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$

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$-118$

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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