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It’s that time of year – Spa Week!

20111007 150259 Its that time of year   Spa Week!Do you know what next week is? Specifically October 10th thru the 16th? It’s Fall Spa Week!!

It’s that magical, bi-annual, time of year when spas across the country are offering $50 spa treatments. And, I’ve very excited this time because there is actually a spa in Oklahoma that is participating this week: Rhanes Spa in Broken Arrow, OK. This just goes to show that us Oklahomans like our cheap spa treatments, too! I’m hoping that other spas around me join up for the next go ’round so I don’t have to drive so far to participate.

What about you? Are you going to enjoy a spa treatment next week? What are you going to enjoy?

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TAGGED! The Proactiv 12 Days of Christmas

Yesterday I got a tweet from Jeannine at BeautySweetSpot.com that said: “Oh yea and @oldergirlbeauty I tagged you in this campaign! Create a video and @proactiv will donate $100 to your fave charity too!”. Well, of course I was intrigued to find out what was up, esp if it involved charity.

Turns out that she had been chosen to participate in Proactiv’s “12 Days of Christmas” program where she made a video about her favority Proactiv product & they donated $200 to the charity of her choice. As you can see in her video here that she is donating to NYC based charity “Women in Need”. She was also allowed to pick another person to donate $100 to their favority charity & I was lucky enough be “tagged”. Check out my video about being tagged:

As you see, I wanted to continue the spirit of the BeautyBloggers.org charity auction I participated in during the holidays and am donating my $100 to Doctors Without Borders, so they can continue the great work they are doing.

I want to give a big thanks to Proactiv for the contribution in my name and to Jeannine for tagging me in the first place! icon smile TAGGED! The Proactiv 12 Days of Christmas

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Beauty bloggers helping "Doctors Without Borders"

This past Friday, the lovely Karla, from KarlaSugar.net, and I were interviewed by the local OKC Fox Affliate, KOKH Fox 25, about Karla’s charity brainchild – BeautyBloggers.org

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(*You can check out our video HERE. As they uploaded it as a flash file, I can’t embed it here.)

Here is the official “About” info on the auction/idea:

BeautyBloggers.org is the collaboration of almost 50 different beauty bloggers and brands. In the spirit of the holidays, we wanted to make a meaningful contribution to charity — knowing that the most effective donation to any charity is cash.So we’re putting our makeup on the auction block. Winning bids will be donated directly to Doctors Without Borders.We’re raising money for Doctors Without Borders because women are always disproportionately affected in any disaster. This organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people in crisis, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. They treat rape victims in Papua New Guinea; they make sure women don’t die in childbirth in Pakistan; they helped flood victims in Mexico and earthquake victims in Haiti. They work in 65 countries around the world, and your donation will make an immediate impact. Click here to learn more about MSF

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I’ll just say that I am excited to be a part of this auction & that I was able to be interviewed, along with Karla, to help bring awareness to this great idea. So you know, I donated a Mally Beauty “Rise and Shine 9-piece Long Wear Brightening Collection” that I paid for myself. It’s no longer available on QVC, so this would be a great way to get started with Mally products, if I haven’t already convinced you before now. icon wink Beauty bloggers helping "Doctors Without Borders"

BUT!! *TODAY* is the LAST day of the auction – it ends at *5PM CST*. Now, I know most of you are auction snipers, waiting till the last bit to snatch up that great deal, so this post comes at the right time for you. Get over there and get to bidding! Seriously – you won’t believe the hard to find/cult/LE/Europe only pieces that are available in this thing! And, after you win – come back and tell me what you got!! icon smile Beauty bloggers helping "Doctors Without Borders"

*I also want to make sure you know who else I am lucky enough to be a part of this with, too:

Afrobella, A Girl’s Gotta Spa!, AlyWalansky.com, Armani Beauty, Bay Area Style File, Beauté Cosmetics, Beauty Alchemist, The Beauty Look Book, Bobbi Brown, Cafe Makeup, Cargo, China Glaze, EnKore, Estee Lauder, For the Love of Beauty, Givenchy, Gloss Menagerie, Gouldylox Reviews, Grace Gold for AOL StyleList, KarlaSugar, KraseyBeauty, Lancome, Leonor Greyl, The Makeup Girl, Miss Whoever You Are, Musings of a Muse, My Lips But Better, Nadine Jolie, The Non-Blonde, Older Girl Beauty, OPI, Out in a Pout, Pink Sith, Prime Beauty, Product Girl, Pursebuzz, Renee Rouleau, Sasquatch Swatch, Sicka Than Average, Spoiled Pretty, Talika, Three Custom Color Specialists, and Votre Vu

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The plus-size accessories search

I don’t usually wear accessories for a litany of reasons. Like:

  • I have enough frontage with the “girls” that I don’t need any more reason to draw attention to my chest.
  • I have super sensitive ears, so just about any kind of earrings causing them to get infected.
  • I have fat fingers, so it’s hard to find rings that fit.
  • I have big wrists, so it’s hard to find bracelets that fit.
  • If I find a bracelet that fits, I don’t want to wear it because I type to much & it’s annoying on the desk.
  • A watch? That’s what my cell phone is for. Also: see bracelet issues.
  • I have no reason to wear a hat, so the only chapeau you will find on my head is a ballcap on lazy hair days.
  • Size 11.5W shoes. Really?
  • I drive my mom nuts that I don’t change out my purses more often – the one I’m carrying holds everything, why change?

But, besides that, I would wear extra stuff all. the. time. Okay, yeah, not really. But the Fashion Gods are continuing to conspire to get me to change my ways. This past trip to NYC, they brought out the big guns – seriously.

 The plus size accessories search

(*Alexis, far left, is most definitely not a girl. *swoon*)

I had the opportunity to attend a tweetup at the DVF “Experience Lounge” where CFDA Executive Director Steven Kolb (*he loves some twitter) moderated a discussion panel that included Harper’s Bazaar Accessories Editor Ana Maria Pimentel, jewelers Alexis Bittar, Dean Harris and Philip Crangi, miliner Albertus Swanepoel and shoemaker Alejandro Ingelmo.

 The plus size accessories search

(*look at me listeningly intently – or staring dreamily at the panel eye candy, you decide)

After listening to these heavy hitters discuss how accessories are really a personal thing, in expression and in what grabs you, I was inspired to expand my limited accessories wardrobe when I got home. And this is where I started to get discouraged and would love to get your feedback. Finding plus-size jewelry is hard, and so far I feel that I have been limited to Avenue and I would love some more options – that are *affordable*. I hate feeling like some plus-size products hold my wallet hostage & I give up.

So, can you help a girl who actually WANTS dangly bangles, but is stumped? I would appreciate it!

Thank you for your Natural Instincts contest support!

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Today is the last day to help me try to win the “Natural Instincts Hair Color Contest”. That also means this is the last day that I will have to harass all of you lovely people via Twitter and Facebook to vote for me. Hooray!

While I hope that I haven’t been *too* annoying in my vote begging, I want to take a minute to thank all of the wonderful lovelies that have shown me so much support during this voting period. The following beauties were generous enough to share the contest with their blog readers and I want to make sure that you go over and support them, too:

And, I can’t even *begin* to list all of the wonderful folks that have supported me on twitter by RT’ing my begs and letting me know they voted for me and cheered me on via @messages. I sincerely appreciated every single one of your votes/messages/comments that you have left me on my site & on other folks. Not gonna lie – the warm wishes are a bit overwhelming, yet I wholeheartedly lap up each and every one of them. icon wink Thank you for your Natural Instincts contest support!

So, consider this my final beg for your last daily vote on the Natural Instincts contest page, with a side of appreciation thrown in for good measure. xo


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