Eye Love Wednesday - Bliss Firm, Baby, Firm Total Eye System

Bliss understands that the upper and lower areas of our eyes have different concerns for each area and that just one cream does not fix all!

Bliss Firm, Baby, Firm Total Eye System - 7.39ml x 2 - $68 - A dual-sided, dual-action total eye system that firms and smooths the eye area while reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles for beautiful, more youthful-looking skin.

With gardenia stem cells, X-50 cell-targeting peptides, and phyto-retinoids that helps to support natural collagen and elasticity for an instant and long-term lifting effect, visually plumping hollow areas from the inside out, and reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles - packed into a concentrated aloe base featuring soothing lavender and patented irritation-reducing and permeation-enhancing technologies.

For the upper lid is a firming gel with instalift goji that lifts and firms stubborn brow bone sagging immediately while providing a long-term tightening, smoothing and lifting effect to the eye lid.

The under-eye benefits from a hydrating cream with actiflow technology that increases microcirculation to diminish the look of dark circles and puffy under-eye bags.

Available at Sephora and sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Win every day with The Body Shop 25 Days of Joy-Aways!

You'll want to get in on The Body Shop's latest contest which is offering 5 prizes every day cumulating in a grand prize on December 25th. There's a different prize pack every day, some curated by your favourite bloggers, others just random stuff they found lying around the warehouse - all yours for the winning! You can enter once every day and from what I understand that day's entry will count towards the next day's prize pack! And the more you enter the better your chances are of winning the Grand Prize!

Be sure to check out the prize on December 20th when my Satsuma stalker side becomes evident (but you'll need to make sure you fill out an entry on the 19th if that's the prize you want)!

You'll find all the details and entry form at www.facebook.com/thebodyshopcanada.

- Lisamarie -

This week I'm obsessed with... Tone Ocean Therapy Body Wash!

Tone has expanded their spa-inspired range with an indulgent new scent and formula: Tone Ocean Therapy Body Wash - 532ml - $3.96 - infused with a treasure trove of ingredients including: nutrient rich precious pearl essence, sea kelp and Vitamin E that offer a moisturizing, mineral-enriched lather that will leave your skin feeling luxuriously soft and replenished.

I'm a big fan of "fresh" scented products - if I was being held prisoner this is exactly the kind of fragrance I would want to have with me - it smells like fresh sea air breeze - but without the fishyness!

If the sea isn't your thing you might like one of the other scents available:

Tone Mango Splash is juicy and sweet, and paired with moisturizing cocoa butter and papaya extract, it’s even more delectable.

For a more soothing experience, try the dreamy, creamy lather of Tone Oatmeal and Shea Butter with Vitamin E for oh-so-touchable skin.

Available now exclusively at Walmart stores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Cold weather rescue for lips from Epic Blend, Maybelline, The Body Shop and Soap & Glory!

This is the time of year when my purse and person becomes a depository of lip balms of every type you can imagine - some don't make it past the slightly chilly fall weather and are unceremoniously tossed as they disappoint, if it's still in my purse come December, I know I have a winner! Here are a few that have made the cut:

Epic Blend Lip Balm - $3.49 - available in three formulas:

Hemp - with organic help seed oil - a super-nourishing and fast absorbing anti-oxidant, along with organic coconut oil, organic sunflower oil, organic beeswax and vitamin E - in a bunch of great flavours: Vanilla, Citrus Kick, Coconut, Mint and Limited Edition Chocolate Rum and my particular fave - Banana - there is now a banana lip balm in my purse, coat pocket, sweater pocket and desk drawer which would explain why someone asked me the other day why my cubicle smells like bananas...

More Moisture - with 7 moisturizers including organic shea butter, organic coconut oil, organic sunflower oil, organic castor oil, organic beeswax and vitamin E to provide mega moisture that lasts and lasts - flavours available are: Cherry, Green Apple, Grape and Unflavoured (which isn't a flavour at all obviously).

Vegan - is 100% plant-based and beeswax free - instead it contains all-natural food grade Candelilla wax which offers a nice, smooth texture to the balm along with organic coconut oil, organic sunflower oil, organic cocoa butter and vitamin E. In Pineapple-Mint and Wild Berry.

All three formulas are all natural and gluten free.

Available at Boathouse stores across Canada as well as a bunch of other places. Find where or order online at www.epicblend.com.

Maybelline Baby Lips Dr. Rescue Medicated Lip Balm - $4.99 - in 6 tints: Too Cool (clear), Coral Crave, Pink Me Up, Berry Soft, Soothing Sorbet, Just Peachy - if your regular Baby Lips isn't cutting it for your chapped, cracked lips you'll like this new addition to the line which is enriched with eucalyptus, menthol, camphor and dimethicone to deliver intense medicated care that soothes lips instantly as well as hyaluronic acid to seal in moisture for 12 hour hydration and to prevent future damage. I love my Cherry Me Baby Lips and just wish they made an equivalent shade in this line, I'm making do with Berry Soft for now until Maybelline gives into my demands...

Available now at drugstores and mass retailers across Canada.

The Body Shop Born Lippy Lip Balm - $6 - in Satsuma, Raspberry, Strawberry and Watermelon - fruity flavours in a travel ready pot with community trade beeswax from Zambia for moisture.

Available at The Body Shop and www.thebodyshop.ca.

Soap & Glory A Great Kisser Lip Moisture Balm - $10 - in Juicy Peach and Vanilla Bean that offer non-sticky, non-waxy and non-greasy conditioning with mango butter to moisturize, apricot butter for weather protection, lingonberry oil to boost barrier repair and prevent water loss and pomegranate extract to keep lips moist.

Available exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart.

Only problem with all of these balms is they smell so good, it's hard not to want to lick them off!

- Lisamarie -

Waxon opens a new location in the Toronto PATH with express services!

Hairy people of the PATH rejoice, Waxon Waxbar has arrived with a new PATH location in the Richmond-Adelaide Centre for your de-hairing pleasure!

Offering all the same services as the flagship Summerhill location but with the added benefit of a Waxbar MiniBar which offers express facial waxing, threading and tinting services for the business person on the go.

I did some quality control testing and had Shima thread my eyebrows, which she did quickly, painlessly and perfectly. And if you have to go back to work after, threading is the way to go, it leaves behind almost no redness and what little there is, they will conceal for you so no one needs to know where you snuck away to!

You can sign up for unlimited waxing  for a single specific service with their Wax To The Max program and earn reward points in a variety of ways good for complimentary services.

And while you're there be sure to check out the specialty brow cosmetics for sale, Princereigns Ingrown Hair Serum (at the only place you can buy it in Canada), Prtty Peaushun Skin Tight Body Lotion and the Body Shot Skin-Quenching Body Oil which smells amazing!

And as a special holiday treat, when you spend $65 before tax in the month of December, you'll get a $15 gift card!

The new Waxon location is in the PATH under the Richmond-Adelaide Centre at 120 Adelaide Street West, Unit R11 - For more info visit www.waxon.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Fast Forward to Fashion collection - with swatches!

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Fast Forward to Fashion collection - $4.95 - in 8 shades: Style Steel, Chop Chop Copper, Pink Fast, No S-pear Time, Currant Trend, Quick Jeanius, Red-io Active, Jet Set Jade - this chrome-inspired collection offers metallic iridescence that dries in 60 seconds flat!

Style Steel

Jet Set Jade

Officially a fall collection but I just picked these babies up in the regular section so it looks like they are selling them through rather then returning leftovers - so check out your local drug and mass retailers!

- Lisamarie -