L&F Beauty – L’Oreal Paris Glam Shine Diamant

L’Oreal Paris – Glam Shine Diamant
Perk up your puckers girls – a lip gloss that shines up the lips to a celestial level! Using technology that makes your pout sparkle like your best friend – diamonds – this gloss is definitely for HD.
Glam Shine Diamant expands the Glam Shine family with its eight unique shades, [...]

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Bourjois: The story of blush

French cosmetic firm Bourjois has been a mainstay for savvy beauty consumers, and for the lucky women of France since the 19th century.

Paris was a raucous place in the 1800s, with fashion, music and theatre scandalizing polite society with its outré behaviour. Respectable ladies did not wear make-up, wanting to distance themselves from the actresses [...]

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L&F – Yves Rocher Coleurs Nature

Yves Rocher Coleurs Nature
This makeup collection is 100 per cent natural and dermatologically and ophtalmologically tested. But what does that mean?
It means that the ingredients are lovely gentle things like sweet almond oil, organic sesame oil, organic hazelnut oil and organic shea butter. Yves Rocher is also using rice wax, carnuaba wax and organic jojoba [...]

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LipstickPowdernPaint – the best mineral makeup for you (part two)

In case you aren’t sure what mineral makeup truly is, here are the basics:
1. Mineral makeup is made up of at least three minerals: zinc oxide, titanium dioxide and iron oxide.
2. These minerals are inert, which means they won’t react with your skin or be absorbed by the skin.
3. These minerals can screen UVA/UVB rays, which is [...]

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LipstickPowdernPaint – The best mineral make up for you (part one)

So many choices it makes our heads spin! How do you figure out what’s best for you? Here’s the breakdown of the latest mineral makeup foundations to be found on store shelves.
Lancôme Ageless Mineral
Includes a white sapphire complex to make skin look brighter and feel softer. It’s formulated with aloe, vitamin E, mica, alumina and bismuth [...]

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Life & Fashion – Green Beauty.ca

 
(image: Livinia)
As women we’re deluged with product offerings – and we love it! But when you want to find something that works and is eco-friendly, its been a challenge. For busy girls, spending endless hours searching through a variety of stores isn’t permissable according to our daytimers. But now a simple click will take you [...]

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Life & Fashion – nails nails nails

CORPS FOCUS:
Break rules, set trends, and always play pretty
- Sula founder Susanne Lang
 

Toronto-based Sula Beauty has created a nail polish that not only is free of tolulene, formaldehyde and phthalates, but is removed by simply peeling. (And really girls, don’t we do that anyways when we’re bored or stuck waiting in line somewhere?) Paint and [...]

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Life & Fashion – Guerlain maquillage

MAQUILLAGE FOCUS – One of the premium beauty brands of France, Guerlain has celebrated its 180 years by creating stylish and elegant products. This spring Guerlain introduces Rouge G, a unique lipstick created in collaboration with designer Lorenz Baumer of Place Vendome in Paris. Rouge G is housed in a unique casing with a hidden [...]

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memories of the ’70s – Love’s Baby Soft

 
Because innocence is sexier than you think….
 
This advertising tagline for Love’s Baby Soft epitomizes the freewheeling ‘70s – an era when sexiness wasn’t thought to be outrageous or dangerous, extreme or blatant (or have evil consequences).
 
Love’s Baby Soft was a gentle scent – sweet and floral, a bit of baby powder, and a slight [...]

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Life & Fashion spring preview – perfume

Start spring with a new scent – and learn the right habits of wearing and storing your new favourite perfume. Here are some tips from Coty Canada Director of PR & Education Aliki Mahshy on the dos and donts of perfume:
 
L&F – How should you apply perfume?
AM – Whether an eau de toilette, eau [...]

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