The best best best hand lotion

by Melissa | Beauty + Cosmetics

I like to think I’m something of a hand lotion connoisseur. With the constant post-diaper hand washing, I’m glopping on the stuff at an alarming rate. I’ve tried pretty much every brand on the market and have always walked away wringing my (dry)...

Beauty tips for moms from Allure beauty director Amy Keller Laird

by Melissa | Beauty + Cosmetics

If there’s someone who knows about beauty products for moms, it’s Amy Keller Laird. As the beauty director of beauty and style bible Allure, she gets her hands on practically every product on the market (I know! We’re jealous too!) and helps decide...

Bite Beauty – Younger looking lips in a swipe

by Melissa | Uncategorized

I usually prefer lip balm over lipstick, but a new line of anti-aging lip products (yes, anti-aging) is totally making me reconsider. Bite Beauty, which launched exclusively at Sephora last month, is the first lipstick line to contain resveratrol, the antioxidant...

5 great picks you might have missed this week – March Madness Edition

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

If your kids have acted a little nuts this week, it’s totally not your fault. Blame it on supermoon–we do. Here are a few of our favorites from the last week, in case you were too busy pulling out your hair to have caught them.1. The new AAP’s new...

Combating winter skin in time for spring

by Barbara | Kids

A momma friend taught me a simple premise years ago – if a product is genuinely gentle enough for your baby’s delicate skin, it’ll be kind to your sensitive skin, too. That’s how I started using Combat-Ready Balm, formulated for babies and...

SPF Moisturizer that’s green and clean? Sold!

by Melissa | Beauty + Cosmetics

Relying on an SPF moisturizer alone has always worried me just a little bit. With hours of playground and beach time ahead of me this summer, I need my skin to be well protected (and to look pretty, too). But I’m a tough customer when it comes to my sun...

Hair color from a box that’s not scary or confusing

by Melissa | Beauty + Cosmetics, DIY

I’ll be honest, I haven’t used hair color out of a box since high school, which I like to refer to as my Kelly Bundy years. But I’m seriously considering now for the first time, having discovered a new line of luxury DIY hair color. Colorist Kelly...

An organic remedy for little chapped lips

by Melissa | Kids

The harsh, dry winter weather has not been nice to my toddler son’s skin. He has red, rough patches of skin on his face and his tiny lips are all chapped (sad face). I had been afraid to put any ointment on his lips until I discovered Erbaviva’s Organic...

Temporary tattoos get artsy

by Delilah S. Dawson | Party Ideas

Great art is beautiful, interesting, well-crafted, and has staying power.Surprise! That also describes these cool new temporary tattoos by one of CMP’s favorite designers. Our old pals at Wee Gallery have found a fantastic new way to pepper the world with their...

Pantone’s 2011 color of the year keeps you pretty in pink. Or honeysuckle.

by Cool Mom Team | Fashion

This week on Blogher Style, I wrote about the new 2011 Pantone color of the year: Honeysuckle. Well slap me silly, I would have thought it would be some sort of yellow shade but nope. It’s pink all the way. And why yes, I am laughing a bit at Pantone’s...