by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Discounts, Green Beauty
I am so happy that Gia Minerals popped up on my radar on instagram a few months ago. The Founder, Georgina, is so passionate about bringing quality, superior, clean beauty products to you. The colors are beautifully pigmented and I just love how multi-useful they are! With a dab of water or mixed with my favorite balm Waxelene, each of these colors instantly doubles as a gloss or a crème shadow!
The Gia Minerals Bronzer in Sun Goddess is stunning! So beautiful, and it looks incredible on my freckled skin tone. I use this with or without makeup underneath and it’s always eye popping and gorgeous.
Gia Minerals Foundation in Latte is a perfect match for my skin tone, but Gia makes many other colors as well! With super healing ingredients like Kaolin Clay and Zinc Oxide, this mineral foundation helps your skin heal as it flawlessly covers and revitalizes.
Gia Minerals setting veil is perfect for blending makeup seamlessly and also creating depth, and an air brushed finish. Ultra fine, super soft texture enriched with certified organic green tea, jojoba, calendula and rosemary for a beautiful finish!
Riches is one of the most beautiful eye shadows I have ever seen! I love the gorgeous, glittery gold color. Made with mica, titanium dioxide and iron oxides, it’s free from talc, parabens or other skin irritants and is a great healthy choice!
Fantasia is a cool coral shadow that doubles as a beautiful lip gloss – just add your favorite balm! I love this color for a full eye or blended to create a warm or smokey look.
Then there’s the gorgeous Blue Moon. Don’t let the high pigment scare you. I recently blended this seamlessly into a smokey nighttime look and it was so perfect because it gives a natural highlight. The shimmer is out of a fairy tale and will definitely have all eyes on you!
Here is a recent look I did with Gia Minerals …
Full tutorial Coming soon to the blog!
With Love,
Tara
by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Discounts, Green Beauty, Product Reviews
Hi, my name is Tara and I’m a lip balm snob. (Hi, Tara…)
If you buy chapstick as a lip moisturizer, you can improve your health and the overall moisture of your lips if you switch to an all natural lip balm. Knowing what I know about what’s in most conventional lip balms – the petroleum, the mineral oil, the dimethicone, you’d be hard pressed to get me to touch most anything dangling from it’s perfect register placement at oh, I don’t know… any store ever? But when I was a kid, I don’t think I went one day without a jar of carmex or tube of cherry chapsstick in my pocket. When I suffered from dry skin around my lips and mouth, petroleum jelly was my go-to. And I don’t know about your experience, but it always, always made it worse. No matter how much I slathered on my skin got drier. It struck back. Hard. Oh, past, naïve little me.
Switching to natural lip balm a few years ago totally saved my life. But since then, I really have found my go-to’s, and to be perfectly honest for the last few years I only used one. It’s organic, natural, contains less than a handful of ingredients, so I was really, super duper hesitant to try anything else, because why should I? I was perfectly comfortable with my little organic routine, thank you very much!
That is, until the day I opened that beautiful package from Henne Organics. I unveiled the little white box, and inside of it, I found an eloquent black jar containing some of the most luscious, moisturizing and effective lip balm I had ever tried! It hit me on a whole other level: I am so happy that I didn’t say no to this! It works!
Ingredients: Organic Persea Americana (Avocado) Oil, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Organic Cera Alba (Beeswax), Organic Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Fruit, Organic Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Organic Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Tocopherol (Vitamin E).
Each and every one of Henne’s power packed ingredients are organic, naturally moisturizing, and long lasting! Best of all, it goes on like whipped butter. No reaching and re-reaching for your lip balm. Although I am addicted to how it feels when applied, I don’t have to worry about my lips getting dry again! I love the creamy, shea butter texture. Mixed with powerful, healing oils like Jojoba and Vitamin E, this luxurious lip balm hits it right out of the park!
And I confess – while I wouldn’t feel right to say it’s replaced my first love lip balm (since I still use that one on the daily too), they both share a space in my purse, on my beauty cabinet, and there will always be multiples of Henne around my house. For Momma’s, mavens or women on the go, to anyone looking to go the all natural lip balm route, Henne has heard your prayers and answered.
Get 20% off your lip balm with coupon code ORGANICLIFE at the {Shop}
Tell us in the comments why safe lip balm is important to you to be automatically entered to win one!
Good luck!
With love,
Tara
by Tara Mackey | Apparel, Blogroll, Discounts, Product Reviews, TARA Collection
I’ve waited pretty much my whole life to have a predominantly white wardrobe. This just might be my year. White has an equal balance of all the colors of the spectrum, and contains both the positive and negative aspects of all colors. White represents equality, implying fairness and impartiality, neutrality and feminine independence. While I’ve been loving white for my YouTube videos lately, I was looking to get sporty with it. I’ve really been loving different forms of exercise lately that are a little outside of my normal yoga + running routine. Tiger Mist + Synergy Organic Clothing provided the perfect combination of comfortable and eye catching. While this is not a great outfit to “get dirty” in (color wise, any way) it’s perfect for many outdoor spots like tennis, jogging or basketball, while staying demure, stylish and oh yeah – it’s good for the planet!
Take 20% off your purchase of any Synergy Organic Clothing with code TaraMackey20 at checkout!
Top: Synergy Organic Clothing (take 20% off with code TaraMackey20)
Shorts: Tiger Mist
Mala beads: Padma Design
Necklace: Livin’ Freely
Makeup: Modern Minerals Makeup | The Tara Collection
by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Discounts
Happy July 4th!
The best thing about holidays besides good food, good friends and the day off?
Sales!!
I’ve rounded up the best, healthiest, most kicking holiday sales! Let’s celebrate!
Jump into summer with a new organic wardrobe!
Get 20% off any clothing item with code TaraMackey20 at Synergy Organic Clothing!
Adidas is having a 4th of July Sale!
Between 7/3 and 7/5, you can get $20 off $99+ with code JULY! There are dozens of styles available on sale, so illuminate your Independence Day celebrations by shopping and saving at adidas.com!
Offer: 4th of July Sale at adidas.com – Get $20 off $99+
Valid: 7/3 – 7/5
Code: JULY
The Tara Collection was recently used in this beautiful editorial in the latest issue of Thoughtfully Magazine , and here by some of my favorite green makeup artists and bloggers:
Offer: 20% off storewide!
Valid: Today
Code: JULY4
Endless Summer indeed! Pura Vida Bracelets is having a storewide sale – NO CODE NEEDED!
Light-up your Independence Day celebrations with Reebok’s July 4th Spend and Save Sale! Get up to $30 off everything Reebok. Here’s a breakdown of the savings you’ll get with this explosive sale:
$10 off $75
$20 off $100
$30 off $125+
Offer: July 4th Spend and Save Sale at Reebok
Valid: 7/2 – 7/4
Code: AMERICA
Exclusions: Nano 5.0 and select ZPumps
- Beauteabar is having a Summer Sale for 35% off select items this weekend! Check it out! Free shipping on orders over $75!
- Kosmatology is having a sweet storewide sale. Take 20% off with code JULY4 at checkout!
I hope you found a sale that was perfect for you!
Happy Holidays!
With love,
Tara
by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Discounts, Fashion, Green Beauty, Product Reviews
It’s been roughly three and a half years since I fully committed to my wellness journey, and truthfully, the very last thing to convert was my closet. Why?
Well, partially because I’m sentimental.
Partially because I love thrifting (another amazing way to save and recycle clothing).
And partially because organic, fair trade clothes tend to be more expensive. I had a hard time justifying it.
Synergy was one of the first affordable clothing companies I ever found, and I am so happy to bring you a discount code just for readers of The Organic Life!
Why organic material?
- Cotton accounts for nearly 25% of the insecticides and 10% of the pesticides used throughout the world, although is it grown on only 3% of the total cultivated area. The poisoning due to chemical insecticides and pesticides is so acute that thousands of poor farmers in developing countries end up losing their lives. Growing cotton organically means no pesticides or insecticides were used.
- Much like producing conventional coffee crops, conventional cotton production often leads to poisoning, causing various health problems for cotton farmers. Organic cotton production, on the other hand, ensures a healthy life for the farmers and their families.
- Organic cotton is softer, more durable and causes fewer allergies than conventional cotton
- Here are some more benefits from organic.net:
To help you out on your personal organic fashion journey, I’ve teamed up today with Synergy Organic Clothing. They produce sustainable, organic clothing in conjunction with 150 female workers in Nepal, who are paid living wages and given yearly bonuses. This clothing is incredibly made, expertly crafted and super comfy!
Get 20% off today with code TaraMackey20 at checkout!
This code applies to any clothing in the store.
Excludes accessories, jewelry or miscellaneous items.
Dress: Synergy Clothing
Flower Crown: Flower Children Only
Necklace: Padma Design
Bracelets: Pura Vida Bracelets
Makeup: The Tara Collection
With love,
Tara
by Tara Mackey | Blogroll, Discounts, Give Back
You know that aside from the barbecue, the beach and an extra day off, there’s another reason to love Memorial Day weekend: the Sales! I’ve rounded up some of my favorite sales happening this weekend.
I felt a little guilty after I stocked up myself, so I’m happy to relieve a little bit of guilt by sharing them with you. 🙂
And if you sign up on TaraMackey.co today you’ll receive 20% off your first order of anything in the store!
Have a safe, happy long weekend everyone!
You deserve it, darling!
With love,
Tara
