Beauty and Fashion Tech

Weekend Reading From Gilty Pleasures

Read below for the weeks’ best posts from the Gilty Pleasures Blog Group!

Alison of The Advice Sisters shares some videos, photos & reports from The ELVIS CRUISE a most memorable experience on the sea!

Lisa of Bridalease is offering a unique alternative where you can escape, get in-shape and give back at the same time.

Dao from My Makeup Blog found her new favorite eyeliners: L’Oreal HiP Color Chrome eyeliners are so soft and pigmented!

Gio from Beautiful With Brains finds a cream blush that lasts for hours.

The Informed Makeup Maven shares her good beauty habit that you should adopt during the winter. Find out what it is here.

Shop great Avon Holiday Gifts at Holiday Makeup!

Beauty and Fashion Tech picks her favorite products for a new shop at the OpenSky Project!

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November 22, 2009 | Carleenp | Comments 0

Contest: Win a $10,000 Sephora Shopping Spree!

This contest from Total Beauty is open until December 31. It is one heck of a great prize!

Enter for your chance to win a $10,000 Sephora Shopping Spree!

How much stuff could you buy with a $10,000 Sephora Shopping Spree?

Where do we start?! How about 416 DiorShow Mascaras. Or 41 ghd flat irons. Or 51 Clarisonic Skin Care Brushes. The better question is what couldn’t you buy? Answer: Nothing! Enter for your chance to win by writing product reviews on TotalBeauty.com or signing up for TotalBeauty.com’s newsletters, it’s so easy! Find out more here.

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November 21, 2009 | Carleenp | Comments 0

We Have Joined The Open Sky Project!

I am very pleased to announce that Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss have joined OpenSky as a shopkeeper!

OpenSky connects readers and shopper with experts and the products they love and use. At OpenSky, you can browse the shops of experts in fields such as beauty, cooking, gardening, health and fitness, fishing, and more. These expert “shopkeepers” recommend and stock their favorite items—items that they can stand behind because they truly love and highly recommend them. So, you as a shopper can avoid wading through the junk and find the gems by browsing the OpenSky shops. It is a great concept, and I am very excited to become part of it.

Shopping at OpenSky is also a great experience. Many shopkeepers provide additional reviews and information about the items that they stock, and some provide video demonstrations of the products. Shipping is often free under various promotions, returns are easy, and you can trust that every product is there because it is special to the shopkeeper. I have already been eyeing the shops there myself, especially in the food and garden sections. There are some really neat items there!

My focus with my OpenSky shop is to provide my absolute favorite products and items that are unique and interesting. There won’t be the everyday drugstore lip gloss there, instead, I’ll offer you something like my all time favorite tube gloss, Murad Pomegranate Energizing Lip Gloss SPF 15, or my go-to fragrance Marc Jacobs Cucumber Splash, which you can’t run out and grab at the nearest store.

Open Sky is a fun site and it provides a unique shopping experience. Please come and check it out! You can view my own shop here: Beauty and Fashion Tech on OpenSky.

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November 18, 2009 | Carleenp | Comments 5

OPI Suede Nail Polish Lincoln Park After Dark

I was curious about OPI Suede nail polish, and I have always loved the OPI shade Lincoln Park After Dark, so I was happy to see it in the Suede version: OPI Lincoln Park After Dark SUEDE Nail Lacquer.

OPI Suede is basically the matte version of a frosted polish, which results in a suede-like effect. It is an interesting look. It appears matte, but light can catch on the frost a bit, so it isn’t completely without shine at times. I rather like it and I think I prefer it over a standard matte look.

OPI states that the suede nail lacquers do not wear as long as other polishes and they also instruct not to wear a top coat with the suede polish. Wearing a top coat certainly would defeat the purpose, since it would remove the matte effect. As for wear, I didn’t think it was too bad. I started chipping it a day later because I was doing yard work, but it actually held up better through that than I expected it to. I can’t say that I particularly noticed any less wear from it than I do with standard OPI nail polish.

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November 16, 2009 | Carleenp | Comments 0

Weekend Reading From The Beauty Blog Network

Fresco Phyrra compares seven eye shadow primers. See which ones come out on top!

Elke shares ways on how to make MAC’s Style Black collection work for you.

Beauty and Fashion Tech Has a new website dedicated to Holiday Makeup!

Girl Gloss checks out the MAC Holiday Lip Kits.

Beauty Anonymous is in love with Barefoot in Barcelona from OPI fall 2009 Spain Collection.

A Touch of Blusher is three years old!

The Makeup Blogger is thrilled that holiday gift sets are upon us! Her first favorite is the new NARS Lipgloss set from Sephora!

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November 14, 2009 | Carleenp | Comments 0

Nars 15th Anniversary Palettes

Nars has two limited edition makeup palettes out for their 15th anniversary. Both are quite nice and neither will last long.

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November 13, 2009 | Carleenp | Comments 0

MAC Holiday Nail Polish, Lucky Number from Magic Mirth & Michief

I fell in love with the MAC Holiday MAC Magic Mirth & Mischief Nail Lacquer in the shade Lucky Number as soon as I saw it in the store. Go figure that they were sold out of it though at both the MAC store and at Nordstrom! So I mail ordered it.

The light lavender shade is quite luminous, with silvery pigment running through it. A swatch is below.

The MAC holiday polish also wore particularly well for me. MAC nail polish always does, but I got longer than normal with this one. I suspect it is because I got good one coat coverage and didn’t use a top coat, so the lacquer wasn’t as thick on my nails.

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