adorned with Grace: Defining true beauty

 I had no idea it would be so challenging. You would think that I could just “pick up” where we left off with adorned with Grace, but the market has changed pretty significantly in 10 years! I do not remember having to work so hard making the products and on the website many years ago. The latter has been especially difficulty—but…I think I had a bit of writer’s block when trying to get everything jump started. I realized that in continuing adorned with Grace, I felt important to clarify to myself what adorned with Grace would be. Back then, it started as a creative outlet for me, to make cosmetics for hard-to-match skin tones like mine, and to promote true beauty ideas for a positive influence in the world. All still true, of course! But before I could go any further, I felt impressed to elaborate on our values and mission, so this is what I wrote down last week: *To be a light to those in darkness who are held down from their true identity in God. *To unite women and model how we...

  Where have we been you may ask? Yes, for a while there were were great at posting to our social media on Instagram & Facebook ! However, the last few weeks have been super busy as we have been producing the new Foundations, Powders, Blush, and (starting today) our Eyeshadows. And at the beginning of the month, Texas has its worst snowstorm in 20 years so needless to sale we were quite a bit distracted then! However we have not forgotten about you all and hope you all have been able to Share and purchase some of this older stock on Clearance prices.😀 Remember, if there was a certain color you liked from our prior store, try to grab one now as we are not only repackaging our products but having to reformulate most of it! Being almost 10 years away, some colorants are no longer available OR have gone up considerably in price, causing us to find a substitute to make a color most similar to the prior.   And speaking of price, we desire to still price fairly but know th...

It is official! We have reopened with our previous stock! Some important things to note: *For a “fuller” view of the website (as in picture below) you can choose the Desktop version vs. Mobile version if you are in your phone. *We have set our site to accept  USA orders only .  HOWEVER, if you are from another country that we used to ship to email us @ adorned_with_grace@yahoo.com and we may be able to work something out. *There is a shipping charge for USA orders depending on weight. However, if your order totals over $35 we will manually refund your shipping charge! If you do not see it refunded, please email or message us so we can take care of it. *Unfortunately, although you may read in some of the separate Product Description to try our $1 samples, since this is the Clearance stock, we will not have samples you can try before you buy since we do not really have additional stock to make up any more samples. We also cannot take any refunds should you not be happy. Sorry!...

A little over nine years in fact! I first have to start out with my deepest apologies. When we packed up to move to another state, I had every intention of getting adorned with Grace up and going again, even choosing a house that would allow me to have the space & work area to do so. I even prepared new stock ready so all I had to do was package the items. I even filled out all the Business license, sales tax, and permit forms I needed. But life happened and it got me so sidetracked,that awG got left by the wayside.😢 To make a very long story short, we moved again rather unexpectedly two years later and then have been in jobs and other endeavors that continued to keep me occupied. But I NEVER lost my love for making makeup and, of course, all my loyal & beautiful customers! I knew I would somehow get back on track but never did I ever think that it would be in 2020 that I would begin to do so, when the whole world seemed to turn upside down! But for me personall...

 I subconsciously made a typo nine years ago! More on this later...stay tuned! 😉

So we are now officially closed in preparation for the move! This means that we will have very limited Internet access the next month or two due to the amount of work we have to do packing and traveling so if we are slow to answer, it is not that we are ignoring you, but that we just are unable to. If there are any problems with orders, please understand that we will have everything packed up and cannot ship any items until the move is complete. We would like to remind those that place International orders, we cannot do anything about it anyway unless you purchased Shipping Insurance. For those that did purchase it and have an issue, again it will be at least 1-2 months before we can do anything anyway as we ask you to wait about 60 days from the time your order ships out before we can do anything. As of right now, we are still processing orders but we expect them all to be shipped out by early next week. We are actually pleasantly overwhelmed with the amount of orders that came in...

The coupon code for orders $15 or more is: MOVING30 You will get 30% off your total order (not including Shipping/Shipping Insurance). This will be good until September 7, Wednesday and then our store will be temporarily closed until we finish moving. Thanks everyone!

Just reminding everyone that our store will be temporarily closing this Thursday, Sept. 8 with the last day to shop on Sept. 7. We have added some new Clearance items such as Grab Bags of the discontinued both sample and full-size of Blush & Eyecolors as well as Blush & Eyecolor bundles. Most of these items are going fast so if you would like to get them act soon! However, you may also risk it and wait to save more as we are going to be issuing a discount code either Sept. 4 or 5, so definitely check back here then. As with our other coupon codes, though, because it is a rather large percentage (more so than any other time we've issued them) this will only be for orders $15 or more, so go ahead and order if yours is less than $15 not including shipping. Our powders and foundations and some of the Clearance items are going pretty fast out of stock though so if you don't want to risk running out of inventory, definitely order soon! We want the last couple days to move...

Because we are trying to keep track of the inventory so that you know for sure whether or not the item is in stock, we did readjust the way we have listed our products on the site. Instead of using the drop down menus or simply writing in your choices, you just go to the single listing for a full size item and add the product as many times as you need.  There will be adjustments made in price according to how many you buy and if there is a difference within the products (e.g. regular eyecolors vs. premium eyecolors). We did this for the foundation and powders, the eyecolors, the blushes, as well as the Ingenue/Premium Eyeshadow brush sets. Unfortunately, we could not keep up the single listing that had a specific description/photo for each item because the inventory check does not work that way. Basically, this is really set up for prior customers to adorned with Grace and we are assuming most of you know exactly what items you need. I think this would really only pose a problem ...

So if you have stopped by the home page of our website at www.adornedwithgrace.com, you may have read the note at top that says we will be...MOVING! In fact, it may be happening rather quickly here and for that reason, we will have to close awG temporarily on September 8 to give us time to move and get settled in. As of this time, we have no idea exactly when this will be. I want to caution everyone that it may not be until January 2012 before we get things rolling again, depending on how well the move will go and the kind of place we will be living in. Since we will be trying to whittle down our inventory so that there will be less to move, it may take a while to make up more products to have ready for sale, especially foundations/powders/popular blush & eye colors that we may run out of before we shut it down. We also would like time to be able to revise our website and how the products are listed as well as make needed changes such as pricing (products and shipping). In addi...

So sorry for the very quiet absence everyone but this has been one full and very busy summer! And we believe our schedule is about to get busier... From August 16-28, we will be going out of town and temporarily closing the store; the first part is an Out-of-Town trip for my Birthday (Yipee!) and then the last part is for a VERY special Wedding...my mother-in-law's! Rather than fall behind as we usually do when we keep our store open, we are going to close it down. You may have noticed that the Samples & Foundation/Powder sets have been removed from our site? Right now, there are several factors (which we chose not to disclose at this time) that are preventing us from manufacturing more products so we are trying to keep a closer check of our Inventory. Because of that, we have to sell what items we do have and because it is difficult to track inventory for the sets/samples (our website is not equipped to track inventory when purchased in sets, unfortunately)....

We are officially back online! We got most of the stock back up; however, we actually have quite a few more out of town trips this Summer that might get us behind again, but we'll deal with that when it actually happens. You'll also notice we have discontinued quite a few eye colors & blushes/Shimmer blushes as well; many of the colors included pigments our supplier no longer carries so we are unable to make up more of them. There will be a few we can try to recreate; however, we are very limited on time these days and not sure how quickly that will be able to happen. Also note the Clearance coupon on the Clearance page ; it will be good until June 12 and is only for items that are on Clearance. So...you can buy $40 of total items (non-Clearance/Clearance) but it will only take the percentage off on the Clearance items. Thanks for your patience everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that the remainder of the Clearance items are finally up! Check them out here on our Clearance page . These are all our past Limited Editions/Clearance and new "Oops" items so hope you all can find something you like. Many of them are being offered basically at cost (including shipping) and some even at a loss to us, but we'd rather pass these on to people who can use them than throw them away! Judging from the speed of current orders vs. my speed of getting restocked on foundation/powder, it looks like I will need to TEMPORARILY close my store down to give me time to catch up. In addition, we will be going out of town for a few of those days which will likely put us further behind. You see, when I am low or "out of stock" (meaning not a gram of product left, although I usually have the raw materials to make it), it takes much longer for me to fill out orders since I have to stop and make the batches, jar/bag them, & make ...

As you all know, we love to stay simple at adorned with Grace! So in an effort to keep things basic so that it is easier for me to run the company, we are making quite a few changes in the very near future with three things happening as of today: 1. Because we have been getting too many lost orders, we are implementing Shipping Insurance that you can purchase. Before, we would reship orders one time but it is getting too costly for us now to do that. If you chose NOT to purchase this whether you are a US or International Customer, we can no longer reship for free your lost order. Please read the Terms on this page to understand how it works. If it needs further clarification, let us know via email @ adorned_with_grace@yahoo.com. 2.  After many months of debating with myself, I have decided to discontinue selling the Ingenue Dual Fibers, including the Large, Sleek, & Petite. We love our Premium Small Dual Fiber for its high quality (100% vegan, minimal/zero shedding &...

I've just put up some Clearance items on this page . There is also a special Coupon Code to use for ONLY Clearance items. If you order $20 or more, you will get 10% off those Clearance items . Remember, this will only be on Clearance items; if you put other regular priced items in your cart, there will be no discount off of that. We will run this coupon code until May 7.  Use: CLEARANCE10 I do apologize for the lack of photos on these new items. Most of the eyecolors do have a swatch photo from our Blog so you will at least be familiar with the general color. I recently switched to a Mac computer last year as our HP kept crashing on us despite being less than a year and a half old but my photo editing program that I usually use is not available on my Mac (???) and I think my HP finally crashed for good a few weeks ago. In addition to that, the label maker for our jars was also on that HP computer and the new one for Mac in not as readily customizable for our round labels. I...

I know this is way overdue! I believe I have some of the sweetest customers around as I have started getting emails the last few weeks asking if everything is okay since I haven't blogged very much or done many sales. If anything, things are actually pretty great! So great especially at awG that the pile of Clearance items I have yet to place on my website have been placed on the back burner so I could mix up more stock (specifically foundation and powder) and fill orders as they come in. It just seemed that every time I would get a free moment thinking I would have time to blog or get the Clearance stuff up, either a large block of orders needed to be filled or I would have something going on with my non-business life that would take up my time considerably that I could not attend to awG. In handling awG,  I always want to make sure orders are filled first above anything else so that is actually what is taking up my time. So just let me take this time to thank you all for co...

Yes, folks, it's been a while since my last post. Not only has the Holidays tied me up this past month but several non-awG projects, family illness,  and some minor health issues ( BAD flare up of my carpal tunnel and now what I think is "mouse elbow" if it is not tennis elbow) have kept me from being as active for awG and have been getting on the Internet only when I absolutely have to, like processing orders and answering emails. Unfortunately, I will still have to take it easy as my elbow is even hurting as I type this right now, even with a bit of modification and frequent stretch breaks. Remember, I am an Occupational Therapist and I deal with people like me much of the time and what I always tell them is "rest, rest, rest!" How bad would I be if I did not follow my own advice, LOL! Because it is hard to even mix new stock, I have fallen a little bit behind on keeping my inventory levels where I want them although I do have all the products in stock ri...

Due to the holidays, please expect a minor delay (like 24-48 hours longer) processing time of most orders. For example, if you made an order today, it will likely not go out until Thursday/Friday this week. We wish we could work faster but it seems nearly impossible at this time of the year without killing ourselves, LOL! Also, make sure to place your orders by December 16 to guarantee they will ship out before we leave for the Holidays. Orders placed between December 17-27 will not ship out until December 28 at the VERY earliest, but expect they will likely ship out before the end of the year. Thanks everyone! Hope your holiday season is going well! Can't believe Christmas is almost here already. It still feels like early November to me!

Yep, we had the 25% off Premium Face Brushes a few weeks ago and due to it's HUGE popularity, we will be bringing it back for Cyber Monday! Use: PREMIUMFACE25 You'll be thrilled to know that we did add the Premium Trio Eyeshadow Kit this time (sorry, not the a la cart eyeshadow brushes) but you do have to spend $15 or more (shipping/taxes not included) to make the coupon code even better! Hurry though as this deal ends at 12:00 midnight tonight!

So today's Blog Special is specifically on our Premium Face brushes (sorry, this means no eyeshadow brushes nor the sets) for 25% off! We have NEVER marked them down this low! The only catch is you do have to spend a minimum of $15 total (not counting shipping for you International folks) because we would otherwise be at a profit loss due to our low markup and free/inexpensive shipping. You can simply add about four $1 makeup samples or maybe some accessories you are eyeing--but this coupon code is mainly for you all who are wanting our very popular Flat Top or buying multiple brushes. Use code: PREMIUMFACE25 Code will expire November 14 (Sunday). Then we have added some new Clearance items that were mentioned in last week's blog which you can find here on our Clearance page . Don't forget, these are not the 5 gram jars, but the 10 gram like our Blushes & Color Correctors! But our favorite new item is our closable sifters! We are not adding them to our actu...