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Clinique Gift With Purchase 2011

Clinique Gift With Purchase

For an updated list of Gift With Purchase 2012 information, click the hyperlink! I now keep one page updated with all current Clinique gwp data, at department stores near you!

12/6/11- Lord & Taylor is having a super Clinique GWP at the same time as their friends and family discount! Use the promo code “FRIENDS” during checkout for 10% off of your beauty purchase (25% for clothing and accessories). There’s also a whopping 9-piece Clinique bonus with any purchase of $28 or more.

10/25/11- Clinique.com is now offering one of their biggest GWP promos of the year! With any order of $21.50 or more online, Clinique is offering a “pick your pretty” makeup bag bonus! You can fill the bag with your choice of 6 products, and shipping is free too! Offer is valid through 11/1/11 (or while supplies last), but free shipping deal ends on Halloween!

9/28/11, Saks just launched an awesome Clinique GWP! Good while supplies last with any $50 Clinique purchase you will receive this free 6-piece gift:

Chubby Stick Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm in Super Strawberry
High Lengths Mascara in Black
Soft-Pressed Powder Blusher in New Clover
Rinse-Off Foaming Cleanser (1.7 oz)
All About Eyes Serum De-Puffing Eye Massage (0.17 oz)
Cosmetic bag
To receive your free gift you must enter code CLINIQUEP at checkout
Offer valid through Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 11:59pm(ET) or while supplies last.

9/29/11, Bloomingdales has a terrific Clinique gift with purchase for any orders of $50 or more!

Receive 6 Clinique skin care and colour greats plus a cosmetics bag with any $50 Clinique purchase!
Gift includes:Repairwear Intensive Eye Cream, .17 oz., Lash Doubling Mascara in Black, 14 oz., Different Lipstick in A Different Grape, .14 oz., Superbalm Moisturizing Gloss in Currant, .17oz., 7 Day Scrub Cream Rinse-Off Formula, 30ml, Repairwear Laser Focus Wrinkle & UV Damage Corrector,7ml, Zippered cosmetics bag.

One per customer, while supplies last.

Nordstrom is currently offering a fabulous “purchase with purchase” Clinique offer. With any Clinique purchase (of any price) you can buy an adorable flower-adorned summer tote willed with Clinique cosmetics (a $114 value) for only $32.50.

Here’s what’s in the bag:

Receive deluxe samples of Superdefense SPF 15 Age Defense Moisturizer (0.05 oz.) and All About Eyes (0.05 oz.), plus a full-sized Color Surge Eyeshadow Quad in Pinks, Long Last Glosswear in Clearly Pink (0.2 oz.), High Impact Mascara.

Sephora Friends And Family 2011

VIB Discount Alert! Sephora has announced their 20% off discount for VIB members. From 11/10/11 to 11/14/11, you can score a 20% discount by using promotional code VIBDREAM during checkout. Remember, you MUST be a VIB to use this code, so be sure to sign up online first!

Sephora friends and family 2013 information can be found here.

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If you’re a “friend” of Sephora’s, the 2011 friends and family sale is now live. Simple click HERE to visit Sephora.com, and enter your email address for a one-time use code good for 20% off of your purchase. Code will expire on 11/2/11.

Generally speaking, Sephora offers a 20% friends and family discount during their friends and family sale events. Usually, the big sale is in the Fall, and I would expect the sale to begin during the end of October, 2011.

Similar deals can be had if you sign up to be a “beauty insider”. You can do this at www.sephora.com, or in any store. During 2010, Sephora offered a separate period of time where a 20% discount was offered to their insiders after the regular friends and family sale was over.

In the meanwhile, click HERE to visit the Sephora Sale. There are still many scorchingly great deals to be had!

Macy’s Friends And Family 2011

Love your designer brands and premium denim? This post is dedicated to all Macy’s Friends And Family 2011 promotions, discounts and sale codes.

The second (and final) Macy’s Friends and Family Promotion for 2011 is scheduled to begin on 11/30/11, and will run through 12/5/11. Exclusions will apply to this discount… but the timing is simply perfect for holiday shopping! Promotional code for online use is MACYSFF.

Macy’s friends and family sale 2013 can be found here.

The first Macy’s Friends and Family Sale for 2011 is scheduled to begin on April 27, and end on May 2. The discount is a generous 25% off! I’ll update my blog with this information, but if you want to be kept in the loop without risk of missing a deal or discount, simply bookmark this permalink! Promo code will be MACYSFF.

Generally speaking, Macy’s offers a 25% friends and family discount during their friends and family sale events. Usually, the sale is in the Fall (just in time for holiday shopping) and in the Spring. I would expect the first Macy’s Friends and Family 2011 sale/promotional code to be available to shoppers in April of 2011.

The Best 100 Skin Care Products: Picked By A Pro!

Ok… this post is a wee bit late , but Dr. Brandith Irwin’s “top 100” skin care picks for the holidays is still interesting reading. After all, it isn’t every day you get to read a laundry list of the most effective skin care products, selected by a dermatologist!

So today, rather than post my own review, I’m going to simply point you in the direction of Dr. Irwin’s Top 100 Skin Care Products for the 2010 Holidays posted on her website, SkinTour.com.

For a wee sneak peek, some of Dr. Irwin’s selections were:
     •    Wrinkle Repair and Anti-Aging: SkinMedica’s Retinol Complex and SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic
     •    Oil Control and Acne Care: Vivite Exfoliating Facial Cleanser and Solvere Acne Clearing Gel
     •    Sunscreens: Elta MD UV Daily SPF 40 Pump and Colorescience Powder Sunscreen
     •    Moisturizers: SkinCeuticals Hydrating B5 Gel Moisturizer and DDF Ultralight Oil-Free Moisturizing Dew
     •    Cleansers: Topix Citrix Antioxidant Cleanser and Vanicream Free & Clear Liquid Cleanser
     •    Eye Creams: SkinMedica TNS Night Eye Repair and Cellex-C Eye Contour Cream Plus
     •    Natural and Organic Products: Eminence Lemon Cleanser and Eminence Blueberry Soy Night Recovery Cream
     •    Body Care: Avene Akerat Body Lotion and Eminence Cranberry Pomegranate Sugar Scrub

Dr. Irwin is unusual among prominent dermatologists in that she has no financial ties to any line of skin care products or laser company. She does not sit on any boards, act as a spokesperson, accept any fees, or endorse any line of cosmetics. She is a board certified dermatologist who practices in Seattle at the clinic she founded, Madison Skin & Laser Center. Her most recent book is The Surgery-Free Makeover: All You Need to Know for Great Skin and a Younger Face.

“Dr. Irwin is one of the few independent voices in the medical world today who can help consumers make educated decisions about procedures and medical options so they can stay as young as they can for as long as they can,” says Paula Begoun, author of Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me and a consumer skin care product advocate.

New Year’s Eve Eye Makeup Ideas: Jessie Powers Smoky Eye With A Twist!

new year's makeup ideas, eye makeup ideas This look is a little twist on the classic smoky eye. Instead of using black and cool colors you can opt for copper, bronze, gold and rose. The eyes will still be intense and seductive but much warmer and less severe. Instead of applying dark shadow across the entire lid, this eye look leaves the center light to create extra dimension. This look could be equally complemented by a full or barely-there brow. Since the eye shadow is intense and in this case so is the brow, keep the cheek color as a soft contour and the lip as close to the natural lip color as possible with a sheer formula lipstick or peach gloss.

Step 1: Using your middle finger pat a small amount of cream concealer over the entire eye lid surface from lash line to brow bone. Then apply a light champagne or peach shade like shadow #156 or #126 on the center of the lid from the lash line to the socket crease. Use a flat shadow brush and press the shadow onto the skin before blending it. Pressing in the shadow first will help eliminate “fall out” and will give you more control over your shadow placement.

Step 2: Using a dense medium sized squirrel tip brush blend a neutral brown shadow like #76 or #98, slightly darker than your natural skin tone, in the socket crease. You can be generous with this application. The shadow should blend slightly above the socket crease and onto the brow bone.

Step 3: Using a rounded smudge brush apply a rosy brown or brick red shadow like #161 or #122 to the outer corner of the eye blending it up and into the crease with controlled brush strokes. Using the same eye shadow color and brush apply in the same way to the inner corner of the eye. The result should look like soft blended parentheses framing the center of the eye lid. Again using the same brush and shadow trace the lower lash line and blend thoroughly to create a smoky effect.

Step4: Apply kohl liner 6K black gold on the top and bottom water line of the eye. Apply generously so that the kohl can be blended over the water line. Using a soft rounded smudge brush wiggle a little of the kohl over the lower lash line to intensify the smoky effect of the shadow. Pull a little of the kohl pencil onto the smudge brush by rubbing the brush bristles across the tip of the pencil. The residue of the kohl on the smudge brush will act as the final shade to intensify the inner and outer corners of the eye. Using the smudge brush and tiny brush strokes, work the kohl into the upper lash line on the outer corner of eye first. For extra drama and intensity do the same on the inner corner. If you typically have trouble keeping liner in place on your water line, pack a tiny bit of black eye shadow onto a synthetic angle brush and press it on top of the kohl.

Step 5: Curl your lashes and apply 2 to 3 coats of Smoky Lash mascara. Use a zig zagging motion on the first layer to fluff the lashes and add volume.

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