Eco-Chick · The modern girl's guide to living green & fabulous.

Stephanie Rogers is a freelance writer and graphic designer living in the eco-mecca of the South, Asheville, North Carolina.

http://stephanie-rogers.com

This author has contributed 97 posts.

AUTHOR FEED

Get the Look: Fall Makeup 2009, Eco Chick Style

2 Comments

10/08/09

Images via Elle.com

Just like with fashion and accessories, makeup trends for Fall 2009 are dramatic, edgy and intense. Deep purples, blues and silvery metallics are in for eyes, nails and lips and many of our favorite natural and organic cosmetic lines have just what you need to get the look without sacrificing your high standards.

Smoldering smoky eyes have been big for a while, but this season, take them a little further with shades of blue and purple that complement your complexion. Fair-skinned blondes will get along with blue-green while pale brunettes should seek out blue-purple. Olive-toned skin looks great with a variety of blue shades, particularly navy, while those with brown skin can have fun with brighter shades.

More »

Beauty, fall, makeup

Fall Eco Fashion Accessories: Drama, Color & Recycled Metal

7 Comments

09/23/09

Studs, chains, simple boxy bags, booties and dramatic statement jewelry: all of these things are in for fall 2009, and there are seriously fabulous eco-friendly options for every single trend. Designers like Litter SF, Doloris Petunia and olsen Haus offer up some eye-popping accessories made from recycled, upcycled, organic and otherwise green materials.

Jewelry trends for fall 2009 bring in the drama with big, bold, shiny statement pieces. Doloris Petunia creates stunning custom statement necklaces (pictured above) made from pieces of old or broken jewelry – you can even send in your own, so dig through that junk drawer and put those sentimental bits of metal, beads and jewels to good use.

When it comes to handbags, studs and simple boxy shapes are in. Roccobarocco’s black studded hobo in polished eco-leather is perfect as an everyday bag, while TEICH clutches – which come in an array of eye-popping colors and are made of responsibly sourced leather – are the perfect complement to your favorite LBD.

More great trends after the jump!

More »

accessories, boots, eco fashion, Ecofriendly Jewelry, shoes

Announcing the Delight.com Giveaway Winners!

2 Comments

05/22/09

Thanks to everyone who entered our Delight.com giveaway for the chance to win a set of Nellie’s PVC-free Dryer Balls!

Delight.com is generously offering prizes to THREE lucky Eco-Chick.com readers, and after randomly choosing three names from a hat, we’ve got our winners. Congratulations to Lisa, Amber and Sarah! I will email each of you ladies to get your contact information.

Nellie’s PVC-free dryer balls are a non-toxic and environmentally-friendly way to reduce laundry drying time and soften your laundry naturally without the use of chemicals or disposable dryer sheets. Nellie’s Dryerballs tumble around in the dryer along with your clothes, lifting and separating fabrics so that air can flow more efficiently, reducing drying time up to 25%. That saves money and energy. Plus, they now come with optional all-natural lavender fragrance sticks to give your clean laundry a fresh, natural scent!

Get more info on Nellie’s PVC-free Dryer Balls at Delight.com and check out the rest of the fabulous eco-friendly offerings while you’re there. Happy shopping!

giveaway, Shopping

Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most Irresponsible Companies

116 Comments

05/07/09

This article originally appeared on EarthFirst.com.

Money isn’t everything – or is it? To most corporations, making a profit is goal number one – but some of those companies take it way too far, sacrificing the health of the planet and its inhabitants for a bigger bank balance. Far too many corporations turn a blind eye to the consequences of their destructive, exploitative practices. The worst of them are committing atrocities that go beyond the realm of objectionable into criminal, dumping toxic chemicals without regard to public health and employing child labor.

What makes these seven companies extra evil is the fact that they’ve committed crimes that are BOTH environmentally and socially irresponsible.

Nestle

Image via Blood in Your Coffee

More than 40% of the world’s chocolate comes from Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) in Africa, where tens of thousands of children are estimated to be working in dangerous conditions on cocoa farms. Nestle uses cocoa harvested by slave labor, and only when Senator Thomas Harkin (D-Iowa) led an investigation and introduced legislation that would require chocolate sold in the US to be labeled “slave-free” did the company act. Nestle promised that by July 2005 they would find a way to certify chocolate as not having been produced by any underage, indentured, trafficked or coerced labor, but since then, they have achieved very little.

Nestle’s bottled water business is also a major cause for concern. Nestle controls one-third of the US market and sells 70 different brand names of bottled water including Arrowhead, Deer Park, Perrier and Poland Spring. The company buys up pristine springs in some of the most beautiful natural spaces in America and builds huge factories on the sites, releasing pollution into the air and drawing enormous amounts of water out of the springs.

And, while the company claims an environmentally friendly ethic, saying it would never harm an aquifer, that’s exactly what they have done in places like Mecosta County, Michigan, damaging the watershed with excessive withdrawals, reaping huge profits and leaving the locals to deal with the consequences.

Pfizer

Image via Daylife

Air and water pollution, disregard for safety standards and experimentation on Nigerian children: these are just a few of the environmental and human rights offenses perpetrated by the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. It’s hard to imagine how Pfizer officials can bear to look at themselves in the mirror every day after what they’ve done.

Pfizer is guilty of some of the most despicable price gouging in corporate history: it keeps its HIV/AIDS-related drugs out of the hands of the world’s poor, who need them the most. Pfizer has aggressively fought efforts to make these drugs more affordable, refusing to grant generic licenses for HIV/AIDS drugs to Brazil, South Africa and other countries in need of them.

More »

corporations, Global Warming, Pollution

Delight.com Giveaway: Win a Set of Nellie’s PVC-Free Dryerballs!

31 Comments

04/28/09

UPDATE: Comments are closed and a winner will be announced shortly. Thanks for entering!

Eco Chick is teaming up again with Delight.com to offer you a chance to win some cool eco-friendly stuff!

Nellie’s PVC-free dryerballs have proven to be a really popular item at Delight.com, and for good reason: they’re a safe, non-toxic and environmentally friendly way to reduce drying time and soften your laundry naturally without the use of chemicals or disposable dryer sheets. Nellie’s Dryerballs tumble around in the dryer along with your clothes, lifting and separating fabrics so that air can flow more efficiently, reducing drying time up to 25%. That saves money and energy. Plus, they now come with optional all-natural lavender fragrance sticks to give your clean laundry a fresh, natural scent!

For your chance to win, simply leave a comment below (be sure to include your email address!) and we’ll randomly draw names from a hat to come up with the THREE winners, who will each receive their very own set of Nellie’s PVC-free dryer balls! AND, if you sign up for Delight.com’s newsletter or follow either Tracey, Delight.com’s founder, or Jenny, Delight.com’s community manager on Twitter, you’ll get an extra entry! Just tell us your Twitter user name in your comment or let us know you signed up for the newsletter*.

Deadline to enter is Tuesday, May 5th at noon.

Delight.com is a carefully edited, ever-changing showcase of fabulous products.  Every day at noon, Delight.com staff debut a new product with an extra ‘gift’, be it free shipping, discounted price or some kind of extra.  It’s a blend of social shopping, product reviews, special offers and hand-selected merchandise. My favorite item of the moment: Delight’s new RuMe metallic tote bags – they’re too fabulous to miss!

*Please use the same email address in your comment and to sign up for the newsletter so we can verify. One extra entry per person.

giveaway, Shopping