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Ah, summer! This is truly the season when three-month long vacations become reality, and families book trips together in order to bond. It’s a time when the sun, with its rich and delicious golden fingers, is most likely to cause havoc on your pretty face.
Yes, you’ve heard the statistics, no doubt, that skin cancer rates are increasing. Despite the myths and controversies surrounding sun protection and skin cancer (until more conclusive studies come out, we’re burying those myths under our pillows), we are firm advocates of sunscreen.

One of the handiest …

You asked, we listened. Dermatologist, Dr. Dennis Gross of DG Skincare is our expert of the week! We fell in love with Dr. Gross’ skincare products from hello. Now, it’s your turn to ask the pro!
Dr. Dennis Gross is our resident beauty expert for the week, and he is on tap to answer your most burning skincare questions for your chance to score one of the brand new sunscreens from DG Skincare.

What do you have to do to win? It’s as simple as riding a bike (or using sunscreen!):
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Between salt, allergies, and good old-fashioned crying jags, our under-eyes can take quite a beating in one day. It doesn’t really matter the cause, when I look in the mirror and see puffy eyes, I want to curl up and take a nap – not always feasible.

Clinique must have heard my silent cries for help, because they produced their new All About Eyes De-Puffing Eye Massage ($25.50 at clinique.com.) Physically, the metal ball of the roll-on applicator cools the eye area, while the chemicals like amentoflavone, …

We asked you if you could have any type of beauty expert (skin, hair, makeup artist, etc) cornered in an elevator for 30 minutes, what kind of expert would you want and what would you ask him or her?  Many of you had questions for a dermatologist so we brought in our resident dermatologist, Dr. Ellen Marmur to help.
What is the best skin care advice that you give to your patients?
My best skin care advice to my patients is to simply simplify! Know what skin does, how it works, and …

Last week, Lierac celebrated the 35th anniversary of its signature product, Phytolastil. A French physician created the gel and serum duo as a gift to his wife to remedy her post-pregnancy stretch marks, and lo and behold- Lierac was born.

Many of us know all too well that stretch marks work their way into being during times of quick weight gain, such as pregnancy. As the holistic plastic surgeon Dr. Shirley Madere explains, the stretch marks are better prevented than treated, since no treatment, not even surgery, can completely remove the …

If exfoliating is a cult, we are definitely the leader. In fact, we’ve been known to use everything from coffee grinds to brown sugar in order to slough off dead skin and clear out clogged pores. So when we got our paws on a bottle of Lierac Paris Micro-Abrasion Stimulating Smoothing Cream, we hopped in the shower to give it a test run. Despite being referred to as a face cream, Lierac’s Micro-Abrasion is really a face scrub that is rinsed off after massaging gently for two minutes.

Composed of alumina …

FusionBeauty has been known to hype pretty girls’ lips (my lips are still ballooning, Angeline-style, thanks to the original LipFusion). Now the brand is launching a set of four new shine glosses as part of its new “Luxe Boudoir” LipFusion Capsule Collection.

The four new glosses have a shimmer effect and also link to a charity called “Kiss Away Poverty” which receives a dollar from every sale of LipFusion Color Shine (each gloss retails for $29, so they aren’t cheap).
Kim Kardashian will be the face of this new collection, as well as the …

We love La Prairie for its super-luxe skin treatments targeting lines and wrinkles, so we were excited to learn that the beauty company has launched a trio of products to effectively attack slackness and discoloration of the skin. Harnessing the legendary firming benefits of caviar, the White Caviar Illuminating Système is a three-part system that lightens, tightens and firms while preventing future age spots and pigmentation patches.

Some shower gels are good enough to get “Lifetime Achievement Award” on their first impression, and Kathy Ireland’s Fresh Shower Gel (Green Tea & Aloe Vera; $11.99) may well be sudsing its way into the nominees list.

I was definitely expecting Zoe Saldana to wear blue at the 2010 Oscars (Na’vi Princess, where art thou?), but I was swept away by the lavender-lilac-amethyst-purple-violet Givenchy couture number that she ended up wearing on the red carpet.
Her hair was done in a super chic updo, created by TRESemmé Celebrity Stylist Mara Roszak. Roszak wanted ”an editorial look because she was wearing Givenchy. We also didn’t want the hair and make up to compete with the dress so we created an elegant but effortless look.”

Here’s how you can recreate Saldana’s …