The Sonia Kashuk Lip Gloss Quad in Beautiful Berries, $13.
Sonia Kashuk Spring 2011: Lip Gloss Quad in Beautiful Berries
Archives for March 2011
Sonia Kashuk Spring 2011: Nail Colours in Fatigued and Violetta
Sonia Kashuk Nail Colours in Fatigued (left) and Violetta (right), two of four new limited edition colors for spring 2011 available now at select Target stores ($5 each).
Not pictured: Jammin (a bold hot pink) and Tutti Fruitt (a bright coral).
Rescue Beauty Lounge Nail Polishes: Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Nail Brand
Written by Robin
A few of us are meeting at the Rescue Beauty Lounge. Destination: your living room. Robin of Beautyburg has the scoop in today’s guest post.
Rescue Beauty Lounge (or RBL for short) owner and founder Ji Baek opened her first New York City nail salon in 1998 after being dissatisfied with the standards she felt she saw at other salons and spas. Today, RBL isn’t just a salon chain. It’s also a line of bath and body care products and, most notably, a unique brand of nail polish.
Before she opened her first salon, Ji wondered if she really wanted to be the cliché of a Korean nail salon owner, but what Ji saw was an opportunity to elevate nail salons and set a new bar in professional nail care. “You have a great concept,” her husband said, “I’ll be by your side and help you. You can’t go through life with ‘what ifs’.”
Some of my favorite RBL polishes ($18 each)
Chinoise
Scrangie
Coral
Anne
As a self-admitted germophobe, Ji designed her spas to standards of hospital-grade cleanliness, and her philosophy takes overall nail health to heart.
When creating her nail polishes, Ji wanted to set herself apart from other brands by bringing the same philosophy and discipline she brought to her salon to her nail polishes as well. She boasts that several lab technicians almost quit trying to meet her standards, which were for a long-wearing polish made without the the use of dibutyl phthalate (DBP), formaldehyde, toluene or animal testing.
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The Sonia Kashuk Brush Couture Limited Edition Flat Top Blush/Powder Brush Is Dressed for Success
Oh, just gazing at this brush makes me happy. 🙂 Isn’t the tile print on Sonia Kashuk’s new Sonia Kashuk Brush Couture Flat Top Multipurpose Blush/Powder Brush ($11) adorable? It’s going to look so cute sitting on my vanity.
But good looks aren’t the only thing this limited edition brush has going for it. It also flawlessly applies loose powders, bronzers, and cream and powder blushes, too, just like Sonia’s legendary Synthetic Flat Top Brush. The big difference between the two is just that these bristles are made of natural fibers (I’m not sure what kind).
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Sonia Kashuk Spring Awakenings Face Palette
The limited edition Sonia Kashuk Spring Awakenings Face Palette ($20), new for spring 2011 and available now at select Target stores.
It includes four eyeshadows (a matte tan, a matte chocolate, a metallic bronze and a shimmery champagne), a deep brown “eye intensifier” (which looks like a powder liner), a coral powder blush and three sheer lip glosses (a shimmery nude, a shimmery cocoa and a shimmery rosewood).
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From Stonehenge to QVC: The Tarte 8th World Wonder Kit
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympus and now Tarte. Someone wake up Herodotus. It’s time to add one more to his Seven Wonders of the World, and this one’s a QVC exclusive.
Tarte continues to sizzle this spring. Their recently released $53 limited edition 8th World Wonder Kit comes with some Tarte colors you can’t find anywhere else, like Amazonian Clay Blush in Glisten.
Hi, Glisten… Pardon me while I wipe this drool off my chin!
In the kit, Glisten joins six other pieces for eyes, lips, face and cheeks, all in a cute purple clutch purse.
Tarte 8th World Wonder Kit ($53)
- Amazonian Clay Blush in Glisten — I’m in love with the glow I get from this shimmery peachy pink. Like the other blushes in Tarte’s Amazonian Clay Blush line, Glisten is pigmented, easy to blend and lasts and lasts and lasts.
- PureOptic Lipgloss in Golden — I think this shimmery golden peachy pink kinda sorta resembles MAC Nymphette, except that it’s lighter and doesn’t contain quite as much pigment. I find the minty scent and flavor refreshing, but I’m not crazy about the thick, sticky texture… It feels too heavy on my lips.
- Amazonian Clay Waterproof Eyeliner — Something tells me this rich, shimmery bronze-plum eyeliner will look incredible on brown brown eyes and green eyes. I’ve worn it successfully along my lash line, but when I wore it along my waterlines, my eyes teared up.
- Amazonian Clay Full Coverage Balancing Foundation — Medium, the shade I’ve been testing, seems too light for my skin tone, but I’m still wearing it around the house for fun. With the kit, you can choose the shade of foundation you want.
The feel of this lightweight, fluffy mousse reminds me of Laura Mercier’s Silk Creme Foundation. Like Laura’s creme, it’s pigmented and full coverage, yet it still feels darn near weightless on my skin. - Airbrush Finish Foundation Brush — Designed to apply liquid foundations, this soft, full brush head produces diffused looks with aplomb.
- Lights, Camera, Lashes Mascara — This jet black mascara adds natural-looking length and thickness to lashes.
- Eyeshadow Palette — I didn’t get to try this palette of brown, bronze, purple and pink powder shadows, but here’s what Stef thought about it at We Heart This.
Here are six of the items shown next to my iPhone for scale (the missing product is the eyeshadow palette)
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Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Glisten
Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Glisten, available in the Tarte 8th World Wonder Best of The Amazon 7-pc Clay Collection (a QVC exclusive).
Bite Beauty Vitamin Gel Tastes So Good I Had to Have Seconds
Three words: Botan Rice Candy.
If you know what I’m talking about, don’t you just love the edible rice paper wrapper? YUM! I ate tons of those chewy, lemon-orange flavored candies as a kid. My mom would always let me put one pack in the cart whenever we’d go grocery shopping.
I hadn’t thought about them in years until the other day when I slipped a layer of new Bite Beauty Vitamin Gel in Pink Grapefruit ($18) on my lips.
It’s one of five vitamin-enriched flavors in Bite’s new line of moisturizing, non-sticky lip treatments, and I think it tastes EXACTLY like Botan Rice Candy (but not like grapefruit), om nom nom!
The pretty color, a barely there pink tint, shines brightly with a high gloss finish, but this one’s flavor will keep me coming back for more, and more, and more. It’s that yummy!
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