February 2011
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Blog Spotted! 6 Winter Faves from I'm The It Girl →
Beauty Fridays: Six Products That Are Making My Winter
This winter seems to go on forever and ever. Even my beautiful warm and humid Vancouver has been suffering from some very dry and/or freezing days. Thankfully, these six products recently came into my life and are making everything okay. Mario Badescu Glycolic Foaming Cleanser ($20 CAD at BeautyMark) This is an exfoliating cleanser and...
January 2011
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WatchBringing together two of our favourite things…FASHION + POP UP BOOKS!
enjoy! xo BeautyMark
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Praise for Alison Raffaele True Concealer
“I adore this concealer. I just bought this yesterday and I am very impressed by the texture and staying power of this product. I wasn’t sure which colour to choose because the description of the colours is very vague (eg. #1 - nicole kidman, avril lavigne. #2. Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway…). I chose the number 2 just to be safe (in case the #1 was too light). The number 2 is...
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Quotes: Vivienne Westwood →
I want to encourage people…you, into more love for art. I want you to become an art lover. It helps you to understand the world you live in. We suffer incredibly from a lack of culture. Now when I talk about culture, I’m not talking about popular culture. Popular culture is just running around soaking things up…reading magazines…just letting things come in…just...
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Blog Spotted! I'm The It Girl Beauty Fridays: The... →
Beauty Fridays: Lips’ Future is Bright, How About Magenta or Honeysuckle?
Jil Sander S/S 2011 Chanel Cosmetics Creative Director, Peter Philips, created two very very bright lips: one for Jil Sander and one for Fendi. Both pretty damn spectacular. The Jil Sander lip is a bit more of the magenta scale while the Fendi lip tends to gravitate toward honeysuckle. Philips mixed pigments for...
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Blog Spotted! FloStar: Winter Beauty Fix →
Tired of winter weather sucking your skin dry? Expert advice from BeautyMark to fix it right away
Changing seasonal weather makes our skin struggle to find its balance for a few weeks while in transition. I also find that we need different products to cater to the weather differences for each season.
I have extremely dry skin on my cheeks during the winter months and an oily T-zone, so a bad...
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Blog Spotted! Vitamin Daily: Milk does a Bob Good! →
Vitamin daily
dose of lactose
A NO DAIRY DIET DOESN’T MEAN YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR WHIPPED CREAM… YOU JUST CAN’T EAT IT TOO (IT’S FOR YOUR HAIR).
Milk_Shake conditioning whipped cream by Z.ONE Concept smells like the yummiest vanilla diner shake, but the leave-in mousse protects locks with milk proteins for strength, wheat germ for repair and shine, and a special Integrity 41 complex for helping...
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Blog Spotted! Fashion Marketing Critic: BeautyMark... →
BeautyMark: Canada’s Premier Beauty Boutique is The Hidden Gem in Yaletown
I was fortunate enough to take an extended tour of BeautyMark’s wonderful treasure chest of beauty goodies. Thanks to Kendra, one of BeautyMark’s store managers, I got a ton of great material to write this article and I was impressed by the store in so many ways.
Read the full article here…
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Jager Hoops
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Crazy for...
Kevyn Aucoin - The Mascara Using advanced technology from Japan, Kevyn developed a mascara that is light years ahead of the rest. With its invincible wearability, the mascara is also the easiest to remove. Both formulas refuse to flake, drip, smudge, or melt.When its time to remove it, wipes clean in pieces with either warm water or eye-makeup remover! Packaged in a slim red lacquer metal casing,...
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Hedwig Ring
www.beautymark.ca
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Octapus Ring
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Quotes: Nicole Richie
“you just have to go for what you want & if it doesn’t want you back, then so be it. it doesn’t deserve you anyways” - nicole richie
via: chartorrens
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Blog Spotted! Vitamin Daily "resolves" with Mario... →
FACE FIRST FOR THE NEW YEAR
BESIDES SAYING GOODBYE TO ALL-DAY HAPPY HOUR AND CHEESE PLATES GALORE, BID FAREWELL TO DULL, FLAKY SKIN.
Mario Badescu’s Glycolic Foaming Cleanser ($20) breaks down the skin’s winter build-up, reduces minor discoloration and leaves our mug soft and smooth. With no abrasive granules in sight, the glycolic acid gently exfoliates while the herbal extracts sooth the...
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Pantone Declares Honeysuckle Color of 2011 →
A Color for All Seasons Courageous. Confident. Vital. A brave new color, for a brave new world. Let the bold spirit of Honeysuckle infuse you, lift you and carry you through the year. It’s a color for every day – with nothing “everyday” about it.
While the 2010 color of the year, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, served as an escape for many, Honeysuckle emboldens us to face everyday troubles...
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NY Times declares OUT with "fashionista", "pop up"... →
FASHION & STYLE
Worn-Out Fashion TermsBy SIMONE S. OLIVER Published: December 30, 2010
All you fashionistas going into a pop-up for some well-edited bespoke couture? Over!
Fashionista: The word has gone from describing a class of urban style-conscientious sophisticates to becoming a lazy and cheap byword for anyone with a modicum of taste. (See “hipster.”)
Pop-up: It was the year of the...