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Skincare and Beauty Blog with Expert Advice
I love stories about artisan beauty products, especially if the person making the product has a connection or a story. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Erica Wigley who is the Creative Director of an emerging company called Plush Skin. Erica is a native New Yorker who grew up watching her father make hand [...]
Are you a hot shower junkie like me? I don’t care what the temperature is, I ADORE a hot shower. My skin however, does not share my reckless enthusiasm. My skin is ALWAYS dry, so to overcompensate for my atrocities I have to use THICK body creams year round (small sacrifice in my opinion). BUT [...]
Hello beauty queens, Stasi here to tell you a little story…when I was little I was very girly and LOVED the smell of lavender, lemons, orange blossoms and roses. (Still do!) So much so, that I went on a quest to find soap, perfume, sachets and everything else with the strongest aromas possible. I found [...]
You all know of my tales of woe with my super dry skin…well I have a great solution for you in the form of a tried and true product in a new formulation. Kiehl’s Creme De Corps Soy Milk & Honey Whipped Body Butter [$35] is a TMG Faves item and a must have on my [...]
As you know, I am constantly perusing the drugstore aisles to find new things – one thing I have noticed recently is the advent of a new category in the drugstore “masstige” a mashup between prestige and mass market products. I have also noticed that most mass market products are steeeping their game up to [...]
Here at TMG, we always love to give props to the artisinal craftsmen who hang out over their stoves brewing up batches of yummy bath products (hey, it’s how Carol’s Daughter started!!) So to that end, we have found a wonderful little company called Sympathetic Soap. They make bath melts, butters, soaps and salts and [...]
I don’t know about you but it has been STEAMY HOT where I live. Here in DC, it has been nearly 90 humid, muggy sweaty degrees and half the time when I get home all I want to do is wash off the ick. The best way to do that is a nice cool shower….my [...]
When I was a young makeup artist, living in New York City… one of the first retail cosmetics lines that I worked for was Princess Marcella Borghese. Marcella was an Italian princess that took an idea and turned it into an empire. She used to have her lipsticks custom made to match her outfits and [...]
I know there are those die-hard bikini waxers out there but sometimes, you just need something to get the job done in a pinch and get it done well. Imagine my surprise to find a Gillette Venus/Olay Bikini Kit in my mailbox before I went to NYC to hang with my buddy Kristin of Fashion.Style.Beauty. [...]
Hopefully you are near a pool or a beach right now because the oppressive summer heat is upon us! With temperatures topping 100°F in some places of the country (it’s STILL 102 here and it’s nearly 6pm!!), how is it possible to look great and avoid a dreaded “make-up melt down?” Simple adjustments to your [...]
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