The Laundress does it again!!

The Laundress has a couple of great deals going on right now.

You can get 15% off your website order by using the code "lindseysbday" until July 31st.  Just use that code at checkout and it will apply to your entire order.

As if that's enough, the Laundresss is also offering bulk pricing on 8 oz., 16 oz. and 32 oz. bottles of fabric care and detergents; buy five, get one free!!  You'll see the offer in the drop down menu when making your selection of a product.  

Yes, you can get 15% off any bulk priced detergents too!!

Great deal, stock up now!!

What's in a name?

Who wouldn't want to be a "Supervixen" or "Misbehave"?  That's what I was thinking as I was looking at the names of the new Nars summer lip glosses.

  

Since this is Nars, these glosses deliver more than just a fun name and notion. Supervixen is a slightly shimmering perfect shade of nude beige and Misbehave is a lovely sheer pale red with just the right amount of glitter.

Both glosses are a great way to inject some fun into your summer makeup routine. They glide on smoothly and have good staying power without a distracting smell or taste.  

Did I buy the glosses because the names were so great and sassy?  No, but I do smile when choosing between my new glosses and think, "Do I want to misbehave or be a Supervixen?".

worth sharing

I just cast my votes in Sephora's "2008 best of sephora" beauty product ballot.  At the end they ask you, "What's your beauty secret/tip?".  Well, I thought since I was willing to share it with Sephora, I should share it with you.

My eyelashes are very straight.  To give my shu uemura eyelash curler a little help, I tilt the eyelash curler (while holding lashes) back towards my upper eyelid.  Instead of pressing and pressing and pressing, I just hold and tilt that curler.

That's just one of my beauty habits.

Any beauty secrets or tips you want to share?

knowing when

Sometimes you just have to know when to say when.  When there's chaos going on around you and you don't know what to do next, maybe the answer is to walk away.

Seriously.

Take a mental time out.  Close the door.  Take the phone off the hook.  Hide all the open windows on you computer screen.  Go to the bathroom.  Yes, give yourself permission to relieve your bladder.  And while you're in there, take a few deep breaths and enjoy the solitude.  

Figure out what nourishes your soul and work that into your life.

Two of my closest friends live a thousand miles away from me (one in Texas, one in Florida) and getting together with them always nourishes me.  When we can't physically be together we connect over the phone or via e-mail.  Sometimes just hearing one of their voices makes everything seem right in the world.  

What's your nourishment?

happy music

I re-discovered my love of disco music recently.

I was reminiscing about Donna Summer's 1978 hit "Last Dance" when I remembered I had her 2-disc anthology set.  I put both CD's in the car CD player on my way to work that day.  It has been awhile since I've listened to Last Dance, Bad Girls, Hot Stuff and let's not forget the duo with Barbra Streisand, Enough is Enough, but there I was singing every word like there was no tomorrow.  

I sang the entire time I was driving and managed to get a little car dancing in at red lights.  I arrived at work in an amazingly good mood and a bit hoarse (if you're going to sing in the car you might as well belt it out at the top of your lungs).

What makes you sing in the car?

Oxymoron

I first mentioned Lipstick Queen's Oxymoron last May.  

I purchased the shade Honest Politician a few months ago  and I'm not sure what surprised me more, the color depth or texture.

As promised it glided on like a gloss and looked like freshly applied lipstick.  The color depth took me by surprise and had real staying power.  And my lips never felt dry (occasional lipstick effect) and the color didn't disappear (often a lipgloss effect) after an hour.

Poppy King has indeed done it again and created an innovative lip product every woman can use.  

Stila Cherry Crush Lip & Cheek Stain

I was intrigued when I found out Stila's new Cherry Crush & Lip Stain reacts to the pH levels in your cheeks and lips to create a personalized look.

Sephora touts it as a "multi-tasking lip and cheek stain".

I liked the convenience of this product being in a click pen.  I used this on my lips and it turned my lips too red.  I would not use this daily because every time I looked in the mirror all I saw was bright red lips.

I admit that I didn't try it on my cheeks because I was afraid it would also turn too red on my face. 

When I went to give the pen a second try, some of the product had leaked through and it was a little "goopy".  

I really like a lot of Stila products, but give this one a thumbs down.  The innovation was a cool idea but didn't deliver for me.  

Any one else try this?

    

Catalog Choice

Yes, I'm still around.  

I am working on new product reviews and other fun stuff.  But I discovered something fabulous and out of the ordinary last week and just had to let you know.

It's called catalogchoice.org.  It's a free service that helps you clean up your mailbox.  How?  All you do is create an account, then you get to opt-out of catalogs you no longer wish to receive.  It's really that easy and think of all the paper you'll save.  

I joined because I was fed up with getting a new Pottery Barn catalog every month that just worked it's way into the recycling bin after sitting on the counter for  a week.  Catalogchoice.org helps me get to the source so I don't even get the catalog.  

Check it out and help take a baby step in cutting out the clutter (not to mention helping the environment).