Eyes

Goddess Granny here: I LOVE it when anyone dares to imply that it's my "body"  they are interested in and not my mind...
I know, I know, all my sistas' in feminism will be pounding the table but hey, you simply have to realize that sometimes the "truth" is REALLY not what we want to hear after all so go ahead and smother me with cheesy compliments, ply me with umbrella drinks and whisper something that will make me squrim. It's the "fantasy" that sells people!

If you can also toss in a hefty dose of humor backed up with a solid set of skills and a proven track record of quality,I want YOU TOO! 

How could you NOT fall in "lust" in a company whose "philosophy" is non-existant, (don't you hate those stuffy self-serving "mission statements?) who makes it crystal clear that they are funny and original,and whose website is one of THE coolest,most well-designed and entertaining lil' bites of delight on the web?Oh and....they make no bones about the fact that they also "only want you for your body!"

Anatomicals had me at first click...I promise you will love this site so be prepared to visit a while!:

"...keep this tightening gel handy,after all,there's only one place for bags in this world: under the arms of a yummy Beverly Hills porter!"

Now don't you know Miz Meg herself would absoultely agree with this statement but "No Old Bags Allowed" is the name of Anatomicals FABULOUS eye gel so take this little blue tube very seriously even if it laughs at itself? With orange flower water,my beloved arinca, and a dose of good ol' witch hazel, this cool and totally non-irritating clear-gel can make anyone's "old bags" morph into converted Vuitton's in minutes!

Tantejoan here! If you were to wake me up in the middle of the night, shine a strong light in my face and demand that I confess the one beauty product I could never do without, I’d probably say mascara.  I love my entire arsenal of lip colors, foundations, shadows, blushes and what-have-yous, but the truth is that if I had to limit myself to one of each, I could do it.  Give up my wardrobe of mascaras?  I break into a cold sweat even thinking about it.  My bathroom shelf has a 12-slot Lucite holder dedicated to housing my Wands of Many Colors, and that’s not even all of my collection. 

I have blacks.  And Extreme Blacks.  And browns, which I like next to my blue, blue eyes.  And burgundy, which I also like near my blue, blue -- well, you get the picture.  I have several of those formulas that wrap each lash into little tubes that are supposed to drop off at the mere hint of water.  Don’t like ‘em, but I still buy them each time another company comes out with a version in the hope that I will like theirs.  I have cake mascara, a true throwback to the days when I used to sit in my eldest sister’s bedroom and watch her spit -- that’s right, spit -- on her Maybelline cake and work at her lashes with a brush the size of a gnat.  When you bear in mind the health advisory that recommends replacing mascaras every three months, you can appreciate that mine is a habit more insidious and expensive than gambling or drugs.  In fact, I’m looking for a support group, so I hope that the similarly addicted among you will step forward. 

Some of my favorite mascaras are luxurious department store brands, including the two that I pay tribute to on my profile page, Yves St. Laurent and Givenchy, but a recent piece here on the new Maybelline Stilletto (which does not meet my, or in fact many of my sisters’, standards) reminded me of one of my oldest and best drugstore favorites, Max Factor’s 2000 Calorie Mascara.  It’s been around forever, and at under $8 it’s a real steal.  Now, in the first real breakthrough in Max Factor’s take on a winning formulation -- their innovations having previously been confined to the shape of the brush -- Max has come out with a truly new concept.... well, new for them. 

Max Factor 2000 Calorie Extreme Lash Plumper Mascara will look familiar to those who have tried Cover Girl’s Lash Blast.  Both have big, big plastic brushes and both promise a “big lash look.”  While I’m not convinced that a brush the size of a helicopter blade is necessarily an advantage when working on objects as delicate as eyelashes, this Plumper’s brush bristles are significantly shorter than the Cover Girl version.  This to me is an advantage, giving the user more control. The patented Fat Wrap Brush is designed to grab every single lash, even the little ones, and the patented Fat Wrap formula works with the Fat Wrap Brush as it wraps around each and every lash for an “extreme, voluptuous effect.”  The shorter bristles allow me to get in closer to the base of my lashes and wiggle my way into a truly lush lash. And the web site offers two intriguing hints for getting that Fat effect all the way up:  a) blink against the brush, and b)  take a piece of card stock or a business card and hold it against your lid, then stroke the product onto your lashes against the card. 

This is really hard-core, ladies, but it worked for me, with no clumping or smudging.  And while I’m not a fan of waterproof mascara, and so have not tested that, I have been caught in the rain while wearing the standard version, and can testify it did not run.

Katie here! Happy Saturdays at Sephora column!  I feel unendingly guilty about my non-dependable-ness of late.  Is a part-time retail working, full-time MBA student's busy life excuse enough? It doesn't seem like it is...but especially these days, studying for finals - it consumes me!  Speaking of finals, I have two on Monday, and they may be the death of me:  Finance at 7:30am and Economics at 7:30pm!  I feel like these two subjects have some inherint irony in them - given the macroeconomic situation of the world these days - bankrupt Chrysler, overwhelming consumer debt, even more overwhelming trillion dollar's worth of national deficit.  Bleak. Bleak. Bleak.  On the bright side, if you happen to have the cash lying around...it's a great time to pick up real estate, take out student loans (a la yours truly), or refinance your mortgage at super low rates!  All of those are what we like to think of as long-term investments.

In keeping with that theme, I want to propose a long-term investment to your costmetic case - which comes to you in the form of the ever-so chic blue and silver compacts of a Christian Dior 5-Colour Eyeshadow compacts.  At $56, they make you shudder at first glance.  But at $11.20 per shadow colour, the blow is softened a little bit.  They're full-sized shadows and pressed in really tight - so I think you can use them for months and months before making a dent into one of the colors.

Meg here! So there are lots of perks of running megsmakeup.com! Hearing all of your humor and brilliance is completely the best reason. Hands down! After that there's a whole other list of reasons. One of them is finding out about new lines. The company Skinn was totally new to me until they sent some samples of their Wet Lips Super Shine Gloss As you can see from the reviews, everyone loved them.

I was so excited when I went to the mail and saw that Skinn had sent us their Luxe Waterproof Eyeliner! I looked over the materials and read how it had shea butter and peptides, ingrediants to make for a smooth application and not crease into dry skinn

I went with the deep black and decided this was a great In My Purse Cosmetic case item! No sharpener needed. I usually hate those twist up tubes-I inadvertantly always end up breaking them and the product is wasted! This is a much higher quality twist up then some of my drugstore deal trys and the price is so reasonable! $9.50 for a top quality liner! YAY!

I used it last night and this morning (Bad Meg!! Didn't wash her face) It's still in place. It also doesn't pull, just glides on really smoothly.
After working for 20 years at big cosmetic companies, Skinn's founder, Dmitri James was really frustrated. This, in his own words, is pretty interesting...

Gather around all you Wednesday Gigi here! Delirious Over a Delightful Drugstore Deal We all have our moments of idiocy, but I tend to have more than my share of mine. I will run through our home and call desperately to my husband, "Where's my watch? I can't find it anywhere!" He will patiently point out that I am wearing it.

Wet `n Wild Cosmetics has created a major stir in the makeup industry with inexpensive items which deliver. Their "Ultimate Expressions" shadow palettes are addictive. I am a self-confessed makeup snob. Excuse me, I was a makeup snob. Now I have repented and use affordable and efficacious makeup. In the past, I gravitated toward Christian Dior, Givenchy, Lancome