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Nowadays most concealers have light reflectors, but not most eye creams—except our newest favorite, Eye Serum ($55 for .25 oz) by Protective Nourishment, a line with heavy emphasis on organic ingredients. The liquefied crystal in this super-viscous, free-radical-fighting goop makes it opalescent enough to shine through your makeup and moisturizing enough to last all day (and then some). As to whether the crystal also has an impact on your karma or provides an inexplicable second wind when you're out on a bender, jury's still out.
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Haven't your bleached, sun-damaged, overtaxed tresses been harassed by sub-par hair dryers long enough? Cut your drying time in half—literally—with HairArt's expensive-but-beyond-worth-it T3 Tourmaline Hair Dryer ($200), entirely encrusted—even the motor—with semi-precious stone dust. Why tourmaline? It generates more water-absorbing negative ions than any other substance on earth. Plus the dryer's heat source is infra-red, which dries from the inside out. Runway coiffe king Eugene Soulieman is already on board. Join him. |
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Those poor Italians—undoubtedly too shell-shocked from Euro inflation and their government's egregious corruption to leave their non-air-conditioned hovels to shop. Now they have to watch as their luxe skincare line Dibibody goes West, launching their full range of high end, sag-fighting dream creams in the US. The most aggressive of the moisturizers is Dibibody Lift ($90 for 8.45 oz at 800-959-3424), an anti-aging body massage butter with cell-metabolism-boosting compounds and proteins. It's like fashiony Crisco, except you'd never be tempted to fry a chicken in it.
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Seems like every other time we get a cheap Korean pedicure, we get a little, shall we say, outbreak of itchiness and scales. Ew! As we all know by now, the problem lies in the skank-magnet shared tools. You should get your own, but do you really want to cobble a bag together at the beauty supply store (all one of them in the greater New York area)? Just buy the unfortunately named Cutie Kit, an all-in-one assemblage of pumice, nail brush, orange stick, cuticle pusher, cuticle trimmer, nail clipper, toe separator and buffer. The tools are real-deal quality and have a lifetime guarantee. Fight the fungus!
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We're feeling patriotic. Not so patriotic that we'll stand up when they play the National Anthem (some things never change), but patriotic enough to celebrate the American dream by hot-footing it up to massively upscaling (but happily, still immigrant-glutted) Fort Washington. The draw? Polish transplant Joanna Czech's hot little Sava Spa, a narrow, celeb-catering hideout chock full of hard-to-find lines like Biologique Recherche and Protective Nourishment (if you walk out of there without picking up a vial of PN's Eye Serum—see left—you're insane).
Czech has loads of pre-assembled face and body treatment packages, most featuring plant-based Nuxe products. But no matter which one you book, she'll probably just look at your skin and do what she thinks you need. In our case, that was pore de-clogging, with a deep cleansing Pumpkin Enzyme mask, remarkably un-painful extraction, facial massage and a thorough zapping with an oxygen current. Caution to anyone shaggy: brow-obsessed Czech will undoubtedly hit you up with some tweezers, too. Let her—she knows what she's doing.
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