The Miraculous Magic Of Beautiful Blossoms.
The Body Shop treats us, once again, to the magical miracles of nature as harnessed in the new Moringa Bath & Body range. The Moringa Bath & Body range is The Body Shop’s newest offering and the first floral member across their vast and considerate product array. This fragrant and highly moisturizing collection consists of 6 products featuring Moringa seed oil.
“First used in Ayurvedic medicine some 4,000 years ago, Moringa seed oil comes from the Moringa tree, which is also known as the “miracle tree” due to its wide variety of beneficial uses. The Moringa tree provides 7 times the Vitamin C in oranges, 4 times the calcium and 2 times the protein in milk, 4 times the Vitamin A in carrots and 3 times the potassium as bananas. Moringa seed oil contains high levels of oleic acid, which is a fatty acid that helps to restore the skin’s moisture levels, protects against drying and keeps the skin feeling soft and smooth. The oil was highly treasured by the ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian civilizations for use in protecting skin and making perfume. It was so good, that they even used it to create their own skin-smoothing product.”
Furthermore, according to folks at The Body Shop, they just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use the miraculously moisturizing and nourishing benefits found in Moringa seed oil, hence the Moringa Bath & Body range was born. The Body Shop uses only the finest Community Trade Moringa seed oil and fragrance from the Moringa tree blossoms, as well as other delectably moisturizing and protective Community Trade ingredients in the new range. By choosing Community Trade ingredients, the customer is contributing to a worldwide program that works to support livelihoods for marginalized communities in more than 20 countries across the globe. Gosh, we love that!
Meet The Body Shop’s new Moringa Bath & Body range:
- Moringa Body Butter
- Moringa Body Scrub
- Moringa Milk Body Lotion
- Moringa Foaming Bath
- Moringa Shower Gel
- Moringa Soap
*curtsies*
The Moringa Bath & Body range from The Body Shop is fragrantly and ever so fabulously on counter now. What a delight!
Okay…Now This Is Kind Of Fun!
L’Oréal Professionnel introduced four new Play Ball sprays to their techno-inspired, ergonomically designed, sensorial styling portfolio. Even though all the new Play Ball sprays are pretty fab, Beauty Marked! is especially smitten with the new Soda Sparkler spray by L’Oréal Professionnel. Now this bit of fun delivers a detectible shine that’s gorgeously paired with an uber finely-milled sparkle that can be rocked both day and night. Soda Sparkler is sure to tantalize your tresses (and your fans) with this glamorously glittery cocktail that delivers a natural hold and a defined texture.
The other MVPs in this game are:
- Cosmo Spritzer An extra-strong hold spray used to combat frizz and to deliver a smooth, shiny and secure style.
- Silky Sunrise A spray-on-serum for smoothness, softness, shine, and a silky texture.
- Texture Tonic A texturizing spray for hold and volume that gives that “just left the beach” look.
The entire Play Ball team is available from L’Oréal Professionnel Salons and select retailers nationwide. The game is definitely on now.
Downtown Delights.
One of my favourite autumnal treats is to store my bubbly and bright or pretty and pastel nail polishes, much adored during the warmer months, and ready my digits for the deliciously dark and daringly delightful polish colours much coveted and ever-so-couture when worn in the colder months. Again, this autumn and winter fashion season sees the ravishing return of gloriously urbane nails in deeper, super pigmented, and trend-setting hues. Beauty Marked! has kicked off the season with the Limited Edition Downtown Collection from Zoya. Do be sure to check out these edgy beauties on your travels as you continue on your journey to great style.
The LE Downtown Collection:
- Freja gunmetal grey metallic (pictured)
- Indigo deep indigo with starry metallic flecks (pictured)
- Kotori glittering aqua-metallic
- Suvi deep green metallic
- Rea amethyst metallic (pictured)
- Lael eggplant purple cream
Zoya’s trendy Downtown Collection is available in fine salons and spas nationally. Telephone 1300 855 644 for stockist details. Too hip!
It’s Only Books…
Surely it’s only books we shouldn’t judge by their cover, right? If not, you’ll have to forgive me this one indiscretion, because the newest Badgley Mischka fragrance, Fleurs De Nuit, in its ever so couture and utterly gorgeous bottle, absolutely and with great fashionability, translates to the scintillatingly sumptuous scent inside.
Badgley Mischka’s Fleurs De Nuit is an en trend white floral infused with nuances of green notes, fruits, and amber. Fleurs De Nuit, by Badgley Mischka, opens the show with fresh floral scents of magnolia, quince blossoms, and bergamot. The fragrance then moves onto the heart notes which are exquisitely reminiscent of jasmine, white peach, and orange blossom. The finale leaves one languidly luxuriating in the regal dry down of its woody amber scent. Mmm…
Fleurs De Nuit by Badgley Mischka is truly a beautiful fragrance for all seasons (not to mention totally fabulous enough to wear) and on counter now.
The Mariah Touch.
This week marks an illustrious, fragrant, and luxurious entrance befitting a superstar to coincide with Mariah Carey’s latest album, “E=MC2″. M by Mariah Carey GOLD, is a very special version of Mariah debut fragrance, M by Mariah Carey. M by Mariah Carey GOLD is packaged in the same gorgeously shaped and exquisitely capped bottle as M by Mariah Carey. However, M by Mariah Carey GOLD, is dipped in a lavash metallic gold, while maintaining the same glorious scent of the original fragrance. As a top selling female recording artist and a five-time Grammy winner, it does seem rather fitting to immortalize Mariah’s signature scent in gold. M by Mariah Carey GOLD, absolutely and most elegantly encapsulates Mariah Carey’s verging on iconic charm.
“I absolutely love the parfum,” said Mariah Carey. “It is a very dramatic bottle with a beautiful feminine fragrance inside. Wearing M by Mariah Carey GOLD is a very sensual and glamorous experience. It is almost like being wrapped in liquid gold.”
M by Mariah Carey GOLD is on counter now, poised in a 50 ml Parfum Spray from major retailers nationwide.
With The Tears Of Robert Smith…
LUSH has come up with The Cure for winsomely wayward locks that are really into a medium-hold hair gel that gives rockin’ cruelty-free style. Goth Juice by LUSH is a styling gel that holds and adds shine to the hair without drying it out. LUSH Goth Juice is positively loaded with mineral-rich hemp oil, flaxseed oil and fresh lemon infusion all of which make for an awesome High shine. Oak moss and olibanum give Goth Juice its intoxicating scent which lingers. After Goth Juice, which is Never Enough, all you’ll need is the smeared (okay maybe not smeared) red lipstick and everything will be Just Like Heaven. We love that LUSH goes there!
Mmm…Great Melting Moments.
We can always use a quality cleanser that can effectively remove makeup, clean up a storm, while leaving our skin feeling its supple, vitaminized best, that is for sure. Clarins may just have come up with a delectable cleanser that can do just that. Clarins Pure Melt Cleansing Gel with Marula oil greets the face with a stellar gel textured formulation that glides onto the face in anticipation for effortless cleansing. Once in contact with the skin, Clarins Pure Melt Cleansing Gel, with aid from the skin’s warmth, melts into an ultra-fine cleansing oil that makes light work of makeup and gently and effectively cleanses the skin from its daily adventures. Upon rinsing with water, the micro-droplets change into a milky emulsion which is easily and thoroughly rinsed off only leaving behind a silky thin veil of hydrating Marula oil, that is rich in oleic fatty acids and a hearty dose of vitamin C (4 times as much vitamin C as oranges in fact!). Who can pass up an opportunity to to indulge in such good clean, lavish fun? Certainly not anyone at Chez Beauty Marked!. Love it!
Clarins Pure Melt Cleansing Gel is on counter from March 24th, 2008. Mmmm…
