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I went to Ulta yesterday to try Benefit's Erase Paste and was happily surprised that they were having a Benefit GWP. Purchase $25 or more of Benefit Cosmetics (Erase Paste is $26) and you get a gift bag with three mini-size samples of Bad Gal Lash, Poisetint Blush and POREfessional. Very excited...

Maybe this isn't the right spot for this - if so I do apologize. I noticed that a lot of people on Specktra have blogs - beauty blogs, fashion blogs, personal blogs - so I thought maybe we could learn from each other and answer each other's questions. I am new to the blogging world and I know I...

My camera is horrible and very old :( In the market for a new camera so if anyone has any recommendations please share. I'm also obsessed with the new NARS lipstick I picked up and am wearing for the first time tonight :D BEFORE (scary!!!) AFTER (thank God for make-up)...

Hello ladies - I need help from all of you hair experts. I recently went to my hair dresser and bleached out the bottom of my hair and went for the "ombre" look. My hair has been like this for about two months now and now I'm starting to hate it. I feel like light hair looks really cheap on me -...

I went to the Sephora at Stanford Shopping Center (Palo Alto, CA) today and had the most amazing customer service experience. I worked retail when I was at MAC over two years ago so I get the retail business. The girl who helped me was super sweet. She gave me samples of HD Invisible Cover...

First, I'd just like to say that I have been away from Specktra for a few years. I've just returned so hello to everyone :) Now onto the real stuff - I know there are a million different threads about cameras and it's all still very confusing. My camera is about 6 years old and it's a...

So I'm supposed to be moving to LA after my summer quarter ends (Sept. 18th) and I have had everything lined up for sometime now but of course everything fell apart the closer I got to getting there. Now I have no roommate and have been having a hard time finding someone. I'm sorta desperate...

AUS is the death of me Since it's been reinstated nobody at my counter is making their goal because we're too worried about making AUS. The favorite taglines our managers use are that "AUS is a measure of customer service" and that if you make AUS but not your goal it shows that you've tried...

So I am moving to LA (finally) in September and am considering leaving MAC for another line. I love MAC and everyone at work and the artistry we get to express but living so far away from my family I'd rather work for a line that will allow me to have a weekend off to come visit family. I've had...

I was bored so I took some pictures. I totally cheated and wore pretty much the same look back to back just switching a few colors haha. Oh well I just got back to work from vacation so nobody can really say nething. FACE - MUFE Liquid Lift #3 Select Sheer Pressed NC40 Margin Blush Prisim...

So I'm totally listening to GlamSoup right now How cool is the internet?! Anyway Here are some FOTDs - and seriously excuse the brows because I'm holding out on getting them done until my birthday. FACE- Revlon ColorStay (tried it out on a recommendation idk if I like it) Mineralized...

Ok so this year I am the team leader for my counter for fundraising in the SF AIDS Walk. For those of you who don't know every year counters/stores throughout the SF Bay Area work together in raising money for MAC's VIVA GLAM team in the San Francisco AIDS Walk. For every dollar we raise as...

Got off work and just started playing with stuff. Something new and different FACE- Prep + Prime SPF 50 Strobe Liquid Studio Fix Fluid NC40 MSF Medium Plus Seedy Pearl e/s Alpha Girl Beauty Powder EYES- Base Light paint Shroom e/s Fig 1 e/s Sweetness Beauty Powder Blush Jairden Aire...

Alright guys so I already have a set of business cards that I keep with me and in my brush belt at work for freelance work. But I always feel kind of weird handing out my make-up business card to people when it's nothing to do with make-up. Like when I try to network with people at school and...

So we're sold out of pretty much everything from Fafi at my counter but our event is this weekend so we're tryin to work with the little that we have. I was assigned to do an "editorial" look for our event and I tried to copy this really cool trick one of my trainers showed me. She took boot...

Ok so I guess I could get in trouble for posting this but at this point I don't care. So I've been with the company for a year now (April will be my 1 year as a perm). I freakin LOVE working for the company more then anything, my co-workers are amazing, I love the products and I love most of the...

Long time since I posted an FOTD but I really liked my look yesterday and I was tryin out different settings with my new camera so I thought I'd post the pics. The look is modeled off of the Nanogold look from MACCosmetics.com. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...i/Img_0063.jpg...

OK so I'm not relocating until Jan '09 but I like to be well prepared so I'm planning from now haha. Right now I'm in the Bay Area and I'll be relocating to LA to finish school (FINALLY!). I live at home and my bills consist of school, car, phone and my shopping addicition haha. So living on my...

I want to take advantage of the great connections I make working at MAC and of course the SUPER affordable price I get the make-up for. I also want to get a chance to work more on my artistry, I feel like I'm stuck in a rut of doing customer friendly super natural make-up all the time. Now the...

Ok so in June I got two compliments on MACCosmetics.com and I'm sure everyone who works for MAC knows what a big deal that is (well at least in my region). I was really glad that I recieved them and very touched when I read them. I've had a few customers say they would actually follow through...