The Beauty Babe

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• Salon Acote – A Breath of French Air on Boston’s Newbury Street

  Seeking to make the “Best Tressed List” with a stunning haircut and color? When you’re in Boston, there’s only one salon for those in-the-know: Salon Acote. Salon Acote, owned by Alexander Safar, is a sunny, beautifully appointed salon on Boston’s posh Newbury Street where you can get flawless, fashionable haircare, listen to foreign music, enjoy [...]

• GOOD CLEAN ALOHA FUN

  I’m all for taking home souvenirs of your trip, and one of my favorite things to do is to bring back beauty products made with indigenous ingredients of the region. That’s why I’m crazy about Island Soap & Candle Works products that I sniffed out at the ABC stores and at Hilo Hatties.  Stash any [...]

• Clarins Day Spa: Doorway To Heaven

  Enter Bloomingdale’s in the Boston area, at The Mall at Chestnut Hill, and make a beeline to the cosmetics department.  There, amidst many prestigious beauty brands you’ll find the door to the impressive new Clarins flagship Chestnut Hill Day Spa. Here, at this inimitable oasis, you will open the door to a new, intoxicating world [...]

• Spa Kea Lani — The Spa Who Loved Me

  Seeking The Full Monty of pampering spa treatments? It doesn’t get any better than Spa Kea Lani,  located at the Fairmont Kea Lani Resort in Wailea, Maui.   This serene 4,000-sq.-ft. sanctuary offers many lovely and healing treatments, many of them consisting of secrets of healers that have been passed down from generation to generation. [...]

• Curl, Interrupted

  I admit it — I have wavy hair. Nothing too curly or frizzy –  just, as my husband says, “hair with a bend.”  So it is with the utmost pleasure for me to say that I now have the straight, silky hair of my dreams — thanks to Keratin Complex straightening.  In 2007, Keratin Complex [...]