Beauty Companies Celebrate With Vintage Packaging


Updated 11/28/07 9:34 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 0 comments

Beauty Companies Celebrate With Vintage Packaging

This year marks the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Arden's Eight Hour Cream, the 40th birthday of Dr. Hauschka's Rose Day Cream, and the 30th birthday of Yves Saint Laurent's Opium fragrance. To celebrate these products, the companies have re-created the original packaging for a limited time. Here are the details on these three retro-cool items. Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Gift Set ($25) contains a Read more

Fab Site: Saffron Rouge


Updated 01/13/08 1:22 PM · Posted by FabSugar · 2 comments

Fab Site: Saffron Rouge

While on the hunt for one of my recent favorite lip balms, this Dr. Hauschka Lip Care Stick available here for $12.95, I stumbled upon a lovely little beauty site called Saffron Rouge for the first time. If you're a cosmetic junkie concerned about what strange chemicals are entering your body through your beauty habit, then this place is an e-commerce paradise. Saffron Rouge specializes in Read more

New Mascara Mania, Part II


Updated 01/14/07 2:42 PM · Posted by FabSugar · 5 comments

New Mascara Mania, Part II

You didn't think that there were only three new mascaras on the market, did you? With so many to choose from, I could go on forever. Since everyone liked yesterday's New Mascara Mania, Part I post so much, here's a look at a few more amazing new mascaras I love. Also, stay tuned tomorrow for Mascara Mania, Part III, when, in response to overwhelming demand, I'll be featuring the best drugstore Read more

How to Choose a Red Lipstick For Spring


Updated 05/02/12 4:20 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 5 comments

How to Choose Red Lipstick

Spring's juicy lipstick shades of gold-red, season-perfect maraschino cherry, and coral-red look fresh and bright on everyone. Orange-inflected reds just look happy and new, and they're extremely easy to wear. So to find out how to get your perfect match and see shades for every skin tone, just keep reading. Read more

This Site Lets You Breeze Through Your To-Do Shopping List


Updated 03/07/11 2:10 PM · Posted by · 5 comments

Soap.Com Shopping Review

Buying beauty essentials — cotton pads, razor cartridges, and the like — can be a pain for a city dweller. Or at least it is for this one. There aren't any mom-and-pop stores around me that stock these things, my neighborhood Walgreens charges $4 more for a Venus razor than Target does, and going to Target itself involves a $7 train ride to another city. I know these are first-world problems, Read more

The 10 Next Big Ingredients in Beauty


Updated 08/17/11 9:05 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

The Hottest New Makeup and Skin Care Ingredients 2011-08-15 03:05:52

By now, you may already have heard about argan, quercetin, and maracuja. After all, they're three of the hottest skin care and makeup ingredients around these days. But what about the stuff you'll be hearing about in six months or a year's time? We've gathered 10 of the buzzed-about ingredients that are just making their way into products. So get ahead of the game, and start using them before Read more