Showing posts with label les couvent des minimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label les couvent des minimes. Show all posts

Monday, September 23, 2013

My Favorite Cuticle Balm and Evil Eye Nails!

Hey Pandas...get ready because I have a Holy Grail product to show you! I am telling you, you NEED this one!
 
 
I recently discovered the brand Le Couvent des Minimes at Ulta and I am so in love. The cute packaging, the French, the smell...le sigh.
 
Their brand states: "From France, With Love: Natural Skincare recipes inspired by the long traditions of simplicity, care, and generosity, started in the Convent of the Minims in Mane, France"
 
I could wax poetic all day long about this epicness..but go read for yourself here.
 
 
 
Anyway, so what makes this cuticle balm/cream my HG you ask?
 
The original Nail and Cuticle Fortifying Salve recipe:
  • Shea butter (Butyrospermum Parkii): nourishing, healing, regenerating and protective
  • Apricot kernel oil (Prunus Armeniaca): softening
  • Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha): fortifying

  • This stuff smells like heaven--botanical, woodsy, relaxing. Spa for your hands, I tell ya! And I know the price is a bit of a shocker ($16.50 for this little tube), but you only need the tiniest amount...let me demonstrate:

     
    Little baby dabs and you are good to go all day! This stuff totally fixes dry, gross cuticles in a snap! I am totally in love. Totally.
     
    And if you are digging my evil eye nails, check out how I made 'em here!

     
     
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    My Favorite Cuticle Balm and Evil Eye Nails!

    Hey Pandas...get ready because I have a Holy Grail product to show you! I am telling you, you NEED this one!
     
     
    I recently discovered the brand Le Couvent des Minimes at Ulta and I am so in love. The cute packaging, the French, the smell...le sigh.
     
    Their brand states: "From France, With Love: Natural Skincare recipes inspired by the long traditions of simplicity, care, and generosity, started in the Convent of the Minims in Mane, France"
     
    I could wax poetic all day long about this epicness..but go read for yourself here.
     
     
     
    Anyway, so what makes this cuticle balm/cream my HG you ask?
     
    The original Nail and Cuticle Fortifying Salve recipe:
  • Shea butter (Butyrospermum Parkii): nourishing, healing, regenerating and protective
  • Apricot kernel oil (Prunus Armeniaca): softening
  • Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha): fortifying

  • This stuff smells like heaven--botanical, woodsy, relaxing. Spa for your hands, I tell ya! And I know the price is a bit of a shocker ($16.50 for this little tube), but you only need the tiniest amount...let me demonstrate:

     
    Little baby dabs and you are good to go all day! This stuff totally fixes dry, gross cuticles in a snap! I am totally in love. Totally.
     
    And if you are digging my evil eye nails, check out how I made 'em here!

     
     
     photo panda-sig_zps4a356226.jpg