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Sass, Style and Substance Weekly Reads

Steeping Beauty Getting clean with bio-active skincare by REN that will delight all who use it.

Raging Rouge Raging Rouge says: Think you can't find a great holiday gift for less than $50? Think again!

A Touch of Blusher A Touch of Blusher looks at Guerlain's spring 2009 collection.

Her Accessories Stay warm and stylish this winter with these fun tights.

My Women Stuff Do you use Peach or Yellow Concealer for your undereye area?

eye4style eye4style has picked her very favorite stocking stuffers for the season!

Gleaming Things Christmas and holiday jewelry can be fun – but how's a girl supposed to wear it without looking tacky?

Beauty Match Do you know which are Nicole Kidman's Favourite Foods?

Beauty and Fashion Tech Beauty and Fashion Tech has swatches from the Dior limited edition holiday palette!

Elemis SpaPod Offer At Bellevue Square Nordstrom

Don't know about you, but I sure could use a facial! Great news for those in the Seattle area! For the entire month of December, Elemis Spa in the Bellevue Square Nordstrom has reduced the price of 60 minute facials from $130 to $100. Call (425) 455-5800 for an appointment!

In case you’re not familiar, the Elemis Spa at Nordstrom Bellevue offers:
Pro-Collagen Quartz Lift Facial
NEW! Anti-wrinkle facial with immediate results. Powerful mineral ingredients and a unique facial massage helps to lift and firm the skin. Padina Pavonica marine algae, empowered by electrical energy from quartz, visibly revitalizes by promoting cellular activity.

Tri-Enzyme Resurfacing Facial
Provides up to 32% increased skin smoothness clinically proven after just one treatment. Advanced resurfacing techniques safely and effectively remove the thickening layer of epidermis, revealing a radiant complexion.

City Survival Facial
Deep cleanses the urban grime from day to day travel, shopping and pollution. Leaves your skin squeaky clean, renourished and energized.

Skin Radiance Facial
The perfect skin pick-me-up! This facial plumps up the skin, giving it an immediate youthful glow, moisture boost and radiance. Ideal just before a party or an evening out.

Only for Men Facial
Specially designed for men's skin that meets the rigors of shaving every day. Restore the balance and moisture, leaving skin looking healthy and younger.

The therapies are performed on an Intelligent Massage Chair that measures the length of the spine, takes your body weight, warms the body and delivers a customized massage program using a variety of techniques on the calves, legs, buttocks, back and neck – basically the ultimate quick indulgence.

Sounds like a heavenly escape from hectic holiday shopping!

Amazing New Service: Beauty Fix!

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Always looking for your beauty fix? This recently-launched new service will fill that void! Sign up for Beauty Fix, and you'll receive a stash of incredible beauty products quarterly. Unlike some similar services, Beauty Fix doesn't just focus on exposing you to new brands. The kit is a mix of names you know, names beauty mavens abroad know and names that are the next big thing!

Cost is $50 per quarter. While this may seem steep, the retail value of the contents of the first "Beauty Fix" bag was hundreds of dollars! Don't believe me? The first Beauty Fix kit included the following:

Perricone MD Firming Neck Therapy (Full Size $95)

Redpoint NOC-Out Cover-up Compact (Full Size $38)

Jane Iredale 24-Karat Gold Dust Powder (Full Size $12)

Kronos Phyx (Full Size $105)

M Lab Anti-Aging Treatment Cream (Full Size $260)

PCA pHaze 9 Purifying Mask (Full Size $56)

Sensa (15 day Trial $29.50)

Amarte Aqua Veil Pure Hydration Serum (Full Size $142)

Amarte Natural Wonder Cream (Full Size $90)

I know what you're thinking… You're thinking that Beauty Fix is a bit like a drug pusher, right? Sure… they send you a kit that's an amazing deal. But what happens when you are addicted to that $300 moisturizer? Great news! The kit also includes discount coupons for the brands and products included, so even your first purchase isn't full price!

Click HERE to head over to Beauty Fix.

tarte Friends And Family, 40% Off!

tarte Friends and Family, Friends and Family promotion, tarte cosmetics Starting to get scary… isn't it? For five days, tarte is offering a 40% discount off of their regular retail prices at tarte.com. Enter promo code FF08 during checkout between December 11th and 15th, and you'll get to stock up on your personal favorites, plus shop for everyone on your list for 40% off!

Click HERE to head over to tarte.

Japonesque Tweezers

makeup review, tools, japonesque review, product reviews While pregnant, hormonal changes left me hopelessly clumsy and forgetful. During my first pregnancy, I slammed a beloved Gucci bag in my car door, breaking its metal piston closure neatly in two. I was devestated.

But here's the good thing about buying luxe items– you can generally count on manufacturers to stand by their product. Gucci happily fixed the broken clasp, and it set me back a mere $25.

I know tweezers may seem like a strange item to recommend as a holiday gift, but these tweezers by Japonesque are anything but ordinary. The handles are inlaid with a mother-of-pearl appearance, and they are so precise you needent worry about frustrating hard to grasp brow hair or breaking a hair in two during tweezing! These are tweezers intended for the pros, but available to we common folk!

Plus–similar to other luxe manufacturers–Japoneque stands by the condition of these tweezers. If you ever think the tweezers have lost their edge, you can mail them in and they will be reconditioned at no charge! Incredible!

Japonesque offers a wide variety of patterns and colors for you to select from, but three limited edition tweezers have been added to the selection just for the holiday season! Gold, red and white pearlized handles bring a bit of style to the tweezing process.

Click HERE to visit Japonesque to check out their incredibly precise tweezers, among other things! Online retailers include Ulta and Amazon.com