Five for Friday: The Forgotten (Travel Essentials)

Don't you just hate it when you go on a trip and forget some truly critical beauty goods? I tend to forget the same things every time, for various reasons, which I'll explain below. Check out my five most forgotten items, and my favorites in each category:Lip Balm. Oh, I always pack plenty of glosses, and sometimes some lipsticks, but good old lip balm? I always forget it. Let's face it - even

Mess(age) in a Bottle

Hot, sticky summer weather most certainly calls for a super-lightweight foundation or tinted moisturizer. I had run out of my beloved DuWop Revolotion Face, but couldn't find a suitable alternative in my beauty closet, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. (A serious bout of insomnia helped, too.)I began with a bottle of Estee Lauder Resilience Lift Extreme Ultra Firming Makeup SPF 15

Cheap Thrills: 8 Drugstore Beauty Bargains

Wallet feeling the strain these days? Check out some of my favorite drugstore beauty bargains, most for $10 and under:1. Vaseline Cocoa Butter Vitalizing Gel Body Oil ($7.49) is an amazing body moisturizer, and smells deliciously of cocoa butter and almond. In the winter, it's perfect for combating super dry skin, and for hot summer nights, it adds a rather fetching sheen to legs and shoulders.2

Beauty on the Road: Smart Skincare

Regular readers of this website will know that I am terribly finicky about my skincare items. I've had so many rashes, breakouts, and clogged pores from ingredients that don't agree with my skin, that I've become a little bit gun-shy. I'm loyal to my favorites, but the problem is, toting all of them around on short business trips is totally out of the question.Seriously! Estee Lauder this, Boscia

Eastern Bloc Beauty

Eva Herzigova, Carmen Kass, Karolina Kurkova, Natalia Vodianova, Magdalena Wrobel - it seems like every supermodel hails from Eastern Europe these days! Now you can get a little closer to continental comeliness with Ziaja, Poland's leading skincare brand, newly available for sale in the US. With over 30 million units sold in 2004, it's clear that Ziaja is behind some of those creamy complexions