Bonding Over Beauty Print Portfolio

By Erika Katz

Print

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Valentine’s Day Beauty

Valentine’s Day is about love and pampering. You can pamper yourself or a special someone. Here are some great ideas to make as gifts or just treat yourself !

Bubble Bath

1 /4 cup liquid Castile Soap (you can find this at the drugstore), 2 drops Red food coloring, 10 drops rose oil or your favorite essential oil, Rose petals.

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print DIY Valentine’s Day Beauty Recipes

Mom and beauty writer Erika Katz demonstrates ways to whip up mother-daughter pampering fun for Valentine’s Day. A beauty writer as well as a former child model and actress, Erika Katz has been a beauty junkie nearly all her life. Using her experience from her days working in a magazine beauty department as well as in television and modeling, Katz penned Bonding Over Beauty, A Mother-Daughter Guide to Self-Esteem, Confidence and Trust (Greenleaf Press). As the mother of a tween girl, she now writes a popular beauty blog, www. bondingoverbeauty.com. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print FOR SOFT CURLS

“For Valentine’s Day, I love soft curls. They are sexy and romantic,” says beauty expert and author ofBonding over Beauty, Erika Katz. If you have straight or wavy hair, wash and blow dry your hair, and make sure it is really dry before setting your hair in hot rollers. For limp, fine hair, leave in rollers as long as possible. Rollers will smooth the cuticle and give nice body — skip the hair spray though; gummy hair is not sexy!

SUBTLY SEXY MAKEUP

“As far as makeup, women think you have to wear red lipstick. Red lipstick is very messy for kissing as is any dark pigmented lipstick,” Katz says. Line your lips with a nude liner, she suggests.

Then fill in your lips with the liner. Put a sheer light lipstick or gloss over it.For eyes, if you plan on a night of love, curl your lashes and use a silicone-based mascara — Trish McEvoy makes a great one. This won’t end up under your eyes at the end of the night. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Tish helps Miley apply a scrub and the girls get mother-daughter manis!

Miley tweeted her affection for mom, Tish, on Mother’s Day and shared a pic of their nail polishes of choice. Do you and your mom every try at-home beauty treatments?I love that Miley and her mom did something together on Mother’s Day! The star tweeted about the scrub her mom helped her apply, saying, “This has been the best M-Day ever @TishCyrus1 I love u so much! I don’t know many people that would sit and scrub MY body on THEIR day! Just before their scrub-a-thon, Miley tweeted a pic of their chosen manicure colors, pointing out how different they were by their choice of colors (Miley had a bright red and Tish a light pink). It reminds me of when I get a mani with my mom! She always picks a neutral shade and I love going wild with color! Miley and her mom are bonding in a very special way, according to Erika Katz, author of the bookBonding Over Beauty. Making and applying DIY treatments is one of the best ways to bond! “I love to make homemade lipgloss, face masks, and body scrubs with my daughter using everyday ingredients you find in most kitchens,” Katz tells HollywoodLife.com. “That way we have the shared experience of making the treatments as well as applying them.”Bonding over a shared past time can be a great way to relax and “it starts by spending quality time with mom doing something you both enjoy,” adds Katz. Are you reading this, mom? Hop on the train to NYC … mani’s on me!

Do you ever try at-home treatments or splurge on mani/pedis?

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print HOT READING… Bonding over Beauty: A Mother-Daughter Beauty Guide to Foster Self-esteem, Confidence, and Trust

Rebecca’s Take: Great and instbook. As a busy mother of two ‘tween girls, I was excited to read Bonding over Beauty as I am always in search of more ways to keep connected with my daughters. The book gives practical tips for taking care of your body, from keeping hair and face clean to the basics of shaving and applying makeup. What I most appreciated about the book is its straightforward language that makes it very suitable for reading together aloud with your daughter(s). Most impressive was the section on nutrition and fitness with an emphasis on promoting healthy self-esteem. www.bondingoverbeauty.com Some interesting and fun tips from beauty blogger and author Erika Katz: Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Go From Cool to Ghoul With Tips from Erika Katz

By Erika Katz

8 DIY spooky makeup tips

After your child has figured out her Halloween costume, don’t forget to have her “spook” up her makeup! Blogger Erika Katz (Bonding Over Beauty) shares a few easy ways to help your teen or tween go from cool to ghould with these DIY tips and tricks for Halloween makeup. And, the best part? You can do these tips with products already in your makeup bag or your kitchen!

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print This book doesn’t only serve as a fun handbook for moms and daughters, it’s also a great tool to help moms explain the safety precautions that go hand-in-hand with most beauty regimes. Katz outlines the safest ways to wax, tweeze, comb and even pop a pimple. Every chapter ends with a super cute list of ways of moms and their girls to bond over beauty.

They include homemade facials, going to get eyebrows threaded, testing lipgloss colours and so much more that I wouldn’t mind doing with my own mom. This is the perfect gift for any number of of ladies: women with daughters, girls who love all things girly or daughters who want to play beauty parlour with their moms. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Want to give you skin a little at home spa treatment? Break out the pumpkin! Beauty expert Erika Katz (author of Bonding Over Beauty) uses pumpkin in her DIY beauty remedies because it is rich in Vitamin A, which she says is “very healing and is essential to maintain and repair skin.” Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

VG: What are the top 2 major self esteem issues, in your experience, that young girls have?

ERICA: I think weight is a big issue for many young girls. Especially because we

come in so many different shapes and sizes, it is important not to compare yourself to models in magazines. The other major issue involves face and hair. Girls have a lot of issues with how their hair looks because we always want what we don’t have. Acne can also cause a lot of self-esteem issues during a girl’s teen years.

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print I always tell girls to try to dress and wear their hair in a way that works for their look rather than follow every trend. Right now, blue eye liner and shadows are in style. They can look great if you have blue eyes and fair skin, and it is fun to experiment with colors. But, if you have olive skin and brown eyes the blue just won’t look right. Some people have the face for short hair and if it’s in style, then cut your hair short. But, if you have a really round face without defined cheekbones, a chin length bob is just not going to look right. My advice is to have your own style and not try to copy other people. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Beauty writer and former child model and actress, Erika Katz has been a beauty junkie nearly all her life. Using her experience from her days working in the beauty department at Seventeen magazine, cosmetology classes and lessons learned through her extensive work in television and modeling, Erika created a beauty guide that served as the foundation for her book Bonding Over Beauty, A Mother-Daughter Guide to SelfEsteem, Confidence and Trust. From product and styling tips, such as how to create the perfect ponytail, to at home recipes for creating an organic facial scrub, Erika explores it all in her book, in which she includes her own experience as well as information from interviews with top beauty experts. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print I had a nice chat with Erika Katz, author of the newly-released bookBonding over Beauty, A Mother-Daughter Guide to Self-Esteem, Confidence and Trust today about her book and tonight’s (Friday, August 26) book signing event at Southampton’s BookHampton from 5 to 7 p.m. As a beauty expert, author of beauty blog (http:// bondingoverbeauty.com) and mother of a tween girl, Katz uses her expertise to help moms bond with their daughters. Bonding over Beauty emphasizes strengthening the mother-daughter bond over simple and fun activities like painting nails or making organic face scrubs from scratch. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print For moms anywhere, forming healthy mother-daughter relationships can be tricky at best, especially when girls begin to hit the famously rebellious stage of right before and during their teenage years. But Erika Katz, mom of an 8-year-old girl, and a 10-yearold boy, has discovered what she thinks are the most effective bonding methods and has written about them in her new book “Bonding Over Beauty.” Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Author Erika Katz Teaches Mothers How To ‘Bond Over Beauty’

Katz was inspired to write the book as one day she was sitting with her daughter who’d had a bad day at school. When she asked what was wrong – her daughter would not talk to her.

Later as she was cutting her daughter’s nails her daughter started to tell her that a girl at school had been mean to her. Katz finished her nails but wanted to hear the rest of the story so she grabbed a scrub and started scrubbing her daughter’s hands. She rinsed the scrub off but wanted her daughter to finish the story so she grabbed the moisturizer and began to give her daughter a manicure.

The next day her daughter wouldn’t talk to her again so she started braiding her daughter’s hair. Katz realized that when women go to the hair dresser they tend to reveal everything on their minds, so she decided that this might also be a way to get girls to talk during their tween years when they don’t really want to tell you everything. Katz believes, “When you are doing something together you can get your children talking and that is how the concept of ‘Bonding Over Beauty’ started.” Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Spa at Home: Carrot & Honey Nourishing Face Mask

This all-natural homemade beauty treatment has been excerpted from beauty expert Erika Katz’s new book,Bonding Over Beauty: A Mother-Daughter Beauty Guide to Foster Self-Esteem, Confidence and Trust. Use once a week to give your face an extra dose of moisture.  Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

There was no question about the fact that I was going to purchase the newly published book, Bonding over Beauty. The suspense was whether I would be able to interview the author, Erika Katz, and impress my oldest child, my teenage daughter! Fortunately, a happy ending! Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print It’s all about listening, staying positive, validating and compromising with your child, said Erika Katz, author of “Bonding Over Beauty: A Mother-Daughter Guide to SelfEsteem, Confidence and Trust.” These days, a sense of fashion is imbued as early as age 8, Katz said, as children are inundated with trends from TV channels like Disney and Nickelodeon. Generally, a parent can get away with shopping for a child younger than 10 years old, but at age 10, when it becomes more difficult to size a child to impending puberty, it’s best to bring him or her along, Katz said.

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Former child model and actress turned beauty expert Erika Katz recommends some quick and easy DIY recipes in her book, Bonding Over Beauty. The key ingredients for an at-home anti-ager? Bananas and cream. “Bananas contain vitamins A and E. Vitamin A heals the skin and is great for flakiness; Vitamin E nourishes the skin,” she notes. And the fat in cream softens dry skin and keeps it elastic, according to Katz. She also suggests honey, a natural humectant, which helps retain moisture. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Erika Katz, beauty expert and author of Bonding Over Beauty: A Mother-Daughter Beauty Guide to Foster Self-Esteem, Confidence, and Trust racked the brains of colleagues and suggested a few simple tricks for zapping a zit. Â Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Katz realized the relational power in sharing beauty rituals with your child, from washing your face together to making natural facemasks to picking out vegetables at the farmer’s market to selecting colors for her first lip gloss. “If your daughter wants to wear make-up, the worst thing you can do is say, ‘No way, you can’t.’ She will think you are clueless,” Katz says. “If you can’t talk to her about lip gloss, she won’t think you can talk to her when it comes to sex.” Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print “Also in great demand was advice from ‘Bonding over Beauty’author Erika Katz. My daughter even told me to ’shh’ while she was getting the author’s autograph.” Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Is Your Daughter Ready for Summer?

Guest contributor and Bonding over Beauty Author Erika Katz shares tips all moms should know to prepare their tween daughters for summer…

With the summer months approaching us, it is time to clean the closets and pull out those great summer dresses, shorts, and swimsuits. But, with all those cute outfits come new beauty issues for you and your tween to tackle. This could be her first year with unwanted hair around the bikini line, on the legs, and the underarms. If she has just recently gotten her period, she might not know then to use pads and when to use tampons. Perspiration is now an issue. And the list goes on. So how do you get her ready for summer so she feels self confident and secure? Here are a few suggestions… Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Bonding Over Beauty By Erika Katz (Interview)

“First of all….I must say kudos to a beautiful concept you have created. A much needed one at that! What inspired you to write the book Bonding Over Beauty? I went to a parenting meeting in my community and moms were talking about how their nine and ten year old daughters were getting hair under the arms, above their lip, and were showing signs of puberty all before they had given up playing with dolls. The moms did not know how to broach these sticky subjects with their girls either because they did not have all the information or were just too embarrassed to talk about it. So, I decided to write a book to tell moms what to say to their daughters and how to say it. I wanted this difficult time in a young girl’s life to be a bonding experience with mom rather than a series of doorslammings and “mom, you just don’t understand.”

Read more

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Are Sports Drinks Better Than Energy Drinks For Kids?

“Said mom and author Erika Katz: “You wouldn’t hand your kid a lollipop for energy, and you wouldn’t give them a can of soda for energy, so why would you give them a sport or energy drink that has the same amount of sugar as candy or soda?” Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Phermones: Smell Good, Look Good

by Erika Katz

Have you ever talked to someone who turned you on with just their smell? Its called pheromones. The smell of their sweet cologne or perfume mixed in with their natural aroma makes you want to inhale everything about them‌ Now think of that same beautiful person with bad breath, body odor, drenched in cheap cologne or drug store perfume‌ not quite the same is it?

Read more

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print

5 Tips to help your tween girl become a physically and emotionally healthy woman

by Erika Katz for Sheknows.com

Don’t you love the drama of the tween years? Though you may be tempted to throw your hands in the air and give up on your tween daughter, you really do have the ability to bond with your tween girl and help her grow up into a physically and emotionally healthy young woman. Here’s how.

Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print How Chic Is Your Bikini Line

by Erika Katz for LipglossCulture.com

It’s 2011, and you have just emerged from a relationship with your high school sweetheart who has known you since you first got pubes. Maybe you have the Boogie Nights full monty, or the 1980’s Baywatch triangle. If you are hip, you knew to head south with the landing strip when 2000 came rolling around. Or maybe you’re a trend setter with nothing to hide. So, is your bikini line up to snuff ? Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page

By Erika Katz

Print Make Valentine Memories With Your Daughter

by Erika Katz for Coastal Parent Magazine February 2011

My daughter and I love Valentine’s Day. We decorate our home, cook a great meal and, best of all, we do some fun beauty activities to get ready for the big night. The time we spend primping is a fun, creative way to have mother-daughter bonding time that only strengthens the relationship that we have; a relationship that, as a parent, I consider so important to foster as an insurance that she will always turn to me for help when she needs it most. Read More

Return to the Bonding Over Beauty Press Page