‘Inspired beauty’ Archives
Cactus & Ivy bubbles up the best organic skincare in the indie beauty market: A BeautyOlogy Interview
Like completely natural and organic products blended lovingly by hand? Then keep reading! Lisa Rodgers is an inspiration. She left the financial security of a Fortune 500 job to make soap. Nine years later, her company Cactus & Ivy bubbles up the best organic bath and spa products in the indie beauty market. Her hand-blended (yes, hand [...]
Can Oprah's Best Life be your Best Life?
Did you hear the news? (Of course you did, it was the media equivalent of shock and awe.) On Friday, Oprah announced that her final show would be Sept. 2011, after 25 years on the air. So while the speculation about her reasons run rampant, now seems like the perfect time to talk about Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the [...]
Oldie but goodie: Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty
So it looks like this has been up on YouTube for a few years, but I am just now paying attention. And you should too! This is part of Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, and shows everything that goes into making a model perfect, right down to Photoshop. Manly man husband is an expert retoucher, and he does it for a living. Years ago he did piles [...]
NamasteMoFo!
Twice this week I have read about non-new agey yoga. This month's Yoga Journal is all about doing it to music, and today's NYTimes profiles LA yoga guru Vinnie Marino, who was lead to teaching yoga by Grace Slick and kicks off his class with Led Zeppelin (maybe they are so old, they now qualify as new age?). Vinnie trains the requisite [...]
Beauty Zen: 10 things you wish you had never learned about beauty
I came across an inspired post on the personal growth blog The Bridgemaker about 10 Things You Wish You Had Never Learned. I immediately applied it to all the beauty boo-boos made over my lifetime, due to peer pressure (see number 4), misinformation (number 5) or simply following ill-conceived trends (number 1). According to The [...]
