Topic: online shopping

Cyber Monday Sale: 5 Festive Holiday Dresses We Love (Get Them Right Here and Now)

How many holiday gifts have you bought online today? In honor of Cyber Monday, we’re bringing you five more of our favorite sale items from shopnation. What’s shopnation? They’re our new online partner, and they make it possible for you to shop for clothes, shoes, accessories, handbags, and lingerie directly from Blisstree’s pages. No hassles, no lines, no impatient customers, no searching through racks, no driving around parking lots looking for a parking space. Just seriously good deals on seriously good stuff (think up to 60% off). Simply click on our new “shop” tab – and you may be able to steer clear of the stores this entire holiday season. More »

Buy Our 5 Favorite Sale Items on ShopNation Right Now

Did you know that you can easily shop online for clothing, shoes, accessories, handbags, and lingerie directly on Blisstree via shopnation? Just click on our new “shop” tab on any Blisstree page, and browse through hundreds of pages of sweet deals – up to 60% off everything from haute couture dresses to cozy pajamas. And there’s really no better time to check them out than right now, while shopnation’s featuring serious sales in honor of Black Friday weekend. So here are five of our favorite deals on shopnation right now. Because wouldn’t you rather see all those frantic people in long lines at all the big box stores only on the TV news reports? More »

Outrageous Advertisements of Yore: 10 Gifts We Don’t Want to Buy on Black Friday

Black Friday, Cyber Monday; whatever the reason, this is the season for outrageous advertisements telling us what to buy between now and Christmas. We’re already sick of the constant ads and Christmas music (yes, it starts before Thanksgiving now), but then again, ads have come a long way since the sexist, misogynistic stuff dug up by the French news site, OWNI.eu. They found 48 ads that would never be allowed today; we think they (appropriately) bring a little dark humor to Black Friday. More »

Black Friday Sales: Our Take on Thorougly Depressing Big Box Store Opening Hours

We’re not going to pretend to understand people who camp out in front of big box stores days before Thanksgiving (and completely miss Thanksgiving dinner) in advance of all the Black Friday sales. But we’re very glad Black Friday’s almost here, because we’re really tired of seeing all those commercials telling us to leave our warm, cozy beds in the middle of the night in order to embrace the true meaning of the holidays and buy a bunch of crap no one really needs. The folks over at The Daily Beast were kind enough to put together a handy slideshow of some of the major Black Friday sales and opening hours. And we’re giving you our honest take on them:

Some Sam’s Club stores will open on Friday at 5 a.m. Why so late?

Lowe’s will unlock its doors at 5 a.m. on Friday. Thank God, because you shouldn’t have to wait another second for that drywall.

Staples will open its doors on Friday at 6 a.m. How ever did you get through Thanksgiving without that mouse pad? More »

Gilt Product of the Week – Elie Tahari Piper Wool Cashmere Trench Coat

Hello, friends. I’m Lindsay, and welcome to Gilt’s product of the week. Today we’re taking a look at Elie Tahari’s Piper Wool Cashmere Trench Coat, available today at noon on Gilt.com.

This coat embodies everything that makes Tahari Tahari. Unlike most winter coats that rely on their bulk to keep you warm, the Piper’s mid-weight wool and cashmere blend, plus its self-tie sash and high-collared style provide you with a sliding scale of warmth to confront any weather situation without ever sacrificing its sleek and flattering silhouette. More »

Healthy Censorship? 10 Books That Have Been Banned, Censored, or Hated as Much as The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure

The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct has caused a wave of criticism, angry Amazon customers, and demands that the online bookseller pull the self-published book from its site. Whether or not you believe Amazon should ban the book, there are plenty of other volumes sold on the discount bookseller’s site that have sparked at least as much controversy. And we don’t just mean illicit novels or racy teenage fiction (although the American Library Association has plenty of those on its most-challenged books lists). We’re talking about books that, like The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure, approach issues of health and law from a non-fiction stance. More »

Athleta: Athletic Performance Wear Modeled By and for Real Women

I usually flip through fitness clothing catalogs (wait, this isn’t 1990 — I click through shopping websites) wondering how the items really fit when it’s on a “real” woman. I usually order a few pairs of pants, hoping that at least one of them won’t squeeze and fold in all the wrong places, and make sure the company has a good return policy for the rest. But I recently met up with some of the women behind Athleta, a fitness clothing company owned by Gap Inc., at a yoga class hosted by Athleta and taught by one of their models, Drisana Carey, and discovered that not all fitness models are waifs who happen to lift a dumbbell or two before a shoot.

Poll: Should Amazon Have Pulled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct?

By now you’ve heard about the hot water Amazon.com is in over this new self-published e-book: The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct by Phillip R. Greaves II. During the initial onslaught of criticism and frenzied demands to remove the book from the online seller, Amazon resisted, saying that while they don’t condone criminal activity, they do support their customers’ rights to make their own purchasing decisions. And they also don’t support censorship. But late last night, after online shoppers took to Facebook and Twitter to organize a global boycott, Amazon caved to pressure and pulled the book from its Kindle shop.

We certainly don’t support pedophilia or any other type of criminal activity. But we’re not big fans of censorship, either.

Sorry! This poll is now closed.

Eco-Friendly Fail: 8 Ways We Emit Carbon Every Day

You buy local. You avoid using plastic. You ride your bike. You’re basically doing your best to reduce your carbon footprint. But Fast Company found eight surprising ways we emit carbon every day, without even realizing it. Check out this list and see if you’re guilty:

1. Eating. Including food production, transportation, and toilet paper use, humans emit two tons of CO2 a year just form eating.

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Fitness Gallery: 10 Cold-Weather Running Essentials

For most of us, very soon it’s going to get cold. And dark. And while it’d be easier to abandon our outdoor running expeditions in favor of spending an extra hour under our down comforter every winter morning, we’re not going to let the frigid weather bully us into letting our workouts slide. So we found ten cold-weather running essentials that don’t stand a chance against old man winter. Now you just have to get out of bed. More »

Billions for a Bronzer: Beauty Products No One Needs

Chantecaille Bengali Bronzer Compact

$85, Bloomingdales

We appreciate that you’re just as afraid of skin cancer as the rest of us, and therefore you’re trying to ditch the real tans in favor of something less toxic. Bronzer seems like a reasonable choice. It’s temporary, flattering, and, most important of all, it won’t give you melanoma. But $85 for one compact? You’ve got to be kidding. More »

Terrafirma Cosmetics Healthy Organic Halloween Makeup

You’ve finally decided what you want to be for Halloween. Congratulations. Just one problem: Your costume requires face paint, which can contain some toxic ingredients, like lead and other heavy metals. Does this mean you’ve got to ditch your hilariously clever idea in favor of a costume that doesn’t require makeup?

No way. There are plenty of companies that make eco-friendly and non-toxic face paints, and Terrafirma Cosmetics is one of them. More »

Chanel Private Sale on Rue La La

There was a buzz behind the scenes at Rue La La when we all laid eyes on the Chanel pieces that New York-based Madison Avenue Couture painstakingly curated for our Members. Just a few of the statement-making offerings that had us all talking: the classic quilted flap bags with the famous “CC” interlocking logos in different colors, beautiful bouclé tweed jackets with logo buttons that work with jeans and pencil skirts, a rare coat from the famous “Devil Wears Prada” collection, funky boots that turn leggings into a fashion statement, hard-to-find necklaces and earrings from the 1980s, cozy winter coats and scarves to brave the cold in high fashion.

Only one of each coveted piece will be featured in our Boutique, so we suggest arriving early (we’re all setting our reminders and postponing meetings as we speak). The Madison Avenue Boutique opens at 11AM on October 27^th and lasts just two days. More »

Fall Weekend Gear: 10 Eco-Friendly Day Trip Accessories

So we may have complained about the cold fall weather, but we do like fall. Seriously. And one of our favorite things about the next few months is taking outdoorsy weekend trips. We like apple-picking, leaf-peeping, fall hiking, and carving pumpkins that we’ve picked ourselves. Basically, if you can see a family doing it in an L.L. Bean catalog, we’re all over it. Unfortunately, not everything in L.L. Bean is super eco-friendly, so we found some of our favorite green gear to wear, pack, and keep comfortable with on your day trips for the next few weekends. More »

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