Thank you to everybody who came to Jolie’s charity beauty sale yesterday; special thanks to Clean and Clear, Lubriderm and Neutrogena, who all generously donated products!  We raised $651 dollars for the Beauty Can Cure fundraiser for City of Hope!  Pictures to come soon.

Beginning tomorrow and running through May 28th, City of Hope is throwing an online auction through its Beauty Can Cure fundraising campaign.  Show your support and click below!

A gigantic thank you to Clean and Clear, who generously donated a massive box of products to our upcoming charity beauty sale!  The sale is tentatively scheduled for Sunday May 18th, and a $15 donation will buy twenty products (we’ve got Chanel, Bobbi Brown, Avon, Neutrogena, Bare Escentuals, Lancome, Phyto, MAC, and so, so, so much more) with any additional products available for $1 each.  The first twenty-four women to attend and donate $15 will each receive a Clean and Clear Oil-Free Oxygenating Ultra-Light Moisturizer SPF 15 (I’ve tried it, and it’s super-light and fresh and won’t clog pores), Clean and Clear Oxygenating Fizzy Cleanser, and Clean and Clear Morning Burst Shine Control Facial Scrub.  I have a special place in my heart for Clean and Clear, as their wondrous Oil-Absorbing Sheets are among my favorite products of all time.  Sure, there are other, fancier brands that also make nice oil-blotting papers…but why pay a ton when Clean and Clear works so well?  More expensive is not always better!

If you’re in LA and would like more information about the sale (unfortunately, at this point, space is limited), would like to make a donation to the Beauty Can Cure fundraiser for City of Hope, or are a company interested in donating products, please email me at nadine@jolienadine.com.  Thanks!

To everybody who wrote and posted their thoughts, comments and prayers for my mother, thank you so much—it means more than you know to be blessed with your amazing support!  I’m going to Dallas next week to visit my mom in the hospital, and I’m both nervous and excited; somehow, because I am apparently in the running for the Worst Daughter Ever award, I haven’t seen Mama Jolie since August 2006.  (How is that even possible?)  I’m bringing two suitcases with me; one for my belongings, and one for the organic and paraben/sulfite/preservative-free products that I’m squirreling away to present her with.  I’ve finally picked a charity for my beauty sale with D., too: we’ll be donating all the proceeds to Beauty Can Cure on behalf of City of Hope.  The more I read about their fundraising efforts, the more excited I get, and so now, of course, I won’t be satisfied until I’ve raised one biiiillion dollars for charity!  (Well, obviously, every little bit counts, so if I raise even one hundred dollars, at least it’s something!)  If you’d like to get involved, I’d be delighted; email me at nadine@jolienadine.com and I’ll send you the address to mail your checks, which can be made to “City of Hope” and should have “Beauty Can Cure Fundraiser” in the memo line.  More to come soon!