Happy Sunday, everyone!  Usually, today I’m all about the football but I’m up early and wanted to share with you the Estee Lauder Pink Ribbon goodies for Breast Cancer Awareness Month I saw at Bloomingdale’s yesterday while shopping with my little cousin.

This year, Estee Lauder created two lip collections after the women behind the Lauder name, Evelyn Lauder, and Elizabeth Hurley - Estee Lauder’s long-time spokesperson.

The Evelyn Lauder lipstick collection ($22 US) comes with three of her favorite shades: (l-r) Bali Rose (LE), Candy, and Rich Berry.  This set is sold out online but you can still find a few sets left in stores.

If you’re more of a gloss kind of girl, then check out the Elizabeth Hurley lip gloss collection ($16 US) featuring her favorite shades of High Gloss: (clockwise from top left) Pearl, Pink (LE), and Rose.  I also really love this collection because you get a nice variety of shades to mix and match with more of my already abundant lip collection.  But hey, anything for a good cause, right?

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Today I’m at my aunt’s house in San Diego, trying to digest the pancakes and bacon she served up for breakfast.  In order to forget how full I am, I started to dig around my makeup bag to see what I could play and found YSL’s Rouge Volupté lipstick ($34 US).

I got this a few weeks ago and murmurred at the beauty of its case - a slick gold tube with a gorgeous YSL logo pattern around its middle. Excited that I even remembered to pack it with me, I immediately tried it out even though I have no intentions of actually wearing it in public today with the rest of my makeup.

The color, Lingerie Pink, reminds me of what I had imagined Lancôme’s Pout-à-Porter in Proenza Pink would look like.  A milky, chalky looking pink that even swatched on my hand looked too pale for me to wear.  It’s a great color for a mod look, or if you’re feelin’ like Sharon Stone a la Casino.

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I’ve barely had a chance to wrap myself around the fall makeup collections and now holiday is popping up everywhere!

One collection that I’ve heard a bit of buzz about is Chanel’s Holiday 2008 goodies featuring Haute Chocolat nail polish - it appears that this is to die for from All Lacquered Up.  I must pick up a bottle at the mall today if I can find some time between driving from Orange County to Beverly Hills and back in the middle of the day (eep!)

The rest of the collection ain’t too shabby either - it’s got everything this neutral-lovin’ gal would want in a collection.  Lots of wearable browns and golds in the Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Beiges de Chanel.  It boosts hints of shimmer in each shadow to give it some oomph to break the monotony of wearing subtle shades.

There is one lippie that I’m dying for from Chanel Holiday 2008 - you guessed it: a glossimer in Red Shine!  Red Shine is a limited edition gloss packs a real punch as a sheerer red with flecks of (you guessed it) gold.

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Looking to update your casual summer look with something more refined for the fall?  Instead of spending hours poking around your local Sephora or beauty counters, hang out with the pros.

The beauty bible, Allure Magazine, is throwing a fabulous beauty party in New York City.  The event will be at the super trendy mecca Henri Bendel on Fifth Avenue.  The best part….YOU’RE INVITED!!

Guests have the opportunity to book complimentary appointments with top makeup artists at Chanel, Dr. Brandt, Giella, Jouer, Kate Somerville, Kevyn Aucion, Laura Mercier, MAC, Mally Beauty, NARS, Paula Dorf, and more.   Wanna go?

Go online to book your beauty appointment.  Here are the details:

Allure Beauty Concierge at Bendel’s

Date: Thursday, October 23-Saturday, October 25

Time: 10:30AM-7:30 PM

Location: Henri Bendel, 712 Fifth Avenue, NYC

To celebrate the three day Beauty Concierge event, Allure is also throwing a launch party.  The Daily Cookie readers are invited to attend this event as well.  Go on, you know you want to RSVP.

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Look good and feel good about supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month when you purchase today’s Spotlight - the Poly-Vitamin Serum from iS CLINICAL by Innovative Skincare.

This serum offers the improvement of skin tone and elasticity, helps treat dermatitis, and revitalizes aging and compromised skin - that’s a whole lotta good stuff in a small bottle for ya!

One hundred percent of the profits from the sale of Poly-Vitamin Serum during the month of October will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Coalition, an organization that lobbies at the national, state and local levels for public policies that impact breast cancer research, diagnosis and treatment.

Also don’t forget that for every Comment you make on this post, or any other BCA-related stories I feature during the month of October, I will personally donate $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure*.

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* Donations for Comments for a Cure are capped at $50 US

Last week I went and got my very first facial – ever! - at International Orange in San Francisco.

International Orange is a cozy little spa and yoga retreat situated in the heart of Fillmore’s hustling and bustling neighborhood of trendy shops and boutiques.

I walked up to the main floor to IO’s lobby where they sell yoga gear for classes as well as beauty products they use in their spa treatments.

After checking in for my appointment, I met with Abbie, my esthetician and facial extraordinaire!  For my Deep Cleanse Facial, she started by examining my skin under a big ol’ light and magnifying mirror (scary!).  Fortunately, Abbie assessed that I had fair skin with a little bit of congestion right down the middle of my face in my nose and chin area – a common area where most oils build up and clog pores.

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Morning, girls!  It’s nearly 6am on the West coast and I’m having a bit of trouble sleeping so I thought I’d peruse Sephora.com to see if I’d spy anything that would peak my interest.  And lookie at what I found!

From the folks that brought you the first talking palette (it teaches you how to create a smoky eye, hot!), Stila is now introducing the first talking lip palette and it’s a must-have for this cookie!

Paint Your Pout Red ($45 US) gives you all the tools you need to create the perfect red lip, complete with three shades of red to create the perfect combo, a handy lip brush, and actual audio instructions that’s pre-recorded to walk you through your red lip in just one minute.  Now, that’s hot.

Get this Sephora-exclusive online or in-stores now and master the perfect crimson pout just in time for those holiday parties.  You know they’re just around the corner so hop to it!

I’m going to try and go back to bed now - hopefully I’ll be dreaming of Stila’s Paint Your Pout Red until I can get my hands on one soon

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Beer, tri-tip, Lay’s potato chips and a mini TV in the trunk of an Altima.  There’s nothing like tailgating with friends to get us hyped up for our first live football game of the season against the Patriots.

We arrived at the parking lot at around 11am to find my friend Will’s co-worker who had been there since 8:55am that morning (can you say hardcore?).  We thought it was going to be a mess trying to find him but he saved us a spot right next to him - awesome!

It was a lot of fun hanging out with the guys and trying to remember who was on my fantasy league this week so I could check stats on the mini screen - see how I’m squinting trying to look like I’m not scanning for scores?  LOL

After a couple of hours of hanging out and making friends with our fellow tailgaters, it was time to pack up and head inside to root for our Niners.  Granted, we’re not a great team but since Matt Cassel is leading the Patriots in Tom Brady’s absense, I figured that we had a chance to cheer for a win!

But alas, we did horribly in the 2nd half and ended up losing to the boys in blue, 30-21.  Oh well, it was still really fun, nonetheless, and we could barely tell since we were inebriated for a good portion of the day.

Now that we’ve got the first game out of the way, I hope that we get to go to more before the season ends in January!

How was your weekend?  I hope it was a good one too

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Happy Monday - I hope you all had a great weekend!

In continuing to give you the latest on pink products from your favorite beauty brands for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, today’s Spotlight is on Smashbox’s Pink Power Eye & Lip Kit ($46 US).

The Pink Power Eye & Lip Kit features two matching pink cases - the first, an eye palette called Celebrate gives you three pretty shadows with the darkest shade embossed with a breast cancer ribbon.  Inspire is the lip palette featuring three gorgeous, sheer shades that’s so portable, you won’t be able to help but want to carry it wherever you go.

Purchase the Pink Power Eye & Lip Kit and Smashbox will donate a portion of the proceeds to Young Survival Coalition, an international, nonprofit network of breast cancer survivors and supporters dedicated to the concerns and issues that are unique to young women and breast cancer.

Or, win one right here on The Daily Cookie!  Thanks to the wonderful folks at Smashbox, I’m giving away a Pink Power Eye & Lip Kit to one reader.  All you have to do is fill out the sweepstakes form below for your chance to win this limited set! Hurry because this giveaway closes on Tuesday, Oct. 7th at 11:55pm PST.

Don’t forget that I will also donate $0.10 for every sweepstakes entry I receive on this post, or any other BCA-related giveaways I feature during the month of October to Susan G. Komen for the Cure*.

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I’ve been wanting the Wii Fit ever since it came out earlier this year but was too lazy to join the millions of other people in the hunt for this constantly sold-out game slash potential God-send for gym-o-phobes like me.

But yesterday, perhaps an random act of fate, the Boyfriend and I were at the mall together for the first time in weeks and decided to pop into Game Stop.  The way this scenario usually goes is this -

Game Stop/Target/EB Games guy:  Can I help you?

Boyfriend: Yeah, do you guys have any Wii Fits?

Game Stop/Target/EB Games guy: Nah man, we’re sold out.

Boyfriend: Oh, okay.. do you know when you’ll be getting any?

Game Stop/Target/EB Games guy: Nah man, we never know, they just send them.

Boyfriend: Okay cool, thanks.

And we continue on our merry little way, doing whatever we were out to do that day.

Instead, this trip was very different.  Per our usual tactic, we walked into the game store and asked if they had any Wii Fits, fully expecting for them to turn us away on our merry little way.  But much to our surprise, the sales associate told us that they just got a huge shipment in the back and that if we came back in 30 minutes, they’ll likely have some after he had a chance to unpack the boxes.

So we went shopping, returned to Game Stop as instructed and what do you know.  He had a brand new Wii Fit waiting for us behind the counter.  Surprised, and not wanting to miss our chance we bought it and went home $100 poorer - and hopefully now a little bit more motivated to actually work out!

Today, the Boyfriend unpacked and set up the game and I took it on a test drive.  We each set up fitness profiles and allocated goals for ourselves to try and get to a healthier BMI (Body Mass Index) number.

Since the balance board is also a scale, the Wii Fit starts out by asking your age and height to determine your BMI.  As expected, the system set up my initial profile and told me that my BMI was in the 26-range (same as when I calculated it on The Biggest Loser website).

After the initial set up, I went ahead and did 30 minutes of aerobics - a combination of hula hooping, step, and short distance jogging really got my heart rate up and I even broke a sweat.  Who knew?

Do you have the Wii Fit?  How is it working for you?  I’d love to hear your progress too!

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