Fergie speaks about Outspoken for Avon

MANILA, Philippines - She tours as Black Eyed Peas and as a solo artist. She loves Janis Joplin, Queen Latifah, and Brigitte Bardot. She lists diamond facials, vegetable juice, lingerie, workouts, and Maldives as all good medicine. Stacy Ann Ferguson, or more famously known as Fergie, lives the glamorous life as she creates big waves as an American singer-songwriter, rapper, fashion designer, and film star.

Now add to her credentials: fragrance designer. More specifically of Outspoken, her first fragrance project with global brand Avon, the company for women. “Fragrance makes me feel sexy and alluring. I wanted to create a fragrance that people will respond to and enjoy. Outspoken is a fresh, modern scent that will make the women who wear it feel confident and fearless.The scent is bold with a raw, sexy edge that will shock you.”

Even the packaging comes with a personal story. “I found inspiration for the cap design while getting dressed for my wedding to Josh. There was a crystal decanter in the bridal suite and I knew I wanted the cap to look like that. I was so excited about the design that I had my team send me sketches while I was on my honeymoon! Outspoken is sort of a ‘Rock n Roll Boudoir,’ which is very similar to my personal closet at home.” Result: the elegant and delicate-looking crystal decanter cap contrasts nicely with the beautiful black genie-shape base.

Outspoken by Fergie is available for P999 through Avon representatives nationwide. Call the Avon customer hotline 864-2900 or log on to www.avon.com.ph to find out how you can get in touch with an Avon Lady.

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Crabtree mentality

Hair-conditioned: Keep hair healthy especially during the rainy season with Crabtree & Evelyn’s line of hair products which harnesses the essences of desert and marine botanicals.

To help your hair maintain its natural moisture and to keep it healthy especially during the rainy season, Crabtree & Evelyn offers its line of hair products which harnesses the essences of desert and marine botanicals, packing concentrated amounts of moisture and hair nutrients in its bottles. Its gentle formulations yet intense moisture contents will not only protect your hair from the rain’s harmful effects, but will also improve your hair’s vigor and strength.

Crabtree & Evelyn La Source Volumising and Revitalising Seeweed Shampoo and Conditioner boast an ultra mild formula which contains sea algae and seeweed extracts to help strengthen hair and improve elasticity. Crabtree & Evelyn Jojoba Oil Shampoo and Conditioner are obtained from the first pressing of the oil-rich seeds of the desert plant Jojoba. The shampoo’s gentle, sulphate-free formulation helps restore elasticity, shine, and bounce. The conditioner has deep moisturizing features enriched with nourishing jojoba oil, desert cactus flower, and yucca root.

Crabtree & Evelyn is available online and in more than 40 countries, with over 6,000 locations and 500 concept stores worldwide. Other distribution channels include hotel amenities. For more information, visit www.crabtree-evelyn.com.

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Kris has Met her perfect match

Kris Aquino’s ability to dance to life’s music and graciously bounce back after every blow is what has inspired many people to tune in to her life, anticipating something new every time.

How does Kris Aquino maintain that perfect glow and strength from within despite the odds? Simple. She has Met her perfect match.

Kris has been a proud user of Met Tathione for quite sometime now, and has never looked back since. The satisfied user that she is, Kris is now the newest endorser of Met Tathione — showcasing youthful, healthy white skin, plus improved physical and mental alertness, strength, and resistance that let her stay at the top despite the challenges.

Apart from its skin-whitening effects, Met is now distinguished for its healthy effects. It acts as an antioxidant, an immune system booster, and a detoxifier that can help the body slow down the aging process, improve mental functions, reduce the chance of developing cancer, increase energy, improve heart and lung function, and repair damage caused by stress, pollution, radiation, infection, drugs, poor diet, injury, and trauma. 

Met Tathione is a 100-percent premium-grade, reduced glutathione supplement imported from Japan, with alpha lipoic acid (ALA) and vitamin C. All the raw materials that go into its manufacture are also made in Japan, the most trusted source of supplemental glutathione in the world today. Available in all leading drugstores nationwide. For more info, visit www.met-international.com.

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Have a blast: Take your glam factor up a notch with Covergirl’s Blast Family, with its bold eye makeup colors, bright lips, and big, look-at-me lashes.

Covergirl says ’tis the season to be bright and bold!

This season, take your glam factor up a notch with Covergirl’s Blast Family, characterized by bold eye makeup colors, bright lips, and complemented by big, look-at-me lashes. It is definitely the season to be bright, bold, and beautiful!

Create big, bold, beautiful smoky eyes with Covergirl’s Smoky ShadowBlast (P525), a clever two-step system that delivers amazing results.

To intensify your smoky eyes, carefully line eyes with Covergirl’s Liquiline Blast Eyeliner (P450). Offering the intensity of a liquid liner and the easy application of a pencil, this ingenious product lets you create brilliant eye liner looks for more defined smoky eyes.

Finish your eye makeup with several coats of Covergirl’s LashBlast Volume Mascara (P575) for that dramatic gaze. Designed to max out each and every lash, this brilliant product promises to give you a blast of lush, volumized lashes in an instant.

Covergirl is exclusively distributed by Rustan Marketing Corporation and available in leading department stores nationwide.

Oil right: St. Ives harnesses the health benefits of olive oil.

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It’s Christmas Ives

Using olive oil’s healthful qualities, international skincare brand St. Ives has created two olive-based products — the St. Ives Olive Cleanser and St. Ives Olive Scrub.

St. Ives Olive Scrub harnesses the nourishing qualities of both olive oil and olive oil leaf extract. This glyceride-rich facial scrub exfoliates and soothes the skin, without undue drying. St. Ives Olive Cleanser, on the other hand, can wash off hard-to-remove makeup while improving skin quality. Made from 100-percent natural extracts, this parabens- and phthalates-free wash works best on oily skin.

St. Ives products are available in all leading personal care stores, supermarkets, and department stores nationwide.

Curves ahead: Max Factor Vibrant Curve Effect leaves lips looking curvaceous and fuller with luscious shine.

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Lips get curve appeal to the Max

Max Factor Vibrant Curve Effect is a stunning new collection of lip glosses with curve-accentuating shine, combining a unique applicator with glossy, vibrant shades to leave lips looking curvaceous and fuller with luscious shine. The shade palette, co-designed by Max Factor’s global creative design director Pat McGrath, offers a beautiful, eye-catching variety of lip colors. The new, innovative ShineSculpt applicator is inspired by makeup artists’ backstage insights and delivers precision application, embracing your lips with curve-accentuating shine.