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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Sunday, November 23, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
11:58 AM (Pacific)
Our Big Lots here changed 180 degrees. It used to be pretty good. I remember getting, say, a couple mint condition L'Oreal blush sticks...Pink Perle and Plum something. Ack. Not the icy plum one, the other one. The red plum color (might have been called Red Plum). For a few bucks each.
Then they would have any number of discontinued colors of L'Oreal, Bonne Bell, Maybelline, all sorts of stuff, in perfect condition. On the Loose powders, yadda yadda...
This time quite frankly it was awful. They had these Almay lipsticks on cards. The lipsticks...had gone bad. You could see the colors had gotten mottled and messed up. They also had L'Oreal powder blushes and the blushes were all smashed up. Blasphemy really.
Longs Drugs is the one store around here that carries Milani. I've seen Milani online...ulta.com...but the selection is not complete.
The Milani shadows, are sort of like old Jane shadows in that they are different, color-wise. There's one called Storm that looked like an interesting, extremely dark blue, slate color. The purple one, Deep Desire, looked good too. I am really trying to remember Purple Heart and if they are similar.
Java Beans looked like purple with a lot of gold, or bronze actually. Not bright gold. Antique Gold looked quite pretty. It was a dark green with gold.
There's more...Flare reminded me of old Jane "Heavy Metal." It's almost red with some orange and brown. More of a blue eyes color I'd say.
They have other stuff...pencils and so forth...but not impressive.
Now the blush...there are several well-noted subs for Orgasm. I've tried Prestige Silk but it was too orange on me. Then there is Maybelline Pink Tangerine (don't know if they make it anymore) and now this Luminous. Luminous looked pretty in the pan, more pink than orange I'd say.
You want me to CP some Milani for you? It might be a lot easier than trying to find it...outside of Longs Drugs I don't know who else carries it.
Ooooooohhhh...I was gonna mention. They opened a Marshalls reasonably near me. Yay! I was there yesterday but didn't have much time to look thoroughly.
Do you have Marshalls? It's like Ross Dress for Less or T.J. Maxx. A tad more expensive and better stuff.
I will probably get more socks...what I'm doing is replacing my old Costco six-pack socks since they're wearing out. Aside from that they have children's clothes, handbags, shoes, the whole shmeer.
--J.
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