Beauty-fuls: It's Bath Time! We heart luxurious baths...

Calgon...take us away!

It was once just for the wealthy as getting water to an individual source was hard..but with technology and good plumbing (woo hooo! we lurve technology!!) we can almost always enjoy a good bath.

Bathing...it's still a ritual.

For centuries baths have been looked upon like a sanctuarious (is that a word?) place to relax, calm down and unwind.

And thankfully, baths are still as good as they were then...we would argue they are even better!

Sure there is no one doing the dirty work for you but..ahhhhh...there is nothing quite as relaxing and luxurious as a good old fashioned bath.

Baths can be used for body therapy (and super obviously mental therapy..where would we be with out them!), cleaning, sleeping aids or just a quiet place to get away...like a warm bubble-filled mini vacation...

We heart Luxurious Baths!

There are soooo many ways to enjoy the yummy warm waters of a bath...millions of gourmet products...ranging from salts, to bubbles to oils and beyond! Then there are literally hundreds of ways to achieve your nirvana through the soapy suds.

We gals of T.W.H. are the connoisseurs of baths...here are a few of our fav products to take you away...

This anti stress bath soak from Bath and Body is part Indian (Cardamom) and part Thai (Lemon Grass) and all business. It soothes away stress and melts in the tub. Mmmmmmmm...
Oh gosh how we need this next one ASAP!

As soon as we got over the ridiculously rad vintage-eque packaging...we realized this CO Bigelow (amazing store in NYC!) herbal soak was for cold and flus! YES PEASE!

Filled with essential oils like peppermint and eucalyptus and chalk full of echinacea and ginger extracts, this cure all soak is a must for that pesky winter cold and flu season.

Speaking of suuuper cute packaging...Bath Seltzer Soothing Bath Salts are TDF.

Our fav is the calendula and geranium! It's perfect for your little getaway...
It nourishes your skin as well as your soul. Just seeing this super cute jar (scoop included inside) next to your tub will cause you to take waaay more baths...

The amazing company Farmaesthetics created the most beautiful oils free of synthetics (yay!)

to moisturize and condition all your most prized body parts..

The soy oil they use is said to have balancing effects on the system.

The super cute and crazy amazing company Philosophy take their popular signature scent, Grace, for your 3-in-1 bathing pleasure.
Hi...3 in 1? Yup! You can use this poppy, mimosa and creamy woody scent on your hair, body and in the bath for a uber luxuriously smelling soak.

OK, we have been waiting for a while to show you these unbelievably fantastically packaged bath salts from The Bubble Roome.

They are created from Dead Sea Salts, sea kelp and aloe vera whose mineral properties heal, hydrate and re-mineralize the skin.

Their amazing healing salts come in many different essential oil blends for all of your ailments.

And their fantasmically vintage packaging doesn't hurt either.

We all loooooove Laura Mercier for her beautiful make up and beauty products.

Well the queen of "natural" beauty created a super lux line of bath products for us lovers of the tub.
Laura Mercier's Almond Coconut Milk and Honey bath is TDF. You had us at Coconut milk for crying out loud!

It reinvigorates the mind and body while moisturizing your gorge gams.

Wow.....wow...wow...it comes with a wooden honey dipper for the perfect bath.

Need to get a great gift for that hard to shop for friend? Beau Bain (beautiful bath...it really is ..isn't it?) created these petite bath bombs for the perfect lux bath.
Drop one of these lavender and black amber...yuuuummmmm (they have a few different scents for your smelling pleasure) beauties into your tub and they fizz and your water into a seltzer of heavenly scents.

Now, if we were walking down the street and randomly stopped us and asked, "What is your favorite bath time necessity?" We would quickly and simply answer..."Bath Bombs from Lush and the most amazing one is by far the Ma Bar!"
It fills your tub o love with chocolate essence and toffee goodness. Plus when you get out not only does your skin smell good enough to eat ...hee hee...but it's as soft as butter cream frosting.

We were lucky enough to be able to go to the sacred lands of India and learned just how sacred bathing is. That is when our love affair with the perfect bath began.

Hotels in India actually offer creating lux baths for you in your room!

We walked in and the most gorgeous and magically relaxing scent of their special oils filled the room...

Then they filled our tub with milk, saffron thread and rose petals!!!!

If you have never bathed with rose petals and milk then you need to ASAP. Nothing is more decadent and special.

It is like honoring yourself for your hard work.

Since our glorious trip to India, we have been searching high and low for a smell that makes us

feel as gorgeous and goddess like as that scent...until now!

The one and only Target and Marcia Kilgore (yes from Bliss) teamed up to release Soap & Glory, the super cute, vintagey line of luxurious bath and beauty products.

Ad their Calm one Calm all bath bubbles smells soooooo good you literally think you are in Heaven. And best thing besides the crazy amazing smells of musk, amber bergamot and citrus (yummmy to the 3rd power!) it has body lotion built in!

OMG...how cute is this bubble bath machine!

The vintage pink pod would look crazy cute on any tub. Who doesn't loooove tons of bubbles?

We personally would love to swim in a sea of them.

Now, with all the gorge products listed above for your bathing pleasure...it's time to take it up a notch with the perfect bath.

Here's a how to...as if you needed one...

Ingredients-

-Take one of the glorious products above (or 2...mixing is even more luxurious)

or you can use Epsom Salts (amazing!)

-A rubber duck...trust us it helps with relaxation

-Candles

-Music- hey we gave you all the products...you choose your music...

and

-Body oil to silkify your limbs head to toe.

See? Easy peasy!

Directions

1. Turn off the ringer on your phones, Blackberries, Iphones or what ever you have that interrupts your YOU time.

2. Light candles

3. Fill tub with water to your liking...the warmer the better...but not too hot. You have to enjoy it.

4. Drop in oils, bath bombs, salts or bubbles while the tub is filling for a perfect mixing of the water and product

5. Get in...lay back...close your eyes...

6. RELAX!

xoxo t.w.h.

Oh P.S. They make amazing thank you gifts. Put some Epsom salts in a beautiful apothecary jar with a gorge black ribbon...done and done.

P.P.S. Create a basket filled with Bath Salts, Bubbles, Candles and Chocolates for amazing...never to be forgotten gift... Easy, fun and suuuuper sexy.

You're welcome!

Beauty-fuls: We heart concealer! Oh do we...more than ever!!!

Not enough sleep? √

Allergies from Spring flowers or Fall leaves? √

Stress? Um...yeah have you met me? √√

Kids? √

Jill Greenberg

Getting older?  Ahhhhhhh!  Don't remind me! √

Well those are just some of the reasons we (not you!  just some of us!!!) get dark under eye circles (yuck yuck...why me!?!?) under our eyes.


Some of the causes you can take care of (sleep and um allergies...) but the others (kids, stress..the dreaded thing called getting older) are just part of life...so what's a girl to do?

Dark circles are usually caused by heredity (some of us...me...have had them since jr high) so no amount of allergy medication, laser treatments, and creams will get rid of them....sorry!  Trust me...I have tried...

There are sooo many millions and gazillions of "remedies", miracle creams ($$$ and they are poop on a stick), and foods out there that they say will fix them...but um nope...not in this house.

But have no fear gorgeous ladies!  The girlies of Things We Heart are here!

bellissimo vita

We have tested and tried soooo many concealers out there, our makeup drawers (yes that's plural... obsessed much?) look like mini Sephoras.

So now, we bring you from our years of tears...our trials and tribulations...our heros! (and a couple of expensive zeros)

We heart good...no, no...GREAT concealers!

Thank you, oh thank you creators of Make Up Forever!  Not only do you bless us with your fantasical array of colors and beautiful primers (more on that later) but you have given us a reason to get out of bed in the morning (well we always do, but a reason not to scream when we look into a mirror).

Your HD Concealer is the tops!  The coverage is supreme and literally makes our tired eyes look bright and awake.  It's super easy to blend and lasts all day.  And to top that...there are soooo many shades its crazy...thank you!  Thank you for helping us look alive even under the mean lights and cameras at our castings.

Oh, but beware..the silly silicone applicator is really pointless.  Use your ring finger (the best makeup brush in town) or a concealer brush to apply



Our faithful reader and gorgeous follower, EF, swears by this next one...even though we doubt she needs it.  Cle De Peau is her dirty little secret.

She lurves this one sooo much she has recruited us too!  And guess what?  She is super right!

If it wasn't soooo expensive we would buy her a tube to say thank you ;)

Cle De Peau (we can't pronounce it either...don't worry) is so beautiful and light yet it totally covers up our dark secrets.
The coverage is totally blendable and perfectly pigmented to cover any imperfection and best of all...it doesn't crease!


One horrible day this summer...OK not horrible, horrible...but for someone with dark circles to lose their concealer...it's pretty darn horrible...I misplaced my beloved concealer and the lovely JN came to my rescue with her personal fav...by Laura Mercier.

LM's Secret Camouflage concealer is worth its weight in diamonds!  Not only does it cover with velvety, and deep pigmented coverage.. you can use very little and no powder is required to set it ...it comes with 2 shades, 1 to match your skin and the other to help "eliminate" those pesky UEC (Under Eye Circles).

Plus if it's from the Queen of Natural and beautiful make up...it has to be amazing!


When we the luckiest girlies at t.w.h. got our beautiful products from Jouer...we had no choice but to buy their concealer after falling in love with their other gorgeously made products.

And guess what?  We super lurve this product too!

It's creamy and perfectly pigmented and colored to make your circles a thing of the past!  Oh and the best part about it? It's anti-aging!!!!  What?  Yup it contains pro-Vitamin A and Dermaxyl to help combat that horrible thing that happens everyday that passes.

Quick note...put on top of foundation...if you use it...and set with powder.  It can be a tiny bit slippery.  If you don't use foundation, still set it with powder.


Now here's one to try and one to not waste your hard earned clams on.

Giorgio Armani (yes the God of crisp and chic fashion) has given the sufferers of endless circles a light at the end of the tunnel.

We have heard soooo much about this concealer by Mr. Armani's beauty Gods that we can not get in the car fast enough to run over to Saks or Nordstrom (I know, I know...shmancy!  But hey...if it works?  It's worth a extra hour or 4 at work...right? And at $35..it won't hurt too much) to get our paws on it his Master Corrector Concealer. 



And the one to pass by when you see it in the aisle looking so great and wonderful? Amazing Concealer by Amazing Cosmetics.  

This is not amazing! Yes it is highly pigmented, which means you only have to use a little...but it's highly chalky and drying too.
And worst of all?  It hates moisturizer.  They actually have little wars under your eyes when you put them together.  Bummer.  And for $40...no thank you.



P.S. The #1 remedy? A big smile...because you are beautiful no matter what!!!

xoxo t.w.h.

Oh yeah PPS...SHAME ON YOU KANYE!