Tag: Lifestyle Expert

Birmingham /

Eating Well To Win from Celebrity Chef Richard Ingraham

Excited to share I’m reviewing a new cookbook and creating recipes!  Celebrity Chef Richard Ingraham has launched Eating Well to Win.

He’s the private chef to actress Gabrielle Union and NBA veteran Dwyane Wade. Eating Well to Win is focused on developing delicious, flavorful recipes — many of which include either a Southern, Creole, Italian or Asian flair.

Check back here to find out what recipes were created and an interview with Chef Richard Ingraham.

 

 

Lifestyle Tips /

CANDER PARIS – Luxury Candle Line from Elizabeth Minett launches

Cander Paris is pleased to announce that as of today, Cander Paris’ debut candle collection is now available to online and in select retailers worldwide.

Luxury candle line Cander Paris, founded by Elizabeth Minett, launches today with four signature scents: SCENT 01, ROSE, OUR YOUTH, and RUE VERTBOIS.

Minett worked with world-renowned French perfumer Emmanuel Philip to create her debut Cander Paris collection, all scents are made France with the excellence and tradition of French perfumery, the candles are exquisitely crafted of the highest quality.

“Cander Paris introduces scents that are uniquely refined and euphorically indulgent. These are the fragrances of candid moments.” – Elizabeth Minett, Cander Paris

 

Elizabeth Minett, founder of Cander Paris

Minett was born near Toronto, Canada and raised in a place where candor was the essence of her culture. A childhood filled with the rustic landscapes of harsh winters would forever shape her olfactive tastes. After a chance encounter in an elevator, she was scouted to work as a fashion model and soon moved to Europe. She was an early adopter of the digital influencer trend and transitioned from the modeling world to create her successful lifestyle website. Minett developed a more refined nose during her years traveling the globe as a bon vivant, especially whilst traveling. As Minett moves into a new chapter of her life she becomes now one of the very few young female entrepreneurs to launch their own luxury scent collections with the debut of Cander Paris in 2017.

Beauty /

Talk of Alabama Lifestyle Segment: Fashion Week 2017 Celebrity Beauty Trends

I hosted a Lifestyle Segment with Talk of Alabama sharing Fashion Week 2017 Celebrity Beauty Trends.  Dana Benson from The Esthetic Loft and Nicole Stephani from mybodyboop.com joined the segment to discuss the benefits and application of eyelash extensions.

This particular lifestyle segment featured products to help everyone at-home enhance their natural beauty and provide makeup tips from New York Fashion Week 2017.

According the segment a few of the beauty trends seen on the runway included metallic eye shadow (whether in cream or powder) along with illuminating or strobing the face.  

Several celebrities use HD Invisible Foundation to provide an airbrushed look on-camera while reducing the appearance of pores.

The popular makeup technique of highlighting and contouring defines the cheekbones along with the use of Artis Elite Makeup Brushes to give a flawless finish.

When using Artis Elite Makeup Brushes recognize that each brush has an individual purpose and minimal product should be applied.  The products presented on ABC 33/40 included:

Face

Jane Iredale Active Light

Stila Stay All Day Foundation & Concealer

Stila Magnificent Glitter Eyeshadow

INGLOT HD Perfect Coverup Foundation

INGLOT Aquastic Cream Eyeshadow

INGLOT AMC Pure Pigment Eyeshadow

Black Opal True Color Skin Perfecting Stick Foundation

Alima Luminous Shimmer Eyeshadow

Mehron Makeup CreamBlend Stick

Mehron Celebre’ Pro-HD Cream Foundation

Mehron Metallic Powders

Body

Artis Elite Oval Brush 8

Artis Elite Linear 3

Artis Elite Oval 3

Artis Elite Circle 1

Beauty /

Talk of Alabama Lifestyle Segment: Summer 2017 Beauty Staples

I hosted a Lifestyle Segment with Talk of Alabama sharing summer beauty staples.

This particular segment featured products specifically geared towards protecting your skin during the warmer months, healthy tanning options, and looking refreshed with lip colors (or nail polish) for the new season.

The products I presented on ABC 33/40 included Elf Runway Ready Lip Palette, Hard Candy Color Correct Primer,  Hard Candy Color Correct Cushion Tip Creme Gel, Sinful Colors Nail Polish, Benecos Natural Fresh Bronzing Duo, True Natural Perfect Tan Products, Hawaiian Tropic Weightless Face Lotion Sunscreen, Skinny Tan Tanner.

Here’s the breakdown:

Face

Elf Runway Ready Lip Palette

Hard Candy Color Correct Primer

Hard Candy Color Correct Cushion Tip Creme Gel

Sinful Colors Nail Polish

Benecos Natural Fresh Bronzing Duo

Body

True Natural Perfect Tan Products

Hawaiian Tropic Weightless Face Lotion Sunscreen

Skinny Tan Tanner

Click Here To Watch:  TALK OF ALABAMA

Amazon /

Celebrate Earth Day with Amazon Warehouse Deals

Amazon Warehouse Deals, the largest seller of used products on Amazon.com, is celebrating Earth Day by offering customers 20% off select Amazon Warehouse Deals items across a variety of categories including electronics, home, kitchen, tools, and much more. This is in addition to the great discounts customers already get by shopping Amazon Warehouse Deals.

The deals, which are available now through Earth Day on Saturday, 4/22, include the following plus many more:

Making a new product requires a lot of materials and energy from start-to-finish, and reusing is one of the most effective ways to save natural resources. In addition to encouraging the reuse of products by reselling returned items, Amazon Warehouse Deals also repairs many of the products so they don’t end up in a landfill. Amazon customers who shop Amazon Warehouse Deals can help prevent pollution, save energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste.

With the offer of great everyday deals on quality used products that are backed by Amazon’s award-winning customer service, eligible for Prime shipping benefits and come with a 30-day money back guarantee, Amazon Warehouse Deals might just be Amazon’s best kept secret.

Visit Amazon Warehouse Deals Homepage to shop all items, including today’s Earth Day deals, and get additional information on how you can help the environment and save on the Amazon products you.

Ann Taylor /

TALK OF ALABAMA LIFESTYLE SEGMENT – Spring 2017 Fashion & Beauty Trends

Yesterday, I hosted a Lifestyle Segment on Talk of Alabama; sharing fashion and beauty must-haves to help everyone look their best for the new season.

This segment featured not only beauty products but also touched upon the latest fashion trends from Ann Taylor Spring 2017 Collection.

The products I presented on ABC 33/40 included Over EZ, Paraguard, G. M. Collin Instant Radiance Anti-Aging Eye Patches, DECLEOR Aurabsolu Refreshing Mist, Bioré Skincare Acne Collection, Curél Hydra Therapy Wet Skin Moisturizer, Ban Roll-On Deodorant, Spa @ Home by Masque Bar Sleeping Mask, Rimmel London Magnif’Eyes Eye Contouring Palette, KORRES Body Butter in Basil Lemon, LAVANILA Laboratories The Healthy Fragrance-Free Deodorant, Crest Whitening System, and Vaseline Intensive Care Spray Lotion.

Here’s the breakdown:

Face

DECLEOR Aurabsolu Refreshing Mist

Bioré Skincare Acne Collection

Spa Home Mask

Rimmel London

Crest Whitening System

Body

Over EZ

Paraguard

G. M. Collin Instant Radiance Anti-Aging Eye Patches

Ban Deodarant

Curel

Vaseline Spray Lotion

Korres Lotion

Fashion

Tassel Suede Pumps

Bell-Sleeve Silk Blouse

Ruffle Front Sweater

Click Here To Watch:  TALK OF ALABAMA

Beauty /

Talk of Alabama Lifestyle Segment – Valentine’s Day Beauty Prep from Head – To – Toe

I was invited to visit Talk of Alabama and share Valentine’s Day Beauty Prep from Head – To – Toe.  This segment featured at-home beauty essentials to impress your significant other or indulge in some much-deserved TLC.

The products I presented on ABC 33/40 included WUNDERKISS Lip Plumping Gloss, JuvaLips, Amarte Wonder Cream, Amarte Natural Finish BB Cream, SweetCheeks, NeoCell Beauty Bursts, INGLOT Breathable Nail Enamel, A Complete, WUNDER2 WUNDERBROW, Glycolic MUD Cleanser, HA + Collagen Anti-age Serum, and Vitamin C Serum.

Here’s the breakdown:

FACE

Amarte Wonder Cream

Amarte Natural Finish BB Cream

Glycolic MUD Cleanser

HA + Collagen Anti-age Serum and Vitamin C Serum

WUNDERKISS Lip Plumping Gloss

WUNDERBROW

A Complete Moisturizer

JUVALips

NAILS

INGLOT Breathable Nail Enamel

HAIR

NeoCell Beauty Bursts

BODY

SweetCheeks Cellulite Massage Mats

Click Here To Watch:  TALK OF ALABAMA

Birmingham /

Birmingham Winter Restaurant Week 2017 – Local Cuisine

Are you a foodie and take pleasure in culinary cuisine?  Well, you’re in luck because today starts Birmingham “Winter” Restaurant Week 2017 through Sunday, January 29, 2017.

Residents can enjoy delicious meals from locally owned and operated restaurants.  A few of the participants on the list include Ghost Train Brewing Company, Rojo Latin and American Food, and Perry’s Steakhouse and Grille.

Tourists and residents can also purchase tickets for specialized events throughout the city.

Fall 2016 /

Be Social! Using Facebook To Get More Blog Traffic

So, you’ve started a blog. Whether you’re looking to make a career out of it like me, or you just want to try your hand at a new creative outlet, you’re going to want to know that people are reading some of your work. These days, there are many great ways you can leverage Facebook to drive traffic to your blog. Here are just a few…

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Make Your Images Big and Clear

It’s been shown time and time again that Facebook posts with images get far more engagement than posts without them. Make sure that all of the images you post are large, prominent and clear, and you’re sure to have much more success in terms of likes, shares, and ultimately traffic! As you try out different images, keep looking at your insights, the metrics from your blog, and any other monitoring resources you can get your hands on, in order to gauge how your target market are responding. Soon enough, you’ll start to notice patterns, and will be able to pin down a certain kind of image which grabs your audience’s attention perfectly. You should keep the same high standards in mind when it comes to your profile picture, cover photo, and so on. It may be worth downloading a Facebook cover photo maker and getting acquainted with its features.

Keep Updates Short and Sweet

On your blog, there’s no limit to how long you can make articles. As long as the bulk of it is interesting and useful to your audience, go ahead and turn a 500-word post into a 2000-word feature! However, when you’re trying to use Facebook to drive your customers to these articles, I recommend sticking to short, sweet (or funny or witty) posts which are easily digestible to anyone who happens to be scanning your page. Updates like this are the best way to generate engagement on Facebook, and instigate more click-throughs. Ideally, you should be keeping your updates down to one sentence, and under 150 characters. These days, your average consumer is using Facebook in little windows throughout the day, rather than setting a couple of hours aside for it in the evenings. This means that short, snappy updates that are easy to take in are the best tools for stimulating engagement.

Ask the Audience

Questions naturally make you think of response, don’t you agree? Your audience will want to let their opinions be known, so opening up the floor to them with posts headed by a question is a hugely effective way to encourage engagement. From your customers’ personal opinion on something, to simple trivia to fill-the-blank style posts, I’m sure there are all kinds of questions you could ask to capture your target market’s attention and ultimately drive traffic to your blog. Like all of your posts, I recommend keeping these questions short and sweet. Make sure they’re phrased in a way that’s going to generate instant interest from your ideal customer. Using the word “you” is always an easy way to do this! It’s also important not to give too much away, and make your audience curious enough to click.

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Amazon /

Alexa Helps Get Dinner on the Table: Amazon Restaurants Adds Voice Ordering

Today announced that Prime members can voice-order their next meal through Amazon Restaurants on their Alexa-enabled devices including the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot. The new Alexa skill allows customers to reorder from any restaurant available on the service in more than 20 cities by saying, “Alexa, order from Amazon Restaurants,” and have any meal they’ve ordered before delivered to their door for free in an hour or less.

“Customers now have a hands-free, hassle-free way to reorder any meal from Amazon Restaurants using their voice to get dinner on the table,” said Gus Lopez, general manager of Amazon Restaurants at Amazon. “We are excited to leverage the innovative Alexa technology and give Prime members another easy way for Amazon Restaurants to take care of dinnertime with no menu markups and free delivery in one hour or less.”

Prime members can ask Alexa to reorder from Amazon Restaurants by saying a restaurant name or cuisine type, for example, “Alexa, order sushi from Amazon Restaurants.” The service pulls a customer’s order history from a specified restaurant or cuisine type and lists meal options available for reorder. The selected meal is then sent for delivery to a customer’s default address.

Once an order is placed, Amazon delivery partners deliver the food in one hour or less. Amazon Restaurants offers customers transparent pricing—there are no menu markups or hidden service fees—and delivery on all orders is free for Prime members. If a customer finds a restaurant item on Amazon Restaurants that is priced higher than the regularly priced item on the restaurant’s current online menu within 24 hours of placing the order, Amazon will refund that customer the price of the item.

Customers can also place orders using the Amazon and Prime Now mobile apps or by visitingwww.amazon.com/restaurants. Customers can also browse menus and watch as their delivery travels from the restaurant to the delivery address in real time.

Prime members can download the Amazon or Prime Now mobile apps or visit the Prime Now website to enter their ZIP code and see if the service is available in their area. In ZIP codes where restaurant delivery is available, customers will see Restaurants on the home page.

To learn more about how to reorder from Amazon Restaurants through Alexa, please visitwww.amazon.com/restaurants-alexa. For restaurants interested in working with Amazon Restaurants, please visitamazon.com/restaurants-merchants. Amazon Restaurants is available in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Manhattan, Miami, Minneapolis, Northern Virginia, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco Bay area, Seattle, and Tampa.

Alexa is the cloud-based voice service that powers devices like Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, and more. Using Alexa is as simple as asking a question. Just ask to play music, read the news, control your smart home, tell a joke, and more—Alexa will respond instantly. Whether you are at home or on the go, Alexa is designed to make your life easier by letting you voice-control your world. Alexa lives in the cloud so it’s always getting smarter. The more you talk to Alexa, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. Plus, Alexa has over 7,000 skills built by third party developers, and new skills are always being added.

More to Prime

Tens of millions of Prime members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime. In the US that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video; unlimited access to Prime Music, Audible Channels for Prime, Prime Reading, Prime Photos; early access to select Lightning Deals, one free pre-released book a month with Kindle First, and more. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping and today, members receive Prime Two-Day Shipping on more than 30 million items, Prime Same-Day Delivery in 29 cities and two-hour delivery with Prime Now in 30 cities. Start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime.

 

About Amazon

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