Great idea: holiday gift sets with eyeshadows, eyeliner, eyeshadow brush, and mascara. Bad idea: calling them "eye bags." Well, you can't win 'em all.
The eye bags each contain an eyeshadow duo, a Technakohl (mechanical) eyeliner pencil, Zoom Fast Black Lash mascara, and a short handled 275 angled eyeshadow brush (plus a makeup bag). They're $45 each,
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Bare Escentuals, THE mineral makeup company, the people who gave meaning to the words "swirl tap buff," has taken a leap — into the world of pressed eyeshadow.
I never really got on the mineral makeup bandwagon, but Bare Escentuals still won me over with a range of excellent products beyond the realm of loose powders (to
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MAJOR news, Dallas readers. Diane von Furstenberg will be making a personal appearance at Sephora Northpark on Tuesday, November 1 (to celebrate the launch of her new fragrance, Diane). VERY few stores are getting an event like this, so I feel super lucky.
The event officially starts at 2:30 pm (though my source recommended stopping by the
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Starting November 1, all Neiman Marcus stores will accept Visa and Mastercard. (WOW!)
Happy shopping indeed!
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Not to be outdone by Nordstrom, MAC freestanding stores have TWO exclusive Face Kits. These are also $59.50 each, containing a compact (four shadows, one blush), a lipstick, a gloss, three brushes (129 blush brush, 275 angled eyeshadow brush, and 266 angled eyeliner brush), and a makeup bag.
The MAC store Face Kits are called the
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Of all the MAC holiday giftsets, I thought I'd better swatch the face kits first. They're such a good deal, I think they're going to be the first things to go.
The Festive Frost face kit is exclusive to Nordstrom (and of course, Nordstrom.com now offers free shipping and free returns at any price). It's $59.50,
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Ahh, holiday. One of the few times of year MAC sells brush sets (the other is Nordstrom anniversary).
MAC has three "Make It Perfect" brush sets available, each $49.50, and each packaged in a clear plastic bag with a round silver decoration.
The brushes have clear lucite handles with silver sparkles (but they're solid; the sparkles don't
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MAC's 2011 holiday collection is Glitter and Ice, a collaboration with figure skater Johnny Weir. I thought we'd start with the collection's individual items before delving into the sets.
The collection includes six new mineralize eyeshadows ($21), and I was surprised to find that the colors swatch rather differently than what they look like in the pan.
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In honor of their glorious holiday collection, Shu Uemura has offered an absolutely amazing giveaway. One winner will receive:
Prize value: $242 (click here for swatches
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For the last few years, Shu Uemura has used its holiday collection to collaborate with Asian artists (including photographer Mika Ninagawa and fashion designer Tsumori Chisato). This year's holiday collection is a fantasia on femininity, explored through the lens of filmmaker Wong Kar Wai (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, My Blueberry Nights).
The film (inspired by a
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MAC has gone off the deep end. Their holiday collection is always extensive, but this year's is the largest I've seen. I love the theme (Glitter & Ice), and the collaboration with figure skater Johnny Weir makes perfect sense — but my mind rejects the deluge of product options.
In order to control the madness, I thought
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Sephora's Friends and Family sale (aka 20% off anything and everything they sell) starts today and runs through November 2nd.
This year is a little different from years past. You have to visit sephora.com/friends and enter your email address to request your code — which is unique and single use only.
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This just in: now through October 31, NARScosmetics.com is offering free 2-day shipping PLUS a free deluxe sample of Orgasm Illuminator on all orders, no code required.
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Illamasqua's autumn/winter 2011 collection is Theatre of the Nameless, and most of it is available stateside in Sephora — though, as usual, we didn't get the most exotic pieces. The story behind the collection is a fantastic version of the dark and wild night scene of 1920s Berlin, and the "theatre of the nameless" is a dark den of
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Nubar just released a collection of eight fall polishes: Polished Chic. I don't know if every shade says "fall" to me — I don't even know if I look at these polishes and think "collection" — but somehow these colors feel very on-trend. They're beautiful. And there's certainly something to be said for options.
Classic Camel
