Vanity can pose dangers to men’s health, too. While women are most vulnerable to hazardous substances due to constant use of beauty products, men are also exposed to as many as 80 chemicals daily from personal care items such as soap, shampoo, shaving cream and perfume after shave, according to Ann Blake, a California-based molecular genetics expert.
The heat is just crazy these days that not only am I worried about how it will affect my skin, but also how my beauty products would fare.
If there is one skincare/cosmetics brand that has established that beauty isn’t just skin deep, it’s The Body Shop.
The longer I live, the more convinced I am that life, if you look at it not in parts but in its entirety, is indeed fair; that every consequence, if you look open-eyed enough, proceeds from some cause or some sense of justice.
Makeup wizard Kakuyasu Uchiide, international artistic director of the Shu Uemura cosmetics line, is heavily involved in product and visual development and is regularly featured in top fashion magazines in Japan and around the world.
Dubbed as Europe’s No. 1 value cosmetics brand, Essence got young Filipino women excited when an eye-catching counter was introduced to SM stores. The European-made cosmetics come in vibrant packaging at average prices below P200.
For the past nine years, makeup artist Barbi Chan has worked her magic using different brands at different price points. Her sense of adventure has led her to SM Beauty where she has discovered many beauty must-haves and finds. For her, it has become a place that she can always rely on.
Beauty consumers seem to like the delivery of their products with the touch of a button, and brands are obliging them with more spray-on items.
Lisa Lamberty is a name you should familiarize yourself with. She is responsible for formulating that tube of Avon lipstick, with other Avon breakthrough products.
Dusk had fallen by the time the launch of Avon’s new make-up kicked off but the mid-sized group of women at the Mindanao Ballroom of the Sofitel Philippine Plaza were greeted with a hearty “Good morning!”
