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My Rendition of Vanity Fair’s ‘My Stuff’

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Why our Kantic brightening moisture mask is a Vanity Fair Favorite

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Last week our best-selling Kantic brightening moisture mask was included in a roundup of best masks on VanityFair.com. Here is what the beauty experts at my favorite magazine said about our product:

Get the ultimate glow with this cult-classic product. Extremely creamy in texture, it contains natural botanicals and oats to soothe and brighten dull skin. Plus, your skin will feel extra-soft.

This product has received many accolades and is an editor favorite – it was written in In Style as the “best pre-party mask,” in Redbook, in Organic Spa, and it even made it in Travel & Leisure Magazine as one of the best things to come out of DC!

While you can read here all about the amazing ingredients, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to share a few lesser known secrets about this product:

  • Actress Necar Zadegan maintains her glowing complexion with this mask, applying it between taping episodes of Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce.
  • Before “sleep masks” and “nighttime masks” and “overnight masks” were a thing, I was getting calls from our fans telling me they loved applying this product in the evening and leaving it on overnight, waking up to flawless skin and the perfect glow.
  • My Mom’s favorite trick with this mask is to add a little to her Alchimie Forever moisturizer every morning. She thinks of the mask as a “booster” for her favorite cream.
  • As In Style figured out early on, it is the best “pre-party” mask because it evens out the skin, fills in fine lines, and gives the complexion a gorgeous glow – making makeup application easier and your makeup look better. Before a big event, apply a thin coat of the mask, almost like a primer, to your skin, then proceed with your makeup routine, and be amazed!
  • One of my favorite uses of this mask is on airplanes. I travel with samples of this product and apply it right when we takeoff. No “I just got off the airplane and my skin is blah and dehydrated” look for me when I land!
  • The color of this mask makes the above doable without seeming freakish: it is a soft shade of purplish (this is from the whole red grapes we use) which almost blends in to your skin, so you can wear it around the house when your other half is present, or like I do on airplanes…

If you have not yet tried it, add the Kantic Brightening Moisture Mask to your skin care routine today!

And if you already love and know it, you can start looking forward to it arriving this late fall in travel size…

 

Being Swiss… on Swiss National Day

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Today is Friday, August 1. Other than the fact that it is Friday, that we can say TGIF, what, might you ask is there to celebrate. Well, two things. First, August 1 is Swiss National Day – our equivalent of your July 4th.

Second, unrelated, in any way other than timing, I am celebrating the first national piece of press on my sisters and I. We are the Polla sisters. And now, the Alchimie Forever sisters. Thank you Vanity Fair.

Perhaps it is indeed all related beyond timing, since we are Swiss. What do you think of when you think of Switzerland? Probably skiing; chocolate; watches; cheese. (If you are thinking about IKEA right about now, you are getting your Sw countries confused…). Here are a few more, perhaps less well knows, typically Swiss traits.

–       We are punctual (maybe because we like watches so much). In Switzerland, being on time means being 5 minutes early. Or, as my Mom always said, “The only way to ever be on time is to always be early.”

–       We cherish “Apero time.” This is our version of “happy hour.” “Apero” being short for aperitif. No beer, no chips. Instead, white wine or champagne, with olives and cheese. At 5 pm on the dot, any day of the week, apero rarely lasts just an hour.

–       We have to introduce ourselves to everyone when arriving at a party; a seated dinner party; a cocktail party; a holiday party… this makes being early or on time particularly desirable, as the rounds of introductions are more manageable when most guests have yet to arrive.

–       We don’t touch our drinks until everyone we are with has a drink. This is true at a bar, at apero, at dinner, and everywhere in between. Only once everyone has their drink do we do cheers, and take our first sip. Anything else would be considered rude.

–       This may in part be caused by the fact that doing cheers is not only an absolute must, but we must look in the eyes while doing it. Why? Well… if you don’t you will be punished with 9 (some say 7) years of bad sex. So don’t ever clink your glass without looking that one person in the eye.

On this special Swiss day, I wish my sisters, and my Swiss family, a particularly happy Friday. And to all of you non-Swiss, TGIF!