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Doggy Costume Swap

I’d love to swap doggie costumes for the upcoming halloween season – my dog is 19 lbs, so all my costumes are size Medium, and I’d like to swap for the same. here is my list:

Fluffy bunny costume (jumpsuit style made of Kashwere material)
Pumpkin costume (includes hat, and collar with pumpkin swirls)
Bumble Bee (includes striped body suit with 2 straps underbelly & antennae headpiece)
Glittery Devil ears headband (size small/medium)
Secret Elf (green body suit with matching hat and elf ears)

please feel free to send me an email to see pictures if you are interested. xoxo!

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La Fleur Organique

Free sample time! I got a packet of anti-aging eye cream through a great MUA swapper in my last package – this stuff is from france, available only at Walgreens (yes, a department store gem) and I really like it – it’s worth investigating. It smells good, has cute packaging and feels good – AND has a cute website. Now I know that I shouldn’t really be judging products based on their presentation & marketing scheme, but as a graphic designer and entrepreneur myself, I simply cannot help it.

Packaging is important to me. I feel that if you honestly feel that you have a great product, you will invest in beautiful packaging to move your product. Here is a screenshot of the homepage that you can visit by clicking here: Oh and be sure to check out how they conveniently put a graphic icon of a map of France to show where the product is from in the event you didn’t know where France was or looked like on the map LOL!

anyway, it’s cute, it’s probably not too expensive since it’s available at Walgreens, and smells good. I may give it a whirl the next time I need to run to the drugstore!

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Dr. Michelle Copeland Skincare

AHA Facecream
Again, rec’d a nice sized sample from a lovely MUA swapper, logged on to the website and read about it’s claimed properties. Its midrange again, $45 bucks for a tub, and after 1 application, I am kind of interested…I mean, it didn’t really feel an absolute wow factor, but it was nice. Does nice justify $40 plus shipping? I don’t even know right now. but I am sure if I do end up giving it a run, I will post ALL the info here LOL.

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DDF Skincare – Glycolic Exfoliation Wash

I just tried DDF Skincare aka Doctor’s Dermalogic Formula’s Glycolic Exfoliation Wash, and I must say, I am intrigued. It didn’t sting, it left my skin super smooth AND it didn’t have any granular stuff or stingy stuff going on that I have found in alot of the glycolic/exfoliation cleansers. AND I totally feel a difference – my skin feels smooth, and believe me, I am a hard sell. Plus I just checked their website DDFSkincare.com and noticed that they have kits, which I am totally a fan of to get a true trial run of the product – happy day!

plus I’m not even gonna lie…the website says they have a free gift and samples with every order LOL! I’m thinking of trying the 2 step to radiant skin kit. The pricing is mid-range – a bit more than the drugstore stuff, but not even close to the stuff you get at Nordstrom’s. Will definitely follow up with results.

Oh! I musn’t forget the importance that the product is not tested on animals

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Lorenzo Villoresi: Spezie

I am not your typical perfumier enthusiast. For years and years I loved fragrance from afar, but everything I had tried (read: Giorgio beverly hills, auqolina pink sugar etc.) smelled fabulous on other people, in the stores or on paper swatches, but just not me. I do have my old favorites – Dior’s Hypnotic Poison, YSL’s Paris, and of course my absolute favorite Dior’s Dolce Vita but recently a super sweet swapper over at MUA sent me a sample decant of Lorenzo Villoresi’s Spezie fragrance, and just for the hell of it, I sprayed it on…and O/M/G I was in instant sheer aromatic heaven!!! It’s sultry. Organic. Spicy. Uncommercial. I’m still almost in denial that I actually might have found another fragrance that isn’t from sephora or whole foods and on every porn star in the valley. Let’s give it up for MUA…yet again!

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Loup Garou – BPAL

And so I’m getting my swap on over at MUA and I see a bunch of BPAL (Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab for those of you who just aren’t hip and don’t know…which was me until like 3 weeks ago) and I get overly curious. A trusted scent-o-phile friend of mine has spoken positively about the stuff and so I trade away…for Loup Garou which kind of brings back some semantic recognition from somewhere in the late 80′s but I’m just not sure…could it be perhaps Beowulf? Maybe. But that’s a different post on a different journal. Ok so back to the fragrance…

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Philosophy

ok, I am going to go out on a limb here…but I after using an arsenal of Philosophy products in the last month, I kind of am beginning to think that it’s sort of like the Avon of Macy’s. It just doesn’t really do anything out of the ordinary, spectacular or even memorable. It’s kind of just…mediocre. The scent is kind of generic and floral-ish, the packaging and typography like anyone can make it on msword, and well…I’m just not going for it.

Here are the array of products that I used and eventually ended up giving away or just storing in my ever-expanding ‘maybe someday I will use it’ cabinet:

3 in 1 shower gel, shampoo & conditioner. Yea right. when you pay $400 for a color & extensions, the last thing you need is an all in one.

But I will totally give this a point because I do understand that I am a hair-obsessed client and realize that not everyone feels the same as I do when it comes to hair.

Lemonade hand lotion: smells good, like lemonade lol, but wears off rather soon and my hands are again dry and in need of lotioning up.

Purity Made Simple – a nice facewash, simple, says it takes off makeup, perhaps it does, no fragrance, and gentle enough.

Amazing Grace perfumed oil – super floraly, too heavy, too much like a cheap perfume you can buy at RiteAid

Amazing Grace fragrance spray – ditto

Amazing Grace body lotion – actually my favorite of all the philosophy stuff I tried, it kind of smelled like the beach in the 70′s…sort of coppertone cream-esque. Not quite sure if it offers the body tightening it claims to.

Amazing Grace body scrub – smells ok, not too heavy in the floral dept. but the sugar scrub crystals are pretty much parallel to a generic scrub you can get at your neighborhood wal-mart.

Dark Shadows – an illuminating creme for under your eyes and upper lip to reflect shadows & darkness. Totally doesn’t work

Microdelivery peel pads – gentle enough, not too stingy, but don’t really notice anything happening.

so yea, Philosophy is getting dumped into the same bucket as Avon, Mary Kay and Jafra in the arena we call Spa-View.

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Chanel Precision Rectifiance Intense

The title of this product is hella long – check it out: Chanel Precision Rectifiance Intense Creme Correction Rides Retexturizing Line Correcting Serum SPF 15. whew. And after all of that, I didn’t really see any siginificant benefit of this uber-goop and it actually kind of left a weird cold-cream type of film on my face AND smelled like old school cold cream that my grandmother stashed in her bathroom.

I’m super glad that it was a sample packet and not something that I actually spent my money on. I have no idea how much it even costs, but I doubt I would ever need to know that bit of info. If anyone has had any positive experiences with any Chanel skincare I would love to know – sofar I adore the Chanel Nailpolish line and the Glossimer lip line but that is about it. Even the navy blue liquid eyeliner was unusable because it burned my eyes. Maybe they need a new skincare revamp and take the people from the lipgloss and nail polish department to consult on what is new school and what is old school? Just a suggestion, of course…

Chanel Stuff is available at Macy’s

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StriVectin – Better than Botox??

probably not. But then again, I’ve never tried StriVectin…yet. I have my first week of using it starting tonight – so I shall keep ye posted.

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DermaDoctor – OMG!

I swapped for a tube of the DermaDoctor Wrinkle Revenge cleanser which does have some glycolic acid in it but has super minimal sting (unlike the hardcore stingy-ness of previous reviews on facials w/ GA and Murad’s Vit.C facial – Ouch!!!) on MAU and I am SOLD on it’s non -stingy get your face uber clean qualities! After being super curious of the DermaDoctor stuff, I also purchased the microfiber hair towel which is way lighter for your head than a regular bath towel, better for your hair, easy to travel with AND will actually take out alot of the moisture so that you can go straight to blow drying – or slick it into a pony – as I tend to do most of the summer.

Anywhoo – here is a quicklink to some of my hand-picked future purchases from DermaDoc – hook it up!!

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