Self-Tanner Review Series: Clinique Self Sun

Clinique's tinted body tanner, Self Sun Body Tinted Lotion, is exactly what you'd expect from Clinique: it's gentle, easy to use, not filled with sparkles, not overly fragranced, and it works. It isn't the most potent self-tanner of the bunch, but it does the job in one application. I'd recommend it for self-tanner "virgins," or anyone who wants a medium tan with uncomplicated application.

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5 Summer Treats for Face, Body and Hair

Guess who's back? Friends, I know it's been months since I've posted anything. It's flaky, I know. Life has just been a little crazy and beauty mania hasn't been my biggest priority. But I'm happy to say that it's all been positive - job, family, friends and relationship are all excellent. It just took a while (ok, a LONG time) to adjust to traveling 5,000 miles back and forth (yes, I'm living

Sorry TLC, I DO Want Scrubs

One of my favorite recent innovations in the skincare is the "instant facial" - a scrub that combines both chemical and physical exfoliants in a single tube, to deliver double-whammy smoothing power.

The first one I tried - and still my favorite - was Prescriptives Instant Gratifaction Skin Renewal Peel. Its combination of beta hydroxy acids and finely-milled exfoliating pumice delivered

Pretty in Pink: 12 Gorgeous Glosses

There's nothing like a great pink lippie to add a fresh pop of color to your summer look! I have a major soft spot for pink glosses; in fact, as I was going through my collection to write this post, it was difficult to narrow it down to 12. Check out my favorite pink lip glosses below, ranging from cotton candy to deep raspberry, in shimmer, cream, and plumping versions. What are your favorite

Score an 8-Piece Gift With Purchase from Clinique + Trina Turk

Nordstrom has an amazing Clinique GWP coming up, and trust me, you are NOT going to want to miss out on this one.Starting tomorrow (November 5), spend $25 on Clinique products at Nordstrom and snag this 8-piece set, including an exclusive bag designed by Trina Turk for Clinique. This offer is exclusive to Nordstrom (in store and online) and is available through 11/22. Click here to shop Clinique

Clinique Self-Sun Touch of Bronze Moisturizing Body Lotion

New Touch of Bronze is Clinique's entry in the gradual self tanner market, and it earns major points with me for a very moisturizing formula, good color, and low DHA reek (this is mostly due to the fact that Touch of Bronze has very little added fragrance - see this week's earlier post about self tanners for more info).Out of the tube, Touch of Bronze is quite thick, rather similar to its sister

Bronze Takes the Gold

I hate to say it, but I've been hideously bored by so many of this season's new beauty releases. I think that's part of what's been keeping me from blogging as fast-and-furiously as usual - aside from my day job, at least. I'm just not that excited about anything!I searched my makeup bag for inspiration today, but nearly every product in there was something that's been in heavy rotation for quite

Watch Your Mouth!

If you've ever had a sunburn on your lips, this post is for you. It's the worst, isn't it? Even if you apply your regular sunscreen to your lips, you manage to lick or rub it off pretty quickly...and then you're left with an exposed kisser that burns faster than a bug under a magnifying glass.Well, my fair-lipped friends, a new generation of SPF lippies has arrived to protect your pucker. If

A Reversal of Mascara Fortunes

It's not too often that I find myself totally in the wrong and need to do a complete 180 on my opinion of a product, but oh boy, did I make a mistake on this one.When Clinique's newest mascara, Lash Power, made its debut earlier this year, I tested it briefly but wrote it off as just another average mascara. Somehow I managed to miss an important data point - Lash Power is a "tubular" mascara

Bridal Beauty: From the Top of the Empire State Building!

As part of a yearly contest sponsored by BRIDES magazine and the Empire State Building, 14 lucky couples won Valentine's Day wedding ceremonies atop the Empire State Building, and ten of them enjoyed fab bridal makeup from Clinique Global Makeup Team.My best friend's wedding is now less than 2 months away, so I have serious wedding-on-the-brain and thought I'd share this look, courtesy of

Spring Collections: Clinique Nude Blush

More Spring goodness, this time from Clinique! If you're into matte shadows, you're going to love the Spring 2008 Nude Blush collection - it includes 3 NEW Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duos in fabulous matte shades.Each duo houses a larger base shade with a smaller contour color, and there's not a hint of shimmer to be found. But unlike the matte shadows of yesteryear, they're smooth and natural,

Conquering the "Skin Freakout"

One of the questions I seem to be asked most these days is what moisturizer to use when your skin is having a complete and utter celebrity-rehab-style meltdown. From redness to breakouts to rough patches to oiliness to clogged pores, it all seems to happen at once!Skin "freakouts" often happen to me during periods of stress or when there's a big change in the weather. Usually when this happens I

In a Perfect World, There Would Be No Lipliner...

...or, more accurately, no need for lipliner. Let's face it; no one actually likes to wear lipliner. It requires a precise application, lengthens your makeup routine, and reminds most normal women of scary early 90's faces sporting dark liner and pale beige lips. (This trend continues, unfortunately, in several pockets of bad taste right in my hometown of Brooklyn).But the truth is that lipliner

Clinique Holiday 2007: Touches of Golden Elixir

If you thought Happy and Bright was all Clinique had up its sleeve for this holiday season, think again.Meet Touches of Golden Elixir, Clinique's second collection for Holiday 2007.While the Happy and Bright collection is cool, peppy, and pink, Touches of Golden Elixir is warm, glowing, and sexy.Just look at the eye makeup on the model! So gorgeous. The eye look was created with new Colour Surge

Fresh Picked: 10 Fabulous Berry Shades For Fall

We've been talking about the berry lip for ages on this blog; every time fall rolls around it's the seasonal look that I look forward to the most.A juicy berry lip is rich and elegant and more wearable than a straight, classic red. And there are tons and tons of colors to choose from! From raspberry to cranberry to "wine berry," here are a few of my favorite berry hues. Post yours in the comments

Clinique Holiday 2007: Happy and Bright

The floodgates are now open on the 2007 holiday collections! First we looked at Elizabeth Arden and NARS, and now here comes Clinique. Happy and Bright is built around Clinique's star fragrance, Happy, and features new and limited edition shades.My top pick is Brush-on Cream Liner in Smoke Grey. Grey is not only huge this season, it's such a versatile color, and Clinique's cream liner formula is

Shop Pink: Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the "pink" products are already starting to roll in!This one popped up in my inbox this morning and I thought it was so cute that I just had to share. Clinique is offering a special edition of their landmark Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion in a 6.7 oz size...with the funniest set of cell phone/keyring charms I have ever seen.These little

Bronzed Beauty

Clinique is killing me with these compacts. Really. If it doesn't stop I'm going to have to clear out one of my kitchen cabinets to make room for my collection. They're just too...pretty...to pass up!First there was the Pink Chocolates Shimmering Tones powder, that limited edition wonder, and then the beautifully girly Fresh Bloom Allover Color compacts.And now Shimmering Tones is back, in 4 new

Small but Grand

What is it about mini size products that makes them so appealing? Is it the convenience of something that takes up virtually no room in even the tiniest clutch, or is it because they're just so...cute?I am in no mood for overanalyzing on this late Monday night, but I will tell you that I fell for these darling little Clinique lippies the moment I saw them. A Lilliputian train case in a pretty

Tasteful Nudes

These days I've got to thinking that whoever came up with the term "nude" to describe a lip product must have been smoking something.I know "the nude lip" is part of our makeup vernacular, but seriously? Does what is commonly considered a "nude lip" - especially the foundation coated mouths we've been seeing on the runways - ever look like your actual natural lip color? Didn't think so.But,