Mass Beauty: Yay or Nay?

Send to KindleTweet A financial analyst at Citi coined the phrase Hourglass Theory a few years ago, to point to a state he/she expected America was heading in: The haves the and have-nots, with a shrinking middle class. If one looks at the beauty market, this is true. During the recession, people went to salons [...]

Three Things I Learned While Quarantined in Bed

Send to KindleTweet It’s the Jewish New Year and already I’m a bad bad girl. Woman. I decided this year I would try to gossip less and be less judgmental. Already on day one I’ve nearly failed. But I have a few things to blame for my less than stellar willpower and self-control: 1) I’ve [...]

Beauty Wars: A Look at the Major Players

Send to KindleTweet There is a retail war going on right now to compete for your beauty budget. I’ll start with a few confessions. I’m a beauty junkie. I have a bestie and we both once lived in The City, New York that is. When were equally miserable at our underpaid jobs in Manhattan offices, [...]

Count Your Swimmers – DIY Male Fertility Test Surfaces

Send to KindleTweet Getting your man to the doctor to test his swimmers may never be an issue again. Word is a company by the name of Spermcheck Fertility is marketing a DIY male fertility test that is already available online and will soon be available in CVS and Walgreens locations. According to Spermcheck, a [...]

Beauty Emergency : Stolen Moisturizer

Send to KindleTweet I’m not lying when I say the low point of this week was finding out someone stole my first Gilt Group purchase, a $25 starter kit of products from Jessica Simpon‘s line, BeautyMint. The Lipstick Effect truly is solid economic theory; months ago I came home to a Staples delivery to find [...]

Women Favor Lipstick Over Coffee, Sex

Send to KindleTweet A recent survey by a direct sales beauty company claims that women would choose to keep their favorite beauty product even if it meant giving up coffee, chocolate, or sex. That’s curious to me, but many women don’t even know they can climax two ways, and many rarely reach the Big O, [...]

Target Expands Beauty Collection

Send to KindleTweet The other day I’m deciding where to get groceries and my mate offers a coupon for Target. There’s one nearby that was recently remodeled to include groceries. I say I shouldn’t go to Target because I’ll get lost. Now my friend is lost, he doesn’t know that means I’ll get lost in [...]

CVS Launches Beauty Loyalty Program

Send to KindleTweet CVS/pharmacy is revealing a new beauty club program to encourage shoppers to make more cosmetics and personal care purchases at the chain drugstore. The announcement will happen during the People’s Choice Awards on CBS tonight. The CVS/pharmacy ExtraCare Beauty Club, an extension of the CVS/pharmacy ExtraCare Loyalty Program, offers cardholders extra rewards [...]

Burt’s Bees Launches New Lotions

Send to KindleTweet Burt’s Bees has launched three new body lotions – and there’s something for everyone, Fragrance Free, Soothing Sensitive, and Naturally Nourishing are the latest addition to the line. Made with 100% natural ingredients, Burt’s Bees lotions now include Liquid Crystal Technology; using an emulsifier borrowed from the food industry, it allows the [...]

Mass Beauty: Celebrities & Drugstores Unite Over Beauty

Send to KindleTweet Only the demand for growth would lead to a time where a former graffiti artist signs on to create what will be a mass-marketed fragrance. Artist and entrepreneur has inked a deal with the maker of Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson’s perfumes, Parlux Fragrances, to create an Ecko scent. Ecko is the [...]

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