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End Motion Sickness Without Drowsiness
DizzyStop

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Motion sickness disrupts function and demands your full attention. There are several pharmaceutical options to treat, but many consider the drowsiness side effect equally problematic. If you are an active person who wants to alleviate motion sickness or imbalance without prescription side effects, consider all-natural DizzyStop.

Kinetosis (locomotional dizziness) impacts many recreational and necessary activities.

Better known as motion sickness, it causes instability, dizziness, and nausea. It can reduce your ability to travel comfortably.

DizzyStop is an all-natural formulation to control motion sickness and occasional dizziness.

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About DizzyStop

DizzyStop is an all-natural herbal supplement developed by Dr. Stuart Barton, an Otolaryngologist (ENT).

Over the course of thirty years in practice, Dr. Barton saw many cases of motion sickness, dizziness, imbalance, and vertigo. Motion sickness even prevented his own family from enjoying activities like fishing, amusement park rides, and travel.  Dr. Barton found a specific combination of herbs that successfully controlled these conditions.

DizzyStop is an all-natural formulation to control motion sickness and occasional dizziness.

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Who DizzyStop can Benefit

If you are missing out on activities you enjoy due to dizziness, nausea, and imbalance, DizzyStop can help.

Don’t be left on the sidelines missing all the fun!

Don’t miss out on favorite activities due to motion sickness

  • Do you frequently travel by land, air, or sea?
  • Do you spend time on the water sailing or deep-sea fishing?
  • Does riding backward on a train, plane or trolley make you disoriented?
  • Do you prioritize optimum performance?

Then consider this natural formula to prevent motion sickness and nausea that doesn’t leave you too fatigued to have fun!

If you experience car sickness, most medications leave you too sleepy to function, and certainly too tired to drive. But DizzyStop won’t make you tired.

How does DizzyStop work?

Feeling off-kilter? DizzyStop can help control imbalance.

DizzyStop controls motion sickness but won’t make you sleepy.

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Coping With Imbalance

If you know what causes your dizziness and nausea there are medications to quell it. The problem is they make one so sleepy. Too sleepy to do anything….but sleep.

But interestingly… research backs the use of ginger for imbalance and motion sickness.

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While I am a die-hard ginger fan for its’ beauty benefits, I had to see this research for myself.

Supporting research

The Efficacy of Ginger for Motion Sickness

Ginger has been long documented as a useful anti-inflammatory. You may have used ginger tea for congestion or an upset stomach. Studies also support ginger for imbalance and nausea. Here are some highlights:

The British Journal of Anesthesia published a systematic review. It gathering the results of six different clinical trials that successfully used ginger to treat nausea and vomiting. Ginger worked for morning sickness, seasickness, and chemotherapy-induced nausea.[2]

Studies indicate Ginger even reduced highly debilitating vertigo and nystagmus.

“Ginger root reduced the induced vertigo significantly better than did placebo.[3]

Ginger every four hours helped sea sickness on high seas.

In a study of seasick naval cadets on the high seas…”Ginger root reduced the tendency to vomiting and cold sweating significantly” [4]

Ginger stops nausea directly within the gastrointestinal system, not the nervous system, so it doesn’t have to make you sleepy to stop nausea.[5]

Traditional antiemetics don’t work on every nausea-inducing stimuli. [6] For some people, bright lights, noise, odors, headaches, or backward motion cause nausea.  Studies show ginger is a broad-spectrum antiemetic.

“Various preclinical and clinical studies have shown ginger to possess antiemetic effects against different emetogenic stimuli.” [7]

Ginger showed similar results to metoclopramide in controlling post-op nausea in 60 women. [8]

Research shows specific doses are effective[8] as well as certain ginger components in easing prokinetic or motion-induced nausea:

“The exact mechanism responsible for the anti-emetic effects of ginger is unknown; however, the ginger phytochemicals, especially 6-gingerol, 8-gingerol, 10-gingerol, and 6-shogaol, may function as a 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT3) antagonist, NK1 antagonist, antihistaminic, and possess prokinetic effects.”[9]


 Studies show ginger root as effective as commonly prescribed antiemetic drugs like metoclopramide for travel sickness or pain-induced nausea.

For some people, antiemetics won’t work if they are moving backward. DizzyStop can work even on imbalanced induced by unusual motion, like facing backward on this Ferris wheel

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Understanding Imbalance

Travel Sickness, Dizziness, and Vertigo

Don’t self-diagnosis dizziness. Dizziness in the absence of motion can be a serious symptom.

Your doctor may determine your occasional dizziness is a medication side effect. Or the result of a pinched nerve, an inner ear issue, or a visual disturbance.

Ever get cold water in one ear? It is disorienting, isn’t it?  The dizzy reaction is because we use our ears to balance.

The inner ear provides a delicate center of balance

Our vestibular system reports balance data to the brain. It uses our ears, eyes, and feet to sense where we are in space. These function together to determine if we are moving, standing level, falling, or on an uneven surface.

The brain uses this constant stream of information to adjust our balance to stay upright.

No wonder this balance system reacts to being subjected to fast, tilted, repetitive, vector rotation, such as the ride below. Studies document certain vector speeds cause the release of nausea-inducing hormones.

Dizziness and nausea can be a brain response to motion

But dizziness can occur without motion. If something disrupts these messages to the brain, like obstruction, injury, or inflammation, the vestibular system can send a false report to the brain. So the brain thinks there’s motion.

This perception of motion, called illusory self-motion, tricks the body into reacting like true motion and triggers nausea.  One study reports: “Illusory self-motion is a purely central nervous system (visual-vestibular) stimulation that evokes dramatic shifts in gastric electrical activity and significant release of the posterior pituitary hormone vasopressin.”[10]

Fortunately, occasional illusory self-motion and nausea can be controlled without drowsiness.

But Can’t I just drink Ginger tea?

Grapeseed Extract reduces nausea

Sipping ginger tea helps queasiness.  I’ve grated fresh ginger and let it boil, then let it simmer for a day until it is strongly steeped. We call it “the concoction.” Each sip makes my eyes water. Not for the faint of heart, this ginger brew.

But even this robust ginger tea doesn’t elevate dizziness. Here is why:

Optimal control requires higher doses than can be achieved by a fresh ginger tea or pre-packaged tea bag.   Studies show specific measurements of ginger root offered these optimal results. [11] And it is difficult to consume a sizable quantity of ginger when you are already feeling, well, iffy.

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DizzyStop combines ginger root powder with the supporting ingredient grapeseed extract for maximum efficacy. Grape seed extract is documented to control pain and relieve inflammation and nausea.


The Experience

Before travel or other activity that is known to cause motion sickness, take two DizzyStop capsules.  If you will be traveling extendedly, consider taking the capsules the day before. You can increase the dosage according to the instructions.

These capsules are safe for children (although ginger is not recommended for children under two).

Two tablets are the suggested dose

These soft capsules are very easy to swallow. There is no aftertaste.

If you prefer, empty the contents of the capsule into a drink.

The capsule contents can be taken within a beverage instead of pill form


The capsules are seen below for scale. The curved ends make them easy to swallow.

Capsules to scale with a nickel.

Too much ginger can cause an upset stomach, but I didn’t experience any problems with the ginger tablets.

I find DizzyStop useful for long car rides, especially on winding, bumpy roads.

On the way to Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard, I love the islands but dread the ferry ride because of my seasickness. Next time, I can take the ferry and enjoy the day without having to sleep off a seasickness medicine!

With DizzyStop, you can enjoy the activities you and your family love without nausea or drowsiness.

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where to find it

Buy Dizzy Stop at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IAAH4S

DizzyStop is made with ginger root, which is clinically proven to stop motion sickness and nausea without causing drowsiness.

DizzyStop

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references

  1. Koch KL. Illusory self-motion and motion sickness: a model for brain-gut interactions and nausea. Dig Dis Sci. 1999;44(8 Suppl):53S-57S.
  2. British Journal of Anaesthesia 84 (3): 367-71 (2000) – EFFICACY OF GINGER FOR NAUSEA AND VOMITING: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS.
  3. ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec. 1986; 48(5): 282-6. – VERTIGO-REDUCING EFFECT OF GINGER ROOT. A CONTROLLED CLINICAL STUDY.
  4. Acta Otolaryngol. 1988 Jan-Feb; 105(1-2): 45-9. – GINGER ROOT AGAINST SEASICKNESS. A CONTROLLED TRIAL ON THE OPEN SEA.
  5. Lien HC, Sun WM, Chen YH, Kim H, Hasler W, Owyang C. Effects of ginger on motion sickness and gastric slow-wave dysrhythmias induced by circular vection. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2003;284(3):G481-G489. doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00164.2002
  6. Hasler WL, Kim MS, Chey WD, Stevenson V, Stein B, Owyang C. Central cholinergic and alpha-adrenergic mediation of gastric slow wave dysrhythmias evoked during motion sickness. Am J Physiol. 1995;268(4 Pt 1):G539-G547. doi:10.1152/ajpgi.1995.268.4.G539
  7. Ibid
  8. Anaesthesia. 1990 Aug; 45(8): 669-71 – GINGER ROOT “A NEW ANTIEMETIC. THE EFFECT OF GINGER ROOT ON POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING AFTER MAJOR GYNAECOLOGICAL SURGERY.”
  9. Palatty PL, Haniadka R, Valder B, Arora R, Baliga MS. Ginger in the prevention of nausea and vomiting: a review. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2013;53(7):659-669. doi:10.1080/10408398.2011.553751
  10. Haniadka R, Rajeev AG, Palatty PL, Arora R, Baliga MS. Zingiber officinale (ginger) as an anti-emetic in cancer chemotherapy: a review. J Altern Complement Med. 2012;18(5):440-444. doi:10.1089/acm.2010.0737
  11. Lien, Effects, Am J Physiol

ABOUT THIS POST

Like you, the Style Chicks team needs time to evaluate and form an opinion about the products we try. We received compensation for our time and effort to form an opinion about DizzyStop. We produced this blog post because we think this product is great and want to share it with you!

Sira Print Custom Die-Cut Stickers

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Balancing family and business? Some moms are entrepreneurs, busily building a small (or not so small!) business. Branding your business is key. And a great way to do that is with eye-catching print designs. So we were intrigued to see a printery that can do ANYTHING, including printing your custom design. Their name is Sira Print and we tried out their custom die cut stickers. It’s easy! Take a look.

Meet Sira Print! They print custom vinyl decals of your custom design, including custom-cut edges!

About Sira Print

There are lots of online printers with a dizzying array of design options. Sometimes the design feels perfect for your business or project. Other times it is just okay. But it is never exclusively yours, plenty of other businesses use those same designs as well. Maybe even your competitors! Sira Print helps your brand stand out.

Sira Print creates all kinds of stickers: Cut out shapes, custom sizes. Any design you can make, they can print including formal, funny, sweet, or offbeat. So we were excited to try them out and report our experience.

Custom die cut sticker from Sira Print

MATERIALS

Sira Print custom die cut stickers are not your run of the mill decals. They are made of high quality, durable vinyl. They are:

  • Weatherproof
  • Waterproof
  • Bubble-free
  • Scratch-resistant
  • Resistant to fading

Even when I fold the stickers, they don’t scratch, wrinkle or bubble.

Sira Print also does Kiss Cut Stickers and custom clear stickers.

Sira Print Die Cut Sticker on an oversized greeting card-sized envelope.

How It Works

Ordering is easy! Choose a design or photograph you already have, or create a new one. Full-color graphics, monograms, logos, or text. Replicate a photo, your artwork, or other design.

design

The hardest part for me was choosing my design!

It is easy to upload your company logo or other custom design. Both PNG or JPG images uploaded just fine.

But if you don’t have a logo or other design at the ready, there are lots of free stock images and fonts available, monograms, and logo creators to make an image for your stickers. Don’t have Photoshop or another image editor? No problem, Sira Print has recommendations for you.

I did my design in Photoshop with a downloaded font. But any image editor you can save a quality png or jpg works. I applied a Slightly metallic texture Photoshop Style to my text that I put in a foliage wreath design from a free stock photo website. There are also monogram and logo generating programs. And if you are particularly talented this is a great chance to show off your artist skills!

Unlimited font choices

Here is something we especially like about Sira Print: You are not limited to a printers fonts typesettings choices – they can print any font you want!!. whether MAC or PC, purchased, downloaded from free fonts or type foundry sites.

Use any font, in any language, even using glyphs, umlauts, and ligatures.

The custom design I uploaded.

Once you have your design ready, it is time to upload and customize the die cut stickers!!

How to Customize Sira Print Die Cut Stickers

Sira.com: Choose size, quantity, cut shape, and lamination finish for your dye cut stickers. Add any special instructions

Sira Print: Choose size, quantity, cut shape, and lamination finish for your dye cut stickers. Add any special instructions

The sticker customization process lets you choose the sticker size, including the custom size of your choosing.

Choose one of their standard sizes or indicate a custom size.

Add custom size to accommodate long designs

TIP: If you are doing a custom cut cutout shape sticker, get a slightly larger size to accommodate your design.

The custom size is especially helpful in incorporating stickers into DIY projects. Also, consider a larger size sticker for cut-outs so the focal image stands out.

QUANTITY

Choose how many stickers you need ranging from 50 to 1,000.

A unique feature of Sira Print is custom increments. Need exactly 107? Sira Print lets you order in any increment you need. You don’t need to order an increment of 25 and have 16 spares just for that extra seven.

Sira Print’s Custom Quantity lets you order only the exact amount you need

CUT SHAPE

Cut out options include:

  • custom cut
  • rounded corners
  • oval/round
  • rectangle/square

Custom cut shows off irregular borders to make your image pop!

FINISH

Select Glossy or Matte finish

Finish options

Upload your image and you are ready to checkout!

It’s goof-proof

Oops! I meant to upload my transparent png but uploaded a white background jpg instead!

When I realized, I wondered if they wouldn’t know what I wanted the cutout design to look like. But Sira Print soon sent me this PDF proof and it showed me exactly how it would look. It was just how I wanted it, but if it wasn’t, I could make any adjustments needed.

Here is part of the design proof Sira Print sent prior to production

Sira Print emailed me this Production Proof before printing.

I approved the design, and Sira Print got to work on my stickers!

THE Result

It is sticker day! A few days have passed, and today my stickers arrived in the mail. Not bad since it custom prints then ships from Niagara Falls.

My Sira Print order arrived in a padded bubble mailer.

Packaging

Inside the padded envelope, the stickers were in two resealable super sturdy baggies. The baggies kept them safe in shipment and are strong enough for permanent storage.

Sira Print Stickers come in sturdy resealable baggies.

THE EXPERIENCE

SO vibrant!!!

They turned out just like I envisioned.

Every sticker was in perfect shape, no bent or crooked cuts. They are a thick vinyl material that won’t rip or bend.

Durable vinyl stickers stick inside and outside.

My order of 100 stickers included eleven EXTRA stickers as a bonus! Nice!

My 100 sticker order plus 11 extra stickers

The font is crisp, not jagged. It gives the look of slightly metallic just like my Photoshop Style.

I love the die-cut edges, it really makes the leaves of my design pop! Check out the close-up print detailing

The dye cut edges are crisp with no jagged wispy bits.

The colors are true to the original and clear with no tiny dots or blurring.

Look at this macro closeup to see the print quality and the custom cut edges.

Close up of the custom cut edges looks great with this leaf design!

Sira Print stickers

USE

These stickers are true decals – they are VERY sturdy. And they adhere to all kinds of surfaces, indoors and outdoors.

Sira Print die cut stickers adhere smoothly to bumpy and uneven surfaces like this embossed gift box

Dress up a plain box

Stickers adhere to fabrics like this grosgrain ribbon

Adheres to this woven linen party favor gift bag

Use a custom-cut sticker to personalize or brand a white presentation gift box

Sira Print Sticker Ideas

  • Save the date stickers
  • Customize promotional gift bags
  • Personalize wine bottles
  • Make your own bookplates
  • Create custom party gift bags
  • Seal marketing material envelopes
  • Show off your artwork – it won’t fade!
  • Make DIY custom magnets for business, volunteer work, school projects, community events, small business marketing, custom labels
  • Brand handmade items in Etsy shop, or use on the gift wrap of your packages
  • Customize your packing materials with a Thank You Sticker for supporting your small businesses. It is gracious and good branding.

Brand a basic gift bag with your sticker design for a custom look

branding

Sira Print stickers adhere to practically any surface to customize otherwise generic items, or customize your personal or company promotional items or packing materials.

  • Water bottles
  • Envelopes
  • Packing for your Etsy handmade goods
  • Package your eBay or Poshmark sales

Great for personal and business branding!

About the Brand

Sira Print prints stickers such as white vinyl stickers, clear vinyl, static cling, concrete decals, and signage. We have a sticker or decal for every surface, application, or need.

Since these are custom, they can showcase your art, help promote your brand, or be used to create a complete art piece. We love creativity, so we want to work with you to make sure whatever idea you have for our products comes to fruition.

Where to Buy it

Find Sira Print Die Cut stickers at
https://siraprint.ca/products/die-cut-stickers

QUESTIONS?
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ABOUT THIS POST

Like you, the Style Chicks team needs time to evaluate and form an opinion about the products we try. We received compensation for our time and effort to form an opinion about Sira Print Die Cut stickers. We produced this blog post because we think this product is great and want to share it with you!

Kid & Pregnancy Safe Non-Toxic Manicures
Kapa Nui Nails

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We love a pretty manicure, but it is hard to justify using chemical-laden polishes. So we were delighted to find a line of natural and lovely polish shades. They are safe for everyone: kids, pregnant women, even persons with cancer. And when paired with their special Base and Top Coat Sealer, these colors stay on until you take them off, even with constant hand washing. Meet Kapa Nui Nails.

Kapa Nui Nails are a safe alternative nail range inspired by the vibrant shades of Hawaiian beaches.

Safe For All

It is not that we don’t use a well-placed chemical within beauty, but when possible, we always try to find other options. Especially on our hands.

These vibrant pretty Hawaii inspired shades are safe for all. They are kid-safe and pregnancy safe.

  • Toxin-free
  • PETA Certified vegan
  • cruelty-free
  • Eco-friendly

These polishes are made from carbon, nitrogen, and water. It degrades back into naturally occurring forms of these elements. No plastics or polymers.

Kapa Nui Nails are alternative safe for everyone, including pregnant women, kids, and people with cancer.

The Range

Inspired by the Beauty of Hawai’i

The range includes 33 polish shades. There are sand tone nudes, ocean blues, greens and teals, and vibrant pinks and purple orchid shades.

We tried the Starter Set. It contains:

  • Three Starter size bottles (9ml) of your favorite colors.
  • Kapa Nui Base & Top Coat (15ml)
  • Kapa Nui Remover (1 oz)
  • Manicure Sticks x5
  • Re-usable Remover Pads x5
  • Custom cosmetic bag

shades

We tried three Big Island-inspired shades:

We tried three Kapa Nui shades

Kapa Nui Hawaiian Inspired shades

Pua Melia

Pua Melia is a soft-matte pink with a cream finish. This semi-sheer is buildable to semi-opaque in 2-3 coats. One coat is a creamy pale.

Pua Melia

Two shades with a shell tone pink. Pua Melia (right) and Seashells Heart (left)

Seashells Heart

A lustrous pastel pink with pearly shimmer. Evocative of the pink hue inside of conch seashells.

Seashell Hearts is the pearliest of these three shades

Seashells Heart

Kapa Nui captures the pink vibrant hue seen inside queen conch shells

Sweet Wahine

Sweet Wahine is a creamy violet with some sheen but not pearly or shimmery.

Kapa Nui Sweet Wahini

Sweet Wahine

Evocative of Hawaiian orchids

Base & Top Coat Sealer

The sealer is key to a long-lasting, high-performance manicure. This dual functioning layer provides tight adhesion of your color layer as a Base Coat and as a Top Coat Sealer, gives your color longer life with 2 to 3 times more chip resistance.

For a long-lasting, gel manicure look, apply Base & Top Coat Sealer in thin layers and let set for 60 seconds before applying 1-2 coats of color. Seal with a final top coat.

There is no odor.

Sweet Wahine, Pua Melia and Base & Top Coat Sealer

Non-Toxic Nail Polish Remover

A cruelty-free gel that contains no acetone or alcohol.

The gel formulation is suitable for travel and there is no unpleasant odor.

We like the fine pen tip nozzle for post-polish application clean up jobs.

Kapa Nui Polish Remover is an odor free gel formula

Kapa Nui Polish Remover is especially formulated to remove Kapa Nui polishes

the experience

Kapa Nui polishes are odor-free and they wear like a gel or lacquer.

The shades are vibrant

Kapa Nui swatches: Seashells Heart, Sweet Wahine, Pua Melia.

The brush applies a smooth, even coat.

The brush applies evenly without skipping or errant bristles


 

About Kapa Nui Nails

We want all women to know they do not need to sacrifice health for beauty. – Kapa Nui

Many brands come from a beauty background. But Kapa Nui Nails has a health background.

One of the founders is a board-certified OB-GYN with a long career focused on empowering women in their health care choices.

Launched in August 2019 a line of clean and green nail polish and products that delivers what health-conscious polish wearers are looking for; toxin-free polish, products that do no harm to people or the environment.

We developed alternative nail products that are safe for everyone, including pregnant women, children, and people with cancer. Working with our highly accomplished chemist, we developed a full line of nail products including our curated color palette, inspired by the Hawaii we love.

Hawaiian Inspired Beauty

Where to Find It

Find Kapa Nui products at https://www.kapanuinails.com

Kapa Nui polishes


QUESTIONS?
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The Kapa Nui Starter Set was submitted to Style Chicks for consideration purposes. All opinions and experiences are 100% our own.

Lash Enhancing Eyeliner
Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliner

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It’s National Watermelon Day! And Caley Cosmetics, creators of COLOR WAVE NATURAL LIPSTICK, have done it again, this time with an Eyeliner.  BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES Eyeliner is a smudge-proof gel that contains natural ingredients to treat and enhance lashes, one of which is eyelash enhancing Watermelon Seed Oil. Plus it comes in 14 pretty shades.
BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES Eyeliner

Caley Cosmetics BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES Eyeliner

About BEACH BABE NATURAL EYES

These long-wearing, smearproof, and waterproof eyeliners come in fourteen versatile shades. We got to try several of them. We found they don’t tug on delicate eye skin yet blend easily.

Beautiful Shades

The liners are creamy but blend like a gel. It is non-irritating when applied in the waterline.

The colors are:

Colors we tried

  • Jetsetter: black-brown/espresso
  • Midnight: matte black
  • Twilight: black shimmer
  • Moonlight: charcoal
  • Playa:medium matte brown
  • Tahiti: dark royal/navy blue
  • Bohemian: vivid grape
  • Jungle: deep forest/moss green
  • Dragonfly:deep plum/metallic aubergine
  • Sunset: bronze/medium brown metallic
  • Mermaid: teal shimmer
  • Unicorn: lilac shimmer
  • Starry Eyed: creamy white highlight

These formulations are not only clean, but are made without water. Let’s take a look at these ingredients:

Ingredients

Watermelon Seed Oil contains eyelash-enhancing linoleic acid

These Caley liners are packed with natural ingredients that not only are safe for the delicate eye area but encourage healthy, lush eyelash growth.

Watermelon Seed Oil

Watermelon Seed OilWatermelon Seed Oil is an outstanding antioxidant and highly nutritive oil. It is high in unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic and oleic acids.

It has antioxidant activity and the vitamin E compounds that protects skin and hair from oxidative stress and photo-aging. It also contains essential proteins, vitamins, and minerals to enrich skin. It absorbs quickly. [1]

Castor Seed Oil

Castor seed oil is a humectant

Castor seeds

Castor Seed Oil is a humectant that keeps lashes soft, lush and healthy.

It reduces lash breakage. It also reduces inflammation, heals scars and hydrates.

Sunflower Seed Oil

Sunflower Seed Oil

Sunflower

Sunflower Seed Oil is hydrating, nourishing and an excellent “supporting” oil base [2].

It reduces hair breakage, hydrates and conditions lashes keeping them lush and healthy. It reduces lash breakage.

Rosemary Leaf Extract

Rosemary Leaf Extract encourages hair growth.

Rosemary also stimulates and promotes better blood circulation to deliver the nutrients necessary to build collagen, elastin and to encourage scar repair.

Abyssinian Seed Oil

Abyssinian Seed Oil is lightweight and absorbs easily. It contains linoleic acid, which is the predominant fat in skin cells.

It forms the lipid barrier that holds moisture in cells, which keeps skin or hair hydrated.


Papaya Seed Oil

Papaya

Papaya

Papaya Seed Oil is high in linoleic and Behenic acid. Behenic acid prevents hair breakage to keep lashes lush and long.

Candelilla Wax

Candelilla Wax is a vegan substitute for beeswax with similar properties. It works well with other waxes for improved product consistency and to raise melting points without chemicals.

Mango Fruit Extract

Mango

Mango

Mango Fruit Extract is a humectant that is high in copper, which supports healthy lash follicles.

Mango serves as a long-lasting emollient. Rich in fatty acids, it is perfect to keep lashes hydrated. Hydrated lashes resist breakage.

Hibiscus Flower Extract

Hibiscus

Hibiscus


Hibiscus Flower Extract promotes collagen for lash growth because it contains Vitamin C.

Vitamin C also treats skin along the lash line, reducing find lines, scars, and eczema.

Pineapple

Pineapple

Pineapple

Pineapple Fruit contains fruit extracts that are effective exfoliants to sloughs off dead cells on the surface of the skin that may impede lash growth.

Jasmine Oil

Jasmine

Jasmine

Jasmine Oil supports lash elasticity by preventing elastin degradation.

It is high in antioxidants.

What it does NOT contain

Paraben-free and formulated without any synthetic pigments or unnecessary chemicals.

Caley signature packaging

What We Love

We particularly like how this liner does double duty as a waterproof liner and lash enhancer. Castor oil is well known to condition lashes, but it is so thick that it is often difficult to apply it directly to the lash root or not inadvertently get it into the eye. But when castor is in an eyeliner, it works out perfectly to enhance lash growth and as a long-wearing eyeliner.

Caley liners are highly pigmented gel-like formulations

Caley liners are highly pigmented gel-like formulations

About Caley Cosmetics

“All of our natural beauty products are developed and made in a family owned & operated green beauty facility. We test every clean cosmetic product endlessly until we can guarantee our cruelty-free makeup brand delivers healthy skincare benefits for optimal performance.”
••• Caley

WHERE TO FIND IT

Find Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliner Caley at

https://caleycosmetics.com/products/eye-liner

Caley Eyeliners

QUESTIONS?
COMMENTS?

Have any questions about Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliner? The Style Chicks are here to answer them.

REFERENCES

  1. Tarek A. El-Adawy and Khaled M. Taha (2001). ”Characteristics and Composition of Watermelon, Pumpkin, and Paprika Seed Oils and Flours” Agric. Food Chem. 49 (3): 1253-1259. doi:10.10217
  2. Lopez Perez G, Torres Altamirano M. Indications for sunflower oil concentrate in the treatment of atopic dermatitis. Rev Alerg Mex. 2006;53(6):217-25.

ABOUT THIS POST

Caley Cosmetics Beach Babe NATURAL EYES Eyeliners were submitted to Style Chicks for consideration purposes. All opinions and experiences are 100% our own.

National Lipstick Day Picks
Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour

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We previously introduced Pinch of Colour, a waterless beauty brand. The Pinch Of Colour range includes skincare and cosmetics such as a Waterless Lip Oil. Today we take a peek at the Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour.

Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour in the shade Sophia

Why We Love It

Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour has long-lasting coverage and a rich dimension to it’s a glam finish. Plus it is packed with lip-loving hydrating ingredients such as Jojoba, Mango Seed, and Rosehip oils.

Notably, Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour is vegan, cruelty-free, and paraben-free. It is also Water-free. Waterless beauty is not only socially conscious, but it makes for a higher quality end product.

Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour comes in twelve vibrant shades

The Experience

These Pinch of Colour matte lipsticks come in rich, flattering shades and have a smooth texture. The oils make it smooth but the lipstick does not run.

ShadesPinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour comes in twelve shades, an assortment of warm and cool base tones including a classic but modern red and cheery pinks.

We tried Sophia, an elegant crisp, cool, deep red-pink berry, and Eva, a vibrant pop of pink.

Sophia is a berry shade between pink and red

Packaging

It is packaged in a minimalist white and silver case with signature logo.

Eva is a pretty, wearable pink

Eva is a pretty, wearable pink

texture

The texture is smooth enough for a precise application. Unlike some natural lip products, it is not too hard and waxy or too mushy. It applies well and doesn’t feather even on my chronically dry lips.

Sophia

Wear

See how the kiss prints above are faded? This lipstick doesn’t come off on my glass while drinking, or while eating salad with dressing. It just began to wear off while eating pizza. This long-wearing formula isn’t drying like a stain but it does stay put like one.

The Ingredients

Let’s review Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour’s impressive ingredient line up.

Ingredient Profile

Mango Seed Butter provides extended hydration and contains copper to build precious lip collagen and elastin

Mango Seed Butter

Mango

Mango

Mango Seed Butter provides a long-lasting emollient. Rich in fatty acids, it is perfect to keep skin hydrated and dewy overnight.

Mango is high in copper. Copper builds Collagen, Elastin and increases Hyaluronic Acid production within the skin. Copper is rare within skincare products because extraction is costly. A natural ingredient high in copper is a great addition to this formulation!

Mango Seed Butter also contains Vitamins C, A, E, K and B6.

SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS (JOJOBA) SEED OIL

Jojoba Seed Oil is very similar to the composition of our natural skin oils, so skin tends to absorb Jojoba very well.

Jojoba Seeds

Jojoba Seeds

Jojoba gives skin elasticity and softness. Jojoba Oil is a carrier oil, increasing the efficacy of other active ingredients.

It smoothes lip wrinkles and fine lines without causing irritation.

Rosa Canina Fruit Oil

Rosehips

Rosehip Seed Oil is high in Vitamins A, C, and E. They provide nutrients and promote cell turnover.

Rose Hip Seed Oil is a Vitamin C variant that is both a treatment and a hydrating ingredient.

Rosehip oil also has omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids to soothe and moisturize eczema or dry skin. [1]

Supporting Players

TOCOPHERYL ACETATE

Tocopheryl Acetate is a form of Vitamin E oil used in skincare. E makes damaged lip skin soft and pliable again while reducing wrinkle formation. Vitamin E also has anti-inflammatory properties, which soothe irritated lips.

CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE

Capric Triglyceride naturally occurs in palm kernel or coconut oil. It is a mixed ester composed of caprylic and capric fatty acids attached to glycerin. [2]

Coconut Oil

Capric Triglyceride is from Coconuts

Capric Triglyceride can make greasy ingredients leave a non-greasy finish. This is helpful in a lipstick formulation such as this one which contains such rich oils.

Caprylic/capric triglyceride creates a barrier on the skin’s surface to reduce moisture loss and address dryness.

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride is one of the cleanest ingredients with no reported toxicity.

Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour shades Sophia and Eva

ABOUT THE BRAND

Pinch of Colour made one of the first waterless beauty brands.

You will note water is missing from the ingredient list. Water is usually at the beginning of the ingredient list- most of the time making up almost 70 to 80% of the formula. Cutting water from the formulation actually creates a more hydrating product because it won’t interfere with our skin’s natural sebum protective barrier.

Driven by a mission to conserve precious water for drinking, Pinch of Colour not only performs professionally and delivers a more potent product, but they make a difference through philanthropic initiatives.

Where to Buy It

Find Pinch of Colour Matte Velvet Waterless Lip Colour at Pinch Of Colour

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References

  1. Grajzer, Magdalena, et al. “Characteristics of rose hip (Rosa canina L.) cold-pressed oil and its oxidative stability studied by the differential scanning calorimetry method.” Food chemistry 188 (2015): 459-466.
  2. Journal of Pharmacol Exp Ther 2003 306: 29-34
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