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Recommended Beauty Reading: The Lancôme Blog

Add it to your readers, dolls: Lancôme has launched a new blog at www.thelancomeblog.blogspot.com. Written by Lancôme VP for public relations and former Harper's Bazaar beauty director Kerry Diamond, the blog will cover all the buzz about the brand, from their hottest products to news about their spokespeople and makeup artists. You'll love Kerry's lively, fun take on everything from her to-do lists to her feelings about Clive Owen. Parenthetically, I agree, Kerry. There are sexy dudes... and THEN there is Clive.

The blog will feature the latest on Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet, Clive Owen, Daria Werbowy, Elettra Wiedemann, Arlenis Sosa, Aaron De Mey, Sandy Linter plus other makeup artists, models and celebs.

Even better? They'll also be doing lots of great giveaways. The brand is giving away ten bottles of Génifique, their new skincare product that is launching this month.

Click here to enter to win.

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Fakecation: All I Ever Wanted.

My vaca plans screeched to a depressing halt when I learned I had to pay first and last months' rent AND a security deposit for my stu stu studio within 2 weeks, but that hasn't stopped me from putting together a list of beauty items for a "fakecation" I'll be spending here in NYC. Is the financial apocalypse putting you in a similar situ? Then check out these beauty goodies that are sure to put you in a vaca state of mind, stat.

What is a vaca without a literary "snack?" I save the Proust for non-fakecationing and dip into something fun and light when I want to enjoy myself. Fellow beauty blogger Nadine Haobsh's Confessions of a Beauty Addict ($11) is "fine holiday fun," in the words of Clueless' Travis Birkenstock. You'll love protaganist Bella's adventures as the new beauty editor at dowdy Womanly World. The story is peppered with surreptitious beauty tip gems like washing your hair in cold water. Most of all? You'll adore her almost JJ Abrams-esque creation of a hunky male crush. Bring it on your next plane ride.



H20 Plus Bali Breeze Renewing Sugar Scrub ($25) This non-oily, finely-granuled sugar scrub smells of the islands, thanks to its blend of creamy coconut, shea butter and mango formula. It hydrates as it sloughs. Double duty beauty, dolls!

Molton Brown Unwind Atoll Crystal Bath Soak ($35) These blue bath crystals will turn your lame bathtub into a blue lagoon in seconds. To the point where your roommate will be asking what the H is going ON in there. It blue-ifies your bath with Gaiamare rubies and Dead Sea salts. Rock Samphire extract helps to promote healthier-looking skin. And it smells the way I remember Bermuda smelling.

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