Back to School Beauty - Principessa Beauty Box

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Inside every woman is a princess.  And for every Princess there is Principessa Beauty.

belleza_kit.gifI saw these adorable products a few weeks ago at Extracts NY and was instantly smitten. The lovely Trish, creator of Principessa Beauty, saw the love in my post, and thanked me by sending over their signature Beauty Box, called the Bellezza Box.  

Inside this cute as ever black and pink lunch-box tin is an array of Principessa's best selling products, which include travel sizes of the following:
Bacio Me - a pretty pink sweet tasting lip balm
Bagno Bliss - a creamy bath wash
Candela-to-go - a 100% pure VegeSoy wax travel candle
Cattiva Diva - a rich and creamy hand cream
Dolce Dreams - a whipped body lotion
Fresh Fiore - a sudsing shower cream
Principessa pouf - a pink nylon bath pouf

The scent of these products is fabulous. It is very hard to describe, but soft, feminine, and whimsical come to mind. It is one of those scents that every girly girl love.

The box retails for $41.00 and it is truly the best way to try our their offerings. Send your girl a little beauty box when she goes off to school - it makes the bet present for any Princess!

Visit Principessa Beauty to check out their adorable website, and see the numerous celebrity photos they have sharing in their goodies too.

Thanks, Trish!

Back to School Beauty - Are You Envied?

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Be envied as you head back to school! Let them look at your full, thick, too good to be true lashes. Are they falsies? What is she wearing? How does she do it?  This is what you will hear when you use my latest mascara find.

What is it? What is it?

px_lash_envy.jpgIt is Prescriptives new Lash Envy Volumizing Mascara.  And I am being serious here, ladies. I have not been so excited by a new mascara in such a long time.

Lash Envy is the first mascara that uses a special polymer that helps boost lash volume by up to 200%. Somehow, through the miracle of science + makeup, the formula immediately grabs onto your lashes, making them so full of volume - with no clumping in sight.

And the volume lasts throughout the entire day. You see, normal water-based mascaras lose lash volume over time, as the water in the formula slowly evaporates as you wear it. Not with Lash Envy and its special polymer - it sustains the volume. And by keeping the water in, lashes are left soft and smooth - while extremely full of volume. Amazing!

Lash Envy is $19 - a little on the expensive side for a mascara, but so worth it - and it comes in black and brown.

I haven't used anything but black mascara (during the day) for what seems like years. But I tried Lash Envy in brown, and was truly surprised. Pairing it with a new dazzling brown eye liner (Bourjois new Metallic Eye liner, review coming soon) and my hazel eyes are beautiful. And my lashes really have never been so full and lush with this mascara.

At the end of the day (which you would never know it was the end of the day from the way my lashes still looked - really!) Lash Envy simply comes off with my regular facial cleanser. Simple. Easy.

I think I found my "HG" mascara.

Look for Lash Envy at prescriptives.com, at their counters nationwide, and over at gloss.com too (where they have been running Free Shipping with any purchase lately!).