Today's Daily Deal is Pores.
http://www.makeupartistschoice.com/Pores_c_72.html

I should have thought of this sooner, but Ebates has a 14% rebate special on several sites including Macy's and Nordstrom.  I'm assuming this would work for Chanel, but the deal ends tonight.

 I have a lot of grey hair. I've tried the Blue Malva shampoo, it has a lovely scent. But you can only get it in a huge bottle. So I bought another shampoo and conditioner for grey hair. It's called Touch of Silver and looks exactly like the Blue Malva, but  does not smell herbal and fresh, just a nondescript, shampoo smell. It was OK but I ended up throwing it away, because it actually stained my bath! I had to scrub the bath and I can still see a faint purple stain. Now if it does that to the bath, what will it do to my hair? One of the reasons why I stopped colouring my hair was  because I did not want to damage it; using a shampoo with strong chemicals to enhance the grey just defeats the purpose. Now I am not even sure I want to buy the Blue Malva again. Lately, I've just gone back to my Kerastase shampoo. I am  not bothered about enhancing grey hair with specialist products, I'll settle for a quality shampoo. I also found that using a serum, such as John Frieda's, does smooth my hair and makes it shine.

You're not kidding!!  Between my kindergartner and 3rd grader, I want to rip my hair out sometimes with all the homework and projects.  Especially with karate 4 nights a week and the fact that I'm still trying to study for and take additional licensing exams.  We have to opt out of a lot of optional stuff. 

Homework is killing me and he's only in the 2nd grade! I can't wait for 3rd.  If I'm mia a lot come late this year, it would be because I've checked myself at the asylum. 

I do like the Burberry eyeshadows.  They are very, very smooth and apply beautifully.  The color range is nice.  The packaging is totally luxe (and I'm a sucker for nice packaging).  And they're pretty big for high end eyeshadow singles.  I saw somewhere a breakdown of the cost per whatever-unit-of-measurement compared to other dept store eyeshadows, and Burberry ended up being around the same as MAC.  So not a bad value, when you think of it that way.  I still can't afford to have more than a couple of them.  And for some reason, I don't reach for them very often, but I think that's because I tend to use my cream shadows more than my powder ones. 

I got the newish Armani foundation, the Maestro fusion something-or-other.  It's the one I wrote about in one of the foundation threads.  Love it, but price-wise a little out of my comfort zone so I'm not sure whether I will repurchase.  Justified it this time because I was working a lot more than usual for the last five months (which is how I justified most of these things I've recently splurged on.   )

Re: brushes, nothing really special.  Got a bunch of trial-and-error inexpensive eyeshadow and eyeliner brushes, mostly, trying to find ones that worked well for my evolving makeup stash.  Sigma, Coastal Scents (really like these a lot and they're CHEAP!), random ones at TJ Max.  Still trying to decide on a nice lip brush.

Nice! Very nice, Stacey!  So, tell me about Burberry eye shadows. You like?

Which Armani foundation did you get?  I've gone thru one bottle and I'm on my 2nd one - Luminous Silk.  There is a company discount outlet near me, I mean really near me. The Lancôme.  They have some Armani things but I haven't bought anything yet.

Which brushes did you? I love makeup brushes. I would spend money on makeup brushes if I didn't put blinders on. *sigh*