Category Archives: LIFE + STYLE

5 Fashion Subscription Boxes You Need To Know About

April 7, 2017

We’ve all been there. We’ve stood in our closets, sighing, wondering why it’s so hard to get dressed every day. Maybe nothing fits, or perhaps we’re bored with what we have. We want to be able to effortlessly pull together a fabulous outfit, but we can’t figure out how. Sometimes, seeing the same articles of clothing over and over make us lose creativity. All we need is a little push to get back on our fashion game. Subscription boxes are some of the best ways to build up a new wardrobe that pushes us to the edges of our comfort zones and lets us express our true sense of style. Opening up a subscription box is like having a birthday party more than just once a year.

 

Stitch Fix

Stitch Fix gives you the benefit of having a personal stylist shop for you while you don’t do a thing. You simply create a profile that gives the stylist an idea of what you’re looking for and how much you want to spend. Five articles of clothing are sent to you every month. If you don’t keep anything, you pay a $20 styling fee. The styling fee is applied to any clothing that you choose to buy.

Fabletics

This fitness apparel company offers subscription boxes for $49.95 to $59.95 a month. Each month’s box contains a curated athleisure outfit that includes two or three pieces. Fabletics’ leggings are thick and provide the perfect amount of compression to give you a perfect silhouette. The tops made by Fabletics are functional. They are ideal to wear for a workout, and they also have unexpected details that transform them into items that you can wear for every casual occasion. You can skip a month at any time, and you don’t pay for the months that you skip.

Elizabeth & Clarke

If you don’t need new clothes every month, a quarterly subscription box might be preferable. Elizabeth & Clarke sends designer-quality shirts and blouses to your doorstep every quarter for $60 a box. This is a great subscription service to help you break out of the habit of buying the same T-shirt in every color.

Golden Tote

Golden Tote gives you the chance to order a monthly box that includes some surprise items and some items that you select. That gives you the chance to experience that thrill that comes with opening an unexpected gift while still staying in control of what you order. It’s an excellent way to gradually broaden your scope of style.

Wantable

With this monthly subscription box, you can choose from style, fitness, makeup, men’s fitness or intimates categories. Once you decide on a category, you’ll get a box of surprise goodies every month. The fitness and style boxes work like Stitch Fix. You only pay the styling fee if you don’t keep any items. With the other boxes, you pay a set amount up front. However, if you don’t like something that you receive, you can always return it.

 

 

ONE GUN RANCH MALIBU’S NEW GUIDEBOOK INSPIRES VIBRANT LIVING AND OPTIMAL HEALTH

April 2, 2017

One Gun Ranch – and owner Alice Bamford’s new transformative guidebook launches any day now. 

The book is absolutely stunning, provides tips and tricks for readers to reset their health (just in time for bikini season!) and offers mouthwatering recipes inspired by life on One Gun Ranch.

Their One Gun beet brownie recipe is OUT OF SIGHT. 

Co-Authors Alice Bamford and Ann Eysenring offer home-grown wisdom, delectable biodynamic recipes and transformative information for sustainable well-being in One Gun Ranch, Malibu: Biodynamic Recipes for Vibrant Living”

Guidebook lovers, health advocates and gardeners alike will discover a volume filled with authentic recipes for living well that’s also packed with wholesome tips and spectacular photography.

Authored by Alice Bamford and Ann Eysenring, the owners of One Gun Ranch Malibu and passionate advocates of biodynamic principles in farming and beyond, the guidebook presents a viable approach to nutrition, fitness and well-being, one that nourishes the spirit as well as the body.

Drawing on generations of home-grown wisdom, Alice and Ann dish the dirt on healthy soil and happy bodies—offering up advice ranging from eating your vitamins, how to meditate, work out in nature, enhance fitness while hiking, what to look for at Farmers Markets to discovering your green thumb planting a window box or a raised bed making a supersoil compost and preparing your own biodynamic menus. They highlight their simple solution to the mass- produced “crisis on our plates”: a natural life cycle that goes back to the basics and is perfectly designed to optimize health.

“We are thrilled to have put our lifestyle and passion to paper, creating an accessible platform to help enlighten people about biodynamics and the joyful benefits from living with the land and the rhythms of nature,” Alice says. “Through sharing our story, inherited knowledge and the way we live we hope to encourage people to cultivate their true life force and harness their natural potential empowering them to revive the mind, body and soul.”

Throughout the book, Alice and Ann explain the overwhelming positive impact of biodynamic living and harvesting crops according to the cycles of the moon. Plus, they highlight their work with UCLA and heroes of this long-practiced movement, visionaries who help spread the message of how growing crops and actually extending biodynamic principles to every aspect of life can help everyone maintain a more sustainable, healthful, energetic and beneficial way of life.

Alice Bamford is a film producer, healthy living advocate and farmer. Ann Eysenring is a leading real estate strategist and biodynamic farmer. Together they own One Gun Ranch in Malibu, California — a sunlit paradise of simple, sustainable living and a place in the forefront of the new standard in biodynamics.

About One Gun Ranch

Founded in 2008, One Gun Ranch is a Demeter Certified Biodynamic farm in Malibu, California, cradled in the Santa Monica Mountains with breath-taking views of the Pacific Ocean and awe- inspiring rock formations. A magical place for healing mind, body and spirit, the ranch is a sanctuary of serenity that inspires a healthy lifestyle. Nature is our greatest teacher, and One Gun Ranch provides a stunning place to improve and appreciate ourselves. Originally purchased as raw land by the bassist from Guns and Roses, One Gun Ranch inherited its name from that legendary American hard-rock band, and was established with the mission of educating people about biodynamics, the benefits and joy of living with the land and rhythms of nature.

At One Gun Ranch, farming is conducted according to biodynamic principles that produce healthy, mouthwatering food. The sowing, planting and harvesting of crops is all in accordance to the moon, sun and planets. The farm itself is a living organism, and as such, all living things on the farm are reused and recycled back into the land. Rescued animals roam the ranch freely, contributing to its signature Super(ior) Soil that is the foundation of the closed loop system of biodynamic farming. Owners Alice Bamford and Ann Eysenring believe in providing love and support to the local community through good food and soil.

Bamford and Eysenring sell their greens, veggies and fruits to local markets and restaurants throughout Los Angeles, including at their quintessential Malibu-inspired Ranch at the Pier shop located at the end of the iconic Malibu Pier. Ranch at the Pier represents Malibu in its entirety, showcasing the work of local artisans and homegrown brands, and celebrates the incredible elemental life along the California Coast – the surf and skate culture, the magnificent nature and hiking, the fishing, boating and auto/motorcycle culture. For further information on One Gun Ranch and Ranch at the Pier, visit http://www.1gunranch.com and http://ranchatthepier.com

Guilt Free Easter Goodies

March 31, 2017

 

 Just as the winter holidays pass, and we finally get on track with our New Year’s diet resolutions (for real this time!), another sweet-filled festivity creeps on in. As tasty as the chocolate bunnies, marshmallow ducks and candy eggs might be, we’re all doing our best to develop healthier habits in 2017. The solution? Swap a few of the goodies in your Easter gift basket or Easter egg hunt with guilt-free, faux-desserts that will not only save calories, but will give you the ideal excuse to spend any extra days away from the office indulging in the ultimate luxury – time alone, disconnected from all devices (Can you imagine?).

Want to really get in the spirit? Pick up a colorful basket, a few personalized trinkets and most importantly, the pièce de résistance, one or all of Fizz & Bubble’s Easter inspired Fizzies. They’re fun enough for the kids, but luxurious enough for adults, too: all Fizz & Bubble products are formulated with 7 natural, ultra-nourishing oils.

Note: YOUR KIDS WILL LOSE THEIR MINDS OVER THESE!!

Available at ULTA!

PASSIONFRUIT GUAVA BATH FIZZY CUPCAKE ($10): The 2-in-1 formula of bubble bath frosting tops and bath fizzy bottoms are a festive, fun, and purely decadent bath time indulgence. To use, remove the top of the cupcake and rub together between hands under running water, and the pieces will dissolve and create a bubble bath. The bottom is an ingredient-rich bath fizzy, and simply submerging it in the bathwater will activate it.

 

EXTRA BUBBLY FOAMING FIZZIES – BUBBLE BOMB BATH BUNNIES ($10): These fizzies not only fizz, they get extra-bubbly and make bath time extra-fun!  Pink is Rainbow Sherbet, White is Vanilla Cream and Yellow is Buttercream – can you say YUM?!

 EGG BOMBS BATH FIZZIES ($20): A half-dozen egg shaped bath fizzies in the following scents: Tropical Fruit, Birthday Cake, Passionfruit Guava, Watermelon, Rainbow Sherbet and Coconut Cream…. With this many sweet smells, you won’t miss the candy at all.

Groom “I Dos” For Traveling!

March 30, 2017

We always hear about what the bride should be packing and stressing about for her destination wedding or honeymoon but what about the groom? Luckily, us women have this inherent talent of packing the bags whenever traveling, but guys need to work a bit harder on it. The Art of Shaving and Vilebrequin’s travel items are ideal for the traveling groom as it makes packing easier for him and guarantee optimal travels so he’s “I-Do” ready.

 

The Art of Shaving Travel Kit: Now in new packaging, The Art of Shaving Travel Kit provides a close and comfortable shave while you’re away. The compact and water-resistant Travel Kit is perfect for the seasoned traveler and comes complete with convenient travel pumps of Pre-Shave Oil (1 oz), Shaving Cream (1.7oz), After-Shave Balm (1 oz), and a Pure Badger Travel Shaving Brush.  Your shave will be close and comfortable wherever travel takes you. Available at The Art of Shaving Store locations and at TheArtOfShaving.com.

      

The Morris Park Collection Razor: The Art of Shaving’s vintage racing inspired Morris Park Collection™* Razor combines smooth handling and bold style to evoke the confidence of a vintage race car. Exclusively designed by The Art of Shaving, each razor features a classic racing color polished to a beautiful finish and accented with chrome details. The Morris Park Collection Razor also comes in Royal Blue and British Racing Green, each for $60. Available at The Art of Shaving Store locations and at TheArtOfShaving.com.

Vilebrequin is further expanding its role as ambassador for the art of living around the beach with a men’s swim line that can be an ideal item for the traveling groom. These swim trunks featuring fun and playful motifs will keep them looking as the most stylish guy while they’re relaxing poolside before the nuptials. Available at Vilebrequin Boutiques and at Vilebrequin.com.

 

 

Your Kiddo’s New Snack Squad: Pure Growth Organics

March 21, 2017

Think you need to spend a fortune at Whole Folds to stock up on healthy, delicious, guilt free snacks for your kids?

THINK AGAIN.

Your pantry, purse, car, kid’s backpacks (lunch, afterschool, sports, etc.) can now officially be in abundant supply of wholesome goodness without having to file for bankruptcy.

Meet Pure Growth Organics.

An organic kids snack food sold nationwide at Walmart and on Amazon.

Pure Growth delivers all the goodness of Mother Earth, the way Nature intended. Pure Growth Organic is Natural. Organic. With no additives, chemicals, or anything artificial.

Say what?

Pure Growth Organics was founded by Sabrina Peterson after her son was born and she found herself noticing in grocery stores that there were great organic options for babies and toddlers, but that there seemed be a lack of healthy, organic snacks for 2-12 year olds. The majority of snacks that she did see on the shelf weren’t organic, seemed serious, not so fun for children, and tough on the wallet.  

Now of course there is only ONE test that works – and I have two of them of my very own. KIDS. So, I let them go to town – and the winners were – the Oatmeal, this morning, the animal crackers and the breakfast bars. They didn’t get to the chips because yours truly inhaled them.

What I also love about these snacks is for purely selfish reasons. When I am starving and driving I always dig into my kids’ car snacks and it’s a downward spiral to hell (they love Cheez Its, ’nuff said). With Pure Growth Organics, when I binge on their food, at least I am not piling on fat, junk, artificial everything which only heads me into a major depression. If I stock up on this line, I’m safe!

And that’s what I call a win-win.