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The The Beauty Chef Nutrient-Dense Supplements, Serums, Balms

March 27, 2017

I cannot wait to try the The The Beauty Chef ‘s newly re-launched  best-selling GLOW Inner Beauty Powder. It boasts a  new and improved formula – GLOW ADVANCED! 

GLOW ADVANCED helps synthesize collagen in the skin, helps contribute to normal skin function as well as support digestive health.  In a recent clinical trial of GLOW ADVANCED, 95% of participants saw an improvement in pre-existing skin conditions such as eczema, rosacea and congestion, and 82% found a noticeable increase in skim luminosity.

GLOW was the first ever marketed inner beauty supplement, and the new formulation has even more antioxidants, minerals, vitamins and probiotics, to promote a healthy glow from the inside out!

I am totally new to this game and while I just got it, I’m already in love with my first taste!

The Beauty Chef’s line of nutrient-dense supplements, serums, balms and boosts are organic, naturopathic and sustainably handcrafted in the founder’s hometown of Bondi Beach, Australia. Each formula is packed with collagen- stimulating proteins, detoxifying cruciferous veggies, antioxidant-rich berries and other garden-grown wonders.

Combining a carefully selected range of natural and organic ingredients, The Beauty Chef‘s Glow Inner Beauty Powder is formulated to nourish and enhance the skin from the inside, giving your skin a healthy glow.

A radiant complexion begins with true nourishment for your skin, which is precisely what this ingeniously curated blend of 23 superfoods provides. A scoop of the berry-flavored powder is rich in the vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and amino acids found in vegetables, fruits, grains and legumes – uniquely fermented to increase bioavailability and naturally enhanced with pre- and probiotics. The recipe’s wealth of digestive and skincare benefits will leave you happier and healthier, inside and out.

  • Contains 30 servings
  • Key ingredients: prebiotics, macqui berry, bunaliella salina, chickpeas, lentils, mung beans, rice, grape skin, plum, linseeds, buckwheat, millet, alfalfa seeds, quinoa, chia, pepitas, sunflower seeds, green tea, stevia, ginger, turmeric, agave, lemon juice, molasses.

When taken as a daily shot of extra nutritional support, each bio-fermented, certified organic, probiotic elixir promotes a radiant complexion and protects your skin and body from free-radical damage, dryness and signs of aging.

Hydration Boost: organic coconut water, aloe vera and lemon myrtle combat dullness, and improve digestive health and overall circulation

Collagen Boost: an antioxidant-rich berry blend increases the skin’s production of plumping collagen, combats cellular damage and supports the growth of hair and nails

Antioxidant Boost: an enzyme-packed formula of papaya, pomegranate, green tea and vitamin E combats fatigue and boosts overall skin radiance and firmness

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  • Hydration key ingredients: coconut water, aloe vera, lemon myrtle
  • Antioxidant key ingredients: papaya, pomegranate, green tea, vitamin E
  • Collagen key ingredients: macqui berries, acai berries, blueberries, grapeseed extract, papaya.

4 Essentials Missing From Your Spring Beauty Arsenal

With Spring Break right around the corner, it’s time to amp up your beauty routine in the pursuit of effortless, natural glowing skin. Osmotics Cosmeceuticals’ skincare offers the perfect product line for healthy, ageless skin — the kind that looks beautiful without a million products or an arsenal concealers and foundations. So put away the heady winter makeup and replace your daily routine with lighter alternatives — the Osmotics Sheer Facial Tint, in particular, is a new personal favorite. You’re vacation packing list below — you can thank me later.

1.       Lipofill Volume Enhancing Filler ($85) – A topical filling alternative, Lipofill plumps and visibly enhances facial volume while tightening and toning facial contours.

2.       Crease-Less Line Smoothing Filler ($85) – Patented peptides and wrinkle filling spheres visibly relax and smooth expression lines/creases for instant and long-term results.

3.       Age Prevention Sheer Facial Tint SPF 45 ($39) – A daily SPF 45 with a sheer wash of color, to erase imperfections while enhancing your natural skin tone 

4.       Nécolleté Age Reversal for Neck and Chest ($75) – Nécolleté targets visible signs of aging and sun damage on the thin, fragile skin of neck, chest and décolleté. 

Osmotics Cosmeceutical is available at national specialty retail stores Dillard’s Nordstrom, Soft Surroundings, beauty websites including Amazon Luxury as well as online at www.osmotics.com

xx Natasha

ZO SKIN CENTRE® – North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills

March 26, 2017

The Art of Skin Health, Restoration and Rejuvenation, Brought Right to You

I recently visited the ZO Skin Care Centre and was thrilled to put another 5 star spa on the GLA list! I had an excellent top notch facial with a super star aesthetician. A must for those of you who don’t like to travel too far from BH for an A-lister facial.

WHAT IT IS: ZO Skin Centre® for the art of skin health, restoration and rejuvenation was created by the preeminent authority on skin care, Dr. Zein Obagi. These state-of-the-art facilities are located throughout California, as well as in Florida, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates.

WHY IT’S DIFFERENT: Dr. Obagi’s mission has always been to bridge the gap between patient and doctor, making it easier for clients to receive quality care for optimal skin health. Now, the pioneering skin health expert has done just that via his groundbreaking ZO Skin Centre®, which bring both the doctors and the power of ZO® products, services, and programs — all based on the philosophies and innovations of Dr. Zein Obagi — right to the client. With five locations in California – Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, San Gabriel and Pasadena – as well as a Centre in St. Petersburg, Florida, and international locations in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, the facilities offer comprehensive medical and aesthetic services all in one place. Specialized MD services include skin consultations, skin condition solutions, injectables and peels including Dr. Obagi’s signature ZO® Control Depth Peel™, while facial treatments include:

  • The ZO®2 Oxygen Treatment
  • ZO® Ultimate Regeneration Treatment
  • ZO® Skin Brightening Treatment
  • ZO® Acne Clarifying Treatment
  • Stem Cell Extract Treatment
  • Therapeutic Back Treatment
  • Nourishing Oraser® Hand Treatment
  • ZO® Ossential® Resurfacing Treatment
  • ZO® Ossential® Hydration Treatment

Treatment enhancers like oxygen, collagen masques, dermaplane exfoliation, L.E.D. therapy, and microdermabrasion are also on the menu. The bottom line? ZO Skin Centre® offers you unmatched access to the services of outstanding medical professionals, skilled aestheticians, and experienced ZO® Skin Health Consultants to give you everything you need to achieve healthy smooth, radiant, younger-looking skin.

ABOUT ZO SKIN CENTRE®: ZO Skin Centre® was established by board-certified practicing dermatologist and world-renowned skincare expert Dr. Zein Obagi, who saw a need to make scientific skincare analysis more accessible to his clients, bringing it out of doctors’ offices and right to the people. After establishing two stand-alone ZO Skin Centre® locations in Southern California in 2015, ZO Skin Centre® now boasts five locations in California, as well as St. Petersburg, Florida, and international locations in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Each Centre is headed by a physician trained in Dr. Obagi’s approach to skincare, and offers a wide range of services and products, from Botox, fillers and facial treatments to customized skincare programs designed to target a client’s specific skin health needs.

Address: 270 N Canon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Phone: (310) 275-3030

 

Salt Inhalers and Oral Ecology from Living Libations : Venice and online

March 22, 2017

I recently discovered the wonderful online shop and brick and mortar Venice shop, LIVING LIBATIONS and I am in love!

Living Libations is an exquisite line of serums, elixirs and essentials oils for those seeking the purest of the pure botanical health and beauty products on the planet.

I simply HAD to get their SALT INHALER after reading about Nadine on The Chalkboard. I was enthralled by a piece about where she addressed Oral Health (officially on board with her entire regime – well, most of it!) and then I just went full on digging around and needed to know everything!

The Salt Inhaler is a positively purifying device that cleanses the entire respiratory system by flushing out allergens and impurities. The salt inhaler, also known as a salt pipe has been featured on theDr. Oz show and named one of Alternative Medicine’s 2010 Best New Products.

I just started working with it and it’s pretty cool – so far, I am just getting used to it, but it’s supposed to be excellent for many reasons – here are few I found just poking around the web.

9 Health Benefits of Salt Inhalers

1. Helps with Sinus Ailments

Salt inhalation therapy has been used to boost overall respiratory strength and lung capacity. Studies from the 1800’s found that breathing pure, ionized (salted) air in salt mines could help reduce respiratory problems and the general irritation cause by smoking and air pollution.

2. Supports Harmful Organism Cleansing

Himalayan salt has been used as a cleansing agent against harmful organisms. In fact, it is a commonly used holistic health practice to help individuals with respiratory difficulties, and may even work better than some of the commonly prescribed options for these conditions.

3. May Help Reduce Swelling and Redness

Crystal salt helps reduce redness and swelling, aiding in the body’s ability to fight off responses that lead to deterioration in the body over time.

4. Detoxifies Air

We breathe in a shocking amount of chemical pollutants, as well as smoke, dust, smog and pet dander. Our lungs are under constant stress from air pollution. Similarly, many smokers have found comfort in using the Himalayan salt inhaler, as it helps reduce withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting.

5. May Help Lower Blood Pressure

High in the mineral potassium, the Himalayan sea salt inhaler may also aid in stabilizing blood pressure.

6. Deepens Breath Capacity and Promotes Mental Calmness

Given its ability to increase the body’s natural ability to breathe deeply, a salt inhaler may provide a variety of psychological benefits. The ability to breathe easily promotes their body’s own natural relaxation response.

7. Aids in Promoting Sound Sleep

Using a Himalayan salt inhaler is believed to help people breathe better at night. It may also reduce or eliminate night coughs, snoring, and breath-related sleeping conditions. In addition, some people find that Himalayan salt lamps such as this 3D moon night light design can boost their overall mood helping them to sleep more soundly.

8. May Help Reduce Mucus Build Up

Salt is a natural cleansing expectorant, and can aid in reducing excess mucous and general nose and throat stuffiness.

9. Moisturizes Dry Mucous Membranes

A crystal salt inhaler is great for taking aboard an airplane, as the salt hydrates the respiratory system while we travel.

I am pretty obsessed with oral care and flossing and tongue scrapping ( I bought the IONIC toothbrush and scraper she suggests)

I cannot wait to get to work with some of the oral goodies too!

The STORE is here!

8 Brooks Avenue #3
Venice Beach, California
Call (310) 399-7472 Text (424) 343-4170
Living Libations, Venice Beach Store Hours
Wednesday – Saturday:11am-6pm

You may also schedule private consultations where you will be pampered by a trained Renegade Beauty Consultant™ with customized care and expert advice to optimize your natural beauty.

For inquires or to schedule an appointment please email:

Venice@livinglibations.com

Living Libations was created by Nadine Artemis, beauty philosopher, aromacologist, and botanical muse, shaping plant-intelligence into palpable consecrations to blush senses and muse imaginations.

Living Libations is a line of serums, elixirs, and essentials oil that nurture beauty, enhance the immune, and promote healthy good oral care. Nadine is the author of Holistic Dental Care: the Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums.

Nadine’s official biography begins when she first combines flasks of essential oils to recreate Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps for a school science fair. These botanical-inclinations led her on petal-pathed adventures in creating organic beauty balms, reviving elixirs, healing oral care and perfumed poetry to quench the natural yearnings of many.

Nadine opened North America’s first full concept Aromatherapy store, Osmosis, in 1994. Since that day Nadine has since received glowing reviews for her formulations in the Hollywood Reporter, Flare, the New York Times, Vogue and The National Post. Nadine has also addressed gatherings at conferences, appeared on television and radio shows.

Ron

After spending many years in Downward Dog, Ron realized breathing came naturally to him. So, he set off for India where he learned from Ashtanga yoga guru, Patabhi Jois.

After sweating for many moons under his tutelage, his guru’s parting words of wisdom were, “Ron, you be Action Hero.” With this prophecy of adventure in mind, Ron walked across the desert of India looking for savasana in the shade and a mantra in some mythical yogi-cave. Later, he toured as the Bare Naked Ladies yoga advisor perfecting bhujapidasana and passing through many sidhis.

On this hero’s journey, Ron realized that meditation is anytime, anywhere: breathing yoga into a pathless land. Now Ron is expanding that breathing into beats and weaving rhythms into dance music and ambient sounds that have listeners spellbound.

Together

Upon meeting, Nadine was compelled by Ron’s life-force, infinite intelligence and divine playfulness. He was enraptured with being alive and emanated a wondrous, crazy wisdom. To Nadine, Ron was a troubadour, a Prince of Song, and she was enchanted by his bardic grace and strength.

At first inhalation, Ron smiled at the woman that exuded the pure perfume of a jasmine flower. He was struck by her “real to the feel nature” and inner-wisdom-oasis. Ron knew he had found his “howdy-partner.”

Together, they embody a bliss that is caught rather than sought. The alchemy of their cosmic communion pours the levity of life into the sacred and the secular.

Some nights they would stay up “till dawn, imbibing and drinking all of Nadine’s elixirs and sinking into a world of Living Libations. Ron’s chocolate syrup spilled into her jasmine-juice, and then gold lightening burst loose. They played and played until this nectar was made. It was from that moment on that they forever abandoned to play; they bowed, they vowed, and hand in hand, they took the pathless land.

Out of this play their luxurious skin care, restorative essences, and purest of chocolates are made, tuning people’s senses to the adventure of living. In these creations, joyful petals, endless lands and green-leaf glee greet the boundless cosmos of your being. This is the ground to spin around and around and grow branches of bliss to all living things.

 

GALLANY COSMETICS

March 20, 2017

GALLANY is serving AFFORDABLE quality Face products in a variety of tasty shades for a very reasonable price. A shimmery natural look does not need to break the bank, ladies. All of the products are manufactured with the greatest care and attention to detail. Gallany Cosmetics are antioxidant rich, triple milled and have primer built in for convenient application. All products are infused with a proprietary formula to protect the skin and maximize product performance, making the line both a cosmetic and treatment in one. 

SECOND SKIN LIGHT DIFFUSING SERUM FOUNDATION

Color corrective light diffusing spheres weightlessly suspended in a serum formulation that floats above lines and imperfections to give the look of vibrant, luminous, healthy skin – truly, your Second Skin

Key Points of Difference: Full natural coverage with weightless texture, Gállány’s color correction technology maximizes broad spectrum performance disappearing into skin, leaving a polished radiant finish.

SECOND SKIN LIGHT DIFFUSING GEL SERUM CONCEALER

Color corrective, light diffusing spheres are weightlessly suspended in a gel-serum formulation that floats above lines and imperfections to completely cover and correct both dark circles and blemishes with a minimum of product that never looks obvious. 

DUOS CHEEK & FACE

Cheek & Face Duos act as three-in-one essential palettes that allow you to customize the depth or finish of your Blush, Bronzer and Highlighter. Choose from Duo Blush, Highlight & Bronzer or Blush & Highlight options.

TRIOS FACE PALETTE

All of your favorites in one carefully curated palette for eyes, face and cheeks. Pro performance pigments yield maximum payoff that can be applied wet or dry. Crease-proof, long wearing formulas ensure long wear as shadows and as liners while blush and highlighter shades never fade.

METALLIC LIPSTICK

Each shade is packed with all-day color, and the pigment payoff is insane. With just one swipe, you’re left with an unbelievable laydown of color. The satin formula applies velvety smooth without dragging or skipping.

Our creamy formula is loaded with nourishing ingredients. Infused with Hungarian lilac extract, edelweiss, and hyaluronic moisture blended together for intense hydration, creating a yummy butter blend that comforts, hydrates and enhances to rid lips of dryness and leave them soft and conditioned.