Everything She Wants

Earlier this month, NIVEA unveiled its new packaging design inspired by the original NIVEA Creme Tin. The new look features the iconic round, blue NIVEA logo, features sleeker, smoother bottles and helps unify the full NIVEA product collection when you see it on the shelves of your local Target, Walgreens or favorite drugstore. As a NIVEA Digital Influencer, I'm a little biased and I love the more modern reinterpretation. The classic blue packaging, however, will always spark nostalgia.  But no matter how they're packaged, I can personally attest to how well the NIVEA Q10plus range --the Skin Hydration Lotion, Skin Firming Cellulite Gel Cream and Skin Firming Cellulite Serum--works on firming and tightening the skin and reducing the appearance of cellulite.  As an added bonus, bottles of NIVEA's key products like Extended Moisture Body Lotion and Sun-Kissed Radiance  contain 25 percent more!  That's more bang for your buck.

As a digital influencer for Nivea, I was re-introduced to this tried-and-true brand of skincare products. And apparently so have the inmates on the addictive Netflix series Orange is the New Black . When preppy prisoner Piper Chapman finally receives her commissary check, she gives   Nivea Creme Body Creme  to a grateful fellow jailbird. Because dry skin and jail just don't mix. The iconic beauty brand's blue packaging with white type is also featured in a flashback scene from bad girl Alex Vause's angst-ridden adolescence (second photo). Orange is the New Black images from Netflix. Thanks to Nivea, I carry a 2 oz. tube of the non comedogenic Nivea Creme lotion in my handbag at all times in case of a dry skin emergency.  It certainly comes in handy when I need to moisturize my hands, elbows, legs and feet. While I was applying it to my hands, a woman sitting next to me commented on the clean, subtly citrus scent, "That smells nice."  When I told her i...