Archive for April, 2008
New Belgium Brewing Company Lip Balm
How I missed this I’ll never know! First, a bit of back story:
I love beer. Seriously, I LOVE BEER! I am a member of the beer of the month club (thanks Mom!). I also help manage the Waymarking.com Brewpub Category (I initially created it in the beta days). I would homebrew, except I worry that all the beer consumption would make me fat. I even have a domain registered for a beer blog, but haven’t found the time to get it rolling. Then there is the fact that my husband and I have personal Mmm Beer Bottle Opener Geocoins. You get the picture…
It also really love Ft Collin’s Colorado, which is the home of the New Belgium Brewing Company and my favorite (on tap, I don’t care for it much in the bottle) American Wheat Beer, Sunshine Wheat. I have been on multiple camping trips, traveling from Nebraska (I am now in Illinois) to North Park Colorado, where I detoured and stopped in Ft Collins just to pick up growlers for the trip.
So imagine my surprise….. No, actually imagine my shock, when I learned that the New Belgium Brewing Company makes a lip balm! My two addictions have come together! It sounds decent enough as well. Here are the ingredients:
SPF 15 - Active Ingredients: Octinoxate (7.5%). Oxybenzone (3%). Other Ingredients: Organic Soybean Oil, Candelilla Wax, Virgin Olive Oil, Organic Hemp Seed Oil, Vitamin E, Rosemary Extract, Comfrey, Calendula, St. John’s Wort
OK, so there isn’t beer in it (the addition of St John’s Wort is a bit interesting though), and as far as I know it isn’t beer flavored (I haven’t tried it yet). I also admit that if it did taste like beer that would likely be a bit (OK a lot) weird.
I kind wish they would make it taste like beer anyway…… Which leads to this:
Stay tuned for more on beer lip balms next week!
Popularity: 12% [?]
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Soap and Glory Sexy MotherPucker
How could I not try this product? The name amuses me and it comes in amusing packaging. It also helped that I love Soap and Glory Great Shakes Hand Cream (Read Beauty and Fashion Tech Review).
Well, motherpucker indeed! This stuff works! I have come across a few lip plumpers that I thought provided a bit of plumping. The best usually have been pretty expensive and the results minimal. This one gave me noticeable results, at least for a short (perhaps too short) while, and at $10, the price is not all that bad. It isn’t for the faint of heart though. Lip plumpers tend to work by irritating the lips, which makes them swell. So they generally tingle quite a bit. I love the tingle that plumpers give, but this one was almost too much for me. It was pretty intense. I suppose that is also why it seemed to actually work. The light tint and the overall gloss is nice too. It isn’t sticky either!
One extra observation though: while this one worked, it didn’t last all that long. So be prepared to reapply to keep the plumping action going.
Soap and Glory products are available at a big box retailer with a big red bulls eye on the store.
Popularity: 15% [?]
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Weekend Reading From the Total Beauty Bloggers
For your weekend reading are some posts from the Total Beauty Bloggers.
The Muse shares her first impressions of MAC DressCamp with Product Photos and Swatches of this sold out Collection!
Laurie at Beauty’s Spot gets
an amazing massage and energy healing session from a San Francisco-based massage therapist and healer.
Monique at beauty girl musings shares how to save your hair from everyday heat styling.
Girl Gloss finds a great new lipstick from the new Sally Hansen Natural Beauty Cosmetics line.
Tink at Casual Lavish talks about At home remedies for whitening your fingernails.
Beauty Anonymous invites you to the springtime nail colors of OPI 2008 Beyond Chic Collection.
Beauty411 shares her review of Klean Bath + Body’s Blue Hawaii Sugar Body Polish, which smells like a tropical island and exfoliates your skin, too!
Forget virgin daiquiris, The Beauty of Life is all about the gorgeous polishes from the new Extra Virgin Collection from Dashing Diva!
Periodic Style’s Jeanne goes back to school at Sephora University!
Toya of The Life of A Ladybug asks “What’s your ‘thing’ right now?”
Find out which organic shower gel, leaves Christine’s hubby in a woodsy lather…at Beauty in Real Life.
Answering the complicated question, “What does organic mean?”, A Mom in Red High Heels helps clear away the confusion.
Budget Beauty Love takes a look at the new Sally Hansen Natural Beauty foundation and primer and isn’t too thrilled.
Makeup Junkie finds a new best friend in Chi’s Pink Flat Iron!
Kitiya of Mischo Beauty has a reader who shares her favorite organic conditioner!
Daily Dose of Coffee features Lush as a green company profile.
Popularity: 9% [?]
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M.A.C. Cosmetics DazzleGlass
MAC has a new lipglass collection out. If you like shimmery lip gloss, this one might be for you.
Popularity: 28% [?]
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Nars 2008 Summer Collection: Dolce Vita Lip Pencil!
I got excited when I saw the Dolce Vita Velvet Matte Lip Pencil, in the Nars Summer Collection. Nars Dolce Vita is one of my favorite lipsticks (read review), so I am excited to give this pencil a try.
The collection also adds a Roman Holiday pink lip pencil, a sheer brandy color lipstick, and two pretty lip glosses: Misbehave is a sheer cherry red with gold shimmer, and Supervixen is a sheer sparkling mauve.
The collection is available now at the Nars website in the link above.
Popularity: 11% [?]
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Gucci Westman Teams Up With Revlon
Reknowned makeup artist Gucci Westman has signed with Revlon as the brand’s Artistic Global Director (read the press release). Westman is the artist behind the wildly popular Lancome Pout-A Porter Series of limited edition lipsticks developed for New York Fashion Week the past few years (read Pixel Pink reveiw).
Hopefully this means some interesting things will be coming out from Revlon in the coming year!
Popularity: 10% [?]
