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\"\"<\/a>Greening Hollywood: Guild by Guild panelists: L-R Nikoletta Skarlatos, Make Up Artist, Pirates of The Caribbean; Robert Hallowell, Hair Stylist, Dancing With The Stars; Christina Marcaccini, founder, Raw Natural Beauty; Rachelle Carson Begley, Co-Star, Living With Ed; Lisa Archer, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics; Paige Donner, Founder, Greening Hollywood.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s more to bringing the beauty industry and green scientists together, all at one table, then might first meet the eye. By the time I presented our panel of beauty experts, moderated by Rachelle Carson Begley, last weekend in my Greening Hollywood: Guild by Guild <\/em>seminar and workshop, I had learned a lot. I had learned more than just that Tarte has come out with a game-changing mascara called Lights, Camera, Lashes! <\/a>and that O.P.I. <\/a>had removed all three of the most harmful chemicals in their nail polish, and that Suki Pure<\/a> has re-defined how to be profitable and committed to pure ingredients in the cosmetic industry.<\/p>\n

What a lucky stroke that EMA, the Environmental Media Association, came before me. The organization that Norman and Lynne Davis Lear founded 20 years ago has made inroads into almost every facet of \u201cgreen\u201d \u2013 including the billion dollar make up and beauty industry.<\/p>\n

Of course, the first I thing I did, was go to Debbie Levin, president of EMA and tell her what I intended to do \u2013 namely present a panel of natural and green beauty experts for members of the Hollywood Make Up and Hair Stylists Guild \u2013 I.A.T.S.E. Local 706<\/a>. Her colleague, Lisa Barnet, recalled they\u2019d done something similar in 2006 though not for guild members specifically. It had been well-received but for whatever reason they\u2019d chosen to do it as a one-off.<\/p>\n

In the past three years lots has happened in the beauty world turning parts of it a deeper shade of green. For one, Oprah got on her show and talked about the terribleness of parabens in beauty products. That was a wake up call to women across the nation to look at the ingredients list in their beauty products. Secondly, California has since passed our Safe Cosmetics Act which is a piece of legislation aiming towards regulating the make up and beauty industry. The scientists from Environmental Working Group and Campaign for Safe Cosmetics who spoke on my Greening Hollywood: Guild by Guild panel are quick to point out that there is NO FDA regulation of the ingredients put into cosmetics. Even though our skin acts like a sponge, absorbing whatever we put on it \u2013 nearly as much as what we put directly inside our bodies.<\/p>\n