Author Archives: Mary Hall
Lancôme Show Beauty Collaboration with Alber Elbaz Launches
Are you a sucker for the packaging that your cosmetics come in? Who doesn’t want products that make them feel like they will look gorgeous? If you want to dress your cosmetics to impress, then check out the new packaging dressing up the Lancome show eye products. Alber Elbaz, Lanvin artistic director created stunning, feminine [...]
Zac Posen Announces Wedding Dress Collection for David’s Bridal
David’s Bridal is bringing in hot designer Zac Posen to create a six-gown collection of bridal dresses that will be sold online and in 50 stores February 2014. The line is not cheap but is lowered priced than many designer bridal gowns on the market today. Prices will range from $850 to $1,350, sizes from [...]
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For the past several days I’ve been in the dry dessert of Las Vegas working at a large event. Coming out to the desert is always hard on your skin, no matter how much water you drink your body & skin gasps for more. This week I’ve had a secret weapon helping my skin stay [...]
The Recessionista’s Father’s Day Gift Guide 2013
Don’t forget, Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday on June 16th this year. Are you ready? There’s still time to shop online, but the safe bet is to shop in store and have your gift in hand for this weekend. So what does The Recessionista think Dads all over the world want? Toys for [...]
Designer Charlotte Ronson Partners with Starbucks
Designer Charlotte Ronson has partnered with Starbucks to create a Limited Edition Coffee Mug. But this is no ordinary mug. This is a Starbucks Double Wall Ceramic Traveler, featuring a hand sketch and floral prints from Charlotte Ronson’s Spring 2013 collection. The fashionista styled mug is for sale online only before it hits stores at [...]
H&M Announces their next designer collab: Isabel Marant
Haute news! H&M has announced their next designer collaboration. Parisian designer Isabel Marant has been chosen to translate her boho-chic designs to affordable H&M fashions. Isabel Marant is known for her widely influential and successful take on Parisian chic. Her clothing is distinctive, but certainly not at outre as the last H&M designer, Maison Martin [...]
Sponsored: Schwarzkopf Professional’s Wish it, Pin it, Win it Contest
Interested in winning a trip to New York Fashion Week? Or maybe a new MacBook? Perhaps you yearn for some extra cash to go on a shopping spree? Who doesn’t want ALL of these things! That would be #ME, but I know it’s also #YOU That’s why you want to get into a [...]
Harrods Promotes their 2013 Summer Sale with a Cool Video
The Harrod’s annual sale is about the start in London on Saturday June 15th, 2013 at the iconic store’s Knightsbridge location. In preparation for the sale, Harrods is teasing shoppers with the promise of a special performance before the doors open. On Saturday June 15 at 9am Harrods is planning a spectacular, surprise launch event that they [...]
A Birkin Bag for $5.00? RueLaLa Promises One for Their 5th Anniversary
Finding a Brikin bag for just $5.00 US may be the eight wonder of the world. But that’s one of several luxury prizes that RueLaLa is offering to shoppers on the 5 year anniversary. But there’s a catch. It won’t be easy to win it and you’ll have to put in some time and [...]
The High Cost of Cheap: US Buying Habits After the Bangladesh Fires
It’s a terrible fact: the reasons some brands can offer cheap clothing is because of the horrible working conditions in garment factories and the low wages paid to those workers. Last month, 1,100 factory workers died in the building collapse in Bangladesh. Many of these workers were laboring to make clothes for Americans. Yet, [...]
Since 2008, Mary Hall has been the author of 