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Love Beauty Bloggers!

Stacya — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:26:54 +0000

We just got a review for Beauty Alert! labels and the Beauty Alert! app for iphone on a blog site called Reality Chic. She does great video reviews! We love the slippers and luggage tags. No duds here!

To Your Good Health Radio

Stacya — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:28:58 +0000

I was recently a guest on To Your Good Health Radio show, talking about bacteria in cosmetics. Below is the podcast; give a listen! I love it that there is a show talking about all these issues, and the interesting thing is that one of the hosts is actually a chiropractor. What an adjustment.

Some Tips For Your Lips

Stacya — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:09:09 +0000

It turns out, my niece, Corry is a cosmetic savant. Here are her tips for your lips:

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick: Great alternative to a lip stain, stays on almost as well as a lip stain and has the lip stick finish that most prefer. Stays put and doesn’t feather. They have a wide variety of colors.

MAC Viva Glam Gaga 1 & 2: This is a Limited Edition Lipstick and Gloss Line. Gaga 1 is a gorgeous light bubble gum pink that is extremely pigmented, so the full impact of the color shows. Gaga 2 is a beautiful nude that will work on all skin tones without washing you out because it has a cocoa undertone that makes it browner than most nudes (like MAC’s most famous nude, Myth). Each come in a gloss and a lip stick, but they are limited edition. This is a purchase you can feel good about because the money goes to the MAC AIDS Fund.

Best Article So Far!

Stacya — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:28:03 +0000

I love Today.com! This is one of the most compelling articles yet on why we should toss out old cosmetics. Here is the link to read about Miss Washington’s giant collection of old make-up from days gone by. Our Beauty Alert! labeling system is listed, and the writer mentions my gross out bath tub experience with an oat meal bath soak….and mealy worms. So yucky. Read up! And hoarders, keep coming forward.

The Wendy Williams Show!

Stacya — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:08:32 +0000

Beauty Alert! was featured on the Wendy Williams show last week, on an episode dealing with overloaded, old and gross make-up bags. The crowd went wild when Wendy held up our product and said it was cute! Here is the only clip we have, which leads you to it on a face book page for a great skin care company. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150269330335720 Beauty Alert! labels were presented by the Wendy Williams Show beauty expert, Jenn Falik. Yay for making over the make-up case!

Very fun! You can get yours at www.beautyalert.biz for only $4.95.

I Am Sad My New Lipstick Is Yucky

Stacya — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:09:47 +0000

I just need to get this out. I went into Saks Fifth Ave in New York to find my Bobbi Brown lipstick, and instead I was caught in the web of a very aggressive sales lady who was trying to sell me skin care. I realized the only way I was getting away from her was to buy something, so I offered to buy a lipstick from her. So I ended up buying a lipstick in a good color, but from a company (shall remain nameless) I was unfamiliar with. Now I have it, a $35.00 lipstick…and it dries out my lips and tastes terrible. Sad. I won’t even put a Beauty Alert! label on it, because it isn’t label worthy. Also, I have this feeling that Saks Fifth Avenue doesn’t even carry Bobbi Brown, but I after my encounter at the counter, I wanted to flee.

It’s Getting Hot In Here

Stacya — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:20:02 +0000

Now that we are heading into warmer weather, this is a good time to remember what heat and humidity does to our products.

Once, I had the bright idea to leave my sunscreen in my car, so I could reapply when needed. One warm day, I pumped out a little of the lotion with SPF, and it was lumpy and curdled. I didn’t even know a lotion could do that. It was a new, 6 ounce tube, and I felt very wasteful. Store your products in a cool, dry place.

If something smells or separates, toss it. Bacteria loves warmth, humidity, and liquid, so your products are a very good breeding ground for things to go very wrong.

Sole Survivor

Stacya — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:02:33 +0000

Finding a great beauty product at a farmer’s market seems unlikely. But last Sunday, I came across a local company called Brown Butterfly. I bought the foot cream they make, called “Sole Survivor”. It is light and creamy, like whipped cream, and it has tea tree, lavender and peppermint. It contains no chemical preservatives, so this is the kind of product you want to store in a cool, dry place this summer. Keep it out of your hot car, out of the humid bathroom.

I keep my potions and lotions in a beautiful red box, it is a great way to hide your make-up and creams away from light and makes an attractive storage place. This cream comes in a jar, so try not to double dip (touch your feet and then put your fingers back in the jar) and it is also the perfect example of what our Beauty Alert! labels are great for.

This cream would fall under the six month category when properly stored and no double dipping occurs. I love this foot cream! Warmer weather reminds us to take care of our feet. Make sure you get your mani/pedis in a salon that uses a good sterilizer, and never walk barefoot around a nail place, or in a hotel for that matter. Travel with flip flops. Use a cream like the Brown Butterfly foot cream with Tea Tree to keep yucky fungi away. Wash and dry your feet completely after your bath or shower, and do find a good place to get a pedicure! You don’t have to paint your toe nails, but pedicures are a great way for women (and men) to keep in touch with how your feet are doing.

Confessions of a Lipstick Hoarder

Stacya — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:06:00 +0000

My sister in law just left town, and on our last lunch she made a confession. She had this lipstick she bought…20 YEARS AGO!!!!! And she finally realized maybe it wasn’t so great anymore when she put it on and it changed color. The thing she loved about the lipstick was the color, a shade that had been discontinued. The only reason she tossed it is because she realized that the product must have gone bad to the point where the color had actually changed. I hear this story a lot, women who find a color that they believe is some magical lip transformer, never to be found again, so they save it for years, parsing out usage. At least she saw that after 20 years the composition of the product had changed. But, it had probably gone bad much sooner than that. 20 years ago was 1990, my first year in Seattle…that was a long, long time ago. Many times a lipstick or gloss that old will smell rancid. Rancid oil on your lips, that sounds so horrible. Ladies, I know you believe you stumbled across some magic lip color, and now that it is discontinued you have been cheated out of the best make-up ever. Do you know how many lipstick companies there are? Do you know how many shades of lip color are out there? Most people can use up a lipstick in two years. If you are hoarding a lip color for special occasions, stop that! Every day is a special occasion. Wear your favorite things, don’t save them. Throw out that old crusty lipstick from the 1990′s, I know you can match that color!

A New Jar

Stacya — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:07:00 +0000

I just opened my new jar of Bobbi Brown’s tinted moisturizer with SPF. I love products that come in a big, glass jar. I know that products with a pump keep bacteria out…but this time I promised myself “no double dipping” and I will use only a Q-Tip…and no fingers. That is the hard part, especially when there is a big rush to get out the door. Some people prefer make-up and skin care with pumps, some jars. I am a jar person. It feels like an upgrade from the pump somehow. People who hold on to foundation and skin care for more than six months should probably opt for pumps, it does help the bacteria situation. I will be done with this jar in 2-3 months, and I am sure towards the end I will have given up on my new Q-Tip only rule.