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admin / May 9, 2014

Korres Summer

It’s time for a serious beauty session people. Along with Korres best seller products (famous After-Sun Yoghurt lotion and sunscreens to name a few), new items made an entry that need your undivided attention. The S oothing after-sun yoghurt facecream is even lighter, perfect for every skin and bound to become a smash. A series of new metallic nail lacquers are added to the collection, such as Metallic Taupe and Flashy Fuchsia (the one I tried below, flashy as hell).
The Santorini Vine collection: The Shower gel and Bodymilk that come with a fruity scent from greek vineyards will knock your nostrils off. I’d love to see it become a unisex eau-de-toilette sometime soon.
And colors! The volcanic minerals Eyeliners and Twist Eyeshadows are extremely long lasting and easy to apply.
Snaps from yesterday’s presentation at Korres headquarters.

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admin / May 21, 2013

Bye-bye mocha color

Though I adore the sun kissed color on my cheeks, my skin cannot endure the greek burning sun, and the effect I get for the last three years are those charming little brown spots -what’s cooler than that. Anyway, apart from a big straw hat that I always take on the beach living my own Cote d’Azur, a sunscreen combo is more than necessary. I’ve told you before about the majesty of Korres yoghurt non-oily sunscreens and after sun lotions *heart*. In my top10 list is now added the Red Vine hair sun protection and a Walnut & Coconut sunscreen spray with transparent formula, ideal for water sports, like laying on the beach.

You have to love Korres.

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admin / April 16, 2013

The Korres Candy Shop

Just when I thought I needed some color in my life, poped up this: A bag full of the new Korres jelly toffees.

The watermelon face sunscreen smells like the summer of your dreams and it also offers some coverage thanks to the tinted moisturizing formula – I was about to renew my face sunscreen with the all time classic Korres Yogurt sunscreen face cream but this new thing, I love it. The Blush Sticks is a non-oily creamy blush series and trust me, once you go for a creamy blush, you will never go back to powders, as they make your skin look fresher (all kinds of powders make your skin look dull). Last but not least, there comes Lip Butter Gloss, in peach, pink or natural, a moisturizing lip butter with the shine of a lip gloss, that doesn’t make your lips sticky and heavy.

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admin / October 17, 2012

Black is the new Black is Back

Black is the new Black (or how another great gig by Korres left me cheering).

Our beloved greek beauty brand is launching “Black Professional”, a full smokey-eyes kit, with black pencils/mascaras/eyeliners based on new technology that promise to stay where they should, like, forever.

Make up artist Yannis Siskos was there to demonstrate a “how-to” for the perfect smokey-eyes look (and not only that).

Mariaflora tried her skills on me and the outcome was not bad at all, although I looked more like Sehrazat than a tired Kate Moss (or Carine Roitfeld for that matter), which was the initial reference.

An afternoon dedicated to black, from the deco to the AMAZING catering -black burgers, seriously- that we took home, together with a couple of Korres spoil-me bags. Now I have to practice.

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admin / August 20, 2012

treats

Small treats for summer holidays (or how to spend more time pampering yourself):

Precious Moroccanoil hair treatment: It smells like heaven and it’s the perfect not-oily oil (magic I tell you!) that I use e v e r y d a y. I’ll need psychological support when it’s finished.

T.E Pareo: Two girls make beautiful greek inspired pareos, of cotton mix fabrics and locally sourced materials. The ideal summer accessory to wear/ lie on/get dry. See here all the designs that will make your day.

Clarins Sun Wrinkle Control face cream 50+ and the perfect Korres Cooling after-sun gel with edible yoghurt: your skin will love you for that.

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admin / July 20, 2012

Vogue, Korres & zillions of bottles

As I promised you after my visit at Korres Natural Products headquarters, here is the fashion editorial we did back in 2007 with Vogue Hellas team at Korres factory, which was a futuristic story about shapes and new, high technology fabrics and materials.

Michael Pandos was the editor and Kostas Avgoulis the photographer.

Plus, extra photos from the laboratories and the production stage, where we spent most of our time during our small excursion there on Tuesday.

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admin / July 18, 2012

The Korres Success Story

Dear diary, today I had the best time.

I felt like a student attending an educational visit to a candy factory, only in this occasion it was a visit to the futuristic and of extremely high standards factory of Korres Natural Products. Lena Korres, George Anthoulakis and the rest of the Korres team were gracious hosts, in the most well organized event I’ve attended the past few months. A tour around the plant facilities, the production line, the homeopathic section, the laboratories where the evolution of new ideas takes place, escorted by a presentation of the history of the brand and usefull

information, were more than interesting and enlightening.

This wasn’t the first time i visited Korres factory, since when it was first built, together with the Vogue Hellas team we did an entire fashion shooting there- and one of my favourites. A blast-from-the-past post and more photos to follow soon.

Congratulations to Korres “family” for the hard work, the succesful penetration to the