Now Garnier has perfected and made Beauty Balms easily accessible nationwide, come February 2012 with the Garnier Skin Renew Miracle Skin Perfector B.B. Cream. Available in two skin tones option (light/medium and medium/deep), the ultra-light substance provides SPF 15 UVA/UVB protection, 24 hour moisture, evens skin tone, gives a tint, and even includes Vitamin C.  Retailing for $12.99, you really can’t beat this price and product that combos up SPF, a moisturizer, and foundation or powder coverage found in one easy step.

-Julia DiNardo

In this episode,  Julia reviews the latest from Garnier and Jabot (which officially launches July 28th).

[All images via Rose Lou]

As part of a six-city wide bus tour and beauty brigade, world-renowned haircare product company, Garnier Fructis stopped by Times Square in New York City to lend a green thumb. Inside the tour bus, shelves were stacked with bottles and samples of Pure Clean Garnier Fructis hair products to clean, style, and nourish air-polluted locks – an unfortunate downside to urban lifestyles.

The main goal of the tour/beauty brigade is to increase popular participation in saving the environment – and by default, the world – by pledging to collect recyclable items/used beauty product containers and shipping them to TerraCycle within two weeks to receive 2 cents per item that is donated towards any charity of choice. To get involved with this enviro-saving brigade, simply visit the Garnier Fructis Pure Clean Official Website and click on the Get Involved tab for the Cleaner Greener World Tour Beauty Brigade.

You can also have your personal commitment published publicly  on Garnier Fructis’ Facebook page. Garnier Fructis and TerraCycle are diligently collaborating to raise awareness about the extra help our environment needs and get the public to actively participate in their earnest efforts to help save the world.  With the ingenuity and help of TerraCycle, various post-beauty products (not limited to only Garnier Fructis product bottles) have been and are being converted into other items for everyday use, such as nootebooks, containters, baskets, or board slates that can be put into making a children’s playground.  So, get all your old,empty bottles of shampoo and other beauty products together, put them into an old shoe box, label it, and ship it to TerraCycle for them to refashion into an enviro-friendly manner!

- Rose Lou

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For hair, the new Sleek & Shine Blow Dry Perfector 2-Step Smoothing Kit ($11.99) was especially exciting. You simply apply the 20-min Smooth-It Serum, followed by the Heat-Activated Perfect-it Cream, and just blow dry or flat iron as usual.The sweetest part of the deal? Up to seven shampoos later, you’ll still have the perfect blow out! How cool is that?

In the skincare department, your face never has to be a sweaty mess again, thanks to the new Moisture Rescue Collection. Garnier happily effuses that the trio of cleansing foam, gel-cream and UV lotion offers “light refreshing hydration at a refreshingly light price.” They retail for $5.99, $7.99 and $7.99 respectively. As a tip on those extra hot and humid days, give the gel-cream a whirl in the fridge for your own mini spa moment. Ahhhhh now that’s refreshing!

-Kaci Hamilton

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I recently received from Garnier their brand new Skin Renew Anti-Dark-Circle Roller, a 2-in-1 eye roller that both corrects and conceals dark circles. I feel like I’ve chronically had dark under eye circles since age 8, so I was intrigued to test out this new product; it comes in one universal tint shade that is quite sheer, and tended to blend well into my super white skin. I even put a little on a forming pimple on my chin, and it seemed to do the trick there as well. The correction aspect is executed via the ingredients of caffeine and lemon essence which are meant to stimulate, smooth, and brighten the area under your eyes over time. I’ve only tested it for three days so far, so I can’t quite vouch yet for the long term effects, but I really like its thin, sleek shape and roller ball application. The Garnier Skin Renew Anti-Dark-Circle Roller will be available in July of 2010, and will retail for $12,99.

Before the craziness of the holidays began, I attended the Garnier Herbashine event, the newest addition to Garnier’s haircare line that launches this month, and is a color creme with bamboo extracts available in 18 shades for $7.99 at most major drugstores.The new haircolor range comes with a fragrant aroma of top notes including apple, raspberry, black currant, and peach (weird to talk about hair dye in such a way, but I like it!), and includes bamboo extracts, av0cado, and shea butter to help fortify the hair cuticle during the coloring process.

Not only is the color also ammonia free, but it is also low commitment; it takes only 10 minutes to apply and lasts through 28 washes, making it a new hybrid category. It’s not a semi- nor a  demi-permanent hair color, hence Garnier has dubbed it a soft-lift, since it handles greys, lifts hair color up a level, and no visible root line. So what does this mean to you? Essentially, don’t pick a color too far outside of your current/natural color range for its effects to truly take hold. Now isn’t the time to go from blonde to black, however if you want to lighten, darken, add lustre, or fortify your current shade a bit, Herbashine wil do the job. I’m going to use ’800′ and become a darker, winter blonde – you’ll be sure to see the results soon!

-Julia DiNardo

[Myself & Amber of BeautyBloggingJunkie at the Garnier Open House, Image from Garnier]

I recently went to the Garnier Open House event to check out their latest line of product offerings, with most of them launching this month. The new hair care, styling, and skin care products each offer something new to the market, for example the Triple Nutrition hair care line includes olive, shea, and avocado oils to provide incredible moisture without weighing hair down. I was particularly interested in The Dryness Reversal Treatment, a three minute conditioner with crushed apricot seed that act as an exfoliant; I never would have thought about applying something of that nature to my hair, and will soon test out the products to see the results. Their new concept of anti-humidity hairsprays is something that rang a chord with me — depending on your hair type and styling requirements, you can choose a hairspray to particularly meet those needs. Although I’ve been pretty happy with my massive bottle of Tresemme, the Volumizing Anti-Humidity Hairspray certainly got my attenion (other options are Full Cotrol, Sleek & Shine, and Flexible Control).

Last, I spoke with dermatologist Dr. Neal Schultz about the lastest skin care offerings, including the Ultra-Lift Pro Deep Wrinkle Night Cream, and Skin Renew Awakening Face Massager Moisturizer with caffeine, Vitamin C, and lycopene. Dr. Schultz confided to me that caffeine is the next big thing in skin care, that produces a stimulating and energizing effect. The roller ball technology is pretty cool, but being the skeptic and germaphobe that I am, I had a quesiton for Dr. Schultz: “Does the facial roller trap bacteria or foster an environment of bacterial growth, due to rubbing the same thing over and over again on one’s face?” The pleasant Dr. Schultz wasn’t annoyed by my question, and said that indeed no, it actually wouldn’t cause any more bacteria than when you dip and redip your fingers into that bottle of moisturizer or night cream that you’ve been using. Good point; now I’ve got one more reason to wash my hands! Keep your eyes out for the products mentioned above, plus several more, hitting shelves this summer.

-Julia DiNardo

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