Throughout April, we have been running a promotion on our Facebook fan page.
With only one week left, we wanted to expand the program in order to reach our blog readers, whoever you are. Hello? Is there anybody out there? :)
Well, if you are, Become a Fan (or LIKE) Mystique Boutique on Facebook and you'll have the chance to get a 15% discount on all merchandise at Mystique Boutique. With a selection of authentic, already heavily discounted merchandise such as Guess Purses, Coach Handbags, discontinuedMAC Cosmetics, Victoria's Secret merchandise (lingerie, swimwear, clothing, and shoes!), it's well worth a click or two to become a fan of Mystique Boutique on Facebook.
Our selection of merchandise rotates frequently, so you'll always find something new, rare, and within your budget, especially those wonderful discontinued cosmetics you liked so much. (Can we say MAC Hello Kitty?)
There's one week left for the promotion, so become a fan today and tell all of your friends to do so as well so you can take advantage of the 15% discount!
*Terms of Offer: 15% discount is an exclusive offer to Facebook fans of Mystique Boutique, and will only be awarded if the fan page reaches 500 fans by midnight, pacific time, on April 30, 2010.
If you missed the latest Makeup Show in LA, or if you're an east coaster, The Makeup Show NYC is going to be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion on May 16th and 17th.
Tickets are currently on sale for this fabulous cosmetics event. Included in The Makeup Show are various cosmetics exhibitors, including Smashbox, L'Oreal, Inglot and, our personal favorite, MAC Cosmetics. Also present will be various film, television, theater, and fashion makeup artists, in addition to leaders in business and education, to offer training for attendees to this event.
Take Makeup 101 and Understanding Photography to help you break into the cosmetics industry as a makeup artist.
Sounds exciting! Wish we could go!
Thinking about attending, but don't know what to expect? Check out the latest event - The Makeup Show LA.
What a wonderful mother/daughter bonding experience. What's better is that the clothing line is set to be affordable, and not expensive designer wear. This is crucial for anyone in this tough economy, but even more important for young teenagers whose parents can't afford the finer things in life. In fact, most of us can't afford those finer things these days.
Kudos to Madonna and Lola for their joint venture together. We wish them all the luck.
Marie Claire features Jessica Simpson without make-up on, with a photo that wasn't re-touched in any photo editing software on the cover of the magazine, so the claim has been made.
It's not just Jessica, either. The entire issue of Marie Claire is full of photos that haven't been retouched.
New York Magazine makes an excellent point, however, about this seemingly bold move:
"...maybe they could go a step further and try not retouching women who aren't in their twenties, and show those signs of age most magazines would like us to believe are freakish and not normal."
Excellent point. In fact, I would go a step further and ask that they not retouch their celebrities who are much older, say in their 50s...Or maybe that's asking too much. After all, I barely have the courage to allow a photo taken of me without make-up for the family photo album.
I really love the smokey eye look in this image to the right. I found this photo via Zemanta on flickr. The photo is called Carbon Black M.A.C. Eyeshadow Smokey Eyes, by dreamglow pumpkincat210. I think the smokey eye look really complements her green eyes, or maybe it's just the green eye that I like so much. I really can't decide which it is. But I'm sure you'll agree, this image and make-up job is fantastic, and was done entirely by using MAC Cosmetics. She also has several other photos of make-overs and eye make-up tricks she's done, so go check out her page and her photos. You'll find some great eye make-up tips and techniques there.
Not into this particular smokey eye? Check out a few more examples on Google images. As you can see, there are various ways to achieve this look using various shades of gray, black, and even purples and violets. Some use matte shades, while others add a bit of shimmer to their look. There are a number of styles to the smokey eye, and your options are limitless.
Also, check out this video of MAC Make-up artist Chantal Miller doing the Smokey eye on a Ford Model from YouTube.
Try out the Smokey Eye look using your favorite make-up or MACCosmetics eye colors. Try the look and take photos, and send them to:
It used to be that the only way to find a good deal was to take a day off work to hit a sample sale and try to find the goodies you wanted without getting decked in the process.
Sometimes, you'd get lucky and find a great deal on a beautiful designer handbag at a consignment shop, or maybe I nice designer inspired bag or a knock off at the flea market. But this often meant days of bargain shopping after hours of driving to find that one, perfect item.
With Internet shopping, however, the need for the above is a thing of the past. While you can still stumble onto great deals at swap meets, it's much easier, economical, and possible to find your perfect designer merchandise online at sites like ebay, ecrater, and google products.
Even not talking about designer merchandise at extremely discounted prices, all of your shopping, if you do it online, can be discounted. Gone are the days when paying full price for something is necessary. If you shop around online at different web sites, even department store web sites, you can simply keep looking until you find the lowest possible price.
We're stunned, however, that many people are still finding themselves paying more for their merchandise than necessary. A simple Google search would prevent this from ever happening.
Take designer handbags, for instance. There are a slew of online retailers who are able to sell designer handbags at extremely discounted prices. How do they do it? Often they are slightly used purses or customer returns to department stores. Maybe they have a small, hardly noticeable flaw in them. Whatever the reason, these small-time retailers are able to purchase these items at wholesale prices from major department stores who can't or won't sell them in store. Because these small-time online retailers have fewer costs to deal with than a large department store, they are able to pass on extreme savings to you while still making a nice profit for themselves.
Many online shoppers, however, are wary of purchasing items from individuals online, or small-time web sites. It's hard to trust these small businesses, or any business done over the Internet, due to a variety of factors. Many are worried about their credit card information being mishandled, while others are just worried that they'll pay for an item they will never receive.
Not to worry, though. There are way to protect yourself and still get that ultra-hot deal on your new Coach handbag. Almost all of these small-time e-commerce sites accept multiple forms of payment, and most of them accept PayPal, including Ebay merchants. When using PayPal, the concern of not knowing who you are buying from becomes a non-issue, because your credit card and payment information is being handled by a reputable online company, not a small-business owner doing business out of her spare bedroom. Furthermore, if you never receive your merchandise, or the product that arrives isn't what you paid for, you can file a dispute with Paypal and get your money back. This takes the anxiety out of online bargain shopping.
It's not just PayPal, either. Google Checkout is another payment option that some small online businesses accept as well.
So whether you're looking for a new television set, or want a great discount on a designer handbag you otherwise wouldn't be able to afford, just do a Google Products search to start with and let your fingers do the shopping. You'll be amazed at the awesome deals you'll find online for everything you want, need, or dream of having. You get the price you can afford, and the security of dealing with reputable payment companies to protect your personal information and your online purchases.
We've been doing business online selling discount cosmetics since 2007. We got our start on ebay, and for anyone who loves MAC Cosmetics and shops on ebay, you'll know when we tell you that there are a lot of fakes out there being passed off as the real thing. The fakes have gotten so great, it's often hard to tell the difference.
We wanted to show you some YouTube videos or give you some photos and ideas of what exactly to look for when you determine if your MAC makeup is real or fake, but much of the information online is horribly outdated and/or incorrect. Also, when MAC changes how they package their products, what used to look like an authentic item, will look fake, and vice versa.
So, if you really want to know if your MAC Make up is authentic, do what we do. Have it authenticated at your local MAC Cosmetics store. Just take your make-up items to the mall or other MAC Cosmetics store location and ask them to authenticate your products for you. They will let you know if your cosmetics are the real deal or complete phonies.
It's important to note that, if you're buying your MAC Cosmetics online, use a service such as paypal whenever possible. That way, if your cosmetics turn out to be totally fake, you'll have an easier time getting your money back.
On the flip side, as an online retailer, the amount of misinformation on the web about authentic vs. fake MAC has actually harmed our business. We go through great pains to ensure that our MAC, and our other designer merchandise, is 100% authentic, and often, the wrong online information via videos, articles, and hear say has caused some of our own customers to wrongly assert that we sold them a fake product. Don't trust the online sources to help you determine whether or not your cosmetics are the real thing. If you aren't sure about the authenticity, have them checked by the companies themselves. This is true for cosmetics as well as designer handbags. Have your products authenticated before you demand a refund and possibly return a perfectly good, authentic product. It hurts you and the retailer.
While we want everyone to be able to afford their designer merchandise and cosmetics, we also want you all to get the authentic products, and not the knock-offs. Discount or not, you deserve the best. :)
This takes "beauty" to a whole new level. While browsing around the web, we found an old post showing Celebrities Without Makeup. While we don't want to link to the site from here (as there is a bit of questionable content included that many of us would rather not see - ahem), we still felt it prudent to talk about celebrities and the idea of what beauty truly is.
Thankfully, we found a more appropriate blog showing Celebrities Without Makeup. We particularly like the one of Heidi Klum. We also love this blog because, while it's honest, it's not horribly cruel. Why do we like that? Because it's important for everyone to see that these women are not ugly without makeup. They just look like normal people! They look like you and I.
Why is this an important thing to realize? Beauty magazines, while excellent resources for fashion and make-up trends, advice, and products, are often the source of low self-esteem. We see women in magazines, commercials, television shows, or just on the runway, and they seem supremely beautiful. How do they do it? With lots of make-up, hair stylists, and an over-boiling fashion budget (with occasional freebies from their good friends Michael Kors and Kenneth Cole to lovingly sport on the runway). The truth of the matter is, without all of these things, they look like you and I - normal women just going about their day buying groceries, dropping the kids off at school, taking the dog for a walk, and other every day normal activities.
While it's nice to know that underneath all that make up, celebrities really are just like us, it's also nice to know that with the right products and make up techniques, we can easily look like them as well. Even a few minimal additions like mascara, lip gloss and simple hairstyle can change our appearance and our confidence level. The problem that presents itself is that it's difficult finding the best products at the prices we can afford. After all, while celebrities themselves may look like us, their bank accounts look nothing like ours do!
However, if you search the web on sites like ebay, ecrater, and the like, you'll find a lot of great deals on designer merchandise, cosmetics, and even lingerie. At Mystique Boutique (see upper right corner for more info), we carry a great deal of MAC Cosmetics and Designer Handbags at low prices every day, giving you the opportunity to have that celebrity look without the celebrity budget.
Whether you want to look like a celebrity or not, we hope you at least walk away from this article with a renewed sense of self-esteem. These women, while beautiful in their own unique ways, are not superior in their appearances. They just have great make-up artists. ;-)
What is this blog about? We have a few aspirations for this blog that it's hard to know where to begin.
We hope this blog will serve as an information portal to the world of fashion and cosmetics, particular designer labels like Victoria's Secret, MAC Cosmetics, Guess, Coach, Michael Kors, and others. Fashion news, Make-up tips, and wardrobe advice are just a few of the things we hope to cover in Discount Designer Merchandise.
Lastly, we hope to also inform our soon-to-be readers about the great discounts that our store, Mystique Boutique, offers for the above designers and more. If you're interested in some designer label bargain shopping, just click the link to the upper right side of this page to find discount, authentic designer merchandise.
If you like what you see here, or you're anxious to read more before we've had the chance to post helpful information here on this blog, you're more than welcome to check out our articles featured on EzineArticles.com. We are particularly proud of our first article, "Guess Purses - Accessorizing for the Rest of Us". We encourage you to read it and let us know what you think about it, either on Ezine Articles or here.
We hope you'll enjoy reading this blog as much as we'll enjoy writing it. Don't forget to follow us - we can be followed on twitter, facebook, or via the blogger follow buttons you see on the right. You can always just subscribe via our RSS feed as well.
We are a discount online retailer selling authentic designer handbags, cosmetics, and lingerie from Guess, Victoria's Secret, MAC Cosmetics, Coach, Michael Kors, and more. Check us out at:
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