Archive for June, 2008

100 Percent Pure Blush

June 11, 2008 · Filed under Green Brides, New Products, Shopping · Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

I adore a sheer, bright blush on my clients’ cheeks. The kind of blush that makes them look like they’re in love. The kind of blush that flushes their cheeks when someone tells them that they’re beautiful. The kind of blush that makes them look like they’re BLUSHING!! Universally, women look good in either a bright pink blush or a bright apricot blush. Very few women look like they’re blushing when they wear a dusty rose rouge. (Who naturally blushes in a brown tone?)

Being a blush fanatic, I’m on the constant prowl for a natural- looking blush that’s also NATURAL!!! My favorite find is a recent one, by a company here in the Bay Area called 100 Percent Pure. As a green makeup artist, I am well satisfied by the ingredients (most of them are edible, and they don’t add a single thing you won’t love) and I also like the way the product rolls up (unlike other cheek stains which push up). Last but not least, my clients LOVE the colors. The grapefruit blush is a favorite for a sheer pink, and the peach is great on redheads or green eyed girls. I can’t wait to stock my kit with more of them! A nice bonus–the blushes are great on lips, too. Did I mention that wine is one of the ingredients? Here’s what the company has to say about the derivation of the pigments in both the blushes as well as their glosses:


the first and only cosmetics made from antioxidant rich fruit
and vegetable pigments. While other color cosmetics are made
with either FD & C Colors (synthetic dyes) or minerals, only
100% Pure color cosmetics are made with fruit + vegetable
pigments (patent pending)! All the antioxidants and vitamins in fruits are in the actual color, so you will be applying all the healthy nutrients of the fruits directly on your skin!

And take a look at the gloss ingredients!

100% Natural lip glosses made with 83% Vitamin E from organic rice bran and beautiful colors from fruit pigments. Vitamin E is a powerful anti-aging antioxidant that drenches your lips with moisture and deeply softens.

Ingredients: Vitamin E (a-tocopherol), contains all or some of the following fruit pigments: Pomegranate, Wine, Cherry, Cranberry, Blackberry, Raspberry, Peach, Cocoa Bean and Plum, Vitamin C (ascorbyl palmitate), Grapeseed Oil, Honey, Shea Butter, Honey Beeswax, Natural Fruit Flavor, Chili Pepper


You can check out this company at 100percentpure.com

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Lipstick with Benefits: Peacekeeper Cause-Metics

June 2, 2008 · Filed under New Makeup Lines, New Products, Shopping · Tagged , , , , , , ,

I get excited about things sometimes. My sister in law (who studies chimp behavior) says that I make crazy breath-y noises just like excited chimps when I see something I’m wild about. Maybe I’m just wild, but I was “chimping” at Whole Foods when I found them carrying a fabulous new lipstick/nailpolish line called Peacekeeper. Peacekeeper has about 20 great shades ranging from shimmering pink to basic nudes, from coppers to vamp red.

The “lip paints” look like regular lipsticks, feel smooth, silky and moisturizing on the lips and are TOTALLY clean!!! Here’s the ingredient list: beeswax, carnauba wax, candelilla wax, shea butter, castor oil, jojoba oil, grapeseed oil, tocopherol (vitamin e). THAT’S IT!!!! (the pigment comes from iron oxides)So I’m in the midst of painting my inner wrist in a bunch of gorgeous shades (the names are great–”Paint me Wise”, “Paint me Compassionate”, “Paint me True”) when I notice something else. The front of the lipstick box says “All distributable profits, after taxes, support women’s issues.” Really?

Really. There’s a little slip of paper inside that explains: “We are a lean, mean, fund-raising machine. PeaceKeeper is the first line of cosmetics that gives all of its distributable, after tax profits to women’s health advocacy & human rights issues. Monies are use to fund organizations, events, and programs addressing these issues including but not limited to those of Wisdom Says…Inc. In addition, monies are used to support individuals directly affected by these issues through grants and scholarships.”

(Visit www.iamapeacekeeper.com to learn more about programs they support.)

PeaceKeeper’s mission is to help the millions of women and children around the world who suffer a life of forced servitude, physical or sexual abuse, gender inequality, and more.

I am completely inspired by this company to do more. They put the “cause” in cosmetics, and it’s about time! Darryl Hannah and Julia Ormond are spokesgirls for the company and Ana Gasteyer and Bonnie Raitt are on board, too, with their kisses in the “Kiss Museum”…..

Peacekeeper also offers nail polish without toulene or formaldahyde, and none of the products have parabens or ANYTHING NASTY!!!! They even have lipglosses without polybutene. Hello Dolly! My lips are back!!

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