Mirror Mirror on the Wall-MAC Makes Bad Girls Look Good After All!

 OK, admit it ...we all have a little Cruella in us...I know I have my Maleficent Mornings!! Even the Good Witch must have had a bad day!!  but  Oh My Pretty...Just in time for the Haunting Season MAC Cosmetics has released their Venomous Villains Collection- a limited-edition mini collection celebrating Disney's most notorious Evil Dames.

 This Wicked little group of minis with its packaging highlighting the Ladies of Darkness is available just through the end of October and features colors inspired by the likes of such Bad Girls as Cruella de Vil  from 101 Dalmations, The Evil Queen from Snow White, Maleficent  from Sleeping Beauty and even Doctor Facilier,the Bad Fella from The Princess and the Frog.  Lipsticks, Nail Polishes, Eye Shadows and Blushes with names such as Sinister, Vile Violet, Bite of an Apple, Wicked Ways and Revenge is Sweet! help you to pick your poison! MAC has done Limited Edition minis editions before with brands and icons such as  Hello Kitty but this collection casts us spell and brings a smile even on your most sinister day.  Visit Mac Cosmetics, the site is all Disneyed out and you can vote for your favorite Venomous Villain. Charming!!

Facing It!-My Annual Search for a Whole NEW Me!

There is an annual journey I take each year. Determined that This will be the year that I find flawless skin. No more blotchiness, no more breakouts, no more spots,bumps,flakes,pores you can plant potatoes in...no more lines and creases before their time! Is that too much to ask?

I really am not a product junkie..but somehow with each passing year I find more and more jars,bottles,brushes,glosses,STUFF living in my bathroom and still I am back out there on the trail.

Off I go in search of the Dream moisturizer that doesn't make me look older!... A spot concealer that doesn't peel my whole face off.... a mascara that doesn't give me eyelashes that look like One BIG Lash! How about a gloss that actually stays on my lips? I also go on a fragrance safari-sniffing my way around the globe trying to find body lotion that doesn't make me smell like a fruit stand or a fragrance that doesn't put me to bed with a migraine.

It is now March...I am exhausted! and so is my credit card...

I have explored every skincare line known to womankind. Read Every magazine article(PLEASE publication world STOP writing about Getting Great Skin at Any Age-it ain't happening!) Torn ads out of magazines, done on-line skin analysis surveys, printing off the results and carrying them with me-I need how many products???!!

I have spritzed and sniffed and shmeared and dabbed and buffed and brushed and been made up and put down. ENOUGH!

Here's what I learned from this year's odyssey along with some products that I think are worth checking into,obviously everyone's skin care needs and likes are different but hopefully it will help you on your next "I Hate My...."day. Please Visit The Shopping bag Chronicles