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Elephant Pharm Body Care & Cosmetics Sale: Product Photos

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 | Fragrance, Photos, Stores | Comments Off

Here are some items I found on sale for at least 25% off during the current Body Care & Cosmetics Sale at Elephant Pharm, my new favorite drugstore:

Meilily Elephant Pharm Sale Haul

(Clockwise from top-left:  Terranova Perfume Essence 8 ml Roll-on in Shea Blossom; Pre de Provence Cucumber Soap; River Soap Company 5 oz. Soap Sampler in Sandalwood, Rose Geranium, Lavender, Citrus, and Woodland; Dr. Bronner’s 18-in-1 Hemp Pure-Castile Soap in Citrus Orange; Aura Cacia Sweet Orange Essential Oil 15 ml.)

Tags: Dr. Bonner's, Dr. Bronner's, Elephant Pharm, perfume, product photos, sale, soap, Terranova

Elephant Pharm Drugstore Sale: 25% Off Herbs, Body Care & Cosmetics, and More!

Monday, January 12th, 2009 | Fragrance, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | 2 Comments

Meilily Sale Alert: Elephant Pharm Sale

What: Elephant Pharm Drugstore Sale
Discounts: 25% off Body Care & Cosmetics (35% off select brands), 25% off Bulk Herbs, 20% off Kleen Kanteen Water Bottles, 20% off Gaiam Fitness Gear, and more!
When: January 8-28, 2009

While recently exploring Berkeley, CA, I came upon this amazingly good drugstore, Elephant Pharm (kind of like a cross between Whole Foods and Walgreens), and › Continue reading

Tags: Beauty, Burt's Bees, cosmetics, Dr. Bronner's, drugstore, Elephant Pharm, Gaiam, herbs, Jurlique, organic, perfume, sale, soap

BeautyHabit.com Clearance Sale + Free Shipping Code!

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | Fragrance, Free Stuff, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | Comments Off

BeautyHabit.com just announced their clearance sale and also another free shipping code for orders over $40. Trust me, this is a good thing! BeautyHabit.com has a great selection of higher-end candles and beauty products, and rarely offers discount codes (free shipping usually starts at orders of $100). The sale includes products by Sundari, The Art of Shaving, Comptoir Sud Pacifique, Lollia, and more. Note: Sales of clearance items are final, so do choose wisely!

BeautyHabit.com Free Shipping Code: FRESHSTART (for orders of $40 or more)

When: January 8-16, 2009

Meilily recommends checking out the BURN candles on clearance – These candles (developed by the founder of Studio at Fred Segal) are supposed to be fantastic!

*Btw, don’t forget the free shipping / free samples BeautyHabit code I posted about previously for orders of only $35 or more!

Tags: Beauty, BeautyHabit, BURN, candles, clearance, codes, Discount, Fred Segal Studio, free shipping, sale

Meilily Winter Wishlist 2009 – Fragrant, Cozy, Eco-friendly

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | Fragrance, Makeup, Wishlist | Comments Off

Meilily Winter Wishlist 2009: Fragrant, Cozy, Eco-friendly

Meilily’s Winter Wishlist January 2008

These are a few of my favorite things right now…

(Images from left to right)

Lollia – Always Grapefruit and Bee Balm Honey Eau de Parfum 2.0 oz. $42

Undrest – Tea-and-Toast Robe Pima Cotton $128 (available at Anthropologie)

Fossil – Forest Eco Tote Organic Cotton Canvas $20 ( Eco Tote at fossil.com)

Tarte – Lash Hugger Eco-friendly Natural Mascara Recycled Aluminum Tube $18 (Lash Hugger Mascara at tartecosmetics.com)

What’s on your wishlist?

Tags: eco-friendly, Fossil, Lollia, mascara, natural, recycle, robe, tarte, Undrest, Wishlist

BeautyHabit Code: Free Shipping + 2 Free Fragrance Samples

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | Fragrance, Free Stuff, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | 1 Comment

BeautyHabit.com is currently offering free standard shipping on orders of only $35 or more plus 2 free fragrance samples (from Reminiscence Paris).

BeautyHabit Code:  BHTRANSPORT

Expires:  January 15, 2009 or while supplies last

BeautyHabit has a gorgeous website with a carefully selected variety of very nice things.  I recommend checking out their specials and nice selection of candles and perfumes.

Tags: BeautyHabit, codes, free shipping, Reminiscence Paris, samples

Sephora Sale: Up to 75% off!

Saturday, December 27th, 2008 | Fragrance, Sales, Skincare, Stores | Comments Off

Sephora is discounting a bunch of items up to 75% off! Check it out:

http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C10214

Tags: sale, Sephora

Holiday Gift Help: More Discounts and Deals

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 | Fragrance, General, Makeup, Sales, Stores | Comments Off

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is currently offering 25% off their Holiday Collection online (until January 3, 2009), and the discount is automatically applied at checkout.  While the site doesn’t make it easy to figure out what qualifies as their “Holiday Collection,” this is a great discount for Bobbi Brown makeup for you or for someone you like a lot!

Also, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is offering free 2nd-day shipping until December 20, 2008 (midnight ET) with code 2DAY.

Laura Mercier Holiday items are now 25% off with code HOL25 until January 10, 2009.

Neiman Marcus is offering free 2-day delivery at any price on most items with promo code NMFAST (until December 19, 2008 at 11:59pm CT).  Neiman Marcus is currently offering special online holiday sales on many items too.  The site even says you can “earn an NM Gift Card” with the 2-day free shipping, but further details were not provided.

Meilily says: Happy Holiday Shopping!

Tags: Bobbi Brown, Discount, gift, holiday, Neiman Marcus, sale

Meilily Featured Shop: The Perfumed Court

Friday, December 12th, 2008 | Featured Shops, Fragrance, Stores | 2 Comments

Meilily Featured Shop: The Perfumed Court

Meilily Featured Shop:  The Perfumed Court

If you are familiar with the power that scents have to transform a mood, lift the spirits, or brighten a day, then you will understand my latest obsession with perfumes and fragrances.  It is not an obsession with just any and all fragrances, but an obsession with finding just the right fragrance to trigger that “ahhhh” response.

Here is where a particular online shop comes in handy:  The Perfumed Court is an online fragrance shop that really helps me pursue my fragrance search (a.k.a. obsession) without breaking the bank.  The Perfumed Court features a mind-blowing array of international fragrances, including niche fragrances that are harder to find and also fragrances that are not available in the United States.  The special part about The Perfumed Court is that they sell decants, taking original fragrances and carefully transferring them into smaller containers for resale.

Since I have always had a hard time justifying shelling out a bunch of money for a full-size bottle of perfume that I would only wear a few times, buying perfume had become for me simply impractical until recently.  After finding and trying fragrance decants from The Perfumed Court, I have become a decant convert.  Now, I will never buy a regular size bottle of fragrance again, unless it is affordable and unless I also love it.

More about my experience with The Perfumed Court › Continue reading

Tags: decants, Fragrance, perfume, rollerball, Serge Lutens, shop ratings, The Perfumed Court

Special Sale at Bliss!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | Fragrance, Lingerie, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | 3 Comments

Meilily Sale Alert: Bliss

Just wanted to let you know about a very special Bliss sale going on at blissworld.com:

The Bliss Employee Sale is going on right now for a limited time, and there have been a bunch of really nice, high-end cosmetics, skincare, and general beauty products on sale at huge discounts (up to 70% off).  Products have been selling out rather quickly during this sale, but there have been great deals on products ranging from Laura Mercier and Sue Devitt makeup to MBT shoes and Wolford lingerie.  Recently, Bliss even added more products to their Employee Sale online.

This is a great time to buy high-end products you normally covet but cannot afford.  [Just remember, the Bliss return policy does not seem to allow returns on sale items.]

(Courtesy of the lovely ladies at Emakemeup.com)

Tags: Bliss, Laura Mercier, Lingerie, Makeup, MBT, sale, Sales, Skincare, Sue Devitt, Wolford

20% Friends & Family Discount at Sephora & Beauty.com

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | Fragrance, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | Comments Off

Friends & Family Sale Notice - Sephora & Beauty.com

Meilily would like to alert you to some really great annual sales at these beauty retailers:

Sephora.com 20% off Friends & Family Sale:  November 6-10, 2008

Sephora.com code:  FF2008

Beauty.com 20% off Friends & Family Sale:  November 5-7, 2008

Beauty.com discount is only available via email clickthru, and does not apply to NARS or Kooba.

[From the lovely ladies at Emakemeup.com]

Tags: Beauty.com, Discount, Friends and Family Sale, Sephora

Amazing Estee Lauder Gift at Nordstrom

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | Fragrance, Free Stuff, Makeup, Sales, Stores | 2 Comments

Last Days!  Nordstrom Estee Lauder Gift with Purchase

If you are considering purchasing or trying anything from Estee Lauder anytime in the near future, this looks like a great time to buy.

Between October 15, 2008 and November 2, 2008, Nordstrom is offering a really nice and customizable gift with purchase package that includes 7 skincare and beauty items along with a multicolor cosmetic bag. It is truly a “package,” because it contains several non-filler gift items that you can pick and choose from yourself.  This current offer is one of the best gift with purchase packages I have seen from Estee Lauder, and the minimum purchase of $39.50 is pretty manageable.  › Continue reading

Tags: Beauty, Estee Lauder, gift with purchase, Nordstrom

Free Fragrance Samples: Nordstrom & Allure

Monday, October 27th, 2008 | Fragrance, Free Stuff, Stores | 2 Comments

Allure November 2008 issue

The latest issue of Allure, the November 2008 issue featuring Eva Longoria, is a veritable minefield of fragrance samples, ranging from Calvin Klein’s Secret Obsession to Paris Hilton’s new Fairy Dust. One of the best things about this issue of Allure, though, is the Beauty 101 guide to perfumes.

The Beauty 101 section in Allure usually features how-to cards with lists of recommended products on the back, but in this issue, the cards instead feature special fragrance offers from Nordstrom!  Allure teamed up with Nordstrom to bring us these fragrance offers for Nordstrom’s Fragrance Festival event.  Many of the tear-out cards are essentially vouchers for free perfume samples, redeemable at Nordstrom’s fragrance counters. [Warning, not all counters carry all the fragrances.] › Continue reading

Tags: Allure, Fragrance, Free Stuff, Nordstroms, samples, scent