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BellaSugar's Gift Guide: Your Gorgeous Grandma
Today's BellaSugar Holiday 2007 Gift Guide is all about your grandmother. When shopping for a mature woman, keep in mind that a timeless, classic, and thoughtful present is always a safe bet. Here are a few suggestions that I think any grandma would be lucky to receive this holiday season.
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Reese Witherspoon Talks About Her New Fragrance
What do you get when one of Hollywood's most popular and powerful A-listers releases a fragrance? In Bloom ($34), the new Avon scent from Reese Witherspoon. Over the course of two years, the self-proclaimed girly-girl was involved in practically all aspects of the perfume-making experience, from helping to select the fragrance's notes to providing input on her inaugural scent's packaging, bottle design, and name.
Have You Inherited Any Family Beauty Quirks?
For generations, the women of my family, otherwise avowed makeup fiends, have been refusing to wear eye shadow. My grandmother always insists that "it simply doesn't flatter us, unless you want to look like a hussy," at which point my mother shushes her but agrees.
Incipient hussiness hasn't stopped me from using shadow altogether, but sometimes I do find myself issuing similarly laconic warnings about its dangers to my younger sister and niece.
Victorian Secrets: How Your Great-Great-Grandmother Got Pretty
Did you take yesterday's beauty history quiz? If you haven't, be forewarned: I'm about to reveal all the answers, along with some other oddball facts about the lengths to which Victorians went to look pretty. Are you sure you can handle reading about the lard-based beauty treatment?
Product Review: Maria Galland Gentle Soothing Cream
I had never heard of Maria Galland skin-care products until I went to the Thalazur Thallasothèrapie & Spa in France. It was there where I was introduced to her Gentle Soothing Cream that has significantly changed the overall tone of my skin. For those of you with sensitive skin, I know you can relate to having redness and irritation on your face from just about anything.
Gossip Girl Beauty Quiz, Episode 13: "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
I've gotta give them credit 'cause Gossip Girl always keeps me guessing. This week's episode packed in such a punch – a wedding and a funeral! – that I'm not sure how I can last until the new year to see the plot ends all tied up.
Beauty Flashback: Mr. Bubble
There's something innocent and sweet about this old Mr. Bubble commercial, which features a screechy grandmother trying to get little Hubert to take a bath. Granny needs some new spectacles (check out where she hangs up the phone) and Hubert seems a handful. The spot was created in the 1960s by former Disney animators Art Babbitt and John Hubley.Beauty Gifts For a Foodie Grandma
One of the only things better than ma's cooking is grandma's cooking. If you've got a grandmother that loves to cook (or loves to eat), here's an interesting way to let her treat herself.
Plenty of traditional foods show up in our beauty products, not just as scents but as actual ingredients, essences, and extracts.
Meet the 99-Cent Go-Anywhere Hand Cream
I know my obsession with hand creams borders on the ridiculous. (You don't even know how hard it was to choose my five favorites.) But look, when Ryan Gosling and I inevitably meet, I'll be well-prepared. "My, that Bella has soft and smooth skin," he'll think as we shake hands.
BellaSugar's Guide to Mother's Day Beauty Gifts
Hopefully you've found my Mother's Day gift guide inspiring. I've chosen a variety of bath and beauty products to suit all different types of moms and gathered them below in a six-post roundup. Keep in mind that a gift certificate to a spa or even a hair treatment at a salon will make your mother, aunt, sister, mother-in-law, grandmother, partner, or friend feel pampered and special.
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