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Beach Beauty Buys and Summer Skin Must-Haves
Beach Beauty tips and must-dos
Stock up for Summer holidays and hit the beach looking your best with these beauty, skin and hair products:
Avoid the panda eye look by ditching your mascara. Instead go smudge-free by getting your lashes tinted before you hit the beach. Shavata Brow Studios offer a semi-permanent service. Eye lash tinting appointments take approx 20 minutes and the results last up to six weeks. £19, go to www.shavata.co.uk to find your nearest studio.
Tags: Jo Malone Dry Body Oils
Jo Malone Dry Body Oils
Happily Miss Nifty is no scientist because the concept of something being dry and oily is just too, well, scientific. But without understanding the hows, we can recognise a scrumptious body product when we try one. And these new body products by British brand Jo Malone are just that - perfect for moisturising dry skin without leaving it greasy and oily. Plus they smell amazing.
The Body Shop Body Butter Duo
The Body Shop Body Butter duo
Get two body butters in one thanks to The Body Shop's new body product. The new Body Butter duo has been re-worked to include TWO different formulations of best-selling butter product all within the one product.
Apply the rich infusion on areas such as elbows, knees, and legs, and use the normal skin formula on the rest of your body. Choose from four scrumptuous fragrances, Sweet Pea, Vanilla, Macadamia and Floral Acai. Available from end of May 2011, £12.50 per pot
LUSH It's Raining Men
Hallelujah! A divine shower gel scented with our best-selling Honey I Washed the Kids fragrance … amen! Shower with this luxurious honey and tropical flower gel and your skin will be left deliciously soft, scented like crème brule and extremely lickable!
Food-smelling beauty products don't tend to go down well our testers at Nifty HQ.The temptation to eat is often so strong it isn't healthy.
However, we'll make an excpetion for this shower gel from LUSH. Hints of creme brulee and other delicious desserts, it's sweet smelling but not strong enough to want to eat it. Skin is left smooth and it doesn't dry it out like other shower gels. And it comes with the ethically produced, cruelty-free guarantee.
LUSH stores nationwide, call 01202 668 545 for stockists, or order on-line at www.lush.co.uk
£4.25 for 110g / £7.95 for 260g / £14.25 for 510g
Aromatherapy Associates Revive Morning Bath & Shower Oil
Wake yourself up for the day ahead with this fresh, invigorating blend of pink grapefruit, rosemary and juniper berry. This detoxifying, balancing blend is perfect after a little over-indulging, after a long flight or when generally feeling sluggish. Use it in the bath or shower and feel your body come back to life.
Some people are monring folk, some people are not. But this bath & shower oil is perfect for perking you up no matter what type you are. Sweet orange and pink grapefruit freshen and awaken you. The coconut oil softens and soothes skin.
It has a lasting effect with moisture locked in and dryness kept at bay which is especially good in winter months.
It is expensive, however, so perhaps best for spoiling someone special: a good Mother's Day gift?
Available at leading hotel and destination spas, worldwide. Retail stockists include Liberty (3rd Floor) and Fortnum & Mason. Mail order direct from Aromatherapy Associates on 020 8569 7030 or purchase online at www.aromatherapyassociates.com
Nuxe Paris Hand and Nail Cream
Nourishing and protecting, this cream will help you get heavenly hands. Its ultimate refinery comes from the fact that it also strengthens your nails and softens your cuticles.
Made with honey, this sweet-smelling cream has a noticeable impact on dryness and nails are strengthened. Smells amazing and not too greasy. Great hand relief for colder months.
The list of NUXE retailers is available on website at www.nuxe.com
£10.50
Lierac Bust Lift Tensor Spray
Not really much impact on lifting bust but love the irridiscent glow this gives to skin. It definitely disguises any flaws or uneven skintone.
Harrods Pharmacy and for other stockists enquiries call 0207 620 1771
£25
Nivea Rich Firming Body Moisturiser Q10 Plus
This advanced Nivea Body Firming lotion contains the skin’s own anti-ageing complex, Q10 to nourish and firm the skin in two ways. For smooth and radiant skin, Nivea’s unique Q10 formula helps stimulate cell’s energy production in the upper skin layers. For toned and tightened skin the lotion penetrates deeply to intensively moisturise and support the skin’s natural structure.
Smells amazing and locks in moisture. Skin looks more toned and a great price.
Supermarkets and drugstores nationwide.
£6.25
L'Occitane's Dry Hand Cream
Enriched with 20% Shea Butter, this super-creamy balm penetrates quickly to protect, nourish and moisturise hands. Honey, almond extracts and coconut oil are blended with shea butter to create this extremely effective care. The rich texture is rapidly absorbed to leave the hands soft and smooth with no oily traces.
A rich hand cream, that's perfect for dry chapped winter hands. And despite the 20% Shea Butter, it isn't greasy or oily at all. Instead it leaves skin super soft and smells amazing. It's expensive but you get what you pay for with this hand cream.
At L'Occitane stores nationwide and online uk.loccitane.com
£17
Philosophy's Amazing Grace hand cream
An ultra-rich perfumed hand cream formulated with the amazingly clean, beautifully feminine scent of our best-selling fragrance. made with multiple butters, including shea, mango and cocoa.
This smells divine - exactly as described clean yet feminine. And the combination of butters leaves hands feeling super soft and rehydrated - great for winter.
Available from Selfridges and QVC. Call 0870 990 8452 for stockists.
£9
