Probably nobody puts as much stock in Valentine’s Day as I do. Ever since when I was a kid and figured out that it is my half-birthday, I’ve considered it “my” holiday. I remember my grandfather giving my grandmother roses plus other luxurious gifts, like emerald necklaces and cashmere sweaters. They’d both send me cards with glitter and ribbons on them. Sigh.
Does it seem to you, as it does for me, that those days are long gone? You might have to be your own Valentine and that’s okay. Now that the calendar day is gone, why not treat yourself the way you want to be treated? You can do that easily with Fragrance.com. I was happy to be hosted to experience it!
Roses are the flowers of love. But if you don’t splash out triple the normal cost, you’re getting dehydrated, minuscule (all the outer petals have been torn off) and half-dead bouquets. Surround yourself with scent instead. An affordable treat is Jean Arthes’ Rose de Grasse EDP. It’s packaged in a smaller, convenient, well-weighted, clean lines bottle. I noticed sparkling, tangy rose notes with a splash of fresh greenery. It’s juicy, not powdery: it’s not a traditional single note scent, but still is a delicious floral. Grasse is considered the symbolic capital of perfumery, with its roses picked in May.
If you know you’re gonna be hugging someone, it might be an ace up your sleeve to wear a gourmand (food, dessert) oriented fragrance. Singer/songwriter Sabrina Carpenter grew up near “a chocolate factory” in Pennsylvania. So, in creating fragrances, she’s drawn to the sweet side of gourmand. The bottle is very unusual — it looks like a pink chocolate bar. I noticed a light floral burst at first. It dries into powder and gourmand notes: I experienced French almond sucrees, pralines, expensive Tahitian vanilla extract. They describe it like this: “The scent has notes of chocolate with undertones of cocoa, hazelnut, sweet vanilla and caramel dessert, all swirled together with a bit of Bergamot, Jasmine and Cashmere Woods.”
Okay, this is probably not going to happen to you, but it happened to me. I was on a date where the fellow told me I had frizzy hair. Life choices not withstanding, let’s not have frizzy hair.
Some people shy away from hair masks, because they’re too goopy, waxy, oily and hard to rinse out. Then, you can’t style your hair and it’s not shiny, either. Joico K-Pac is a lotion-y consistency with all kinds of protein building blocks like keratin and allantoin. You only have to leave it in 5 minutes! You will have plenty of ease in combing and you’ll still have lots of lively, bouncy hair.
Taking care of yourself, Bed Head Ego Boost will work for you in multiple ways. It’s a split end mender, leave-in conditioner. It also has a lot of keratin in the formula, but not loads of silicones. So, you can put some in! None of that “emulsify a pea-size bloop” that still weighs you down. Plus, it gets rid of that cotton-candy blown out, damaged look.
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