Win Avon Breast Cancer Crusade Strap Watch

September 17, 2009 09:24 PM | | Posted in contest, watches, avon, breast cancer awareness

What: One Lucky reader will win an Avon Breast Cancer Crusade Strap Watch

Why You Want it: The watch is part of the Avon collection of products that has donated more than $585 million to the breast cancer causes globally. This silvertone wrist-watch has a ribbon motif on a faux mother-of-pearl dial with a pink croco-embossed strap.

To learn more about Breast Cancer and how to conduct a self breast exam, please head to Breastcancer.org

How to Enter: Enter your #1 stress relieving tip in the comment section below

Contest Details:
- Contest ends September 30th at 11:59pm
- Open to TBF members ages 18 and older, living in the continental US
- One entry per member

Customizable Makeup Palettes

July 24, 2008 09:00 PM | Comments (0) | Posted in make up, beauty_trend, avon, bobbi_brown, mark

What: Tailor-make your beauty with customizable makeup palettes.

What the experts say: What good is a makeup palette if it contains only one or two items that suit you? In steps customizable makeup palettes, which allow you to combine the best of what works for you into one easy-to-use palette.

“Palettes are a great way to organize your makeup and streamline your makeup routine,” makeup artist Bobbi Brown writes on her website. “Pick your favorite shades and custom-fill your choice of palettes. It’s the ultimate in personalized beauty.”

What we say: We love it when we come across a smart idea that simplifies our lives! Think about it: Rather than dig through an overflowing makeup bag filled with tons of product, we can access our go-to colors in one easy-to-use palette. Each palette compact comes empty, and you can pick and choose which items you want to plug into it.

We’ll take this one, and this one, and this one…with Bobbi Brown 4-Pan Palette you can tailor your eyes and cheeks to your liking. The eyeshadows and blushes are on the pricy side—$20 to $22 each—yet provide dazzling results in a spectrum of just-for-you hues. We also dig Prescriptives Colorscope Large Compact , which allows you to piece together a product puzzle of innumerable color combos. For example: Snap in two Cheekcolors and a Highlighter, or do up your eyes with six Eye Color Singles—the options are endless (and slightly less expensive)!

For the ultimate in inexpensive personalization, we’ll be counting on mark Snap To It Mega Custom Color Palette, which allows us to play mad-scientist makeup artist without shelling out to much dough (each Custom Pick Eye Shadow is $4; each Good Glowing Custom Pick Powder Blush is $6).

mark Flip For It Spring Color Kits: Product Review

April 5, 2008 09:51 AM | Comments (0) | Posted in product review, make up, avon, mark, Product Review, beauty product

What: With a soft spot for makeup kits, Robin wants to see if the mark Flip For It Spring Color Kits, $18, are really worth flipping over.

The Lowdown: I love a well-thought-out makeup kit—considering I lose stuff all the time, the all-in-one function is fantastic for me. This kit, which is offered in three color palettes (and named after great cities like South Beach, Sydney and London) has two eye shadows and a blush on one side, and once you flip it over, two lip glosses and two lip colors on the other side. I tried the Sydney, which has pinks and plum hues. The shadows went on silky and had the perfect amount of shimmer. The lip glosses were super shiny, sweet and not sticky.

Yea or Nay: Yea. This compact is going with me everywhere this spring.

Buy It: @ Avon.com

Fashion Advice: Color For the Pasty

July 2, 2006 10:41 AM | Comments (2) | Posted in beauty, fashion advice, make up, color, mac, avon, pastels, elke_von_freudenberg

Dear Budget Fashionista:

I have a very pale complexion, and recently I heard someone say that women with pale skin should wear mainly darker/more intense colours, because it creates a better contrast with their skin. So, my question is: should I stay away from pastel colours?

AYou can wear pastel even if you are fair of skin. In fact, back in the 1980’s, when everyone was totally into the whole “season” look and getting color analyzed, you would have been classified as a “winter”—someone with fairer skin with blue/purple undertones and encouraged to wear pastels. 


The key is pulling off the pastel look when you have pale skin is make-up. Create a more dramatic, color intense mouth (darker pinks), define your eyes with brown eyeliner, and add a smidgen of blush to your cheeks for a little extra coloring. Try make-up from reliable sources like Avon or MAC. If you are unsure how to wear the make-up head over to cosmeticconnection.com or to celebrity make-up artist Elke Von Freudenberg’s Beauty Newsletter, for cosmetic tips.