About us
Some background information about the Lip Gloss and Laptops crew, whose names you might hear in the show or notice at the bottom of these blog entries:
- Writers and hosts: Airdrie and Kerry Anne, both established bloggers, first imagined the Lip Gloss and Laptops podcast in February 2006, and are your fabulous hosts and guides through the thinking woman's world of beauty, cosmetics, and health. They both live and work in Vancouver, B.C.
- Engineer and web wrangler: Derek is a musician, editor, and web guy who tries to keep the podcast, website, computers, microphones, wires, and dials under control.
- Picture dude: Jeff works with Kerry Anne to create the images and look of the site and podcast graphics, and also helps find music.
- C, M & L: These three provide additional support, moral and otherwise, as appropriate to their ages.
We record the audio on Apple Mac computers, using gear from Shure, AKG, MXL, Samson, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, Edirol, M-Audio, Mackie, and dbx. Software includes GarageBand, iWeb, iTunes, Audacity, BBEdit, Transmit, GraphicConverter, and Photoshop. Hosting is by GoDaddy, with online services from Blogger, StatCounter, the iTunes Music Store, and Flickr.
9 Comments:
Congrats on your upcoming podcast launch. Despite the fact I don't wear makeup I am interested in technology, especially up and coming technologies like podcasting. I also like to be entertained so I’m subscribing to your Lipstick and Laptops podcast. Good luck.
Thank you, Melanie. We'll have you wearing lip gloss soon, I suspect!
At the very least, it's worth considering SPF lip gloss for the sunscreen alone, right?
You are correct, my metro-man!
Hmmmnnn, come to think of it I do wear medicated Blistex, to control the chapped lips I get from spending so much time outside, hiking and skiing, and it just happens to have SPF 20 ☺
You go girl!
I was just wondering if you have any stats on lipgloss use. I counted mine at just under $1000 per year, but I am looking for a real statistic. Do you have any info on that?
1) Excellent question
2) I'd love to see your collection.
icompact has some stats, but not the specific one you are looking for.
http://www.icompact.com/mediakit/demo.cfm
Another site I found surveyed over 7000 women about their cosmetic spending habits. Guess what the number one impulse buy was? Lip products! (and nail polish)
http://www.marketreaderpro.com:80/yreport_02_custom_spc_12_2002.html?skey=%7BB64CEFF5%2D69C3%2D4DF4%2DB2BF%2DE6B741B53D32%7D&q=2735&at=4&rset=85&rptid=28
You aren't alone with your cosmetic spending.
Canadians also like to give and receive cosmetics and fragrances. In total, they purchased $732 million worth of cosmetics and fragrances in the last quarter of 2002—a little more than one-third (34%) of the annual total. Just under one-half (45%) of these purchases were made in general merchandise stores, and about two-fifths (41%) in drug stores. http://www.statcan.ca:80/english/research/11-621-MIE/11-621-MIE2003007.htm
That figure was for 3 months in Canada, whose population is much less than in the US.
Lastly, there are tons of market research reports on the net about spending habits. The one I linked to looks particularly juicy. Unfortunately, they are available to purchase only.
http://reports.mintel.com/sinatra/reports/index/&letter=13/display/id=121017&anchor=a121017
Sorry I couldn't answer your question, I'm going to keep searching for the anwer.
Thanks for your interest in the site, and we'd love to hear about your favourite lipgloss, since you've tried so many.
Hi Ladies!
Love the site. Just wanted to let you know about a new product...
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