Beach Waves: 6 Hair Mists for the Perfect 70's Inspired Beach Hair

Carat & Roses August 8, 2015

Sip on the smooth air and kick it in the sand with 6 natural and organic beach wave sprays perfect for your summer getaway, poolside sun days or ocean dips by the beach.

1. Leonor Greyl Lait Luminescence Detangling Milk Spray

Try this detangling leave-in styling spray pre sun and post swim to enhance shine and smooth strands with UV/UB protection free of silicone and enriched with hydrating plant extracts, style even the most difficult hair for managebility and nourishing properties.

Go-to Product: Leonor Greyl Lait Luminescence, 48$

2. Herbivore Botanicals Sea Mist Hair & Body Spritzer

Whether your spending the day in the sand or exploring the current seaside market, this beach to street mist will give you the perfect tousled waves from wet to dry styles with lavender and sage perfect for hair to skin for textured waves and hydrated refreshment to your skin.

Go-to product: Herbivore Botanicals Sea Mist Hair & Body Spritzer, 10$-18$

3. John Masters Organics Sea Mist Sea Salt Spray with Lavender

Get spent the day at the beach hair in the city with this color safe natural sea salt mist to give hair body while protecting strands from drying with organic lavender in travel and full size formats.

Go-to product: John Masters Organics Sea Mist Sea Salt Spray with Lavender, 5.50$-16.50$

4. Josie Maran Bohemian Waves Argan Hair Mist Texture Volume & Moisture

Soft textured waves are a mist away with this natural pink Himalayan salt infused spray to smooth and calm hair while organic argan oil hydrates tousled waves with nourishing strength and shine for work to beach styles.

Go-to product: Josie Maran Bohemian Waves Argan Hair Mist Texture Volume & Moisture, 2t2$

5. Olivine Atelier Love + Salt Mist

Perfect beach waves are just the start with this hydrating mist perfect when sprayed in dry hair, style your hair into a topknot overnight and wake up to beach ready hair that does double duty to hydrate skin. Spray liberally day to night.

Go-to product: Olivine Atelier Love + Salt Mist, 26$

6. Alterna Haircare Bamboo Beach Summer Ocean Waves Tousled Texture Spray

Add texture and volume in a lightweight formula, with UVA/UVB protection to fight sun and ocean damage with a tropical inspired mango coconut scent. This summer hair treatment helps protect against drying and breakage.

Go-to product: Alterna Haircare Bamboo Beach Summer Ocean Waves Tousled Texture Spray, 22$

Sun Travel Natural Beauty Essentials for Your Makeup Bag

Carat & Roses June 2, 2015

Sun season is here! With travel days full of airports, museums, el fresco dining, beach side stays, these natural beauty travel faves are a must no matter where your summer adventures take you. Whether your walking the Champs d'Elysse, taking in the Santorini views or exploring Panama City, our beauty essentials will take you from beach to street throughout your summer travels.

Josie Maran Bear Naked Wipes

Wipe the day and make up from your face or refresh on the go while giving back to the Polar bear race.

Go-to product: Josie Maran Wipes, 15$

Côte 5-free Nail Color

Always us a toxin free nail color for healthy glowing beach ready nails.

Go-to product: Côte 5-free Nail Colors, 16$

Bandaid Friction Block Stick

Travel status or breaking in new shoes usually means lots of walking beach side, museum tours, exploring and between airport gates.

Band aid friction block helps protect against blisters especially in new shoes and decidedly while walking the city of your next destination and the perfect excuse to break in those new shoes.

Go-to product: Bandaid Friction Block Stick, 5$

Le Labo Travel Set

Travel worthy bath products in the signature Le Labo fragrances are delicately scented with a distinctive scent and are the perfect packable travel size.

Go-to products: Le Labo Travel Set Rose 31, 90$

John Masters Organics Sea Salt Mist with Lavender

Perfect beach side boho waves are a sea salt lavender spray away with this Lavender scented mist.

Go-to product: John Masters Organics Sea Salt Mist with Lavender, 5$-16$

Leonor Greyl Mousse au Lotus Volumatrice - Volume Mousse

Wet look ponys, buns and sleeked back hair are the perfect day to night look with volume mousse.

Go-to product: Leonor Greyl Mousse au Lotus Volumatrice, 46$

RMS Beauty Raw Coconut Cream

RMS Beauty raw coconut cream will remove even the most stubborn waterproof mascara and the perfect cuticle treatment by the pool.

Go-to product: RMS Beauty Raw Coconut Cream, 18$

One Truffle Clarity Pouch

Keep it all together in a clear easy to carry Oprah approved pouch to make finding your beach beauty faves a cinch.

Go-to product: One Truffle Clarity Pouches, 32$-72$

Aerin Large Gold Comb

Comb through sea knoted strands into sleek tamed styles with a chic travel worthy comb.

Go-to product: Aerin Large Gold Comb, 40$

Leonor Greyl Huile Secret de Beauty - Organic Oil for Hair and Skin

Never travel without the do everything multitasking beauty oil from moisturizer to pre-shampoo hair treatments and quick air bound foot spa ( a quick slip into cashmere socks on the plane ought to restore the wariest of feet) your beach beauty routine will thank you.

Go-to product: Leonor Greyl Huile Secret de Beaute, 66$

Chanel LES BEIGES SPF 15

Quick travel makeup includes the perfectly undone makeup look with a quick dab of moisturizer and swipe of this illuminating powder for a day to night look made for exploring museums and el fresco dining.

Go-to product: Chanel LES BEIGES, 58$

Show Beauty Pure Treatment Oil

Take your beach hair out for a night out while repairing hair ends and not to mention a decadent light scent your hair will thank you for.

Go-to product: Show Beauty Pure Treatment Oil, 78$

Foreo Mini Electric Issa Brush

After tasting every sharing plate, selected desserts and wine pairings this BPA-free silicon toothbrush with a USB chargable cord will be the perfect travel companion for the foodie inspired traveler.

Go-to product: Foreo Mini Electric Issa Brush, 119$

Chanel LE WEEKEND

Give your travel beauty look a break with this infused rose water weekend beauty treatment to renew and hydrate travel weary skin for a luminous glow.

Go-to product: Chanel LE WEEKEND, 115$

Josie Maran Argan Moisturizer SPF 47

Sheer daily moisturizer is the perfect base for your travel beauty look or beach side hydration.

Go-to product: Josie Maran Argan Moisturizer SPF 47,18$-67$

Aerin Rose Balm

Take this multitasking beauty balm on the go to hydrate lips, deepen brows or repair dry skin.

Go-to product: Aerin Rose Balm, 58$

Le Labo Solid Perfume

Add a light travel worthy scent to your makeup bag in a cool easy to travel refillable case that is also sustainable and gentle on the environment.

Go-to product: Le Labo Solid Perfume Rose 31, 85$

Diptyque The Art of Face Care Travel Set

Keep your face hydrated from airplane to beach days with this facial mist perfect for refreshing during your travel days.

Go-to product: Diptyque The Art of Face Care Travel Set, 75$

Show Beauty Dry Shampoo

Give your next day hair the beauty treatment with Show Beauty dry shampoo that absorbs oil and adds volume.

Go-to product: Show Beauty Dry Shampoo, 47$

Honest Floride-free Natural Toothpaste

Natural beauty means your toothpaste too! Mouth cleansing natural toothpaste that promotes healthy gums and teeth in a fresh mint flavor.

Go-to product: Honest Floride-free Natural Toothpaste, 3.95$-5.95$

Butter London 2-in-1 Scrubbers Nail Prep & Remover Pads

Easily remove nail polish from 10 nails for a quick change nail sesh with these multitasking individual wipes, perfect for your travel bag.

Go-to product: Butter London 2-in1 Scrubbers Nail Prep & Remover Pads, 10$

Eve Lom Cleanser

Deep cleanse, exfoliate and soften sun-kissed skin with this Vogue approved travel cleanser.

Go-to product: Eve Lom Cleanser, 50$-135$

Coola Sport Continuous Spray SPF 30 - SPF 50

Protect skin with this recyclable, cruelty-free organic sunscreen in unscented and scented varieties to take in the sun without harmful UV rays while you hydrate, repair and nourish skin.

Go-to product: Coola Sport Continuous Spray, 32$-36$

Leaves of Trees Deodorant

Stay fresh throughout your travels with this bright fresh scent deodorant.

Go-to product: Leaves of Trees Deodorant, 15$

French Girl Beauty: 3 Beauty products to Master a French Girl's Effortless Je Ne Sais Quoi

Carat & Roses May 6, 2015

French girl beauty is about working with what you have and not being more than who you are. A bare face and bold lip is the perfect french girl je ne sais quoi. Along with the perfect skin care routine, try this easy beauty look to bring out all your best effortlessly.

1. Moisturize

French girls are known for their love of minimal makeup, the perfect hair cut and everything in moderation. Start with a clean face and moisturize face and neck with a moisturizer containing an SPF.

Go-to product: Josie Maran Argan Daily Moisturizer, 14$-54$

2. Eyebrows

Strong eyebrows and bare lashes are a French girl signature. Dab brows with a balm to enhance their look without over-powering your face. Use a multitasking balm and add highlight to your face with a sheer loose powder like Chanel Les Beiges to the cupid's bow at the top of your lip and to highlight cheeks.

Go-to product: Aerin Beauty Rose Balm, 58$

3. Red Lip

A French girl know a red lip is a beauty must. Bright for day to deep rouge matte for night. A bare face and bold lip is the perfect touch to the French girl beauty look and sometimes using your finger is just the thing.

Go-to product: Bite Beauty Rouge Creme Lipstick, 28$

7 Natural Hair Rescue Alternative Treatments to Your Normal Hair Routine

Carat & Roses March 2, 2015

We're going inside 7 natural alternative hair treatments for that perfect mane, whether you have dry split ends, trying to grow your hair long or wanting to add extra moisture to your roots. We found 7 go-to treatments you have to try and for best results, always towel dry hair before using any after wash hair product so hair is damp and not soaking wet to allow any product you use to better absorb into the hair cuticle or apply products to dry hair where noted.

1. Conditioning Mask

Try a hydrating conditioning mask to protect and boost hair repair with a weightless formula designed to leave hair soft and shiny and delicately scented. It will help eliminate split, dry ends and help you grow longer hair as you require less trips for trimming with deeper hydrated ends.

Go-To Product: Leonor Greyl Masque Fleurs de Jasmin, 65$

2. Dry Shampoo

For healthy looking next day hair, spray a dry shampoo at roots of unwashed hair when your out of time, after the gym or while travelling to refresh your hair between washes. Give curls a beachy loose look with an all over spray keeping them from clumping together, lift volume at roots, lock in a back comb, prevents bangs from sticking to your forehead, conceal dark roots in blonde hair and add texturing grip to bobby pins.

Go-To Product: Show Beauty Dry Shampoo, 47$

3. Leave In Treatments

This leave-in treatment softens and nourishes hair while treating dryness and releases soothing hydration to scalp and hair, making hair manageable and revitalized throughout the day.

Go-To Product: John Masters Organics Hair Milk, 26$

4. Beauty Hair Oil

Add rejuvenating shine with a restorative elixir that will boost your hair's luster and shine, for a strengthened, deeply nourished with a lightweight antioxidant and nutrient–rich formula leaves hair fiber renewed, strengthened and deeply nourished. This leave-in serum enhances elasticity and restores a lush, healthy appearance and strength. Try it on wet or dry hair and great for smoothing and taming fly-aways.

Go-To Product: Show Beauty Pure Treatment Oil, 78$

5. Hot Oil Treatments

Hot oil hair treatments have long been touted as hair rescue hydrating treatments. With a gentle formula infused with Argan Oil, it can reverse damage caused by heat and over-styling, leaving hair smoother, shinier, and healthier. In the shower, the oil warms itself up to the ideal temperature for penetrating strands to effectively seal in moisture. The self-heating oil provides a gentle warming sensation as it penetrates deep into the hair cuticle, sealing in moisture and shine. Use weekly or as often as needed.

Go-To Product: Josie Maran Argan Hot Oil Self-Heating Hair Treatment, 20$ -45$

6. Pre-treatments

Apply this treatment to dry hair before shampooing or other treatments, we recommend a minimum of 30 minutes before. It will help easily detangle hair, apply it before sun exposure or the beach to protect hair from sun and salt water damage and nourish hair quality, while it beautifies and strengthens hair no matter the season. This light-weight oil quickly absorbs, leaving hair silky and shiny. Also try it before coloring your hair. We recommend you color with an organic brand, ask your salon for Organic Color System.

Go-To Product: Leonor Greyl Pre-Shampoo Oil, 59$

7. Hair Fragrance

With all the decadent scents that flood your looks after a wash or styling, a hair fragrance will give your hair a boost after all those scents have faded from your mane. Try a light indulgent fragrance packed with essential vitamins and minerals that will fight free radicals and color fade while enhancing shine and restoring hair's natural strength and beauty.

Go-To Product: Show Beauty Hair Fragrance, 85$

Beauty Oil: 8 Ways to Use Multi-tasking Hair & Body Beauty Oils

Carat & Roses August 4, 2014

From the perfect beach companion to calming baths, beauty oils are storming the industry and are cementing their place in our makeup bags for good. Use these multi-tasking oils in a variety of gentle refreshing scents for healthy glowing skin, lustrous hair or beauty repair treatments. Massage it into hair ends before hitting the beach, smooth over skin or sooth sun burned skin and feet while sealing them into cashmere socks especially on a flight or while traveling or try them as a sleep treatment to help you fall gently to sleep.

1. Face Oil

Apply hydrating face oils morning and night and try an oil based non-greasy, non-drying cleanser and makeup remover like Josie Maran Argan Cleansing Oil (15$ - 40$) to remove make up but avoid using these if you use false eyelashes as this could disturb the glue. Take them on the go and while traveling to keep skin hydrated and healthy as you take on the day.

Go-to product: Rodin olio lusso Face Oil, 150$

2. Body Oil

Immediately after showering or bathing, apply a few drops of this shimmering body oil to damp skin to lock in moisture. Reapply as needed throughout the day on dry skin that will leave you with a gentle all-over glow. You can also use body oils to create slip during a massage, or as part of a moisturizing, relaxing bath soak or to sooth dry skin on hands or elbows.

Go-to product: Olie Biologique Organic 23K Gold Argan Oil, 15$ - 82$

3. Beauty Rescue Oils

Rescue dry skin, cuticles and dry heels, with this natural multitasking beauty oil with a gentle refreshing scent. Apply a cuticle oil or all-purpose body oil to nails pre-manicure to soften the cuticles and reapply more oil to hydrate as needed. It protects and restores skin quality, beautifies and strengthens hair all year. It quickly absorbs, leaving hair silky and shiny, while skin is soft and delicate. Sooth dry heels while sealing them into cashmere socks for overnight success.

Go-to product: Leonor Greyl Huile Secret de Beauté, 17$ -75$

4. Coconut Oil

Coconut oil, we love an organic version, is good for overall immunity, reduces hypertension and helps keep proper cholesterol balance while also a great source of healthy saturated fats.

As a multitasking beauty oil, use it to seal moisture into your skin, remove even the most stubborn mascara and makeup, try it as a facial cleanser and skin moisturizer in home made scrubs, hair masks or beauty treatments with other organic ingredients and Ideal for all skin types including sensitive and acne-prone skin. It will help nourishes skin, hair and lashes. Helps sooth sunburns.

Go-to product: RMS Beauty Raw Coconut Treatment, 18$ - 42$

5. Hot Oil Treatment

Try this hot oil hair treatment in just one minute. Its gentle formula is infused with Argan Oil can reverse damage caused by heat and over-styling, leaving hair smoother, shinier, and healthier. In the shower, the oil warms itself up to the ideal temperature for penetrating strands to effectively seal in moisture. Apply one ampule to wet hair after cleansing and conditioning. The self-heating oil provides a gentle warming sensation as it penetrates deep into the hair cuticle, sealing in moisture and shine. Leave on for one to three minutes and rinse thoroughly. Use weekly or as often as needed.

Go-to product: Josie Maran Argan Hot Oil Self-Heating Hair Treatment, 20$ -45$

6. After-Sun Oil

Soothe skin after taking in the sun with a luxurious dry oil that provides nourishing moisture and lasting comfort to body, face, and hair. Perfect as a post-sun product, its glamorous texture is instantly absorbed, imparting a subtle, floral, and sun-kissed fragrance. Apply in the morning and evening to clean skin, over the entire body.

Go-to product: Caudalie Divine Oil, 10$ -52$

7. Sleep Treatment

This sleep beauty oil is a sumptuous non-greasy, easily absorbed into the skin to help you relax after with soothing and calming properties to encourage a peaceful slumber. Try it after your night-time bath or shower to help lull you to sleep, feel relaxed, hydrated and gently fragranced and also reduces the signs of ageing as well and promoting rested radiance.

**Suitable to use during pregnancy. Always consult with a physician before using new products during pregnancy.

Go-to product: This Works Deep Sleep Night Oil, 46$

8. Hair Treatment

Enriched with luster-building antioxidants and nutrients, this leave-in serum enhances elasticity and restores a lush, healthy appearance and strength. Try it on wet or dry hair and great for smoothing and taming fly-aways.

Go-to product: Show Beauty Pure Treatment Oil, 78$

Visions of Sugar Plum Fairies: 9 Must-try Ways to Get the Perfect Pout

Carat & Roses December 26, 2013

Photo via: VS All Access Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

While we still have visions of sugar plum fairies, mistletoe & chestnuts roasting on an open fire dancing in our mind, we're reliving the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show by 8 inspired ways from The Zoe Report to get the perfect pout. Whether your kissing that special someone at midnight or planting one on your little bundle of joy, treat yourself to these inspired tricks for healthy, smooth lips!

1. Exfoliate

Exfoliate with a sugar scrub like this 100% natural cherry flavored whipped lip scrub from Bite Beauty that will give you soft, healthy lips while brightening and conditioning the line around your lips.

Whipped Cherry Lip Scrub by Bite Beauty, 18$

2. Restore

Restore lips overnight and throughout the day with Bite Beauty's Agave Lip Mask perfect for replenishing moisture for an instant boost of hydration and long-lasting shine.

Agave Lip Mask by Bite Beauty, 26$

3. Condition

Condition and soften chapped lips with this multitasking lip superfruits butter from Bite Beauty, ideal as a night treatment, is formulated to protect, nourish and boost moisture on lips, cuticles and skin for results that will leave you with a smooth and soft pout.

Superfruit Butter by Bite Beauty, 18$

4. Smooth

Inspired by the supple feel of a shimmery gold YSL calfskin bag and Coco Chanel, give your lips the lip slip treatment by Sara Happ, for a colorless rich, glossy pout full of hydration. Wear it overnight or all day for a smooth cashmere pout to slip into.

The Lip Slip by Sara Happ, 24$

5. Plump

Plump lips naturally with this cinnamon lip oil by Bite Beauty that delivers a spicy bite to lips with a subtle warming sensation with proven anti-oxidant results, while locking in shine and plumping for long lasting all-day hydration creating a soft natural flush for the fullest possible pout.

Cinnamon Plumping Lip Oil by Bite Beauty, 22$

6. Line

Get a smooth seamless pout with this clear liner that can be worn under any shade of lipsticks that preps, plumps and primes lips keeping feathering away for naturally perfect lips.

Line & Define Lip Primer by Bite Beauty, 22$

7. Tint

Add a subtle hint of color in a variety of shades, to tint your lips with Josie Maran's Argan Lip Treatment age-defying moisturizing lip treatment for a youthful pout that won't leave a stain that will give you supple soft lips while it conditions, repairs, and protects your pout.

Argan Lip Treatment by Josie Maran Cosmetics, 34$

8. Remover

This multitasking raw coconut cream from RMS Beauty is the perfect lipstick makeup remover, that will erase any shade of lipstick from your lips and doubles as a deodorant, cleanser and hair treatment for a no fail pout to ring in the new year.

Raw Coconut Cream by RMS Beauty, 18$-42$

9. Balm

Try this nourishing balm formula with moisturizing regenerative properties with Avocado Oil, Shea Butter, Meadowfoam Seed Oil, and Jojoba Seed Oil. With refreshing Peppermint and Rosemary Leaf Oils apply as needed, particularly when lips are vulnerable to the elements, or simply when dry or chapped.

Lip Conditioner Peppermint Balm by Beauty Counter, 18$

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Get the Look: Runway Inspired Holiday Party Beauty Trends to Follow

Carat & Roses December 20, 2013

Whether your heading to a holiday party or ringing in the new year, we've got runway inspired holiday party beauty to follow, a party perfect golden glow that will leave you with joyful holiday cheer well into the new year!