Why a Multi-tasking Beauty Balm Should be Part of Your Beauty Routine

Carat & Roses October 24, 2015

A multitasking beauty balm is a staple as part of our beauty routine. Full of restorative and balancing nutrients and ingredients that provide soothing benefits, hydrating properties that provide the perfect healing glow and minimal go-to that will take you from backstage fashion week to your weekly ballet class or fitness session, heal cracked heels and dry lips, hydrate dry cuticles and elbows, dab onto eyelids, brows, cheekbones and cupid's bow to give you the perfect in-flight beauty look or off duty glow. Try one of our faves with natural and organic ingredients that will keep you toxin free and give you healthy skin on-the-go.

1. Aerin Beauty Rose Balm

We love a great floral-based beauty product and with the extract of 350 rose petals in each pot that deeply soothes and moisturizes, this Rose Balm by Aerin is the perfect take anywhere, do anything go-to beauty balm for your beauty bag.

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

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$

Winter Skin Rescue: The Beauty Range You Need to be Using

Carat & Roses January 21, 2015

Winter can really take a tole on your skin. Save it with hydrating beauty oils, creams and balms that will help skin retain moisture and leave your skin feeling soft and smooth through the winter months.

1. RODIN olio lusso

If your looking for a high quality product with a gorgeous scent, try the RODIN olio lusso range of beauty products that leave a delicate scent on your skin and the perfect way to hydrate after a shower or bath and a great way to save cuticles, dry skin or in a beauty mask. A little heavy on the face? Try hydrating with rose water like S. W. Basics Rose Water Toner. For an all over treatment, mix your RODIN beauty oil with an unscented lotion for a deeper hydrating affect (we love a good natural brand like John Masters Organics Bare Unscented Body Lotion) that will keep skin moisturized all through the winter months.

Go-To Product: RODIN olio lusso, 30$-118$

Beauty Trend Alert: 5 Steps to the Perfect Scrunchies Throwback Hair

Carat & Roses October 25, 2014

It's the 80's/90's throwback Carrie Bradshaw would never see coming. From runways to celebrities and fashion bloggers, this throwback is making its what from high fashion runway to street style fashion. Style with 5 easy to follow steps, you'll be sporting this 90's inspired trend with modern inspired prints and styles.

1. Texture

Build thickness and add texture to hair by apply a volumizing moose to hair for added volume and easy styling.

Go-to product: Alterna Bamboo Volume Whipped Mouse, 22$

2. Back Comb

With a wide tooth comb, gently back comb hair into a high ponytail so hair is smooth and relaxed not pulled tight. Use small thin elastics to anchor hair style.

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

3. Dry Shampoo

Lift roots and refresh hair between washes with a dry shampoo that provides volumizing texture to boost your scrunchie style. A dry shampoo will help maintain an alluring finish that will leave hair looking and feeling fresh all day and volumized perfect for day to night styles. Spray bobby pins before taming fly-aways for better hold.

Go-to product: SHOW Beauty Dry Shampoo, 50$

4. Scrunchie

Scrunchies are easy on your strands and quick to add to any style from a classic pony, topknot, bun, half-up styles or add to the end of a braided styles from sleek, chic or tousled and effortless on-the-go update to your favorite styles.

Go-to product: American Apparel Shiny Scrunchie, 6$

5. Hair Oil

Add a leave-in hair oil to the ends of your hair either on wet or dry hair and great for smoothing and taming fly-aways and giving moisture to prevent split-ends.

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

Beauty Hacks: 6 Easy to Follow Beauty Tricks You Have to Try

Carat & Roses October 24, 2014

From multitasking hair, beauty and skin products, these are our favorite go-to beauty tricks that will have you looking glamorous on the go while also providing quick nourishing, protective and healing comfort throughout your day!

1. Use a Dry Shampoo to Repair Hair Fails

Spray 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$

2. Remove Makeup with Coconut Oil

Remove stubborn makeup including mascara. Try it as a facial cleanser or moisturizer. Its the perfect go-to product for all skin types including, sensitive and blemish prone skin and has multitasking properties that nourishes nails, hair, lashes and skin while also providing soothing comfort to sunburned skin.

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

3. Blend a Fragrance with Lotion

Try a few drops of your favorite fragrance mixed into a scent free lotion or body butter for an all over moisturizing scent that will leave you smelling fresh and feeling smooth throughout the day. Re-apply sparingly and use a gentle fragrance for a clean and subtle lingering all over scent.

Go-to product: Le Labo ROSE 31, 240$

4. Apply a Beauty Oil before a Shower

Enjoy the moisturizing benefits of a beauty oil that will leave your skin soft and hydrated all through the winter months. Use a generous amount, warm in your hands before gently rubbing into skin. Use a facial oil on your face and shower. Add some to the ends of your hair to tame frizz and keep hair healthy. Immediately follow your shower with a healthy organic moisturizer or your same beauty oil.

Go-to product: RODIN olio lusso Body Oil, 130$

5. Use a Sleep Mask to Fall Asleep

Get a good nights sleep by using an eye mask to seal out the light which helps to induce a restful and relaxing sleep by causing the production of Melatonin, the sleep chemical. Try the addition of a natural sleep remedy such as This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray for the perfect way to fall quickly to sleep and enjoy the overnight beauty benefits of a full nights rest.

Go-to product: This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray, 29$

6. Protect Heels with a Band-Aid Stick

Walk a mile in your heels comfortably with the Band-Aid Friction Block. Apply to the back of heels, top of toes and side of your feet before you wear your shoes for blister and pain-free all day comfort your feet will thank you for. And we do mean ALL DAY. Be sure to let the product dry a bit to keep fee from feeling slick in your shoes.

Go-to product: Band-Aid Friction Block, 5$