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Replenish Your Vanity With New, Cruelty-Free Cosmetics for Only a Dollar an Item

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Out With the Clumpy and Funky

Now it's a new year, it's time to stop using your clumpy mascara, shady eye shadows, funky foundations and any suspect lotions or potions that may have been stewing with potentially harmful bacteria or molds. Ew!

Your eyes and lips are the most susceptible to infections from stale cosmetics. So to be on the safe side, eye products (mascara, eye shadow, eye liner) should not be kept if it has been three months since the first use, and lipsticks and lip-liners if it has been six months. For more direction on what should stay and what should go, please check this great article at iVillage: Are your cosmetics past their use-by date?

Recycle for Rewards, or Request It!

Of course, you may be inclined to just throw all your outdated ickiness in the trash, but please check to see if your containers can be recycled first. Some of the major cosmetics brands offer recycling programs, like M-A-C Cosmetics Back to M-A-C Program, where you get a free lipstick for every six containers you return for recycling. Care by Stella McCartney also has an industry-leading recycling program. We also discovered that Kiehl's has a "recycling program," but it's nothing more than a mention on their website that they encourage patrons to return their "empties" for recycling.

If your brand of cosmetics doesn't offer recycling yet, please contact them to do so! The following companies either don't have recycling or don't make it clearly known on their websites:

- Avon
- Estee Lauder
- L'Oreal
- Revlon

In With the New for Only Dollars

If after recycling and recouping an item or two, you're still worried how much replenishing your entire vanity will cost, don't be. We found the prettiest cosmetics for the prettiest price. A fabulous company, e.l.f. Cosmetics, sells individual cosmetics for only one dollar each!

We love e.l.f.'s simple concept of universal affordability -- and their animal cruelty-free mission even more. Aside from not using animal testing, e.l.f. donates money to PETA and is totally anti-fur, as a supporter of Fur Is Dead. By the way, since e.l.f. is only three years old, they don't yet have a recycling program: Contact them to get with it!

Although you can mix and match products to your delight -- at one dollar an item it may take you hours -- our favorite is the $25 Gift Set (pictured above). It's just more convenient. Of course, whatever cosmetics you buy, we really want you to have a happy YOU year! Please enjoy these e.l.f. coupon codes so you can properly prettify yourself.

Through Jan. 10, 2008
- ECTUTAM -Buy 1, get 50% Off your next product

Through Jan. 15, 2008
- EGSTUFCM-Get a $25 restaurant.com gift card with any $20 or more elf purchase
- EGSTUFAM -Get $5 off with any purchase of $25 or more

Everyday Low Pricing
- - Spare Change? Change Your Look! All e.l.f. Cosmetics Just $1.

Special Note: Also look for e.l.f. cosmetics to be featured on 'How to Look Good Naked' with Carson Kressley, Fridays 9PM/8C on Lifetime. From Jan. 4, 2008 to Jan. 28, 2008, e.l.f. and Lifetime are hosting a How to Look Good Naked Sweepstakes. You never know. You could win some goodies!

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