Sarah Swanson Soy Candles help create the Valentine's Day mood

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Hello Gorgeous,
How are your Valentines Day preparations going?
I encourage you that this season can be a season of love for yourself and those around you.
Maybe you have a significant other, and maybe you don't? No worries-by time you shower kind words, acts of love and compassion on those around you-your love cup will be overflowing!

A great way to create a mood of gratitude in your home is to start by lighting a candle. Sarah’s therapeutic candles are hand poured using 100% soybeans grown in the USA with carefully selected botanical oils. Sealed With a Kiss Candles have proudly been featured on Oprah.com and in magazines such as Women’s Health.

Mission Statement:

To inspire the beauty of loving oneself through high quality skincare treatments, and natural cosmetic products competitively priced to help women and men reveal their true inner beauty.

About Sarah:

Sarah Swanson believes in helping her clients find the perfect balance…feeling and looking healthy. It shouldn’t be so difficult, but in our chaotic daily lives it sometimes does feel like rocket science.

Sarah is well known in Manhattan beauty and health circles for her solid advice and common sense approach to healthy skin, face and body.

Sarah is a licensed aesthetician whose 5th Avenue practice includes VelaShape™, eMatrix™ and ReFirme – the latest techniques in non-invasive laser treatment. Sarah’s advice is solicited regularly by many publications for insight and feedback, including Quest Magazine, Everyday Health and Avenue.

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Valentines Day smiles: make it whiter in 1 hour with Luster

10 New Hairstyle Trends to Try This Year

Ombre tips and faux bobs are so 2011. See the trends that stylists say will rule in 2012

This is a TotalBeauty.com hairstyles article If you're itching for a change this season, these new hairstyles will inspire you. Hint: The faux bob gets prettier and the ombre look gets a more natural-looking makeover for 2012. If you're looking to change up your hairstyle this season, read on. Get trends

Howdy Gorgeous!
Valentine's Day is coming!
How's your smile? Pearly? The Luster Oral Care line of whiteners has an at home treatment that has no tooth sensitivity and is affordable and easy to get! Simply visit your local Walmart, Walgreens, Target or order online from Amazon.

It is minty fresh, easy to use, and with a couple of applications-you too will be smiling brightly with your heart full of love on Valentine's Day!

Now this is really important-I encourage you to make yourself a sticky note right now!

Start showing unconditional, random acts of love and joy to those around you.

In my house, we call it the love cup. When my family gets home from being gone all day the cats are crazy! I tell my son, that we have to fill up the cats love cup with pets and ear scratches while speaking kind words to them. Just like when I get him from school-I need to fill up his love cup.

So I share all of this so that you will take a moment and first, fill up your love cup by encouraging yourself. Say good things about you, to you, because you are crazy amazing! Now-fill up your kids and your pets-those who are immediately around you. Next-move onto your workspace and be sure and fill up the love cups there-and go on, and so on and so forth!

You can do it! We are starting a love revolution-right here, right now! I love you!
I'll start you off with a starter drop in your cup today- I love you! You are beautiful just the way you are! God made you perfectly! I'm thankful you are here!

Now go spread it!
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Valentine's Chocolate for your hair with Bio Supplements Cappuccino Rico

10 Things You Should Know Before Eating Out

We love going to restaurants -- but we were shocked to read these secrets they keep from their customers

This is a TotalBeauty.com diet article Newsflash: That "healthy" dish may not be as diet-friendly as the menu says it is and those mouth-watering pictures are getting you to eat and spend more than you think. See what restaurant owners don't want you to know so you can arm yourself before your next meal out. Get secrets

Hello Gorgeous!

One of Allure magazines favorites and mine too! Valentine's day is coming up quick and you still have time to get some of this thick, sweet smelling, super hydrating hair masque from Bio Supplements called Mocha Cappuccino.

The weather is dry-and so is your hair-maybe a bit frizzy? Not after using this one time! I put my sample on after shampooing, then baggied up my hair and wrapped it in a warm towel for 20 minutes. The results? Smooth shapely curls that smelled like one of my favorite coffee drinks!

So why not try some for your Valentine's preparation? To continue in the pledge for an all out love fest this Valentine's day-how about having a spa party at your place for the teen girls you know? Hair masques, and at home spa manicures/pedicures? Be the one to show love first! You can do it-and have a neighborhood of de-frizzed kids too!

I know that once you get thinking of the people in your circle of influence that you can come up with a few person or two that you can show unconditional radical love and encouragement to! Go girl go! You can do it!

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Valentine's Day-rub some Sweet Sugar Darlin' on your dry bits from Dixie Bits

Easy Ways to Green Your Beauty Routine

Think you have to give up all of your favorite products to get eco-friendlier? Think again. These tips will show you how easy it is to be green

This is a TotalBeauty.com hair care article You tote a reusable bag to the farmer's market. You buy energy-efficient light bulbs. You even carpool to work every now and then. You know the virtues of going green -- and now it's time to get a little more conscious about your beauty stash. The good news: New eco-friendly technologies in the beauty industry mean you don't have to give up your go-to beauty regimen to clean up your act. Here are the small changes that pay off big See tips

Hello Gorgeous!
See that tub of rich, moisturizing, winter itchy skin relief? It's called Sweet Sugar Darlin' and it's made by Dixie Bits.

It smells and feels luxurious-and it's a winter skin saver as well as a wonderful way to pamper yourself or your Valentine with something that can say "I love you enough to give your itchy skin some relief-now go shower".

Dixie Bits products have no parabens, or phthalates or harmful ingredients in it. It's a cruelty free product line and the sizes are generous and the prices affordable.

I think you should get some for yourself-and one for a friend!

Please take this year's Valentine's Day as a chance to really reach out and love on the ones around you. Write encouraging sticky notes and slip them on the cubicle desk while the person is gone so they can come back to their desk and be surprised.

I feel so strongly that a wee word of encouragement can change a person's mood, their day, and ultimately their life! And you can be the spark that starts it all!

I pledge to make this Valentine's day the most fun, most loving, most service filled year ever! Won't you join me?
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Valentine's Day bridal engagement look with Fraser Islands by Sue Devitt

4 Expert Tips to Prevent Chipped Nail Polish

Tired of your nail polish smudging and chipping mere hours after you plonk down $15 for a manicure? These tips will help you keep your mani looking perfect

This is a TotalBeauty.com nails article There are a few things that annoy me in this world: Kim Kardashian, my postpartum outie belly button, and nail polish smudges. And while I get the sense Kim K. isn't going to step out of the limelight anytime soon, and there is simply nothing to be done about my outie, I focused my energy on uncovering a few surefire tips to keep my nail polish perfect. See my tips

Hello Gorgeous!
It's Valentine's Week here on the blog!

I have some Valentines' day tips for you and a how to video to get a soft, romantic look that is pretty and not made up for those of you ladies
who think that there just may be a
proposal heading your way on Valentines Day.

For those of us who are not married and not currently in courtship too be married-Valentines day becomes our personal playground to
be the hands and feet of love to those around us!

I encourage you to spend this week preparing to show love to the least of these, the less fortunate and the forgotten.


You can accomplish this by simply do these few things:
1. Smile more and greet more the immediate circle of people around you at home, work or the kids sports activities
2. Take a meal to a working single mom
3. Bake for your neighbor-corn muffins or brownies just make something
4. Bring juice boxes and fruit snacks to the playground for ALL the kids not just yours
5. Send emails now-that state a simple sentence of what you love about that person. Easy! Now go do it! Don't wait for the 14th-get started now!

Okay-the video is a how to get a bridal engagement look for a romantic Valentines dinner.


I've been using my Sue Devitt samples and I love the pigment load, blendability and long wearing results of the Fraser Island color story.

Here's the products:
Skin: IO Beauty
Foundation: Spacomplexion in Manihiki-but mine is blended with Avon buff to lighten up
Eyeshadows: Miramar and Sierra leone
Eyeliner: Kalahari
Mascara: Kenya Lash Intensifier
Lips: Telina gloss
Blush: Pink from Neutrals palette ...all makeup is Sue Devitt Fraser Islands. Get online or at Sephora and Ulta!

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