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- How to look beautiful under CFLs (via EcoStiletto)
Heck, even Oprah says we should use them. But despite our greenest intentions, sometimes the light cast by CFLs is glaringly, unbearably unattractive. Not to mention how it makes your skin look…
I remember when I put compact florescent light bulbs (CFL) in my living fixture. Yuck! The light looked so strange and horrible that even [...]
- Early Closing on 8/20
Hello. We’ll be closing at 4:45 on Thursday, August 20th. We’re participating in Girls Night Out at Grand Central Bowling on SE 8th and Morrison. We’ll be there from 5-7:30, so come bowl for free, taste some wine and chocolate and be girly. (Sorry for any inconvenience).
- Shop closed 4/7 & 4/12
If you live in Portland or are planning a visit, you might like to know that the boutique will be closed:
Tuesday, April 7. II will be visiting my parents in the midwest over the weekend (the shop will be in capable hands and otherwise open regular hours). I’m going home to celebrate my mom’s [...]
- Eco Stiletto’s big list of “Things that suck”
Trying to “green” up your consumer life? Check out this comprehensive list of things “that suck” from Eco Stiletto. It can help you watch out for unhealthy stuff in things you buy, use and put on your skin. I wish I had written it myself, but now I don’t have to.
- New Organic Beauty Mag
Oooo! Organic Beauty is no longer a second class citizen, relegated to “special issues” and “green” editorial pages. A new magazine, aptly called “Organic Beauty” will debut December 30 on newsstands everywhere. The editor in cheif is Rona Berg, the former beauty editor of the New York Times Magazine and editorial director of ELLE. So [...]
- Eat.Shop Portland #5
Camellia Pure Beauty is featured in the new Eat.Shop Portland (5th edition). I couldn’t be more pleased and proud to be included, and am anxiously awaiting delivery of the guides to the boutique. If you can’t wait or live on the other side of the river, I hear the orange room at Powell’s on W. [...]
- Short shop hours 10/10 and 10/11 (Fri and Sat)
Friday 10:30-4:00, Saturday 10:30-2:00.
I’m going to another wedding in the Bay Area (This one is in Golden Gate Park. The forecast calls for 68 degrees and sunny. Hurrah!) The bride is technically the person responsible for introducing me to my husband about a jillion years ago when we are all shiny new college students. Of [...]
- Fall/Winter Hours start September 1
As of September 1, Camellia’s Portland boutique will shift back to fall/winter hours.
Tuesday-Saturday 10:30-5:30
Sunday Noon-5:00
Closed MondaysThe lovely Erica will staff the shop on Sundays, and Emily will be there Tuesday through Saturday. Emily will enjoy having two day “weekends” every week like a normal person for the first time in more [...]
- Using EWG’s skin deep d-base
I just read this great July 28 blog entry from Steph at Bubble and Bee ( a very “clean” organic line of body care that I hope to carry in the boutique at some point) on how to evaluate the information you get when you plug in a product and get a toxicity score on [...]
- What’s the other 14%?
I was watching my summer guilty pleasure last night (So You Think You Can Dance, if you must know) and a mascara commercial caught my eye (honestly, no pun intended).
L’Oreal Bare Naturale Luminous Lengthening Mascara claims to be made with “86% natural origin ingredients.” First of all, the “natural origin ingredients” wording should [...]