
On my legs.
No wonder my dating life sucks.
I wasn’t clever enough to inherit no-arm-or-leg-hair genes from my Chinese mum. Oh no. Instead I take after my [...]

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