Be Well: Hot Ticket Health & Wellness Summer Essentials

Christine Montanti, senior editor and advertising director at Social Life Magazine, joined Cheddar News to talk about the hottest lifestyle products of the season raging from skincare and haircare goods to gear protecting you from the harmful rays of the sun.

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We are getting ready for summer in style Christine Montante from Social Life magazine is here with the latest beauty trends and I, I am just wowed by these picks. I'm actually wearing some of the bling right now. But let's start with our skin care that you picked. What's so great about it? Well, first of all, wellness is booming this summer as more and more people are prioritizing a healthier lifestyle and they're incorporating healthier choices into their beauty and fashion routines. So the dermatologist guide to protecting our skin this summer is a strong broad spectrum S P F and this is Paris all day, all year um anti aging cream. So it has a non chemical capsule that's S P F in it. That's equivalent to an S P F-15 that lasts for eight hours. So you don't have to reapply. It's like a lotion I put on the before I do anything else and it has the S P F built in it. Well, you're actually gonna put it on after this, but this, this product is a FDA award winner because you don't have to reapply for 88 hours. So this, you're gonna put on first. This is C powers ecological compound. It is a multi vitamin serum and a anti aging cream all in one. So it's gonna, it's like putting a beautiful layer of skin on your skin and it has um all natural botanical gradients. And I love because it says for dry skin and I feel like in the summer between the sun and the salt water and everything, my skin just you know. No, that's why you need a ultra hydrating um anti aging cream like this. This is amazing. Then we have a satin eye cream. This is or skin science. Doctor Robert Schwartz, he's a leading ocular facial and plastic reconstructive surgeon created this product. Um He was inspired by concerns of his patient and he put the highest concentration of ingredients into the satin eye gel cream to make it like a medical great eye grade cream that you can purchase. So that's gonna help with my baggage. It's gonna reduce inflammation. It's gonna get rid of dark circles. It's loaded with the antioxidants, ultra hydrating. Really beautiful. Great for all skin types. OK. So we've got the skin of our face, we've got that covered. So now let's talk about our hair care because sometimes you step outside and the sun does its own thing. That is right. So Jeanie Mazzy, owner of New Best Spa created this incredible product. It's gem lights first. We're gonna start with the colored conditioner. So I think this one is for me but it comes in all. Well, not the color shampoo, but this is the colored conditioner. So it's gonna strengthen the bond deep within the cortex of the hair fiber. So what you're gonna do is if you have dry damage bleached or yeah, you like that hair, it's gonna hit your hair um in all the spots that are damaged, it goes directly to the damaged parts of the hair. It doesn't weigh the hair down. So and it, and it makes your hair three times as strong Elizabeth, you only have to use it once every five days. Then the gem lights, color shampoo and that's the right. It comes in all different colors. We have one custom made for you. So it keeps your color fresh from visit to visit. So like you said, when you leave the salon, you don't realize, but the sun, it is oxidizing your hair from the moment you, you leave the salon. So what's amazing about these two products is the bond conditioners is strengthening your hair in between visits and you're getting the color retention. This is adding color. So when you go to the salon, you don't have to do your whole head, you just do the regrowth. OK. Good because then that's gonna save me a lot of money too. Right. Right. Just keep your health, right. OK. Let's talk about the jewelry. So this is Susan Hanover designs. We have them on which I love about. These are they GE um GEOS, which means they're natural. They're from nature and they have all these holistic aspects to them. I have them in as well. Um Which means that they're calming and they're relaxing as you can probably tell. They don't weigh your ear down. I thought it was gonna be really heavy. Those are beautiful. They don't weigh your hair down at your, uh, so they're, they're really great for you. Plus the fact that they have those holistic aspects and these are real gemstones. So ours are the GEOS, but these are absolutely real and the colors really pop. They're beautiful. They're beautiful pieces. Yes. So if you have a solid outfit on like yourself, it just really pops the color, right? I love this because I'm all about protecting myself and accessorizing at the same time. Yes. So this is great for the U V. You wanna try this oil for the U V rays. Obviously, it's gonna protect um your eyes and your skin. That is so pretty. It does add a lot of pop. These are from Maddie's 3 90. So they're straw and pots really light weight. And what I love about these, these are Italian custom made, but these are great for travel. If you're going to a warm destination, you just fold it in half, roll it up, place a rubber band around it and you just throw it in your suitcase or if you're going to a restaurant and you're wearing this outside. The same thing, you just roll it up, throw it in your bag, easy to travel. Fashion forward. Really cool style. Ok. So now this, these are for the kids because a lot of kids are going to camp or you know, whatever gonna start playing outside. So what do you have? So I have cute camp bags for the kids which it keeps their like toiletries a little bit cleaner, more sanitary. You could throw a hairbrush, a toothbrush goggles, suntan, lotion chopstick in it and you don't have to wait for camp. You could throw it in your school bag. Now you could throw it in your gym bag. The kids could put in their dance bag and this one is really cool because that's a mister and a water bottle one. It's a mist and sip. So the kids are hydrating at camp and they're also off because you could spray it onto your face and that's great because that's like 20 bucks and you're gonna use it all summer and this and you know everything. Ok. Fantastic. Now we cannot forget the shoes. Um obsessed. We're obsessed with shoes and I chose this brand slides. They are my go to brand because you're not sacrificing style for comfort. I live in these sneakers. I travel up to 70 times a year. You'll see me running through the airport in these and what I love so much about them is their leather or sued upper lines, they have a gel insole that's removable. So, if you need it to put an orthotic, but guess what? I have expensive orthotics and I don't need to put them in the J slides. That's how comfortable they are. They all have rubber soles. So, these are like the sneakers of it. But these are like, great because there's not really a huge, you know, like incline. So if you have any foot issues, it looks like a nice sandal, but you're not getting support, it's so squishy. That's right. And they all have rubber soles and they, they also have that cushion foot bed, but let's face it. If we have the wrong shoes on, then we can hurt our achilles tendons or all of our, yeah, the whole, the whole nine yards and these are really cool because I would think if, you know, if you wanna get the right fit, it looks like it's expandable. These are um light, ultra light weight sneaker feel that feel how, how soft that is and lightweight. They are knit upper and they have that same removable gel insole. Um They're only like an inch and a half platform. All these shoes except for the wedges are probably like two. These are flat. So you're still getting that woven style with a half an inch of, you know, um a soul on it. They're all rubber soul on the bottom. So just really incredible and congratulations. This is Social Life magazine's 20th anniversary year. That's right. This is 20th year anniversary. So we are super thrilled 20 years on the street as one of the leading luxury publications for the Hamptons. I know it's so great to see you and thank you for all these beautiful picks. I can't wait.