Our favorite cameras, hair straighteners, take-out food, and cars (well, we haven’t had any problems with our brakes)… and now this! It would take an  innovative, high-tech Japanese beauty company to figure out a way to get all those tiny fibers in mascara to go on lashes in the right direction. We’ve tried many mascaras that claim to have fibers to lengthen [...]

We first professed our love for Aldo here, when we purchased a pair of  faboosh nude patent leather pumps that we ended up wearing the entire summer. But now – we Magpies have fallen in love all over again. And it’s not just our new love!  Aldo’s Fawson pumps have been seen on everyone from reality star Lauren Conrad… [...]

With all this gross, humid weather we’ve had in NYC lately, it’s been soooo hard to keep our hair looking anything but frizzy. But one Magpie recently discovered a brush that has changed the way our hair looks and feels. A Midwest Magpie (who is in constant need of frizz control!) swears by it, and suggested we check out this fabulous brush [...]

If you’re like the crew at Harriet Magpie, you might be thinking that your really adorable apartment is beginning to look less and less adorably decorated. And if you’re like the crew at Magpie, you don’t want to spend big bucks changing the furniture. Well, we have a budget-conscious solution that did the trick in [...]

Summer’s in full swing, and for us Magpies, that means we are too - from the beach to the pool – and outdoor parties in between. So we wanted to share some products with you that have been giving us our summer glow on the go - complete with SPF. These products are perfect for day or night [...]

Eat, Pray, Love, the movie taken from Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling memoir of self-discovery following the breakup of her marriage, has not even opened yet (it’s premiering Friday, August 13,2010 – can’t wait!) and already the movie-inspired merchandise is all over the place!  Usually the crew at Harriet Magpie is not impressed with commercial type merchandise, but the items [...]

We can’t count how many times a Magpie complains about her aching feet.  When you live in the city, walking is your life (next to cabs) – so when your feet conk out, so does your wallet. That’s why it was really fun to see that many people (from downtown hipsters to celebrity hipsters, i.e. Michelle Williams, Kirsten [...]

It’s the perfect way to add a touch of biker chic to any feminine look – it can also totally glam up a pair of jeans and black top. Yes, we’re talking about studs. Many designers featured leggings, tops and bottoms embellished with studs in their spring-summer line. Well, now for the fall, many shoe designers have continued the trend, so you will [...]

The crew at Harriet Magpie is forever looking for that magic mascara that will lengthen and volumize our lashes without the clumping and hassle. We’ve tried every mascara on the market – and we seem to always go back to Dior as the gold standard for mascaras. So it’s not surprising that we were willing to shell [...]

1. Pinkberry: Pinkberry has added a new flavor – watermelon! Through July 31, every day from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Pinkberry celebrates “Happy Hour” with half price yogurts! 2. Red Mango – Red Mango is launching their line of smoothies, complete with 22 flavors. On 7/20/10 from 11:00 am to 3:00pm, they’re offering them [...]

You’ve got to hand it to Mac. Just when you think that there couldn’t possibly be another new lip color, great nail product, or hip promotion left to do…they come up with this! Alice+ Olivia ( which is definitely one of our top fave fashion companies out there) and its creator, Stacy Bendet, teamed up with Mac to create a [...]

OMG!  Are you like the crew at Harriet Magpie – with a closet full of dresses and absolutely nothing to wear? Well, now that the weather’s nice and everyone is out and about, either in the city, Fire Island, or a share in the Hamptons – there’s one thing that every girl can use…a really cute dress!! [...]

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you know by now how damaging the sun can be for your skin. We are very aware of it too, but whether we’re very consistent about applying sunscreen every day, well, that’s another story. Even the sunblocks that claim they’re light and won’t clog our pores, are still too heavy [...]

At Midtown steakhouse Quality Meats, you don’t need to wait for your birthday to indulge in cake. For the summer season, the bar in the front of the restaurant has been transformed into an ice-cream station serving “Quality Cakes” — individual ice-cream cakes in a cup ($8) and available to go with a spoon. Flavors [...]

Have you been looking for that elusive, solid colored (red, white or blue) all-American bikini and have had little to no luck finding it?  Thanks to Old Navy and moi (collectively speaking for the crew at Harriet Magpie) we’ve found the perfect holiday bikini for under twenty bucks (top $8, bottom $8!)! And what’s really great about these bathing suits [...]

Summer is here, and so is the incredible selection of sunscreens to protect you from those dangerous suntans. But just because too much sun is bad for your skin, too little color still makes you look washed out when wearing all the pretty, light-colored tees. So what’s a politically and dermatologically correct girl do when she wants to look [...]

It’s such a simple concept, really; extend the length of your legs by camouflaging it! Match the color of your pumps (the higher, the better!) to your skin tone, and instantly create a longer, leaner, sexier look! No more starving yourself on plain lettuce, and spending countless of  hours at the gym doing leg lifts. This trick gives you that slim, [...]

If you told us Magpies that our new fave makeup color this summer would be green, we would have died laughing! But now, we must confess, green seems to be our new go-to color when we want a little sparkle and oomph in our look without looking like we’ve joined a circus! Since green is a neutralizing color to [...]

The must-have pants this summer have got to be cargo pants, in a variety of fabulous fabrics. They’re not only fashionably cool, but also crazy comfortable!  These pants immediately add a military look when worn with your summer tanks, cropped tees, and boyfriend blazers. Celebrities and designers alike have joined on the military bandwagon, its revival first featured on the Balmain Spring/Summer 2010 runway (pictured [...]

We Magpies are forever searching for that perfect mascara. When we came upon this “miracle” product – Revlon’s Fabulash Luscious Grow Mascara in of all places…Duane Reade (hmm…maybe we should’ve thought twice about it…), and it promised to not only make our lashes lush and healthy, but also grow them, we thought OMG!, this is one product [...]