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Heart disease doesn’t care what you wear

Heart disease doesn’t care what you wear

Moxies, did you know that tomorrow is National Wear Red Day?

Created by The Heart Truth, National Wear Red Day is the annual kick-off to American Heart Month. While The Heart Truth is encouraging us to wear red and show our support for women’s heart disease awareness, they’re also trying to get out a critical message: “Heart Disease Doesn’t Care What You Wear – It’s the #1 Killer of Women.”

One of the most surprising things I learned about heart disease is that it can start as early as your teens and you should be taking actions to protect your heart health no matter what your age.

Whether or not you’re wearing red tomorrow, be sure to give yourself a little evaluation of your risk for heart disease by checking out this article (this one is good too : )

Tomorrow, I’ll be wearing my Guerlain KissKiss lipstick in Folie De Grenat (a classic red). Will you be rocking some red tomorrow?

PHOTO: The Heart Truth, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute / The Heart Truth and Red Dress are trademarks of DHHS.

Smashbox Beauty Guru Compact

Smashbox Beauty Guru Compact

Smashbox’s newest offering is nothing short of lust-worthy.

Designed by Andria Woods, the winner of Smashbox’s Beauty Guru contest, the Beauty Guru Palette is a multi-level compact that contains a lip color trio and gloss, an eyeshadow and liner quad and a blush and bronzer duo.

The colors look [Read more →]

Must See: The Powder and the Glory

Elizabeth Arden in 1939. PHOTO: Alan Fisher/New York World-Telegram

Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein may be the most important makeup moxies who ever lived.

In a time when makeup was worn mostly by prostitutes and performers, the two women transformed the way we wear makeup and think about ourselves.

Even more importantly, these women blew gender roles out of the water to rock the [Read more →]

Korres Vitamin E Organic Face Primer

Korres Vitamin E Organic Face Primer

If you’ve been on the market for an organic face primer, you’re now in luck. The new Vitamin E Organic Primer by Korres promises to prep skin for smooth makeup application while nourishing the skin with vitamin E, Jojoba and Sunflower oils.

While I suspect that this primer may not be [Read more →]