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Nov 21, 2012

Elizabeth Arden Black Friday Cyber Monday 2012

November 21, 2012 By Carleenp 2 Comments

Elizabeth Arden always runs some of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Also, their annual Holiday Blockbuster Color Collection is always an incredible deal and great gift.

Here are the 2012 Elizabeth Arden Cyber Monday and Black Friday deals for online shopping:

11/22/12 - 12/27/12
35% OFF orders $200 or more
30% OFF orders $150-$199
25% OFF orders $70-$149
20% OFF orders up to $69
Enter code BF2 at checkout. Ends 11/27.

11/23/12 - 11/25/12
FREE 10-PIECE DELUXE GIFT with ANY $55 or more order. Enter Secret Code BLACKFRIDAY at checkout. Ends 11/25.

11/24/12 - 11/25/12
FREE 11-PIECE DELUXE GIFT with ANY $55 or more order. Enter Secret Code BFWEEKEND at checkout. Ends 11/25.

11/26/12 - 11/26/12
FREE 10-PIECE DELUXE GIFT with ANY $50 or more order. Enter Secret Code CYBER50 at checkout. Ends 11/25.

11/26/12 - 11/28/12
FREE 4-PIECE GIFT when you spend $35. (Enter codeCYBER4).
FREE 13-PIECE GIFT when you spend $55. (Enter codeCYBER6).
FREE 17-PIECE GIFT when you spend $80 or more. (Enter code CYBER8). Ends 11/28.

11/27/12 - 12/1/12
FREE 13-PIECE DELUXE GIFT with ANY $40 or more order. Enter Secret Code GLOWING at checkout. Ends 12/1.

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Nov 20, 2012

Too Faced Glamour To Go Spun Sugar Swatches

November 20, 2012 By Carleenp 2 Comments

Too faced always makes cute eye shadow palettes and their Holiday offering always are good gift items. I ordered a couple of items, the first of which was the Too Face Glamour to Go Spun Sugar Set, which has eight shadows, a bronzer, a blush, and a gloss. This is limited edition for holiday 2012.

The outside packaging is cute.

The shadows in the set are festive metallic type shades and the package includes a mirror and slide out drawer holding the gloss, bronzer and blush.

Below are swatches of the eye shadows in the Too Faced Glamour to Go Spun Sugar palette. Pigmentation in them is fine. Not outstanding, but not terrible either. The gold shade second from the left seemed to lack pigment more than the others.

At $22, for the set, it is a very good value. Too Faced is also cruelty free.

Below is a video review of the palette with additional swatches.

Buy the Glamour To Go Spun Sugar Palette

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Nov 15, 2012

Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Swatches, Review, Video

November 15, 2012 By Carleenp 2 Comments

Be sure to check out our Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Holiday 2012 Giveaway!

The Too Faced Shadow Bons Bons Palette is a nice holiday set containing 12 pretty eyeshadow shades, a tube of Too Faced Shadow Insurance Primer, and a Lashgasm Mascara. It is packaged nicely for holiday giving, or would be a nice kit for yourself.

Here is the outside of my Shadow Bon Bons case.

Here is a closer look at the shadows inside.

The shades are pretty. Pigmentation on them is fine. Not outstanding, but perfectly acceptable. The texture is good. I like this set better than the Too Faced Glamour to Go Spun Sugar set, which I will be reviewing new week. It is a great gift set for the holidays.

Below are swatches of the Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Palette. The eyeshadow shades are: Vanilla, Cut the Cake, Framboise, Coffee Bean, Peach Fuzz, Hot Cocoa, Candy Rose, Lovey Dovey, Nude Beach, Cinnamon Sugar, Marzipan, and Licorice Latte.

I want to give a quick shout out to the Too Faced customer service on this one. I bought my palette from their website and it arrived with a pan of shadow broken and spread around the inside of the kit. I contacted them and, after they had me send a photo of the broken kit, they promptly sent me a new one. I was able to clean the old one up enough to swatch and used the broken powder for that shade (it was Cinnamon Sugar that broke). So, I decided to use the new one as reader giveaway since I have no shortage of eye shadow around here! See the link at the top of the page for the giveaway!

Buy Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons at Sephora

Buy it at TooFaced.com

Here is also my video review of the Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Set.