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First Look: Whitening Lightning Color Your Smile Lighted Lip Gloss

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Today we received a few shades of Whitening Lightning Color Your Smile Lighted Lip Gloss for our review and I’ve been playing with them. They are supposed to make your smile a bit brighter and increase lip volume painlessly, unlike a lot of stingy formulas that say they do the same thing. Plus the LED light in the cap is fantastic for precise application!

We’ll be doing a full review once we’ve tried tested them out, but here is a color preview. Find these and other shades at WhiteningLightning.com.

Left to Right: Raspberry Sherbet, Sugar Mama, Coral Craze, Salmon

Get a bright white smile with Luster NOW! Instant Whitening Toothpaste

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After I saw Luster NOW! Instant Whitening Toothpaste in Allure’s Best of Beauty, I decided to pick some up. It’s a pretty impressive product. While it’s primarily marketed for its’ cosmetic benefits, it’s a pretty good toothpaste as well – your teeth will be whiter and your mouth will be minty fresh.

Here’s the deal – Luster NOW! has blue-tinted microspheres that leave an undetectable blue tint on your teeth for about five hours. Much like how blue-tinted lip colors make your teeth look whiter, the blue microspheres do the same thing. You can’t see them, you just see whiter, brighter teeth. Don’t be scared off by the Smurf-blue color of the toothpaste when it’s in the tube – it really just looks white.

As I mentioned, it lasts about 5 hours before your teeth lose their boost of whiteness. Fortunately the tubes are purse-sized and come in packs of three, so you can stash one in your desk at work for mid-day touchups!

Find Luster NOW! Instant Whitening Toothpaste at Amazon.com!

Product Review: Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15

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Once upon a time (about five weeks ago) in a land far far away (at my desk, where I am sitting right now), I had a serious decision to make. Really serious. I had to decide which fantastic skincare product to use on vacation! Yes, my life is tough.

You see, I wanted the incredible radiance that Caudalie Vinoperfect Radiance Serum gives on contact, but I knew I should be wearing sunscreen. 99% of the time I use both in layers, but in the crazy hot first week of August, I thought that more than one layer of skincare product would be a bit too much for the matte yet slightly dewy look I was going for. If I was going to be outside for more than a couple of minutes, the choice would be clear – sunscreen. But I was going to be mostly inside one particular day, so the question remained: which product to use? As I sat there I checked my mail, and saw that the good folks at Caudalie were sending me their new Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 for review. Suddenly, I didn’t have to choose – I would be able to get that radiant look and be wearing a SPF!

But the sum is greater than its’ parts in the case of Caudalie’s Day Perfecting Fluid. Not only did it make my skin radiant, supple, and provide the perfect base for makeup, it also evened out my skin tone immediately without foundation. I was instantly hooked. The texture of the formula is so silky too – it really feels like you have nothing on your skin, and it is incredibly gentle – which I love for a product with a SPF.

It definitely smoothed out little lines on Lyn and I, and as I said, it really evened out skin tone. So we decided to test it out on our father, who can be rather errant when it comes to SPF. (We call this “Skin Care Ninja-ing” – a quick sweep of moisturizer across his forehead and onto his temples when he’s not looking). He looked FANTASTIC. The lines on his forehead just disappeared with one use. While Day Perfecting Fluid is a beige-y color in your palm before application, it imparts no color to the skin, but smooths lines in no time flat, so it’s definitely a product men can use as well when looking for a SPF with a matte finish (aka doesn’t look like he has anything on, SPF or otherwise).

Lyn and I have both been using Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 for a few weeks now and we love it. It’s not sticky or greasy on the hottest of summer days, and keeps you looking fresh no matter what. It’s a great addition to using Caudalie Vinoperfect Radiance Serum at night – it really lightens up dark spots over time.

Find Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 at Caudalie-USA.com for $68.00. It’s a really great product that feels incredibly luxurious and protects your skin!

If you’d like to try before you buy, Sephora is currently offering a deluxe sample of Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 with orders of $25 or more with coupon code VINOSPF.

New Products: Serious Skin Care’s LightFraxion

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LightFraxion is just a cool name, isn’t it?

And it’s a cool name for a cool product. Serious Skin Care is launching a new product, LightFraxion, today on HSN. And I love the science of it.

The lotion contains an extract, Morinda Citrifolia (commonly known as noni), which contains a polyphenol to take icky UV light and filter it, if you will, into a wavelength that falls into the red light spectrum (it’s really amazing I don’t have a pocket protector for how excited I was writing that last sentence). Visible red light is commonly used in both derms’ offices and in at-home devices to improve elasticity and reduces wrinkles (such as the Tanda Regenerate Anti-Aging Device). Of course, with many devices, you have to wear goggles to protect your eyes when you are treating your skin, which is not the case with LightFraxion since it’s a lotion and it is simply converting the light that naturally hits your skin. No weird looking goggles required.

Of course, since LightFraxion doesn’t contain a sunscreen, you will have to wear a separate sunscreen. But no fear – LightFraxion still works with sunscreen on. (and wouldn’t it be counterintuitive to wear and anti-aging product but not wear sunscreen?????)

And I feel a little silly for saying this next part, this is a daytime treatment, not a night cream. Why? Because it’s dark at night, and the sun is out during the day….

Ready to try LightFraxion? Find it on HSN.com for $39.95 and on the HSN channel today at 10am, 3pm, and 11pm today (all EST) where you can learn more about the product and get some other anti-aging tips.

Not going to be near a TV? Check out the new HSN Arcade, where you can play games while you watch HSN in real time in HD.

Product Review: Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase Under Eye Recovery

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One of the best tweets I’ve seen in awhile came yesterday from @dkny:
 “Ok can we make a new rule? From now on the phrase ‘You look tired’ is forbidden. (No one asked & no one wants to hear it). Capeesh?“

It’s true. It’s so very, very true.

Of course, people who are “YLT” offenders aren’t going to cease their obnoxiousness no matter what, but with the right products, you can confidently say “No, I don’t.” Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase Under Eye Recovery is one of those products in the fight against snarky perceived appearance comments.

Under Eye Recovery is another great product from the Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase line, and a fantastic daily eye cream on the whole. It targets puffiness, wrinkles, and dark circles. And yes, it makes your eyes look fresh, energized, and super awake after just a few days of use. Take that, rude appearance commenter!

Kinerase Under Eye Recovery works in two ways – it depuffs, smooths, and brightens the eye skin immediately, and it also works in the long term to prevent future eye skin sagging due to stretching caused by fluid under the eyes, future wrinkling, and gets rid of dark circles. As soon as you put it on, your eyes look brighter and within a couple of minutes puffiness dissipates. It’s pretty impressive – I’d say the depuffing effect is on level with MAC’s Fast Response Eye Cream, which I only use in beauty emergencies since the caffeine in it can irritate my skin if I use it for more than a couple of days. But Kinerase Under Eye Recovery depuffs without any irritation! I’m really happy to find a fast acting depuffing eye cream that is gentle and also hydrates.

Like all Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase products, Under Eye Recovery contains Kinetin in the same amount as the original Kinerase line, and it also contains “Eyeseryl” which works to keep collegen fibers intact, so your eye skin stays firm, as well as aids in lightening dark circles. It also contains a collagen stimulating ingredient.

I’m so thrilled to find a depuffing, brightening, firming eye cream that doesn’t dehydrate my eye skin. It’s fantastic for days that you need a quick skin pick me up, and it gives smoother, tighter eye skin with continued use. It’s also fantastic under makeup – hydrating enough to look dewy without looking greasy, and eye makeup stays in place.

So when people say you look tired, you can smile and put them in their place. 🙂

Find Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase Under Eye Recovery at Walgreens for $22.39. (of note – all Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase products seem to be on sale on the Walgreens site right now – good time to try them out!)

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