We. Are. So. Excited. It’s not often that we have a makeup deal and we’re thrilled to be offering one of the few brands we really truly love in this category: W3ll People. These guys are all over our book, as we fell hard for their foundations and awesome multitasking lip and cheek colors. The deal features two of their best-sellers perfect for summer. So voila!
W3LL PEOPLE is offering their The Universalist Pot Duo and Deluxe Brush: this contains a moonstone-colored all-over highlighter, a peachy-pink gold blush-lip jam, and a brush—a brush! They offer the three products at an already dealed-out $49 on their site, but when you enter the NMDL promo code, you get an extra $10 knocked off! 39 smackers. Note: These guys also offer free shipping over $50.
Our girl Charlotte is a fan of the highlighter—and don’t forget to tell everyone if you’ve used this brand and what you like. Siobhan reviewed some of her faves here.
This dealski will generously run all the way through June 14th, so enjoooooy. Also good news for New Yorkers! W3ll People has a launch event at Bendel’s from May 29th through June 2nd, a great opportunity to try this line out in person. Plus founders Shirley Pinkson and James Walker giving out tips, gifts, and drinks! More details here.
Hurray for Fridays! xx
Holy crap! This is a serious deal. While we miss having Kahina every month, isn’t it just SO exciting when it happens? And they’re feeling extra-extra generous. So, here goes:
You know how much we love the Kahina Toning Mist, right? Well they’re offering it to you for FREE (valued at $36) with any purchase over $75 and FREE SHIPPING too, which is kind of mental bananas. Can somebody say stock up for summer?
Just enter the promo code REFRESH at checkout, you won’t see the mist in your cart but a shipping credit will appear.
And of course, tell us what you’ve tried, how you use it, why you love (or don’t) it. This is a forum for sharing reviews—we can’t try everything!
A couple of rules: This is a single use deal and it can’t be combined with any other promos currently running on their site. It will end on Thursday at midnight EST.
Special Note: Kahina warned us that they’ve been having a few site glitches, notably with Internet Explorer… If you’re having trouble adding products to your basket just try a different browser, or you can always order by phone.
We hope everyone has a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend with their moms, their kids, or whoever it is they most want to be with (including some solo time!). And if you haven’t got moms a gift yet, she’d probably take a better-late-than-never Kahina package. :)
It’s Friday, woot! And we have a deal, wootwoot! But first, the week in quick review (it was kind of a big one!): We launched on Open Sky and Siobhan went to the party in New York; Juice Beauty and Alicia Silverstone partnered on a new clean line and Alexandra went to the party in LA; and Nick Kristof wrote this piece about hormone disruptors (more to come on that). Now cherry on the sundae, we have an amazing deal from one of our favorite sites: nos amis de NuboNau!
NuboNau is offering a super fun dealski: Order products from any of the five brands listed below, in any combination that pleases you, and receive 20% off all of them. That’s 20% off Juice Beauty, John Masters, Absolution, Living Nature, and Dr Hauschka!
Just add the items you would like to your basket, use the code NMDL and a 20% discount will be applied to the order value! You can also mix in non-offer items too—the discount will be still be applied to all brands featured.
Don’t forget to share: Which of these brands do you use, and what products do you love? We actually have favorites from all of them—we’ll share ours in the comments too!
Some added info from NuboNau:
You will also receive 5 loyalty points for every dollar you spend plus free shipping on orders over $95.00 (USA) and $150 (Canada) and a lovely sample set is included with every order! And and you can request FREE, gorgeous gift boxes and a handwritten card for Mothers Day, simply request it at the checkout.
And the deal runs all the way through May 11th!!
Have a wonderful Friday and a shiny, happy weekend everyone!
That’s us! We’re among the new beauty insiders, repping naturals of course, on a popular curated site called OpenSky. Are you familiar with it?
OpenSky works with celebs—of the Padma Lakshmi and Martha Stewart variety, no less—and experts (the more “regular” folk like us), to offer vetted and loved products to its many members.
Every week we will feature new products that we love, and there’s usually some sort of limited-time discount or freebie with them. It’s a membership site, so if you want to support us in this new venture, you have to be a joiner! (Meaning, like, put in an email address and password.) No worries if you’re not, we won’t hold it against you.
But if you are, this is a special link that leads to a today-only presale—with free shipping.
We attended a launch party for it this morning in New York and met all kinds of lovely people. Even better? We got to gush about the stuff we talk about all the time over here, too. (But since it was all new people, we didn’t feel like a broken record. Heh.)
Here’s why we’re super excited about this new venture:
- It brings natural beauty to a whole new audience.
- We get to, as always, only recommend things that are truly clean and actually work
- It helps these companies grow!
- It means great deals on great products.
Oh, and our first featured products are, appropriately, from Lotus Wei. And everything we picked is on sale. Boom! Who’s in?
Is anything better than Friday? That whiff of freedom and anticipation in the air is pretty hard to beat. We’re extra excited for it this week too because, after a little hiatus, we have a deal from one of our favorite aromatherapy brands, Essence of Vali. And from all your feedback you love it as much as we do.
This week’s deal: Buy anything you like from EOV, no minimums, and get a 20% discount with the NMDL promocode. Reminder: All of Vali’s products are vegan and handmade with love in NYC.
Also, don’t forget to tell your fellow clean friends what you’ve tried, along with your own personal review.
If you’re suffering from any kind of chronic pains—like the ones that come from injuries, stress, or oh, sitting at a computer everyday—you might want to check out RELIEF.
And speaking of relief… Happy freaking Friday!
So here’s the thing about getting awesome products to try all the time… We’ve gotten a little lazy on the DIY! Sure, Alexandra still uses honey facewash sometimes, and Siobhan still makes her now-famous bath body scrub. But we’re not exactly whipping up avocado masks and lemon-vodka hairsprays as we once were.
Inspired by this recent morning routine, we decided it was high time to throw down a DIY Challenge! What’s more is that this will kick off a new series for us that spotlights awesome DIY recipes… Talk about two birds.
Some time over the next week, whether you’re a DIY novice or a seasoned expert, we want you to try a DIY recipe instead of your store-bought product. All you have to do is take a pic of the ingredients, make it, try it, and then of course tells us about it. If it’s awesome, we want to hear it! If it’s a total fail, we definitely want to hear it!
We will then, of course, choose a winner, and reward them with an awesome gift. Make sure you carefully follow the instructions below, we’re going to structure this a little like the Morning Routines.
Some rules: The only rule is that you have to actually try the concoction. If you already have a DIY recipe you use all the time that’s totally fine too, just tell us why it’s a favorite.
Instructions: First, take a picture of your ingredients. Then try it out. Send us your email by Sunday, May 6th. When you email us nomoredirtylooks (at) gmail (dot) com put DIY! in the subject, and follow this structure:
—Name:
—Current hometown:
—Product name that I made up:
—Ingredients list:
—How I made It:
—How it smelled, felt, worked: (keep this brief, if you can!)
—Why I will or won’t do this again:
Special favor: Help us make sure this is not one of those embarrassing challenges no one actually does. Tell your friends on Twitter, Facebook, at the gym or at the bar. Friend us, follow us, and then RT us, or whatever. Spread the word!
The reason for the challenge: Because as much as we love, love, love fancy natural skincare, we truly believe that some of the best ingredients for our skin and hair are sitting in our kitchen cupboards. We believe that incorporating DIY into our routines is good for our beauty, our bodies, and the environment. Sometimes you just don’t need to buy anything!
OK, are you in or what?
Some of you have asked about our “policy” and we don’t really have one! Which is to say…
We approve all comments that aren’t spam.* That means the tenor of the conversations that unfold here—easily one of the best parts about running and reading the site, no?—is pretty much up to all of you. And thanks to you, it’s basically always awesome.
A couple of things we’d love for you to keep in mind as this site grows: We want you to say whatever you want, disagree passionately, agree just as passionately, debate, share tips, be funny, whatever. We love all that stuff—when it’s civil. Ideally, we’d love for there to be no personal attacks or name calling. Sass us all you want—we’re thick-skinned (no we’re not) and we can always delete your comment (just kidding, see above). But be civil with each other, please, even if you’re responding to someone you think has four heads.
Truth is, when we look at the comment sections on most websites, we wince. We’ve been really, really lucky here. We also realize that many of you rely on each other for recommendations and advice, which is the coolest thing ever. We steal all your tips too, by the way.
So we’re going to call this mostly a nonissue at this point. And this is our noisy way of saying we hope it stays that way.
Now carry on!
*The reason we have to approve comments in the first place and you have to fill in that annoying CAPTCHA box is because of said spam. We tried to do something about this but then we got tired and gave up.
Happy Friday everyone, we hope you have some fun holiday weekend plans underway. Today’s deal from NuboNau is simple and awesome, so let’s just get to it.
Today and through Monday our friends at NuboNau have a Spring Saver Event in store for you. Just enter promo code NMDL15 and get 15% off anything and everything you buy. To use the promo code, add items you would like to purchase, apply the code—and voila—15% off your basket!
And guess what Canada? This one’s for you too! All purchases will also be valid for Loyalty Points: meaning 5 loyalty points for every dollar spent and FREE shipping for all orders over $95 ( for USA) and $150 ( for Canada). Boom!
Don’t forget to tell your fellow readers what you buy from this site and why. Communal reviews, y’all!
Note: The code can be used as often as you like between Friday and Monday, the deal excludes sale items, and it cannot be combined with any other offer.
This fave store of ours has a lot of new goodies right now too, including new colors and products from two of our most loved lip-and-cheek lines: Ilia and RMS.
What do you have planned for this hopefully-longer holiday weekend?
P.S. Is anyone seeing that weird box thing on our site? (If you are do you mind telling us what browser you use?) We’re going to get it fixed ASAP. So much for Mercury turning direct!
Hey everyone, hope you’re having a lovely day—maybe some of you are even skipping out of work early for an extra long weekend? We hope so. We’re going to be taking a day of rest but we’ll be back tomorrow with a wonderful deal from NuboNau. In the meantime, if you haven’t read Shentel’s morning routine below, do yourself a favor cause it’s pretty awesome.
XOXO
—team NMDL
Meet Shentel, everybody. She’s in the Navy. She’s in some rough weather, eating even rougher food, and she’s clearly pretty rad. If this girl can manage to keep a clean routine, nobody has any excuses anymore. Thank you so much for sending this in Shentel!
Name: Shentel
Age: 22
Current weather: Hot, dry, and definitely sandy. (Yes, there are still sand storms in the middle of the ocean. Don’t ask me how it happens, but it does.)
Hair: Brown, fine, and a bit curly. It’s almost all down to my chin. (I’m growing it out after spending 3 years with a pixie cut, and have officially hit the “Awkward Middle Stage” where I can’t pull it up.)
Skin: My skin has always been prone to acne, but since I’ve gone all organic, it’s been better. Since I’m deployed on an aircraft carrier, I’m stressed out, the food is horrible for me, and the water is super hard (since, you know, we boil the salt water to make it useable), and it definitely doesn’t help my skin.
Favorite star or icon from the past: Paintings of Ophelia or the Lady of Shallott are always pretty.
In the shower…
Let’s explain a few things before I start- I’m in the U.S. Navy… and I’m deployed. I’ll explain a little about ship life for people who don’t know- I have a small, 1 foot deep locker beneath my bed. The mattress flips up so you can stow things in there, and that’s all the space I have for everything I need for 6+ months. When I shower, I have to carry everything with me to the bathroom. So I don’t like having a ton of things to lug to the shower with me.
I usually end up with only 4 things in the shower with me. Some Pacifica body wash or Dr. Bronner’s bar soap, Intelligent Nutrients Harmonic shampoo and conditioner, and Kahina Giving Beauty face wash. I lather up my hair with the shampoo, and wash my face with it to open my pores a little bit. Rinse the shampoo and condition my hair- I let it sit while I wash my face and body. I soap up my face with the Kahina Giving Beauty face cleanser, and then wash my body with whatever soap I lugged in with me, and then I rinse everything off and climb out of the shower.
Outside the shower…
I go brush my teeth (I know it’s bad, but I still use Crest, since I haven’t found any decent natural toothpastes. Any suggestions would rock.) I usually take some coconut oil and spread it over my body, legs, and arms. I use Soapwalla’s deodorant- it’s the one thing I NEVER GO WITHOUT. (I’m in the Arabian Gulf right now… It’s freaking hot, and I stink by the time my 12-14 hour shift is done if I don’t use deodorant.) Get into my uniform, and then put Intelligent Nutrients leave in conditioner in my hair, and let it air dry. Then I use Kahina’s Toning Mist and Argan Oil on my face, though occasionally I’ll opt for just coconut oil, or maybe some of Evan Healy’s Sea Buckthorn Oil. (Basically, whatever I’m in the mood for.) I have some Pangea Organics Rosmary and Argan face lotion that I use instead of oil when I feel like wearing a little makeup, too.
Finishing touches…
I almost always put Joy Juice Serum from Lotus Wei on my wrists and neck and chest before I leave my berthing. Then I spray some French Lilac perfume from Pacifica on my uniform. (Though recently it’s been Malibu Lemon Blossom.) I use RMS Beauty’s Living Luminizer most days on my eyes and under them, and it makes me look like I’m glowing, which I love. Sometimes I end up putting some Modest Lip2Cheek (Also by RMS Beauty) on my lips, too. I pull my bangs to the side with a hair pin that’s the same color as my brown hair, and spray it with Intelligent Nutrients Perfect Hold Hair Spray. Voila!
Awesome sauce, we love your routine.
Loving this pic of two Navy mechanics via
