Spiegel Online reports here: The French first lady, Cécilia Sarkozy, acts so American, while the former American first lady, Hillary Clinton, acts so French. And here: Germans are beginning to wonder what happened to their chancellor. Angela Merkel seemed decisive and resolute earlier in her term. Now, though, the silence from Berlin has become deafening.
USA Today reports here: The Food and Drug Administration requires that cosmetics companies test their products for safety so consumers don’t develop a rash or eye infection. But it doesn’t require companies to study whether products contain chemicals such as endocrine disruptors. These chemicals — which include preservatives called parabens that are found in many shampoos and conditioners — act like hormones and are linked to reproductive and development problems in infants, Houlihan says.
Fashion Wire Daily reports here at Yahoo News: New York - ‘Tis the fall, and the season of the ball…the Angel Ball, that is. The annual charity event, founded in 1996 by Denise Rich to fund cancer research in memory of her daughter Gabrielle’s untimely death at the age of 27 from leukemia, is always a star-studded affair, and this year’s ball, held on October 29, was no exception.
The Zeno Acne Clearing Device (see this page here for some more info including some customer reviews) is a long standing top seller at Amazon in the skin care section! Zeno is an acne clearing device. It is a hand-held, portable electronic medical device that is clinically proven to make pimples disappear fast. In fact, for treating acne pimples, it’s the most scientifically advanced and effective device available without a prescription. Zeno is for people with mild to moderate inflammatory acne.
The Beauty Buyble: The Best Beauty Products of 2007! The definitive guide to all the best beauty buys and products – including dozens of actual samples–from a reporter for In Style and a busy mother of two.
Going to the cosmetic counter can be one of the most abusive experiences in a woman’s daily routine. Where else do you pay for the privilege of being told, "You need a new look"? The salesperson, who has no clue about what’s right for you, sells you $150 worth of makeup and skin care products you don’t need or that may irritate your skin. How do you know which mascara truly lengthens, curls, or offers the blackest black? Which lipstick really does stay on all day without drying your lips?
The Beauty Buyble is a one–stop reference to the year’s best beauty buys and products. It takes out the guesswork, making it easier for you to find the best hair care, makeup, skin care, and beauty tools available on the market. This helpful, accessible book lists products in the low–, middle–, and high–end product range so you can find the product that’s right for you and that will truly enhance your beauty. The clean, concise format helps you find just what you need–and the authors offer advice from celebrity hair stylists, makeup artists, and real women to help you get the best out of your beauty purchases!
Includes tips and secrets from the top names in beauty!
Halloween is just around the corner, traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and viewing horror films, so here are some of this years movies.The Top Ten Horror Movies on DVD at Amazon, for more information please click on the image! For these and other Horror Movies on DVD with customer reviews see this page here at our top rated store.
Women spend an extraordinary amount of money on cosmetics–$45 billion a year in the U.S. alone. Now in its fourth edition, Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me strikes fear in cosmetics-counter consultants everywhere. First off, Begoun has deconstructed ingredient lists. Ever wonder what methylparaben, propylparaben, and butylparaben are doing in your mascara? And what is diazolidinyl urea? All four are potential irritants, and the latter is a preservative that can release formaldehyde, a class A carcinogen. Buyer beware.
Begoun also lists which companies are cruelty-free and which continue to conduct animal testing. The majority of the book–and that’s nearly 800 pages–is devoted to reviews of thousands of cosmetics, from cleansers, foundations, alpha-hydroxy acids, and moisturizers to lip liners, eye shadows, and concealers, all of which Begoun has personally tested. (There are no hair care products listed, as that warrants another book entirely: Don’t Go Shopping for Hair Care Products Without Me.)
She’s perfectly frank and tells it like it is. (On Revlon’s ColorStay Makeup: "goes far beyond the claim of ‘It won’t come off on him.’ It won’t come off when you want it to.") You’ll learn how to tell when you’re being boondoggled by a salesperson, what’s overpriced and overhyped, as well as what’s overlooked. More than 200 brands are included, along with a helpful summary at the end that lists the best products for each cosmetic category. It should be noted that not only is Begoun a fine consumer advocate, she’s also a self-esteem advocate: she mentions time and again that even the best cosmetics won’t necessarily improve your life, and that’s a point well taken.More on Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me here in our online store.
Spiegel Online reports here: Around 7,500 mink have escaped from a German fur farm. Authorities are warning local residents not to go near the marauding mustelids, who may be hungry and dangerous, while soldiers are trying to catch the varmints with nets.
AP reports here at Yahoo News: Blanchett joins a long list of celebrities endorsing personal-care products, but she says she’s used SK-II Makeup Products for seven years to keep her skin in its famously good shape. SK-II, whose products retail for between $60 and $300, is available in a dozen countries, mainly in Asia. The products are also available in a few U.S. department stores.
A double biography of Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden, the pioneers of the cosmetic industry as we know it today has been published (that was back in 2003). But is make-up a blessing or a tyranny for women?
Listen to this interesting interview here from the archive at BBC.co.uk Radio 4 - Woman’s Hour. The author of the biography War Paint, Lindy Woodhead joins Jenni to discuss the legacy these women have left us.
From the Book Description of War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry by Lindy Woodhead :
The amount of research and meticulous personal data in this book is really quite remarkable and compelling. It provides a wealth of information from which to draw wonderfully three-dimensional characters and humanizes this iconic twosome."
-Raquel Welch
"I have seldom enjoyed a book so much as War Paint. The research is staggering-I loved all the detail about society and the arts in Paris, New York, and London that so beautifully set our two heroines in context during such a long span of years . . . it was a wonderful read."
-Lulu Guinness
"A compelling cosmetic portrait of the first half of the twentieth century."
-W magazine
"So riveting that it reads like the movie that will surely be made. . . . With first-hand research and fast-paced prose, Woodhead has succeeded in turning dusty archives into high drama."
-Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune
"It might seem impossible to wring another drop of H2O (water is still a 90 percent base of most cosmetics), let alone humour and historical interest, out of the absurd but ever-alluring beauty business, but Lindy Woodhead has succeeded."
-Nicky Haslam, Literary Review
"These were women who were tough in business, who had a single vision-an idea of what they believed in and would do anything to get there."
-Bobbi Brown
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