Loose Powder

First, I wanted to say welcome to our new contributor, Annie! She’s already written several great reviews for Loose Powder, so please do check them out.

I’d like to thank the people who have been reading and replying on our little makeup blog! To help make things a little more user friendly, I’ve finally gotten around implementing threaded comments so conversations are a little easier to follow. You’ll also notice a new option under the comment box – “Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail.” If you check this box, you’ll get an email from us letting you know that there’s been a reply to your comment.

Figured it was about time to get around to these two site improvements. It only took me two years. Ha!

– Cyn

Generally on this site, we won’t be posting advertisements for products, but this promotion is good for you and good for the environment!

Did you know that nail polish is considered a hazardous material and can’t just be thrown in the garbage? In liquid form, it needs to be safely disposed of, or you have to leave the bottle open for days so that it dries out, but who wants to sit around while their house fills with polish fumes?

Zoya is once again running their fantastic Nail Polish Exchange program:

For a limited time, kicking off on Earth Day (April 22, 2010 – 12 PM EST), Zoya Nail Polish will exchange your old, out-of-style, unwanted nail color and replenish your nail polish supply with fresh Zoya fashion colors. Simply send in six or more bottles of old polish – any brand other than Zoya, Qtica or Nocti, new or used – and we’ll send you the new Zoya colors of your choice in a bottle-for-bottle exchange.

Head on over to their site and trade your old bottles of polish for some new colors! The exchange runs April 22 – June 30, so you’ve got a little time.

I’m still testing out a lot of features and plug-ins on WordPress, so I apologize if things work and then are suddenly broken.

I just installed the WP to Twitter plug-in to automatically tweet site updates to the @loosepowder Twitter account and I’m also fixing the social bookmark bar as the Twitter feature is a bit tweaky.

Thanks for your patience!

This is my very first WordPress blog, so I’m still trying to figure out how to tweak some things.

Hopefully I’ll use this thing a bit more? I’ve already accidentally abandoned my Livejournal. Oops.

But, yes, I plan to go back through and review some of the items I have tried.