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by Cool Mom Team | Beauty + Cosmetics

This post is brought to you by Must Have Its, featuring tips and products to help you get holiday ready. This holiday season, you don’t have to worry about looking less than fabulous, even after six consecutive nights of eggnog. P&G Beauty + Grooming has an...

The Coolest TV Moms and the fashion they’ve inspired – Part 1, The 1950’s and 1960’s

by Cool Mom Team | Fashion

We love TV. Love TV! No apologies here for our pop culture addiction. It seems so far back that TV moms were just you know…funny. And not because they got Botox live in front of cameras. (Or maybe we’re watching too much Bravo?) So we are happy to present...

A kinder, gentler lip balm

by Barbara | Beauty + Cosmetics

Angry winter weather is coming – yes, even on the left coast, where a cold, dry wind comes off the ocean and ages my skin (and forces me to eat leftover pumpkin pies for breakfast. A la mode). This winter, though, I am more prepared – I have Chapstuff....

Cool headband alert!

by Melissa | Fashion

I’ve always had a thing for headbands. It probably dates back to the first grade when I fell in love with a ribbon and bead headband a cool older girl made for me. Now CMP (and mom) fave Giddy Giddy is taking me back to my grade school days with their...

Accessories make the world go round. (Says us.)

by Melissa | Fashion

Now that I’m expecting baby number two, accessories are the only fashion items I will allow myself to indulge in. I mean, who knows what form my figure will take after I pop out this little dude? To that end, I will certainly be hitting up Style Tryst, a new...

The maternity top that’s saving me from a thousand tiny breakdowns daily

by Stephanie Slate | Baby, Fashion

I have discovered maternity top nirvana. Nirvana, I tell you. And I’m pretty sure I will not be taking this thing off until I have my baby. Finally, I’m spared the thousand daily tug-downs of a too-small top. Finally, the underside of my belly...

Ubisoft Just Dance 2 – they could call it Just Embarrass Yourself 2. And we’d still love it.

by Cool Mom Team | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing

I have waited three months for the Ubisoft Just Dance 2 for Wii to come out. Three months! Because that’s how long it’s been since the Cool Mom Picks team monopolized the display model at the Blogher conference, challenged our friends at Mamapop to a...

Yes, I would like to look 6 years younger. Thank you.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Beauty + Cosmetics

True story. Every summer, my skin goes wonky and I end up looking like a pizza-faced tween. But this year, I nipped it in the bud with the added bonus of looking six years younger by my very unscientific calculations.All that, thanks to the winning combination of...

Perfect gifts for scarfaholics. Or anyone, really.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Fashion

First I was excited about boot weather. But now that I’m firmly settled into my kickers, I’m ready for the next stage — scarf weather. Even though I’ve got a killer line-up waiting in my closet, like any good scarfaholic, I always need just one...

Oil me up before you go-go

by Delilah S. Dawson | Beauty + Cosmetics

The temperature is dropping, and that means I must face my daily terror: Five Minutes of Goosebumps. You know– when you get out of a hot shower and spend five minutes freezing and fumbling as you slather your skin with lotion?The good news: Soaptopia has a cool,...

Jewelry that really makes a statement

by Betsy | Fashion

Remember when slogan t-shirts were all the rage? (Yes, I still have my “Frankie Say Relax!” shirt from college.) Well here’s a new way for me to express myself through accessories, maybe even a little bit more cleverly than I could do on my own....

Birchbox, where have you been all my month!

by Elizabeth | Beauty + Cosmetics

I love surprises. Especially ones that arrive at my door wrapped in a hot pink box. It’s not for the kids, not for my husband, but all for me. That’s just what Birchbox is all about–subscribe and you’ll get a box of high-end cosmetic samples...