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#CocoBeauty: Sesderma Skincare

We have reached that time of year when our skin is screaming for some serious love and attention, we survived the mega hot summer, we’ve been blown around by strong winds, and we’re currently being subjected to a seriously cold winter, our poor faces are crying out for some tender loving care.

#TeamCoco have been searching the beauty world for a long-standing, well-respected, proven track-record brand, and we think we’ve found it, in the skincare company Sesderma.

Set to top the beauty hotlist this winter, the innovative Sesderma range gives British women the opportunity to share the multi-award winning skincare secret that has been keeping Spanish women smiling and their laughter lines at bay for nearly 30 years.

Created in 1989 by revered dermatologist Dr Gabriel Serrano, Sesderma has its roots firmly in dermatology. Dr Serrano’s medical expertise helped him to create innovative formulations that were able to provide effective treatment for a range of dermatological concerns. Dubbed the ‘latino lift’, the cult collection has become a beauty staple for Spanish women.

Innovation is centric to the Sesderma range and the brand prides itself on combining technical innovation with pioneering dermatologic methods to create breakthrough formulas that are clinically proven to work and that ‘listen to your skin’. Most notably, Sesderma was the first laboratory in Spain to launch creams that contained glycolic acid and continued efforts to reinvent the way we understand dermatology, applying nanotechnology and transforming skincare treatments. Sesderma invested in liposomes, minute spherical vesicles comprised of one or more lipid bilayers, which protect active ingredients by preventing oxidation and degradation whilst providing stability of the formulations. Liposomes allow for a controlled and sustained release of active ingredients that act on the target.

There are many products available in each Sesderma collection, our #TeamCoco faves include the Sensyes Cleanser Classic Lipid Bubble Solution for all skin types, the Abradermol Microdermabrasion Cream for all skin types, the Factor G Renew Anti-Ageing Rejuvenating Cream for all skin types, the Factor G Renew Rejuvenating Serum for all skin types, and the C-Vit Liposomal Serum with Antiox Booster System for all skin types.

Sensyes Cleanser Classic, £10.90
Suitable for makeup removal, daily cleansing and toning of sensitive skin, and/or skin subject to aggressive medical or cosmetic treatments and procedures. Suitable for cleaning scaly, acne-prone or soap intolerant skin.

Abradermol Microdermabrasion Cream, £18.20
Facial and body scrub. Preparation for other treatments such as wrinkles, skin aging, oily skin and acne-prone skin, stretch marks and facial hyperpigmentaion.

Factor G Renew Anti-Ageing Rejuvenating Cream, £56.34
An anti-ageing cream with growth factors and plant stem cells to stimulate cellular regeneration, reduce wrinkles and give the skin back its tautness.

Factor G Renew Anti-Ageing Rejuvenating Serum, £58.24
A powerful anti-ageing concentrate to stimulate celluar regeneration and improve the appearance of your skin.

C-Vit Liposomal Serum, £49.20
Intensive shock treatment of cutaneous photo-ageing in all skin types, including skins with acne and rosacea. Concentrated active ingredients enhance the benefits of ant-ageing and de-pigmentation treatments.

All products available from Sesderma online.

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#CocoBeauty: Q61 Salon Harrogate

December is such an exciting time of year for festivities, dining out, clubbing with the girls, and generally having an entire month of partying, so we are obviously going to include an appointment to have our nails manicured, possibly a little sparkly pedicure too, a healthy spray tan, and we may even treat ourselves to a relaxing massage before the mayhem seriously begins.

With all this in mind #TeamCoco were thrilled to be invited to experience the brand new Q61 Salon which opened just a month ago in the gorgeous North Yorkshire town of Harrogate.

We sent one of our beauty gurus along to enjoy, relax and review Q61 salon treatments, and marvel in the extensive colour runway.

This is without doubt the biggest salon we have ever been inside; the layout is vast, open and very relaxed. The music has a chilled house vibe, which makes the salon feel like an exclusive club for private members.

The colour runway is a serious collection of O.P.I polishes of every colour imaginable, and they even have a seasonal collection filled with sparkle and gold hues, and a stunning selection of glitters. This is an absolute dream for Christmas!

We opted for a luxury pedicure, which took place on the raised seating on the ground floor at the salon, with a personal mini-sofa style seat, deep filled foot spa, and plenty of delicious O.P.I softening, soothing and moisturising products for the feet.

There is a wall of seriously high-end hard backed fashion books to read, so of course we delved straight into the Louis Vuitton catwalk fashion book.

The luxury pedicure took around an hour from start to finish and included a foot massage, callous removal, soak, and warm boots for softening. It ended with a gorgeous polish from the colour runway opposite.

We ventured upstairs to the first floor treatment rooms, one half for the noisier treatments like waxing and spray tans, and the other for the more relaxing treatments such as massage and facials. We entered one of the massage rooms, with a comfy bed, ambient music and lots of lovely warm throws and towels.

Our massage was the infamous Signature Q61 Deep Tissue Massage, which was medium pressure and full relaxation. Our therapist made sure that everything was perfect from start to finish. The massage itself covered the back, shoulders and neck and lasted for approximately 30 minutes, and we absolutely did not want it to end.

So, for all your Christmas and New Year beauty treatments we would highly recommend visiting Harrogate’s newest salon Q61, we feel it’s one of the best in the town. The staff are second-to-none in making sure that your every need is taken care of, the salon is welcoming and warm, and best of all, the treatments are beyond excellent.

Huge thanks to Katie D for her expert luxury pedicure and for the Signature Q61 Massage, which resulted in one very happy #TeamCoco girl.

For more information about Q61 Salon in Harrogate or their sister salon in Leeds search for Q61 online.

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#cocobeauty: Seasonal Beauty Launches

We love it when new beauty products launch each and every season. Team Coco are a bunch of haircare, skincare, bodycare and makeup lovers and we aren’t afraid to say as much, so when we hear that new beauty products are about to hit the shelves, we are on it like a car bonnet.

There are plenty of new beautifying products to choose from heading into winter, from intense hair masks and colour enhancers, to brow tints and face masks, and endless amounts of skincare. We’ve listed just a few of our seasonal favourites for you to check out below.

Haircare

Grow Gorgeous Intense Thickening Hair & Scalp Mask is a specially formulated mask to deeply hydrate hair without weighing it down.

This mask has been proven, after regular use, to make hair feel fuller and thicker. It boasts an amino acid enriched formula, which enhances flat and lack lustre locks, feeding every strand to ensure the hair is healthy, thick and fuller looking. Containing coconut oil and hyaluronic acid along with caffeine to help with moisturisation and stimulation.

Priced at £25 from Grow Gorgeous online.

OSMO® Super Silver No Yellow Mask has purple power to keep blondes looking fresher and brighter for longer. This intensely hydrating, sulphate free treatment mask, infused with super violet pigments, replenishes lost moisture and helps neutralise yellow tones.

This mask leaves blonde, grey and bleached hair feeling reborn, with nourished, healthy and more radiant results guaranteed to impress.

Priced at £5.40 for 250ml from Fragrance Direct and Sally Beauty online.

Monat Colour Enhance is a brand new vegan haircare range with naturally based ingredients that combine the best of nature with cutting edge science to provide effective solutions for all hair concerns.

The Monat Colour Enhance shampoos and conditioners are tailored to keep natural and colour treated tones true and vibrant for blonde, brunette, platinum and silver shades. Powerful, high-grade botanical extracts offer ultra-gentle cleansing and targeted conditioning, for a regimen that will enrich.

Skincare

Eco Cosmetics CC Cream is created from natural and organic ingredients and is suitable for vegans, it helps to reduce wrinkles, toning and smoothing the skin for a fresh and youthful appearance whilst titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, and karanja oil help to protect the skin against harmful UV rays.

The CC Cream has a special formulation with OPC, Q10 and hyaluronic acid also helps to even the skin tone for a radiant, glowing complexion. Available in SPF 30 or SPF 50 and in either light or dark tones.

Priced at £49.95 from All Natural Me online.

Vichy Detox Clarifying Charcoal Mask is one of two new masks released this season. Vichy’s first mineral detoxifying mask helps to revive skin that is exhausted by the urban environment. With Vegetal Charcoal, Kaolin and Vichy Mineralizing Water to smooth and clarify polluted skin. With a deep unclogging pore action, revive skin from pollution and toxins.

Vichy have also released a Soothing Aloe Vera Mask to relieve skin distressed by dryness.

All masks priced at £15 from Look Fantastic online.

Vida For You is a brand new, natural, vegan skincare line created in the UK, born from a love of the Mediterranean diet and the health benefits associated with it. Mediterranean cuisine is packed with nutrients which do your body good, and these ingredients have been transformed into nourishing, super-charged, creams that not only do your skin good, but the sustainable, cruelty-free ingredients and eco-friendly packaging ensure the environment doesn’t suffer as a result.

The skincare line includes: Revive, an anti-wrinkle face cream, priced at £115. Resooth, a rich cream suitable for hypersensitive, dry and inflamed skin, priced at £105. Repure, a cream that regulates sebum and helps to keep skin hydrated while calming redness. Reluminate, a delicate textured cream suitable for hyper pigmented and dull skin, priced at £105. Redeep is a velvety textured cream suitable for young skin, which fights the first signs of ageing by helping restore its protective function, priced at £105.

Available from Vida For You online and at salons across the UK.

DAYTOX the skincare innovators have added a rather substantial seven brand new skin-boosting treatments for the face and body to their catalogue of products. The state-of-the-art additions to the collection join the original line-up that are making waves at both Waitrose & Partners, and Ocado.
Each treatment contains the highly active DETOX complex BioDtox, a skin detoxifier with a unique blend of aloe Vera, broccoli and citrus. DAYTOX have found that when these three ingredients combine, they boost the body’s defences and stimulate the detoxification of the skin. BioDtox inhibits the formation of free radicals and protects the skin against oxidative stress.

The ‘beauty in balance’ skincare range includes: Skincare: Cleansing Foam, £12. Daily Hydration, £26. Day & Night Facial Oil, £24. Natural Enzyme Peeling Facial Scrub, £18. Natural Hydrating Glow Mask, £15. Bodycare: Natural Body Oil, £20. Natural Firming Cream, £26.

Skincare DAYTOX products available from Waitrose & Partners, and Bodycare DAYTOX products available from Ocado.

Makeup

Shavata Day-Long Brow Tint is designed to tint brows, adding definition no matter how dark or light and especially fine, fair, or grey brows.

Shavata Singh, Founder & CEO of Shavata Brow Studio has recently launched this brand new brow product, which is the ultimate brow tint to give a natural finish that lasts all day! This revolutionary tinting pen, glides easily over each brow hair, instantly colouring the hairs and defining them, all without staining the skin! Best of all, it comes in two shades, Dawn & Dusk, making it perfect for all hair colours and hair types.

Priced at £19 from Shavata high street salons and online at Shavata.

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Creative Spotlight : Christiane Dowling Makeup Artistry

Christiane Dowling is an Award-Winning Professional Freelance Makeup Artist based in Sandhurst in Berkshire. Here, the total babe talks to us about her career so far, plans for the future and more…

When did you launch the brand and what was the reason behind it?
Christiane Dowling Makeup Artistry was launched in 2016.

As a Makeup Artist I’ve always had very specific ideas regarding both my work and the service that I offer. Because I’m so passionate about what I do my priority was to create a company with the customer at the heart of everything, from the very first point of contact. As well as providing exceptional standards of Makeup Artistry, I’m committed to outstanding customer service. The only way to have 100% freedom to completely implement my own ideas and standards was to work for myself.

My brand bears my name, so it’s really important that Christiane Dowling Makeup Artistry is synonymous with professionalism and quality and that each and every customer leaves feeling delighted with my work and also the experience.

What’s your background?
I feel very privileged to have initially trained classically at the Glauca Rossi School of Fashion & Photographic Makeup in London. Glauca has trained some of the most successful makeup artists in the industry, with several Vogue covers between them. Previous alumni include incredible artists like Charlotte Tilbury, Florrie White and Elisabeth Hseih. I couldn’t have chosen a school with better credentials.

I also graduated from the internationally acclaimed London Makeup School having undertaken specialised training in the fields of Asian and Arabic Makeup and Special Effects (SFX).

It’s very important that I’m versatile and have training over a wide genre of makeup artistry skills to offer my clients the very best in terms of service, as well as industry knowledge and expertise.

In addition, I love to attend events like London Fashion Week Festival and the International Makeup Artist Trade Show at Olympia each year to keep abreast of all the new season trends and product innovation.

How many people are involved in the company and what are their roles?
For now, just me. I’m the sole owner of Christiane Dowling Makeup Artistry.

As the Company expands, the future will probably necessitate employing more staff depending on the direction that I choose to take it.

If you could start over with the business, would you do anything differently?
Although with hindsight there are probably things that I could have done better, I wouldn’t choose to do anything differently. Without making mistakes and dealing with challenges I wouldn’t have the life experience and skills that I do now

What is the hardest challenge you have faced since you started the company?
Starting my own business at a young age (I was 19) has not been without its difficulties and the learning curve has been steep.

The last few years have had their challenges, but everything has moved so fast that I’ve hardly had time to stop and reflect. I’m definitely not the same person that I was two years or even 12 months ago. I’m learning all the time and am far more resilient as a result.

Early starts, long days and anti-social hours are not always easy and arriving home to a long “to do list” isn’t the glamourous career that some may envisage. I do feel though that it’s important to be personally involved in and accountable for all aspects of your business, especially in the early years.

Saying that, I could never complain or look back, the payback has been immeasurable. In addition to doing a job that I absolutely love and meeting some incredible people, being my own boss has given me more freedom than it has challenges. I can make my own choices regarding my work/ life balance and working incredibly hard has given me opportunities that I would never otherwise have had.

It might sound clichéd, but I have also been extremely fortunate to have a fantastic network of family and friends who have always supported and encouraged me. I wouldn’t change a thing.

Tell us one fact about you that people wouldn’t know?
I have an unhealthy addiction to Heinz Tomato Ketchup.

2019 is almost here, where do you plan on taking the brand?
Increase in brand recognition over the past 12 months has been phenomenal. Growth has been mainly organic, originating from shared client recommendations and positive social media reviews. Hopefully 2019 will be a year of similar expansion, particularly in the Home Counties and London.

To date, what has been the highlight since launching?
Every bride’s face on her wedding day, every bit of positive feedback and every lovely letter.

Which city do you feel most at home in, London, Paris or New York?
There are so many beautiful cities in the world that it should be hard to choose, but no place feels as much like home as London.

Three beauty products you can’t leave the house without?
Angela’s Angel plumping lipstick from Mirelle Cosmetics.

Pressed Powder.

A hairbrush!

Style means….?
To me, style is a person. I have always considered my nan to be the embodiment of style and elegance and she is a huge influence in my life, both personally and in my career. She is also my chief co-conspirator in excessive makeup purchases.

Best thing about London to you?
There’s no place quite like London, it has a personality all of its own. No matter what the time of year, looking down at the City from one of the rooftop bars is always breath-taking, especially at night.

Madison at St.Pauls, Aqua Kyoto on Regent Street and Radio Rooftop on The Strand are among my favourite places to enjoy the city’s skyline.

If you had to, what piece of clothing from your wardrobe would you wear every day?
A classic pair of black jeans. Comfortable, but always stylish.

Favourite love song?
I don’t have one, but if I did I’m sure that it would be something by Ne-Yo.

Best place for a coffee?
Whenever I’m in London, I try to fit in a visit to Élan Café on the Brompton Road. The atmosphere is pretty amazing with stunning ceiling to floor floral displays. The service is great, despite always being busy. Oh, and the coffee’s excellent too!

Most memorable piece of advice given to you?
Learn from yesterday but live for today. Start each new day with a blank page and write the best story that you can.

Guilty pleasure?
Justin Beiber. I admit it, I’m a Belieber!

If you could spent 24 hours in anywhere in the world, where would it be?
The Maldives. I’ve never been, but it’s 100% on my wish list.

In future, how do you plan on expanding the company?
At this stage, I just want to keep moving forward, experiencing life and travel before deciding on the direction I would like to take my business in.

At the moment I’m hands on in all aspects of Christiane Dowling Makeup Artistry and too rapid a growth would ultimately necessitate sharing some of the responsibilities and relinquishing some control. I’d rather do less things exceptionally well, than a lot of things adequately. Quality, reputation and service are all areas that I will never compromise.

In the future, who knows? Every week new opportunities arrive in my inbox and no two days are ever the same. To launch my own label makeup brand would be incredible, but I still have a lot more to learn about the industry. I have A-Levels in Chemistry and Biology, so the science bit has always been of interest to me. Charlotte Tilbury is an incredible inspiration to me personally, having trained at the same Makeup School.

Travelling is also a huge passion, so opportunities to combine travel with work are always worth exploring. Who knows House of Coco, maybe one of your luxury travel expeditions may require a Makeup Artist one day? You know where I am!

Find out more…

Website: https://www.christianedowling.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christianedowlingmakeup

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christianedowlingmakeupartistry

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#CocoBeauty: New Beauty Launches

We are always happy to hear of gorgeous new beauty products launching from across the globe, and this late autumn sees some truly lust worthy skincare, haircare, nail care and scents making an appearance just in time for winter.

The girls of #TeamCoco are all for trying new products, so when we found out about these latest releases we were on it quicker than you could possibly imagine.

We have included one product by South Korean super skincare brand J.ONE, a haircare product by Australia’s MUK Haircare, Denmark’s natural cosmetic brand Lavera’s new lip balm, a nail colour by Latin named Benecos, and the most beautiful scent by renowned British watch brand SEKSY who have launched SEKSY Beauty.

J.ONE Jelly Cream, 30ml, £32, Boots stores and Boots online

Launched in late October this game-changer of a firming and hydrating face cream is one of South Korea’s highest selling ultra lightweight, anti-ageing beauty products which sells four units every minute! It delivers short and long term skin brightening, plumping and softening benefits.

The J.ONE Jelly Cream boasts a Nobel Prize-winning ingredient, fullerene that oxygenates and delivers visible lift and plumpness to the skin to protect against free radicals.

MUK Haircare Kinky Muk Curl Amplifier, 200ml, £11.75, MUK salons or via mukme online

Helping to define and accentuate natural and bouncy curls, the Kinky Muk Curl Amplifier is designed to provide intense moisture in order to eliminate frizz. The product needs to be applied to freshly shampooed hair after any excess moisture has been removed and the hair should be allowed to air dry or dry with a diffuser.

Curls should feel and look healthier, brighter, and more amplified.

Lavera SOS Help Lip Balm, 8ml, £5.95, Whole Food Stores or online via Lavera UK.

Packed full of hydrating, soothing and caring natural and organic ingredients, the Lavera SOS Help Lip Balm provides instant relief, nourishes lips to seal in moisture and protects them from the winter wind and cold.

The gel formula of this lip balm is enriched with organic shea butter, and jojoba to keep lips moisturised and smooth. Lavera products have never been tested on animals and do not contain parabens, SLS, phthalates, parraffinium or petrochemicals.

Benecos Rock It Nail Colour, 5ml, £4.95, Whole Food Stores and via Benecos online.

This quaint party season new polish is not only the perfect medium grey with a hint of warm mauve colour for winter, but it is also kind to the environment.

All benecos nail varnishes are cruelty-free, vegan, up to 90% natural and free from the following 8 harsh ingredients: toluene, camphor, colophony, Phthalates, formaldehyde, parabens, silicones and halo-organic compounds. Rock It by benecos has also been formulated with added biotin and avocado oil to strengthen and nourish the nail.

SEKSY Beauty Elegance Scent, 50ml, £35, Seksy Beauty online.

The globally successful brand SEKSY has launched a new fragrance range. Prism Parfums, the force behind SEKSY Beauty and Time Products (UK) ltd, creators of SEKSY wristwear by Sekonda have collaborated with Swarovski to encapsulate three signature fragrances.

We are all over SEKSY Elegance, which is an elegant exotic oriental for those who have a sophisticated taste. A stunning floral bouquet of bergamot, mandarin, and champacca leaves lead to a heart of jasmine, rose, sweet pea, violet and sugared orchid. Amaranth wood, blackberry musk and plum add richness and complexity to this subtle scent.

Each fragrance bottle is embellished with Swarovski® crystals to add more sparkle to the already lavishly designed 12-sided bottle, bringing both beauty and style to this delicious scent.

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#CocoBeauty: Yassss to Power Tools

We love a good power tool right? We’re talking hair dryers, crimpers, skin correcting tools and more. What’s not to love, power tools do all the hard work for you, you just plug them in and off you go.

#TeamCoco are all for a little extra help, we spend enough time getting ready every day that working with power tools is just an added bonus. So, bring them on…..

At House of Coco HQ we are lusting after the T3 Cura LUXE, with its 5 heat settings, 2 speed settings, volume booster, luxe design, auto pause sensor, and digital ionair, this is the crème de le crème of the hair dryer world. The T3 Cura LUXE is a multi award-winning next gen hair dryer that offers rapid drying, customisable styling and exceptional healthy-looking hair.

Priced at £235, available online from T3 Haircare.

The PMD Clean is next level skincare for the face, with unique SonicGlowTM technology, which uses over 7,000 vibrations per minute to remove the skin’s impurities. The PMD Clean is a smart anti-ageing facial cleansing device that not only leaves your skin dirt and makeup free, but also encourages collagen production, leaving you with a more youthful complexion.

Priced at RRP £85, from Boots stores UK wide, or online via UK PMD Beauty.

For the ultimate in crimped hair, the only way to look is towards the Alfa Italia Vetta Pro Crimper, with its multi-dimensional ceramic plates and the state-of-the-art heater taking just 30 seconds to heat. It features variable styling temperatures, silicone protective plate guard, 1 inch crimper plates, and automatic power off mode.

Priced at £79.95, available online via Alfa Italia Pro.

For the most flattering curls, we’re into Toni&Guy’s newly launched Curl Squad Stylers, and more specifically the Toni&Guy Curl Squad Reverse Wand as it produces natural looking, yet sexy and effortless beach inspired waves. This styling tool provides an even wave from root to tip giving ample volume to the roots whilst creating fluid movement to the ends.

Priced at £39.99, from Amazon.

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#Cocobeauty: What’s the deal with tanning waters?

Whilst some of us are lucky enough to be blessed with naturally glowing skin tones, there were many more of us born with a rather pale and uninteresting look instead (aka me). There’s no getting away from the fact that I look better with a sunkissed glow but, unfortunately, I didn’t inherit the gene to achieve this naturally – even more annoying considering my mother could tan under a lightbulb.

As such, I’ve spent most of my adult life in noble pursuit of the best fake tan. I’ve tried mousses and lotions, sprays and moisturisers and though some of them, particularly in the last few years, (let’s just forget the tango-tinged disasters of the late noughties) have actually been pretty convincing, there’s always a price to pay.

Yes – those of us who’ve spent a lifetime perfecting the art of fake tan know all about the stained bedsheets, faint whiff of McVitie’s Digestives and tell-tale dark elbow patches as, until recently, this was just part and parcel of having an artificial glow.

But thanks to innovative technology and a sweeping beauty trend for all things aqua based, there’s now a much better option on the market –the so-called ‘tanning water’.

Tanning waters have been gaining popularity thanks to their colourless and odourless formula that allows you to bronze up without smelling like you belong in a biscuit tin or accidentally causing your bedding to resemble an oompa loompa murder scene. They glide on easily, blend seamlessly and throw the most realistic shade (literally) we’ve seen yet.

We’ve found the best ones out there to see you through the colder months – there’s nothing better than a winter tan, after all.

Chanel L’Eau Tan

Of course, we’re all about a bit of luxury and it doesn’t get more luxurious than the Chanel L’Eau Tan. Whether it’s the sexiness of the French name or the divine smell, this tanning mist glides on quickly and smoothly, allowing you to build up a natural glow over time. It’s the baby of Chanel’s global creative makeup and colour director, Lucia Pica, so you can trust that it’ll deliver that, ‘have you just been on holiday?’ look we’re all after.

The Isle of Paradise Light Tanning Water

Everything about the Isle of Paradise products gives you good vibes. From the pretty packaging to the lush coconut scent, their little bottles of bronzing heaven are a product you’ll come back to again and again. It’s not just all about appearances (or smells) though – the vegan and cruelty free formula is both colour correcting (goodbye dullness, redness and pigmentation) and hydrating, helping you to achieve that proper ‘glow’ that can be hard to fake. Better yet, the colour is rich and noticeable but completely natural looking – you’d be hard pressed to achieve a better tan in real life.

Tan Luxe The Water

There’s nothing worse than having to stand around in a frozen robot pose whilst you wait for your tan to dry. Tan Luxe has achieved cult status thanks to its super fast drying formula, making it the must-have option for people on the go. It’s made with purified water and vitamins B, C and E so is super gentle on even the most sensitive skin. Developing over four hours, you can spritz it on in the morning knowing you’ll be bare-leg-ready by the time you need to leave for your post-work plans.

St Tropez Self Tan Purity Bronzing Water

St Tropez is an old favourite thanks to its rich and realistic colour so we were particularly excited when we heard they’d launched a bronzing face mist. It’s made with all natural ingredients so even those prone to flare-ups can get their glow on and the hibiscus and fresh green mandarin not only mean you’ll smell good enough to eat but help to revive and refresh your skin, too. Best of all, it can be spritzed on over makeup – a god send if, like me, you’re somewhat forgetful.

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#CocoBeauty: Liquid Yoga

Well, this is different! What an exciting product to reach the market place, and #TeamCoco are all over it.

Liquid Yoga stress-free space spray is an instant mood changer to help calm, reduce anxiety and help focus. A way to create your own peace of mind with a single spritz of this amazing blend of powerful essential oils (also great at secretly diffusing family tiffs ☺). It can be used to spritz your pillow, pulse points and all places where you need a little moment of instant stress-free zen.

This lovely little product calms busy minds and reduces anxiety, and it smells amazing. It helps alleviate insomnia and tension headaches, but it does come with a warning……it may cause relaxation and happiness!

Ingredients include lavandin, mentha arvensis, cypress, cistus landaniferus, lavender, lemon, chamomile, and mandarin all of which assist with self-esteem, confidence, hope, mental strength, wellbeing, calmness, and alertness. What more does one need in life than this list of essential oils, especially if it produces a relaxed, calm, and rebalanced state of mind.

Priced at £19.50 for 150ml, available from Mio Skincare online, or from Space NK, and The Body Studio at Selfridges.

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Say what? Chocolate that’s good for you?! Liora Beauty Chocolate

Here at #TeamCoco we love life, we love travel and above many other things, we love our food. You won’t find us sharing crash diet tips, worrying about our size or commenting on others. As a hard-fast team of feminists in a world of negative media reporting on women, it’s not our style and we cannot abide anyone who does flaunt any of that around.

This said, when we come across innovative little brands giving us the experience we crave, with added health benefits we just can’t say no. When some info about the new Liora Beauty Chocolate (liora-chocolate.com) came across our desk, we just had to snap a piece off to share with you.

Liora craft smallbatch artisanal chocolates with therapeutic benefits such as Cleopatra’s Conquest with black cumin – used by Egyptian pharoahs and the likes of Cleopatra and Nefertiti as a beauty treatment – and cardamon – filled with essential vitamins and minerals and often added to medicines by the romans. With 9 different beautifully packaged chocolates promising beauty perks in addition to your chocolate fix, we’re excited to try them all.

Find out more about Liora Beauty Chocolate over at liora-chocolate.com

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#CocoBeauty: The Oil Hut

We love this family run business in the heart of Devon, they produce handmade and hand poured natural products. The range includes bath and massage oils, therapeutic body oils, facial mists, diffusers, room mists and the unique and totally natural Bugs Away range including the highly effective anti mosquito body oil and spray.

If you’re a regular traveller like #TeamCoco, or a seasonal holiday-maker you will know how much your skin needs to be protected from mosquito bites and other bug bites. Even in the UK we have horse-flies and fleas that bite and cause nasty itching and red skin. The Oil Hut has a selection of products to help protect the skin from bites.

So, if you’re packing for a weekend away in the UK countryside, if you’re heading off for a fortnight away in the Med, or even a month hiking through Borneo you may want to take a little travel sized tin of something from The Oil Hut.

The Bugs Away collection includes: Anti Mosquito Body Spray (£12), Anti Mosquito Oil (£12), Diffuser (£16/£34), Insect Spray for Home & Garden (£10), Home Bug Spray (£18), and Soya Wax Candle (£12), Gift Set Body Oil and After Sun (£25).

 

All available by searching online for The Oil Hut Devon.

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