I haven’t put a gooey, messy mask on my face for years. It’s not just that I’m lazy—because I am lazy when it comes to beauty regimes that require me to get my hands dirty and stay still for any amount of time. It’s because once you experience the amazingness that is the Liquid Ice Mask, you can never go back to putting a layer of goop on your face.

The Non-Messy Part: prefabricated cloth face mask comes rolled up in tiny pod. Pour Liquid Ice activator into pod and let mask absorb the magic. Unroll mask and apply to face. Revel in soothing, cooling sensation.

The Miraculous Part: ten minutes later, pores are smaller, complexion is calm and wrinkles are smoother, lines diminished.

How it Works: The Liquid Ice Mask contains a powerful cocktail of vitamin C, aloe vera, several moisturizers and a unique “liquid ice” technology that combine to provide intense hydration and a deep cooling effect that reaches several layers down, into the facial ligaments. It feels a little bit like eucalyptus on your face in a blizzard. But in a good way, I swear.

The best part is that you can use this mask over makeup. I usually use it before an evening out, prior to touching up. It’s the fastest way to look tighter and brighter after a long day, or banish a puffy face in the morning.

(It can also be used to frighten your children, which you can’t say about a lot of beauty products.)

TINA: My favorite funny face is now the face of Garnier’s new skincare line. I love seeing her cast as a beauty.

Natural Beauty: The art of armpit hair—can you be viewed as beautiful with a tuft of hair there? One photographer challenges the stigma.

Mothers and Daughters:  What do you want your girl to know?  These videos made me cry a little.

Blotox: Beauty trend alert: salons now offering injectibles on the go.

The New Normcore: Is no makeup a trend now? 

Do’s for Your Daughters: Super cute ideas and great tutorials

GWEN: One of my favorite BeautyMamas. I looked just like this at six weeks postpartum.

Pastels: All the beautiful Easter eggs are inspiring me. Here’s the perfect spring eye tutorial.

Photo Courtesy Garnier

Pregnancy may have left me with a permanent outie belly-button, newfound allergies and flatter feet, but I managed to dodge stretch marks, despite my “healthy” weight gain and a bump so large it begged the speculation of twins.

I credit Mamma Mio Tummy Rub Oil for this miracle.

Stretch marks occur when your skin’s collagen and elastin give way to the prolonged pressure of stretching— usually on the belly, boobs and hips. While it’s true that some of us are more genetically programmed to get stretch marks, increasing the skin’s elasticity can really, really help. Mamma Mio’s potent blend of Omega 3,6 and 9 fatty acids give your skin the ammo it needs to stretch out and shrink back down less stressfully. With it’s proprietary blend of argan, coconut, avocado, and rare seed oils from the Amazon I can’t spell or pronounce, plus vitamin E and a host of other natural oils, Tummy Rub smells divine and absorbs quickly.

It’s not only important to use while pregnant, but also for a few months after you give birth as your body reverts back.  I used Tummy Rub religiously and generously from my first trimester until four months postpartum. Bonus: Tummy Rub also prevents the crazy-making itching that can happen as your bump grows.

Liquid Palisade is a brush-on film that creates a barrier to nail polish. Apply it around your nail bed and fret no more about coloring outside the lines—it simply peels off when you’re ready, leaving you with a gorgeous manicure. Truly.

I tend to like really bright or really dark nails that I could only get done at a salon because my right hand would look like abstract art after my left hand had a go at it. Liquid Palisade totally solves that D.I.Y. problem of having one dominant hand. What’s even cooler is that you can also use it to create nail designs. Since the brush is so thin, you can create nice lines or curves—think half-moon tips, geometric patterns, kitschy shapes and letters.

I’m not so artsy, I’m just happy I can change my polish on a whim. And lately, I have many whims: like this perfect dark brown, this bright coral, this beautiful true red, this delicate peach cream, this pretty pastel, this opaque beige, the deep, dark oxblood I never tired of.  Oh, and this is the metallic I’m trying next.

File this one under Genius Product Inventions.

P.S. The 30 Best Nail Designs for the 30+ set

A look back, a look-see and a look within.

Coachella: Here’s to headpieces, braids, white crochet, straw hats and, of course, excellent music. Here’s what’s cool about Coachella 2014.

Nostalgic: A British cosmetics chain celebrates its 50th anniversary with a look back at how beauty regimes have changed. Can you say, perfumed hair lacquer?

BeautyMama! Jennifer Garner looking gorgeous in bangs at the Noah premier.

Thumbs down: Dove’s New Beauty Patch campaign is almost like an SNL skit.

Truth & Wisdom: The Man Repeller got an email from an executive who failed to remove the fact that he called her “ugly as fuck” in a previous thread. Here’s what the always compelling Leandra Medine had to say about not wearing makeup.

Have a beautiful weekend.