Sephora If you’re a Sephora Beauty Insider, you should have received your 15% off coupon for Chic Week in the mail. This coupon is good for your entire purchase, not just one item. So it’s great if you’re planning a haul! The coupon starts today, April 12, and goes through April 21. If you’re not …
Estee Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Promotion 2013: Bloomingdale’s Gift with Purchase
My post on the Estée Lauder Lilly Pulitzer Spring/Summer 2013 Promotion has driven the most traffic to my site of anything I’ve written. The promotion that consists of makeup bags in different shapes and Lilly Pulitzer historic fabric patterns with different Estée Lauder skincare and makeup products has clearly been a success for both brands. …
Garnier Moisture Rescue Refreshing Gel Cream for Dry Skin
I am the gel moisturizer queen. About 10 years ago, I discovered Clinique Moisture Surge, a gel moisturizer for very dry skin that helps fortify the skin’s barrier to keep dry skin hydrated. I loved it, and used it during the winter as an add-on to my regular moisturizer. It was positioned as a product …
5 Simple Anti-Aging Makeup Tricks from allure.com
5 Simple Anti-Aging Makeup Tricks: Anti Aging: allure.com The link above will take you to a short slideshow featuring 5 makeup tips to help you look younger from makeup artist to the stars, Jillian Dempsey, via allure.com. The ones that stand out for me (in a good way) are: eyes: using a creamy brown eyeliner …
Too Faced Shadow Insurance Lemon Drop Color Correcting Eye Shadow Primer
This is a strange way to start off a post on a beauty blog. I have blepharitis, a fairly common chronic inflammation of the eyelid that may be due to blocked oil glands in the eye. It is related to the dry eye condition that I also have. The symptoms are dry, reddish looking eyelids …
Tarte LipSurgence Lip Tint
At the lovely Easter lunch we attended on Sunday, my cousin gave me a gift. Woohoo! Tarte LipSurgence Lip Tint, a cute lip tint that’s part of Tarte’s High Performance Naturals line. It looks like a big fat crayon, one of the new-ish trends in makeup. As the color gets used up, you just dial …
Alba Botanica Natural Products
Alba Botanica is a brand that consists of affordable natural personal care, hair care and skincare products that are made in the U.S. The brand is a division of Avalon Natural Products, and both Avalon and Alba are owned by The Hain Celestial Group that also makes Celestial Seasonings and Hain oils. Alba has quite …
NYX Eye Pencils & Reminder about Ulta’s March Promotion
During a recent trip to Ulta, I noticed a “Buy One, Get One for 50% off” at the NYX display. NYX is a brand of affordable Korean cosmetics that the young saleswoman told me were similar to Urban Decay in terms of colors and products. What a find! I was looking for eye pencils in …
L’Oreal Revitalift Miracle Blur
New technology is a constant in beauty products. And the trend these days is multi-tasking. BB cream. CC (color correcting) cream. Not surprisingly, the blogosphere has been abuzz with news of L’Oreal’s recent addition to the terrific Revitalift product line: L’Oreal Miracle Blur, an entirely new type of multi-tasking product. I heard about it a …
“Dear My Blooming Lips-Talk”, Lipstick from Etude House
South Korea is the land of cute, rivaled only by Japan, when it comes to adorable makeup and makeup packaging. It was either on Amazon or Pinterest that I found photos of Etude House lipsticks and powders. Though they look like they were designed for 12 year old girls, I fell for them, and I …
Chapped Lips? Make DIY Lip Scrub
I’ve had enough of this winter. Even though it’s officially spring, here in the northeast it’s still winter. My yard is completely covered in snow. Ugh! And though I’ve bought a couple of new hydrating lipsticks and gloss, Too Faced La Creme Lipstick and Estée Lauder Lipgloss, in addition to the peppermint oil-infused Stila Color …
Oldie but Goodie: Sealed With A Kiss Lipstick Fixative
There are some products that aren’t fancy, aren’t cute, and aren’t trendy. Instead, they have staying power, pardon the pun. Sealed With A Kiss Lipstick Fixative is kind of an old-school product. I think I’ve known about Sealed With A Kiss Lipstick Fixative forever. I used to buy it at Walgreen’s, but they discontinued …
Stila Color Balm Lipstick
By the end of winter, my lips are sooooo dry in spite of using Blistex and other lip treatments like the wonderful Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment SPF 15. They work for a while, but then my lips are dry again. Maybe it’s because I spend a fair amount of time outdoors, and maybe because I …
Estee Lauder Mad Men Collection for Spring 2013
The two-hour Season 6 premiere of “Mad Men” is on Sunday, April 7 from 9:00-11:00 on AMC, less than a month away, and I can hardly wait. Although va-va-voom Joan should be my role model (a buxom redhead, of course), icy, bitchy, screwed up Betty is my fave. I think it’s so fascinating that a …
Ulta 21 Days of Beauty Update
I know, this looks like deja vu all over again, but it’s not. I stopped in at Ulta today, and there’s more going on in terms of savings during their 21 Days of Beauty than I thought. In addition to the special prices for certain products on specific days (check the calendar), this week many …
Estee Lauder and Lilly Pulitzer Spring/Summer 2013 Gift Promotion
For those of you who know me, I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I love Lilly Pulitzer. I have pants, shorts, dresses, skirts, and tops in Pulitzer fabrics from the 1990s-2000s. Wish I had some of the vintage patterns! Gotta hit the consignment shops, I guess. The brightly colored fabrics, both new …
Gel Manicures: the Good, the Bad and the Who Knows
We all love some of the benefits of a gel manicure. Your nails look almost blindingly shiny. The polish doesn’t chip at all, not a bit, for at least 2 weeks. It just doesn’t come off till you have it taken off. What a great invention, right? Recently The New York Post, no shrinking violet …
Kiss Me Heroine Make Mineral BB Cream: Product Review
Yikes, what a long product name! My friend Sybille has been on the hunt for a good BB cream with a high SPF. She read a recommendation in either Marie Claire or People Style Watch magazines, and she managed to find the Japanese company Isehan’s BB cream on eBay for $16 plus $2.99 shipping all …
OWN Lifting Eye Cream & New Approach to Gauging Product Effectiveness
I am trying a new lifting eye cream (http://bit.ly/11KWld4 to learn more) from Own Skin Health, a 3 year old skincare company based in San Francisco, that emphasizes healthy living and creates natural products without harsh chemicals. Their products were highlighted in Whole Living magazine in December 2012 and in Natural Solutions magazine in the …
Almay Smart Shade Anti-Aging Makeup Base
Continuing with the foundation makeup theme, I thought I’d mix things up and shift from BBs to cream foundation. In my post, Foundation Makeup: Friend or Foe, I mentioned that a few years ago I used Almay Smart Shade foundation, the regular version, and I liked it. Almay Smart Shade Anti-aging Foundation is a relatively new …