Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess Summer Glow Makeup Collection 2016.

I am dreaming of summer and there is nothing better to get me in the mood than this years Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess Summer Glow makeup collection. All of the products have one central theme: bronzing. With products for the eyes, lips and cheeks, skin with be glowing with a touch of sun that will last the season and beyond. I'm obsessed!

Bronze Goddess Summer Glow is perfect for your summer makeup bag and essential for travel! The collection includes two new palettes (one for eyes and one for cheeks), a new innovative multi-tasking lip and cheek color stick, a liquid illuminator and of course, the brands cult favorite bronzers.

The highlight of the collection for me is the stunning Summer Glow Multi-Palette. This is a trio face palette that contains a soft shimmering bronzer, illuminator and blush for a gorgeous, natural summer glow. I love the geometric inspired design of the powder itself — so gorgeous — but the powders hold a secret. The powders were created with a special Prisma Technology which is a "tribrid" of liquid, powder and gel which feels incredible on the skin. It applies with a super smooth finish (like a creamy gel in powder form) with true color. The shades will really enhance a tan.

To get that beautiful tan, there are a few easy ways to create a faux tan with self-tanner (obviously), by using a bronzer like one of the Bronze Goddess Powder Bronzers in this collection or my favorite way with a gel bronzer like the Gelee Bronzer. This gel bronzer is very easy to use and wear; it feels like nothing on the skin yet it makes skin look naturally sun kissed. I apply a thin veil of the gel bronzer over my tinted moisturizer to give skin an all-over bronzed look. It is very natural looking and gives my skin the perfect looking faux glow. It lasts longer and looks more natural than a powder bronzer ever does.

To further accent a tan, I always go with gold and that's why I think the Lip and Cheek Summer Glow in Sunburst is a must have. This 3-in-1 color stick has a soft gold lip and cheek color on one end and sparkly gold gloss on the other. It's not only a great accent shade, the stick is perfectly portable and amazing for travel. It comes in other shades (more below) but gold (Sunburst) is my pick.

The entire Bronze Goddess Summer Glow Makeup Collection for 2016:

Limited Edition Summer Glow Eyeshadow Palette - $50

Limited Edition Summer Glow Multi-Palette - $50

Limited Edition Lip and Cheek Summer Glow - $34 Choose from Fuchsia Lights, Peach Glow or Sunburst

Limited Edition Summer Glow Illuminator - $32

Limited Edition Gelee Bronzer - $32

Bronze Goddess Powder Bronzer - $37 Choose from Light, Medium or Medium Deep

The Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess Summer Glow Collection is available now at Estée Lauder counters nationwide in department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom as well as esteelauder.com.

Get Picture Perfect Skin with OXY.

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With two boys nearing the end of their high school year, it is all talk of prom these days. In fact, my youngest son Joey just asked a girl to prom with a "promposal" over the weekend and Johnny is prepping his now. One thing both of my boys worry about on an almost daily basis that I do not want them to worry about as we get closer to prom is their skin. That's why I suggested they take the OXY 28 Day Challenge to ensure that their skin is clear and picture perfect in time for prom.

Download the OXY 28 Day Challenge app and answer a few questions to receive a customized acne treatment plan. Once the plan is received, simply pick up the recommended OXY products from a local mass retailer or drugstore and use them to treat the acne over the next 28 days and watch as visibly clearer skin is revealed.

Now, you may be thinking, why 28 days and not some super fast treatment? Well, if you have tried one of those get-rid-of-acne-fast treatments, you probably know that they usually don't live up to their promises in the long-run. As a trusted skin care brand for over 40 years, OXY is taking a more realistic and effective acne treatment with their 28-Day Challenge. Dermatologists say that acne medication can take from 4 to 8 weeks to receive the best results. Backed by the same acne treatment principles endorsed by American Academy of Dermatology, the 28-Day Challenge provides a simple approach to educate users and clear acne. By providing the right product recommendations using a dermatologist approved acne care regimen, skin is sure to be clear by prom. So sure that the challenge is money back guaranteed!

OXY has an acne care regimen for each acne level, so depending on your skin type or acne severity, it will be recommended that you use a combination of three products. You will be given a selection of either the OXY Rapid Treatment Face Wash or OXY Rapid Treatment Sensitive Face Wash; OXY Rapid Treatment 3-in-1 Pads or OXY Skin Clearing Pads; and then you will also use the OXY Rapid Spot Treatment on problem pimples. All of the products are powered by OXY acne medication that has clinically proven acne-fighting ingredients and a proven 28 day product regimen to clear-up your skin.

The OXY 28 Day Challenge app is an easy to use smartphone app that can be downloaded from Apple iTunes or Google Play depending on your operating system. The app is chock full of great information and will give you a personalized dermatologist approved acne care regimen, daily tips to help maximize results and even daily alerts to keep you on track. You can even keep track of your progress with before and after pictures. Download the OXY 28 Day Challenge app and learn more on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Oxy . The opinions and text are all mine.

New Discovery: Eve by Eve's.

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While you can usually find me shopping the beauty pages and aisles of stores like Nordstrom, Sephora or CVS, I do like discovering new boutique stores and brands and sharing them with you. I get especially excited when a newly discovered brand leads me to find the best gel eyeliner that I think I have ever used. The new discovery? Eve by Eve's.

Eve by Eve's is located in the heart of Beverly Hills but offers its high quality products directly through their website where they have great new offers every week. I've fallen for quite a few of their beauty products fast! Produced in small quantities to preserve their quality, all of the products are made with natural ingredients from the optimal locations. The brand uses ingredients such as water essence from Switzerland, algae from the coastal region of France, and pigments from Italy to name a few. I may be just a bit addicted to the lavender essential extracts from Japan that is infused in the Hydrating Cleansing Oil (more on that below).

So, I teased that I discovered the best gel eyeliner that I have ever tried and that would be Eve by Eve's Conditioning Smudgeproof Gel Eyeliner. This eyeliner is so creamy smooth and applies easily with the #15 Eyeliner Brush, which makes application flawless. Once applied, the formula sets and becomes smudge and waterproof so it lasts and looks perfect all day long. I tested the black shade which looks better than your average black gel liner — I can't put my finger on it; it just doesn't seem to lay flat. It may be because this gel eyeliner is formulated with hydrating and brightening ingredients, which is always a plus, but it is just a brighter, more perfect black. It makes for the best winged eyeliner.

Another great discovery is the Eve by Eve's Drama Luxe Gel Mascara. This duo-ended mascara is a fiber gel mascara with one side being a base primer and the other end being a really luxurious conditioning mascara that builds a ton of lash length. I find that applying a base primer coat versus multiple coats or mascara cuts down on the chance of clumps and helps build additional volume too. The Drama Luxe Gel Mascara left my lashes super long with a lot of volume. My lashes never smudged and the formula never flaked and my lashes looked better than ever all day long.

With spring having a major focus on the lips, I have been layering my lip products, and I discovered some really nice lip products too. The colors are all so beautiful! I always start with a lip liner and I was happy to discover Eve by Eve's Lip Definer in Rose. This is a conditioning lip definer that applies easily and fills in lips with its creamy texture. On top of that, I have been using Eve by Eve's Drama Luxe Lip Color in Luscious Rouge. This beautiful orange-red lipcolor comes in a super slim case (this style makes it super portable!) and offers long-lasting, vibrant creamy-matte color. I like layering this shade over the rose lip definer for a pretty spring shade. I top it off with Eve by Eve's Drama Luxe Lip Luster in Orange Blossom. This is a volumizing and hydrating lipgloss with a bit of sparkle to it. If you read me regularly, you know how much I love lipgloss and this a really good one. It is very well pigmented, super glossy and lasts a lot longer than most glosses.

Other Eve by Eve's products that I recommend include the Eve by Eve's Conditioning Eyebrow Definer for it's creamy texture and smudge-proof long-wear formula, the long-lasting Eve by Eve's Mattifying HD Loose Powder and the Hydrating Cleansing Oil, that I mentioned above.

The Eve by Eve's Lavender Hydrating Cleansing Oil is made in Japan and contains 100% pure lavender essential oil instead of synthetic oil; it is pure luxury. It feels so gentle on my skin as the oil, which also contains Cherry Blossom Leaf Extracts as an anti-inflammatory, dissolves dirt, oils and makeup away. This oil removes every trace of long-wearing and what normally harder to remove makeup. It is heavenly!

I can't wait to discover more skincare from Eve by Eve's. Just browsing over the skincare section, the products look irresistible and sound effective as I look over some of the ingredient lists.

Shop Eve by Eve's on their website: www.evebyeves.com or at their flagship store:
350 N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Have you ever discovered any great beauty products by trying new brands?

Thank you to Eve by Eve's for sponsoring today's post. All opinions are my own.