Are you an Aveda girl?

Well, if you order $25 worth of products on www.aveda.com and use code "FINISH910" at checkout, you'll get free shipping and a free sample of their 3 Step Color Conserve System. Spend $40 and you'll get a free travel sized favorite!

Going to www.clinique.com this weekend? With any $30 purchase, use code "PINK" at checkout to get a free Long Last Glosswear in Air Kiss. So cute!!

Finally, your luxury item to lust over for the weekend are the Rouge Coco line of lipsticks by Chanel. Perfectly creamy with the most unreal colors available. So chic. So wearable. SO CHANEL!

It's fall. Well, according to the calendar anyway...

It's time. It's time to be brave. It's time to be brave and get a deep, dark lip gloss. Stop! Don't be scared!! A deeply colored shiny lip is unbelievably pretty and I promise- it's doable!!!

A couple of tips- keep eyes neutral. A couple of coats of mascara and a light colored eye shadow. Glowing, natural looking blush. It needs to look like you've just come in from the great outdoors. And then your lips. Now, if you are really nervous about it, get yourself a flesh colored lip pencil and lightly color in the entire lip area. Now for the real trick- apply the gloss to the bottom lip only. Then, lightly rub your lips together so that you transfer the color to your top lip. Build the color from there. Make it as dark and/or shiny as you want. If you like just the first color transfer, stick with that. I personally prefer to add a bit. But, you know me- more is more. :)

Gloss suggestions?

1. Dior Addict Ultra Gloss in Black Tie Plum

2. Smashbox O-Gloss Noir

3. Kat Von D Painted Love Lipgloss in Rosary

4. Buxom Big and Healthy Lip Balm in Portofino

Get out there and get sexy ladies.

Tuesday treats and tips

Ladies, how's your week going? Mine? Insane, thank you.

Now for some goodies:

1. Tarte is offering 30% off their entire "Backstage To Fashion Week" line with code "FWSEPT" through 9/30/10. www.tartecosmetics.com

2. Stila's new palette pays tribute to Russia. You can get their new "Make an Impression in Moscow" makeup kit for the low, low price of $10. www.stilacosmetics.com

3. This is a challenge for you. It takes 21 days to form a true habit. Commit to something in your beauty routine. Maybe it's proper cleansing and moisturizing. Maybe it's cleaning up those awful raggedy fingernails. Heck, maybe it's just making the effort to wear makeup on a daily basis. But make a promise to yourself and stick to it for 3 weeks. That's it. 3 piddly weeks. At the end of the 3 weeks, see what you think? Is it second nature now? Do you like the change? My promise to myself is to have polished nails. (Not just clear, which is what I normally do.) But a beautiful fall polish color. It's been almost a week and a half and so far, I am really liking the change. I feel a bit more lady like!

So think about it. And then DO IT!

A head's up for this week

I know, I know- you all are tired of me harping on and on about the sample sale websites. But if you have not joined Hautelook (www.hautelook.com), DO IT! Why? Because this week on the site is beauty week. This week's sales include (but are not limited to) Stila, LORAC, DDF, Rapid Lash, NYX, Freeze 24/7, GO SMILE, etc, etc.

Joining is free and you'll love the other sales they have, too! And it's never too early to start thinking about holiday gifts for people!!

Weekend treats

So, Kiehl's is still wanting to lure customers to their new site and this weekend if you use code "SPECIAL" at checkout, you get free shipping and 4 free goodies if you spend $40 or more.

I am super excited go check out MAC's new line of Pro Longwear foundations and concealers. They claim it will last 15 hours and is transfer resistant. Since I have to fight the makeup fade in the afternoon, I plan on trying some of this stuff out!! Did I mention it has some SPF protection as well? Nice!

October is also...

Most people think of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and as much as I personally appreciate that fact, it should also be known that October is usually acknowledged as a month devoted to cancers specific for women. Particularly, ovarian cancer. L'Oreal is leading the fight against this silent killer is the cosmetics world. Their "Color of Hope" line is not only loaded with beautiful colors, but sales of the products go to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. Want to get the best of the best? Go to www.drugstore.com and type in "Color of Hope" in the search field. You'll get the set shown above with a cute makeup bag to hold it all.

Get beautiful and help other women at the same time. Sounds like a win/win to me.

Sometimes, you just have to splurge

For those of you beauty junkies like myself, you already know about Chanel fingernail polish. This stuff is liquid gold. It's chic and perfectly in tune with whatever season it is fashion-wise. Most importantly, it might be the only Chanel some of us commoners might ever own. :)

Recently, New York City came alive for "Fashion's Night Out." The brilliant Anna Wintour of Vogue fame came up with the idea to help stimulate a struggling retail environment in the city and it was a success beyond anyone's imagination. Cut to Chanel's part in all this- last year, they created the jade green fingernail polish that was seen all over the runways and fashionistas as a special, limited edition shade just for Fashion's Night Out. Needless to say, they had no idea what sort of craze they were creating. The polish sold out in days and became collector's items. People were buying them for upwards of $200 on Ebay!!

This year, going along with the tough and fabulous miltary theme that ruled the fall/winter runways, Chanel has come out with Les Khakis de Chanel- a trio of gorgeous shades that are spot on. This is where the splurge comes in- they are $25 a piece. The good news is that they are not sold out. You can still get them on Chanel's website (www.chanel.com) and they can be whisked in all their French glamour beauty right to your door. (Too purchased Khaki Vert and will be using it ASAP. I am also tempted to order the Khaki Brun. So chic.)