Congrats to the winner Junnie!
I love “playing around” with beauty products. My mom was an “Avon lady” for many years while I was growing up. I even sold “Mary Kay” for about a minute…until I realized that I hate selling to family and friends. Anyway, beauty items make great last-minute Mother’s Day gifts too. Representatives from Cosmetic Executive Women CEW (a beauty, cosmetics, fragrance and related industries nonprofit professional organization) put together a little beauty package for a Foodie City Mom reader. They will be holding their annual Insiders’ Choice Beauty Awards, a beauty award voted on by industry experts, on May 18th in NYC and wanted to give one of you a sampling of some of the finalists. CEW was also kind enough to share some of this year’s leading cosmetic and beauty product trends (for your own gift buying reference):
· Ultra Lip Balms: Beauty balms are all the rage this year, delivering more than just moisture but also sheer shine, color and ingredients to treat and protect skin.
· Advanced Skin Care: Face primers have stepped it up a notch, adding multi-tasking properties such as pore minimization, line reduction, sun protection and bronzing.
· Innovative Hair Color: Foam was the big go-to in hair color this year, re-inventing the home hair coloring experience.
Personally, I would like any of those options…except home hair coloring products. After one bad home hair coloring incident (think handfuls of hair gone!), I leave that to my hair stylist Shanelle! In any event, below are the items that will be included in the “Beauty Trends” Mother’s Day Beauty Giveaway package.
1. Lip Product Mass – Burt’s Bees’s Tinted Lip Balm ($7)
2. Anti-Aging Mass – L’Oréal Paris’s Youth Code Serum Intense ($24.99)
3. Eco Beauty Award – Neutrogena Corporation’s Naturals Purifying Facial Cleanser ($7.49)
4. Sun Product – Neutrogena Corporation’s Wet Skin Sunblock Spray SPF 50 ($10.99)
As a bonus, I’m including two additional products from companies that have sent me extra beauty items in my recent review packets:
5. Skinnygirl’s Vitamin C Face Scrub ($6.99)
6. Tweezerman’s Print Slant Tweezer ($25)
(The winner will receive the package afhttps://www.tweezerman.com/slant-tweezer-leopard-print.htmlter Mother’s Day, but that’s fine…beauty is a year-round thing!)
To enter to win the beauty trends package, simply let me know your favorite beauty (hair, skin, cosmetics or fragrance) item in the “Comments” section below. I will pick a winner on May 16th at noon. Good luck!