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Kick off your Labor Day sales shopping with this awesome coupon from Beauty of a Site!  Take 15% off ANYTHING in the store from today through Labor Day- Monday, September 5th! Enter the coupon code below (LABOR11) at checkout to claim your discount! Not sure what to spend it on?  With such a great discount, Labor Day Weekend is the perfect time to pamper yourself with some of our super luxurious products! 1. Choose Amika hair products for a nourishing blend of essential oils, including sea buckthorn berry oil (a favorite of Dr. Oz!) and argan oil (the main ingredient in the ever-popular Moroccan Oil range).  These replenishing products are packed into Amika's nourishing hair mask, designed to reinfuse your hair with moisture that makes it stronger and shinier - even guarding against split ends! 2. Soothe skin with Principessa's decadent Dolce Dreams Whipped Body Lotion.  Lavish and moisturizing, this shea-butter based lotion have a velvety finish sensationally silky, healthy skin.  Plus it smells delicious: top notes of peach and vanilla flower, middle notes of night blooming jasmine and ylang ylang and bottom notes of sandalwood and warm amber 3. Treat yourself AND help a great cause: Get ready for October! Support Breast Cancer Awareness month by purchasing select haircare and cosmetic  products that support great cancer research. A lot of our favorite brands donate huge amounts to these great organizations based on the products that you purchase!

Leonor Greyl's Orchid Mask (Masque a L'Orchidee) is an intensely nourishing mask for frizzy hair, designed to soften, moisturize and condition unruly locks.  This weekly treatment has been known to make daily styling SO much easier, and our customers are boasting incredible results.  And apparently, they're not the only ones!  Check out what celebrity stylist Chis McMillan has to say about how the mask transformed Jennifer Aniston's look!

Jen's hair has undergone a major change, but we're not talking about the obvious one: "Leonor Greyl orchid mask transformed Jen's hair," says her steady stylist, Chris McMillan. The weekly treatment works wonders on frizz.

We're totally stoked to be able to make this mask available to you, so you can enjoy the same dramatic results. Click here to learn more about the product and purchase it for yourself!

Unsightly, persistent and downright annoying, blackheads are a serious killjoy.  Blackheads are just like any other pimples, except that they form in wide open pores and remain uncovered.  Touching the air turns the pimples black, and helps them pop out for the world to see.  So starting right now, we make it stop.  Here are six quick steps to help you stay blackhead free! 1. CLEANSE:  Keep your skin clean!  Choose an acne cleanser with either benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid to fight oily build-ups.  A routine is key- don't let the grime creep up on you!  We suggest something like Dermastage's Acne Cleanser. 2. TONE:  Choose an alcohol-free facial toner to balance the ph-level of your skin.  Toners are designed to keep your skin healthy, allowing for ultimate moisture absorption and shrinking pores.  We suggest Alba Botanica's Sea Kelp Facial Toner, full of certified organic and extremely powerful ingredients.  Perfect! 3. SPOT TREAT: When and if pimples sneak through your defense, treat them right away! Choose an acne gel or acid treatment very much like Dermastage's Acne Relief Gel to dry up the pimple as quickly as possible! 4.  MOISTURIZE: The key to avoiding blackheads taking over your face is constant exfoliation.  To offset this scrubbing, however, healthy skin needs moisture to keep proper levels of elasticity.  Moisturizing before exfoliating is key.  Exfoliating opens up pores and clears them out, and even though moisturizer is excellent for your face, leaving pores clear after exfoliating is a much better idea.  So let your face soak up some moisture before you scrub! Try a super energizing moisturizer like Cor Silver's Anytime Moisturizer. 5. EXFOLIATE: At least twice a week, scrub your skin and exfoliate dead skin cells.  Especially during the dry season, dead skin cells build up on the surface of your face and create blockages.  Keep your pores clear and open with a simple scrub, like Juara's Rice Facial Scrub. 6. MASK:  Once a week, polish off your skincare routine with a clarifying mask that not only removes built up deposits but also includes a chemical exfoliant to eat up tough-to-clear build up.  Our new favorite mask is The Holy Mud Company's Pumpkin Glycolic Mask. Work these steps into your routine and watch black heads disappear!

New year, new looks and best of all: new products from Phyto!  The same quality and excellent formula that we've come to expect from Phyto has been taken to new heights with the unveiling of these newest products for 2011. Make sure and check out: Phytolisse Shampoo: Smoothing shampoo with extra anti-frizz components, straightening hair while detangling and protecting hair from breakage Phytolisse Mask: The perfect companion to Phytolisse Shampoo, the Mask deeply conditions hair, both helping to control frizz while shortening the blow-dry process and deeply hydrating hair Phytolium Energizing Shampoo: Perfect for healthier, thicker hair, the Energizing Shampoo stimulates healthy hair growth for all hair types Phytotheol Shampoo: Intensely calming, Phytotheol shampoo relieves itchiness while prevanting irritating dandruff Check out these and other favored Phyto products here