Retail Hairapy

***Updated with photo of mah HAIR***

So, Saturday was my day. The sun shone, it was like seventy-freaking-degrees, and I got to go shopping by mah-self. First I hit CVS and Walgreens and got some sweet deals, and then, I went to Target to get THIS beauty (on the advice of my friend Laurin – thank you girl!):

It is the Remington Emi Airwave Dryer, a.k.a the COOLEST FLIPPIN’ HAIR DRYER EVER!! It dries your hair and curls it at the same time. Amazing.

Laurin wrote a great review of this hair dryer, (read the full review here and see a video of her demonstrating it on her local news here) so I’ll quote her:

After reading the directions, I got started on what I figured would be another shameful chapter in my hair saga. See the attachment tube? I separated a section of hair at a time, turned on the dryer, and dropped the ends of the hair sections into the tube. A vortex of air sucks the hair in and spins it round and round, drying it from the roots to the ends into a perfect curl.

When all of the sections of my hair were dry a mere eight minutes later, it looked like I had smooth dreadlocks, a look I hadn’t really considered at this stage of my life. After letting my curls set for a minute or two, I finger-combed each section apart and checked myself out in the mirror. Holy hairnet! My hair looked amazing. The curls were perfect and I looked like I had just come from the salon. Shower to done in about 10 minutes, with an actual hairstyle. Life changing!

Ok, it’s me again. Doooodes, I totally got this hair dryer this weekend at Target, and it RAWKS! It worked perfectly. My hair used to be stick straight, then I had little miss Sophie and somehow it got wavy. Only it’s mostly just really wavy in the back, kinda wavy on the sides, and straight in the front. NOT COOL. It now takes me forever to style and I pretty much always hate the way it looks. But with the Remington Emi, it only took me about 10 minutes and my hair was dry and styled, and very, very wavy. And it stayed wavy all day long. As a matter of fact, I think I might even be able to get a second day out of this hairstyle. Since it usually takes me about 15 minutes just to get my hair DRY (I have tons of hair, people, I’m serious), this is a major, major exciting hair breakthrough for me. Thanks to Laurin for this great discovery!

And now, since the readers demanded it, a photo of my Emi-styled hair (and yes I am getting my brows waxed again next week so SHADDUP):

wavy hair courtesy of the Remington Emi hair dryer

My other super-awesome retail coup this weekend came from Sears. I was moseying through the store when I saw that the Lands’ End shop was having 70% off clearance. 70%!?! Just that morning I had been looking online at Lands’ End Overstocks because I really wanted to get a nice winter coat for next season and thought I’d buy while they were on sale. So imagine my joy when I found this Weatherly jacket (in admiral blue) in the Lands’ End shop for just $11.99 on clearance and this Angel Down full-length coat for only $26.99 on clearance! I am now the proud owner of both, and my grand total with tax was only $41.71. Wooohoo! I am going to be very cute and very warm next fall and winter!

Great weather, great bargains and great hair…put a little pep in my step!

So, what exciting things did YOU do this weekend?

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Lest We Forget to Say “Thanks”…

Ok, I SWA-EAR this will be my last post on BlissDom, but Emily and I would be remiss if we forgot to thank the great sponsors who made BlissDom possible. So, please give these companies some LOVE because they care about what bloggers and their readers (i.e. YOU) think!

So here, we go, time for some SPONSOR LOVE!
First up, Lands’ End. They provided us with the SWEETEST swag bag – the actual bag was one of their totes! HOLLA!

They also gave us a free shipping code to share with our readers! It’s Promo Code: BLISSDOM and PIN: 2175 – it expires this Sunday the 15th so use it FAST!

Next, we have Little Debbie, who supplied a never-ending pile of 100 Calorie snacks to keep us happy between session! And the Little Debbie DUDES who were there were SO NICE!

My favorite, favorite thing in the swag bag was a gift certificate good for up to $50 for a FREE pair of CROCS shoes! Now it has been well-documented that I love Crocs! So I am super-stoked about that, and I already ordered my FREE shoes! Here are the Crocs I wore to the PJ Party at BlissDom, my Malindi Leopards. I LOVE them!

My Malindi Leopards at BlissDom09

And here are my YOU by Crocs I wore to both cocktail parties, the Positano:

You by Crocs Positano

Another sponsor that was really helpful at BlissDom was the Geek Squad! They were there to help us with all our technical difficulties and make sure we were all able to connect to the hotel’s wi-fi. ‘Cause a blogger with no internet is like a junkie without crack, ya heard??

Wal-Mart was an event sponsor and gave away THREE iPod Touches. And even though I did not win one, I am still thankful for their sponsorship, and for that of the other BlissDom sponsors: Lijit, RGM, Care.com, Sony Music, New Line Records, Wind Up Records, and Blue House Blogs (wazzup DAISY!) – THANK YOU for making such an amazing event possible! You’ve just made the blogosphere a whole lot happier!

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