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Total Beauty Web Tour
The Total Beauty Web Tour brings you up to date on what the best beauty blogs are saying on the web. Enjoy! Elke asks "are you on twitter?" Post in her comments and let her know! Last chance to enter the free giveaway from Girl-Woman-Beauty-Brains-Blog and Twisted Silver -- fabulous necklace and earrings. Fabulous Over Forty discusses whether beautiful jewlery should be used for cosmetics or Read Full Story
Fitness Friday: Nintendo's Wii Fit Machine
Fitness Friday: Nintendo's Wii Fit Machine is brought to you by Jamie Temple, ACE, ACSM, Personal Trainer/Fitness Specialist The global obesity crisis continues to expand as more adults and children are becoming overweight. As part of an effort to combat obesity, there is a new entrant in the Battle of the Bulge: the video game industry led by Nintendo's Wii Fit Machine ($574). The video Read Full Story
Tips for being a Good Samaritan
There but for the grace of God go I: Tips I learned --almost too late -- on being a good Samaritan. Standing behind a woman in the grocery store last week, I watched her fumble through her handbag looking for cash to pay for her items for more minutes than I want to admit. She looked like she had a neurological disease and I didn't want to embarrass her, so I let her fumble. My heart ached for Read Full Story
Daisy Fuentes On Cover of August 2008 Fitness Magazine
41-year-old Daisy Fuentes first appeared on Fitness Magazine's cover in 1993 at age 26. 18 years later, she tells Fitness, "One of the best things about being older, I'm comfortable with who I am, and I don't care about fitting into any specific category or size. I can't say that was always the case." Health is what motivates Daisy now. What else is in between the covers of Fitness Magazine Read Full Story
How to Create Plumper-Looking Lips
Angelina Jolie's lips are overwhelmingly the lips of choice according to a survey conducted by plastic surgeons. But if you weren't born with plump lips and cosmetic surgery and injectable fillers like Botox and Restylane are not your cup of tea, here are tips to create plumper and fuller looking lips without resorting to expensive and painful measures: First apply a lipstick that is a few Read Full Story
Independent Beauty Product Review: Anastasia Brow Wiz
This independent beauty product review of Anastasia Brow Wiz Mechanical Brow Pencil ($19) is reviewed by Beckie and Jamie. Beckie: Your eyes may be the window to your soul, but your eyebrows capture the essence of your spirit, and Anastasia is the patron saint of brows. Jamie: Anastasia 'Brow Wiz' Mechanical Brow Pencil is God's answer to overplucked brows. Yes, I am an overplucker. Beckie: Read Full Story
Are Hair Extensions Worth It?
Are hair extensions worth it? In my case, absolutely! Spending most of my day in the gym as a personal trainer, my hair is in a pony 80 percent of the time. As a result, my daily pony caused hair breakage. In addition, my hair was damaged from my own coloring mistakes and the overuse of my straightener. So last week, I giddyup'd to my stylist/extensionist, Indianapolis-based Kimberly Clark, who Read Full Story
Stephanie Seymour on August 2008 Town & Country
Stephanie Seymour sizzles in Bottega Veneta on the August 2008 cover of Town and Country magazine. What will you find between the covers? In the case for showing less skin this summer, read the witty article about social graces in the haute summer heat that begins, "Waiter, there's a breast in my soup." Learn the five summer fashion faux pas when the mercury rises: Raisinitis: protrusions that Read Full Story
Beauty Product Review: Sera Lip Plumper Serum
Beauty Product Review of Sera Lip Plumper Serum reviewed by Beckie and Jamie: What is Sera Lip Plumper Serum? A new addition to Sera's "roll-on" anti-aging product line, Sera claims that Sera Lip Plumper Serum formula goes on clean and keeps working long after other lip plumpers quit. Beckie: Sera Lip Plumper Serum, like the rest of the line, is in a roll-on applicator with "targeted Read Full Story
New FDA-Approved Evolence Is Not Your Mother's Collagen
There is a new kid on the injectable filler block -- Evolence, but Evolence is not your Mother's collagen. Yesterday, July 21, 2008, the FDA approved Evolence, a porcine-based (pig) collagen filler that is said to last for twelve months, much longer than bovine (cow) collagen. Although Evolence will be in competition with hyaluronic acid fillers -- fillers that plump by adding and attracting Read Full Story