L'Occitane Boutiques: Experience Provence Without Traveling to France

Hello Divas!

I hope your life is marvelous! Be thankful for all that you have and you won't have time to be envious of others. So true.

From yesterday's post, you Divas know how much I love natural beauty products like shea butter.  Especially shea butter combined with essential oils.  Shea butter mixed with sweet almond oil or lavender oil makes my skin feel like "butta' plus the oils make the shea butter smell so good!

If you read my blog, you know I especially love L'Occitane hand and body butters because they contain all natural ingredients like shea butter, are super hydrating to the skin, and the packaging is simple yet classic.  I usually purchase my favorite L'Occitane hand cream from Sephora, but this summer I was in an airport that had a L'Occitane boutique.  After visiting the boutique, I have committed myself to shopping at L'Occitane boutiques from now on.

Entering the L'Occitane boutique is like entering a serene spa.  First, there are candles burning, and the lighting is not overly bright but muted.  I instantly felt calm and relaxed when entering the boutique.  Of course, it smells like Lavender, which is a key ingredient in most of their products.  Lavender is known to calm and soothe.  I love it!  Next, the display of products are well organized and there are samples of everything.  I particularly loved the display of french soaps.  I love picking up travel size soaps when traveling and L'Occitane has shea butter travel sized soaps for only $4.  That is a good deal for a quality product!

More importantly, the customer service at the L'Occitane boutique was superb!  The associate was well versed on the product offerings.  She encouraged me to try different products and she was so nice, I could not leave the store without buying something.  Good customer service will ensure a return customer every time.  I don't understand why other retailers don't get it. 

Anyhoo, L'Occitane boutiques are located in over 70 countries around the world.  Click here to find a boutique near you and experience Provence without traveling to France.

Toodles!


Disclaimer:  This is a sponsored post.  However, my opinion and experience with L'Occitane is 100% honest and mine.

OPI's Cafe Cuties

Hello Divas!

I hope your weekend was relaxing! Guess what I did over the weekend? Shopping for beauty products of course. I went to Ulta for the first time. Can you believe it??!! I am such a beauty junkie, but I am a loyalist at heart. So Sephora has always been the end all to be all for me. But I had to go to Ulta to get OPI's La Collection de France nail polish. Umm I really really like Ulta, but I will save my fascination with Ulta for another post. Right now, I have to tell you ladies about OPI's Cafe Cuties. Cafe Cuties is a collection of 3 nail colors plus OPI's top coat for only $9.95! Each bottle of nail polish contains 1/8 fluid ounces of polish..just enough to try each color a few times. The La Collection de France Cafe Cuties set includes:

Parlez-Vous OPI, a smokey lavender

Louvre Me Louvre Me Not, a royal purple

Eiffel for This Color, My absolute FAV!, a dark shimmery wine and

I blogged about these three colors previously here and I was so prepared to buy about 6 bottles from the Collection, but I could not resist purchasing this set. Plus the RapiDry Top Coat is fantastic! It dries your nails in seconds! So Divas if you want to try several colors from this Collection without spending $8.50 per bottle, purchase this set! I am confident that you will love them so much, you will certainly buy the full bottles! And oh I am wearing Parlez-Vous OPI. What do you think?

Toodles!

OPI Nail Color: La Collection De France

Hello Divas!

I hope your Labor Day is filled with good food, good fun, and relaxation! I don't usually discuss nail polish but I am currently in love with OPI's La Collection De France nail colors. In my opinion this is the BEST fall nail color collection. As OPI states, this collection contains "rich sensuous colors inspired by the effortless elegance of French fashion." I feel it truly captures the current fall trend of rich intense dark colors: burgandys, chocolates, and purples. FABULOUS! Wearing these colors will make any woman feel luxurious and fashionably chic. I know I am gushing, but ladies the nail colors in this collection are a must have this fall! Recently, I had an opportunity to try OPI's "We'll Always Have Paris", a rich purplish coffee shade. Check it out to the right. Can I just say I am in love. The color is so rich! However, all the colors in the collection are beautiful.

I can't wait to try, LOUVRE ME LOUVRE ME NOT, a dark royal purple;

EIFFEL FOR THIS COLOR, a shimmery wine;

and PARLEZ-VOUS OPI?, a smokey lavender.


And come on ladies aren't the names just wonderful? It really motivates me to take that trip this year to Paris! There are 12 colors in this collection and they retail for $8 a bottle. Click here to view the collection and for purchase information.

Toodles!