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Uber Eats and Estee Lauder partnered up to start delivering makeup and beauty to your door with same day delivery recently. I slammed the service on Instagram a few short weeks ago because I felt like it was ridiculous and in some ways I still do. Living in New York I pretty much have easy access to just about everything I need and it’s no great chore just going to the store to picking up what I need. I also have really great success with both Sephora and Ulta and getting my packages very quickly if I order online.

Estee Lauder recently announced that they would be partnering with Uber Eats to allow quick deliver of Jo Malone and Origins. Why they limited it to those brands is beyond me! Apparently during the soft launch that will be all they offer and if they see good results they’ll add more brands. Honestly? Jo Malone and Origins are the two brands I’d likely never need immediately. This feels destined to fail if that’s what they decide to test this market with.

Anyway, click, buy, and pickup curbside has become a standard way of living during the pandemic. Everyone from Lowes to Cheesecake Factory to Nordstrom has curbside available! But what if it’s late and you just don’t want to drive to pick up that item your inner makeup addict demands it needs to satisfy it’s need for instant gratification?

Yesterday, I got this intense need to pick up MAC Black Mirror Paint Pot after seeing someone on Tiktok use it as a base for black eyeshadow. People, when the hell have I done a smoky eye in the last year? Really now? But the makeup addict wants what the makeup wants! So, I headed onto Nordstrom.com clicked, purchased, and drove over to pick it up after work. I actually hauled a lot of the new Spring 2021 matte shades but Black Mirror just passed by my radar because I knew I’d rarely use it! But I felt compelled to do some sort of sultry eye look with it suddenly. This is one of those moments I’d probably totally do an Uber Eats for makeup! I sort of hate Nordy’s curbside as they say it’s ready and you head over but you’re idling in the car for a while before they bring it out and I’m one of those un-aggressive people that will patiently wait and not bother anyone to ask after the order.

Uber Eats would be quicker and easier!

So, yeah, maybe…maybe…I’d use Uber Eats to order up some makeup in the future.

Would you?

P.S. You need to go buy Black Mirror now so we can smear this all over our eyes to make ourselves look seggy!

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If you’re over there biting your fingernails over the state of Dogecoin and other crypto today you aren’t alone. Be right back I’m gonna go sob under my desk for a while! It’s ok though! Good news awaits us in the beauty world at least.

Neiman Marcus sales rebounded apparently in Q3 and count me shocked. Lord & Taylor, maybe you moved too quickly there….! According to reports there’s a 43 to 44 percent gain in the third quarter compared to the 2020 period and only about a 6 to 7 percent decline from the third quarter of 2019. Earnings aren’t public as of yet I don’t think…….correct me if I’m wrong!

They aren’t quite as the level they were in 2019 but things are rebounding for them quickly.

I have lost some hope in the status of luxury department stores. I feel like they are all destined for failure at this point since so many are located within malls and malls are pretty much a dying breed. We’ve lost so many greats like Barney’s and Lord & Taylor it does make me worry for other luxury stores like Nordy’s.

It feels like there’s some light at the end of a dark tunnel reading about Neiman Marcus having good sale rebound in Q3 today. I hope it continues!

As for crypto….let’s hope that rebounds too because my portfolio feels like it went down the toilet today.

Sigh!

Good luck! I hope you didn’t lose too much today.

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Tell me your best feature! Now tell me one you want to change!

GO!

Mine?

Here ya go!

My best feature would be my skin….! Allow me to brag very briefly….I am poreless (except some minor visible pores on my nose), I am very smooth without any texture issues, and I am free from blemishes and acne. My skin has been like this as far back as I can remember. I never even went thorough any acne or blemish issues when I was a teenager! I remember high school being like a war zone for pimples especially during everyone’s period but I never had an issue. Acne, blemishes were never really an issue during my period or even just due to normal teenage hormones. I do remember in Freshman year have some minor forehead breakouts because sort of had bangs which I was growing out. But aside from that, I never really get breakouts now or back then. My skin is also, really resilient. Nothing really breaks me out or causes sensitives.

What would I change?

Eyes!

Eyes!

Eyes!

Eyes!

You already know how much I hate them. They dominate my face, they make me look like cartoon….! The eyes need to go 😉 I’d totally change them if I could. Maybe something a little smaller, less wide and buggy, and I wouldn’t mind a new shade…! I gotta be the girl blessed with bambi eyes over here! 😛

Your turn.

Your best feature and the one you’d like to change.

Tell me!

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