Making Quarantining Sweeter - The Beauty List
With more time at home than EVER, Make Your Life Sweeter® wants to bring you some sweet amidst the chaos. Due to the temporary closure of our favorite small businesses, we have to take beauty into our own hands! What better time to stock up on our very favorite self care products? Keep reading for the quarantine’s beauty best.
Already having manicure withdrawals? Check out Simply Zeena, a sister-founded company designed to empower women through modest beauty. Their vegan, cruelty free, halal nail polishes are quick drying and easy to apply. Add a pop of color to your quarantine with our favorite polish!
Simply Zeena was founded by sisters Bayan and Amany Jondy, seeking to create a brand that promotes female empowerment via effortless and modest fashion choices!
Bayan Jondy, Amany Jondy and Yasmeen Tadia at the 6 Year Anniversary of Make Your Life Sweeter at The Metropolitan Museum in NYC
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Unwind from your at-home office with a bar of soap from this Plano-based company. Sweet Home Bath + Body produces all-natural and organic skincare alternatives. The lavender scent is refreshing, relaxing and genuinely good for your skin. If you aren’t already sold, all packaging is recycled and a specialty bar of soap is under $10!
Meet Tina Ames, founder of Sweet Home Bath and Body. Her dream of gentle, chemical-free skin care inspired her collection of quality products.
Image from: shop.fitish.com
One of the quarantine perks is a makeup-free face. Now is the time to truly invest in your skincare regimen. Fitish has revolutionized the skin care industry by utilizing CBD oil to gently rejuvenate and soothe the skin. Fitish was designed for the active consumer. After your at-home workout give this gentle cleanser a try!
Fitish was founded by Jenna Owens, co-host of the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show. Owens sought to create a brand that promotes balance, comfort and confidence for all women.
Jenna, Zain & Yasmeen at The Tower Club Dallas
Hand wash, Lysol, sanitize... repeat. If you are anything like us, this routine is wearing on our hands. One of our favorite small businesses, True Love Skin Care has prepared a package of their best hand products to clean, moisturize and restore. Their Happy Hands Pack includes the Classically Calm Hand Soap in a travel and standard size, Professional Grade Hand Cream and a chemical-free healing balm packed with all the nutrients your hands need to be soft and smooth.
Katherin Keddington and Jennifer Suiter are two of True Love Skin Care’s founders. These women buiilt this brand with the goal of caring for people. Their clean and unique products improve lives every day!
Forced to hop on the at-home dermaplane train? If you’re like us at Make Your Life Sweeter, you have been searching high and low for the perfect solution to the unwanted fuzz on your face. Look no further. Tweezerman’s Smooth Finish Facial Hair Remover is a must-have for leaving your neck, chin, cheeks and upper lip softer than ever! Plus, it’s only $15.
6. Madison Reed - Root Reboot
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Do you already have a few unwanted grey hairs peeking through? Madison Reed’s Root Reboot has a solution for you. This company provides accessible and affordable hair care options, and guess what? They’re at-home friendly! Purchase this touch up kit to hold you over until your favorite salon reopens.
Amy Errett started Madison Reed, named after her daughter, to create high quality, accessible hair care, made with ingredients consumers can feel good about.
7. Drybar - Mudslide Hair Mask
Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have any pesky grey hairs. Regardless, check out Drybar’s Mudslide Hair Mask for any and all hair types. This paraben and sulfate free treatment is infused with argan oils, leaving your hair softer and healthier than ever! Added bonus: it smells AMAZING.
Alli Webb, longtime professional hair stylist, created Drybar to bring the salon blowout experience to the masses. Her products and hair tools have continued to make more hair care more affordable and accessible.
ALLI WEBB & YASMEEN TADIA - AT DRYBAR TRAINING IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
Self care isn’t just about looking good on the outside… It’s about finding something SWEET that makes you feel good on the inside! Our last, but definitely not least, self-care pick is our very own Sugaire organic cotton candy. Sugaire is USDA Organic, gluten free, vegan, kosher and Halal! Plus, it contains only one teaspoon of sugar. Pick your favorite flavor and enjoy!
Make Your Life Sweeter® founder Yasmeen Tadia traded in her 10-year career in corporate America as a Director of Human Resources to transform standard - issue, carnival cotton candy & popcorn into hand-crafted, gourmet indulgences. This single mom’s entrepreneurial vision was born out of her desire to provide a healthier candy alternative for her sweet son, Zain. Yasmeen’s signature line of sweet sensations includes Fluffpop® Mini Cotton Candy, Sugaire® Organic Cotton Candy, Hotpoppin® Handcrafted Gourmet Popcorn, ModSweets, and The Zphere her most recent creation. Yasmeen reached a milestone in 2014 when she attained the U.S. patent for Mini Cotton Candy Pops. “Make Your Life Sweeter” is also a motto Yasmeen lives by, which led her to create a non-profit organization called Random Acts of Sweetness® as she strives to make a sweet impact on the lives of others with her #spreadingsweetness campaign.
OUR BEAUTY TIPS FOR THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) QUARANTINE
Links to purchase:
https://www.simplyzeena.com/collections/accessories/halal-polish ($12.99)
https://www.sweethomebath.com/store/p158/Lavender_Soap_Bar.html ($8.50)
https://shop.fitish.com/collections/beauty/products/face-wash ($34)
https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/tweezerman-smooth-finish-facial-hair-remover-prod179250177 ($15)
http://fluffpop.com/sugaire-certified-organic-cotton-candy/ ($6.75)