Today the BeansTalk Newsletter takes a look at some of the latest products in fashion and beauty, among our other “regular” features.
Ladies Lingerie : Angelina Jolie and Paris Hilton are among the fans of Honeydew Intimates, which includes matching sets or separates with boy shorts, bralettes, camisoles, g-strings, thongs and pajama pairs in mesh, knits, microfiber and cotton. Retails from $8 to $30, at Fred Segal, Macys West. Check out www.honeydewintimates.com
Bustin’ A Cellulite Move: If you’re in Santa Barbara, Calif. You might want to check out the six-week Cellulite Buster Program at the Avia Spa. The program “facilitates fat loss thorugh a four-pronged approach combining Ionithermie treatments, Ionithermie products, instruction on nutrition and diet, and exercise for overall toning and strengthening.” During the six-weeks, there’s unlimited yoga and exercise classes, Thai Boxing and Yoga dance, too. Visit www.aviaspa.com for more details.
The Old Bamboo (Remember that from “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?”): The recently debuted line Spa Sciences introduces White Tea & Bamboo Extracts Mask, “a professional-quality cloth mask that’s pre-formed and ready to use, and continues accelerator ingredients for maximum penetration into the skin and longer retention of benefits.” It includes, notes the company: Potent White Tea Extract (a potent anti-oxidant) which neutralizes free radicals caused by environmental pollutants, sunlight and carbon monoxide, which damage collagen, elastin and crucial skin elements; Bamboo Extracts and Aloe provide smoothing and wrinkle-reducing benefits; Hyaluronic Acid brings the skin’s moisture level up, delivering key nutrients and leaving cells plumped and vital. Three masks retail for $11.95. www.spasciences.com (products can also be found at Target, Eckerd, Ulta and Harmon stores).
Triple Treat: 3Lab combines three laboratories and three chemists and have the “Perfect Skin Care Collection.” The latest additions to the line are “One Perfect Soap” (retails $10) and “The Perfect Cream” (retails $160 for 2 oz.). For more info, visit www.3lab.com, or www.cosmeric.com.
PJ Party?: One of the cutest PJ lines out now is the P.J. Salvage line. They’re currently showing their fall/holiday 2004 line up. Fans include Scarlet Johansson, Cameron Diaz, Debra Messing, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Garner, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Katie Holmes and Destiny’s Child. The line is very popular on TV series. Retails for $17 to $110. Cute prints include Hollywood, Lasso, Pigs Can’t Fly, Kitty Cats, Movie Stars, Paws and more. More info: www.pjsalvage.com
Family Secrets: We had a chance to see HBO’s “Heir to an Execution” last night and highly recommend it. While it skips over the basic historical facts (and assumes that viewers have at least a basic familiarity with the story), it’s the touching and wholly earnest attempt of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s granddaughter, Ivy Meeropol to find out what really happened (the Rosenbergs executed as traitors in 1953 after being accused of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union). The six-year effort was a 2004 Sundance Film Festival selection. They left behind two young children, Ivy’s father Michael and his brother, Robert. When neither the Greenglass (Ethel’s family) or the Rosenberg families would take in the boys while their parents were imprisoned and later executed by the electric chair, they were adopted by NY intellectuals the Meeropols (and had a happy life with them). Meeropol interviews both her father and uncle, associates of her parents and experts on the case. Interviewing old footage and new, she presents to the audience what she herself is uncovering – that her grandparents were deeply in love, deeply committed to their political causes, deeply committed to their children. Ultimately, Ethel (resoundingly innocent) gave up her life for the love of her husband. It’s also revealed that they opted out of a chance for a reprieve because they didn’t want to name names of their associates (and it is discovered that while they were innocent of the crime they were executed for, Julius Rosenberg was actually a spy). It’s informative, moving and captivating. HBO’s synopsis can be found here: http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/heir/synopsis.html.
