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Get Your Skin Ready for New Year’s Eve!
An invitation has arrived for a great New Year’s Eve party not to be missed. What to do so that you’re walking out your door with great skin and your best face forward? Day before the party: If you’re planning to have a professional facial, do it the day before so the...
Fall Into New Products at BeautyPress
Beauty editors and bloggers were able to see several great products up close at the BeautyPress fall Spotlight Day event. Cleansers, skincare with an unusual ingredient, makeup, eczema and dermatitis relief from around the world and back, easy facial hair waxing...
FashionWeek Brooklyn Designs the Borough
In addition to FashionWeek Brooklyn spotlighting established and new designers, it finds the best locations in the borough that can engage the community. FWBK's final two shows of the fall season took place at the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall! Designers of...
How I Become Grace Jones – Celebrity Impersonation Prep
Back in 1997, Devon Cass, a photographer, makeup artist and master celebrity impersonator, wanted to share his makeup tips with the average woman. Devon can transform the most ordinary-looking opera singer's headshot into a portrait of a high class ultra-diva that...
Stay Spa Soothes Summer Skin
It was a long wonderful eventful summer, a time when you are exposed to sun, extreme heat (lots of extreme heat in New York this year!). You're also subjected to all that's in the air that attracts to your skin like a magnet: salt water, pool water, “fresh”...
Curlfest Does Lit Again!
Another successful Curlfest event in Prospect Park! Each year attendance increases and this year's festival brought more than 20,000 colorfully dressed and colorfully coiffed people and their admirers to Brooklyn. The Curly Girl Collective's mission is "to create...
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Do You Know Your Skin Type?
Why do you need to know your skin type? Whether your skin is dry or oily, or both, certain products work better on your face depending on your skin's personality! To avoid reactions (more dryness, more oiliness, breakouts etc) Check out the characteristics of each...
How We All Can Protect Our Skin
Whether outside for work or pleasure, you’re still subjected to the sun’s rays. See your dermatologist every year and talk with them about skin detection and protection. In between visits… COVER UP! I always make sure my shades block both UV rays. We’re sometimes...
Skincare Tips for Moms–To–Be
Every woman is a super woman, whether she is a hard worker, brilliant thinker, enterprising and glamorous, or a record holding athlete, flexible and strong in body and spirit. Then a new opportunity comes: expecting her first child! Women will now encounter challenges...
Eight Skin Resolutions for the New Year
Start the New Year with skincare resolutions! Promise that you will regularly practice these facesavers. Keep your Skin-Smart, healthy, protected and soft. Skin Resolution #1 – Prepare and Protect Skin For A Everyday Skin Defense: Step up the skincare routine this...
Beauty On The Geek: Beauty gets Tied–in
By Cee Brown, Associate Editor Other than an ironic Halloween costume, the target audience for pop culture tie-ins usually top out at age 12, just before most are allowed to use makeup. From Dick Tracy decoder rings in cereal boxes to Lion King figurines in fast food...
Oil Up Adding to Your Skincare “Diet”
Flowers, Seeds and Nuts give us wonderful, healing oils. From cleansing to moisturizing, each oil has different properties. But as with anything, each oil may affect you in different ways. Just as it can help, it can hurt. So if you’re interested in adding more oil to...
Hair Out at CurlFest 2017
The fourth annual CurlFest in Brooklyn's Prospect Park was a huge success! I was so impressed with the event. It was very organized. The massive audience included so many beautiful Black (and other curly) sisters embracing their hair! Hair and beauty products, from...
Belief is More than Skin Deep
Skin — and how we react to skin — is so intertwined in how Michaela DePrince became a star ballerina. Please take the 11 minutes to pay close attention to this inspiring NBC news story. My daughter and I watched Michaela's remarkable journey in silence. I could feel...
“On Your Feet” Moving: Don’t Miss It!
In exactly one month, August 20, the musical On Your Feet will close on Broadway. I will be sad to see the show go. Last year, I wrote about the feel and look of Gloria and Emilio Estefan's high energy musical. Here is the link to the review:...
Eyes Have It… in the Summer
Summer is just beginning, the skin is glowing, but people don't think about taking care of the delicate skin around the eyes. Summer heat can totally dehydrate your skin starting from the inside out, leaving your face and body dry, including the face and skin around...
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Pat Collins
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Brooklyn, New York