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We know she's an Olympic gold medalist, and that she has an amazingly toned beach volleyball body (even after having babies!). It turns out, Kerry Walsh Jennings is also an incredibly nice person. We had the opportunity to work with her a couple of months ago on this Skin Authority video. We had a great time and learned a lot about her skin care routine.
Sometimes we just need a refresher on the basics. In this case, bronzer. Here's the catch, when I'm on camera, I hardly ever wear bronzer alone. I use luminizer and blush too. The three makeup items combined add dimension to your face for a look that perfectly reflects light. Watch the video and try it out!
Oh, and if you're really in the mood for some delicious frozen custard, then head into this seedy downtown Las Vegas neighborhood for some Luv-It Frozen Custard. Anything can happen while you're there (we saw a man try to sell a bra to a woman in line).
If you're looking for some good eats, namely Thai food, and happen to be in Vegas, then get off the strip and head over to Lotus of Siam. Our friends Nate and Liz are locals and it happens to be one of their favorites. Note: It's located in a seedy shopping mall next to a swingers club and adult theater. Classy, right? But the food is definitely worth it.
Before August is over--here are our favorite new beauty products. Get them quick because we'll have our September picks soon. And don't forget to subscribe to our video channel: NewBeautyMag on YouTube. xo
Backstory: I've been playing with this cool app called Tastemade. It's like yelp meets youtube meets instagram, but better. You can shoot mini food/restaurant review videos on your iphone because it story boards it for you, then you add a filter and post it. That simple. So I got this bright idea that I would try this infamous cronut and shoot a Tastemade on it. Despite the fact that my flight into the city was delayed and I didn't arrive until 2am, and it was a trillion degrees outside, I decided to stick with my plan to wait outside at 5am. Mostly because I had already convinced my friend Alan to meet me outside Dominque Ansel Bakery at 5am and couldn't bail on him this late. (Side note--I asked my friend Aaron as well, he said, "Oh, I'll actually be there because I'm going to get one for my girlfriend."). So I had two friends to shoot the shit with and it made the waiting game a little less painful.
Here's the video:
Did you catch the cameo of the smore too? I didn't get to taste that. So do I think the cronut is worth waiting in line for? I dunno. It was tasty, but we were so out of it, anything would have tasted good. Plus, it was nice and toasty out (definitely not worth waiting for in the winter cold) and I had my friends to keep me company. It was fun.
BTW--did anyone catch our jokes at the end?
Sometimes I sit at my desk and just want to show the world my beauty goodies. I suppose the summer isn't over yet, so here are three beautiful lipsticks to try from La Prairie. I tried them...at my desk.
Thirty was supposed to be a big year. My dad said it was going to be and I, of course, believed him. He's my dad after all. I couldn't wait to feel like a woman and feel like I was exactly where I wanted to be in life--finally. But here I am. Thirty came and went. Another year passed. Then another. And guess what? I do feel like a woman now. And that's exactly what I'm complaining about.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I'm not happy. My husband loves me, I have a mortgage, my job is great and I'm actually about 10 pounds lighter than I was in my mid-to-late twenties. The problem is: I will never be satisfied. Yup. That's it. In a nutshell. It's been pointed out to me before, mostly by boyfriends--or more like my main boyfriend of my twenties, and now my husband. It seems every time I accomplish something, I want more. Bring me another jug of water because I can't seem to quench my thirst.
And now that I'm a "woman," I feel like I have to hurry up and get where I want to be. So what do I want to be? What do I want to do? It just doesn't stop. I exhaust myself. And now I know I will be this way for the rest of my life. I'm the cause of my wrinkles, my stress and my sleepless nights. Luckily my career provides me with plenty of anti-aging serums...
If you know me or follow me on Twitter or Facebook, then you might know that I oversee all of the video creation at NewBeauty.com. Every once in a while, I really want to try to switch up our content and have some fun with it...so we decided to play with stop motion. It's a great way to give your videos a artsy feel without working too hard on it. This video only took about a day to create (including the editing). We set the box on a white table and went for it with a DSLR. (For the exact details on how to shoot stop motion, you'll have to ask a photographer). After that, we edited it to a Robyn song and voila--NewBeauty TestTube in stop motion. Enjoy!
It's been a really long time since I've kept a blog. I mean religiously kept one. I used to have a personal one at susanyara.blogspot.com that felt more like a diary where my friends could keep up with me (or where I could keep track of my thoughts). Sometimes I look back at it and laugh, or cringe if I can't believe what I'm reading. Think dating stories. The worst! But in the end it's nice to have these memories. Time really does fly by and it feels like I've lost track of the last four years since I left New York City. A lot has happened: I got to Los Angeles, freelanced for a while, joined the Total Beauty team, then quickly moved on to the Pop Sugar team as the Bellasugar host...and now find myself at NewBeauty.com. The last four years have been all about beauty and I wouldn't want it any other way so now I just want to remember it. So here goes. I'm going to blog it up so I can remember my experiences and hopefully relive them at times.
I have really thick hair--so much that the thought of washing it in the morning makes me want to, well...just stay in bed. No one wants to get up, shower and then spend the next hour (maybe longer) blowing out their hair. I don't. It's a major problem because I schedule my life around this hair: when I work out, if I'll have sex (similar reason to working out--don't want to sweat), how late I'm going to stay up at night (have to account for that extra hour in the morning if I'm blow-drying)...the list goes on and on. My hair is a blessing and a curse. That's what I tell everyone. But I guess I wouldn't trade it.
My Sunday nights are committed. Not to my man, not to a TV show, but to trying my newest beauty products. Mostly because it's the only time I really have to enjoy a hot bath and soak in new oils or try out a scrub, and I can actually wash and condition my hair without the need to hop out and immediately blow dry it.
Plus, I try to reflect on the past week (mistakes, challenges, lessons learned) and envision the week ahead of me. I guess it's my way of relaxing since I hate yoga.
This week I tried out Amika Nourishing Hair Mask. I'm pretty picky about my deep conditioners, but must say, I love the scent and it really does make my hair feel super soft. Apparently the key ingredient is sea buckthorn berry (I thought the same thing--WTF is that?) along with omega 7 and vitamin C. Since it's my first time trying it, I can't give much more opinion except that it comes in a really large tub (compared to deep conditioners by other brands) so if you have thick hair like moi, then you can really glob this stuff on and not feel guilty that you'll run out in a week.
Plus, I like the scent so much, it was nice to fall asleep smelling it in my hair.
The new Estee Lauder lip glosses that popped into the office this week are super pigmented--which I like, but they're also glittery. Glitter reminds me of strippers, magical creatures and going through puberty (cus every pubescent chick thinks she's hot shit or maybe I just happened to be a teenager in the 90s and we wore glitter to express ourselves).
