On Days of Unwash
Date: July 26, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
Aside from deciding that Lulu Organics hair powder shall forever have a place on our bathroom shelf, we’ve also decided the company has some of the best advertising we’ve seen for natural products. The gorgeous european vintage packaging is beautiful – the front sticker would look incredible as a large poster. And rather than market the hair powder as a savior for days when you’ve slept through the alarm and are running out the door, or for a quick fix when you’ve O.D. on styling creme, the line simply states that the product is “a light powder for hair on days of unwash.” So civilized. (more…)
All Night Long
Date: June 3, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
Nothing can ruin a party mood quicker than bad hair. Thankfully, now “mane” issues are a thing of the past with the discovery of the All Nighter Styling Powder – a color matched hair powder that absorbs excess oil, freshens your look and adds incredible texture and volume. (more…)
In Living Nature
Date: May 3, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Hair Care, Makeup, Skin Care
Established in 1987 and distributed in Europe, Asia and many other parts of the world, we’ve just stumbled upon the pot of gold skincare at the end of the rainbow (hint: the arc ended right in the luscious New Zealand countryside). Living Nature is produced exclusively with ingredients found in New Zealand – and since over 80% of the country’s plants are found nowhere else in the world, it’s no wonder this line is truly unique to what exists on the market today. (more…)
Face The Facts
Date: February 23, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Hair Care, Makeup, Skin Care
At-home facial treatments aren’t really your thing, but having someone else make your chocolate face mask from hand? Sounds like a pretty sweet deal. (more…)
The Rare Essentials
Date: February 17, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
It’s no surprise to find a product with the highest standard of luxury in Beverly Hills, CA – but with the highest standard of environmental sensitivity? Yes, it’s rare. But we’ve found a combo that’s taking the salon industry by storm – Rare El’ements International Hair Collection. (more…)
Beauty and The Brain
Date: February 11, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance, Hair Care, Skin Care
When smart design meets style and substance, the combination can be unstoppable. Such is the case with Intelligent Nutrients, the new certified organic health and beauty product line from Horst Rechelbacher (you may recognize the name as the original founder of The Aveda Corporation). (more…)
It’s Coming Up Primrose
Date: January 18, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care, Resources, Stores & Resources
When we first walked into Los Angeles salon Primrose Organics, the sweet aroma of botanicals immediately put us at ease, as did the sunny demeanor of its co-owners, Felicia Howe and Melissa Tornay.
Los Angeles is rife with glitzy hair salons, most of which tend toward a cold aesthetic and factory-like treatment of clients. Not so at Primrose, where a light-filled interior decorated with vintage vanities, painted with VOC-free paint, and stylists’ inscrutable attention to your – yes, your – needs make for a warm ambiance. (more…)
Color Me Natural
Date: January 6, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
You color job may be a passing phase but the chemical damage done – to your beautiful self and the environment – is one bad dye job that will never rinse out. If changing your mane is the name of your game, rest assured that you don’t have to sacrifice true color in order to get a regimen free of nasties like PPD (a known carcinogen) or ammonia – do you really want to subject your tresses to the awful cleaner originally used to scrub toilets? (more…)
No More Waiting Online for Green Beauty
Date: October 16, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance, Hair Care, Makeup, Skin Care
Green beauty counters are few and far between, even at prominent department stores. Because we choose to eschew lead in our lipstick, we make a point of seeking out product lines that are guilt-free, cruelty-free, and that will gloss, highlight, and blush us just as well as their non-natural counterparts. Ordering online is quick and easy, but why should us eco girls be excluded from the fun of testing and blending different colors in person? (more…)
Shady Lady
Date: August 27, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
While you may not be as playful with hair color as Dennis Rodman, you love to experiment and change your look now and again (like whenever you’re trying to do a post-disaster-weekend permanent costume change). But we all know that ammonia-based dyes are not something to mess with (more…)
