Chocomania: The Body Shop's sweet Valentine treat

MANILA, Philippines - For over 3,000 years, chocolate — like gold — has had universal appeal. From kings and queens, to laborers and laymen, chocolate has inspired, tempted, and tantalized. And now, for the chocoholics among us, here’s sweet news: The Body Shop launches its new Chocomania bath and body range.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Chocomania is a decadent, sensuous, and indulgent range guaranteed to plunge your senses straight into chocolate heaven.

With its rich and sumptuous texture,the queen of the Chocomania range is Chocomania Body Butter. Inside every pot is an exclusive formula of 12 Community Fair Trade ingredients from around the world — making this the most lavish body butter from The Body Shop to date. Smooth and seductive, Chocomania Body Butter simply melts into the skin, combating dryness with 48 hours of intensive moisturization and releasing a heavenly chocolate fragrance that will make you smell good enough to eat.

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Lush launches new bath products

Food for the skin: Phoenix Rising (P245 for 100g) from Lush releases gentle shea butter, cocoa butter, and jojoba oil to leave your skin feather soft.

Lush starts the year on a scentsational note with new bath products: bath ballistics and bubble bars.

Phoenix Rising (P245 for 100g) is one of Lush’s patented double layer bath ballistics. It releases gentle shea butter, cocoa butter, and jojoba oil to leave your skin feather soft, and exotic essential oils of fruit and spices, which take your mind on a flight of fancy to distant shores where you are lying on a beach drinking spiced rum.

Rose Queen (P245 for 100g) has a light floral rosy accord with amber notes of rock rose.

Meanwhile, all sorts of essential oils and fresh ingredients are added to create the solid bubble bar slices we know and love. With no preservatives added, these bubble bars simply let you crumble under warm running water to create masses and masses of luxurious, softening bubbles.

 In the Philippines, Lush is exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc. (SSI) and is located at Glorietta 4, Power Plant Mall, Shangri-La Mall, Greenbelt 3, Mall of Asia, and Bonifacio High Street. Visit www.lush.com.ph.

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Forever beautiful: Flawless’ Forever gift set contains products that guarantee gorgeous radiant skin in seconds.

Flawless introduces Forever gift set

Flawless recently released its Forever gift set, an assembly of products that guarantee gorgeous radiant skin in seconds.

One of the products in the nifty little box is the DeCrease cream or botox-in-a-jar, as Flawless patients refer to it. It’s like a cream perfume that you can dab onto your face, neck, hands, and legs to diminish fine lines and wrinkles, leaving smooth and matte skin. Plus it provides UV protection and slows down aging.

Another product inside the gift set is the spanking new Forever for Her, Flawless’ own fragrance. The deliciously charming scent has notes of lemons, subtly masking delicate hints of jasmine and violets.

There’s a lightening soap to provide radiant skin, and the Forever Lightening Lotion, perfect for both morning and evening use.

To complement the DeCrease line eraser, the Forever gift set also contains the Forever Sheer Powder, a refreshing and wispy loose powder to brighten the skin.

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Wheel power: Colour Collection tours universities in Metro Manila to treat fashionistas to free makeovers.

Colour Collection tours universities

Colour Collection, Tupperware Brands’ premier cosmetics line, spreads confidence among fun, young college girls this February as its makeover bus tours universities in Metro Manila to treat fashionistas to free makeovers, beauty chats with guest beauty experts, plus the exciting opportunity to be featured in Meg, a leading fashion and beauty magazine in the country today.

The brand, popularly being endorsed by Bea Alonzo, has been known for its extensive, rich makeup colors with skin caring properties, and has successfully launched innovative products such as the Colour Intense Lipstick, Triple Effect Waterproof Mascara, Gluta Whitening BB Cream and its chief makeup artist Bianca Valerio’s Makeup Artist Edition line.

Trailblazing the tour is the visit on February 1-3 at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. The plush mobile beauty salon, where female college students can avail themselves of a free Colour Collection makeover, will park at the College of Arts and Sciences/College of Arts and Letters grounds. What’s more, girls get a 15ml Gluta Whitening BB Cream free for a purchase of any lip color.

As Colour Collection visits each of the four universities, the brand will choose three pretty faces as part of the brand’s Best 12 makeovers. The tour will wrap up via an online voting in the event’s exclusive microsite where one of the Best 12 will have a chance to win an exclusive makeover feature c/o Meg and a meet-and-greet with brand ambassador Bea Alonzo.

To see exclusive details about the event, log on to www.colourcollectiontour.com or like Tupperware Brands Philippines in Facebook.