Spring officially comes to light on March 20th. Stores are already tempting us all with Spring merchandise and making us dream of warmer weather ahead. No matter where you are, there’s something about spring that just makes people happier. Blooming flowers, Spring showers, and sense of renewal are as good of an excuse as any to dust off your winter-dry self and spring clean your makeup bag. Following are a few flower-fresh items that will get you refreshed and ready for the arrival of spring.
As a little girl, my mom insisted on dousing my hair in olive oil to keep it moisturized through the long winters. She was well intentioned, but I never did enjoy sitting around with cooking oil running down my face. Permeating the air with my heavily olive scented hair was never much fun, either.
The people at Origins are turning hair moisturizing into a far more divine and enjoyable task with their new Nourishing Oil for Hair. Here, 100% organic olive, sunflower, and sesame oils combine with lavender, cedarwood, peppermint, and rosemary essential oils for an aromatic and blissful experience. Let it sit in your hair for an hour or even overnight for extra benefits and then shampoo it out. Afterwards, you’ll notice how shiny, sleek, and healthy your hair looks. Could there be a better way to kick off the new season besides rejuvenating dry, dull winter hair?
Nothing says warmer weather than sipping a cocktail by the pool. Maybe it’s too early to don the swimsuit, but it’s not too early to enjoy these flavored body powders inspired by some favorite tropical drinks. Urban Decay has always made some of the best tasting body shimmer and these don’t disappoint. They all taste so yummy and the shimmer is great for a night out or just for fun. Cute packaging worthy of display on your vanity just makes the shimmer that much more fun. Cute is also functional, though…the sparkly rhinestone-dotted handle flips open to dispense just the right amount of powder and clicks right back closed to keep as much product in as possible. Few powders are this user-friendly and adorable at the same time!
Such cute packaging can never go unnoticed on a store shelf. The little red box just beckons to be played with. But the inside of the box is just as nice as the outside. There are four adorable little lip gloss tubes in some of Lola’s most popular colors, including sheer springy pinks Celestial, Fantastica, and Muse as well as the surprisingly wearable plummy Passion. Best yet, the lip glosses can be attached to the enclosed key chain and carried around most conveniently. Inside those tubes, Lola’s minty, subtly shimmery glosses also stand out and outshine the sugary-sweet chunky-glitter competitors by far. This makes such a charming gift for a friend with a Spring birthday or for yourself, because you can really never have too many lip glosses.
Fresh has really done it this time. Their new Pink Jasmine fragrance is so soft and pretty but most definitely not forgettable. Pink Jasmine is the star that blends in with all the most beautiful and fragrant spring flowers (peony, lilacs, magnolias, and tiare flower, to name a few) and gourmand notes like velvety peach, red orange, and marshmallow. It’s unlike so many of the cloying, one-dimensional florals that will proliferate the shelves this upcoming spring. This will make you feel gorgeous whether it’s your wedding day or if you’re just going to another day at the office. Bonus points for being so surprisingly long lasting…I wore this for twelve hours and every time I sniffed my wrist the scent just kept unfolding in all its beauty.
At some point, every girl has wanted to take her invigorating Philosophy 3-in-1 experience out of the shower. Previously, this required meticulous digging in the hopes of finding moisturizers that might possibly recreate the truly euphoric shower experience. Otherwise, resignation that the loveliest food smells could only be enjoyed guilt-free in the shower would set in. Thankfully, Philosophy has made the wishes of so many 3-in-1 addicts come true. Now you can leave the shower and continue to smell like a sparkling mimosa straight from Sunday Brunch on a patio overlooking the ocean (or a similarly refreshing melon daiquiri or sinfully luscious frozen lemon custard) thanks to their new Body Soufflés. Just slather the Body Soufflé on after you shower and prolong your fulfillment of the ultimate guilt-free craving.
