Total Beauty Bit: Suddenly, I'm Trendy

As a naturally wavy girl, I love it when trends go my way. Check out the details on which celebs are going curly.

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Trend Alert: Curly Hairstyles

See how celebrities like Madonna, Leighton Meester, Hilary Duff and Jennifer Lopez make curls the year's hottest trend

As more and more celebrities embrace curls on the red carpet, it's become clear that this look is not just a passing trend. Whether long or short, naturally straight or not, everyone seems to be reaching for hot rollers and curling irons. Get inspiration to go curly by checking out these gorgeous celebrity photos. See curls

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Total Beauty Bit: Review by Charli!

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Marco Pelusi Marco Color Control Gel

Guest review by TotalBeauty.com editor Charli Schuler

Designed to provide natural, flexible hold, this alcohol-free gel is not to be used in gobs. See review

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Beauty's Product: Five Minutes to FAB with Benefit Cosmetics

My travelling partner is somewhat like a basic training marine corps officer. She runs a tight ship and she wants everyone at the day's first activity by the crack of dawn. So these helpful tips from benefit cosmetics on getting FAB (f*ing absolutely beautiful) in five minutes are most helpful. Luckily this morning I've secured two whole hours to be with you, sit in my bed, and look out over the big easy from the most fabulous 19th century porch. Also, there is a depression on (as they say in the south) so take note of the free product code at the bottom of the promo.

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Beauty's Travel Products: Road Trip Essentials

I can't remember the last time I slept in my own bed. I left North Carolina at some point in late August for New York Fashion Week. Fashion "Week" is misleading as the last time I checked a week still only contains seven days. After 10 days of Prêt-à-Porter pleasure at a fast and furious pace I departed Gotham City and headed south for a few mellow days of peanut oil-free cupcakes, Friday night movies, and family time in D.C. for my little sister's 7th birthday. Next - off to LA for a cross country road trip with my compatriot in freelance writing. She writes lonely planet travel and food. I write beauty and travel. It's been quite an adventure.

I miss my own bed. I'm homesick for my beauty closet and usual haunts. Bringing the comforts of home with me was a precise science, tailored to my specific beauty routine. The products had to be perfect, multifunctional, and much much tougher than I am. So I set out on this the month of beauty Bedouin-ism with about 300 hundred of my most favorite products. Over the last 23 days or so I have whittled them down to the best and the brightest of the beauty closet. Here for your reference is the perfect beauty bag and its contents:

Bliss Triple Oxygen Instant Energizing Mask. Yes I have been driving for 10 hours and I'm still in Texas but this makes me look like Miss Texas not the nutty, diaper-wearing, astronaut lady.

Juara Candlenut and Body Balm. Perfect bedtime, relaxation, I'd Like to Swaddle Myself in a Hot Herbal Wrap at Bliss Every Night Lotion.

DDF Protect and Correct UV Moisturiser SPF 15. Too thick for everyday use but a must have on beach and desert days.

Yu-be Moisturizing Skin Cream. New York in Heels = I would not have feet left were it not for this Japanese wonder cream.

Jonathan Green Rootine Silkening Cream. Don't attempt to substitute this brilliant styling product for conditioner when yours goes missing in Mexico. You'll look like the most unsavory character on the boardwalk. Do however use daily to fight frizz and delight in your smoothie-scented locks.

Dermalogica Conditioning Body Wash. MUST-HAVE Travel Product. Gentle enough to use as face wash when all of the paper-wrapped mini bricks make you feel a million miles from everything comfortable. Pampering daily care for the whole bod.

SkinCeuticals AOX Body Treatment. Hot in a bottle. This day time body lotion gives you that extra sparkle all day long.

Suki Lip Repair Butter. Waxy, Lemon-scented, not sexy lips, but organic healthy beautiful lips.

Murad Skin and Lip Therapy. You must kiss my lips, bottled.

Memoire Liqude, Bespoke Perfume. My scent. Yes in this moment, Mr. Cowboy, I'm the hottest woman you have ever met, bottled.

Nubar, (carcinogen-free) Merlot Nail Polish. Yes you want to hire me nail color.

OPI Parlez Vouz OPI Nail Polish. I travel everywhere with the style and ease of a Parisian princess polish.

Benefit Bad gal Blue Mascara. Yes my eyes are the color of the tropical blue sea.

Anastasia Eye Lights Matte in Camille. Yes my eyes sparkle like the reflection of the sun on the tropical blue sea.

Laura Mercier SPF 15 Mineral Powder. There is only one occasion where it is acceptable to leave the house without this coverall essential and it's after a day at Lake Austin Spa Resort, when everyone looks as beautiful as they will ever ever look. Ever.

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Total Beauty Bit: I Love All Things Ted Gibson

I will be reminding you for a long, long time about my interview with Ted Gibson. I just can't say enough about this lovely man. Check out what total beauty has to say about his Affirmation Body Shampoo.

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Ted Gibson Affirmation Body Shampoo

Guest review by TotalBeauty.com editor Sarah Carrillo

If you're tired of your shower smelling like a tropical rain forest, try the Affirmation Body Shampoo from Ted Gibson. See review

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Beauty's Travel: Budget Baja

Americans are very pro-active in obtaining our relaxation. Vichy showers, body wraps, scrubs, and that doesn't even delve into the seedy spa underbelly of colon cleanses and fasting undertaken in the name of good health. On a recent trip I accompanied a friend, who happens to be a lonely planet writer, to her destination of choice, San Felipe Mexico. This quaint fishing village, recently featured in the LA times, is only a few hours drive from San Diego. The drive itself is stunning with the large expanses of sandy desert turning into great plain sized white sand beaches that lead to a distant Sea of Cortez.

Although I travelled internationally to much more dangerous locations in my younger years, I've mellowed with age and without some prodding wouldn't drive into Mexico to stay in an underpopulated coastal town on my own volition. It occurred to me that San Felipe now is the kind of place that seasoned ex-pats in the future will say, "You should have seen it before it got trendy." It is not yet trendy, although its population does swell for spring break and there are certainly hotels and tourist friendly restaurants dotting the shores of it's cove, carved out from Sea of Cortez. We were the only Americans I saw, minus a shirtless bearded man who has clearly made the sandy beach (note: I am not saying the "sandy beach town") his home.





San Felipe is unmistakeably beautiful. There are however, no spas. Relaxation here comes naturally from walking the white sand beach from mountain to mountain and lolling in the clear sun drenched water. My most peaceful moment came when I woke up with the sun rising over the sea. I walked down to the ocean and submerged myself up to my hips. With in minutes the tide had drained the water so that it only rose to my knees. I wondered if perhaps I hadn't woken up at all and was standing in the Sea of Cortez that exists in the dream world and has a bath tub drain. In fact, when my travelling partner woke up and joined me in the ocean I was informed that I was awake and in San Felipe the tides are extreme and swift. Every morning the cove is turned into a lovely wading pool balanced in between the rising sun and the setting moon. I waded for an hour or so and then we returned home. In 20 years I'll get to be one of those obnoxious travellers who get to say, "you should have seen it when," but in 20 years I'll also be saying it after paying for my mud wrap and vichy shower - most likely avoiding the free relaxation available on the beach due to the crowds.

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Kate Somerville's Award Winning Facials at the Emmys

Kate Somerville worked her magic on Felicity Huffman, Molly Sims, Rashida Jones, and Kerry Washington for their appearances at the Emmys. (I still have residual radiance when I think of my visit to her heavenly white room.) For those of us who are not lucky enough to live in LA Kate has packaged her Emmy Facial in a lovely little kit. “All my red carpet girls take home our GLOW KIT, including all my best-sellers, the kit offers the three essential steps in achieving a glowing, flawless complexion: exfoliating, hydrating and repairing."


KIT INCLUDES:

EXFOLIKATE Intensive Exfoliating Treatment (1.7 oz.)
QUENCH Hydrating Serum (1 oz.)
DEEP Tissue Repair (1 oz.)
Retail Price: $265.00

Available: select Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and http://www.katesomerville.com/

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Total Beauty Web Tour!

Viva Woman tells you why you should not steam your face too often.

Enter now to win a Imprint On My Heart custom pendant valued at $400 from Girl-Woman-Beauty-Brains-Blog.

Beauty411 loves the new Chanel Smokey Eye Collection and tells you how to get the smokey eye look seen all over the runways at Fashion Week!

Beauty Anonymous reviews Shiseido Integrate Glamerous Rouge lip gloss!

Visit A Mom in Red High Heels for your chance to WIN a $110 worth of Avon anti-aging products and Bond Girl 007 fragrance! Hurry! Deadline is September 22.

Boutique Flair reviews DDF Protect And Correct UV Moisturizer SPF 15!

The Beauty Alchemist loves Victoria's Secret Very Sexy Dare Fragrance

The Anti Hair Slave has fallen in love with Missoni Acqua

The Makeup Divas reviews Tarte Lips Ahoy!

Fabulous Over Forty reviews the new designer makeup lines at Target.

My interview with Project Runway's Nina Garcia-by Talking Makeup!

Has something finally come between Christine and her CoverGirl Lash Blast? Head on over to Beauty in Real Life and find out what mascara could make her think twice.

Daily Dose of Coffee takes a look at Too Faced Tricks of the Trade kit. Find out if it's worth the money and whether or not you'll actually use the products in it.

Glossypink tells you which posh products Victoria Beckham can't live without!

Spoiled Pretty is hosting a fashtastic giveaway. Enter to win products from Urban Decay's fall 2008 collection...plus a sinfully chic Ananas clutch to put them in!!!

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