All glosses are inspired by the native plants of North Carolina!

Glosses are named for their colors only and don’t contain extracts of its namesake. Tube is 2.5mL in volume.

Gloss comes with link to the Twilight fanfic I started writing featuring my witch-hazel dryad OC, circa 2008 or 2009. If I find more of it, you will be notified.

Gloss: Sheer yellow-tinted gloss with yellow iridescent flakies; formula is closer to a lip oil and very light weight. Scented like lemon poundcake

Namesake: H. virginiana is named for this shrubby tree’s early spring blossoms. The flowers bloom in winter after the leaves have fallen and feature bright yellow, shaggy ligulate (ribbon or strap-like) petals. It’s a woodland plant, so witch-hazels can tolerate shadier areas of a landscape and its fruits are popular with birds when food is scarce at the end of winter. There’s also a type of moth—Acronicta hamamelis, or dagger witch-hazel moth—whose larvae feed exclusively on witch-hazel and the adults pollinate the flowers. Witch-hazel has tons of medicinal uses, being sold as a common drugstore astringent and providing an active ingredient for hemorrhoid patches. There’s a lot of speculation about the etymology of witch-hazel, and Wikipedia reports it probably had its roots in an old English form of a word for pliable. It wasn’t historically associated with witches, but witch hazel was a favorite source of dowsing rods for white colonial expansionists. Oh, and the seed pods explode.

Notes from Madison: I love witch-hazels! They’re one of my favorite plants and I look forward to seeing the blooms every year! As someone who has worn my hair with bangs for decades, it’s easy for me to feel a little kinship to the shaggy flowers. I actually once wrote a Twilight fanfic where my OC was a dryad who took the form of a witch-hazel in tree form and eventually had to pretend to go to high school with the Cullens.

Ingredients
Base: Mineral Oil, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Polybutene, Polyisobutene, Caprylic/capric triglyceride (fractionated coconut oil), Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Hexylene
Flavoring: Soybean Oil, Benzyl Alcohol, Artificial Flavors, stevia extract

See detailed ingredient listing at http://madisonsflowers.com