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Welcome to the new The Fairest!
Dear Members,
Exciting news! The Fairest is evolving, and we hope you’ll join us on the journey. Effective immediately, The Fairest is transitioning from just hosting daily sales to providing you with a once-per-week newsletter chock full of can’t-miss beauty goodness and special offers directly from brands. We’ll still host occasional sales, but plan to focus on deals directly from brands exclusively for you.
What else can you expect?
- Special offers and discounts from your favorite beauty brands
- A new beauty product giveaway each week
- Insider tips and how-didn’t-I-know-that? tricks to help you look and feel your best
- Product obsessions—from both readers and experts—that are guaranteed to become your favorites
- Honest, tell-it-like-it-is reviews
- Regular roundups of the latest beauty launches
- Nationwide salon and spa opening news
We’ve said it a million times: it doesn’t require perfect genes, an army of stylists, or a bathroom that rivals Sephora to look fabulous. All you need are the right tips and a little help from your friends—and that’s where we come in. (Hey, we get it: we’re beauty junkies, too!)
To celebrate our relaunch, comment below with the name of your favorite makeup brand to enter the Sue Devitt makeup giveaway. One lucky reader (open to US residents) will win a makeup haul worth over $350. Here’s what you’ll win!
We’re The Fairest…and so are you. Thanks for reading!
Love in lip gloss,
Nadine Jolie
Editorial Director
Francesco Clark of Clark’s Botanicals on PBS
Three years after being paralyzed in a pool diving accident, Francesco Clark–founder of skincare line Clark’s Botanicals–was in an emotional fog, traumatized and feeling adrift. When Christopher Reeve suddenly passed away, Francesco was spurred into action, realizing that he wanted to make a difference, and founding Clark’s Botanicals. (The line is made from essential oils, botanicals and vitamins, is highly effective, and smells wonderful. Sensitive and drier skins will love the Deep Moisture Mask.)
Francesco is now the new ambassador for The Christopher Reeve Foundation, and is publishing his first book, Walking Papers, on June 1, 2010–the anniversary of his accident.
Learn more about Francesco’s amazing, inspiring story tomorrow, Wednesday January 6th, when he appears on the PBS series “This Emotional Life” at 9pm.
Clark’s Botanicals is currently on sale at The Fairest.
Happy Holidays from The Fairest!
That week is finally here: the fleeting time between Christmas and New Year when the schedule is completely thrown off, long-lost friends and family come back into town, and every day ticks closer to the big calendar change.
We’re busy taking stock of 2009 and making endless resolutions for 2010 (We will go to the gym! We will clean our makeup brushes!), and as we look back on the year, we think it’s been a pretty good one.
From all of us at The Fairest, we wish you happy holidays and hope you’re having a beautiful, enjoyable time, wherever you might be!
Blake Lively’s luscious curls
Photo Credit: J. McCarthy for Wire Image
We love Blake Lively‘s bouncy hair at the recent New York premiere of Sherlock Holmes. (Seriously, how many premieres are they going to have for this film? We’ve already counted at least 4. As long as the stars show up looking so gorgeous, we’ll continue to be on board!)
Replicate the look with a little elbow grease, and the right tools: volumizing styling cream or mousse, plus a wide-barreled curling iron 1″ or larger. Expect the entire process to take 30 – 45 minutes.
- Apply volumizing cream or mousse to damp, towel-dried hair
- Blow dry hair with a large round brush
- Part hair deeply, above one eye
- Clip up the top half of hair, from the ear up to the crown
- Curl the bottom half of hair in 1″ – 1.5″ sections
- Unclip the top half of hair
- Curl in 1″ sections, alternating curls away from the face, and toward the face
- Spritz curls with a flexible-hold hairspray–et voila!
The Fairest sale: Enzo Milano
When asked how to replicate gorgeous beachy waves or loose, corkscrew curls, celebrity hair stylists always advise wrapping hair around the outside of a closed barrel. If you’ve ever heeded their advice and tried it at home, it’s not easy. Your hair crimps around the barrel clamp…the ends look wonky…clumsier types (um, quite possibly like yours truly) run the risk of burning errant fingers…
We’re therefore delighted by the Enzo Milano Conico curling iron, which features a patented cone shaped barrel and no clamp, making the aforementioned barrel-wrapping a breeze. It’s also very fancy-pants, with a ceramic core, and featuring something called “Tribostatic” technology that uses negative ions to evenly seal the hair cuticle, creating a longer-lasting curl.
Check out the video here, from the Enzo Milano website, showing how to use the Conico, which comes with a lifetime warranty, instructional DVD, and heat-resistant safety glove, for klutzes like moi.
Enzo Milano goes on sale Tuesday at The Fairest. It normally retails for $149.99, but is 40% off for $90.
Nadine Jolie
Lianne Farbes
Shannon Nelson
Julia Coney
Michelle Mismas
Marta Walsh
Patrice Yursik
Sonya Dakar
Carla Maganinho
Beau Nelson
Carolyn Hsu
Jamie Stone
Amber Katz
Amanda George
Neil Weisberg
Amy Denoon
