Borghese Spa Set at BeautyTicket.com

Borghese is a high end skin and body care line inspired by the minerals and heritage of the Tuscan countryside. At this point, I have no hope of hoping over to Italy anytime soon, so using these products is the closest I can get. Normally their products are super expensive, but my friends at BeautyTicket.com have this whole set for only $29.99!!!

The Living Water Spa Set includes:

* Active Mud for Face & Body (6.0 oz)
* Moisturizing Body Creme (6.0 oz)
* Gentle Foaming Gel for Bath & Shower (8.4 oz)
* Curaforte Moisture Intensifier (1.0 oz)
* Cura Da Vita Protettivo SPF 15 (1.0 oz)
* Splendide Mani Smoothing Hand Creme (2.5 oz)
* Acqua di Vita "Living Water" Complex
* Sea Sponge

Mothers Day Gift Ideas: Kiehl's Gardenia Body Care

You better act quickly, if you haven't gotten your mom anything yet for mother's day. Its THIS sunday. Here is an idea:

Kiehl’s has added Gardenia as a permanent fragrance in its line of Hand and Body Lotions and Liquid Body Cleansers. Who doesn't love a little, or in this case, a whole lot of gardenia?! It is a classic womanly scent your mom is sure to enjoy. Give her the body cleanser to use in the shower and then make sure the fragrance lasts by having her rub on the lotion right after.

Kiehl’s Gardenia Hand and Body Lotion and Kiehl’s Gardenia Liquid Body Cleanser is just $35.

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NARS Love Set for Valentine's Day

NARS has put their sexy named products to good use in their offering for V day this year. This great simple Love Set contains some greats:

• Pillow Talk Lip Gloss: a unique, semi-sheer formulation provides serious shine and imparts a warm azalea pink hue. Can be worn alone or atop any lipstick for a perfectly sexy pout.
• Sex Machine Velvet Matte Lip Pencil: combining the convenience of a pencil with the application of a lipstick, this rich, pink-mauve lip pencil provides a matte, creamy finish that will last for hours.
• Orgasm Blush: this cult classic makes cheeks blush a perfect pinky-peach flush and subtly highlights with accents of golden shimmer.

Go pick one up for yourself or someone else, who needs a little love and possibly sex in their lives. $49 at Sephora.

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Benefit's Justine Case for V Day

I love the idea that Benefit has cooked up this valentines day. Being that many of their products are great for quick fixes or "faking it" makeup, it makes sense to bundle them together for "just-in-e case" you find yourself needing to touch up your look the next morning. It makes even more sense to pair them with a comfy lacy thong! This overnighter's set is available at Macy's o benefitcosmetics.com this February for a measly $38 (Hanky Panky's alone cost ~$14!) and contains: an exclusive Hanky Panky thong: seductively lacy in currant and black & the justine case mini beautifier kit, which includes: california kissin': smile brightening lip shine (0.09 oz), eyecon: brightening eye cream (0.09 oz), benetint: rose-tinted lip & cheek stain (0.08 fl oz), and some kind-a gorgeous: the foundation faker (0.08 oz). I think its a great little set for all and a cute thing to give your girlfriends for V day, whether they have a sweetie or will be out on the prawl looking for one.

Hanky Panky Lovely!

Stocking Stuffers From Korres

If you have never tried Korres products, you are in for a treat. They are made from all natural ingredients and produced in the exotic land of Greece! Hence flavors like Quince, Guava, Wild Rose and Pomegranate. They have some awesome stocking stuffers for the holidays, available at Sephora, like these Butter Duo sets, available in Quince or Guava. Each contains a 1.69oz. body butter and a lip butter pot. Both are great for dry winter skin!

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Diesel Fuel for Life Gift Sets for Him

Need a great gift for that man in your life who has everything? Or maybe for a guy who doesn't have a clue was to do when it comes to finding a scent for himself. Diesel Fuel for Life is an energetic scent that's modern, yet classic and sophisticated, so a variety of guys will really enjoy it. It contains notes of star anise, grapefruit, lavender, heliotrope, raspberry and vetiver. I probably like it because it has the grapefruit (of course), but it also has enough spice and weight to make it manly and strong while maintaining the sweetness. The holiday set contains the Fuel for Life After Shave Balm, Shower Gel and Eau de Toilette in a signature Diesel canvas pouch, all for $69.50. A small price to pay for a man to smell amazing, from head to toe.

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Lavanila Gift Sets for Her This Holiday

I know you are running out of time to shop for your loved ones! So here are some great ideas by Lavanila. They use only 100% natural and healthy ingredients. Their vanilla-based products soothe and protect your skin with a healthy dose of 30 essential vitamins and minerals, 19 amino acids, and anti-oxidants. Anyone on your list will love them since they smell yummy and are good for your too!

The limited-edition Vanilla Spice Healthy Fragrance is a blend of Nutmeg, Sandalwood, Cardamom and Madagascar Vanilla essential oils. This warm scent just screams holiday memories and cosy winter nights. The fragrance is housed in an elegant gold package, the perfect pampering present for the holidays.

The Healthy Lip Shine Trio and Healthy Body Butter Trio make the perfect stocking stuffers. The Healthy Lip Shines put all concerns to rest with 100% chemical-free, naturally effective formulas that deliver a sheer wash of color and a natural, luminous glow while unique powerful antioxidants and skin-soothing oils nourish and hydrate. The Healthy Body Butters blend skin-soothing botanicals and powerful anti-oxidants in this non-greasy moisturizer that instantly melts into your skin for luxurious hydration and softly scented nourishment. How that for stuffing your stocking with goodness?!

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Stuff Stockings with Ojon's 7 Piece Discovery Set

Have a friend or family member who travels a ton? Need a few little bottles for stuffing stockings? Ojon has a great set of 7 of their best products in travel sizes for only $39! The set include a 2-oz Ultra Hydrating Shampoo, a 2-oz of Ultra Hydrating Conditioner, a 2-oz Hydrating Thickening Shampoo, a 2-oz Hydrating Thickening Conditioner, a 2-oz Shine and Protect Shampoo, a 2-oz Shine and Protect Conditioner, and their widely popular 2-oz Rub-Out Dry Cleanser. Gives them in sets or separately.

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Nick Arrojo's Blow Dry Gift Set

If you're anything like me then you love to watch TLC's What Not to Wear. Seeing frumpy ladies get turned into fashionistas never gets old. I think I watched an episode everyday when I was in college. Part of what makes the show so great are the hosts. I love Stacy, Clinton, and Carmindy of course, but the hair stylist Nick Arrojo is great too. I just found out the other day than not only does he have his own studio in New York but he has his own line of products. I got to try the volume foam, and if the rest of his products work as well as it does, I bet the line will do very well. It gives my hair tons of shape and body without making it feel full of sticky product and it is only $15 for 4.2oz. For the holidays, there are a few gift sets available as well. The Blow Dry Set contains the volumizing foam I like so much and both a round and paddle brush to help you get a great blow-out right at home. Perfect for ladies like me, with flat lifeless hair that needs help on a daily basis.

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Archipelago Botanicals Mini Diffuser Set

A beautiful home is a home that smells delicious. A part of the beauty world I love is home fragrance. A while ago I picked up a Archipelago Pomegrante Citrus candle from Nordstrom for $24 and I just love it. Here is how they hooked me: Nordstrom had one of the Archipelago diffusers in the women's bathroom and the scent intoxified me so much I knew I had to have it!

They also have a $30 set of mini diffusers is a great hostess gift for holiday parties, or a great addition for your own home. My favorite set contains Pomegrante Citrus, Pinapple Tangerine, and Mango Tangerine, but there are also sets of florals or woods if that is more your style.

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Stila Shine on Gift of Glaze

Can a girl ever have too much lip gloss? Um, the answer would be no! These Stila Lip Glaze click pens are a great thing to have around in multiples. Through one in each purse, bag, and a few at your desk! The set of 6 available just during the holidays is only $22 and it contains some of Stila's best selling shades and a few new ones. They taste as good as they sounds, promise!

Set includes:
- Vanilla (pearly nude)
- Brown Sugar (shimmering golden nude)
- Raisin (shimmering golden plum)
- Grapefruit (frosted pink)
- Apricot (melon nectarine)
- Gumdrop (vibrant pink)

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L'Occitane Hand Cream Trio Gift Set

I have written about how much I LOVE L'Occitane's hand creams before, but I have to say they are simply the best I've found. The little tubes are easily transported in your purse. The shea butter moisture is unbeatable, even in the harsh winter months. And I enjoy the plain one just as much as the scented varieties. Although the little tubes maybe seem on the pricey side ($10 for 1oz.), they last a very long time and are well worth the money. So this is why I snatched up one of the Hand Cream Trio sets at Sephora the minute I saw it. $25 for three is a steal, and I am excited to try the cherry blossom scent. It will be hard to give this gift set away, but I know it is the right thing to do this holiday season. The people I love deserve soft hands too. I guess...

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Marc Jacob's Daisy Gift Set

Marc Jacob's Daisy is a huge hit among women of all ages. It's pretty, flowery packaging appeals to tweens and teens yet it's scent is very lady-like and grown up. It has notes of Strawberry, Violet Leaves, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Gardenia, Violet Petals, Jasmine Petals, Musk, Vanilla, and White Woods. The gift set available right now at Sephora for $60 includes a 1.7 oz eau de toilette spray and a very cute gold solid perfume ring in a delightful gold pouch.This set will surely please many a lady (to be or otherwise) on your list this holiday season.

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Korres Butter Duo To Go in Quince

Another great simple gift set I've found is Korres' Butter Duo To Go in Quince. For $18 you get a 1.69oz. of their body butter and a lip butter pot both in yummy exotic Quince flavor. Korres' products are all natural and made in Greece. The rich body butter is great for dried-out winter skin and the lip balm will help any chapped lips out there. I kinda like that they come in a plastic pouch. Its simple and yet chic. Throw that into anyone's stocking and they will be more than happy!

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Anastasia's Mini Brow Kit

If I had it my way, my entire stocking would be filled with adorable little beauty sets! This Mini
Brow Kit by Anastasia is right up my alley. Perfect for just about any lady on your list (or a man not afraid to do a little plucking!), it contains just the essentials to clean up and tame your brows on the go, all for only $25.

This set includes:
- Mini Matte Camille Highlighter
- Mini Tweezers
- Mini Clear Brow Gel

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Philosophy The Recipe Box

I can't believe it is December already! But that means holidays, parties, family, and presents so I'm ok with it. I am especially excited about all the great gift sets available this holiday season! I'll be devoting most of my December posts to them, so get your shopping lists ready.

A very fun, inexpensive set is Philosophy's The Recipe Box, only $18 at Sephora. It is perfect for anyone who loves to bake delicious desserts. The adorable box includes three yummy recipe-flavored, 3-in-1 shampoo, bubble bath, and shower gels (strawberry shortcake, red velvet cake, and sweet creamy frosting), as well as recipes to bake them! What a fun idea!

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Celebrate National Pollinator Week with Burts Bees

Ever thought about all the delicious and nutritious things we get from bees? It's not just honey, ladies! They produce tons of products that serve as healthy ingredients for beauty products.

June 22 – 28 is National Pollinator Week and Burt’s Bees wants to give the little pollinators their moment in the spotlight for all the work they do in providing us with healthy products that keep us looking BEE-utiful. Want to learn a little bit more about the bee crisis and what you can do to help? OK... AND win a prize??? Of course you do!!!

Bring back a BEE fact from one of the pollinator friendly resources below:

o Burt’s Bees (www.burtsbees.com)

o The Pollinator Partnership (www.pollinator.org)

o Haagen-Dazs Honeybee program (www.haagendazs.com)

Post your fact in a comment below with your email address (I'll edit it before it gets posted) and I will send the first 5 people a Radiance Kit from Burts Bees. This set includes travel sizes of their new radiance line, which uses Royal Jelly, a very special substance made by the worker bees to feed the queen bee. Royal Jelly is considered to be one of the world's most nutrient-rich substances, packed with 134 nutrients, including 17 amino acids and vitamins A, C, D and K, as well as multiple B-vitamins. No wonder it helps the queen grow to 40 times the size of worker bees and live 50 times longer. Sorry you international ladies, we can only ship within the USA.

Burt’s Bees is also giving away free seed packets on their site – so everyone can win! Check it out and love your BEE-utiful self!


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06.24.08 UPDATE: Thanks for so many entries guys! I think I got about at least 35! Not bad for my first giveaway! I didn't publish all the great comments/facts I got however because I didn't want to publish people's email address... I though I could edit your comment but I guess not. Lame! Oh well, I'm plan better next time. Thanks again fro all your interest and congrats to the ladies who won!

Happy Father's Day with Every Man Jack

Father's day is fast approaching. Like this SUNDAY! So if you still have no idea what to get your old man, I have a quick fix for you: head to Target and pick up the the Beginners Luck Kit from Every Man Jack.

This set includes everything your pappa will need to get clean and shiny, without feeling girly or fruity. It includes face wash, shaving cream, face lotion, body wash and soap bars all in their "signature mint" smell. It's perfectly clean and fresh with being overly powerful or cheesy (i.e. those nasty body sprays boys in high school douse themselves in). It also comes in cedarwood and fragrance free, which my very picky dad would actually prefer. Oh and it comes with a handy zipper bag for travel.

For $24.99, you are getting all your dad needs, and not in small quantities I might add (all are full size products). The package is very manly, woodsy and stuff. He'll love it, I promise.

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And Now For Something New

I have been a solid powder blush user for so long, it was hard for me to try something new. Powder blush is just so easy to apply. With the right brush (I used a powder brush actually because I don't like a hard blush line that some smaller blush brushes give you) you just sweep and go.

But Tarte cosmetics tempted me with their popular stick cheekstains. I picked up one in Natural Beauty (a sheer berry rose) the other day and while I can't say I feel 100% confident in my application abilities, I like the results. It gives a me nice bright berry-full glow. I think I want to try Tipsy next, a sheer coral-pink with a hint of white shimmer that is apricot scented. Sounds pretty, right? And I'm in luck, Sephora has a special gift set called Ready, Set, Glow! that contains a mini Tipsy and another product I've wanted to try, the Rest Assured Brightening Wand. Think I might just go for it!

Glow Lovely!

Beauty.com Exclusive: LORAC Spotlight Bag

According to Beautiful Makeup Search, Beauty.com is having their friends and family event today: 20% off everything all day. But I can't find any indication of it on their site. Sadly, I can't afford to make any purchases today (sniff sniff), so the discount might get taken off at the end, but I won't be able to find out (what will power, huh?!). If you are more fortuate than I, check out the LORAC Spotlight Bag , exclusive to Beauty.com. It's a damn good deal at $35 and there's no shipping charge.

The set includes a cute black makeup bag with four great products: Perfectly Lit Oil-Free Luminizing Powder, aquaPRIME Oil-Free Makeup Primer, Mocktail Flavored Gloss in Caffeini Martini and Lashes Mascara in Black.

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