Raise your hand if you, too, are loving all of these cosmetics deals that Gilt City is offering. They’ve got another fab deal that just went live: $25 will get you $50 to spend at Pur Minerals!
This voucher can only be spent online and you must make a minimum $45 purchase. Shipping is free if you spend $50 or more. You must use the voucher by April 26, 2012.
Thanks to Gilt Groupe for making my day by having a Kate Spade sample sale today! They’ve got shoes and clothes and accessories and I’m not kidding when I say I kind of want one of everything!
I’m particularly smitten with these Kate Spade Abbie Ballet Flats! Normally $298, gilt has them for $179. Still pricey, for sure, but better than paying full price!
Over the summer, I started doing P90X with a group of teachers I worked with at our local high school. Summer is kind of slow when you work at a high school, and one teacher had borrowed the DVDs from his brother, so I thought … hey, why not? I’m sure that, at some point, you’ve seen the P90X infomercials and/or before and after photos. In short, P90X uses muscle confusion to, er, confuse your muscles and build lean muscle mass. And also it totally kicks your a$$.
The workouts are six days a week, and over 60 minutes each. Three days of strength training and abs, two days of cardio, and one day of yoga. The workouts are SO hard … I’ve never experienced anything like it. There were numerous times during our workouts that we all thought we would puke. Have I convinced you yet that P90X is a good idea?!
Here’s the bottom line: P90X works. It will kick your butt into shape and you will feel great about yourself! It’s hard NOT to think you’re hardcore when you do sixty straight minutes of weightlifting three days a week! Unfortunately, I didn’t complete the 90 day program because I got a new job with a regular hours that didn’t allow for our 3:30 workout. However, I highly recommend P90X if you have the time to spend working out.
The only real con is the price – at around $140 on Amazon, it’s not a cheap thing. However, it *is* a one-time purchase and you receive a lot of information with the program. The P90X package consists of:
My biggest warning to you is: make sure you have water and a towel nearby, AND … be prepared for Tony Horton’s horrible humor. When we started P90X, I looked him up on Wikipedia and discovered that he started his career as a stand-up comedian. Let’s just say that there’s a reason that profession didn’t last.
Ready to BRING IT? Check out P90X!
There’s just no getting around the fact that shapewear is so unsexy. I feel kinda sad for the poor model above. She’s working it, but it’s still shapewear.
Anyhoo… I was recently sent a pair of ShāToBu High Waist Shaping Tights to review. I wasn’t excited about reviewing these tights because I have plenty of pairs of tights and almost all of them are shapewear tights. Don’t get me wrong – I love shapewear tights, I just wasn’t looking for another pair!
When I finally decided to wear these last week I took them out of the package and started trying to get my body into them without REALLY knowing what I was putting on. BIG mistake. It took me 10 minutes to get into the tights and at the end of it I was nearly sweating and a little bit out of breath. Until I got them on I felt like I was stuffing myself into a casing that was 10x too small. {Not the best way to start a Monday morning!}
Only after they were on did I read the packaging to learn that ShāToBu High Waist Shaping Tights are “Get Fit” tights. What this means is that the tights are constructed with muscle toning resistance bands. If you look closely at the image above, you’ll notice parts of the tights that are darker than the rest of the tights. This is where the resistance bands are located. They pretty much cover your entire midriff straight down to your knees, hence why it took me so long to get into the tights. The bands are tight and firm, and putting the tights on took quite a bit of effort!
Throughout the day it was clear to me that I had resistance bands wrapped around my legs. There were times when I was walking around at work that I actually felt like I was exercising, which was a little surreal. As for the color of the tights, I received a jet black pair to try, and they are a great opaque black.
I’m not going to try to tell you that you’re going to get SO SLIM wearing ShāToBu High Waist Shaping Tights because that would be absurd. Having worn them now twice, I do think there is something to the resistance bands and at the very least I can believe that you would burn a few extra calories just by wearing the tights and going about your normal routine. The resistance is light, but it’s there. There are even resistance bands that wrap around your bottom! You have to pull them up specifically into place or you’re going to feel really awkward! They do give a great boost to the old posterior!
Because of the extra strength of the tights due to the resistance bands, I 100% believe these tights do a better job than most other shapewear tights I’ve tried of sucking everything in and making you appear trimmer. I never felt uncomfortable, but I definitely felt trimmer, tucked in, and all smoothed out.
My only complaint – and it’s a relatively small one – is that the resistance bands weight down the tights in a weird way. Not that I felt droopy or anything, but anytime I used the restroom I had to be certain to pull the tights all the way up again – starting below my knee – because the fabric seemed to fall quite a bit.
Would I spend $38 to buy these tights myself? Heck yeah! In fact, I’m going to go one step further.
I fully intend on investing in this sexy garment to wear under my wedding dress in July! This is the ShāToBu Seamless High Waist Shaper and I think it’ll give me the exact support I want under my gown. This shaper is pricier at $68, but if it makes me look as trim as the tights do then they’ll be worth the cost!
Disclosure: I was provided with one free pair of ShāToBu High Waist Shaping Tights to review. Honesty is the best policy, therefore all opinions above are my own.
A few weeks ago I talked about OpenSky for the first time, and they’re back today because they’ve got a pretty amazing clean-out sale happening! 100+ brands and hundreds of products have been marked down up to 80%!
Plus, if you register now you’ll get an automatic $10 account credit, which automatically makes any item that much cheaper! More or less, OpenSky is a site full of items curated by celebrities and experts in specific areas. Everything on the site comes highly recommended by whomever chose the product to be sold. Personally, I think it’s a great way to find new items. The only thing I don’t like about the site is that they are VERY email happy. If you don’t like receiving tons of emails then I recommend registering for this site using an email account you don’t check too often.
Ali Fedotowsky curated these Christy’s Whitney Hats, which originally cost $60 each. You can currently snag one for $15 in the blow-out sale … or just $5 after the $10 credit!
There are even a couple of items that cost $10 or less … I haven’t tried it yet, but there’s a chance you could get these items and pay only the cost of shipping.
Once you’ve registered for OpenSky be sure to tell your friends about the site and the sale! Much like the sample sale sites, you’ll receive a $25 credit after your referred friends place their first orders.
Here it is again! DiscountMags.com is offering a one year subscription to Elle Magazine for $4.50 when you use the Promo Code: 7548. This is a 92% savings off the cover price!
This deal is only good for today and will expire at Midnight (EST).
BestDealMagazines.com is offering a one year subscription to Natural Health Magazine for $4.29. This is a 90% savings off the cover price!
This deal is only good for today and will expire at Midnight (EST).
You can also save 15% on most magazine titles when you use the Coupon Code: PXCJ0129. This coupon is valid until January 29.
