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The daily steal: Rosy hair pins, $16

Posted March 10th, 2010 | 9:00 am | By Adriana Ermter | 1 Comment

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I love vanilla-flavoured cake with butter-cream frosting and pastel-coloured roses made from icing. Sadly, my thighs don’t agree. Meeting me half way are Prismera’s sweet baby pink and butter yellow rose hair clips ($16 each, prismeradesign.com).

While the baby buds don’t actually taste so great (yes, I licked one), they do however, hold my hair back nicely and are easy to style. With the pink one tucked in on one side, and minus the guillotine, I’m channeling Marie Antoinette.

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The daily steal: Soy candle, $44

Posted March 4th, 2010 | 9:00 am | By Adriana Ermter | No Comments

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Yeah, I know it costs more than I would spend on a dry-cleaning in a month, but let me explain. Juara’s pretty and lightly scented Hope Soy Candle ($44, beautymark.ca) burns for a ridiculously long time, emits smoke-free signals (thanks to being made from soy) and, here’s the best part, donates 10% of its proceeds to Walubi—a charitable relief organization providing emergency aid to disaster-stricken areas of Indonesia. With earthquakes and tsunami’s rattling our world every few months, it’s a small price to pay.

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The daily steal: Liquid bra, $20

Posted February 26th, 2010 | 9:26 am | By Adriana Ermter | 2 Comments

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I’m buying new boobs. They’re liquid. They’re easy. All I have to do is squeeze Avon Solutions Body Liquid Bra Toning Gel ($20, avon.ca) all over and pow! Thanks to the gel’s formulation of collagen- and elastin-boosting pomegranate and fennel extracts, I look firmer, tighter and perkier than Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club. And I haven’t even started to apply my lipstick, yet. Just saying.

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The daily steal: Hair colour fix, $17

Posted February 16th, 2010 | 9:00 am | By Adriana Ermter | No Comments

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Call me Britney because, I had to Color Oops ($17, at drugstores) my hair when I DIY-dyed without reading the instructions, again. At midnight. On a Saturday. When my hair salon was closed. For two whole days. But, after a quick sprint to the drugstore and 35 minutes of processing and washing later (with nary a trace of ammonia or bleach peroxide to be afraid of) the unwanted hue was gone. I’m back to my natural blonde, but I’m still calling Susan at TAZ Hair Co. I need my colour fix.

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The daily steal: Two-in-one eyeshadow primer, $30

Posted February 4th, 2010 | 9:00 am | By Adriana Ermter | No Comments

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Okay, okay. I realize Benefit’s Stay Don’t Stray ($30, at sephora.com) costs more than what most of us would spend for on a beauty steal, but hear me out. This wonder product is a two-in-one primer. It keeps my under-eye concealer intact and my eyeshadow from sliding, melting, greasing and creasing off and into my eyelids—All. Day. Long. So guess what? I’m saving money and time. I no longer have to reapply my eye makeup at noon, and again at 5:00 p.m.; my concealer, eyeshadow and even my mascara don’t run out as quickly; and as a result, I’m saving cash. And that, my friends, constitutes a steal in my books.

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The daily steal: Lip balm, $4

Posted December 29th, 2009 | 9:00 am | By Adriana Ermter | No Comments

Photography by Katie Ennis

Polysporin Lip Therapy ($4, well.ca) This lip balm is my lip saver. No, it’s not brand new to the market, but it is the only thing that keeps me flaky–and chap-free–while ping-ponging between freezing outside and roasting indoors. Seriously, slap it on and tell me I’m wrong. I dare you.

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Our beauty director has a massage moment

Posted December 16th, 2009 | 2:06 pm | By Adriana Ermter | No Comments

I like my body massages simple. Don’t rub me down with hot rocks, wrap me in tinfoil or make some bird-boned 60lb person walk across my back. And I’m not keen on the soft touch and tickle approach either. Massages should be the tension relieving, sleep inducing deep-tissue treatments typically found at specialty clinics, not spas. Or at least that’s what I thought. Read the rest of this entry »

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It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas with this minty candle

Posted December 10th, 2009 | 10:01 am | By Adriana Ermter | 1 Comment

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I have a challenging relationship with the holidays. I love hanging out with the family, eating turkey dinner, and watching my nieces’ and nephews’ faces light up when they open their presents. I dislike having to choose which family we spend our vacation time with–my husband’s family in the sunny Dominican Republic or mine in snowy Calgary. Either way I end up feeling guilty about my decision. So this Christmas, we’re staying home. And to help Toronto feel more festive, we’re decorating our house with plump snowmen, pine-cone wreaths, a miniature fabric tree, and a candy-cane smelling Agraria White Mint Perfume Candle ($43, agrariahome.com). It’s the right choice. It’s also beginning to smell a lot like Christmas in our house and that feels like a very good thing.

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Travellin’ light with this Paul Mitchell dryer

Posted December 9th, 2009 | 2:16 pm | By Adriana Ermter | No Comments

Photography by Katie Ennis

I loathe blow-drying my hair. It’s a tedious task yet, for my thin and fine blonde strands, a must-do, especially when I travel and want to look cute at meetings and events. So while the 1300-watt Paul Mitchell Express Ion Dry Travel ($150, paulmitchell.com) doesn’t eliminate my hair’s need for heat styling, it sure does make the end result frizz-free. I’m also quite taken with its three heat options as well as by its lightweight, petite size–complete with a fold-up handle–that slips right into my carry-on.