This dame may be cheap, but she's never trashy

Is there anything as wonderful as getting inexpensive goodies that make you fabulous?



Of course there is, silly girl. Really wonderful is getting expensive goodies that make you fabulous. You can coat the soles of your Payless high heels with red paint all you want, but that will never make them Louboutins will it?



I was able to put a few pennies away in my Louboutin savings jar this week by purchasing some inexpensive, but chic pretties at some of Valdosta's local vendors.



First on my list is T.J. Maxx on St. Augustine road. Again, inexplicably we have a terrific selection of merchandise at this national chain's local store. My guess would be that there are so few fashionistas in the area that the good stuff gets passed over. Seriously, there are people here that wear rubber flip flops to work at their offices or to our few decent restaurants. I'm not making this up to make this city appear more quaint and Mayberry-like; Valdosta is like a fashion black hole. There are women here still walking around with asymmetrical bobs from 2007, and once I actually sighted a woman my own age wearing The Rachel from 1995. That too occured in 2007. Oh the horror of it all!



So, since I have a life mission to inspire these poor, fashion starved darlings, I to out of my way to cruise the store at least once a week for overlooked cheap treasures and true fashion finds. It's my karmic duty. Plus, I enjoy the looks of envy. Well Saturday was just shopping Mardi Gras for moi....

Purchase number one was a pair of Just Cavalli sunglasses for a whopping $29.99. Now what did I do when I spotted them besides gasp? Of course you know I lunged for them with the same sort of desperate aggression that Denise Richards has towards friend's husbands. Well, maybe not. She doesn't really have friends anymore, does she? Just those smelly animals....



Anyway, I'll put a pic up so you can enjoy them too. The glasses, of course. Who wants to see Denise Richards? Soooooo over her.....

And what goes with sunglasses better than eye makeup?

Well, lots of things, but we need to stay on track here. I found hidden on an end rack right out in front of everyone a fabulous stash of Hard Candy eye shadow quartets for $3.99. I picked up Sonic; which is a foursome of glittery golds, and Star; which is a mix of silver sprinkled purples. These will be perfect for New Orleans this spring. I'm taking my kinder half there for a first honeymoon. Sadly we didn't have a first one, but I promise you we will make up for it in April.

I also found a good selection of Lancome products. I am not a huge fan of their makeup though I love some of their perfumes; namely the discontinued classic Magie Noir and their latest release, Magnifique. I looked through the lipsticks and glosses anyway as they were a great price and found a pretty color called Pink Nuance from their Le Rouge Absolu line. It's sort of a beigy-pink frost that is very flattering. It's been so long since I've worn Lancome lipstick that I forgot how good it tasted! Sort of gummy bearish...

Then I went drugstoring. I have to look at makeup everywhere, I am totally democratic that way. Somewhere once I read that the only real money you should spend on cosmetics are for foundation and mascara and I totally agree with the foundation part. I still had not fully made up my mind about mascara; as I said in an earlier post I've been using Maybelline's Colossal and find it to be just adequate. Since I'm always open to new products I thought I would give some other inexpensive brands a try. I picked up L'Oreal's new Double Extend, Maybelline's Lash Stiletto, Maybelline's XXL Extensions, and finally Covergirl's LashBlast Luxe.

Truthfully I have not been impressed with any of them. The Double Extend did make my lashes longer looking in a plastic alien like way. Oh my god, maybe that's why they use Linda Evangelista in the ad! Now it makes sense! I am so glad that she admitted to using a little Botox to enhance her looks because I just thought her face might have frozen back in the early '90's and I hate to think of anyone being in a state of suspended inanimation that long.

Lash Stiletto did not lengthen my lashes in a noticeable manner or give them a patent leather shine.

Maybelline XXL is clumpy and boring. It's so boring I can't even think of something clever and witty to say about it.

Covergirl LashBlast Luxe is average mascara with shimmer. I occasionally have lapses in taste and my inner white trash trailer park queen loooves colored and glittery mascaras. You know how Beyonce has this sexy alter ego called Sasha Fierce? Well my inner white trash doppelganger is named Britney Spears. No wait, that's taken. Have you noticed that the name Britney and all of its hideously spelled derivatives is so played even the trailer park teens don't use it for their meth babies anymore? Anyway my inner manufactured housing name can be Dixie Kristyl. Well let me tell you what, LashBlast Luxe didn't have near enough of anything for Dixie! You couldn't even see the shimmer, not even if she was lap dancing right up on you! Way too subtle and who wants that?? It's the french manicure of shimmer mascaras. Just bland, bland, bland.

So now I agree, spend money on mascara. Unless you're Dixie Kristyl. She prefers Wet n Wild Mega Lash in Blastin' Blue with silver glitter sprinkled in. It matches her belly piercing and the blue makes her tramp stamp just pop.

Stay tuned for a new posting on nail polishes and the women who love them.

Huge kisses,

Cult Diva