Fabulous Over Forty – Where Beauty Is Ageless

Lancome’s Beauty Box is a beautiful train case in black, that is available at Macy’s for only $49.50 after a $36.00 purchase in Lancome products.  This is a value of $339 worth of products!

You get a full size Bi-Facil and Définicils and over a dozen more deluxe samples of wonderful product.    An eye shadow collection, Juicy Tubes, lipsticks and brushes to name a few of the great buys in the case.

It’s already sold out on Lancome’s website, so head to your nearest Macy’s to pick up this great case and huge assortment of fabulous product.

This deal is so fantastic, I think it definitely qualifies for “Beauty on a Budget”!  What a wonderful holiday gift for yourself or a fabulous beauty fanatic.

THE WINNER IS SUE!   CONGRATULATIONS SUE!

Lancome Holiday Collection, C’est Magnifique, is classic glamour all around.   This is a look that is not limited to only a holiday look, but anytime you want a classic red lip, heavy on the eyeliner – without doing a smokey eye, this is the look for you.  Glamour and power all wrapped up in one.

For this look try one of the Color Design Eye Shadow Quads.  Glamour Premiere creates a subtle, natural look, while Hollywood Seductive is a more intense, dramatic look.

Top it off with Le Vernis Nail Polish in Midnight Glam, a dark navy blue shade that will put you right on trend for the holiday season.  Glamorous!

To make your holiday season a special one, one lucky winner will receive from Lancome the Le Vernis Nail Polish in Midnight Glam!

In honor of my mother that just passed away this week, the winner’s name will be drawn on her birthday, Saturday, November 29th at 12:00 noon CST.   US residents only.  Just enter your name in the comments.   Good Luck!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Prescriptives hands us the Aglow collection – and it’s aglow with winter icy goodness!

In the usual Prescriptives goodness, the collection is offered in warm and cool tones, so let’s start with the eyes.

The warm eye palette $62, is in four shimmery shades of banana, brunette, suede and chestnut.  The cool palette shimmery shades are shell, oyster, star and eclipse.  Both tones are beautiful day or night doable shades.

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Chanel has gone and done it again – one of my all time favorite collections this season.  It is beyond beautiful – it is stunning!

The eye palette has won me over this season.   On the photo shown there is the photo by Chanel and the one by my own camera.   Slightly different colors coming through on the photos, but beautiful none the less.

The colors in Beiges de Chanel $56, are a creamy vanilla, a pale golden creamy shimmer, a khaki with slight shimmer and a chocolate with golden flecks. This beautiful palette is not just a “holiday palette”.  It can be used daily and create a wide variety of looks from neutral to smoky to intense smoky.   When I wore these colors I had 3 comments that day at work saying my eyes looked beautiful!   Now if that’s not an endorsement, I don’t know what is!

OK I guess I should get on to the rest of the holiday collection.   There is the Gold Highlighting Powder $75 – shimmering gold for anywhere on your body.  Shimmer up those bare shoulders or daring décolleté.

If doing a more neutral eye, you can brighten up the lips – the Red Shine Glossimer lip gloss $26, is a way to get a bright lip without doing a full-on red.   Or lighten it up with Creme Gloss Lumiere $32, in Praline Rose or Canele. Or as another option, the Rouge Allure Satin Lipstick $30, in one of the four shades; Audace, Exaltation, Ardent and Nude.

The new cult favorite nail color is called Haute Chocolat in a creamy chocolate color with gold flecks.  Good luck trying to find it – it’s sold out already on most department store websites, but maybe you can find one at a secluded store.  But then, I’m not so sure it’s for the over 40 set.   We can leave that trend to our daughters.

Chanel also has some beautiful gift sets that I will share with you in a near future post.   My opinion overall – this is definitely not a collection you want to miss!

Bobbi Brown continues to wow us with the new looks in her collections.   This Copper Collection shows a much deeper, smokier eye than we have usually seen with Bobbi and I like this new look.   It appears to be a very youthful look, so it might not appeal to everyone over 40, but if you’re daring – give it a try!

The hit of the party is the Copper Diamond Shimmer Brick. $40   Bobbi struck gold a few years back in creating the Shimmer Brick and she continues with more beautiful color combinations and Copper Diamond is no exception.  It’s encased in a faux leather metallic case and the shades in the Shimmer Brick include Candlelight, Gold, Copper, Beige, and Sand working together to give skin a warm golden copper glow.

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