Looking Tan for a Night: Beautisol's Tea Tan

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I'm not even sure how many times I've mentioned the Beautisol Tea Tan Bronzer since they sent it to me for review. It's a lot. Most recently with a slew of other Beautisol products in my best ways to glow this summer post yesterday.

Beautisol's Tea Tan is a temporary bronzer. This stuff is basically bulletproof. Ok, maybe not, but it really doesn't budge, smear and it doesn't matter if I sweat a little. Best of all, it is very easy to apply and looks natural.

I really recommend using one of Beautisol's application mitts for an even (and mess free) application! You pump a little onto the mitt (the pump adds air to make a foam), and spread it around. You need to work fairly quickly, but the color spreads evenly and you can add more layers to build the color to something deeper. I only need to wait a minute or so for it to dry, though you might want to wait a little longer before really getting dressed just in case. Later on it washes off really easily with soap and water.

Here's the real reason I love the Tea Tan so much. That Airbrush Legs? I always want it to work. I want it to work soooo bad. I buy a new spray, tube, whatever they're selling each summer. I plot using it for events (yeah for great legs and no hose!) but there's an issue and this image doesn't really do it justice. It makes me look like an oompa loompa. Really. In person the issue is much worse, but even with the lightest shade, and even with mixing it into a little lotion... That stuff is orange-golden, and it's the color of Willy Wonka's little friends on my skin.

So, my choice is definitely the Tea Tan.

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Top 10 Tuesday: My Favorite Products to Get My Glow On

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1. Beautisol Self Tanning Lotion: This is my favorite sunless tanner for a natural look without any smell!

2. Beautisol Self Tanner Back Applicator: Ok, I haven't tried this, but it looks genius and it will be in my next order.

3. Beautisol Hamman Exfoliating Mitt: I love quickly exfoliating everything evenly and this mitt is my favorite. It's especially important to not use an oily scrub right before a sunless tanner application.

4. Beautisol Application Mitt: This mitt helps make everything go on much smore smoothly.

5. NARS Multiple in Copacabana: This shimmery silver has a little tan in it, a little pink... It's a great chameleon and I have found that it is the perfect highlighter when I have a (fake) glow.

6. Rimmel Natural Bronzer: This is my go-to "steal" bronzer. The color is just golden enough (mine is quite a bit lighter than what they show in this image), but it doesn't look orange or dirty on my skin. It's a matte bronzer (which seems to be getting hard to find lately), and is a great bargain!

7. CoverGirl Nail Polish in Coral Silk: I definitely look tanner with coral polish than pink or red. This is my go-to shade.

8. Jergens Natural Glow Gradual Self Tanner: I love the idea of this tanner, though I need to be very careful about exfoliating (hello, my Hamman mitt!) or I turn a bit orange.

9. Too Faced Endless Summer Bronzer: This is my "splurge" bronzer, and the color is just a little better for my skin tone than the Rimmel. And yes, for me it really does last all day, or 16 hours!

10. Beautisol Tea Tan: I keep mentioning this product over and over, but haven't written a full post yet! This is super natural, wash off tan that doesn't transfer. It's perfect!





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CoverGirl's Flamed Out Collection Review and a Color Eye Tutorial

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I've been having a lot of fun with eye shadows the last couple of days, courtesy of CoverGirl and ULTA. They asked me if they could send me some of this summer's Flamed Out collection (have you seen it? I admit I've been drooling over the displays in stores for a bit now), I would review the products and put together a look. They'd even send me extras for a giveaway! How can a girl say no to that???

Flamed out is this summer's collection from CoverGirl. The colors are pretty bold, and they are "inspired by fire, the bold new flaming femme look takes your eyes from flames to ashes." The colors include red, pink, gray, gold, blue and green. Some of the colors are pretty bold for me, but I've been inspired over and over by blue and green eye looks recently, so I've been dying to try some of the colors!

When my products arrived, I only had a few shades (and none of the bright blue/green ones I wanted to try out), so I pretty much ran to ULTA the moment I opened my package. It's a good thing that I have an understanding husband! CoverGirl is Buy One get one 50% Off (until Friday, June 28th) including the Flamed Out Collection, and I admit that I bought a lot of the colors! I don't have every color (yes, I did manage to use some control), but I have almost all of them.

I have a million and one pictures of the colors, a tutorial for the blue and green eye I created, and even a giveaway! Read on to see more!

9 Best Intensive Hair Masks

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Now that all of the Beauty Spotlight Team members have visited the desert island (which may, or may not, have been very deserted for me, the post cheater), we've decided to start sharing top lists of our favorite products! And... once again I'm a cheater. I think these were meant to be top 10, but I only came up with 9 hair conditioners. Oops!

Regular readers of my blog will know that last summer I went a bit too crazy with my curling iron, and fried the top layers of my hair. Really and truly fried, the entire length of the very top layers of my hair felt like a brillo pad and it looked horrible!

I have tried so many hair masks since that time that I should either join CA (Conditioners Anonymous) or start my own hair mask store. Truly. I counted, at one point I had 15 (!!) in my shower. I don't think my husband realized that.

Of all of the hair masks that I tried, these are the ones that I would recommend to someone else.

1. L'Oreal Power Moisture

2. DermOrganic Intensive Hair Repair Masque

3. Brocato Cloud 9

4. Kiehl's Superbly Smoothing Argan Hair Pak

5. Pantene Advanced Keratin Repair

6. Aussie 3 Minute Miracle

7. Redken Extreme Strength Builder

8. L'Oreal Total Repair 5

9. Joico K-Pak


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Summer Beauty Challenge: Lorac Pro Palette Day to Night Eye Shadow Looks

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So, remember recently when I shared with you what I would buy with $25 at ULTA? (Shopper Files) I wrote that post in preparation for this post. Oh yes, this is a long awaited post my friends!

The nice people over at Coupons.com gave some friends and I each $50 to spend at one of three on-line beauty stores. They were some of my favorite stores, ULTA, Sephora and Drugstore.com/Beauty.com. Our mission? Either create 2 looks or come up with some great dupes to share. Oh yes, and be sure to use one of the coupon codes, I used the ULTA Coupon Codes.

We had a lot of fun shopping, and you should have seen some of our Facebook messages showing what was in our carts! I fully admit that I went crazy and spent a lot of my own money over the $50. I got some great deals though at ULTA! I was so happy to finally pick up the LORAC Pro Palette (check out my Lorac PRO Palette Review & Swatches post). I also grabbed another L'Oreal Extra-Intense Liquid Pencil Eyeliner in black. I knew I'd be needing more black liner, and that's one that I haven't written about enough. I kind of love it.

Read on to see the 2 looks I created, find links to see what my friends did with their $50 and to enter a contest to win $300 to ULTA!