LUST LIST FOR FRIDAY 6/6

Hello campers! Sorry, this week has been crazy, so the posts have suffered. I had a happy good time morning fun round on Forever21.com this morning though, and these beauties caught my eye:

1. DINA SATIN TRIM TOP $19.80

2. KIMONO TOP $24.80

3. SOPHIE WRAP $15.80
I must say that I saw a lovely girl walking down Hollywood Blvd. last weekend looking very AWESOME in this exact top with skinny jeans and a belt at her middle. It was so cute I totally thought of it when I saw this blouse this morning.

4. SPOTTED WOVEN SKIRT $22.80

5. PLEATED COTTON/SILK SKIRT $22.80

6. CLAUDIA JEAN $27.80
These are the EXACT grey jeans I want!! EXACTLY!

7. CATELYN WIDE LEG JEAN $27.80

8. MOD JUMPSUIT $22.80
SO cute and retro-tastic!

9. And finally, the deal of deals, BRAIDED SANDAL $7.50

What are you lusting to buy this week?

SALE SALE SALE

Bath and Body Works is having a sale!!!!! A really really REALLY good sale. Through tomorrow, 6/4. So hurry up!

Everyone has their scent from BABW, what's yours? Mine changes frequently, latest is Japanese Cherry Blossom...

My lust list for Friday May 30th

I want the following. So badly. Like, rearranging finances in my head badly. Like, who needs savings when you can have these? bad. BAD.

1.Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche Skinscent, 3.4 oz.
$49.50

The fragrance that worships every inch of you. A sensuous, sun-drenched blend of Bergamot and Mandarin, cooled with Tahitian Gardenia Petals and Coconut, warmed with Amber, Sandalwood and Vetiver. All heat. All desire. All woman.


2. Giovanni Cool Mint Lemonade Salt Scrub with Crushed Mint Leaves OR Hot Chocolate Sugar Scrub with Crushed Cocoa Beans $13.95

I smelled the lemon scrub in CVS the other day but had to check if they were cruelty free or not before thinking about buying - well, they are, and it smelled SO GOOD GOOD GOOD!

3. Alloy Audrey Eyelet Dress $19.99 on Alloy.com, a great site I totally forgot existed! Some of their stuff is a little pricey for what it is, but they have a phenomenal sale page, as is evidenced here

4. Alloy Flyaway Dress $19.99

5. Alloy Zapper Wedge $29.50

6. Avon Anew Ultimate Contouring Eye System $30 Avon.com

like sunshine in a bottle...

Although I have a very strict product regimen for my face due to obnoxious breakout issues if I vary from said regimen, I also buy facewash for my fiance to use, and thus am able to still get my testing jones out to a certain extent. My latest find is Vitamin C Refreshing Cleansing Gel from Avalon Organics (the same company that makes my beloved ALBA products)

This stuff was a good deal, $10.95 for 8.5 fl oz, and boasts that it "gently removes impurities and nourishes skin with organic Aloe. Fortified with the synergistic action of Vitamin C plus Lemon Bioflavonoids, Melatonin and organic White Tea to refresh and balance for healthy, radiant skin." It also explains that "Magnesium Ascorbal Phosphate is a form of vitamin C that is readily utilized by the skin cells to protect against damaging free radicals, and stimulate collagen and elastin production. One of the most stable forms of vitamin C, it will remain active over the shelf life of the product", which is something that I never even thought about (the stability of something like Vitamin C) but it makes sense.

Lasty, it is scented with organic sweet orange essential oil and it SMELLS FRIGGIN FANTASTIC!!! If I wasn't on a Proactiv (or possibly AcneFree) regimen I would TOTALLY use this product like a FIEND. PS - I had to use it the first day I got it because I was out of Proactiv and hadn't found AcneFree yet, and it did a super job, skin was really clean but not dry. :-)

PROACTIV ALTERNATIVE????

I am a product jumper. It's true. Even the products that I LOVE more than anything else I will eventually ignore for a while, because I like to try new stuff. The exception to this rule has been my skin SAVIOR, Procativ. I love Proactiv, and wouldn't have looked elsewhere at all if it hadn't been so obnoxious to buy a skin care system that wasn't available where I do my shopping (and I kept running out before my next shipment would get here!). Frustration, as I would be forced to use something else in the meantime, and would inevitably break out. Ugh. But then while I was in the drug store this weekend, I noticed what was unquestionably a knock off version of proactiv, called AcneFree. Although the name is not as nice, it looks to be pretty close to the real thing. Even the packaging screams "GET IT?? LIKE THE ONE YOU ORDER ONLINE!!!"



Hmmmm... I hemmed and hawed. But the cleanser was only $6!! And I was out of cleanser. So I bought it, vowing to look up this week what the price difference really was, and more importantly, if AcneFree was cruelty free like Proactiv.

Well, lovelies, a 3 piece kit consisting of cleanser, toner and repairing lotion from Proactiv is $40 plus shipping, and the same size kit from AcneFree is only $20, with NO shipping since I can just hop on over to CVS to grab it. AND... NO ANIMAL TESTING!!! Now I'll just have to see how the cleanser works in comparison. Hmmm... could be intersting, though.

GREAT ONLINE SALE AT GO JANE!

Hey all -

So right now if you visit www.gojane.com and use the coupon code GJ51615 you can save an additional 15% off of anything on their already super affordable sale page (it says it expires 5/23/08 so I'm not sure if this means this is only good through today or through today and tomorrow, but either way, get to the shoppin', missy!)

There is lots of stuff to look at on their sale page, I found these shirts which I thought were cute:

ABERDEEN TOP $9 (with discount $7.65)

AXLE DRESS $8 (w/d $6.80)

JATARA TOP $14 (w/d $11.90)

MALENA TOP $9 (w/d $7.65)

BUT WHAT I REALLY REALLY DIG ARE THEIR SHOES (as anyone who reads this blog on a semi-regular basis will know, I believe Go Jane to have one of the most PHENOMENAL manmade material shoe selections ANYWHERE. But I must admit that I STILL have not gotten around to ordering their shoes yet. Lame, I know. But that will have to change today seeing as how all of these awesome styles are on SUPER SALE!!)

BUYER-S MPU FLAT $9 (w/d $7.65)

CRINKLE ANKLE STRAP WEDGE $12 (w/d $10.20)

EXCEL-S PU MULE $7 (w/d $5.95)

JASMINE 10 PAT WEDGE $10 (w/d $8.50)

MELANIE-02 PAT MULE $6 (w/d $5.10)

MOVIE-S PLAID MULE $11 (w/d $9.35)

MUSHY PAT FLAT $9 (w/d $7.65)

ON-S STRP MULE $5 (w/d $4.25)

OVAL-S CRKPT FLAT $9 (w/d $7.65)

PEARL-11 PAT WEDGE $10 (w/d 8.50)

PUNCH-S ZCRK FLAT $9 (w/d $7.65)

REBA6 PU FLAT $6 (w/d $5.10)

SALYA-39 STRPU FLAT $10 (w/d $8.50)

SARA-16 FLAT $11 (w/d $9.35)

SERINA-44 CAN FLAT $9 (w/d $7.65)

TORA-60 PAT FLAT $10 (w/d $8.50)

VAPOR-S GPAT HEEL $12 (w/d $10.20)

As you can probably see, I'm sort of jonesing for brightly colored summer shoes, but of course most of these (and the clothing) are offered in other color options as well (although in fairness GoJane does really like the brightly colored shoes)...

So that's it. GO! RIGHT NOW! THE CLOCK IS TICKING!!! Oh, and if you get really carried away and order more than $75 worth of stuff, enter the code "FREESHIP" and get free standard shipping too. NICE.

I know 80's is retro now apparently, but...

Really, Urban Outfitters, REALLY?

The Neon Wayfarer ($8)


It all started, I think, with my first viewing of the album cover for MGMT's album "Oracular Spectacular":

I don't know what hit me about this picture (the album, BTW, is definitely my FAV album of the year - SO FANTASTIC), perhaps it was the free and enthusiastic usage of neon, but something struck me as SO 80's about this in a way that surpassed ALL of the 80's throwback so far. Then, while I was at Coachella (the big music festival out near Palm Springs that we frequent every year), I kept seeing all these guys looking very, well, 80's. Not 80's-American Apparel-throwback-indie-trendy, but 80's. With mullets and Corey Feldman does Michael Jackson glasses. And they were totally serious. But I figured, hey, it's the desert, people are weird at Coachella (you see some STRANGE fashion choices). Then I see these neon sunglasses on Urban Outfitters' website, and that is when I KNOW - we have crossed the line from 80's as kitch throwback to rekindling a love affair with things that should have died a permanent death. What's next? Are we destined to return to a time when THIS is what people aspire to look like?

(and who the hell is that guy in the top left corner? did I just forget him? Was he the Poochie of SBTB?)