Are you looking for a new fragrance for summer?  If so, PLEASE run don’t walk to your nearest Sephora and pick up this novel idea.  Sephora’s Eau Girl Fragrance Sampler allows you to try some of their most wanted fragrances in deluxe sample sizes (perfect for popping in your purse or makeup bag) , then after you are finished with your testing. pick the one you love and grab it in a full size bottle. All for $40….Super simple!

This set contains:

0.17 oz Dior Miss Dior Cherie Eau de Parfum
0.17 oz Bvlgari Omnia Green Jade Eau de Toilette
0.17 oz Versace …read more

Just the locket alone is worth having this latest trinket from Vera Wang. Indulge your inner princess with Vera Wang’s Sparkling Creme floral fragrance in solid form. The pretty lavender jewel is the perfect glam addition to your perfume collection, and slides open to reveal the water lily, lady apple and apricot scent.
Princess was created by Vera Wang for the adventuresome woman in all of us gals. Its magical
mix of water lily, lady apple, mandarin meringue and golden apricot fuses with floral notes of ripe guava, Tahitian flower and wild tuberose for an absolutely beautiful scent. This solid perfume easily …read more

Who doesn’t want to feel six years younger? I know I do and with every year that I grow a little older I remember thinking this age would never come. I do feel great and I am happy with the way I look, but I am also open to anything, including a fragrance to make you feel young again.
“Ageless Fantasy” by Harvey Prince is the first Anti-Aging Perfume in the world, and it does just that. I’ve been wearing it for the last month, and am extremely happy to say that all of the young men and women at Gelson’s …read more

One of my favorite beauty sites, beauty intuition.com is giving  20% off of all of their fabulous products. This site rocks and has everything from skin care, nail lacquer’s, hair care, amazing smelling candles, baby products, and of course my favorite, make-up.
This is only a short list of all of the great products they carry. The best thing to do is visit the site and check everything out for yourself, and then tell all of your friends.

Just enter the code HOLIDAY at check out to receive your special savings of 20% on all of your purchases. Just a few of …read more

Win a bottle of Jessica Simpson’s newest fragrance “Fancy” from Lara at the List Maven. Lara has some of the best contests for winning lots of great goodies!

Just recently she had a great one with Paris Hilton’s fairy Dust Fragrance, whom she also interviewed. This week she is giving away 5 bottles of “Fancy” which she describes as sweet and flowery. Sounds very much like Jessica Simpson to me. You have until Wednesday evening to post a comment about this contest and win a bottle of Fancy.
Kisses From Hollywood!
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Clinique, along with all of the other beauty companies that fall under the very big Estee Lauder umbrella are seasoned pro’s when it comes to gift sets. The latest from Clinique is probably one of my favorites so far.
The Happy Thoughts PDA Set is a limited-edition, online exclusive. It is presented in the most oh-so fabulous sleek, silvery PDA case that is just screaming, “yes, I am fabulous,  yes, I love my blackberry and yes, I can have my cake and eat it too!”
Each set includes a Clinique Happy perfume Spray, Clinique Happy Rollerball Mini, and a Superbalm …read more

It is so touching when a company really embraces it’s employees. Such is the case with Archipelago Botanicals.
For Archipelago, a high-end candle and skincare company whose executive staff is mainly comprised of women, the reason to support breast cancer was easy, “You don’t have to look very far to find somebody whose life has been affected by breast cancer,” says Archipelago Founder David Klass. “My own mother was diagnosed, treated and is now very active in the fight. My father-in-law passed away from it; like most guys, he didn’t even know that men could get it. As the father of …read more

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Annick Goutal Parfums will donate 30% of the proceeds from the sale of Eau Splendide during the month of October to the American Breast Cancer Foundation.
Annick Goutal Parfum’s continued participation in Breast Cancer Awareness Month is in loving honor of the company’s founder who was diagnosed with breast cancer and bravely battled the disease until her passing in 1999.

Eau Splendide is an all-over body spray. The spray will not only have you smelling beautiful, you will benefit from the ingredients in the formula. Some of them are Vitamin E and Active Rose Serum, …read more

Ok – I am speaking to my Mother, and perhaps some of you too! There is not need to pile on the perfume – or scents. Really – there is not.
I honestly think that my mother could be losing her sense of smell. At 64 years old and diabetic, maybe this is what happening. I have tried to tell her politely that you can smell her rooms away, and that her scent lingers after she is gone.
I recently explained how to layer your fragrance to her. If you don’t know how, you can layer your fragrance by simply using …read more

If you have never been to a Nordstrom Exclusives Beauty Event or shopped the website for the exclusives, you really must. The exclusive beauty products they get in are absolutely fabulous.
The Beauty Exclusives Pre-Sale is going on now, and I am constantly changing and adding more things to my shopping bag on Nordstrom.com. You see, you can pre-order the items now, before they go on sale on July 20th, which is when they will ship out.
Just take a look at some of the goodies:

From now until the main event of July 20th, I will bring you information on …read more