SPONSORED GORGEOUS GIVEAWAY: AT-HOME GEL MANICURE FROM RED CARPET MANICURE
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THE BRAND
Red Carpet Manicure has created the first at-home LED Gel Manicure system, it’s also the official nail sponsor of the 2016 #VSFashionShow.
Visit redcarpetmanicure.com for more info.
THE GORGEOUS GIVEAWAY
ONE lucky winner will win ONE Red Carpet Manicure Starter Kit at and a LED gel polish set
The Red Carpet Manicure Starter Kit contains everything you need for a professional salon gel manicure in the comfort of your home. Our RCM Portable LED Light is especially designed to efficiently cure RCM Structure, LED Gel Polish and Brilliance in minutes. The Red Carpet – ready manicure will last weeks of long wear and shine.
LED Gel Polish:
Brilliant color
Weeks of mi
MEET FRANK FRISCIONI: OSCAR BLANDI COLORIST
‘Tis the season for looking your best, and no-one knows this better than Frank Friscioni, the Co-Director of Color at the Oscar Blandi Salon in Manhattan. He sees more people for color, highlights or other touch ups between November 1 and January 1 than almost any other time of the year.
Friscioni chatted up Beauty in the Bag about what’s hot in hair coloring in 2015,  and what’s not. (In a word, Balayage is in, and pastel colors are out, or should be)
Here’s what he had to say:
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What is your signature procedure?
My goal is to make people look their best, no matter what technique I have to use– be it balayage, ombre, foils, single process
CVS/PHARMACY MAKEUP ACADEMY
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Makeup Academy is an exclusive beauty collection that CVS/pharmacy stores launched nationwide in August. Makeup professionals and beauty experts developed the products.
The three types of products–lip, false eyelashes, and makeup brushes–are the focus of this test launch, which features many a shade in distinct black machines along the stores’ walls, with the words “Makeup Academy” on top of them in bold letters.
The reason for these categories is based on research surrounding 35 million CVS/pharmacy weekly consumers, 80% of whom are women. The research showed that lip products were the most impulse purchase done by women, and with this in mind, Makeup Academy has more than 100 lip p
GORGEOUS GIVEAWAY: KAPLAN MD LIP 20 DUO
It’s Gorgeous Giveaway time, BITB fans! Kiss away your work week blues with this week’s amazing beauty giveaway! We have three Kaplan MD Lip 20 Duos (with an average retail price of $60), featuring one Lip 20 lipstick and one Lip 20 gloss in summer friendly tangerine, to give to our lucky winners. Not just a frivolous lip color set, these are anti-aging treatments with multiple benefits. Both the gloss and the lipstick provide SPF 20 protection from UV rays, and work to moisturize and rehabilitate chapped lips.
Formulated with patented peptides and a range of organic ingredients, the Lip 20 treatments are formulated to hydrate, contour and restore lips to their natural fullness
