Sale Alert: Origins Friends & Family Discount

Keep up with that holiday shopping! Or buying things for yourself, whatever. You know how you are. Everything at origins.com is 25 percent off today through Wednesday, November 19th. Shipping is free, too! Use code NOVFF. (code corrected)

Sale Alert: Urban Decay

Urban Decay cosmetics is having a Friends and Family promotion. Get 30 percent off with the code FNFW1. This code is good until November 20. UD has a lot of good gift sets for sale!

Hats Off

For the next month or so, I'm going to try to post about holiday gift ideas. You know you have to get started on that, right? Anyway, this is not exactly about a beauty product, but it is about something beautiful: the movie Hats Off, a documentary about the life of 94-year-old Mimi Weddell. She was an actress, a model, a hat-lover, a New Yorker, and she was fabulous. Ms. Weddell died in September. But the important thing to remember is how she lived. Her motto was "Rise above it," and it looks like she certainly did: thriving though abandoned by her parents at a young age, building a career when widowed in middle age with two children and no income, creating a home for those adult kids who came back to live (with their own kids) in her tiny Manhattan apartment. Her jobs included doing everything from bad vampire movies to playing Stanford Blatch's Chanel-clad grandma on Sex in the City to modeling for Juicy Couture. This dvd would make a great present for anybody on your list who is Mimi-level fabulous. Or who aspires to be.