Month: May 2011

Ottawa’s Tulip Festival  On our way into May and everything is blooming. Ottawa, Canada celebrates the Tulip Festival every May and we always know summer is coming when our fair city is blanketed in colourful flowers. The Netherlands give Ottawa the gift of tulips every year as a thank you for protecting their monarchy after…

Happy Mother’s Day! Need a last-minute gift? Want to treat yourself? Maybe we can inspire you. The Non-Blonde gave us a sneak peek at Le Métier de Beauté’s beautiful summer collection. Fab over Forty hooked more than a few of us on Beauty is Life, I’m so curious! The Beauty Look Book featured the NARS…

Deborah Lippmann does glitter best! The glitter flakes in “Glitter in the Air” are pretty and sweet without being teenage-y. The octagonal shape of the larger flakes ensures that they will lay flat on the nailbed and the tiny flakes are the perfect subtle accents, not to mention the fact that it is very easy…

I seem to recall trying Acqua di Parma Profumo several years ago and having a lukewarm reaction. It must have been on one of my marathon sniffing days when I had already tried 20 or more perfumes and had olfactory exhaustion. The Acqua di Parma perfume house was created in 1916 and is best known…

Ok it’s not Neutrogena but how great is this ad! I can’t really remember how I stumbled across this particular cream but it is a rather random choice for me. I like Neutrogena but never really found their facial skincare products overly effective for my skin as far as anti-aging treatments go. After reading a…

The Royal Kiss on the balcony… One certainly couldn’t miss the excitement and glamour of the Royal Wedding on Friday. This week’s beauty and fashion bloggers give us several ways in which we can all feel beautiful and special. Guerlain’s Terra Inca Collection has us clamoring for summer. Best Things in Beauty focuses on the…