Week-long Labour Day sale!

We will be celebrating Labour Day, back-to-school and the last days of summer with a week-long sale spectacular! Every 2 days we will be adding a special promotion that will last 48 hours, so keep your eyes peeled on our site/blog/twitter/facebook. The first promo code will be going up shortly!

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And we will be happy to combine shipping, so just shoot us an email if you'd like us to hold on to your package until the sales are all over.

Nous célébrerons la fête du Travail, le retour à l'école et les derniers jours de l'été avec une semaine de vente spectaculaire! Tous les deux jours, nous allons ajouter une promotion spéciale qui va durer 48 heures, alors prenez note de notre site/blog/Twitter/Facebook. Le premier code promo sera disponible sous peu!

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Et nous serons heureux de combiner l'expédition, simplement envoyez nous un email.

Summertime!

It is absolutely gorgeous here in Montreal - so hot and sunny, you can almost forget we're in Canada.

We have some wonderful new collections, just right for this time of year, beginning with the very aptly-named Sunshine and Summertime series from Zoya:

Villainess is also spoiling us for the summer, with some returning favorites and a fresh new offering, as well as some extremely limited experimental runs.

Check out all the lovely new things on the New-Nouveautés page, or under the Summer-Été category. And if you're looking to stock up, we still have some fabulous deals!

Canada Post strike action update

The union of Postal Workers has opted for a rotating strike action, shutting down operations in just one city at a time for periods of 24 to 48 hours.

We looked at courier options, but unfortunately the quotes were double what shipping with Canada Post costs, and are just not feasible to sustain for a small business likes ours. (i.e.: 15$ to Ontario, 20$ to BC, 37$ to PEI.)

At the moment, we will continue to take orders and ship them out via Canada Post. If you choose to order at this time, please note that there will likely be some delays until the strike ends, and should the union move to a national strike, all mail still in transit will be locked down.

Le syndicat des postiers a opté pour une grève, avec l'arrêt des activités dans une seule ville à la fois pour des périodes de 24 à 48 heures.

Nous avons examiné les options, mais, malheureusement, les citations ont été le double des frais d'expédition avec Postes Canada et sont tout simplement pas abordable pour une petite entreprise comme le nôtre. (Ex:. 15 $ à l'Ontario, 20 $ en Colombie-Britannique, 37 $ à l'Île du Prince Édouard.)

À l'heure actuelle, nous continuerons à prendre les commandes et les expédier par Postes Canada. Si vous choisissez de commander à cette heure, s'il vous plaît noter qu'il y aura probablement des délais jusqu'à ce que la grève se termine, et si le syndicat décide d'éffectuer une grève nationale, tous les colis encore en transit seront arrêté.

Spring!

We are FINALLY enjoying the first signs of spring here in Montreal. Birds! Sunshine! Slightly less mountain-like snow mounds!

Spring, of course, also means spring cleaning - we have a ton of stuff in our Sale section to clear out. =)

Seasonal offerings from Villainess, Arcana, China Glaze and OPI are 20% to 50% off, and the most recent Valentine's day collections are 10% off.

Our gorgeous Arcana scrubs must leave before the summer weather makes shipping them impossible, so they are all discounted 10% to 20% off. Stock up for those scrub-less summer months!

CANADIAN SHIPPING SPECIAL

Flat-rate 5$ shipping for all Canadian orders of 45$ and more! Until April 8th, no code needed.

Also, coming this spring...

An exclusive series of perfumes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, a selection of perfumes from Seattle-based Sweet Anthem and beautiful spring/summer collections from all your favorite nail polish brands.

Discount Codes!

It's my birthday - and you're celebrating with me. =)

For the next two days (Friday and Saturday) take advantage of these two discount codes:

Spend 45$ (before shipping), and use code bday10 to get 10% off your order!

Or, double up and load up - spend 90$, and use code bday20 to get 20% off your order!

These codes do apply to everything in the store, including sale items. Stock up on the seasonals you love at a steal! Splurge on a few new favorites! Treat yourself to that bigger ticket item you've been eyeing!

Holiday Shipping Dates

We will be shipping every day until December 23rd, and will resume as of the 29th. Processing times will remain the same - parcels will ship out by the next day, barring circumstances beyond our control. If you get your order in before noon EST, we'll usually be able to ship the same day.

For US orders, getting an order in time for the holidays is iffy as of right now. Normal transit times for packages crossing the border range from a few days to about 2 weeks, so bear in mind that there is an element of risk if you are hoping to receive something by the 24th.

For Canadian orders, we are shipping via Expedited service, which translates to:

Local – 1 day

Regional – 1 up to 3 days

National – 2 up to 7 days

That usually means about 2-5 business days, and 6-7 if you're in the territories, or in a more rural area of BC or the Prairies.

We are happy to combine orders as well, just e-mail us before placing a second order, as it simpler to invoice than to issue refunds for shipping.

Time to say thank you....

As our friends below the border celebrate American Thanksgiving, we'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all our lovely customers as well. You've made the past few months an absolute delight!

Please enjoy 10% off any order of 40$ and more, with code thanks10. Good from now until that retailpalooza known as Cyber Monday. ;-)

Canadian Shipping

We will be upgrading our shipping for Canadian orders to Expedited Parcel, where possible. For example, a package to the Prairies takes about 7 business days. With EP, Canada Post apparently guarantees that it will only be 5 business days.

And we all know that those two days can be endless when you're waiting on a box o' deliciousness. ;-)

Holiday Collections

I'm so excited about the new things coming in this week! Check out our Winter shop for the selection.

We received the China Glaze 'Tis the Season nail polishes earlier this week, and they're already a hit. If you haven't seen swatches for these yet, I highly recommend checking out those featured on All You Desire or Scrangie's blog. A great mix of classic and whimsical shades.

We're also now featuring OPI for sale to our online retail clients, as an extension of our in-house service. We still have a bit of both Burlesque and the Swiss Collection left.

The Villainess winter items are juuuust around the corner. Literally. They're sitting in the Montreal postal sorting center, and I was expecting them to be delivered today, until I realized that all services are closed due to it being Memorial Day. They should, however, be in by tomorrow. If you want to have an advanced peek, they are listed on both the Winter page and the Villainess LE page.

EDIT (Nov. 12): And they're in!

I am personally really looking forward to Just Desserts - it smells like a vaguely malicious Dreamsicle, if soap could have ill intent. ;-)

No teasers yet about the Arcana holiday update, but we'll let you know as soon as we know. =)

Confusion

Eeep.

I just wanted to clear something up. This blog originally started out as a general review blog, under a different name. I then retooled it to be both about things I love, as well as eventually becoming a place to chat about things happening at Pretty Indulgent.

So for example, I posted the other day about the BPAL Inquisition and Halloween sets. That's because I ordered those for myself and thought that they were awesome and wanted to share that, not because I was selling the items.

I'm tagging the non-shop posts with "what I love", to make it clear I'm just talking about products that I personally am a fan of.

Apologies for the confusion!

Shipping Changes and New Things For Fall

Canada Post is many things, but inexpensive isn't one of them. We're always looking to bring you guys wonderful, unique products at affordable prices, and working out the shipping has been challenging, to say the least. (Never mind the irony that it's less expensive to ship very light packages to the States, than it is to our neighboring province.)

Please check out the new rates here.

For international orders, please e-mail us for a quote.

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In other news, we finally have the fall collections from both Villainess and Arcana! Returning favorites and some new yumminess to indulge in. =)

My personal favorites?

Arcana's Holy Terror (soap and perfume) for its beautiful, heavy resins and beeswax sweetness. EDIT: Wow, we're officially out of Holy Terror soap!

Cobwebs from Villainess - possibly the most gorgeous-looking and seasonally apropos soap ever. It's also available in some experimental sizes and formats - a 2ml corked dram bottle of perfume, and a ceramic candle. This is not a sweet, foody fragrance (which abound in both collections), but rather something that encapsulates the darker aspects of the season.

Free Shipping

Free shipping for purchases of 60$ and more! Good until 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, Oct. 5th.

The promo good for both Canadian and US orders! US orders will ship on Friday via priority mail, from the States, as we will be traveling.

Livraison gratuite pour les achats de 60 $ et plus! Bon jusqu'à 23h59, le mardi 5 octobre.

La promotion s'applique aux commandes canadiennes et américaines! Les commandes américaines seront envoyé le vendredi par courrier prioritaire, en provenance des États.

Halloween!

We have a whole lot of wonderful goodies on the way from Arcana and Villainess! They should be here within a couple of weeks, in time for Halloween.

And if you're still clinging to the last bits of summer, have a look on our Limited Editions page for some lovely reminders.

We're open!

The shop is open!

http://www.prettyindulgent.com/

Please drop by, have a look around, and if you see anything you like, take advantage of our welcome promo: 10% off your purchase with code sept10. (Good through the end of September.)

S'il vous plaît n'hésitez pas à nous visiter, et profitez de notre offre spéciale de lancement - 10% de réduction avec le code sept10, valable jusqu'au dernier jour de Septembre.

Site update - Infos pour le site web

The website is steadily coming along. I have a few days of work left on product cataloguing and photography. But I'm very excited by the prospect of going live towards the end of next week, quite probably.

I also just got a preview of what Arcana has planned for the Early Autumn release and it sounds delicious! Definitely original, but still very much in the spirit of classic Arcana.

Le site Web achève! J'ai encore quelques jours de travail pour cataloguer et photographier certains produits. Mais je pense être prête pour la fin de la semaine prochaine.

J'ai également vu ce que Arcana a prévu pour la collection de "Early Autumn" et cela semble délicieux ! Original, mais toujours dans l'esprit des Arcana classiques.

A little bit of history - also, website!

Some exciting (I hope!) stuff coming soon.

I've been involved in the online beauty world for several years now - both as an avid consumer and occasional hobbyist (a brief and dubious run of soap-making). I discovered artists and brands that I knew nothing about 5 years ago, and had the pleasure of becoming friends with some of these artisans and entrepreneurs, while also having the equal delight of seeing friends become business-owners and creators in their own right.

Some time ago I thought about putting together a little online boutique for the things I was most passionate about. As a concept, it struck me as a little bit presumptuous - I mean, can I really base a store around just the things I like? But then again, that's the beauty of an online store - it really can be whatever you want it to be, indentity-wise. Why not a carefully audited selection of things that really resonate with me, and will hopefully appeal to other people? At the very least whoever buys from me will know that I'm not just pandering - if I sell it, it's because I love it.

I put together this blog (on a different site originally) a few months back, pulling out from my old review blog just the things that made me truly excited. That gave me a solid base to start with - these are the brands, I realized, I would be happy to enable people to. So this blog will continue in that vein. It will feature what I'm personally 100% into, whether it winds up as something in the shop or not.

Speaking of shop - it's almost ready! The final design is done, and now I'm just adding the product listings. Soon, very soon. =)

FYI

I just went ahead and transferred some posts that I had on www.prettyindulgent.weebly.com back to blogspot. What can I say - blogger seduced me back with their new templates and shiny functions!

A few of the posts here are mirrored on my old blog: www.ababeinthewoods.blogspot.com

For what it's worth, I don't think I'll be updating that blog much, if at all. I'll get into the reasons for that a little later.