Tag: beauty
What I love and loathe about this spring season
Atlanta lifestyle blogger Jess Graves, of The Love List, shares her obsessions and objections this season, including Micellar water, tassels, and waist trainers.
Test Drive: Do waist trainers actually work?
With all the allegedly pound-melting cleanses and fat-zapping surgeries available to celebrities, you’d think they’d turn up their perfect noses at a figure-slimming device popularized during Victorian times.
Introducing: The new Nars boutique and its summer makeup line
Today, cult favorite makeup brand Nars Cosmetics opens a standalone boutique in the Shops Buckhead Atlanta, debuting the brand’s colorful new summer collection on its shelves. Atlantans will be the first to rock the new summer products until they are released in its other boutiques and the brand’s website later this month.
Lather up with these Georgia handmade soaps
Seven bars worth a place in your soap dish, including one with a loofah insert, an activated charcoal bar, and one even made with SweetWater IPA.
8 fresh fragrances for spring
Eight great scents to wear this season from Marc Jacobs, Moschino, Diptyque, Dolce & Gabbana, and more.
5 Atlanta spa treatments to soothe your winter woes
Relax. These spa treatments will help fix itchy, dry skin, relieve frustrating congestion, and more.
Facial: The Alchemist, Aviary Organic Beauty Collective
At this tiny, quirky spa in the Old Fourth Ward, owner Amy Leavell Bransford prefers gentle, all-organic products like Dr. Hauschka, but won’t hesitate to bring out something stronger for clients who need a serious peel.
Affordable Massage: SensAbility
If you relax at the thought of a bargain, book an appointment at SensAbility, the student clinic at the Atlanta School of Massage in Dunwoody, where you can score a 50-minute rubdown for just $40 from a therapist in training.
Waxing: Sweet Peach Wax and Sugaring Studio
Brazil-born Raquel Souza founded Sweet Peach in Virginia-Highland in 2012, but now works mostly out of a second location in Buckhead.
Shave: The Shave
At this new-school-meets-old-school barbershop in Poncey-Highland, you can sip a complimentary can of PBR and thumb through a 1960s Playboy while waiting for your hot towel and straight razor shave ($45).