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5 Beauty Subscription Boxes For Her

Beauty subscriptions allow you to try new beauty products and test what you like and what you don’t, because finding the right products can be tough. It takes patience because it is trial and error; however, there are the perfect products out there for everyone.

You might be one who loves trying new products and is beauty-obsessed, or you may be someone who struggles with finding beauty products and doesn’t have the time to research the best ones to try. Either way, beauty subscriptions are the way to go. I mean, who doesn’t love getting packages anyway?

There are many different kinds of beauty subscriptions, which is why we at Downtown Magazine put together a list of beauty subscriptions we love.

So treat yourself, or treat your girl, to one of the following beauty subscriptions that we picked.

Birchbox

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The Monthly Box
Price: $10/monthly (you can cancel anytime) or $110/yearly

Each month, your personalized beauty box includes five product samples. They choose the best beauty products tailored to your skin, hair, and style. You’ll get to try all different types of products, from haircare to skincare to makeup, and they always include information on how to use them.

Ipsy

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Monthly Glam Bag
Price: $1o/monthly

Michelle Phan, famous for her inspiration through her beauty video tutorials, began the company Ipsy where each month, subscribers will receive a beautiful Glam Bag that includes deluxe samples as well as full-sized beauty products.

Michelle and her team of stylists personally select the products they love for you to try and hopefully fall in love with as well. Take the beauty quiz, get your first Glam Bag, watch the videos, and find the perfect products for you!

Julep


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Julep Maven Box

Price: My Maven ($40+ worth of polish & product) $24.99/month or $19.99/month with a three-month prepaid subscription OR Maven Luxe ($60+ worth of prestige products) $39.99/month or $34.99/month with a three-month pre-paid subscription.

Julep believes that everyday looks and trying new trends should be easy, effortless, and inspiring— “because pretty shouldn’t be something we define for you. It’s whatever you choose to show us.” It includes a customizable full-size beauty and polish from brand-new collections every month, from which you can choose from. Both subscriptions include the option to “send to a friend,” skip the month or cancel at any time.

LOVE GOODLY

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Bi-Monthly Box Subscription
Price: $29.95/bi-monthly

Every other month, LOVE GOODLY will send you $80+ value of 4-5 products. What’s unique about LOVE GOODLY is that they are all healthy, natural products, encouraging you to live a cruelty-free and toxin free lifestyle. They are all exo-friendly, non-toxic, vegan, and curated with love.

Each box contains 4-5 mostly full-size products, including beauty and skincare, a style or home accessory, and healthy snacks and wellness items. And to top it all off, with each purchase, they give back to a cause.

GLOSSYBOX

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GLOSSYBOX
Price: $21/month for 1 month, $19.50/month for 3 months, $18.50/month for 6 months, or $17.50/month for 12 months.

With a GLOSSYBOX subscription, each month you receive 5 deluxe full-size beauty products that have been handpicked from around the globe all within a beautiful keepsake box! In the snap of a finger, you’ll come home to a GLOSSYBOX at your doorstep and hopefully some of your new favorite products.

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Downtown’s Summer Hair Products Guide

Summer is full of endless activities outside, inside, in the water, you name it — and taming that hair of yours is becoming a full-time job. We all deal with tangles and frizz and all kinds of hair problems with every product claiming to be the one who can fix it.

We’ve already narrowed down the best shampoos and conditioners for your specific hair type, but now we at Downtown Magazine have dug even deeper to find all and any products to tame that summer hair and restore it in all ways.

Whether you’re dealing with tangled hair from the chlorine, frizziness from the humidity, or overall damaged hair and what not, here are our top hair products.

Frizz

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Price: $17.48, available here

Done with dealing with frizz? its a 10‘s miracle defrizzing gel is the perfect buy. Stop the battle by purchasing this secret weapon, made with natural ingredients and ends with manageable hair.

Rough

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Price: $32.00, available here

In an effortless manner,Moroccanoil‘s Smoothing Lotion tames hair, resists humidity, and smooths the hair all-in-one. This product will leave your hair soft and luxuriously smooth, and we can’t get enough of it!

Oily Scalp

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Price: $65.00, available here

This scalp treatment soothes and hydrates the scalp, for all hair types. It particularly treats sensitive scalps while leaving the scalp refreshed and supple. Kérastase‘s Masque Hydra-Apaisant is just the treatment for your scalp.

Curl Maker

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Price: $22.00, available here

Devacurl‘s The Curl Maker is a curl booster spray gel perfect for you, if you want to unleash your natural curly and wavy texture. This styler brings outstanding results, ending with gorgeous curls and a happy girl.

Styling

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Price: $4.99, available here

Not only is the smell amazing, but this Air Dry It Un-Done Style Cream from L’Oréal Paris is effortless and brings out the best hair results. It is frizz-resistant and requires no heat. It is made for all hair types and it enhances your hair’s natural shape definition and texture, all at once.

Tangly

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Price: $8.99, available here

This brush is perfect for all hair types. The Wet Brush helps is made specifically for wet hair and brings out your best hair. It combs out tangles effortlessly and in a time-efficient manner. Not to mention, the Galaxy-Voyager is almost too pretty!

Finish

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Price: $19.55, available here

We are big fans of its a 1o, and their Miracle Finishing Hair Spray Plus Keratin is a must-have. It is perfect product to hold your style all done by a dry spray. It is perfect for finished styling, shine, volume and keratin for a super firm, along with weightless, hold.

Texturized

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Price: $22.00, available here

Kenra Professional‘s Texturizing Mist 6 is a fine mist providing a natural, touchable hold. It defines texture and boosts fullness, protects from humidity for up to 24 hours, as well as is flake-free and non-drying formulation.

Damaged

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Price: $29.00, available here

This Hair Repair Masque brings out soften, smooth and shine, ending with your hair left strengthened, hydrated and repaired. Made with Argan Oil, Marula Oil, Avocado Oil, and Pea protein this mask from Flawless by Gabrielle Union will fix that damaged hair of yours right up.

Volume

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Price: $10.50, available here

We love John Paul Mitchell Systems‘ products, but especially their Extra Body Sculpting Gel for those who seek volume. It provides a flexible hold while building body and adding lift to fine, limp hair. This product brings out the beautiful hair you never thought you had.

Heat Protection

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Price: $16.50, available here

CHI‘s Total Protect is a lightweight lotion made with a rich silk formula to help lock in moisture and protect hair from thermal style and color fading. It truly brings out the hair’s natural structure to build strength and resilience and to improve moisture and shine.

Dry Shampoo

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Price: $7.00, available here.

Summer involves a full schedule, and Not Your Mother’s dry shampoo is the perfect hair necessity that brings instant results and absorbs excess oils, fresh volume, and leaves no residue. It’s simple.

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Best Shampoo For Your Hair Type

Finding the right hair products can take time, but the first step is being aware of your hair type. There are all different kinds of hair: curly, wavy, straight, frizzy, thick, thin, oily, color-treated, damaged, etc. Buying shampoo is overwhelming because of the amount of options, but to get the best results it is essential to get the kind that is specific for your type of hair.

Along with finding that ideal shampoo, pairing it with the matching conditioner ensures positive results.

It can be a challenge, but luckily Downtown Magazine has narrowed down the choices and picked our top shampoos for each hair type.

Curly

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Curly Sexy Hair by Sexy Hair
Price: Shampoo & conditioner, $39.69 on Amazon

Curly Sexy Hair is the perfect match if your hair is curly and you are looking to enhance those curls. It is made with Sea Algae & Cacay oil and it tames those unmanageable curls by adding shape, definition and bounce for all curl types. Your curls will retain softness and moisture along with smoothing and controlling frizz all day.

Straight

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Brazilian Keratin Therapy by OGX
Price: Shampoo & Conditioner, $26.61 on Amazon.

OGX has killed the straight hair game with their Brazilian Keratin Therapy shampoo. It is infused with coconut oil, keratin proteins, avocado oil and cocoa butter to make your hair ever straightened. It helps strengthen and soften the hair, along with adding a luminous glow and a beautiful shine.

Color-Treated

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Color Extend Magnetics by Redken
Price: Shampoo & Conditioner, $55.00 on Amazon

Redken’s Color Extend Magnetics is not only a bestseller, but has captivating results. It’s a shampoo for colored hair that is lightweight and gentle sulfate-free. It’s part of the exclusive SMART hair care family, and the new RCT Protein Complex treats hair from the root to the core to the tip, giving all 3 levels the custom nourishment they need.

Volume

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Extra Volume by Moroccan Oil
Price: Shampoo & Conditioner, $55.00 on Amazon

Moroccan Oil’s products are all so amazing, but their Extra Volume shampoo and conditioner are outstanding for those wishing for more volume. It’s goal is to transform and volumize fine hair from lifeless to lively by antioxidant-rich argan oil and revitalizing nutrients—including linden bud extract that naturally plumps up hair. This product brings body, shine and manageability for healthy-looking hair. It is color safe as well as sulfate-free, phosphate-free and paraben-free.

Frizzy

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Frizz by Living Proof
Price: Shampoo & Conditioner, each $25.00 on Living Proof.

Living Proof’s No Frizz shampoo does wonders for those battling frizz. It weightlessly blocks humidity, smoothes hair texture so strands are polished and frictionless, as well as nourishes and conditions, leaving the hair feeling moisturized. It is formulated for color and chemically treated hair as well as sulfate-free and silicone-free, making it ideal for all frizz-prone hair types.

 Oily

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Extraordinary Clay by L’Oreal Paris
Price: Shampoo & Conditioner, $12.48 on Amazon.

For those who struggle with oily roots and dry ends, Extraordinary Clay is the perfect choice. With 3 Refined Clays, it instantly purifies oily roots and hydrates dry lengths in a lightweight fashion for beautifully fresh, flowing hair from root to tip. It is silicone-free and in up to 48 hours the results of purified roots and hydrated ends show.

Damaged

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Repair & Protect by Pantene
Price: Shampoo & Conditioner, $13.99 on Amazon.

Suffer from damaged hair? Pantene’s Repair & Protect is made for damaged, stressed, and overworked hair and is gentle enough for permed or color-treated hair. Its Pro-V formula nourishes hair, fueling it with protecting power against future damage for stronger, healthier, more beautiful hair. Strong hair beats damage.

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Glow with SHOW Beauty

If you haven’t heard about SHOW Beauty yet, you are in for a treat. The luxe hair care brand has been on the market for a few years, but it never ceases to amaze and has become a stable in Downtown’s hair care cabinet. Its products come in an indulgent and luxurious range that embodies timeless elegance and sophistication.

Everything from design to the products are spotless. Their shampoo and conditioners cater to the three most common needs: volume, repair and moisture — and the repair and moisture lines also offer hair treatment masks. Just 20 minutes and your locks will soon be looking their best.

The brand is more than just shampoo and conditioner however. It also holds tried and true favorites like dry shampoo, thermal protect mist and a thickening lotion, to name a few. You can see the full range and read more about each on their website.

On there, you’ll also find a wide array of tips, tricks and how-to videos for perfect guides to help you and your locks look their best.

Their latest tour de force however is not for hair… Just recently SHOW Beauty launched the Allure Body Shimmer Oil — a radiant lightweight dry body oil which softens skin while giving a beautifully luminous golden glow. Perfect for summer!

The perks of this shimmer oil is that it is paragon free, formulated with a blend of Vitamin E, Aloe Vera, Argan and Jojoba oils, which soothes and deeply hydrates the skin with just a few drops.

You will end up looking healthy, moisturized, and fabulous! On top of it, the warming hint of shimmering color enhances your natural tan and the signature SHOW Beauty fragrance kindles an air of glamour, mystique with sensual Patchouli, soft White Musk, and Madagascan Vanilla.

The Body Shimmer Oil is suitable for all skin types and is available at net-a-porter.com.

 

Are you going to #GlowWithSHOW?

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Backstage With R+Co At NYFW’s Anna Sui Show

The Anna Sui Fall/Winter 2017 collection was inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli and the parties she used to throw.

Garren, celebrity hairstylist and co-founder of R+Co, was backstage at this year’s Anna Sui NYFW show to style. He used R+Co products to create various looks based on both length and texture. Said Garren: “We used a variety of products to get the texture we wanted.”

Those modeling the work of both Anna Sui and R+Co included Kendall Jenner; it has not yet been confirmed whether Kendall is NWO for life, or just NWO for the short-term.

Photos courtesy of R+Co

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Downtown Recommends: Tara Smith Hair Care

The famed UK hair stylist, Tara Smith brought a fantastic line of hair care products for every hair type to the United States. After successfully styling Hollywood’s film industry, she sought to produce her own brand where the products concentrate on being both high-performance and environmentally friendly, a rare combination to find in the hair care industry. Typically, you only get one and end up sacrificing the other. However, Smith has found a unique formula that will “feed the hair from root to tip.”

A necessary product for any working girl’s medicine cabinet, the Base Coat Serum is the foundation for gorgeous locks. Starflower Seed Extract (rich in essential fatty acids) and Tegosoft CT (naturally derived from coconut oil) lock in moisture and smooth hair while also creating an anti-frizz barrier that last 24 hours. Results show the serum controls frizz in up to 80% humidity and increases shine by 65%. The bird featured on the serum is a hot pink Galah Bird from Australia who has soft, bold and colorful feathers.

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Make room in your purse for the brilliant Shining Moment Glosser. You will want to carry this product everywhere with you! A color-safe alternative to Jojoba Oil- Oeyl Erucate moistures the scalp while, Olive Squelane smoothes the hair and prevents UV damage. This combination of natural oils creates ultimate shine and smells fantastic. The bird featured on the glosser is a bright orange Cocktaoo from Australia who embodies confidence to almost the point of bragging.

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Every curly-haired woman knows they can never control how her hair will twist and fluff any given day. Now you can finally celebrate curly hair with the Working Curls Shampoo & Conditioner. Hydrating, shining, softening and soothing the texture of curly hair, this product finally defines curls and combats frizz using healthy ingredients. Soy Protein and Rosemary Extract refresh, condition and add a lovely rosemary scent to the hair. Resulting in soft, glossy curls you’ve always dreamed of having. The wild and unruly, Southern Crowned Pigeon from New Guinea is featured on the shampoo, perfect for this curly-haired product.

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Packed with a Flexiquat V amino acid complex, the Shine on Shampoo & Conditioner softens and repairs dry, damaged and chemically treated hair. Oligogeline (derived from red seaweed) smoothes dull hair and boosts shine remarkably well. If your hair is color-treated, this is the product for you. However, anyone can use this product and still experience its fantastic strengthening and repairing power. The sleek, edgy and strong Pal Cockatoo bird from Australia is featured on the shampoo.

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Smith thrives on the fact that her products are “tested on film stars, not animals”. Her free, bohemian, eco-friendly personality translates into her products. The product’s packaging is rich with color and has a picture of a ravishing bird from somewhere in the world. The shampoos have the bird’s head while the conditioners are only painted with the bird’s feathers. You will never grab the wrong product again with this unique and original design. Smith specifically chose the birds on each product, assessing their origin and feather story to match the product.

 

All these amazing products are available on TaraSmith.com with prices ranging from $16 – $26.

-by Isabel Insolia