Re-Tales: confessions of a shopaholic

Eye Catching

imageIn preparation for my upcoming holiday trip to London, I’ve been putting together a list of packing essentials. Since it’s a long haul from JFK to Heathrow, there’s no way I’m heading overseas without my trusty tube of Bourjois Mini Volume Glamour Ultra Black Mascara – the perfect antidote for perking-up tired, jet-lagged peepers. Try Volume Glamour Mascara and its ultra-thickening formula will give your flappers a major boost.

Ideal for absent-minded girls on the go (including yours truly), Volume Glamour Mascara comes equipped with a handy charm that conveniently clips onto any cell phone, camera or purse. Tote the compact tube around and you’ll never have to worry about misplacing your mascara again. Gimmicky packaging aside, Volume Glamour Mascara’s ingredients are guaranteed to get your pupils dilated. Packed with vitamin B5 and other natural thickening properties such as carnauba and rice wax, Volume Glamour Mascara will give you those sought after Twiggy-style lashes after just one swipe. Plus, the full roller brush adds 50% more volume than you’ll find from traditional drugstore brands.

Now that I carry Volume Glamour Mascara to weddings and tearjerker movies, I no longer need to rummage through my purse to reapply. Now if only I could remember where I left my cell phone.

  • Bourjois Mini Volume Glamour Ultra Black Mascara
  • sephora.com
  • $8 per tube
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Filed: Beauti-Fixation

Saving Face

imageAfter years of basking on the beach with a reflector and baby oil, tanorexia, not surprisingly, has taken its toll on me. My penance: deep set furrows, crows feet, sun spots and nasolabial folds (yes, that’s what they’re called) around my mouth. Since I’ll do almost anything to delay those dreaded Restylane injections, I’m often a sucker for the latest anti-ageing skincare to hit the market. The latest miracle worker I can’t live without: Boots No7 Restore & Renew – a cult British-based beauty serum.

Since launching stateside this summer, Restore & Renew has become the crème de la crème in skincare. Packed with antioxidants (free radical fighters that slow down the ageing process) and other skin-firming ingredients that help boost and maintain your skin’s elasticity, this hypo-allergenic healer is the next best thing to a daily facial. While praised for reducing the appearance of pores, fine lines and wrinkles, Restore & Renew’s real appeal is its price. At only $21.99 a pop, what’s not to love?

Having used Restore & Renew religiously for the past two weeks, my complexion already looks and feels more radiant. Due to its light and non-greasy texture, my cheeks are baby-butt soft and the sun-damaged skin on my décolletage is more even-toned and, dare I say, tighter. In fact, Madonna, Keira Knightley and Teri Hatcher even swear by it. No wonder stores like CVS and Target are constantly on back order. Give Restore & Renew a try and you just might save yourself the pain and price of having to go under the knife.

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  • Boots No7 Restore & Renew Beauty Serum
  • boots.com
  • $21.99
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Fashion Junkie’s New Editor Blog On LouLouMagazine.com

Calling all web junkies! I’m proud to report that you can now read about my daily confessions and obsessions on the “new and improved” louloumagazine.com (the Canadian equivalent of Lucky magazine, but with a more European twist). Check out my very own Editor Blog for more of the same insider fashion and beauty buzz that you’ve come to know (and love!) on Fashion Junkie.

Happy shopping!

xo
Fashion Junkie

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Shop Femme

imageGot a shopping “problem”? Our friends at ShopFemme.com can help. ShopFemme.com was created to help 3 types of women:

1) Women with products to sell,
2) Shop-a-holics who’d like to get rid of the “spender’s guilt,”
3) and Women in need of support, shelter and care.

Need a new coat, handbag or holiday gift? Come to ShopFemme.com and browse products made for women by women – click to buy, and a percentage of your purchase is donated to charities that benefit women!

Visit our charities page to see how much has been donated so far!

This holiday season you can feel good about spoiling your loved ones (and yourself) with awesome gifts from ShopFemme.com!

And… if you are in NYC, please come to the ShopFemme.com launch party on Tuesday, December 11th from 7 ‘til 9pm. There will be cocktails, appetizers, networking and of course SHOPPING! 100% of the ticket price and 20% of ALL purchases will be donated to Dress for Success.

Tickets are $40 for general admission and $25 for Femme Members. When you become a member, they’ll send you a voucher to get your discounted ticket!

Click here to buy your general admission ticket today!

Shop for the Holidays. Shop for a Cause. Shop Femme.

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Filed: Clothes Encounters

Knit Wit

imageIt’s not every day that you discover an up-and-coming designer in her late-seventies. Evelyn Goldstein, a self-taught knitter who took up the trade as a teen because it was “the fashionable thing to do” back in the day, has turned her one-time hobby into a commercial enterprise. Now pushing 80, Evelyn’s knack for needles has inadvertently blossomed into a namesake knitwear line of luxe scarves, toques, shawls, capelets and adorable baby clothes. In fact, she’s currently knitting a pint-sized cardigan for my 14-month old nephew.

Far more fashionable and affordable than anything I’ve seen in big name department stores, Evelyn’s itch-free knitwear designs are real head-turners. Made from the finest quality machine-washable fabrics such as chenille, acrylic and wool, each one-of-a-kind piece is embellished with her signature fringes, eyelets or intricate loops. Evelyn’s coveted chenille scarves are intentionally made extra long so you can double-wrap ’em around the nape of your neck. Her buttery soft accoutrements are so stylish, my shopping-obsessed friend Ellyn is planning on wearing her recently purchased burgundy scarf well beyond winter months.

Looking for something bespoke? Ask Evelyn and she’ll whip-up whatever you want in a variety of seasonal shades such as lime green, grey, aubergine and rust. Now that I’m the proud owner of several over-sized scarves, I never walk outside without one wrapped around my neck. But that might also be due to the fact that this septuagenarian seamstress also happens to be my aunt.

  • Evelyn Goldstein Knitwear
  • email dara@fashionjunkie.com for custom orders
  • $50-$100
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Filed: Clothes Encounters