Dior Free Gift with Purchase

For those who are fans of Dior beauty products this is for you! I've been hanging out for this kind of free gift promotion, since I bled dry my bottle of Dior Skin foundation #031. It's a great liquid mineral foundation, that leaves a matte finish and doesn't leave your skin feeling oily by the end of the day.

I'm not going to post a pic of my very manky used up bottle but will say it takes a lot of convincing for me to go back and buy the same foundation. The only one I have bought over and over again is The Body Shop's All in One powder foundation #5 (probably about 5 times over a few years!).


The email states:

As a valued MYER one Member, you’re invited to be one of the first to experience this beautiful gift from Dior. When you purchase 2 products from the Dior Range*, you will receive this gorgeous Dior Beauty Pouch containing:

• Capture Totale Cream 15ml
• Mini 5 Couleurs Iridescent in Petal Shine
• Mini Diorshow Mascara in Black 5ml
• Mini Dior Addict Ultra Gloss Reflect in Organdi Pink 5ml
• Mini Hypnotic Poison Eau de Toilette 5ml.

Conditions of Offer: Offer available from 27/07/09 until 16/08/09 or while stock lasts. *One gift per Member. Two or more Dior products must be purchased in one transaction. Offer not available with the purchase of gift packs or promotional offers. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Dior 6 piece gift not available Albury, Ballarat, Belconnen, Bendigo, Brookside, Colonnades, Dubbo, Logan, Orange, Tuggeranong, Wagga and Werribee.

Quick note, some of you have asked how come I only get these types of offers as you haven't received them in your own inbox. The reason is that I've hit gold membership, but only cos I bought a few big ticket items last year like my laptop!

Til next week.
Lots of love, Little J

Some winter loving...

I have mixed feelings about winter, there are days like the past week where I have felt like I have been drowning in exhaustion in amidst of the cold, from the busy-ness of work, study at night, the house plans and planning with KK our trip to Japan.

Winter moments like these remind me of the song A Few Days Down, by Mandy Moore I love release it give me in acknowledging how I feel, all the mental and physical fatigue and my current state of incoherent-ness. This is a gorgeous old song that almost gives you the right to pull out chockies and indulge while watching a chick flick with some piping hot tea underneath your favourite throw rug (which is what winter is all about!).

That’s what I did last night I watched the movie PS I Love You starring Hilary Swank. She’s not an actress that I would peg to do a chick flick particularly with all the drama/action films she’s previously done but I really her as the heart warming and funny Holly.

How I ended up watching this movie because I started reading the book last Monday (written by Cecelia Ahern) and I was drawn to the story. Every night I had been reading it chapter by chapter and I finished all 500 pages of the book by Saturday.

It’s a beautiful yet sad love story about a woman who was deeply in love with her husband and soul mate and he was taken away from her because of a brain tumour. She is left feeling lost and holding on to his memory; even after his death he helps her in her transition by masterminding a series of letters not only to help her move on, but also from just existing in life to living each moment.

The book and movie brought so many tears to my eyes, a scene from the movie that that was real a tear jerker was after her husband’s wake. She goes home feeling displaced and afraid knowing she would not hear his voice again, she keeps calling his phone to hear his voice (from his voicemail) crawling in the foetal position finding a reason to hold on. For any one that has loved, this story makes you feel what true heart break resembles.

Click here for a preview, I really recommend it and hope you enjoy the movie if you watch it!

Til next week, lots of love Little J.

Cue Sale

For the next three days Cue is having sale of 20% off everything including sale items at their stores and at Myer.

All you need is your Cue card or try printing the image out and using it as voucher. If all else fails and you've found something you love let me know, I'll print the email out for you!

Lots of love, Little J.

The red lipstick...

The perfect combination with your little black dress, but you would never think you’d need to do a double take on your favourite lippy.

I recently received an email forwarded from EC, sent to her from person who works at a breast cancer unit Mt. Sinai Hospital, in Toronto (you may have come across it). It's about lippies that contain Lead, a Dioxin Carcinogens that causes cancer. The longer a lipstick lasts the more Lead is in it.

Normally, I would delete these emails because almost everything causes cancer these days, but as I was going out the other day and about to put on my red lippy I remembered the email naming Shiseido as one of the companies that used Lead as an ingredient.

So I did a quick test, from the instructions of the email:

1. Put some lipstick on your hand.

2. Use a Gold ring to scratch on the lipstick

3. If the lipstick colour changes to black

Then you know the lipstick contains lead.

The Shiseido is the third one from the top which went completely black after a few rubs with the original colour below it, a contrasting deep red.

I tested my two of my other lipsticks a Body Shop (top) and Dior Addict (second from the top) and the colour remained the same.

The email named the following brands to have used lead in their lippies:

- CHRISTIAN DIOR

- LANCÔME

- CLINIQUE

- Y.S.L

- ESTEE LAUDER

- SHISEIDO

- RED EARTH (Lip Gloss)

- CHANEL (Lip Conditioner)

Okay don’t fret about you beauty collection, I’m not saying you should ditch all you lipsticks from these listed brands (I’m not prepared to ditch all of mine either), but be aware of what you use and do the quick test. After all you life shouldn’t come down to the use of a lipstick. Goodbye red lippy!

Lots of love, Little J.

Lancome freebies!

We all love our free samples but it's even better when you get more than expected.

The freebie is for anyone possessing a Myer One card. You'll get a 15ml Hydra Zen moisturiser (which is half the size of a standard moisturiser), 3ml Hydra Zen eye cream and a 1ml soothing serum.

Here's the link for the voucher https://www.myerone.com.au//myerone/downloads/LancomeZen_voucher.pdf

Remember, you've got til Sunday or while their stocks last.

Enjoy, lots of love Little J

Hunch

Check it out the new website hunch.com if you are ever stuck on decision ask hunch!

I came across it while watching a morning breakfast show, they were talking about this new website that helps you make smart decisions, based on the information you tell Hunch and the collective knowledge of cyber space.

It’s set up so when you log in, you can teach Hunch about you from the random questions asked of you, from your likes and dislikes, what are your habits, your views on contentious topics with multi choice answers that you pick as your answer.

Some of the questions I’ve been asked are ‘when was the last time you blew a dandelion?’, ‘Have you ever attended a political protest, march, or rally?’, ‘do you make your bed every day?’ and if you don’t like what’s been asked of you just hit the skip button. Although these questions that teach Hunch about you might seem like a lot of work, they’re not and can be quite addictive. They just sit in the top right hand corner and you can answer as much or as little as you like with the click of a button. I’ve already answered over 200 questions in the few times that I’ve been on this site!

This is a really fun and I asked the question should I buy an iphone? Especially with KK selling me the features and benefits of having an iphone all the time and I know that quite a few of you love and adore this piece of technology. It asked me less than ten questions to decipher what was right for me and guess what check out my result below!

Haha, Mr KK I do not need one!

I also asked the question of where to go on holiday next, since travelling is always on my list of things to do. It asked me what questions like what kind of environment would my holiday be like, such as urban, ocean/beach, mountainous? What atmosphere I would like such as old world charm or vibrant & exciting? What kind of climate I like to visit?

My result Tokyo as #1! My runner ups are number 2 as Israel and 3 as New York!

It works to tailor what would suit me and I have actually been planning to go to Tokyo with KK. Except we maybe going back to Europe for Nice and to Barcelona instead, because of the cheap airfare sales that are on now. There is an Air Asia sale for tickets to London via KL for less than $800 including taxes return! Check out airasia.com for more info.

Anyhoo gtg, til next time lots of love Little J.