Categorized: Holiday 2010

Photo taken December 24, 2010 (Holiday Bokeh)

Good mornin’ to ya! I hope your Monday goes by quick and easy

I have partnered with Julep Nail Parlor for a little giveaway for you guys!

Background: Julep Nail Parlor is an environmentally aware nail salon chain in Washington, with the flagship salon in Seattle. If you get a mani/pedi there, they send you home with the items that can’t be sterilized, and if you bring them back for use on your next visit, they donate $1.00 to The Nature Conservancy. I think that’s pretty cool!

They also have a whole slew of nail colors available for purchase.

They will be giving away one set of their Holiday Colors (mini bottles), which include the four polishes you see above.

The colors are:

• Stefani - Medium olive green with blue and gold shimmer
• Sienna - Gold foil
• Cyndi - Blackened red glitter
• Molly – Bright red creme

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Color Club has a cute little set of nail polish and some fun accompanying accessories for this holiday season called Enchanted Holiday.

The set features four new glitter colors, some nail stickers and nail gems.

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Ridiculously cute product alert! Tarte’s Ring It In Cheek Stain Set is a great new holiday offer now at Sephora.

This little set includes three different colored cheek sheens in nice little twist-up containers.Oh it also comes with a pretty cool one-size-fits-all (stretchy-band) gold knot cocktail ring.

These little stains include something called t5, which is an infused botanical formula that is supposed to help pigment colors stay more true and blend into your skin easier.

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Estee Lauder’s Pure Color Extravagant Holiday 2010 collection includes two beautiful rich red lipsticks covered with gold shimmer!

This is my VERY FIRST EVER experience with Estee Lauder lipsticks, and I really like what I tried.

I am starting to realize that these higher end, super classy brands which I always used to associate with “women of a certain age”, don’t have an age requirement.

These lipsticks were extremely creamy and moist, and applied very smoothly. They are also infused with Vitamin E.

One thing I always try and note right away is if they have that lipstick smell. You know the one I’m talkin’ about: smells like 1982. They do have a very faint lipstick type scent, but nothing like say L’Oreal (which I still remember form like 20 years ago). Big bonus for that!

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