Posts Tagged ‘beauty’

Paris Beauty: A Mother-Daughter Makeover in Paris

by Sylvia SabesSylvia Sabes

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Since moving to Paris, I’ve gotten older, and my sweet, cuddly five-year-old is now a mature teen. It's funny how that happens. With the passage of time, my skin has changed, and my daughter has gone from playing dress-up to wearing makeup. This fall I realized we both could use a professional makeover to learn some Paris beauty tips that would help us deal with our perfectly aged selves. It was settled, and we both agreed that a makeover in Paris was in...

Perfect Paris Itineraries

by Liana Felt

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To get you excited about your next trip to the City of Light, I thought it might be fun to create some sample Paris itineraries using our wonderful partners in the Girls’ Guide to Paris Travel Club. I hope this will give you some creative ideas on how to put the GG2P membership card to...

Paris Beauty: How to Do Your Makeup Like a True Parisienne

by Jenna-Marie WarneckeJenna-Marie Warnecke

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Although I’ve been through a lot of makeup phases, I’m currently a mascara-and-lip-gloss kind of lady. As I grow older, I’m wearing less and less...

Boho Beauty for Fall/Winter 2012–13

by Pikke Allen aka ARTIFICE

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The Couture Collections in Paris and the recent Spring 2013 Collections in New York have proven one thing: the boho beauty is here to stay....

Paris Spas: The Perfect Getaway

by Allison Corbat

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L’Echappée is a Paris spa tucked away in an unassuming residential building, but it provides an experience that’s anything but ordinary. The overall atmosphere is quiet and relaxed, like all spas should be, with natural stone and tile covering most of the interior. My friend and I were greeted at the front door by friendly staff, who welcomed us and showed us to the locker room. While the ladies’ locker room is in need of a minor facelift, that was only a small glitch in the otherwise tranquil experience....

Personal Beauty Day in Paris

by Sylvia SabesSylvia Sabes

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About every six weeks, I need a serious beauty day in Paris. By “need” I mean not that I am worn out from the exhausting lifestyle of a mom, femme and writer, but rather that certain aspects of my body (gray hairs) have begun to grow wild and require taming. When one of my discreet teen girls shouts in public, “Mom, you’ve got a gray hair!” I know it is time for a beauty day in Paris. And I have a...

Lotions and Potions

by Sylvia SabesSylvia Sabes

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Visitors to Paris are often curious about the number of pharmacies they see throughout the city. The bright green crosses that are lit to indicate an open pharmacy seem to decorate every city block, serving as beacons that promise remedies to the tired, the ill and those with skin in need of improvement. But despite that France has the largest number of filled prescriptions per capita in the entire EU, this is not just a country of hypochondriacs; pharmacies happen to be every parisienne’s first stop for cosmetic...