Many of you know how much we love Canadian organic line, Exuberance Beauty. Luckily the lovely founder, Jodi Fedor is visiting The Bay stores across Canada and is offering some free samples to ChickAdvisor members who spend $20 or more.

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Exuberance Beauty Founder Visits at The Bay: Tell Jodi Fedor, Founder and natural skin care expert, that you are from Chick Advisor and...

Banana Republic is one of those stores where I find myself in trouble. I need to have a specific shopping list or I am likely to find myself with a bag full of impulse purchases. Now they have added one more reason for my VISA to quiver: Shoes. Check out some of my favourites from the new collection:

Rumer Peep Toe, $120
Ramona Heel, $120
Petra Slouchy Boot, $198Aden Mid Heel Pump, $98Page Jewel...

One more thing to love about winter: the start of the new year's Prix Fixe dining events! This is your chance to sample the best food in town for a fraction of the menu price.

Just a few of the Restaurant Weeks that recently caught our eye:

Canada
Calgary Mar 5-14
Montreal Jan 11-31
Toronto Jan 29-Feb 11
Nova Scotia Feb 1-11
Vancouver Apr 26-May 6

USA
Chicago Feb 19-28

This week on ChickAdvisor, we’ve shown you how to organize your closet, and we’ve got more secrets from the organization experts themselves. Check out these additional interview highlights, featuring Maxine Henry from Maxine the Maximizer and Ginny Snook Scott from California Closets:

ChickAdvisor: How have closets changed over the course of history?

CC: Over the last century we’ve seen a big...

This week in Toronto, L'Oreal hosted two Gloss & Glamour galas to celebrate the launch of their newest at home hair colour, Healthy Look. 80 women from Toronto and Montreal were selected to be the very first to try it!

Last night I attended the second event in Toronto at the L'Oreal Academy and got the chance to watch the makeovers in action.


Eric del Monaco demonstrated how to apply the...

Meet Mandy Fok - ChickAdvisor graphics guru, spunky worker bee at our events, and serious contender for 'Poser of the Year'. In fact, the only possible solution to showing up at work dressed in the same outfit as your boss was to make an in-office poll for Who Wore It Best, (aka The Pose-Off) don't you agree?

While you may not read much from her, Mandy is the one responsible for...

In the Spring of 2007 I did a naughty, and what some would consider ill-advised, thing. I bashed Prada. Not the brand as a whole, because I am a huge fan and have been since my days at Fashion File; I took pot shots at their must have spring accessory. The female turban. While I still stand by my opinion that it is indeed ugly, and I do feel it makes the wearer look like Aunt Jemima, I was...

Sub-zero temperatures. Arid indoor heating. Regular blasts of wind, sleet and snow. The result:  dry, chapped, chafed and dull winter skin. Do you brave the cold for a spa solution?  Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to soothe your skin from head to toe without ever leaving the cozy comfort of home.


Lips

Lips are especially sensitive to drying winter conditions, and muffling up with a...