MyShimmer is your concierge through the maze of thou­sands of new and emerg­ing beauty prod­ucts from all over the world.

Since early 2009, Editors of MyShimmer.com has actively reached out to the beauty com­pa­nies all over the world to get cov­er­age of new and upcom­ing prod­ucts that are often not even on the shelves yet. With our love for trav­el­ing, we con­stantly search for beauty prod­ucts and beauty secrets across the globe that might just change your beauty world inside out.

Because of the nature of new and unre­leased prod­ucts, all of the prod­ucts that our review­ers (Super Shimz) review, unless oth­er­wise noted, are pro­vided by the com­pa­nies them­selves. Be assured though, that our review­ers and test users that try out the prod­ucts are val­ued for their hon­esty and integrity.  They do not receive com­pen­sa­tion.   Unlike other spon­sored reviews, you can trust ours to be on your camp. We are con­sumers too and we do this because we love it.

We have many beauty com­pa­nies send us prod­ucts which we try but we do not review every­thing we receive.  As a mat­ter of fact, there are many prod­ucts we do not write about because they are not wor­thy of pass­ing on what is great or not great about the prod­uct.  Many prod­ucts are just aver­age so you can trust the prod­ucts we choose to high­light for you.

About the Shimmer Network

Although there are many social net­work­ing sites out there, there aren’t that many that focus on dis­cov­er­ing beauty. We all have our Facebook accounts or blogs, but those accounts are filled with friends from work, from school, peo­ple we don’t know, and peo­ple who don’t really care what they put on their faces. Shimmer Network is cre­ated to answer this. Our goal is to unite women and men who are cos­metic con­scious so they can help each other reap the best ben­e­fits of the beauty world. In the Shimmer Network, you can get the lat­est scoop of what’s some of the Youtube gurus are up to, con­nect and stay in touch with your fans, and learn from and be inspired by other beauty bloggers.

Meet the team

Carrie Bradley

Carrie grew up with a cell phone in her crib and try­ing every beauty prod­uct in the house and at the depart­ment store.  She is an avid inter­net shop­per and online researcher of facts and can dig up any infor­ma­tion a par­tic­u­lar prod­uct or claim by a beauty com­pany.   She has been blog­ging since the age of 14 and is your resource for find­ing the lat­est in health and beauty.

Christina grad­u­ated from UC Berkeley and started her major with a nutri­tion focus but ulti­mately made a liv­ing in Investments and Finance. With this money, she has been a nat­ural beauty prod­uct tester since the age of 12 using prod­ucts from health food stores in Mill Valley, California to every prod­uct found in a beauty depart­ment store. She has trav­eled to over 44 coun­tries shop­ping and search­ing for beauty secrets from around the world. It’s a tough job but some­one has to do it.

Emily is MyShimmer’s Editor in Chief. Emily grew up in Hong Kong using Japanese skin prod­ucts (even though she can’t read any of the Japanese text on the bot­tle), she eats mostly fresh and nat­ural foods and knows every online store to pur­chase every beauty prod­uct sold. From an early age, Emily was inter­ested in beauty/fashion, inter­net and tech­nol­ogy. It is an unlikely combo but Emily pulls it off. She can cre­ate an online com­mu­nity for women to share their love for beauty and show each other what new looks inspire them. At the same time, she meets beauty indus­try experts and video blog­gers to bring you the lat­est in beauty prod­ucts and tips before it hits the mag­a­zines. She finds the lat­est for you — whether it’s the prod­ucts that celebri­ties use, prod­ucts that really work, DIY home beauty for cheap, inter­view from an expert makeup artist or makeup tuto­ri­als from other beau­ti­ful women. She cur­rently lives in “Emerald City” Seattle, WA.

Beauty Advisory Board

We believe beauty is holis­tic so we have a Beauty Advisory Board that reviews new beauty prod­ucts, insider tips and trav­els all over the world to find the best in beauty.  We have included peo­ple from the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity, makeup artists and life coaches to help you achieve that inner beauty for a truly beau­ti­ful you!

Becky Watkins
Becky has been dis­cov­er­ing beauty from all aspects.   She has worked with many bud­ding young celebri­ties on TV and film as a makeup artist.  As an Educator and Trainer for Christian Dior, her job is to travel the world teach­ing makeup artists and Sephora employ­ees how to use the lat­est tech­nol­ogy in makeup and skin­care.  She shares with us her insider secrets to the beauty industry.

Lily is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and founder of YourYouness, Inc. Lily sup­ports her clients on how to con­nect with their holis­tic and inte­gra­tive needs, mak­ing choices and deci­sions to live a bet­ter whole life living—mind, body, and spirit.  Her spe­cial­ties include, life and career coach­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and net­work­ing skills, work-life bal­ance, over­com­ing life burnout and trans­for­ma­tion, and Feng Shui coach­ing. She is pas­sion­ate about peo­ple, a pos­i­tive thinker, speaker and moti­va­tor, inspir­ing her clients with her life philosophy.

Expert Guest Beauty Bloggers

Dr. Nancy Ilaya, Guest Beauty Blogger

The Informed Makeup Maven was founded by Dr. Nancy Ilaya who is the author, edi­tor and founder of the Informed Makeup Maven blog.  IMM is syn­di­cated and part of the totalbeauty.com, Hyper Luxe Media, AOL Video and Yahoo Shine net­works and was also recently men­tioned in the Huff Post and fea­tured in "New Fabulous: All About 50 Top Beauty Bloggers of 2010" book by Nicki Zevola as a top 50 beauty blog­ger of 2010.

IMM is read by beauty lovers glob­ally with the high­est read­er­ship in Northern America closely fol­lowed by Europe and Asia-Pacific.  The beauty blog fea­tures beauty news, tips, tricks and trends, and spe­cial offers. “IMM is all about empow­er­ing read­ers to make bet­ter choices and mak­ing their prod­ucts work for them in so many ways.  As a beauty afi­cionado I found the advice and tips offered at the beauty counter lim­it­ing and homoge­nous,” reveals founder and edi­tor, Dr Nancy Ilaya.

In addi­tion to IMM, Nancy holds a PhD in neu­ro­science and is also a con­tribut­ing writer for Totalbeauty.com and BeautyStat.com, and head of PR rela­tions for Beautystat.com.

Get Involved

Want to join our Guest Beauty Blogger Panel or our Beauty Advisory Board?  Do you think you have what it takes? Send your resume to christina @ myshimmer.com

Have your own YouTube Channel that focus on beauty-related issues? Find out more about the Shimmer Network