April 2009

 
Jeanasina here! I’m super excited to talk about my product for review today! I have been lovingly applying Sustainable Youth cream and serum to my face and neck back to back for the past two weeks straight (morning and night) and they are the Sustainable Youth Immune performance-elasticity cream and the Sustainable Youth immune performance-revitalizing serum! I have my staples for my skincare and as risky as it was to me to give the Sustainable Youth a full blown trial on my skin; I actually went without my usual skincare regimen products (be afraid - be very afraid) and exclusively used these two Sustainable Youth products for two weeks straight on their own!  At the first sign of trouble or advanced aging symptoms you just know that I would have drop kicked these two Sustainable Youth pump vials into the sunset if I began to experience less than stellar results!  Ladies, I am here to tell you that I think I might have my two new best friends visiting with me right now!
 
I just got married! I bring this up is because a friend of ours took photos and made us a rockin’ awesome video of our magical day (we got married in our backyard under our pergola) but when we looked at the photos I couldn’t help but notice and think …I’m lookin’ old man!  My face definitely is showing signs of looseness which is the hardest thing for me to deal with, sometimes even more than wrinkles.  Our neighbor also took photos and he likes to get up close and personal with his camera so every stinkin’ detail of age spots and hangin’ dog-type loose skin is magnified hugely!

Anyway..I lamented somewhat over how aged I was that day and the tie-in to this story is that after using these two products over the past two weeks I noticed that my skin looks better than it did on my wedding day!  At my office there is a giant mirror in the ladies restroom. These past days, I have looked into that evil, unflatteringly lit mirror and thought “Wow…My skin is looking really good!”  Another very telling moment!

Hello out there in Meg's land!  Sweetassgal here laughing hysterically over a recent dinner with my best girlfriend Adele and her absolutely adorable 2 year old daughter Kyra.  Let me just start off by saying that Adele is the kind of girl who tells it like it is.  30 years of friendship and she's always been straightforward and honest...sometimes to the point of endearingly bitchy and that's why we love her.  Being a brassy kinda gal she's not one for baby words for body parts like hoo hoo's or wee wee's.  Adele is teaching her daughter the anatomical names for her body parts...and in Spanish to boot.  So its completely comical when that tiny little toddler points to your chest and says "chi chi's".  It downright hysterical when she pulls her shirt away from her chest with both forefingers and thumbs and says "NO chi chi's!!!".  I thought I'd wee wee in my big girl pants!
 
Adele and I had a blast going through my latest shipment from Meg and she zero'd right in on my pack of Biotropics Ramuan Spa Malaysian Coffee Scrub...and a duplicate jar of an upcoming product to review.  Friends share!  She was excited to see what I thought of it so into my shower went the packet the next morning and the testing began.  First off the I'm not crazy about the packaging.  I'm not sure if the paper pack was a sample and therefore temporary or if this is really how its sold.  But taking a paper packet into a steamy shower doesn't make much sense to me (though the environmental side of me appreciates it).  Also...there is not way to get into the packet other than to simply cut or rip open a corner.  And once its opened there is no resealing so it's just going to sit open in your bathroom.  To use you pour a little into your hand and mix with enough water to make a paste.  As soon as I poured the thick powder into my palm I was immediately hit by the heady scent of COFFEE mixed with Oryza sativa, cinnamon, screwpine leaf extract and cassia tora leaf extract.  Its a GREAT scent for waking you up and getting you going.  I absolutely loved the smell of it...and I knew I would.  So I cupped my hand under the shower and dribbled the water onto the powder.  I wasn't sure how much to use and so I rubbed my hands together to mix it.  I hadn't used enough water the first time and it was just kind of goopey.  I just needed a few more drops of water but now both of my hands were covered in it and I couldn't put my hands directly under the shower stream because it would rinse it off.  I put my shoulder against the water and let a little dribble down to the paste.  This was not an easy process and I think a premixed tub of scrub that I could just dip into would be a preferred method. 

My Gorgeous Friend's Secret to Incredible Makeup!
 
Goddess Granny here! This is a "special edition" post because some info came my way that was simply WAY too good not to share with my peeps here at "Meg's!"
 
You know how sometimes you just hear something that makes you go "HUH???" but deep down in your heart,you are secretly hoping it's the truth because it will save you a ton of money, put you into that coverted inner-circle loop of cool-info, or give you access to something so special or unique that you will become the envy of your family and friends?
 
We all have the "gorgeous friend": you know the one that wakes up looking so damn good that you want to slap her over coffee? The one who seemingly never gets a pimple,cellulite,or split-ends? THAT one...the one who also can usually afford because of the nauture of her gorgeousness, the very best in products and services that the world has to offer?
I spent sometime with my "that friend" recently and while I was nibbling at my tiny bites of sushi and she was wolfing down her honkin' plate of pasta with breadsticks (because the b**** never gains an ounce no matter what!) I marveled at the way her luminous skin really DID seem to be without a single crease and how her perfectly-applied (after consultation with THE best makeup artists,no doubt!) makeup was still just that after 3 hours of shopping and lunch: perfect and without any wear and tear,no oil slicks,no creases,and no nothing but perfection.
 
She started giggling and leaned towards me with her perfect lips and blindingly-white teeth and whispered: "Monistat" and then started laughing like a mating hyena!!!
 
I didn't think I heard her correctly and asked again what she was using on her skin as I figured it was some $350.00 an ounce foundation or a $480.00 daycream or something.
Monistat.The beautiful b**** is smearing a hybrid cream by a noted va jay-jay company on her face just to mock me.

Meg here! I don't know where Vexy is off to! Sometimes it is hard trying to figure out who is writing what when but I had Shiseido send some of their newly revamped Zen off to Vexy and one for a give-away. I had to open the give-away to write this review but know that we have 1 more on the way and YOU CAN WIN IT!! Please just let me know your best fragrance story and the bottle is yours!

Shiseido launched its third incarnation of its Zen fragrance (prior versions were launched in 1964 and 2000). The new fragrance was developed by perfumer Michel Almairac, and is described as a “fresh, floral woody scent” with notes of grapefruit, bergamot, peach, pineapple, blue rose, freesia, gardenia, red apple, violet, lily of the valley, hyacinth, rose, lotus flower, patchouli, cedar, musk, white musk, amber, incense and marine plant.

The “blue rose” springs from the marriage of a rose and violet, according to Almairac, who explained, “It has a very particular odor — a lemony note.”

The bottle, by Taisuke Kikuchi, was inspired by a Japanese tearoom. It looks amazing in my Mae West inspired bedroom. All glass and square, picture Art Deco meets todays minimalist modern.

It's nothing like the previous formula so if you're a big fan of that that then beware. It's a completely new scent that I am a fan of. Because I wasn't sure if men would like it (Megken is brutal on his scent tastes) I did the unthinkable. I woke up Megken at midnight, out of a sound sleep because I needed his review on this. I had to make sure I wasn't the only one that thought wearing this was super sexy.

I took out the gorgeous bottle, he said "Oh, yeah, that is really nice looking."  PACKAGING-A

Meg: Ken, wake-up, sorry but smell this. Do you like it? Does it smell good (I put my wrist under his nose) I need to know for the review. It's OK, if you hate it. Just tell me so I can go write it.