Total Beauty Web Tour!

Tink at Casual Lavish reviews Burt's Bees Avocado Butter pre-shampoo treatment. Does this give her hair the shine she wants? Check out the review to find out.

The Beauty of Life bares it all with Bobbi Brown's new Yogi Bare Lip Balm!

Talking Makeup's Marta Walsh interviews IMAN
for Beauty Interviews!

Beauty Anonymous invites you to Peach-a-Boo! from OPI.

Laurie at Beauty's Spot has started a new feature detailing her personal product all-stars.

Alison, (aka. "Advice Sister Alison" ) shares five fast, easy and fabulous ways to brighten your smile without products or dentist's bills on the Advice Sisters Guide to Happiness Blog

The girls over at Beauty in Real Life are having such an amazing giveaway...your lips will thank you if you win!

Toya of The Life of A Ladybug introduces you to Laura Mercier's Bronzing Duo in Pink Bronze , another in her "Bronzers for Brown Girls" series!

Kitiya from Mischo Beauty invites you to enter her SPINLASH giveaway!


Monique at Beauty Girl Musings lets you know all about her new favorite hydrating product.

A Mom in Red High Heels embraces her curly-girl side! Discover which product leaves her hair soft and full!

Total Beauty Web Tour!

Kitiya from Mischo Beauty discusses hair texture in her “Mischo Beauty School: Hair Texture 101”post!

Beauty's Spot is giving away a huge swag bag from the LA Beauty Tour!

Beauty Anonymous is very tempted by the Hair Spray from Anna Sui!

Want to win a whopping $824 in products? Then head to The Beauty of Life immediately for a supremely fantastic giveaway!

Joy from Makeup Junkie shares and brings you the latest news on Eyeko's Summer Collection 2008!

A Mom in Red High Heels visits 4 LA Beauty Hot Spots. Find out which is like a piece of Heaven to her!

Beauty411 opens her little black beauty book and reports on her facial at the ARCONA Studio in Santa Monica.

Karen of Periodic Style undergoes a transformation of her own with a Japanese straight perm.

Looking for a new flat iron? Monique at Beauty Girl Musings has tried a new one and thinks you will love it!

Jennifer at Beauty in Real Life has some great tips for de-frying your hair.

Meet Victoria Rowe Talking Makeup's Expert contributor!

Total Beauty Web Tour!

Lilan from The Daily Cookie contributes to The Beauty Ideal web magazine this month and gives you the skinny on lip plumpers!

Find out why HoT Scent Boutique body scrub is now a top fave for Casual Lavish.

A Mom in Red High Heels tries a cosmetic line that leaves her looking and feeling less than perfect. Find out which products she won't be trying again.

Makeup Bag has the coolest Tommy Hilfiger Dreaming post ever!

Talking Makeup talk to the winner of Make Me a Supermodel!

Makeup2Beauty shares tips on how to wear silver and gray eyeshadow. And shows you how you can try on your favorite stars "Hollywood Hair Styles".

The Muse features her very favorite, holy grail mascara from Japan (Nope, not Fiberwig!)!

Mischo Beauty has a fabulous reader who wrote in to share why she loves Sunsilk’s De-Frizz 24/7 Crème.

The Beauty of Life hearkens back to her childhood with Bonne Bell LipSmackers. Check out her favorites!

Budget Beauty Love shares her thoughts on a makeup book full of eyeshadow inspiration.

Christine from Beauty in Real Life, gives us the lowdown on her favorite perfume. Can you guess what it is?

Joy from Makeup Junkie is doing a Three Custom Color Specialists Promo for April!

Don't forget to check it out and check out her new online store Makeup Junkie Online Beauty Shop!

Web tour: Bonus tour for a brilliant week!

A Mom in Red High Heels discovers the best new shoe website with heels.com

Talking Makeup shows off Victoria Secret's new scent, Isle of Pink.

Makeup Bag's Teen Corner report on the family vacation to The Hills.

Beauty 411 prays for perfect hair and get results with Clairol's Perfect 10.

The Daily Cookie shows off Fergie's new look for MAC.

The Jet Set Girls found (in Corning NY of all places) the be all and end all of in spa saunas at Skana's Spa which features Native American based spa treatments.

Pampered and Primed up becomes Casual Lavish!

Budget Beauty Love speads the love with the secrets on designer makeup outlets!

Lilan from The Daily Cookie has found a new love in MAC Heatherette!

Mischo Beauty shares her best tips on how to prepare for a bikini wax and what to expect!

Jennifer and Christine from Beauty in Real Life are having a giveaway! Click here to take you there!

May has declared National toss your makeup month. What is your tossing habits? Check out Casual Lavish and give your thoughts.

The Beauty of Life finally figures out how to banish undereye circles for good! Check out her two miracle products!

Dealing with those pesky ingrown hairs with Daily Dose of Coffee.

Joy from Makeup Junkie gives us the scoop on does a mini review of last year's releases!

Web Tour: I just love these bloggers!

A Mom in Red High Heels: Empowering Moms Through Beauty and Style.
A Mom in Red High Heels begins her Monday Motivation column with a "Dump the Stress" how-to (and FYI Tammy is brilliant with all kinds of advice;)

Talking Makeup: The Obsession of Makeup. Talking makeup interviews my favorite new designer Alexis LaMontagna.

Makeup Bag: For the Beauty Obsessed.
Makeup Bag's Erika Valente makes summer look extremely hot by introducing Estee Lauder's 2008 Bronze Goddess

Beauty Interviews: We LOVE Marta Walsh!
Beauty Interviews editor Marta Walsh interviews Karen Sinclair Drake, the creator of Sophyto a new organic/natural skincare line coming to us from the U.K.!

The Jet Set Girls live out our absolute biggest fantasy, a facial with kate Sommerville.

Beauty 411: Get Savvy. Get Gorgeous. Get on with your life.
Beauty 411 reviews MAC's Beauty Powder Blush and Mineralize SPF 15.

The Daily Cookie: Bringing you morsels about anything and everything.
The Daily Cookie brings you MAC's Heatherette Collection.

Fifty CentHead : A Beauty Blog.
Fifty Cent Head gives you Laura Mercer's summer scent. (March 19 posting).

Budget Beauty Love: Finding the Best Beauty Buys on a Budget.
Budget Beauty Love offers us a chance to win Wet-n-Wild i-sparkle eye shadow!

The Beauty of Life: A blog dedicated to all things beauty.
The Beauty of Life reviews the Warm Milk and Honey Massage at Glow.

Pampered and Primped Up.
Pampered and primped up: Turquoise Glaze for St. Patty's day. Very cute.

Steeping Beauty: Beauty to the Tea
Steeping Beauty has free goods from Victoria Secret.

The LA Times features Beauty's Spot!

Listen Up! There’s a new tech-savvy breed of the media now welcome to venture past the runway. They’re beauty bloggers, and they have a lot to say:
http://talkingmakeup.com/: “I got to test O-Glow Intuitive Cheek Color by Smashbox during L.A. Fashion Week, and once again, I’m in love. This blush is clear gel that turns to a perfect light pinkish, most natural blush. We add Smashbox Cosmetics to Talking Makeup’s most favorite makeup lines list.”
http://amominredhighheels.com/: “Led by Gregory Arlt of MAC Cosmetics, the makeup for the Kelly Nishimoto show was romance through and through. the models were made up beautifully with ultra-dewy goddess skin, blushing cheeks and lips that ‘look like she just ate the most delicious blackberries.’ So pretty!”
http://thejetsetgirls.com/: “One of our personal highlights of L.A. Fashion Week was getting to meet Davis Factor, one of the founders of Smashbox Cosmetics, who was instrumental in bringing Fashion Week to L.A. five years ago (the shows are held at Smashbox Studios). He’s such a force in the industry, we know that when he’s excited about something, it has to be big!”

Bloggers getting more respect in fashion world
Hundreds are speaking their mind on the latest beauty buys.
BY SYLVIA MASUDA
Los Angeles Daily News
Blasts of hair spray cloud the air. Hair dryers roar. Makeup artists dab, brush and paint on to models' stone-still faces. It's hot, it's crammed, and it smells like flowers and chemicals.
Backstage, among the artists and models at Smashbox Studios in Culver City during L.A. Fashion Week, members of the press snap photos and scribble notes.
But some are not from magazines or newspapers. They are a new, tech-smart breed of the media now welcome to venture past the runway.
They're beauty bloggers.
Anyone, from a bona fide fashion mag editor to a makeup-counter junkie, can speak her mind on the latest beauty buys through a Web blog. And hundreds of them do.
"Bloggers have had a huge impact on the beauty industry," said Kristen Nelson Thibeault, vice president of business development for Total Beauty. "As the new voice in beauty, bloggers speak from the experience of the everyday woman, and women are responding to that in a very positive way."
Total Beauty, a comprehensive user-friendly library of product reviews and how-to tips, flew in several of the most popular beauty bloggers from all over the country last week to report at L.A. Fashion Week.
Laurie Costanza has been posting her opinions and beauty anecdotes on her blog, Beauty's Spot, since August. Just six months after she launched, she found herself on a plane from her home in North Carolina to sunny L.A.
"If there is one thing I have discovered in all of this, it is that women love to talk about their favorite products and get the inside scoop on other women's favorites," Costanza said.
Big-name beauty businesses now split their time between working with magazine editors and bloggers.
Erika Valente, beauty editor of the Makeup Bag blog, receives a "good amount" of samples, she said. But she's not scooping up the freebies just for the sake of it. It's a serious commitment for which she works hard: For more than a year, Valente has been posting regularly on Makeup Bag, sometimes twice a day. Lately, makeupbag.net has been pulling in 185,000 hits monthly.


Thanks to Sylvia Masud, the LA Times, the LA Newspaper Group, totalbeauty.com, Erika Valente and all the other totalbeauty.com bloggers!

LA Fashion Week Fun with Marta Walsh!

Marta Walsh and I had lots of fun at fashion week. She got amazing coverage from fashion week too!

WebTour: La Fashion Week

This webtour highlights posts by other beauty blogger's from LA Fashion Week. The totalbeauty.com meet up at fashion week was an absolute blast and there have been lots of great posts about it.

A Mom in Red High Heels: Empowering Moms Through Beauty and Style.
A Mom in Red High Heels cover the backstage makeup at Kelly Nishimoto.

Talking Makeup: The Obsession of Makeup.
Talking makeup interviews designer Joseph Domingo and covers his Fall/Winter 2008 show from LA.

Makeup Bag: For the Beauty Obsessed.
Makeup Bag's Erika Valente covers the totalbeauty.com gatherings at LA Fashion week. (and lots of other great backstage pictures!)

Beauty Interviews: We LOVE Marta Walsh!
Beauty Interviews editor Marta Walsh interviews Bobbi Brown!

The Jet Set Girls
The Jet Set Girls teach us all how to dress like a Pussycat Doll from their show at LA Fashion Week.

Beauty 411: Get Savvy. Get Gorgeous. Get on with your life.
Beauty 411 reviews Creme de la Mer and The Eye Concentrate.

The Daily Cookie: Bringing you morsels about anything and everything.
The Daily Cookie brings you Bobbi Brown's Nude Collection.

Fifty CentHead : A Beauty Blog.
Fifty Cent Head gives you Chanel's answer for aging skin (March 11 posting).

Budget Beauty Love: Finding the Best Beauty Buys on a Budget.
Budget Beauty Love has a CONTEST to win a bag full of her favorite products!

The Beauty of Life: A blog dedicated to all things beauty.
The Beauty of Life brings you Lancome's Master Techniques Event.

Pampered and Primped Up.
Pampered and primped up: Organic. Chocolate. Bath. Enough said.

Steeping Beauty: Beauty to the Tea
Steeping Beauty loves her minerals (with Kabuki brush) too!

Lori Taylor's Makeup for Nicky Hilton

Lori Taylor was everywhere at LA Fashion week. Here she is explaining the makeup for Nicky Beauty Interviews and Talking Makeup.

Nicky Hilton's Nicholai: Hair by GHD

Here is a video of Marta from Beauty Interviews interviewing the lead hair stylist from GHD for Nicholai.

Backstage at Nicky Hilton's Nicholai - LA Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2008

Some shots from the hair/makeup tent at Nicky Hilton's Nicholai. The Nicholai girl's look was equestrian, after a long day of horseback riding.

Below is Marta Walsh of Talking Makeup interviewing Lori Taylor. Isn't she the cutest thing you have ever seen?