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Mountain Rose Herbs giveaway

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:08:02 +0000

Mountain Rose Herbs, my favorite hippie skincare and herb supplier is doing a very cool giveaway for the best herbal recipes of 2011. Check ‘em out — not only do they have great ideas there and a killer prize, but these guys sell extremely high-quality, well-priced DIY skincare items. I use them to purchase all my [...]

Cosmetics case MIA :(

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:20:52 +0000

I’ve been using the same Coach black leather makeup bag since like 2003, and I LOVED that thing. I got it for a decent price at the factory outlet, and it’s held up well and was the perfect size and dimensions to cram into even my smaller purses. I didn’t love how skinny items like [...]

Trouble in paradise

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:11:10 +0000

OK, so we bought ourselves a brand new house. Like, a really nice one. Nice enough that I can’t afford to shop at Sephora ever again. We’ve had a really fun and monumental beginning of the year, with the new home and a big move all right after a trip to Rio for a friend’s [...]

Holiday beauty bounty

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:31:29 +0000

As I mentioned elsewhere, I’m a spoiled girl. My husband‘s entire family is tuned into my taste, and I took home a fascinating haul of fun products this year. In addition to receiving to bra clips and bejeweled makeup brushes, I got a gadget from my MIL that I’d never even HEARD of before — the [...]

How can we look “polished” on the go?

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:15:31 +0000

A friend’s recent Facebook comment cracked me up — she said on the first day of her attempt to dress a bit sleeker looking, she forgot to wear deodorant; this was proof to her that it was impossible for her to be “polished” no matter what she tried. I used to be much the same — [...]

Holy lashes, Batman!

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:31:27 +0000

Remember my Great Mascara Review from last year? Yeah, now that I found my Holy Grail Mascara, I thought I was all done with that noise. Well sadly, my HG is starting to bug my eyes lately — might be the lack of humidity now that heaters are going on everywhere — and I think [...]

Powdered sunblock upgrade!

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:35:47 +0000

A few years back we had a blazing summer, and I got really into the idea of powdered sunblock. I tried a slew of brands (Peter Thomas Roth, Bare Escentuals, Shiseido and Colorescience) but didn’t care for any of the packaging or formulations. I even tried buying my own synthetic non-scratchy powder-dispensing brush that I could theoretically [...]

Sephora Favorites are kind of my new favorite

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:39:11 +0000

Ohmigosh, Sephora is doing WAY more Sephora Favorites boxed sets this year! (Even if you ignore all the Halloween ones.) Or maybe they’re just doing more all at once? Either way, I’m obsessed.

I only *kind of* want this basics one, but I TOTALLY want this hair one, this new Lash Stash one, this eyeliner [...]

Chicken skin begone!

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:05:20 +0000

In recent years, I’ve started to notice keratosis pilaris on my upper arms, and a teensy bit on my tush and the backs of my thighs. The latter two don’t matter AS much, since my hubby thinks my skin is smooth is butter (and it IS compared to his). But I really wanted to eradicate [...]

Magic marker stylings

Virginia (Heliotro.pe) — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:33:30 +0000

I LOVE this Jolinean (ooh, new beauty term!) look, but I’ve long been intimidated by liquid eye liner, because I simply suck at applying it. My hand is shaky, I guess, and many formulations are unforgiving if you have to go over the same area twice, and being extremely fair means that mistakes show up [...]