New Indie Beauty Products

Hi Jennifer & Friends! Merry Christmas to everyone! As all of you probably know by now, I'm a beauty product junkie. I was recently scanning my W Magazine and discovered that some of the writers wrote about their favorite beauty products. I was excited to see what they said and who and what they picked. So, here they are:

They described these brands as the six brands you never heard of.

1. The living luminizer cream by rmsbeauty was listed as one of the best creams that can be applied to check bones and around the brow, lips and eye lids. It has a slight luminescent glow to it.

2. Makeup artists often get short shrift in beauty salons, but at Kimara Ahnert they are the star attractions. There, Ahnert and her team attend to plenty of brides as well as regular clients wishing to update their look from season to season. Part of what keeps them coming back is the in-house makeup line. It's a comprehensive tour of tried-and-true mineral hues and ingenious products like the drab taupe pencil that helps lip gloss stay put.

3. For Beca it's all about glowing skin for this Australian brand, which focuses on finding a color for every complexion (The Stick Foundation comes in 30 different shades) Their top picks are the luminous skin color and the mineral bronzing powder.

4. 29 Cosmetics is the vino-themed brand has mined every wine term in existence for products like Late Harvest eye shadow, Tannins blush and Spicy on the Finish lipstick. It's not a big shock once you find out that the founder of the brand is one Lydia Mondavi, wife of Robert Jr. While the colors are indeed crush-worthy and enhanced with grape seed extract, our favorites are the luxe lip treatments and exfoliating stick, wine-tinted balm and grape seed extract and honey moisturizer.

5. Hourglass Cosmetics; The veil fluid makeup is cult hero from this Venice, California line of cosmetics but they wanted to recommend the palettes as a great brand you never heard of. They don't try to be all things to everyone but they focus on some of the best natural colors you can find. A little blush and a little nude color are perfect.

6. W3LL People This line is for anyone who is into simplification, ease, and eco. The line contains none of the nasties like parabenes and sodium lauryl sulfates. The lip balm can be applied to cheeks and eyelids as well and the packaging material is all recycled.

Anyway friends, I hope all of you get the chance to try some of these products and if you don't let me know what you like and I'll try it out myself.

Merry Christmas!

Clare
London, England