5 Beauty Products to Avoid During Pregnancy


Updated 02/17/12 10:10 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

5 Beauty Products to Avoid During Pregnancy

Falling pregnant is a beautiful thing, but it requires you to pay extra special attention to what you eat and how you take care of yourself. Whilst it's very important to get enough sleep, partake in light exercise and pamper your growing body which often results in awkward aches and pains, it is also imperative to keep an eye on the ingredients in the beauty products you use. I know it may seem Read more

New Study Says Women Find Pippa Middleton's Tan "Most Desirable"


Updated 08/03/11 2:33 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Pippa Middleton's Tan Is Best, Recent Poll Says

According to a recent poll of 2,000 British women, Pippa Middleton's skin tone was declared the "most desirable," with over 60 percent of respondents saying they liked her skin color best. Participants were given six celebrity examples from which to choose, but the results could be construed as misleading; Pippa is so popular right now and people want to look like her in general. And it's odd Read more

The Secrets Behind Jennifer Aniston's Golden Glow Revealed


Updated 07/22/11 5:41 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

How to Get Jennifer Aniston's Golden Makeup Look

Jennifer Aniston always looks like she just returned from a fabulous beach vacation, but sometimes the star gets a little help elsewhere to achieve her signature golden glow. For the Horrible Bosses premiere in London earlier today, her sexy luminous look was in part thanks to her longtime makeup artist, Angela Levin, who used St. Tropez's new Gold Illuminator ($23) as her secret weapon. "It's so Read more

James Reed Has a Little White Lie to Confess


Updated 05/26/11 4:56 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Little White Lie Self Tan Skincare

Last week in the posh May Fair Hotel, tanning expert James Reed (whose fabulous client list include Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Rosie Huntington Whiteley, and Paris Hilton) not only talked to me all about the new range of affordable self-tanning products from Little White Lie, but he also gave me one heck of a masterful spray tan using their products. I was actually the first person he ever sprayed Read more

Bella Brand: Sun-Believable


Updated 03/09/11 1:32 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Leighton Denny's Sun-Believable: The Expert Tan

Extra! Extra! After speaking with Leighton Denny at the Peter Pilotto fashion show a couple of weeks ago, I heard straight from the horses mouth all about his revolutionary self tanning product just out this month called Sun-Believable (cute name, right). What makes it so unique is that the DHA tanning ingredient is organically derived from sugar-beet, therefore, it doesn't have any of that icky Read more

Kelly Osbourne Loses Prince's Trust


Updated 04/28/10 7:26 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 12 comments

Kelly Osbourne and St. Tropez Lose Charity Seal

Luxury self-tanner brand St. Tropez lost the seal of approval from Prince's Trust, one of the UK's biggest children's charities, after releasing an ad with Kelly Osbourne. In the ad, she states that using fake tanner makes you look not only "10 lbs. skinnier" but also "healthy." She also stated that, before the self-tanner, she "looked like Miss Piggy," which is a pretty disheartening Read more

How To: Get Toni Collette's Total Body Tan


Updated 02/11/10 5:37 PM · Posted by BellaSugarUK · 3 comments

Toni Collette at the SAG Awards, Toni Collette Tanned Skin

At the SAG Awards, Australian actress Toni Collette wowed the red carpet with her bronzed skin, flesh-toned dress and long, loose, highlighted amber waves. Knowing Toni from her work in films, she's not one to tan easily, in fact, her skin is quite pale and freckled. That's why I was so impressed with her flawless spray tan which really helped her from looking washed out in her blush gown. The Read more

Bellissima! St. Tropez Tan Detox


Updated 02/15/10 1:48 PM · Posted by BellaSugarUK · 0 comments

Bellissima! St. Tropez Tan Detox

As we know, self tanning has been one of the biggest trends in the noughties and many of you have written in about your streaking, spotting and orange-skinned beauty blunders from self tanning products. Even though some brands have finally mastered the colour (I love a good salon Mystic Tan and Jergens Natural Glow Daily Moisturiser at home), but, we're all still exposed to making mistakes when Read more

Best of the Decade: The Top Ten Beauty Trends


Updated 12/31/09 2:00 PM · Posted by BellaSugarUK · 0 comments

Beauty Trends of the Decade

Beauty, pharmaceuticals and cosmetology seemed to collide this decade with the invention of many new beauty treatments. Everything from highly concentrated serums, to lip plumpers, safe forms of botulism injections we've come to know as botox, makeup made from pure minerals, meat preservatives that can be used to make your skin look tan, at home teeth whiteners and laser hair removal have become Read more