The Latest from #ShareYourBeauty + Your Chance to win over $2,000 in Beauty Products!

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It’s been a very inspiring couple of days. As some of you know I started the Share Your Beauty program last February through the non-profit, Family-to-Family, giving brands, editors, bloggers and beauty hoarders the opportunity to donate their unopened beauty products to homeless, and battered women’s shelters and those in need.

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This is what being buried under 145 LeSportsac bags filled with beauty products looks like

After hosting several drives our friends at LeSportsac offered their headquarters in Times Square as a drop off location in NYC so we could accept products year round. With the holidays approaching we decided for November to partner with Good Shepherd Services, a youth and family development agency whose programs include foster care. So we sent out an email to our awesome list of bloggers and brands and I’m so excited to announce that we were able to fill 130 LeSportsac bags for the full occupancy of teens (85 bags for the girls, 45 for the boys) in the Family Foster Care program in the Bronx (and had a whole lot of product to spare to send off to their staff and volunteers).

To give you some idea on how amazing the beauty community is, that with just one email we received over 2,500 beauty products (which is like over $30k+ worth of goods!) and I’d like to take a moment to personally thank Henri Bendel, L’Occitane, Aveeno, bareMinerals, Buxom, Knock Out nail polish, Redken, Pureology, DNA PR, Ashley Kalinske of amfAR, Elizabeth Kennedy of Stadiumred, Amanda Brown/AmandBrownMusic.com, Amber Katz/rouge18.com, Vicky Sullivan/Aspiringsocialite.com, Kristin Booker/fashionstylebeauty.com, JM/OpinionNothing.com, Lauren Dimet Waters/secondcitystyle.com, Megan Zeitz/tfdiaries.com, Pamela Pekerman/pamelapekerman.com, Candice Sabatini/beautynewsnyc.com, my In His Clothes and Pretty Connected team and of course LeSportsac for being my amazing partners in crime, err good!

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! And you could win…

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We had so much left over product (that’s after we filled the 145 bags, plus two huge boxes of product to the staff!) we decided to fill one of LeSportsac’s Extra Large Weekender bags with over $2,000 worth of beauty products and are giving it away to one lucky winner who helps us spread the word! Anyone that tweets or posts on Facebook about the Share Your Beauty program using the hashtag #ShareYourBeauty linking back to this post will automatically be entered!

Here’s a sample tweet:

If ur looking to donate beauty products in NYC, check out program. (RT to win –>) http://shar.es/10JQ1s

{Rules: Entries will be accepted through November 16th. All local, state, and federal rules apple. US Residents only.}

To get involved and donate products, please email us at [email protected] and to learn more about the program visit family-to-family.org/share-beauty/

PC featured on Century 21- Shop my Look!

Century 21 featured blogger, lara eurdolian

It’s no secret Century 21 is the place to find amazing designer deals and a fraction of their retail price.  So when it comes to updating your basics on a budget (without compromising the designer label of course), this is where I shop. I’ve been a loyal customer for well over a decade since I moved to NYC, and it’s no wonder why so many tourists and NYC locals alike flock to this shopping destination. You can find some really amazing deals, and as a huge, longtime fan of the retailer, it’s thrilling to be featured on their site! (Check me out HERE)

I was given a $250 budget to dress head to toe, which was beyond easy considering their price tags and here’s what made the cut:

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OUTFIT DETAILS:

COVET Light Yellow Button Front Blouse (orig. $95) available for $34.97

PREMIUM DENIM Black Coated Skinny Jeans (orig. $225) available for $79.99

SCHUTZ Black Corry Ankle Boots (orig. $280) available for $109.97

TOTAL: $224.93 ($600) 63% off

Shop the look and check out my feature at C21stores.com

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An Inside Peak the Hard Candy Factory (Plus What’s NEW for Fall)

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Oh hey, I’m making cream blush!

I had quite a treat a few weeks ago when Hard Candy invited me out to NuWorld Beauty in New Jersey to see where all the magic happens. And by magic I mean where all the formulations come together and the actual makeup is made and packaged. It was like an episode of I Love Lucy, except instead of chocolate, makeup was coming down the conveyer belt (and real professionals were handling it). It’s simply incredible to see what goes on behind the scenes and how many impressive machines and people it takes to bring you a perfectly pressed compact or evenly poured lipstick. I mean speaking of lipstick, check this out:

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Win the Beauty.com x Tess Giberson Bag filled with Beauty Products!

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Whenever Beauty.com does a collaboration with a designer, I’m all over it! And this season they are partnering with Tess Giberson! I was just in St. Louis with with Tess where the fashion designer was being and honored and showing her latest collection. I’m so happy to see that she’s been playing in the beauty world (she also currently doing a limited edition nail polish collaboration with Jin Soon).  While supplies last customers that purchase $125 at Beauty.com will receive this Tess Giberson Winter Forest makeup bag filled with 13 deluxe and full size beauty products! (And there’s great stuff in it!!!)

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