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Girl-Woman-Beauty-Brains-Blog reviews and gives away a big bag of e.l.f. beauty booty.

Beauty Junkies Unite shows us how to eliminate muffin-top and be comfortable at the same time. Slimpressions makes a favorable impression!

Beauty411 shares her finds for the Best Winter Hand Creams. If your hands need relief, don’t miss it!

Advice Sister’s Alison Blackman Dunham is sharing Fashion Week’s “must-haves” because it’s always the little things that make life easier, more successful, and more fun!.

Head on over to The Makeup Divas and enter to win 2 tubes of Covergirl’s Lashblast Luxe Mascara. While you are there, check out the other giveaways I have.

Boutique Flair experiences oneness with chocolate thanks to Coco-Zen.

Kyl at The Beauty Couch shares some tips on how to stretch your beauty budget.

Butterflydiary has an amazing Fashion Week themed giveaway! Patrick McMullan sent “Fashion Week” survival kits to his celeb friends. Win ONE of these luxury kits here

. Viva Woman recommends you to use grapeseed oil underneath your moisturizer because it contains more antioxidant power than vitamins C & E!

Monique at Beauty Girl Musings has discovered, and fallen in love with, a foundation that makes skin look flawless and stays in place all day. Read about it here!

Dina at eye4style takes it all off with Paul & Joe’s Makeup Remover. Check out her review here!

Watch Marta’s interview with check it out and leave a commentNeon Bible shows you how to get Natalie Portman’s Oscar Look for Less

Addicted To Lipstick shows us swatches and gives us her review of the Mac Hello Kitty Collection. You can see the pics here Mac Hello Kitty Review

Fabulous Over Forty discusses what she thinks is the must have palette this spring.

Image and Style News is having a AVEENO Hair Care Collection GIVEAWAY click here to enter AVEENO Hair Care Collection

Being green just got a whole lot easier. Check out the new Victoria’s Secret PINK Body line at MissWhoever You Are

Blaq Vixen Beauty shares her thoughts on the AHA Souffle she’s been using for the last 5 months!

The contest hosted by More Than a Pretty Face to win one of three Mood Lighting Shimmer Cremes from 3 Custom Color Specialists closes March 7. Enter now!Beauty Anonymous reviews Dior 5 Colour Eyeshadow from Dior spring 2009 collection.

Find out The Secret to Supple Winter Skin at Makeup Bag.

Enter Indian Girl’s GIVEAWAY to win one of five Skin Prep FX Face Primers from Cover FX

StyleBell talks to celebrity stylist, David Babaii, on how you can create Angelina Jolie’s award winning Oscar half up half down hair style! The girls over at Beauty in Real Life are having a giveaway. They have 5 boxes of the new Crest Whitestrips up for grabs. Hurry, the contest ends Saturday!!! Check out the details here.Time for a new giveaway on Beauty Blvd.! Enter to win a tube of Maybelline’s Lash Stiletto! Enter here!

makeup loves me shows you how to get one of the most talked about looks of mercedes benz fashion week, the glossy black eye seen at chris benz. plus, vote on how well she rocks the look!Lipstick Addict makes a review on Garnier Roll-on Eye Brightener Glossypink reviews a product collection that will have you thinking your bathroom has been converted to a day spa! Daneen from Spoiled Pretty may have discovered the BEST BLACK EYELINER EVER! Click here for the review!

Lately I’ve been going crazy joining all those invitation only discount designer shopping sites. My latest obsession is Gilt Group.

On March 3rd, starting at noon, they’re having a Marc by Marc Jacobs accessories sale. That means, bags, jewelery, head bands, and did i mention bags? All at everyday low prices. Wooo! So here’s me extending you an invite to Gilt Group.

Click HERE to join in on the fun.

Gravity Pope

Gravity Pope is my go to shoe store on the West Side.   The carry tons of great high and low brands, and unlike Brown’s the staff is approachable, and doesn’t give you evil eye. The setup in the store is very “pick up” friendly.  Shoes are scrunched together side by side at coffee table height, which gives you the feeling that you’re hunting for gems at a flea market… an upscale, Marc Jacobs carrying flea market.

Some of the brands you’ll find at Gravity Pope:

• Calvin Klein
• Michael Kors
• Marc Jacobs
• Converse
• Vivienne Westwood
• Frye
• Adidas and Stella McCartney

I’ve been eying a pair of Vivienne Westwood flats since before Christmas.  They’re on sale for $115, and I feel like I have no excuse now not to buy them.  Behold:

Gravity Pope is located at 2205 west 4th ave.  And hey, when you’re done shopping, you can head over to 49th Parallel for a cap and a decadent twice baked almond croissant that I swear will change your life.

Yesterday I talked about how much I was loving Natalie Portman’s young, sexy Oscar look, and now I think it’s time to focus on my most hated fashion crime of the evening, the one committed by Jessica Biel.

First of all, what is she even doing at the Oscars? She hasn’t made a watchable movie since Blade: Trinity, which came out five years ago and wasn’t even legitimately good, it was “so bad it’s awesome” good. On to her look. Her hair looks like she got caught in the rain on the way to the show. It’s flat as hell, and also boring. The Oscars is all about glamor, not frump. And when I saw this dress, okay, I’m just saying, but my mind went straight to Episode 2×20 of the X-Files - “Humbug.”

The similarities are undeniable. And I can’t be the only X-Files loving, Oscar watching person out there that thought this. What is with the out of place bubble on the dress? It’s a big mess and very suspicious. What are you hiding in there, Jessica Biel? A fetus in fetu?

Just like the fetal twin in the X-Files, it emerges every night from Jessica’s side, but instead of murdering circus folks, it goes into people’s homes and forces them to watch Summer Catch. The horror!

Aside from American Idol’s group week, the Academy Awards is the TV event that I look forward to most every year. The speeches, the musical numbers, the movie clips, and of course the fashion.

While her dress didn’t stand out to me, I found Natalie Portman’s makeup to be the best of the night. It was sexy, young and included one product that I already own, which is rare and awesome.

To create this look, Stila makeup artist Jeanine Lobell used entirely Chanel:

Chanel Silky Eye Shadow Duo in Orient Expres, $40 USD
Intense Eye Pencil in Noir, $27, inside the eye
Black Inimitable Mascara, $30
Perfect Brows in Brun, $65
Powder Blush in Narcisse, $42
Glossimer in Galactic, $27

I don’t know about you, but I don’t really have like, $300 to spend on a “look.” If you’re looking for a few alternatives might I suggest:

L’Oreal Hip Duo in Charisma
Maybelline Unstoppable Eyeliner in Onyx
L’Oréal Telescopic Mascara
Cover Girl Brow and Eyemakers in Midnight Brown
Mac Blush in Well Dressed

In terms of the Galactic gloss, it’s hard to think of a drugstore alternative. Can you think of any?

What was your favourite look of the Oscars?

Four days ago, I unofficially joined Weight Watchers. Unofficially because one, I don’t weigh enough to actually join, and two, even if I did I probably couldn’t afford it. Instead, I had a “source” of mine, a lifetime member, go pick up a bunch of literature for me.

I decided that I was going to attempt to the points program. To begin, you enter your height, weight, age, gender and how much activity you get in a day into the points calculator and it pumps out your personal daily points limit. Mine is 21.

After reading through the booklets, I was shocked to find out how many points, or calories are in foods that we eat every day. It was a little disturbing actually.

Here are a few of the most deadly foods out there:

• Burger King Whopper with Cheese - 17 points
• Dairy Queen Chicken Strips with NO sauce - 20 points
• Dairy Queen Medium Skor Blizzard - 22 effing points
• 1 quarter of a medium - large Dominos pizza - 13-17 points
• Earl’s Cajun Chicken Sandwich (which I often get) - 19 points
• Earl’s Penne Alfredo - 39 points
• Subway 6 inch Tuna Sub - 12 points
• Timmy Ho’s Muffins - 6-10 points
• White Spot Legendary Burger - 20 points
• White Spot Milkshake - 19 points
• Costco Muffin - 10 points

Disturbing, no? The average Vancouverite eats at White Spot like, twice a month. And any true White Spot diner knows that the Legendary Burger is best thing on the menu. At least the pickle is 0 points, right? Sigh…
But there are some restaurant foods out there that aren’t so bad, as well as stuff around the house that is surprisingly healthy. For example:

• Timmy Ho’s Chicken Noodle Soup - 2 points
• Swiss Chalet Quarter Chicken - 5 points
• Earl’s Chicken Strips - 8 points
• Subway 6 inch Turkey sub - 5 points
• McDonald’s Snack Wrap - 6 points
• 6 pieces of Maki sushi or 4 Nigiri - 2 points
• 3 pieces of Gyoza - 3 points
• 8 pieces of Melba Toast - 2 points
• Orville Redenbacher Smart Pop - 1 point
• English Muffins - 2 points

You would be surprised how quickly you can go through 21 points. A lot of the points program seems to be about portion size. For example, one bowl of chilli during the Acadamy Awards = 5 points, not so bad. Two bowls = 10 points. Very bad. The program also tries to deter you from useless snacking, which I’m a victim off. A piece of bread here, 3 bowls of cereal there. It adds up. But then there are always activity points.

Even if my diet doesn’t work (of course I’m hoping it does), my eyes have definitely been opened to the dangers of eating in restaurants. I’m now looking back to Dine Out and the delectable bacon vinaigrette… ugh, I don’t want to think about it.

As my points diet continues, I will keep you updated on my progress, or lack of progress. I’m excited to see how it turns out.