Buddahlicious Soy Candles

Zen oils soy candles are made with luxuriously organic ingredients. Paraben-free with no artificial colorants.Four in one candles: candle, aromatherapy, perfume and moisturizer. Each scent packaged with an uplifting quote by different spiritual leaders. Price points range from $18-$20.

Red-Carpet-Ready Beauty-on-the-Go Spa Services

Surface Beauty’s Oscar Spa Party

It’s that enchanting time to get red-carpet-ready for the Oscars. Surface Beauty offers a special evening with your closest friends, champagne, hors d' ouvres, and all your favorite celebrities of 2009 in your very own living room. Celebrate one of the most exciting moments of the year for Hollywood, and share the same luxuries that the rich and famous indulge in before they accept their golden trophies. Relish in some of those luxuries for yourself and your girlfriends with an Oscar Spa Party.

Surface Beauty will indulge you with face firming treatments, to aromatherapy pressure point massage, or maybe a soul awakening spa wrap made of only the earth’s finest botanicals. Ladies in need of some pampering can still enjoy the Oscars spa style prior to the star-studded night by renting those nominated films at home while delighting in a facial, an eye treatment, or a warm stone facial.

Surface Beauty’s Oscar Night Specials to make you an American Beauty:

- Hollywood - A Surface Beauty make-up expert will glam you up like a movie star, showing the hottest looks going down the red carpet, and update your make-up bag with a complimentary consultation. $65

- Cleopatra - Like the Egyptians who invented milk baths and used oils to heal, a Surface Beauty professional is there to pamper and relieve your skins needs with a luxurious aromatherapy facial or moisturize winter-dry skin with a unique milk and honey facial. $85

- My Fair Lady - Experience a skin-lightening and brightening facial that will even out skin texture and tone (great for those suffering from hyper-pigmentation or melasma). $75

- Sunset Boulevard - Thinking of slipping on a short slinky number and going out on the town? Surface Beauty airbrush-tanning can smooth and tan (using a unique aqua-mint exfoliation rub) bodies from head to toe! $75

- A Star is Born - Ever wondered how to get Drew's baby-doll lips, or Nicole's amazing glow, or Jennifer's gorgeous eyes? Let one of Surface Beauty's specialized make-up artists show you how! $45

- Starlet - Enjoy a mini Vita-C facial with all the perks of a Deluxe facial! $55

- The Envelope Please - Get wrapped up in Surface Beauty's skin softening and inch-melting body-wraps. $95

- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Experience an amazing muscle and mind relaxing moment with Surface Beauty's hot/warm stone therapy, aroma-therapeutic facial. $75

Surface Beauty also offers clients’ spa gift certificates for any wish list. Gift vouchers are redeemable for a year and can be booked at anytime at the recipient’s convenience. Space is limited on Oscar night, so bookings should be made well in advance.

Beauty Tuesday Tip

Winter-chapped face?

January is typically a COLD month. But for Californians it's cold and the next it's HOT? It's no wonder our skin is so confused!

Surface Beauty wants to shine a little light on the winter-chapped skin. If your skin stings to the touch from the cold breezy winds, DON'T over wash the face thinking water equals hydration. To get relief without breaking out from heavy creams, wash with warm water, a soft wash cloth, and a soothing milk cleanser (avoid mineral oil!). Immediately follow with a calming toner (look for rosewater or cornflower based with chamomile) alcohol free! Layer with a hydrating serum, and finish with a light weight moisturizer with SPF (for daytime).

Remember: Your SPF moisturizer acts as a barrier, holding in the nutrients that came before it and fending off the free-radicals that come after (ie: smog, dirt, harsh tempretures, uva/uvb rays, etc).

High Society Event Planning

Getting married? Need a special event coordinated? Want your next corporate event to be the "talk of the office" for the next year? Surface Beauty Spa had the pleasure to work with Brandi Smith, owner and creative artist, where we experienced her divine talents in how to turn a special event into an unforgettable moment!

"High Society Event Planning believes that everyone is a "fabulous socialite" in their right. No matter what your budget, HSEP is committed to creating an event that is as unique as you are. From design concept to execution, HSEP thrives on creating the celebrations that mark the most significant events in your life."

New Product News: Acquarella Nail Polish

On my recent trip to Idyllwild mountains near Palm Springs, California, I came upon this organic nail polish at a natural health store.

Our Review:

Our Surface Beauty color experts fell in love with the vibrant colors, how smooth and quickly the polish dried , and most importantly the fact this polish is ORGANIC! You could actually drink it! ( not that this is advisable);)

Product Description:

Acquarella makes nail polish fun and hassle-free. You can change nail color without the dreadful smell of chemicals since it's the world's only truly safe nail polish that is both water-based and non-toxic. An easy preparation with fast drying makes it a snap. Acquarella Nail Polish hydrates the nail, helping to prevent nails from chipping, peeling and yellowing commonly associated with harsh conventional nail products.

- Fast - Usually dries "to touch" in 3 minutes and "to use" within 20 minutes.

- Easy - No base or top coat needed.

- Safe - Water based and Non-Toxic with virtually no odor.

- No Formaldehyde, Phthalates or chemical solvents of any kind.

- Since Acquarella is water based, it's non-flammable and free from toxic fumes making it a perfect companion for traveling, the office, or any other place.

Acquarella Nail Polish comes in a wide variety of playful shades that fit any occasion.

Surface Beauty Invited to Pampered Lady Cruise March 21, 2010

Surface Beauty will be one of the luxury vendors participating in this year's Pampered Lady Cruise

Details coming soon!

Beauty Spa-on-the-Go Services for Valentines

PAMPER MOM, WIFE or GIRLFRIEND

SURFACE BEAUTY is Southern California’s premiere spa and beauty company providing on location make-up, facial, brow, and styling experts for entertainment, executive, bridal and individuals.

Surface Beauty offers clients’ spa gift certificates for any Valentine’s wish list. Gift vouchers are redeemable for a year and can be booked at anytime at the recipient’s convenience. Spa gift certificates are a wonderful way to show that special someone how much you care.
Surface Beauty Valentines Day Specials include:

I HEART SPA Special - a customized luxurious facial created just for you. $75

Pressed Flower Facial - Organic aromatic roses floral facial, (SB uses a gorgeous hydrating rose mask from FRESH). $95

Love Birds Facials - His & Hers Spa couples treatment designed for two with chocolate dipped fruit and champagne. $150

“All the Single Ladies” Spa Party for the Girls - bring together your best of friends and pamper yourselves with “chocolatinis” and a uniquely delicious detoxing chocolate body wrap experience! $125 per appointment

Queen of Hearts - This is her day to shine! Offer the special mom in your
life a luxurious deluxe facial, including a complimentary hand and foot rehydrating paraffin dip! $125

Your Heart Out - Each appointment will receive a box of chocolates with a card from the giver. $75

Keeping it fresh in 2010

Hello from your make-up addicted and skin care aficionados at Surface Beauty.com

It's a brand new year, HECK, it's a brand new decade! We want to share with you, what the future has in store for the looks of 2010!

Healthy, fresh, and clean skin! Who doesn't want that!?! We aren't looking for cosmetics that just cover up our flaws we want products that correct and protect our livelihood!

Surface Beauty believes strongly in what is said about "first impressions". So here we are in a new decade, a new year, let's start it off on the right foot or(face)!

Where to begin?

What do we do right when we wake up?

Wash that face! Keeping the water cold will do positive numbers on your skin right away. It wakes you up, fast, it gets the blood going, minimizes pores, and actually is a wonderful way to de-puff those eyes!

Cleanse with a soap -free wash.(Check out Shiseido or Aesop). If you have the time, exfoliate mildly with a gentle scrub(Check out Answers From Nature at Henrys), or even a wash cloth will do.

TONE, yes it is important. Your toner balances your natural PH, minimizes those pores, and soothes that skin from the first two actions.(Check out Eminence/Aesop).

From here, hydrate your eyes, face, and decollete. One can go right to a basic moisturizer, while this only holds in what you've already applied, and protects your skin from the external elements...OR, invest in a specific SERUM, made just for your skins concerns. Be it, dryness, loose skin, hyper pigmentation, dullness, lines and wrinkles, etc. This serum mus be alcohol free, mineral-oil free. Beware. Your serum is your key to actually correcting and preventing present and future damage to your skin.(Check out PCA/ Natura Bisse/T.Le Clerc).

Hydrate & seal the nourished skin with a moisturizer that doesn't weigh down your skin, look greasy, or consist of alcohols that will just dry up and dissipate before you walk out of your bathroom.(Check out PCA/Natura Bisse/Shiseido).

Note, your eye cream and moisturizer are NOT the same thing. There is a difference between their consistencies, and performance. Eye creams cost more, generally, than your moisturizer. They are formulated with smaller molecules(look for nano-technology) to absorb more effectively around the delicate tissues surrounding our eyes. Eye creams should feel like a satiny layer as it's applied, not heavy or sticky. If the cream is too thick, consists of bees wax or mineral oils, or too much is applied this may cause milia(small white bumps), to form around your eyes.(Check out 3LAb/Natura Bisse).

Tinted moisturizers are the new and improved foundations! More and more women are enjoying the convenience of their SPF and color combined in one. Looking for a product that isn't greasy, light weight, and easily blended are important keys.(Check out Remede).

Color those lips! Lip stains are advantageous in several ways. They stay, they don't bleed, they are weightless, fuss-less, and truly wake up your face! Our pro-celebrity artists recommend choosing colors that typically are the opposite in tone of your eye color. For example, if you have blue eyes, go for warm, peachy tones. For brown eyes, go for cool berry, mauve tones. Enjoy these stains on your cheeks as well, they don't clog the skin!(Check out Vincent Longo/Nars). Top it of with a natural or clear gloss!(Check out Nars/T.LeClerc/Vincent Longo).

Eyes, the windows to our souls! Let's pick the right "dressings". Never overlook the brow. Simply by brushing in a little color into the hairs, to give fullness and shape can make all the difference to your eyes and face. Always pick a similar color to your brows but never darker!(Check out Laura Mercier).

Mascara, always own a great deep black mascara. Water proof or at least resistant. Mascaras no matter how much you pay for one, last no longer than 3 1/2 to 4 months. Any longer you're asking for itchy, irritated eyes(due to microbes), along with flaking and minimal performance in general. You can invest in a great $30.00 mascara, which will offer you an amazing application, a pleasing odor, and probably a sleek package(Check out Shu Uemura); OR, purchase an $8.00 mascara from your local pharmacy, that takes a little more effort to keep from clumping, endure a subtle chemical scent, and they tend to come in animated tube-like packages. (Cover Girl Lash Blast). They both end up looking much of the same.

If time permits, choosing shadow isn't rocket science anymore. A wash of color complimenting(opposite tones) your eye color will enhance your look but, in choosing a shadow, there are NO rules. You love purple and you have blue eyes, enjoy! You have green eyes and love...green, go for it! You may be hazel-eyed and love the color pink, work it! Eye shadow is an accessory not a necessity! Wardrobe it to what your wearing out that night or just highlighting around the eyes to brighten up your day, don't be afraid to play with your shadows!(Check out Sue Devitt/MAC).

Keeping it natural, fresh, and clean in 2010!

All your beauty needs at SurfaceBeauty.com time and again!

Peace and Beauty Always, Your Surface Beauty Team

*Mention this letter and receive $15.00 towards your next
appointment!(offer lasts through February 28, 2010).