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I have donated some of my samples, and a full, unopened bottle of Solstice Scents "Jack and the Devil" to a raffle for a fellow blogger and friend. It's an awesome raffle, and I recommend checking it out. The raffle is here. The items I've put in, are the full size perfume and the following samples:HoG Red Roan (Fresh strawberry flecked porridge with maple syrup and adulterated with a splash of

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I've heard a lot of people talk about Demeter Fragrances. Apparently they are one of the better midrange commercial perfumes. They're one of those companies I think I'd like to try every now and then, but tend to forget they exist when I'm actually perfume shopping. However, I just happened to see a display of Demeter holiday scents when I was in Rite-Aid picking up Pepsi the other day, and my

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So tomorrow is the day before Cheap Chocolate Day, otherwise known as St. Valentine's Day, where we celebrate the torture and murder of some old Roman guy by passing out little heart shaped pieces of paper. Or by shooting mobsters, but only if you live in Chicago. Winter and Valentine's is probably my least favourite smell season, as I'm not crazy about fir and piney scents, and far too many

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Gorgeous, eh? Remember that kitty I told you about earlier? Well this amazing necklace from Whimsy Beading is being auctioned on his behalf: "Kelly Graves In the course of my work with Grey on the Awesome Box, I created two custom pieces. One the Indie Style necklace, which you can see here: http://tinyurl.com/isnecklace Two, the Indie Style Star earrings, here: http://tinyurl.com/isstar

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Before you read thus post please go here and read.  It's the blog of a friend of mine, Victoria of Persephone Minerals. She is fostering a cat who had turned out to be diabetic and his care is getting very expensive. The fostering agency can only help her so much, so saving this poor kitty's life is turning into quite a burden. She's asking for donations - not much, but if you can help, please do

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I actually have decent eyebrows, well defined and dark - even when I was a child and my hair was blondish. They'd be really good, except one of them is higher than the other. I know, I know, nobody has a balanced face. I've seen computer images where they've made people with perfectly symmetrical faces and it's creepy as hell. It's just that my eyebrows are uneven. Really uneven, like one is way

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Recently I got a couple of solid perfumes from Darling Clandestine. I'd been wanting to try them for some time, and earlier I purchased a couple of scents during a referral sale. They were Serpentina and Tapadero and I really liked them. I liked them enough that, during a BOGO sale I ordered solid versions of Inked and Monstre Delicat. I liked Serpentina and Tapadero but I loved, loved LOVED

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I got a package in the mail today - 3 solid perfumes from OHWTO.  Besides the regular size perfumes I got two more solid perfumes in clamshell samples, a plastic centipede, candy (yay!) and a purple plastic pumpkin ring (say that 10 times fast.) The samples were three of the Halloween scents, Sugar Skulls, from last years entries and two new scents, Santa Muerte and the cumbersomely named

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I had a heartsy voucher for Sweet Anthem, a company I've been meaning to try, and grabbed the pre-order for the Fall sample set. It started shipping at the beginning of October, and mine arrived today.  They arrived packed in a bubble mailer and with a glassine envelope holding little ziplocks of two scents each. The first thing I noticed was - these are STRONG scents - I could smell them before

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As much as I love autumn, I'm always sad to see the summer end. It's been years since my back to school days, but autumn's first blaze reminds me that soon the planting and the gardening will be over, the roses will die back to hips and berries, night will fall earlier each day and soon we'll face the dreaded "s" word* Once Halloween is done, the party's over, and autumn goes from spooky and

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I got my Gloi autumn sampler today, the #2. I missed getting #3, I'm hoping it will restock, and I already have most of the scents from #1 (which I'll discuss later) as they are all repeats.  #2 Seems to be the foodie selection, as everything in it reminds me of some sort of autumn treat. There's only one scent in this particular batch that's a must have, but they're all quite pleasant. The

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I got my autumn sample set from Solstice Scents today. I've been very excited about this set as it seems to vary from the traditional pumpkin and spices melange usually offered this time of year. Not that I don't love all that, I do, passionately, but it's fun to sample some of the other fragrances this time of year has to offer, like drying herbs, the last fruits of the year or a few faded

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The Morbid the Merrier's Halloween shop is live! Fragrance list shop

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Let's talk about sillage. It's a french word, and it basically means the traces of scent that surround someone and linger after they are gone. If the gods are kind, that scent originates from perfume or cologne. If not, well...I feel your pain. I was stuck behind a fine specimen of cro-magnon in a sweltering hot KFC yesterday and he had some serious 'natural sillage' going on. He also had a bunch

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Autumn! Full of wonderful, harvesty goodness. Mmmm, pumpkin, spices and burning leaves. I love autumn and halloween is my favourite holiday. And I love all the autumn/halloween themed stuff that's available this time of year. So many indie companies offer a special line of autumn scents - I save up for this time of year the way most people do for Christmas. Here are just a few places I'll be

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Yup. I've been tagged. Thanks to the lovely Lisa Neff over at Fleurs-de-Lisa, who did the tagging. So here goes: My top ten favourite cosmetics/beauty items, in no particular order.* 1. e.l.f. mineral primer - I can't tell you how many primers I tried. I was completely unimpressed by all of them. Lorac, Smashbox, too-faced, etc. None of them made my skin look any better or my makeup wear any

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Orange and amber. Can you really go wrong with this combination? I think not.  I'm quite fond of most citrus fruits, both as a snack and as a fragrance and there are very few I will turn my nose up at (I'm looking at you, grapefruit). Orange and lime happen to be two of my favourite non-exotic citrus scents, and I passionately adore the scent of amber.  I happened to be browsing The Morbid The

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I was going to write a cheerful post about facial products and discounts and so forth. Unfortunately, recent events have made that seem frivolous right now. Some of you may be aware that I live in Northeastern Ohio. You are probably also aware that there has been a terrible tragedy in Copley Ohio, which happens to be quite near here.  I heard about the shooting this afternoon, but only recently

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Let me begin this post by saying that I do know what gold actually smells like. All metals have a smell, not something you notice when wearing them, but when you're working with them, sanding, cutting, filing, hammering, etc. you notice it. I happen to be quite fond of the smell of wet steel, but that's just me. Anyway, Black Baccara's Mummy perfume oil is not what gold smells like. It's what

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I'm having an interesting discussion with Skulda, over at Skulda's Claws.  She has a post about detoxifying your makeup kit and the 'Dirty Dozen' of scary stuff that is probably in a lot of your cosmetics and other products. The website she links to is set up by David Suzuki - who is completely awesome - but I disagree with some of what he has to say. She also links to Skin Deep Cosmetics

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I knew as soon as I checked out their web page that I was not Sugarcandie Beauty Bar's target audience. I am not a girly girl, I do not 'luv' pink, nor do I go for outdoorsy FuN. I did, however, have a 10$ gift certificate, and there was more than enough to choose from, that I figured I'd have no problem finding something. pretty, but not really me. In fact, it took me quite awhile to make a

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One of the things I love most about scent is how evocative it is. The faintest whiff of a scent from your past can bring back memories and feelings even more vividly than a picture or a piece of music. Very often I'll come across something that smells like.....and I can't quite put my finger on it, just a strong sense of time and place. I love those moments, even though it drives me crazy not

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cause sometimes you look for something on Google and end up in totally unrelated places: from mozambique-island.com from The Steampunk Forum from The Steampunk Home from Custom Estate Creations from Orion Victorian  from oldhousephotogallery.com from Mr. Peacock Juvan Designs Hexotica gothic burlesque kpm.com e l home design

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I see I have new followers! Hello new people! Welcome and I hope you enjoy the blog. Today, we'll start with the fruit plate. One of Haus of Gloi's summer scents this year is called Sanctum: "A welcome respite: Muskmelon, coconut water infused with bergamot flower, kaffir lime,  polished ho wood and sticky benzoin." If, for some reason I were going to be executed, I think I would choose to be

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I confess - I am a lip balm junkie. I can't survive without lip balm. I have approximatly ten different tubes in my purse at any given time, four on my computer table, two in my pocket, five or six by my bed and a large cup filled with them in my bathroom. I apply it constantly - pretty sure my lips can't survive without it anymore. I have, on occasion, been late to school, social events, work,

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So I was finishing up trying out all my new Gloi summer products, to review when I came to Narcosa.  I saved it for last, since I wasn't terribly taken with it, sniffing the sample vial, so all I got was the perfume. Not that it seemed bad, just that Brier Path and Sanctum were so wonderful, that poor little Narcosa seemed like an afterthought - Brier Path's slightly more elegant older sister.

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I have dry skin. You'll probably hear me mention this repeatedly, but I do. Not dry, like a bit flaky and patchy, but dry, like, is that a lizard on your face or are you just happy to see me? Even as a teen I only had mildly oily skin (my hair, though - that was another story). As adulthood and (gasp) middle age set in, so began the Great Drought. It's been a struggle to find cleansers that

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Who stole my week? Seriously, wasn't it Tuesday, like, yesterday? Was I abducted by aliens and missed a couple of days? That would explain a lot.  Any way - here's some cool stuff that every geek and soap/B&B lover NEEDS: +2 extra clean - Geeksoap Photos courtesy Geeksoap Digital Soaps Photos courtesy of DigitalSoaps Luxury Lane Soaps - I have one of the Carbonite Soaps - I've

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If you've been looking for a finishing powder - I can highly recommend Evil Shades' Matte Silk. I've tried a bunch of different finishing powders - AL, Bare Minerals, etc., and they were all nice but this one - just wow! I put my makeup on, dusted the Matte Silk over, glanced in the mirror and did a double-take! I looked FANTASTIC! My skin was perfect matte porcelain, my pores diminished, my skin

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Haus of Gloi is one of my all time favourite B&B companies. Britton makes the most wonderful vegan products in some of the most amazing scents. Many of them are foodie or maybe foodesque, but she does have a wide variety of scents in her regular line plus seasonal scents that rotate in and out. In addition, she does occasional 'Reverie' offerings, one-off products which might be available as a

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Like many of you out there, I love makeup. Sure, if I had to choose between scent and paint, I'd go with scent, but it'd be tough. I went for an au natural phase for awhile and stopped wearing it, then I burned my leg very, very badly, and all my skin freaked out for awhile, I had to be so careful what I put on it  - and my skin is hyper sensitive to start with. So about a year and a half ago, at

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Very excited to see I have some followers! Hello and welcome. Today we're going to talk about The Morbid The Merrier's solid perfume version of Dessert Absinthe. From the shop "I took my usual absinthe perfume oil and softened it with cream and sugar and soft citrus. Upon opening, the first notes are lemon, sugar, and anise - very reminiscent of a lemon sugar cookie. After wearing it for just a

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Since Lysa's having such an awesome sale, let's start with a few of her scents. I have three perfume oils in the 5ml size: Horseman, Lizzie and Saucy Jack. All three were introduced for the Halloween 2010 season. Horseman is part of the Sleepy Hollow series, and is still available. The shop describes it as "Fiery jack-o-lanterns, black leather boots, temple incense, and the edge of a dark

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Huge Sale at The Morbid the Merrier - Details here. Shop here. I have several of her perfumes, which I will be reviewing once we get this show on the road - and I love all of them. For now, Grey over at Gothique has reviewed several of their perfumes.

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Hello and welcome to my little blog.  I love blogs - beauty blogs, craft blogs, gaming blogs - I follow a ton of blogs. I never expected to start one though. However, after following a number of beauty blogs for a little over a year, I noticed that, while there are plenty devoted to makeup, there aren't whole lot devoted to perfumed products. Of the few out there, most primarily deal with

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