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Kenra's newest Platinum products, now at Beauty of a Site: Kenra Dry Shampoo and Kenra Blow Dry Spray. Kenra's Platinum line has always featured classic products, redefined for optimum results using innovative technology along with timeless principles of style. Kenra's Platinum Dry Shampoo claims to be a "reviver" and "refresher."  The perfect way to keep a beautiful style fresh, dry shampoo keeps you from having to style and restyle between washes, effectively extending the vitality of your color and the health of your hair.  This formula features rice starch for removing oils, ingredients for UV defense, panthenol for regulating moisture and a zesty mango melon fragrance. Kenra's Platinum Blow Dry Spray is a thermal protector specifically designed to protect and nourish color treated hair.  Helping your hair to dry faster while protecting each shaft from damaging heat, breakage, frizz and humidity.  This formula benefits from jojoba oil, argan oil and silicones. Click here to check out the Dry Shampoo, and click here to purchase Kenra's Blow Dry Spray.

Whether you're a mom of four, a busy college student, or a hard-working principal of your local middle school, back to school means back to being busy.  Often being gone from your dorm room, house or apartment for an entire day, being in the swing of the school year necessitates makeup that you can apply in the morning and count on it to last- all day long.  Here are our top three products that we consider back-to-school essentials for makeup that lasts: 1.  Bella's Face Palettes:  Artfully designed to match any complexion beautifully, Bella Il Fiore's Face Palettes provide an easy-on-the-go makeup solution packed into one travel ready case.  Small enough to fit in a backpack, purse or even your pocket, the Bella Face Palettes expertly combine color, saving you time, and fitting easily on your person for touch ups. 2.  Blinc (Kiss Me) Mascara:  Blinc's Mascara is "totally tubular," featuring not a plastered, impossible to get off stick mascara, but an expertly designed tubing formula that literally creates a tube around your lashes.  The mascara won't even budge throughout your day, even with sweat, itchy eyes or P.E., but when combined with a little warm water at night, the tubes will slip off almost effortlessly.  We LOVE it. 3.  Last but not least, Model in a Bottle Setting Spray is like hairspray for perfect makeup.  Apply any makeup, just how you like it, and spray just a couple of bursts of Model in a Bottle over the top to set in your cosmetic creation for the entire day, while absorbing oil and keeping away unwanted shine.  Available in both an original and sensitive skin formula, don't worry about irritation.  This weightless, invisible spray will keep the attention where it belongs- on you!

A perfect bronze, subtle shimmer, silky moisturizers and even a bit of sun protection- we call it: the recipe for sexy summer skin. DuWop calls it: Revolotion. DuWop's Revolotion features a breakthrough blend of intense moisturizers, SPF 15, and a bronze shimmer that is perfect for highlighting face, shoulders, legs- anywhere that deserves subtle attention.  Revolotion is available in two shades to help this sheer body makeup blend seamlessly with any skintone to enhance your body's complexion without rub off, lines or unnatural color. DuWop even suggests that this miracle moisturizing blend can be applied to provide instant slimming effects! Watch the video below, produced by DuWop, to learn how to use Revolotion today!

Try Revolotion during August only and save $5!  Normally $28, purchase this here, at Beauty of a Site, for $23 through the end of the month.  Click here to shop this and more excellent DuWop cosmetics procucts!

One of Beauty of a Site's most beloved brands, Bella Il Fiore, has released fresh, innovative and beautiful new cosmetics. Compact, masterfully grouped and adorably packaged, Bella's newest makeup is perfect for the girl on the go! Visit our collection of Bella Il Fiore products here, and make sure to try these new ones: Bella Il Fiore Eye Shadow Palette: Bella Il Fiore Eye Shadow Palette is an 8-color eye shadow palette for all your color scheme needs. Flattering palettes correspond with the larger, full-face "Bella in Bloom" palettes... read more. Bella Il Fiore Glam Box: Bella Il Fiore Glam Box is a full-color, full-product make-up palette for literally all of your make-up needs! Featuring 24 eye shadows, 27 lip glosses, blushes, bronzer and a built-in mirror for ease. Everything a girl needs to look her very best dressed in Bella’s signature... read more. Bella Il Fiore Mineral Bronzer: Bella Il Fiore Mineral Beauty Bronzer is an oversized body bronzer, and when we say oversized, we mean it! As big as a small plate, this bronzing compact really gives you freedom in blending for the perfect skin mix. Apply to your face & body... read more. Bella Il Fiore Mirror & Compact: Bella Il Fiore Mirror Mirror - Compact Light Up Mirror allows you to never be caught without your best face forward. Use Bella’s light up mirror for fab glam wherever you are!. The mirror lights up when opened and features regular view, plus magnification... read more. Bella Il Fiore Sugar Shack Lip Gloss Set: Bella Il Fiore Sugar Shack Lip Gloss Set is a full-color, lip gloss palette for literally all of your glossy needs! Featuring 20 gorgeous shades of gloss guaranteed to go from day-to-night and back again. An added bonus, the delicious chocolate infusion will... read more.

Check out swatches of OPI's Go Goth Halloween Mini Nail Lacquer Set that includes four beautiful new nail polish colors (all dark and goth-inspired) along with a free lace bracelet! Deep purples, reds, greens and a matte black make this a perfect Halloween set!

Ok, so I'm a little late for swatch week (my bad), but here are swatches of the OPI Swiss Collection.  These are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly unique.  Turquoise, teal, golds, blues, reds of every shade- it's difficult not to find something for everyone in OPI's newest Fall collection. The best news?  YOU CAN ORDER THEM TODAY! We're selling pre-orders here! Without further ado: OPI Cuckoo For This Color- absolutely stellar.  A green shimmer that's gorgeous in the light, with a blue base that makes it almost turquoise, but more cool green. OPI Ski Till We Drop (whose beautiful luminosity is stolen by our rainy day photo) is a smoky warm blue cream.  Dark, with cool grey and an itty bit of green undertones.  A full blue that is so different from anything anyone's done this season. OPI The Color to Watch is actual an opal-y lavender color that is shimmery (not actually opalescent in finish) and very chic. OPI Yodel Me On My Cell is a brighter blue than Ski Till We Drop.  I'd almost classify it as a "bright" color.  It's shimmery, but a clearer blue, with less musky colors and a purer base. All in all, we can't even tell you how excited we are.  Contact us with any questions about expected delivery, but make sure and place an order today to reserve your polish!

Hello, my name is Michelle, and I am an alcoholic a frizzy mess.  Until now.  I've been frizz free for a month, with the help of a very powerful new product:  Living Proof. Now obviously frizz isn't an addiction; I don't know about you, but it's not something I strive for.  But like bad habits, traffic tickets or terrible ex-boyfriends, frizz is terrible to get rid of.  Good news, friends: we have live, fresh, proof that frizz-free hair is possible and totally at your fingertips!! Living Proof Haircare is actually quite groundbreaking, using a brand new frizz fighting technique (the very first change in frizz technology in the last 30 years!) that doesn't use oils or silicone.  Test after test shows the superiority of Living Proof's PolyfluoroEster molecule over normal silicone based products, with incredible results! Humidity proof, calming, safe, powerful and perfect for taming out of control hair, we're so glad to be bringing Living Proof to you!  Whether you're styling straight or rocking your waves, Living Proof has something specifically for you and your favorite styles. Click here to browse all of Living Proof's products!

Day three of our Swatch week features Zoya's Wonderful collection, their newest fall collection released alongside Wicked, and available at Beauty of a Site for purchase- even right now! Both of the collections play with dark and light, offering one sparkly (Wicked) and one creme (Wonderful) collection for your enjoyment. Play with these bold shades!

	Shawn is a bright myrtyle green, even brighter than our picture gives it credit. The color is even a little murky; more than just a simple green.
	Cola is a very warm brown creme, more red than purple. It truly is the color of creamy Colas.  A beautiful color against any skin tone!
	Kristi is a bright, classic, pure red, truly crimson.  Warm with orange undertones, this is the perfect pair-with-anything attention-getting red.
	Burke, unfortunately, isn't showing up in our picture as well as we'd hope.  It's an almost red-berry shade, described by Zoya as a "sienna red" creme.
	Stacy, (again, no justice given) is an almost purple / burgundy.  I sort of love the color.  Not bright enough to be berry, but definitely in the purple family, without being dark.  Pretty!
	Kelly is so so so beautiful.  When applied, it's almost a purple-y grey color.  With several coats, it's steel blue nature shows through.  Absolutely beautiful.

I've included one of Zoya's promotional pictures of the collection below to help offset some of our lighting issues, so that the true colors show through a little more. The collection is beautiful, and I highly suggest putting it on your have-to-have list. Better yet, order it today and get it even before your local beauty store. It's gorgeous! Click here to purchase!

See Zoya's Wicked Collection- you can purchase it now! We have swatches and pictures of these beautiful new nail polish colors. Check it out today, and purchase it if you love it! Be the first to have them!

OPI Summer Flutter: Swatches delivered!  Keep up with the Beauty of a Site Blog this week for swatches of our newest and most beautiful nail polish colors for the season! Check out the lovely colors offered by OPI Summer Flutter: My personal favorite: Wing It.  A cheery coral-y tint on a warm pink, with subtle sparkle and incredible vibrancy.  The perfect pink that defies tradition and embraces femininity! These are trendy and beautiful brights, with just enough subtle sheen and translucent color to be mature, lovely and perfect for any age.  These aren't your daughters brights, but truly beautiful shades to celebrate a lively season!  These colors are only available for a limited time only, so make sure and gets yours while we still have them!  We're almost sold out, so shop today!  Click here to buy them  now!

We want to announce that Pure Inventions is our featured brand for July!  Pure Inventions offers a variety of pure shot antioxidants in the form of liquid supplements, in compact formulas to be added to the drink of your choice. And when we say, "the drink of your choice," we don't just mean water or your morning tea.  We mean anything.  In fact, why not spruce up your summer martini with a little extra goodness for your body?  Pure Inventions has published a bunch of different mixed drinks (both regular and alcoholic) to make being fit extremely easy- and fun!  This is one of our favorites:

Pomegranate with Raspberry Martini

• Make your own mixer
• Add 3 droppers full of Pomegranate with Acai Berry
• Add 1 and ½ droppers of Raspberry Green Tea to 8 oz. water
• In a martini shaker, add 2oz. of vodka
• Add ice
• Add the mixer to taste and shake
• Garnish with lemon
• Makes 2 martinis

For the month of July, Beauty of a Site is partnering with Pure Inventions to offer Fit & Slender, one of Pure Inventions' most popular supplements, at 10% off.  Buy it here!

As Beauty of a Site's resident Twilight addict, I went and saw Eclipse the very first moment I could.  And as expected, I loved it (no spoilers... don't worry). The newest director was wonderful, and truly brought out the beauty not only of the story, but of the characters!  Rosalie, in particular, was more beautiful in this movie than in any other thus far; her costume designers and makeup artists finally managed to totally capture her inner Cullen. And as expected, the Team Jacob / Team Edward tension couldn't have been hotter.  Jacob and Bella's relationship reaches new heights, and the movie accurately captures the difficulty of being trapped between two loves. * sigh * If you're like me, and you want a little more vampire-inspired magic in your life, try using DuWop's newest Twilight Venom Blush, a new shade of the classic lip plumper that celebrates the Twilight movies.  A warm pink, with a bit, the Twilight Venom Blush Lip Plumper uses essential oils to plump your lips- as if freshly bitten- and adds a natural look blush to intensify color. Click here to purchase your own product today!