"Express" Yourself with Super Shiny Hair

 

                                               

Brunette Expressions by Pantene is a great color-enhancing shampoo! It keeps your color looking shiny and fresh and definitely stops it from fading fast. Many color shampoos from days past deposit small amounts of new color onto the hair, causing build-up but this new formula cleans, removes impurities and leaving color looking radient!

If you aren't a brunette, don't fret (hehe) they have other colors as well. Available at CVS for just $6.19!  

Weekly Beauty Deals and Bargains

                                          

 

                                               

Macy's and Clarins are having a nice gift with purchase this week.

Receive a FREE Clarins sample Trio of Pure Melt Cleansing Gel, Gentle Eye Makeup Remover and Radiance Plus Bronzer with any $50 Clarins purchase.

 

To qualify for this gift, Nicciknows recommends the quintessential Clarins items; UV Plus Day Screen SPF 40 ($42) and Clarins Liquid Bronze Tanning for Face and Decolletage ($32). All items available at Macys.com.

 

  

                                    

DDF and Nordstrom have a wonderful gift with purchase this week.

Receive a deluxe travel-size kit of Glycolic Exfoliating Wash (2 oz.), Daily Protective Moisturizer™ SPF 15 (1 oz.), and Wrinkle Resist Plus Pore Minimizer™ Moisturizing Serum (0.23 oz.), all in a mini mirrored bag. A $40 value. Yours with any $75 DDF purchase. Online and in store.

Nicciknows recommends the DDF Protect and Correct UV Mpisturizer SPF 15 ($60) and the DDF Sensitive Skin Cleansing Gel ($32). Amazing! All items available at Nordstrom.

   

                                     

Nordstrom is being good to us this week with this Laura Mercier gift.

Receive a travel-size Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20 (0.18 oz.), Black Thickening and Building Mascara (0.03 oz.), Perfecting Water (0.34 oz.) and Bare Beige Lip Glacé (0.1 oz.) in a mini zippered cosmetics bag with your $95 Laura Mercier purchase. Online only.

To qualify for this gift, Nicciknows recommends picking up a Laura Mercier Primer ($30), Moisturizing Foundation ($42) in your shade and the Laura Mercier Undercover Pot ($34). All items available at Nordstrom.com.

   

                                              

Neiman Marcus and Kiehl's have a great incentive to buy this week. With ANY Kiehl's purchase, recieve a deluxe sample of the amazing Cryste Marine Cream made with naturally derived floral botanicals. One gift per order while supplies last.

Nicciknows recommends picking up an alltime must have, Kiehl's Baby Lip Balm ($7.50) and the Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado ($24.50). TIP: Ladies, Kiehl's products are very man-friendly as well. All items available at Neiman Marcus.

Bottoms Up!

 

                                                       

Tarte Cosmetics has brought us the niftiest, smartest beauty invention of the year thus far.....a mascara designed specifically for bottom lashes! The Bottoms Up, Lower Lash Mascara coats each and every delicate lash and is a flake-free, water-resisitant formula.

The wand is small and allows you really get in there to define lower lashes which, let's face it, too often get ignored. The result is defined, beautiful lower lashes which help to frame the eye and also balance out the eye so that it never looks top heavy and stark underneath. This hot, new must have is available for $16 at Sephora.com.

Red Carpet Beauty Awards for SAG Award show

                                              

Best Lipstick Award-Christina Applegate

The star of "Samantha Who?" was looking absolutely ravishing in green with her stunning red lips on the red carpet.

You go girl!

                                                 

Best Skin Award-Christina Hendricks

The star of "Mad Men" has a sexiness all her own. Her glowing skin was absolutely breathtaking and the auburn hair was the perfect contrast. If her secret is no sun....then get me the sunblock! 

                                                

Best Eyes Award-January Jones

Another win for "Mad Med," January Jones was the picture of haute-ness with her stunning dress and goddess-like eyes. We love the outer lashes and the light, shimmery shadow on the inner-corner of her eyes.

                                                

Best Cheeks Award-Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde from "House" was all elegance and her cheeks were positively aglow at Sunday's SAG Awards. The pop of peack on the apples of her cheeks was a hands down winner for us!

                                                  

Best All Around Fabulous Award-Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon seems to get better and better with age! It's unbelieveable. She looked SMOKIN' at the SAG Awards on Sunday. She has GOT to tell us her secret.

De-Red Your Skin

   

                                        

Clinique has an amazing new solution for redness in the form of loose powder. Redness Solutions Instant Relief Mineral Powder. Not only does this ultra fine loose powder have a yellow tint to counteract redness, it also soothes redness and is appropriate for skin with mild to moderate Rosacea.

It's oil-free and talc-free and even comes with an anti-bacterial brush! Available for $32.50 at Clinique.com.

My skin is prone to redness and I always use a loose powder to set my foundation so this powder works double duty for me! Love it!

Time to Prime

 

                                                         

Prescriptives new Flawless Face Primer is exactly that! Not only does it cover texture in the skin but is makes large pores look smaller and reduces redness and discoloration. How do I know this, you might be asking? Well I have ALL of these problems and I have to say that using this amazing new primer along with the whole-face threading that I experienced earlier this week...well my skin has literally never looked better.

This product is going into my professional kit as well as my personal kit! Available for $27.50 at Prescriptives.com. Great for all skin types.  

Weekly Beauty Deals and Bargains

                                 

 

                                                        

Clarins and Dillards are offering the "Time to Choose" gift, free with any $75 Clarins purchase while supplies last.

Choose from 1 of 4 Deluxe Skincare Collections:
1) Restorative
2) Hydra-Quench
3) Brightenting
4) Firming

Clarins skincare collections are truly amazing as are their suncare products. In order to qualify for the gift, Nicciknows recommends picking up a few age-renewing and sun protecting products such as UV Plus Day Screen SPF40 ($42) and After-Sun Moisturizer Ultra Moisturizing ($32) and Sunscreen Spray Oil SPF 6 ($30). All items available at Dillards.

 

                                               

Macy's and Prescriptives have a 4-piece gift with any $50 purchase this week. The set includes some Nicciknows favorites. Includes Gunmetal pencil case, False Eyelashes Mascara, Good in Bed Moisturizer & SLPX.

Nicciknows recommends picking up the new Flawless Face Primer ($27.50), and the All Weather Friend Daily UVA/UVB Sun Protection SPF 40 ($26.50). All items available at Macys.

 

 

                                               

Neiman Marcus and La Prairie are offering a deluxe size sample of the ultra luxurious Caviar Luxe Cream with any La Prairie purchase. This amazing cream hydrates and nourishes, improves elasticity and and the targeted Alpha Hydroxy acids smooth and retexturize skin. One per customer and while supplies last.

Nicciknows recommends picking up the Cellular Treatment Loose Powder ($70), which uses the latest technology to set makeup and allow skin to breath. Available at Neiman Marcus.

Frederic Fekkai Came to My House and Colored My Hair....sort of!

 

                                           

With the launch of Fekkai's Salon Color, you can now pick up salon quality hair color at Bloomingdales! Priced slightly higher then the box hair color that one might purchase at the local drugstore, this is worth every penny (3,000 pennies to be exact).

It is far and away the best at-home hair color that I have ever tried! It comes with everything you need to do a salon quality job including a color mixing plate, applicator brush, gloves and a pre and post-treatment for hair. The color itself is creamy and actually hydrates the hair, leaving it unbelievabley soft and shiny.  Not only that but it covers ALL ahem, gray hair. If you don't have highlights and want to try at-home color, this is absolutely the one to pick up. Available for $30 at Bloomingdales.

Singing the Praises of Face Threading with Ziba Beauty

 

                                

Yesterday I went to Ziba Beauty to experience my new favorite thing.....having my whole face threaded! Although I'm not an overly hairy person, I have, as we all do, some peach fuzz on my face and had been told by a fellow makeup artist that threading the whole face, makes skin smooth and soft and allows makeup to sit flush on the skin, giving it a natural airbrushed look.

When I arrived for my appointment, I learned so much more about the benefits of threading! Issrine (my knowledgeable and efficiant threading artist); shared the following facts:

• Threading uses 100% cotton thread

• Threading has a much lower chance of causing breakouts on the skin because it uses no product other then the thread itself

• Threading sloughes off dead skin and serves as a natural exfoliant

• Over time, waxing can stretch skin and cause loss of elasticity and premature aging. Threading does not.

• Over time, threading deadens the root so clients experience less hair growth

I am newly obsessed! My skin feels amazing. It was red for a little while yesterday but no breakouts and feels absolutely amazing today! Ziba Beauty has threading salons all over Southern California and they offer services from brow-shaping to facials and henna! They also sell eye liner kohls that are the softest long-wearing pencils we've ever experienced! Visit Ziba Beauty at the Santa Ana location and ask for Issrine! Phone number (714) 556-2245 and website is Ziba Beauty.  

A Day at the Beach

 

                                         

Alterna's Beach Spray is perfect for effortless style. Paraben-free and infused with Alterna's Colorhold technology, it also has UVA/UVA protection for your hair, so you really can wear it at the beach.

You can use it from roots to ends on dry or damp hair to get that tousled, textured beachy looking hair. I use it on second-day hair styles to re-texturize my hair after sleeping on it. A little bit goes a long at and if you want hair to look more curly, scruch your hair a bit after spraying the Beach spray. If you are going for a straighter look, run fingers through hair that has just been sprayed with Beach spray. Available for $26 at Beauty.com.