End of year clearance

Merry Christmas a few days late and Happy New Year a few days early!

Just a quick post...Sephora has a lot of value items for the "Good Buy 2009" They have under $10 (best deal is the Stila Good to Glow BY FAR...I have the lighter color and it's really nice), under $25, and $25-50. Click HERE to access the page.

Hope you all are having beautiful holidays. I got quite a few Sephora/makeup items for Christmas...do people know me or what?

Davines MOMO giveaway

Beauty Blogging Junkie is having a giveaway of MOMO shampoo and conditioner! I have tried the relaxing serum from the same company, and it was GREAT. I haven't been able to find it again!!

Here's the link with instructions: Beauty Blogging Junkie giveaway

Stila sales

Stila is having a big sale starting today. Their eye shadow duos have been marked down to $10 from $20--can't beat that!

Also, free shipping with no minimum purchase til Wed. Use the code STILAELF.

Happy shopping...

Frederic Fekkai

Frederic Fekkai, I may be giving you another chance. After that disastrous sample of Technician Shampoo (hello slimy hair)...I gave a sample of your Glossing Shampoo a try this morning...and I think I like it. My hair feels very soft and dried quickly without a lot of frizz and/or effort with the dryer. It's disgusting weather today, so I can't determine the "glossy" aspect at the moment...but so far I'm happy.

Will post more on this later, gals. A question for you though--what is your fav shampoo? I'm moving back to Baton Rouge swamp water this weekend, so I will have to throw out ALL my shampoo, body wash, and some face products due to the water change. I'm not kidding. It's straight swamp-stuff-never-rinses-out water down there...so any suggestions or favorites to share?

Holiday Gift Ideas

Most of the time, the tons of emails from stores that hit my email inbox are annoying. But a few, I always check: Sephora, Banana Republic, and LOFT. The one from Sephora today had an excellent suggestion for the holidays. Mix and Match!

During the holidays there are many parties, teacher gifts, friends, aunts, cousins, sisters (I go overboard with my sister...the only thing that keeps me in check is that the other family members will feel bad), etc etc. So what to do and how to not spend a fortune? Buy gift sets and split them up. Each year I like to attach a little "stocking stuffer" to my closest girlfriend's gift--a lipgloss, an ornament, a funny magnet, and so forth.

So here are three examples from the email that I happen to really like base-case (all can be purchased at Sephora). Philosophy has the best body wash smells EVA, the Sephora lip glosses are super fun, and you KNOW I had to throw some OPI off in there. Combining one of each would be a gift that is WAY awesome for only $14.33! Not too bad at all! Or you give the whole set as a gift--all are less than $35.

Happy Holiday shopping, and be pretty gals this season. :)

Quote

Ha! So I've been meaning to post this for a couple weeks but kept forgetting. And I had a free minute during my lunchbreak, so I wanted to share what the Sephora saleswoman told my friend S. (and she subsequently shared on Facebook):

"People may try and steal your glamour this week, but you just pull out your lipgloss and put it on; this will let them know that you aren't having any of this!"

Love it!

Burt's Bees Blemish Stick

So my friend LG forwarded me a post about some Burt's Bee's products the other day (from a blog she reads that I can't remember, so I can't give the proper credit...anywho). SO the girl in the other blog said that she found the Burt's Bee's Blemish Stick...and that it worked well. So I decided to check it out.

Ok, so I'm going to try and not get all excited cause I haven't had a maja-oh-my-god-am-I-frickin-16 face freak-out lately. I have, however, had a couple of minor spots...and stupidly fell asleep with makeup on the other night which could have been disasterous...and I used this stuff. Again, I don't want to get overly excited but I'm pretty sure this stuff is the real deal.

The real test will be next time I go all Rudolph, which happens occasionally. But cautious optimism abounds people!!!

Update 12/13/09: It works. I'm serious. Best stuff eva!