The Beauty Bunny

In honor of their 25th Boutique Birthday Summer Collection, Shu Uemura is offering complimentary shipping on orders of $75 or more. No promo code required!
The Boutique Birthday Summer Collection for 2008 includes 3 fragrances and 3 makeup palettes, each themed to either Rose (flowers), Terre (earth), or Source (water). There’s also a shimmer liquid eyeliner, [...]

Nordstrom is preparing yet another beauty event that’ll be pillaging my checking account: their annual Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Beauty Exclusives. The event runs from July 18th through August 3rd and will feature a very limited supply of goods from over 100 beauty brands, including MAC, Chanel, NARS, Kiehl’s, Laura Mercier, Dior, Bobbi Brown and Philosophy.
So [...]

Pollinator Week is over, but the fun’s just begun! The winners of the five free Burt’s Bees Radiance Kits are…
Cathy C., Michele, Debbie D., Amanda, and Judith G.!
Congrats, ladies! You should be receiving an email from me shortly with instructions on what to do next. Thanks so much to all the girls who participated - [...]

You all-natural babes will dig Future Natural, a new Sephora-esque online beauty retailer with an organic bent. Refreshingly, the store doesn’t hold the popular attitude that going green can’t be sexy. Check out the press release:

It’s time to overspend yet again, ladies! Starting today, Japanese makeup giant Shu Uemura is offering 20% off plus FREE shipping on all online orders! Simply enter the promotion code SHUSUMMER upon checkout. These great savings will end on June 29th, so hurry up and blow your paycheck already!

With summer here, it’s more important than ever to be knowledgeable about protecting skin from the sun. You probably know that SPF measures a product’s ability to protect skin from UVB rays, but here’s a new acronym you might not be familiar with: EPF.
EPF is short for Environmental Protection Factor and measures the potency of [...]

Yes ladies, it’s time for another fabulous giveaway! June 22 – 28 is National Pollinator Week, and Burt’s Bees wants to give these little pollinators their moment in the spotlight for all the work they do in providing us with healthy products that keep us looking BEE-autiful. We’re giving away FREE Burt’s Bees Radiance [...]

Just in case you still have any cash after the onslaught of cosmetics Friends and Family Events, here’s another great sale for you: HauteLook is featuring Smashbox Cosmetics for sale until 11:00 PM PST tonight!
If you’ve never been to HauteLook before, you should really check it out. The site organizes private sales of items from [...]

Okay, ladies, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the winners of the three free Akasha SPINLASH mascaras are…
Amy, Karen R and Kari F!
Congratulations, girls! You’ll be receiving an email from me shortly with what you need to do next to get your free SPINLASH.
Here are the winners’ comments about what bugs them [...]

Just a reminder that today is the last day to get your entry in for the three free tubes of SPINLASH we are giving away!

Hurry up and go comment on the contest post about your biggest problem with mascara. Tomorrow I’ll be announcing the 3 lucky ladies who’ve got a SPINLASH shipping directly to them [...]

Remember my idea for keeping track of when your makeup expires by writing the purchase date on your products with a White-Out pen? Here’s an even smarter idea.
Timestrips are useful little stickers that track both time and temperature with an indicator that changes color when a product has gone kaput. Stick them on your new [...]

The savings continue! Kiehl’s has joined in the Friends and Family fun with a 20% discount starting today and ending on Wednesday, June 18th. This one can be used both in-store and online - I love a beauty brand that understands my techy side.
Best of all, orders from Kiehls.com get FREE ground shipping for purchases [...]

So apparently June is the official Friends and Family Discount Month - for cosmetics companies, at least. You’d think they’d tell me about those kinds of holidays ahead of time so I could start saving up. MAC Cosmetics is jumping on board with a 15% discount at all of its freestanding and MAC Pro stores [...]

Acclaimed publication Women’s Wear Daily, who covered the Total Beauty Summit I attended in May, published an article about the event with some very nice things to say about us bloggers. Here’s the article so that you ladies who don’t already subscribe to WWD can read all about our adventures:

Okay, ladies - since you guys loved my review of SPINLASH so much, the great people at Akasha have agreed to give three lucky readers a FREE Spinlash of their very own!

Here’s how it works: to enter, comment on this post and tell me what your biggest problem with mascara is. Does it always clump [...]

Check out this great sale Melissa from The Makeup Divas posted about - thanks, Melissa!
Trendy cosmetics company Vincent Longo is providing their “friends and family” with the 30% employee discount for the entire month of June. And because we bloggers keep up with these things, you lucky readers are now friends and family!
I, for [...]

French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has passed away today at the age of 71.
Pierre Berge, St. Laurent’s longtime friend & associate, reported to the press that Yves died this evening in his Paris home following a long illness. The reclusive designer (whose full name was Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent - what a [...]

I attended “Transform From Within”, a spring beauty event at 35 Makeup Design in Rice Village on Tuesday, and I have to say I was impressed with their wild style. Who knew local beauty could be so colorful?

For all my fellow Sex & The City lovers out there - ShopDiary.com is running a giveaway to honor the greatly anticipated big screen arrival of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte in Sex & The City: The Movie!

I heard a lot of enlightening information on beauty products at the Total Beauty Blog Summit, but one of my favorite sessions came from Christina Marcaccini, the founder of Raw Natural Beauty. Christina told us a lot of things I didn’t know about the mineral makeup trend and all-natural beauty products in general, some of [...]

Fellow Houstonians should check out the “Transform From Within” spring beauty event being held next Tuesday at 35 Make-up Design, a designer cosmetics boutique near Rice Village. The event will be held on the 27th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm and will feature guest makeup artists providing complimentary consultations to attendees.
Getting in only requires a [...]

If you readers love free product as much as I do, you’ll adore the latest giveaway on The Daily Obsession. From today until May 25th, TDO is running a contest for a batch of free Clinique goodies (with a $230 retail value!) - and all you have to do to enter is comment and let [...]

Hola, ladies! I’m back from Total Beauty’s Community Summit in LA, where I had a fabulous time hanging out with my fellow beauty bloggers. Expect more pictures soon - I actually had to get them developed because like a nerd, I took my digital camera but left my SD card at home. Smooth, huh?
Total Beauty [...]

Cailin’s off to Los Angeles for the weekend, girls! Total Beauty, one of my blog networks, is holding a big summit over there for us beauty bloggers. Read about it here: Press Release

Pretty snazzy, huh? I got a great little Flip USB video camera too, so maybe I’ll record you guys some video blogs of [...]

Hey guys! As you may have noticed, our site’s layout has changed again. I know the last layout change was less than a month ago, but I love this new one! (Props to my hubby for helping me out on it…you rock, babe!) I think the new layout makes it a lot easier to find [...]

French fashion designer Thierry Mugler scored a hit in the beauty world with his fragrance Angel - now he’s releasing a new luxury makeup line called “The Art of the Metamorphosis” (must be a French thing…) Here’s a couple of the standouts:

My fellow blogger Nadine just hooked me up with the details on Dove’s press release for tomorrow, since she got an exclusive advance copy today (and got invited to the annual Step Up Women’s Network Inspirational awards - jealous!) If you haven’t been keeping up with the airbrushing debacle, here’s the rundown: photographer Pascal Dangin [...]

Amber is a new blogger joining our team here at TheBeautyBunny.com

Hey, girls! You may have noticed that things are changing around here at The Beauty Bunny - our layout’s different, and today we’re debuting author avatars, which is that lil’ picture of me up there in the corner. (Aren’t I a doll? It’s not easy being this gorgeous, but we try.) There’s also avvies on [...]

Famed French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier excited metrosexuals everywhere yesterday when his new line of man makeup debuted. It’s called, appropriately, Monsieur, and he’s referring to them as “aesthetic enhancement” products (presumably so that manly types don’t kill themselves with the thought of wearing - gasp - makeup). The line includes facial cleanser, toner, [...]

Hey, kittens! Sorry for any troubles you may have been experiencing with my site in the past couple minutes - I’ve been putting the final touches on TheBeautyBunny.com’s new look! What do you think? Some of the navigation and stuff has changed, so I’m open to suggestion…kind of. Post me a comment and I’ll consider [...]

How thin is too thin? As reported by the Los Angeles Times, France may soon decide just that. Judges would be asked to enforce new legislation aimed at websites and fashion advertising that they think encourage eating disorders (namely, anorexia). Whether or not this legislation will be instituted is up for a decision in coming [...]

   Yet another reason not to put on makeup behind the wheel: TMZ reported that Britney Spears caused a car wreck last week on when she was applying makeup while driving!
According to the California Highway Patrol, Britney drove her white 2008 Mercedes into the back of a ‘06 Nissan as the popwreck drove on [...]

Evan Rachel Wood seems to have gone from channeling Hollywood screen goddess Marilyn Monroe to boy(?)toy Marilyn Manson - she was photographed looking super gothy at a movie screening in NYC on Tuesday, according to TMZ. While I’m normally more of the blonde bombshell type and I think she took the pale skin a [...]

Guess what, ladies? This is my 100th post! That’s right, the Beauty Bunny has given you one hundred different blatherings about makeup. Rather than fabricating some silly “Happy 100th Postiversary” holiday (I much prefer Postivus, myself), I’ve decided to show you guys some of my favorite posts and products in the Beauty Bunny’s illustrious history. [...]

You may have heard that Stacey Ferguson, AKA Fergie, is MAC’s latest Viva Glam spokeswoman. Well, Fergie’s remix of the hit “Glamorous” (called “Viva Glamorous”, recorded with PoetNameLife) is available for FREE download for a limited at MAC’s website. Also, check out the Viva Glam E-cards! They’re also only free for a limited time, and [...]

Want another reason to be jealous of Elle Macpherson? As reported by OK! Magazine, Elle is going from “The Body” to “The Face” - she’s now a global representative of the Revlon brand. Macpherson will be featured in a worldwide advertising campaign and take part in Revlon-sponsored philanthropic efforts. Hrmph. As if six Sports Illustrated [...]

Get ready for some science, girls! The latest buzz in beauty and skincare products surrounds nanotechnology, which basically means the manipulation of extremely small particles. The idea is, teeny tiny ingredients can get deeper into the skin, contact more skin layers, and work faster. Some cosmetics companies are using nanotechnology to break down normal active [...]

Every girl’s got one. Here’s the stuff I just won’t make it through 2008 without:
1. Too Faced Pink Leopard Bronzing Powder: have you SEEN this?? It’s too adorable!! Playful patterns are in, and I’ve got a weakness for leopard!
2. The Art of Makeup by Kevyn Aucoin: I already own the late artist’s book Face Forward, [...]

World-famed fashion designer Valentino Garavani, pioneer of the respected fashion house Valentino, has retired. He showed his final collection for Spring 2008 Wednesday night. Valentino has been a tour de force in couture for 45 years. Despite Valentino’s age (he is seventy-five years old), he has been encouraged by fellow hauttie Karl Lagerfeld to reconsider [...]

Okay, I know it’s the middle of January, but I need some time to choose my New Year’s resolutions. I can’t just make decisions for the whole year in one day! Here’s what I want out of my looks this year:
1. Take better care of my teeth. White teeth are the key to a healthy [...]

So by now you probably all know the tragic news that Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist has passed away. Uemura died of pneumonia at age 79 on December 29th. He was an amazing influence on the world of cosmetics, so I’d like to do a small tribute to his work here.
Shu Uemura was a [...]