A very big thank you to all those who entered the contest. I'm so happy to hear you are curious about the balms.
In the new year, I plan to host a beauty balm night ... I'll be showing you how I make my beauty balms and you can customize your scents and oils. Send me an email if you are interested in participating!
Have a great weekend!
It's funny ... I never thought my beauty balms would be such a hit.
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If you haven't you can check it out here.
We have many great brands from Toronto-based DaLish, Vancouver-based Principessa, and Florida-based Crazy Rumors.
Not to mention, we also carry Toronto-based Cake Beauty. If you haven't read your April issue of InStyle yet (we know you subscribe ... or at least you always pick it up the first day it's on stands), you must check it out to see it's nod to Cake Beauty's Satin Sugar Hair & Body Refreshing Powder. We have that at The Blush Boutique for you both in lighter hues and darker hues. Click here to see!
And let's not forget about butter London nail polishes. For just a few more days, you can get these pretty, 3-Free Lacquers on our Buy One, Get One 50% off promo. Our favourite: Yummy Mummy!
Also, coming soon: BlushPretty Beauty Balms and BlushPretty Girl Friday Lip Balms. My handmade balms, made with natural ingredients (and a lot of love) will be online at The Blush Boutique at the end of April 2010. In the meantime, you can order these sweet-smelling balms by emailing me at stephanie@blushpretty.com.
The Beauty Balms have received some great feedback (check out this recent post at Dreamy Babies) and pricing ranges from $3.50 to $6.50 each. The Girl Friday Lip Balms are NEW! Complete with shea butter, avocado oil, emu oil, and vitamin e, these little .25 rounds of healing lip balm come in Lucky Lemon, Perfectly Pear, Very Vanilla, and Cheeky Chocolate. They are $3.50 each or 4 for $12.
Time to shop! (and enter a giveaway while you're here: leave a comment with the number of links in this post and you will be entered to win two Girl Friday lip balms!)
-bp-
But it's not because I'm baking cookies or roasting a chicken. (Sorry Mr. BlushPretty - you can cook dinner when you come home)
It smells good because I just finished my first official batch of delicious beauty balms. Naturally made (and made with love), I have slaved over a hot gas stove whipping up colorful little pots of beauty balm.
Okay Ms. bp, what's beauty balm?
I thought you would never ask! My little pots of beauty balm moisturize and soothe chapped lips, dry skin patches, ragged cuticles, and minor scrapes and burns. Some are made creamier (for those who suffer from extreme dryness), some are made less fragrant (for those who have sensitive sniffers), and some are made to comfort you (mmmm chocolate).
I use natural ingredients such as: shea butter; cocoa butter; mango butter; beeswax; jojoba oil; vitamin e; grapeseed oil; coconut oil; almond oil; essential oils in grapefruit, juniper, orange, rosehip; vanilla extract; vanilla flavouring; and so on and so forth.
Somehow I ended up with six yummy scents. Originally, I was just going to use their scent/flavour names, but my packaging is very simple already, so I thought, "I should come up with really fun names!". So here they are:
