Three Fabulous Drugstore Mascaras

SMW’s Beauty Product Patrol road tested three drugstore mascaras that are every bit as good as the expensive designer mascaras, but for a fraction of the cost. If you’re a single women living on a budget, check out your local drugstore first before spending the big bucks on your lashes.
First up, CoverGirl LashBlast Volume Blasting [...]

Beauty Product Patrol: Giftybox Spa for Women Box

Still hunting for that perfect gift? Treat your loved one to a spa day. Giftybox has added spa gift boxes for men and women ($89) each, which grants your gal pal, Pops, or even Grandma Myrtle their choice of more than 120 treatments at 190 spas nationwide. The set also includes a guidebook and five [...]

Beauty Product Patrol: The Body Shop Cranberry Shimmer Lip Balm

If you’re like me, you’re already licking your lips and adding elastic to your jeans in anticipation of Thanksgiving. Thankfully, The Body Shop has created a little treat to tide us over: Cranberry Shimmer Lip Balm. This lightweight, Vitamin E- and cranberry oil-packed balm tastes almost as good as what Granny puts out each holiday. [...]

Beauty Product Patrol: Benefit Sexy Stash

n the hunt for the perfect gift for your best single gal pal? You know—the one who loves to flirt, usually gets into trouble, but always seems to talk her way out of it? Behold Benefit’s Sexy Stash Set, a pulse-racing best-of-Benefit array of glam goodies. BADgal mascara? Check. Thrrrob powder? Check. “That Gal”? Check. [...]

Q&A: Fall Makeup Tips from Celebrity Makeup Artist Joanna Schlip

This week Joanna Schlip, celebrity makeup artist for Physicians Formula, comes to the rescue. Schlip also counts Christina Applegate, Ellen Pompeo, Denise Richards, and Laura Linney as recent clients.
 

Q. I need a beauty makeover for fall. How can I update my makeup this season, and what beauty trends should I look for?

 
A. This [...]

Beauty Product Patrol: Bobbi Brown Sunset Gold Collection

There’s just something so sensual and luxurious about shimmery, gold-flecked makeup, which is why we’re loving Bobbi Brown’s new Sunset Gold Collection, a ravishing quartet of Bobbi’s Sunset Gold and Antique Gold metallic eye shadows, Glitter Lip Gloss in Bronzed Pink, and Long-Wear Gel Eye Liner in Mahogany Ink. Bonus: It’s all encased in a [...]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Beauty for the Cause

In the spirit of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Single Minded Women has rounded up 10 top-notch beauty products that will help support the cause. Whether it’s a limited-edition lipstick or a bewitching fragrance, these good-hearted breast cancer beauty products each go a long way towards finding a cure. When’s the last time you could say [...]

Fix-It Beauty: Your Beauty Emergencies, Our Answers

In a perfect world, you’d look like a supermodel 24/7. In reality, a million obstacles are coming in between you and beauty perfection. Maybe you thought your raven tresses would look better blonde…only they don’t. Or perhaps it looks like someone took a lawnmower to your eyebrows. And, wouldn’t you know it, a red pimple [...]

Fall’s New Beauty Buys

Spring beauty was all about bursts of color and luscious loose waves. Summer beauty was all about faux glows and sun-protected strands. And fall beauty, you ask? Look for beauty trends that skew smoky, sultry, shimmering, strong and sophisticated. (In other words, your summertime au naturel beach babe style is due for a more polished [...]

Q&A: Online Beauty Buys

Q: My beauty supply is running dangerously low, but I don’t have time to go to the mall and I’d really rather not have to make do with drugstore brands. Are online beauty shopping sites any good, or will I wind up with products that don’t suit me at all?

 
A: As with any online shopping, [...]

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