Thursday, April 22, 2010

Go Green







As most savvy bargain shoppers know, it pays to be green and no day is that more apparent than today, Earth Day. Here’s a roundup of some of the deals you can score for the holiday as local retailers promote environmental awareness:


HOTELS
Starwood’s eco-friendly Element Hotels are celebrating Earth Day weekend with a recycling-themed promotion. Give them 10 empty single-use water bottles and they’ll give you a free night’s stay from April 22-25 and a free Element-branded reusable water bottle. Before you go chugging Evian though, the offer started April 5 and is only open to the first 100 people to call 1-877-ELEMENT and mention the promo code GOGREEN.
Travelocity is offering up to 40% off prices at 40 green hotels across the globe.
Travelzoo is giving discounts on U.S.-based, LEED-certified hotels.


MAKEUP & SKINCARE
ORIGINS- Bring your current skincare to any Origins counter and they'll trade it for a full-size of one of our gentle, high-performance cleansers.
Burt's Bees - If you purchase $50 worth of its goods online, Burt's Bees will throw in a free Head to Toe Starter Kit

Drugstore.com is offering up to 40% off products from its "green and natural" store through April 23.

Get a cheap haircut
For Earth Week 2009, Paul Mitchell has kicked off "Cut Hair, Not Trees." From April 20 through 24, Paul Mitchell schools will cut your hair for $10 to $15

ELECTRONICS
Dell is the most prominent of dozens of
partners in a Brighter Planet campaign promoting earthtweet, which is aggregating Twitter tweets about Earth Day activities and tips. If you tweet, use the #earthtweet tag to denote your Earth Day tweets (if you tweet, you'll know what this means). Dell is giving away one Studio 15 laptop (Energy Star compliant, features a mercury-free WLED display and comes in "spring green") to the tweeter offering the best technology-related tip.
Walgreens will refill your printer cartridge for $1 instead of its usual $12 on April 22 only. It's also offering a 22 percent discount on its green products through April 30.

CLOTHING & RETAILERS
Hanes
If you can't spend Earth Day planting trees, let Hanes do it for you. If you buy three Hanes products, the Arbor Day Foundation will plant a tree. And you'll get a free Earth Day T-shirt in the process.
The offer is good through May 1. Visit the promotion's
website for more information.


And I will always associate Earth Day with Kermit the Frog. So to bring it back old school.. here's a little Rainbow Connection. Happy Earth Day!!!

















Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Happy Birthday JNICE

This post is dedicated to my older and much cooler brother Jason, whose affinity for music and zest for life is envious. I challenge anyone to a name that tune competition with Jay because you will surely lose. He is the kind of guy who will drop a beat anywhere and guaranteed to make friends where ever he goes. Those who have the privilege of knowing Jay realize how special, kind, and amazing he is instantaneously! So thank you Jay for always make me smile and laugh and for ALWAYS being you, JNICE (in every sense of the word)
I hope this year you finally move into your own home and can play your music as loud and as often as you like. Keep on dropping a beat.
HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY JAY!!










There's an app for that..

Countless mornings and nights I stand in front of my closet (that is filled to capacity) hopeless and discouraged that I have nothing to wear! Well now there is an IPhone App that helps solve my fashion crisis.

Like.com teamed up with Glamour mag to launch Ask A Stylist, a live personal stylist and wardrobe consultant. This app gets you real answers from a Glamour Magazine-trained stylist in real time from your mobile device. Once you open the application, you can take a picture of your proposed outfit or clothing item, choose your destination (i.e. dinner with girl friends, date night, work, picnic in the park) and ask your fashion question. Within minutes a real-life stylist will send you an answer and will even recommend other items to complement your look.

A personal stylist at my disposal 24/7… now if only there was an app to approve/disapprove and make recommendations for the guys I date!

Ask A Stylist

Friday, April 9, 2010

Teaser

A little pick me up for this dreary weather and a great way to kick off the weekend with. But don’t get too Carried away because this movie’s not out until May 27th . Hope you’re weekends as fabulous as these girls are.






Happy Birthday to a fellow twin and one of my many partners in crime; someone who is always down for a road trip or new adventure!! Let the weekend celebrations commence. Love You! xo

Thursday, April 1, 2010

APRIL FOOL'S


Every April Fool's Day, until we went out off to college, my twin sister and I would switch places in school. We always got away with pulling a fast one on our teachers. Even when it wasn't April 1st, and I had cut class, my teachers would often pass me in the hall and asked where I was that day. I would always default to "I'm Melissa, you have the wrong twin, Michelle's out sick" 1 of the many benefits of being a twin :)



HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY

Can you tell which one is me?