Hello-Hello and Happy Friday!
We are a tad crazed and dazed here at the Prepatorium, preparing to head to the spring market, getting the housekeeper/housesitter settled in (sadly, he is allergic to Tilly, so she gets to visit Grandma and Grandpa, it’s rather like spending her time at the Pooch Palace, honestly), attending to all of those details necessary to a good business trip.
We begin with an update to yesterday’s post about online ‘members-only sales’, where we offered suggested reading about the pricing practices at these sales. Today WWD has an oustanding story about the proliferation of online sites offering deeply discounted beauty products.
Gilt.com Smashbox sale via WWD
The story looks at the increasing number of such sites and reactions within the industry. One of the websites mentioned is BeautyTicket.com, and we popped over for a quick visit.
Courtesy BeautyTicket.com
This shop does not require an invitation and they had an interesting mix of merchandise. Bobbi Brown Lotion at $15.99 is nothing to sneeze at, nor is $32.99 for a Laszlo Face Mask easily ignored.
The YSL Highlighter Palette at $18.99 is an outrageous bargain, as is the Smashbox Lipstick Palette at $21.99
Other online options with a focus on beauty products include include Market for Drama and The Fairest.
The story exlains that many of the larger ‘invitation-only’ sites already offer beauty items:
“Some sites say they offer brands a more discreet outlet to sell their wares at a discount. In fact, Rue La La, an invitation-only private sale site with 1.2 million members, declined to discuss what beauty lines it has featured in its 48-hour sales.”
Happy shopping!
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Because we have been fairly restrained of late in our neverending whineathon occasional references to logos we thought it time for an update. Yesterday while perusing the Coterie Blog we discovered there is now a solution for those in need of a lifeboat for their larger watercraft:
Courtesy Photo via Coterie Blog
What a relief. Not in the market? How about having one of these on hand for the next family reunion at the beach, you know that sooner or later there will be a game of touch football.
Courtesy Photo via Nitrolicious
We actually thought it was rather humorous when initially seeing the lifeboat, and reading about a few of the other items on varying fashion websites we follow. Aside from the fact Coco Chanel is doing the proverbial rolling over, it seemed like a small entry into this venue, perhaps an almost tongue-in-cheek effort.
Courtesy photo via Nitrolicious
After all, these aren’t the first sports-related items Chanel has offered, they have been doing any number of products in this genre for years. Then we realized the company has an entire mini-web area devoted to all manner of ‘sporting goods’ (yes, we use that word in the broadest possible sense). And upon reading more about the collection, we now understand the items are being carried in all of the boutiques, so Chanel is clearly serious about the endeavor. Indeed.
(For a look at all of the items head over an visit the always-on-top-of-things Nitrolicious.)
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We approach the weekend planning to park ourselves in front of the teewee for at least some portion of two events. The first is probably of interest to fellow skaters like Little Bow Prep.
Because this is an Olympic year the US Figure Skating Championships are of particular import as this is how our Olympic skating team is selected. Two contenders are shown above, Sasha Cohen (L) and Alissa Czisny (R).
The Mens and Pairs competitions were held last weekend, tonight and tomorrow the Ladies and Ice Dance competitions will play out. Below we see Kimberly Navarro and Brent Bommentre (L) and Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto (R).
We are guessing A Crafty Mom had her eye on the Canadian Championships last week. The European Championships are also underway this weekend in Estonia.
As is said about other sports… it is a matter of inches.
Reuters
Also happening, tonight’s Help for Haiti series of concerts.
May everyone enjoy a stellar weekend!
