Women know how expensive cosmetics can be. Even the basic drugstore brands can cost anywhere from $3.00 on up per item. If you buy department store brands, you can easily drop twenty dollars or more on just one item. Given that most women use several items (lipstick, eye shadow, eye liner, foundation, blush, mascara, and on and on), it can be a big part of a budget. It’s painful, but it’s the price for beauty. Until recently, the only choice to save big time on makeup was to go without or use very limited makeup.

Now you can have makeup permanently inked onto your skin in a procedure similar to tattooing. You

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Earthquake Update: 6.5 struck Southern Mexico

Jun 29, 2010

A powerful 6.5 preliminary magnitude earthquake has hit southern Mexico.

The powerful quake was felt by millions across the region, hitting around 2.22am local time.

The earthquake was centred near the city of Tlaxiaco in Oaxaca state, in southern Mexico, near the Pacific Ocean.

The quake was very shallow according to data provided by the US Geological Survey, at a depth of 10 kilometers.

The earthquake was powerful enough to sway sky scrapers several hundred kilometers away in Mexico City.

Thousands of people took to social networking site Twitter to say they had felt the quake.

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In case you missed it, Maclean’s Magazine ran our Online shopping clubs cleaning up post of a couple of weeks ago. Here is the link to the Maclean’s article.

Tourists injured, missing in Thailand

39 injured, two missing as 2 tourist boats collide in Thailand

Image via atravelmania.com

Jun 26, 2010

BANGKOK – Thirty-nine passengers were injured and two were missing after two boats carrying Thai and foreign tourists to a popular island beach party collided in the Gulf of Thailand, a news report said Sunday.

The boats were ferrying tourists to Pha-ngan island to attend a “full moon” party, a monthly event that attracts thousands of young, mostly Western tourists.

The boats collided and overturned before midnight Saturday, throwing passengers into the sea just off the island, the website of The Nation newspaper said. T

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