Tea is liquid wisdom..for Sunburns?

BEST SUNBURN REMEDY: TEA!

After 4 hours at the beach without sunscreen, you could imagine I had a sunburn. It takes a few hours for my skin to show if I got any colour, so after lying under the direct sunlight for hours, I went home to see that my skin was red. A few hours later I checked out my skin and it was lobster red.

So I started with the Vitamin E gel and Aloe gel, reapplying every 30 minutes. After having quite a few bad sunburns I’ve realized it only gets worse before it gets better. After a few days it got more painful and I figured out that the Aloe and Vitamin E really didn’t help my burn. The pain from applying it wasn’t worth the temporary relief. I looked up sunburn remedies and I saw the usual; aloe, cold shower, vinegar. But I kept stumbling across one that my friend had mentioned to me..... Tea. Everyone who mentioned it said you had to do this right away or it wouldn’t work. I tried it anyway, at this point I would try anything... unfortunately for me... it didn’t work. So I suffered through the pain, the

sticky skin, and finally the peeling for over a week. I realized I needed to do something right after I got the burn so it would go away before it turned bad.

A few weeks later I got another burn ( you would think I would have learned) after being outside all day. Instead of worrying about going through the pain of a sunburn that would surely show up the next day, I tried “the tea thing”. I made some orange pekoe tea, poured it into a bowl, let it cool, and soaked a towel in it. Then I put the towel on my burn. I lied down reading my book for about 30 minutes with the cool, tea soaked towel on my back. I took it off and went to bed, and when I woke up the next morning I was extremely pleased with my skin. I had a tan!

You could imagine my excitement when I realized that I didn’t have to live through another burn again because of my newfound discovery. However, I have also learned that one bad burn today is not as minuscule as I make it to be. If you want a tan, be sun smart, you have one skin... so be good to it!

Until Next time, have some fun in the sun... but safely....Next time Im going to get the golden glow with the help of a fake tanner.

My Favourite Summer Trend

Summer Trend Alert: Nautical

This trend has been back in style every summer and this year it’s been reinvented with more highlights of elegance, glamour, and vintage sashay for the 2011 season.

On the Runway

Inspired by sailors and started almost 100 years ago by Coco Chanel when she was having an affair with the Duke of Westminster. He was a yachting admirer and Chanel started dressing like the sailors. She made the men’s sailing apparel suitable for women and just like Christmas is every December, you can expect the nautical trend to come back every summer. Here are a few tips on how to wear it…

For the ideal look, you want your colours to include: red, blue, and white, and the pattern to be stripes.

- Add in some neon for a pop of colour. ( another fun summer trend)

-Minimize your accessories, and use raw materials.

-Go for breezy, it is summer after all!

-My little tip? Make one item in your outfit striped, and the rest patternless.

Taking the runway to our day to day office life.

Until next time wishing you Fair winds and Following Seas!

ELIZABETH GRANT’S 12th ANNIVERSARY ON THE SHOPPING CHANNEL!

The woman everyone loves is back with the skin care line everyone loves! Although it’s a special occasion every time Elizabeth goes on The Shopping Channel, this weekend is an event you won’t want to miss because it’s Elizabeth Grant’s 12^th anniversary on The Shopping Channel!

On July 23^rd and 24^th, tune in to The Shopping Channel and celebrate with Elizabeth. You won’t want to miss the Showstopper, which will include the world launch of DermSolutions! The fabulous Showstopper will be a 12-piece collection with brand new items and a signature handbag. During this show, Elizabeth Grant will be donating to the Woman Moving Women Campaign. She is a proud sponsor and supporter and will be donating $1 from the sale of every Showstopper sold during this celebratory weekend! And you never know what she might put in the Surprise Box! To see the items, check out this video! 

It is sure to be a memorable show, so don’t forget to join Elizabeth Grant this weekend for her 12^th anniversary on The Shopping Channel! Check out when she’s on air by clicking here. 

xoxo Moriah

Beauty & Fashion News- Katy Perry Rocks Out in Toronto

Over the screams of 14,000 fans on Thursday, June 30th at the Air Canada Centre, you could still clearly hear Katy Perry bust out to Teenage Dream wearing a sparkly dress with spinning peppermint pinwheels.

This erratic performer’s talent goes beyond singing. Her performance included giant lollipops, giant beach balls, fireworks, a floating cotton candy cloud, a dancing gingerbread man, a giant dancing Kitty Purry, mimes, acrobats, and a whip cream cannon! Her outfits were, of course, fantastic and her makeup consisted of her usual pink lips and huge eyelashes.

Her outfits changed countless times from puffy pink dresses, to peacock feathers, to slim-fitted studded body suits. During her performance of Hot N Cold she managed 8 costume changes while on stage! What didn’t change was her ability to keep the crowd captivated by her journey through candy land; which was shown on screen during her outfit changes.  The audience was constantly wowed by her insane clothing choices and new hair.  You would expect nothing less from this zany pop star, but she went above and beyond to prove that she is “kind of a goofball”, as she stated during the show.

xoxo Moriah

Heading up to Muskoka just got even better

2011 RemoteStylist.com Muskoka Design Time Cottage

Two hours north of Toronto is an all new multi-million dollar 11-bedroom, 6-bathroom, 3-compound Muskoka cottage on the exclusive shores of 4 Mile Point, Lake Rosseau. The Remote Stylist team is allowing the cottage to be toured by the public at $30 a ticket. This $3.5 million cottage is being showcased to support Habitat for Humanity and Elizabeth Grant Skin Care is a proud sponsor of this viewing.

RemoteStylist.com has stocked the Design Time Cottage with the hottest furnishings from North America, Brazil, France, Italy, Mexico and is meant to inspire with it's authentic yet contemporary design. The Cottage will also have Elizabeth Grant products on display throughout the house.  Guest bathrooms will each be stocked with the Vitamin C Hydra-Moist Weekender Kit.

You can shop the cottage using your Blackberry, iPhone, or Android! Replica's of furniture and items from the cottage can be purchased at great prices and you'll receive free shipping to anywhere in North America. As you tour the house you can scan, tag, or favourite items that you wish to purchase and later do so when you log in online from a computer.


The cottage has car and boat parking and is open to the public from July 2nd to 31st.

Space is limited so get your ticket soon online at http://designtime.remotestylist.com

The cottage is open from 10am-5pm Monday to Sunday, except Saturday 12pm-5pm. **Your ticket is good for month-long access.

xoxo Moriah (the new intern!)