Get a safe and easy summer glow with St. Tropez, Sukin, Jergens and mark.!

St. Tropez Self Tan Express Advanced Bronzing Mousse - 200ml - $54 - a quick-drying lightweight mousse with a fully-customizable formula that absorbs quickly into skin and starts to develop instantly on application for a faster, easier tan. Leave it on 1 hour for a light tan, 2 hours for a medium tan and 3 hours for a dark tan - once you achieve the colour you want, hop in the shower and you're good to go. Just keep in mind that after you shower the skin might appear a little lighter then what you were going for but don't worry, the tan will continue to develop for up to 8 hours, finishing into a deeper shade.

Available now at Shoppers Drug Mart, Murale, London Drugs and Sephora.

Too lazy to apply your own St. Tropez? No problem, you can still achieve radiant skin with the St. Tropez treatment at the Miraj Hammam Spa by Caudalie Paris located in the Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto. After exfoliating, the aloe-based St. Tropez lotion is applied for a sun-less sun-kissed glow! This soothing, nourishing treatment is the perfect way to start off your summer. Visit: www.mirajcaudaliespa.com for more info.

Sukin Self Tanning Sunless Bronzing Gel - 200ml - $20.99 - offers a natural looking tan in a quick-drying, non-greasy, gel formula that not only gradually develops into a radiant glow but also has an instant caramel colour to give you an immediate glow that is also great for helping you figure out where you've already applied it as well as aloe vera for hydration.

Best of all it's enriched with Australian lemon myrtle and lime oils for an invigorating fragrance. Suitable for the face & body and for all skin types, including sensitive. Just apply daily until you build your tan to your preferred colour.

Available at well.ca.

Jergens Natural Glow Daily Moisturizer - 150ml - $12.99 - in Fair to Medium and Medium to Tan formulas to create a colour that's gradual, natural-looking and flawless - it's also streak-free, hassle-free and free of that gross sunless tanner odour!

Available at drug and mass retailers across Canada.

The best thing you can do to make self-tanning an easy experience is to make sure your skin is exfoliated, the self tanner will go on smoother and you will avoid it becoming darker in rough areas if everything is smooth to start off with - a great choice is:

mark. Body Scrub - 200ml - $14 - in 4 scents to make exfoliating a sensorial experience: Sweet On Lemon Sugar, Dreaming Of Jasmine, Crushing On Coconut and Passionate For Plumberry - with a foaming formula containing sugar cane extract that cleanses as it exfoliates leaving skin softer, smoother and ready for your self tanner!

Available from your Avon rep - 1-800-265-AVON or online at www.avon.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Go balmy for scent with Kiehl's, Sukin and Jack Black!

The seasons are changing my friends and nowhere do I start to feel it more then in my lips! I'm a dedicated lip balm wearer year round but I do change formulas with the season - in the spring and summer I prefer a stick, usually tinted while for the fall/winter I like to switch over to a more moisturizing cream. No matter what the formula, I'm always up for something that smells good and here are 3 that will be gracing my lips this season!

Kiehl's Lip Balm #1 Cranberry - 15ml - $11 - enriched with cotton seed oil and contains octinoxate, a mild sunscreen of SPF 4 to protect against the elements and relieve cracked and chapped lips. A little tart, a little sweet - it has the perfect cranberry scent!

Available in store and online at www.kiehls.ca.

Sukin Nourishing Lip Treatment - 10ml - $ - 7.99 - enriched with calendula and jojoba oils to help soothe and cocoa and shea butters to instantly and intensely hydrate lips. I can't put my finger on exactly what the scent is but when I wear it my husband thinks my lips smell like cookies and you know what that leads to...

Available at health food and specialty stores across Canada - check out - http://www.sukinorganics.com/stores.asp to find one near you

Jack Black Intense Therapy Lip Balm Lemon - 7g - $8.50 - with shea butter, vitamin E and avocado oil to soften and condition dry chapped lips as well as lemon and chamomile to refresh and calm. I know that technically the brand is for men but when it comes to things that smell like lemon cake, I don't discriminate!

Available at Sephora and Holt Renfrew.

- Lisamarie -

These products from Stemulation, Garnier, Murad, Sukin and Serious Skin - will do your heavy lifting (but won't take out the garbage)!

Stemulation Rescue Repair - 50ml - $96 - a powerful hand and body treatment to visibly lift, firm and hydrate skin. It's designed to restore and renew areas of the hands, feet, knees elbows and decolletage, troubled with age spots, extreme dryness, loose skin and calluses with a powerful formula with proven age-defying ingredients to replenish the essential antioxidants and peptides your body needs for younger skin.

Stemulation products contain a unique derivative of growth factors from stem cells that can be absorbed directly into the skin as well as natural and organic ingredients proven to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, improve the tightening and firmness of skin tissue as well as diminish the appearance of sunspots.

Now available at Murale where you will also find the other products in the line: Facial Serum - 15ml - $135 and 30ml - $240 and Boost Creme - 15ml - $75 and 30ml - $140

Garnier Ultra-Lift Serum + Cream - 50ml - $22.99 - with 2X Pro-Retinol from nature (retinol and linoelic acid) it combines a concentrated serum and a daily moisturizer to help boost anti-wrinkle action and instantly give skin a firmer appearance. In 2 weeks, skin appears firmer, fine lines and wrinkles appear visibly reduced. Which really is a clever idea when you think about it - for most people a serum alone isn't enough moisture and you end up having to slap a moisturizer on top of it - this product eliminates the extra step!

Murad Resurgence Rejuvenating Lift for Neck and Decollete - 50ml - $55 - combats thinning skin, discoloration and sagging, providing an instant lift. With a botanical blend of ingredients including java plum, mango and banana pulp extracts that work together  in a collagen enhancing compound to improve elasticity to enhance smoothness and suppleness, plump and resurface skin. While bearberry and licorice root extracts lighten, brighten and even skin tone, reducing the appearance of spots and discoloration.

Available at Murale, Sephora and sephora.com

Sukin Purely Ageless Intensive Firming Serum - 30ml - $23.99 - a light gel-cream rich in natural actives, to gently firm, refine and leave skin feeling smooth. Contains argan oil, açai and goji fruit extracts that work to reduce the signs of aging and cocoa butter to lock in moisture to help protect skin from environmental conditions. What makes this brand great is what the products don't contain: parabens, artificial colours, petro-chemicals, mineral oils, synthetic fragrances or animal derivatives!

Available at health food and specialty stores across Canada - check out - http://www.sukinorganics.com/stores.asp to find one near you

Serious Skin Firma-Face XR Instant Temporary Invisible All Over Skin Tightener - 85g - $49.95 - an instant, temporary, all over skin tightener - within minutes wrinkles are temporarily smoother over, the skin is pulled tighter, pores appear to be shrunk closed, nose to mouth lines look diminished, under eye puffiness looks smoother and crows feet seem to disappear. What's different about it is rather than traditional tighteners that lay on top of the skin, this one is micronized which allows the firming ingredients to filter deep into the wrinkles, lines and pores to perform the firming benefits from within the imperfections to help re-connect and tighten the look of the skin's surface without the delicate topical film that can be easily disrupted by facial movements, creams and liquid makeup.

Available at The Shopping Channel - www.theshoppingchannel.com

- Lisamarie -