Spring

Summer 2008: Urban Decay Big Fatty Mascara… In Color!

Urban Decay, Big Fatty Mascara, Summer 2008 One of the things I love most about Urban Decay is this: they always flip conventional wisdom the bird and just create products they think are gorgeous. Each and every time, I’m crazy about the results.

And so it is with their launch of the four new amazingly vibrant colors of their smashing Big Fatty Mascara. As the name promises, Big Fatty Mascara by Urban Decay plumps lashes to tree-trunk-like volume. Amazing!

You may remember a while back when I featured some almost-black colored mascaras here on Raging Rouge. Well, these new shades: Electric Blue, Indigo, Purple Haze and Black Cherry, are anything but subtle. They are extremely bright 80s inspired shocks of color that are sure to add a bright twist to your look.

The Pucci-inspired packaging ensures this product’s package is as pretty as its contents. Big Fatty Mascaras will retail for $17 at Sephora.com, Beauty.com, Ulta and Urban Decay by the end of April. Keep an eye out for this hot new collection!

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La Mer: The Radiant Infusion

Did you know that increased pore size is a sign of aging? Yes, it is sad but true. Like the rings of a tree, enlarged pores provide a hint to all who gaze upon your face just how long those boots of yours have been walking this earth.

To celebrate the onset of Spring, La Mer has introduced The Radiant Infusion to provide a fresher and glowing complexion. But The Radiant Infusion doesn’t only deliver glowing skin… this product minimizes pore size! Applied to clean skin using the fingertips, The Radiant Infusion delivers ionizing sea salts, Radiant Ferments and anti-oxidants directly to the skin- suspended in La Mer’s sea gel. Radiant Ferments begin as blue and white sea algae. When put through a special fermentation process, they work to improve dullness and un-even looking skin color.

Similar to a vitamin, La Mer’s formula is time released, so it works both immediately AND over time to help your skin look refreshed all day. This product delivers results quickly, helping a dull complexion recover from the harshness of winter. I vouch for the results wholeheartedly!

Retail price of The Radiant Infusion is $90 at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and La Mer.com.

REN Clean Skincare: Neroli And Grapefruit Body Wash

Ren Skincare, Neroli and Grapefruit Body Wash, Raging Rouge Beauty Blog I never eat grapefruit for breakfast. Never. Yet somehow, the scent is strongly linked in my mind with morning. I especially enjoy the invigorating scent of grapefruit in the shower. It’s the perfect caffeine-free pick me up.

If you’re looking for a grapefruit fix, check out this shower gel by REN Skincare. Amazingly gentle on the skin, REN Skincare’s Neroli and Grapefruit Body wash feels like an all-over body toner, and leaves the skin feeling soft and amazingly refreshed.

The team at REN Skincare pioneered the concept of "Clean Bio Active Skincare". What does this mean? Well, it’s good news for those of you in search of products that are beneficial and safe! REN employs the latest and greatest in skincare ingredients, but eliminates ingredients they refer to as "unfriendly", including: synthetic fragrance, petrochemicals, sulfate detergents, synthetic colors, animal ingredients, parabens, glycols and diglycols (such as propylene glycol), PEG’s, PPGs, urea, D.E.A, T.E.A, PABA and other synthetic sunscreens, aliphatic alcohols/hydrocarbons, phthalates, fumarates, amines, alkanolamines, synthetic AHAs/BHAs, polyacrylamide, metacrylate, elastomer, poloxamer, styrene, vinyl, polyquaternium, synthetic chelating agents, nylon, nitriles, nitrates, nitrosamine releasers, bromates, fluor, aluminum and alumina (WHEW! That’s a lot of bad stuff!).

REN products are never tested on animals, and REN donates a minimum of 2.5% of their profits to philanthropies that are either pro-environment or help the less fortunate.

So if you love to pamper yourself in the shower or bath, this product retails for $24, and can be found on the REN Skincare website. Other shower gel scents include Moroccan Rose and Seaweed and Sage.

Frederic Fekkai All-Day Hair Plump

Frederic Fekkai All-Day Hair Plump, Beauty Blog, Hair Care Frederic Fekkai is determined to make you fat.

No, no… Not in the way a frenemy would, tempting you with cookies in the hopes that you’ll gain 5 pounds while they stand looking slender at your side. Mr. Fekkai wants to fatten each and every strand of your hair, and a new product in his arsenal helps achieve stronger, healthier and fatter hair quite expertly.

Frederic Fekkai recently launched All-Day Hair Plump, a leave-in treatment designed to moisturize hair and smooth damaged cuticles. If you’re looking for a quick boost, this isn’t your product. (Actually, if you must have volume immediately, I highly recommend Frederic Fekkai Coiff Bouffant Lifting and Texturizing Spray Gel). But what All-Day Hair Plump will ultimately deliver is well worth the wait. This time-released formula delivers moisture to the hair all day. After a few weeks of continual use, I had to admit that my hair– well, it just plain looked better! It was smoother and fuller. It looked fantastic and healthy.

I went for a trim the other day, and my stylist was amazed when I told her I hadn’t had a haircut in 5 months! (Those of you who read Raging Rouge on a regular basis probably remember my "Raging Hair Distress" entry. Well, I was so scarred by the experience that I hadn’t had a cut since then!) The point to my tangent is this: All-Day Plump by Fekkai helped bring my hair back from the dead, and even an expert was amazed by the results.

Frederic Fekkai recommends using this product in conjunction with Overnight Hair Repair to maximize results, but it most certainly works as a stand-alone. All-Day Hair Plump retails for $95, and can be found at Neiman Marcus and Sephora.com. Read more about it on the Frederic Fekkai website.