Posts from — January 2008

Here’s a weekend roundup of articles from around the Beauty Blog Network (BBN). There are articles here from hair care to high-end makeup collections. Pick your topics and enjoy. Happy weekend everyone!

Canadian Beauty tells you about Clinique’s newest mascara, Clinique Lash Power.

15 Minute Beauty Fanatic checks out Pattern Body Washes and loves them!

The Beauty of Life falls head over heels for Estee Lauder’s new Re-Nutriv Ultimate Youth Creme!

Pursebuzz takes a special visit to Stila Cosmetics. Check out what she is loving!

Check out what Kyle carries around in her new Juicy Couture purse at Face Candy.

Beauty and Personal Grooming shares some pore shrinking mask recipes.

Beauty and Fashion Tech has swatches and looks from the M.A.C. Cosmetics N Collection.

Girl Gloss takes an in depth look at the lip products in the M.A.C. N collection.

Stylish Opinion gives her opinion about the latest perfume from Paris Hilton. Does she like or not?

The Beauty Blog Network proudly announces it’s newest members!!

Elke’s Fabulous! Well, the Fabbie Awards thinks so. She’s nominated for a best beauty blog Fabbie Award along with other fab beauty bloggers. Vote for your favorites here!

Makeup Moxie says goodbye to the Posh Bob.

A Touch of Blusher can’t live without this cleansing oil.

Beauty Banter gives you a play-by-play on How To Wear Red…

Savvy Skin tells you Why My Hair Is Now A Frizzy Mess!

The Muse reviews, shares photos, and gives first impressions of the Dior Spring 2008 Collection!

Temptalia has over forty different lip color combinations–you’re bound to find one to like!

Makeup Loves Me wants to give you $100 in MAC products from the N Collection.

Glossypink gets amped for the weekend and reveals her favorite party eyeshadow!

Enter Spoiled Pretty’s latest giveaway, sponsored by Mother’s Nature Soaps!

Beauty Anonymous found the power of beauty and fashion from Harper’s Bazaar - the Politics of Fashion.

Makeup and Beauty Blog does a step-by-step makeup tutorial honoring her favorite pop star of all time, Madonna, with help fromMAC Russian Red Lipstick.

For your Friday funny, check out Life Candy’s post on “Is it ever ok to eat lipstick?“. I was laughing pretty darn hard, and do not forget to check out the comments, and especially the video Nenette mentions on YouTube. We can all use some humor in our lives. It lightens up the face and makes us instantly beautiful, just by smiling.

The YouTube Video: Morning Meest

Enjoy… I *know* I did!

I bit the bullet and signed up for a Twitter account. So now you can follow me and my tweets and all that jazz. Anyhow, if you’re on Twitter, we can hook up as friends. Maybe Snoopy and Tweety will be there too. Ha! I crack myself up.I have added a little widget on the left sidebar of Bionic Beauty homepage that shows my current Twitter “status”.  You can always look there to see what I’ve got to say.

Bionic Beauty’s Twitter Page

And now, back to your regularly scheduled blogging…

Aquafina, as in the Pepsico bottled water product, has one heck of a great new lip product. If you like minty moisturizing gels, you absolutely must RUN and get this new item!

What is it? It is Aquafina Hydrating Lip Oil. Where is it? At grocery and drug stores near you for around only $3.

Clicky click on over to Girl Gloss to read the entire review.

Bionic’s note: Here’s another one to add to our ever-expanding list of lip treatments. I seriously need to find some neighbors around here who will let me test products on their lips.

For those of you who are new to the blog, this little quizzy (also known around the web as a “meme”) will give you some insights to me, my inspirations and my personality.

And…. it doubles up in usage! Nenette at LifeCandy posted this before me, and since she is my “partner” for this week’s 52 Weeks of Community project, I am fulfilling my project requirement (which is fun definitely and certainly not a drag like school projects used to be, ick) and letting you in on some details about Bionic Beauty. So enjoy!

1. At what age do you wish to marry?
Well, I’m already married, but if you had asked me growing up if I would get married at 21, the answer would’ve been “hell nah!”. But it is wonderful.

2. What color do you like most?
Maroon- whether its shirts, horsie blankets or my betta fish.

3. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Right now? Anyplace warm. Don’t get me wrong, I love the winter, but a nice Pina Colada in the Abaco Islands would be splendid right now.

4. Which part of you do you hate the most?
My inability to turn my “thinker” off. It’s non-stop, I tell ya!

5. When you encounter a sad moment, what would you do?
I cry. And I’m 100 percent ok with that.

6. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My mind… oh wait…

7. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Buy a large sailboat (I’ve got it all picked out already) and a small house with property for rescued critters (and a few people to help take care of them all, lol).

8. What’s your wish for the year ahead?
Squeal! Can I have a pony?!?

9. How did you celebrate the New Year?
Our neighborhood has an Irish Pub, so we spent the evening there. Dancing, singing and staying away from the craziness of any downtown/city areas.

10. Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?
Not spending enough time chatting with my Grandfather.

11. Which type of person do you hate the most?
People who tailgate drive me bonkers! And people who speed in neighborhoods where kids are playing, grrr!

12. What is your ambition?
Continue learning all I can about the blogging world, have Bionic Beauty continue to grow, and I’d like to meet the movie director J.J. Abrams. I’d also like to become telekinetic, but that’s probably a bit far fetched.

13. If you had one wish what would you wish for?
Complete health for my friends and family. Or if there’s a loop-hole, I’d like more wishes, please!

14. Name one of your body parts your hubby/boyfriend/significant other tells you he adores.
My new short hair cut, and my bum (doesn’t the English/British term sound much nicer than the American “butt”? I mean, come on!).

15. What is the best gift you can give someone this year?
This one is stumping me. An iPhone?

16. List two of your Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions.
Top Ten? That’s awfully ambitious. Here are my two (and I only made two): Grow the community at my blog, and take steps to live more “green”.

17. What do you need to do this year in order for you to be happier in life?
Make a plan, you gotta have a plan. I’d really like to win that million dollars mentioned earlier and the pony would be nice. But really folks, I’m pretty darn happy.

18. What are the Top 2 things that you are most thankful for the year 2007 that made you even more happier for 2008?
The ability to take some time off, heal, and hence, start my blogging! Oh wait, you only asked for two, oops.

19. What was the best lesson you learned in 2007 (be specific)?
Don’t trust recovery room nurses (nothing against nurses here, one of my best friends is a nurse). If you are hurting, tell them! And like the question says, be specific!! While I was in recovery after a surgery in 2007, my husband and I kept saying there was a problem, but the nurses just said “use the ice pack”, or it’s “normal”. Well, it wasn’t. So, ladies, be informed and don’t be afraid to speak up. YOU know your body best.

20. In this very moment, are you doing what you thought you’d be doing at this stage in your life?
I certainly did not think I’d be living in a neighborhood that seems like the real life version of The Truman Show. And growing up, who had even heard of blogs???

So that’s it. Ta-DA!!!

You may think I’m crazy (but then again, maybe not) but I have never used a “bath bomb” before. My virgin bomb experience was by Lush - the Honey Bee Bath Ballistic. A gorgeous blend of flowery honey and sugary sweets. I ran my warm bath, popped in the bomb and watched it fizz like mad. Quite amusing to watch.

Anyhow, back to the review. My bath water was scented perfectly- I always know when there’s too much perfume since I start sneezing my head off. After soaking, I didn’t feel it really moisturized my skin, but that’s not what I was seeking anyhow. I just wanted to relax. It fulfilled that duty perfectly.

I will note that the bomb does leave your tub gritty after use, so you’ll have to ruin your relaxation with a tub cleaning.

The Honey Bee Bath Ballistic sells for $5.60 at Lush Cosmetics.

Ingredients for y’all:

Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Rhassoul Mud, Perfume, Honey (Mel), Aloe Vera Extract (Aloe barbadensis), Sweet Orange Oil (Citrus dulcis), Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia), Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides).

Photo is the copyright of Lush.

Cheap But Not Easy - One woman’s journal detailing her “year-long shopping experiment... where I can only spend $20 or less on everything I buy. Yes, EVERYTHING.”

Very creative writing style, great tips on saving money and fabulous finds that we can actually afford (not those ones listed in magazines where the “budget” buy is still 200 bucks).

Enjoy!