Eyeko Eye Shadow

Cosmetics don’t come much cuter than Eyeko Beauty. It’s a brand bursting with fun, whimsy, great colourful designs and top cosmetics!

The graphics have more than a passing similarity with Hello Kitty and seems to be targetted at grown-up girls who are still young at heart. You’ll be in good, celeb company as we gather these A listers are friends of the brand:

• Kylie
• Courtney Cox Arquette
• Emma Bunton
• Brittany Murphy
• Helena Christensen
• Anastasia
• Mandy Moore

Fancy some? Superdrug is your port of call.

SilkSkin Pillow Cases

Thanks to Linda Thompson at SilkSkin we’re now aware of their revolutionary 100% silk pillow cases that are kind on your skin and hair. Over 40,000 customers have purchased one of the products and the silk cases have been reviewed in magazines such as She, Vogue, Cosmo, Grazia etc. Here’s what they say about the benefits of silk cases:

• hypoallergenic silk
• help maintain natural moisture in your skin
• silk has the same ph balance as your skin, helping to protect and maintain moisture levels
• silk breathes so it gives your skin the best possible chance of hydration through the night
• no added dyes / chemicals

Silkskin cases are available to buy from their website and are also stocked by HQ Hair and Beauty Bay.

Night, night!

Bliss Beauty Cosmetics

We’ve been wanting to offer you Bliss beauty products for sometime so we’re pleased to announce that you can now get your hands on them via our partnerships with both Boots and HQ Hair.

Bliss started out in 1996 as a spa in New York, offering a quirky, fun and creatively promoted service. In addition to their spa business, Bliss offer a range of beauty cosmetics with wacky named products such as:

• Fat Girl Slim
• The Love Handler
• The youth (as we know it)
• Thinny Thin Chin
• Spa To Go

So visit both Boots and HQ Hair to view the complete range of Bliss products and to compare prices.

Jo Wood Organics Everyday

Jo Wood, wife of Rolling Stone’s Ronnie Wood, has launched her own range of organic cosmetics which are now stocked by ethical goods store Adili.com

This is what the marketing blurb says about the range:

Jo Wood Organics is an ultra-luxurious collection of organic bath & body care products & a natural extension of Jo Wood’s passionate commitment to organic living, both in her family’s day-to-day life & on the road with husband, guitar legend & Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood.

This Organics Everyday range include the following products:

• bath oils
• body lotion
• body dew
• body oil
• soap
• gift sets
• candles

To compliment the range Jo Wood has also published a book entitled Naturally: How to Look and Feel Healthy, Energetic and Radiant the Organic Way (and it’s in stock at amazon).

So, go take a look at the full range of Jo Wood Organics.

Icy Beauty Cosmetics: The Instant Face-lift

The 2 minute facelift from Icy Beauty! Icy Beauty’s Ice Source formulas use the latest anti-aging technology to zap your skin with a freezing blast that makes bags and wrinkles a thing of the past. Known as the instant lift, this high-speed cooling system pushes problem skin back in line and is sworn to deliver a 2-minute facelift!

Dermatologically tested by independent laboratories, these products are designed for all skin types and each is adapted to the face, eye contour, neck and decollete. Here’s what Icy Beauty say about their research:

Recent scientific studies have shown that some ingredients are ten times more effective when they are cooled rapidly. In 2004, Icy Beauty marketed the result of 5 years’ research in cooperation with the European Space Agency: an individual self-cooling packaging used to design the first skin care product activated by instant cooling. The lifting effect is visible to the bare eye!

Our research on the interaction between cold and our cosmetic formulas has continued since then. Icy Beauty now proposes a line of products that are even more effective, faster and more practical. Reducing up to 73%* of wrinkles in a few minutes is now a dream come true.

* -32% on average - Study carried out by an independent laboratory

You can view the Ice Source product range and buy online here.

Lumene Cosmetics Review Due

Thanks to the PR agency behind the Nordic company Lumene Cosmetics we’ll be reviewing a sample of their current product range soon. Don’t forget to sign-up for our free email newsletter to keep up-to-date with the latest Beauty Hive news.

Bobbi Brown Coming Soon

The team at Bobbi Brown UK have been in touch and have kindly suggested that they could send us some of their current product range to sample.

That’s jolly nice of them and as soon as the products arrive, we’ll let you know what we think of them via our blog!

Karen Betts Beauty Blog

I stumbled upon a TV related beauty blog this afternoon. Karen Betts, whom you may well recognise from TV shows such as 10 Years Younger and This Morning also publishes her own site at beauty-blog.co.uk. Here’s how Karen is described on the site:

Karen Betts is one of the most well respected permanent makeup technicians & trainers in the UK today. Her TV appearances have earned her a growing list of celebrity clients.

So if you want to read more about permanent cosmetics, read more here.

Beauty Exchange Site

Fiona Costello from www.beautyswapshop.co.uk has been in touch to say Hello and to let us all know of her rather unique beauty exchange site. Here’s how Fiona describes her site:

…the Beauty Swap Shop forum – the UK’s first and only specialist beauty exchange website. With free membership, you will find a friendly forum in which to swap your beauty tips and products. You will also have the opportunity to enter competitions and find links to a number of free cosmetic samples.

Sounds great, so why not register - it’s free!

Sara Happ Lip Scrub

This weekends Stella magazine in the Sunday Telegraph gave a little mention to The Lip Scrub by Sara Happ, describing it as

an effective way to soothe and exfoliate chapped lips

Lip Scrub is available in several flavours:

• Almond Creme
• Brown Sugar
• Cinnamon Sugar
• Cocoa
• Peppermint
• Vanilla Bean

Favoured by several celebs including Charlize Theron, Katie Holmes, Marcia Cross and Kate Moss, you too can now get your hands on it over at HQHair.com