My Beauty Bunny

February 3rd, 2012

Petunia Essentials Giveaway!

Petunia Essentials was started by a woman named MyLynda who, like most of us ladies, loved bath and body products. She got her degrees in mathematics and industrial engineering (!) and then became an attorney. As her allergies became worse and worse, she started making her own beauty products without harsh ingredients found in many mainstream brands. Her friends and family kept asking about the “potions” she was cooking up and they became popular in her inner-circle. Eventually MyLynda chose to follow a new career path she had never dreamed for herself – beauty product entrepreneur!

I love supporting indie businesses whenever I can (I have an Etsy problem) and I especially love supporting women business owners (since I am one!).

A review from a happy customer: “I purchased soaps from this company for my guest bath. This past weekend, several guests commented on the lovely fragrances. We have Brown Sugar & Fig and Lavender. Thank you for a great product.”

Petunia Essentials specializes in hand made, natural and vegetable based, cruelty free bath and body products, including moisturizing bar and liquid soaps, whipped body butters, lotion crèmes and aromatic bath salts. They use hydrating and healing oils like olive oil, jojoba oil, avocado oil and sweet almond oil with quality essential oils, fragrance oils, and botanicals like lavender buds, rose petals, and jasmine flowers. Only cruelty free, natural and safe ingredients are used.

And if you haven’t already, read our review of Petunia Essentials cruelty free beauty products!

Want to win a Petunia Essentials gift set containing a body butter, a shower gel and a body spray? Just wait for the Rafflecopter form below to load and follow the instructions. You must be 18 or older to enter. US only. By entering you agree to the official rules.

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Beauty Blogger Valentine’s $500 Giveaway!

The Beauty Blogger Coalition is back with another $500 Visa gift card giveaway! We love you guys!

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Denise Richards Hair Care Giveaway!

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Denise Richards is one of my hair idols. What I wouldn’t give to have her long, voluminous locks! I was excited to hear that she now has her own line of volumizing, cruelty free hair products! Produced by veteran hair care brand, Cristophe, Denise’s “Volume Extend” line has the following products: shampoo, conditioner, styling creme, volumizing spray and finishing spray.

The Denise Richards Volume Extend by Cristophe hair care collection is a revolutionary product line with a new technology and product formula which penetrates the hair shaft to actually increase the hair strands diameter; giving the hair amazing beauty, body, volume, and shine. The line is completely paraben, sulfate, and cruelty free.

I loved all of the products. A little goes a long way – especially for the styling products. The styling creme is for damp hair and the volumizing spray can be used on damp or dry hair – great for a mid-afternoon pick me up or after-work happy hour date! It also contains UV protectors, Vitamin C and creatine to strengthen hair.

You really only need a tiny bit of the styling creme, so this is a really cost-effective purchase ($14.99 for 3 oz). Apply to damp hair and then blowdry and style as usual for great volume.

The shampoo and conditioner have wheat proteins, sugarcane, green tea, lemon, apple, sea fennel, probiotics (“good” bacteria) and peptides to boost hair strength and volume. A pretty unique blend of ingredients!

The finishing spray is a hair spray that you can use on your roots to boost volume, set a hairstyle or use when your hair is getting oily and needs a boost!

How would you like to win a full set of Denise Richards Volume Extend hair products? Just sign up for the My Beauty Bunny newsletter and leave the email address you used to sign up in a comment below, telling me which Denise Richards product you are most excited to try. If you’re already signed up, just leave a comment below. The winner’s email address will be verified. For an extra entry, like the Cristophe Facebook page. Leave a separate comment for each entry. You get up to 2 entries. Any additional comments will be deleted for the purposes of this contest! If your comment doesn’t show up right away, don’t repost. It just means I haven’t approved it yet!

You must be 18 or older, US only. Ends 2/29/12. By entering, you agree to the official rules here.

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Jen

Embrace the Year of the Dragon

Written by Abi Mogge, Staff Writer

There are some days when I wouldn’t mind being a little bit more like the fierce, edgy ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. Lisbeth Salander takes the very idea of a female heroine and turns it on its head, defying society, gender roles and beauty standards in the name of justice and vengeance for the people she loves. I devoured this trilogy of novels about a year ago and I love both versions of the film; Swedish and American. Given the chance to try a line of nail polishes based on my favorite underdog heroine, I jumped. Duri is a New York-based company committed to producing nail products that are environmentally-friendly and free from DBP, toulene and formaldehyde.

The six colors in this collection are:

Icicle – a frosty, shimmery white, reminiscent of new fallen snow.
Fallen Angel – a deep, dark eggplant – almost black – with a hint of red shimmer.
Angels and Demons –probably my favorite; a rich, metallic silver.
Dragontini – a dark, seductive purple-pink. This color is elegant and sexy, with an edge.
Black Diamond – a gorgeous, inky, jet black. Mesmerizing and spooky.
Frozen Fire – shimmery bubble gum pink, this color seems so unlikely amidst such dark ‘gothic’ shades, but even a goth girl may need a good girly color in her arsenal… in case she needs to assume a false identity and bankrupt her lover’s political rival. Hypothetically speaking.

These colors all look great on their own, but I loved Icicle and Frozen Fire layered over the darker ones. I also was impressed with how smoothly the polishes went on, no glooping or glopping or stickiness. I recommend wearing a base coat and top coat with these. My only complaint was some chipping after a few days. This line of polishes are available for $5.00 each at www.duri.com.

Word on the web for 2012 is that nail polish is the new lipstick; a fun and inexpensive way to glam up and express yourself. Maybe this would be a good year to express your inner bad girl. I know I’m enjoying it.