Get even better beauty sleep with Fresh, Korres and Elizabeth Arden!

Stop wasting all that time just lying around sleeping and do some work while you're at it! One of these products and a good night's sleep is all you need to wake up to radiant, healthy-looking skin...

Fresh Peony Brightening Night Treatment Mask - 50ml - $76 -  with a  powerful treatment formula that lightens the appearance of dark spots, corrects uneven skintone, significantly brightens the complexion and replenishes and preserves hydration for 24 hours - all while you sleep! With an exclusive brightening complex derived from peony and licorice root extracts and vitamin C glucoside - to reduce and prevent the appearance of dark spots and even skintone; amino acids - to help to visibly firm and smooth wrinkles; and cucumber extract - for its hydrating and calming properties.

Just apply a thin layer all over your face a couple times a week and let it go to work overnight - you can then look forward to waking up to youthful-looking, luminous skin!

Available at Sephora and sephora.ca.

Korres Greek Yoghurt Advanced Nourishing Sleeping Facial - 40ml - $59 - A weightless soufflé powered by super-charged proteins that melts into skin and works overnight for intense, immediate moisturization. Greek Yoghurt is a natural source of proteins, minerals, and vitamins to instantly nourish stressed, dry skin - only this jar is super-powered and contains a Greek Yoghurt concentrate with two and a half times the protein content of regular yogurt, and works overnight to provide skin with intense, long-term moisturization and nourishment to create a smooth, even complexion.You will wake up to noticeable improvements in skin texture and more moisturized, refreshed skin - and if not you will at least have a handy snack near-by in case you wake up in the middle of the night...ok, that part's not true, so let's just go with the smooth, even wonderful looking skin!

Available at select Shoppers Drug Mart stores.

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Skin Protectant Nighttime Miracle Moisturizer - 50ml - $47 - a lightweight, overnight skincare solution that intensely hydrates the skin by sealing in moisture. Contains Salicylic Acid to gently micro-exfoliate dead skin cells to encourage a smoother skin texture and antioxidant Vitamin E to help protect skin against environmental aggressions. Best part about it is the botanical lavender extract to help calm the mind and soothe the senses - it smells amazing and I swear helps you fall asleep so you can wake up to radiant, healthy-looking skin.

Available at Elizabeth Arden counters across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Cover up like a pro with concealers from Pari Beauty, Histo Lab and EF Studio!

Pari Pro Coverage Camouflage Professionnel - $15 - in an impressive array of 11 shades: Porcelain, Creamy Ivory, Light Nude, Medium, Medium Beige, Tan, Medium Tan, Dark Tan, Espresso, Green, Mauve - provides full coverage of scars, blemishes, birthmarks, and anything else you can think of or can be easily used as a full coverage foundation. With diffusing properties that makes it great for photography and a creamy texture that makes it idea for dry skin.

Available at the Pari Beauty stand-alone store at Scarborough Town Centre and kiosks at Vaughn Mills Mall and Bramalea City Centre; Sears stores at Yorkdale Mall, Sherway Gardens, Fairview Mall,  Square One, Erin Mills Town Centre, Pickering Town Centre, Lime Ridge Mall, Pen Centre, Lambton Mall, Timmins Square, Carlingwood Shopping Centre, St. Laurent Centre, Malborough Mall, St. Vital Centre, Fairview Pointe Claire, Galeries d'Anjou, West Edmonton Mall, Midtown Plaza, Brentwood Town Centre and Guildford Town Centre; as well as online at sears.ca and paribeauty.com.

Histo Lab + Coverme - $30 - in Light Beige and Natural Beige - a moisturized hypoallergenic powder concealer suitable for all skin types with plant derived hypoallergenic agents that effectively covers blemishes, helps reconstruct skin cell and protects the skin from UV ray. Contains a film-forming polymer that is water and perspiration resistant and protects skin from external irritants and offers anti-aging, sebum control, blemish coverage and skin protection benefits.

The coverage is buildable from sheer to full with a semi-matte and natural looking finish and is great for damaged skin following dermatological procedures.

Available online at www.yalalli.com.

EF Studio Concealer/Primer - $36 - in Light, Medium and Dark - a three shade color wheel that allows for mixing and blending to achieve the perfect shade match and is great for hiding scars and hyperpigmentation.

For best results use with concealer brush for optimum blending and coverage and a little goes a long way to hide any imperfections so you're going to have this sucker forever!

You'll have to work for it a bit if you want one - eBeauty.ca used to carry the line but I sadly discovered last night that the site is no more! I saw lots floating around on other sites including Amazon and eBay so luckily  it's not a unicorn yet!

- Lisamarie -

Crazy for CC - Neutrogena Healthy Skin CC Cream!

Neutrogena Healthy Skin CC Cream - 50ml - $14.99 - with an oil free formula in Fair to Light and Light to Medium shades that provide lightweight coverage for a one step solution to blotchiness, dark spots caused by acne and sun damage and overall dull-looking skin.

Contains Essential Soy - an anti-oxidant filled skin brightening agent that not only immediately covers skin imperfections, but also works over time to even out and brighten skin's tone - better yet, it has an SPF 30 to offer protection from the dark spots returning!

End result - even-toned and radiant looking skin with a dewy finish!

I'm super happy that there is a Fair to Light shade - Light to Medium just doesn't cut it for pale skin tones so this one is perfect!

Available now at food, drug and mass merchandisers across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Fragrant Friday - Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Eleganza and Acqua Essenziale Blu

Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Eleganza - 50ml EDP - $102, 100ml EDP - $140, 200ml Body Lotion - $59 - a floriental chypre that celebrates feminine grace and seduction with top notes of grapefruit flesh and pear flesh; heart notes of almond powder and asmanthus absolute; and base notes of patchouli heart and white leather accord.

The fruity and warm notes makes this a very appealing fragrance and I love how elegant yet girly the bottle is!

Available now at Holt Renfrew, Hudson's Bay, Ogilvy, Murale and Sephora.

Salvatore Ferragamo Acqua Essenziale Blu - 50ml EDT - $75, 100ml EDT - $97, 200ml Shower Gel - $40- inspired by the natural impulse of water this fougere oriental scent has top notes of green cardamom, Calabrian bergamot, lemon and paradisone; heart notes of cedarwood atlas, lavander, cascalone and cypriol; and base notes of bezoin, tonka bean, patchouli and ambrox.

If you like to (or your man to) smell fresh, then you are going to love this scent - I also like how masculine the bottle is and the blue tones of it really give the illusion of tropical water.

Available in April at Hudson's Bay and in May at Holt Renfrew, Ogilvy, Sephora and Murale.

- Lisamarie -

Dry, sensitive skin finds relief with Bioderma, A-Derma and Cliniderm!

Bioderma Atoderm Gel Douche Gentle Shower Gel - 500ml - $15 - a soap and preservative free foaming cleanser for dry, sensitive skin that softens and protects the skin while soothing and reducing the feeling of tightness with moisturizing ingredients that rinse off completely and leave the skin feeling perfectly balanced with a subtle fragrance.

Available now in drugstores across Canada.

A-Derma Exomega Emollient Balm for Face and Body - 200ml - $28 - free of ingredients known to be irritating to eczema sufferers, it combines rhealba oat plantlets extract, filaxerine and Vitamin B3 to moisturize, protect and offer long-lasting relief from dryness.If you  love the A-Derma Exomega Cream but find that that it's not quite moisturizing enough, you appreciate the rich, non-sticky texture - even the Eczema Society of Canada has given it their Seal of Approval.

Available exclusively in drugstores across Canada.

If you're OCDish and need your products to match check out this dynamic duo with amazing soothing and nourishing properties for extremely dry, irritated skin:

Cliniderm NutiComfort Gentle Body Wash - 200ml - $17.75 - cleans surface impurities and reinforces the skin's barrier function with: allantoin - to relieve skin itchiness and sooth the skin by neutralizing irritants and sensitizing agents as well as promotes cell renewal and accelerates wound healing by maintaining the skin's integrity; and shea butter - to moisturize and build skin lipids to nourish and repair extremely dry skin.

Cliniderm NutriComfort Soothing Body Balm - 200g - $27 - clinically proven to deeply nourish and repair extremely dry skin  with: shea butter - provides protection by forming a barrier on the skin's surface to retain moisture, repel bacteria and help the skin heal; phytodefense - a magnolia tree bark extract with calming and soothing properties that reduces skin redness; tocopherol - provides antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits; allantoin - to provide relief from itchiness; and stratixyl - a corn derivative that reinforces the skin barrier function and helps hydrate by improving and preserving the skin's lipid structure.

Available at drugstores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Achieve complexion perfection with No Dark Shadows!

No Dark Shadows - $19.99 - with a choice of two universal shades: Wow - for rosy tones and Pizazz - for yellow tones - of multi-purpose complexion enhancer that uses light diffusing particles to banish dark under eye shadows and imperfections; diminish the look of fine lines and highlight the complexion.

It can be applied alone or with foundation and as an eye primer and enjoy the long lasting, waterproof and oil free formula that will keep on making you look bright and pretty for up to six hours.

I've been using it under my eyes and adding a couple of dots on my cheekbones (or at least where I would like to have cheekbones) and right under my brows to lighten and brighten. My best tip: if you are going to use with foundation apply it on top of the foundation, if you apply it before it all gets wiped away when the foundation goes on!

Available now at Shoppers Drug Mart.

- Lisamarie -