Beauty and Fashion Tech

Free Kronos Hair Care

Kronos Phyx (link is to previous review) is one of the best hair conditioners I have used. The leave-in overnight treatment is no greasy, does not wear off on pillows, and leave our hair feeling incredibly silky after your morning shampoo. It is truly lovely stuff! For awhile it was also kind of hard to find, but now Glow has it and, on top of it, you can get a free trial!

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Stila Road To Radiance Swatches

Stila is putting out a cute series of limited edition travel themed makeup palettes. The first is Stila – Stila Girl Travel Palette-Road to Radiance. The palette includes 4 eye shadow shades and 1 convertible color for, get this, only $10.

Launching alongside each palette, a travel journal detailing each Stila girl’s adventures is available on StilaCosmetics.com. Each diary entry includes the hottest spots in the hottest cities to visit this summer. You can read the travel journals here. Stila travel journals.

I swatched the Stila Road to Radiance: Across the U.S.A. palette, which includes the following:

· Stila Eye Shadow in Snow Bunny (described as shimmery champagne but I think it looks more like a pale blue shimmer)

· Stila Eye Shadow in Southern Belle (mauve)

· Stila Eye Shadow in Valley Girl (pink)

· Stila Eye Shadow in City Chick (alloy)

· Stila Convertible Color in Hibiscus

Below are swatches:

I found tat the convertible color worked great on both lips and cheeks. when on my arm, the eye shadow seemed a bit less pigmented to me than Stila shadows often are, and I suspect that might be the case in order to keep the price at what it is. Regardless, the shadow wore quite well for me when I tried on my eyes and the shades are pretty and work well for a daytime look. Or beef up the use of the darker shade for evening. At $10 the Stila palette is a good value.

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Avon Glazewear Lip Gloss Swatches

I covered this on Girl Gloss awhile back as well, so if you saw the photos there, it might feel a bit like Deja Vu. I wanted readers here to be sure to see them too! Avon sent me their Glazewear lip gloss line, which was new to me. I do like Avon quite a bit, but since the days of the Avon representative coming door to door are pretty much long gone, I sometimes tend to forget about them. These lip glosses made me realize that I really should pay more attention!

Glazewear is available in three styles, all with sponge applicators: Intense, Shine, and Sparkle. Each comes with five shades, and there is a clear Glazewear available as well—giving 16 total glosses. The pigment in the intense shades are outstanding. The Shine shades are also vry well pigmented. Sparkle shades are on the sheer side, yet they too still have a fair amount of pigment that they couple with sparkly dazzle. None are sticky, and all are unflavored. The lip glosses provide moisture and feel nice in the lips.

Below are Avon Glazewear swatches of all 15 tinted shades. These are in the same order as shown as in the box that is pictured above. First shown are the Intense and Shine shades. From left to right: (Intense shades) Crimson, Cherry Liqueur, Intense Plum, Brown Sugar, Sweet Maple (Shine Shades) Mauve Movement, Darling Pink, Tickled Pink, Iced Pink, Island Glow.

Below are swatches of the sparkle shades: Mocha Latte, Rave, Apple Cinnamon, Mirage, Dazzling Diamond.

As you can see, the pigment is good throughout. I recommend the gold and white sparkle glosses for wear over a long wearing lip liner such as one of the lovely MAC lip pencils (link is to previous review), or over lipstain or lipstick. The clear works well over lipstain or other lip color as well.

Overall, this is a nice line of lip gloss. Best yet, these normally run at a very affordable $6, and are also sometimes found on sale for as low at $1.99. Nice!

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Fashion Friday: The Best Affordable Handbags From Baghaus

Baghaus is a company that focuses on affordable, quality handbags. The bags are based on the latest trends and used decent materials, but costs are kept in the affordable range. They can be a good option if you are looking for a purse that looks more expensive than it is and that will hold up. Often ranging from $50-$100, the handbags are not absolute cheapies, but are much less than many comparable handbags in terms of quality and materials used.

The ideas for some of the bags come from designer trends, but they are not copies. Below are the current top sellers at Baghaus. So if you are looking for the best affordable handbags, here is one place to look. I really like the Ruby Barcelona and Imoshion Carina. I’m also a sucker for Hello Kitty and Baghaus has a full line of Hello Kitty bags!

Urban Expressions Silves Tote	Big Buddha Mia Bag	Melie Bianco Ramona Hobo
Big Buddha Gloria Bag	Ruby Barcelona Bag	Big Buddha Rose Tote
Urban Expressions Quilted Megan Bag	Prime Fashionista Tote	Urban Expressions Zeppelin Studded Clutch
Big Buddha Hibiscus Tote	Emma Estela Bag with Silver Hardware	Hello Kitty Quilted Face Bag in White
Imoshion Carina Bag	Big Buddha Sadie Bag	Melie Bianco Deborah Bag
Beautiful Floral Bag	BCBGeneration Juliet Large Drawstring Bag	Vieta Rouge Leather Wallet

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For Bloggers: BlogWorld Coupon Code, Early Registration Ends Thursday!

I attended the BlogWorld Conference and New Media Expo 2010 last year and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I am attending again this year as well. The conference is in Vegas in October—a perfect time to visit there! Anyway, the early registration ends tomorrow. After that the price starts going up over time. So if you want to attend for a great price get in now. Also available now is a 20% off coupon code: Use EBIRD when registering!

Until midnight CST Thursday (I confirmed that this is the midnight between 7/15/2010 and 7/16/2010) Blogworld is $300 for the weekend or $600 for the full conference with the Social Media Business Summit. After that the prices go up by $95. So, why attend Blogworld? And, should you attend the Thursday Social Media Business Summit sessions?

About Blogworld:

Sessions are numerous and there are specific tracks on a wide variety of topics. So, whether you want to explore tech issues, monetization, content creation, promotion, etc, there will be something for you.
The keynotes are quality and entertaining.
The expo is great, with a full range of companies and services attending. Last year, as I pretended it was Halloween and wandered around gathering conference swag, I learned about some neat new services that I was unaware of, such as Regator and Ligit (which also had comfy CC California T-shirts as swag).
Fun parties. What good would a conference be without fun parties? Blogworld has an official one every night, plus there are numerous unofficial parties and tweetups. So, there are plenty of opportunities to meet fellow bloggers.
It is in Vegas. Further, it is at Mandalay Bay, so you can hit up the strip much easier than last year when many were staying at the Hilton.

In regard to the Thursday sessions:

Things look to be slightly different this year. Last year, I did not get much out of the Thursday sessions because they were geared mostly to businesses seeking to learn more about using social media, making them irrelevant to me. This year, however, Darren Rowse of Problogger and Chris Garrett are organizing a problogger track to run on Thursday. That should interest a good number of people, including those who do not necessarily work full-time at blogging but who want to learn more about monetization and the business aspects of blogging. It certainly changed my mind on attending Thursday this year! I was going to skip that day, but now I will be there.

Also note that if you are a corporate blogger or work for a business that is interested in exploring the use of blogging and social media for promotion, the social media business summit is perfect for you.

So, there you have it! Prices go up a couple of more times during the summer, which the first hike at midnight Thursday, so register now to save, plus add that EBIRD coupon code!

If you register let me know! I would love to meet you at the conference!

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