I recently received this query from Tracy, a new Cheap Slap member: Hi Mel I signed up to your wholesale makeup site last weekend and just wanted to ask a few questions if that’s ok. I have recently been made redundant and have been dabbling with selling the odd beauty item on eBay for about [...]

The MAC Pro program is for makeup professionals with recognised qualifications in the beauty industry, and it entitles members to varying levels of discount on MAC products. Before you get too excited and sign up for a course at your local beauty college so you qualify, there are a few rules you need to be [...]

Sometimes it can feel like wholesale makeup is taking over my life. With an eBay cosmetics business and a couple of other beauty and cosmetics websites, as well as my day job and Cheap Slap as a hobby, things can get hectic at times. Luckily I love what I do, and that is what keeps [...]

Oh how I love the brilliant Stila sales from UK site Brand Alley! They have another limited time Stila cosmetics sale running this week, but hurry as it ends at midnight on Sunday 28 February. The prices are brilliant – around 75% off which means that you can buy Stila wholesale makeup but with no [...]

Fabulous news about Cheryl Cole finally dumping love rat Ashley – at last she is showing him the door instead of being the doormat! Cheryl looks great and I bet she doesn’t have skanky old makeup in her bag. I wrote the other day about my wholesale makeup spring clean and chucking out old cosmetics [...]

It’s started snowing here again (sigh) so I am all set in case tomorrow is a snow day. I live in an area where the main roads are usually fine, but my house is up a steep hill and getting the car down the hill is the problem. So any sign of skiddy danger and [...]

Competition in the wholesale makeup business is hotting up as more and more people try to find extra ways to make a little extra cash from home. To me that is no big deal because the discount cosmetics market is so massive. In fact, the current economy has turned everyone into a bargain lover. Designer [...]

Even if you are totally credit crunched, a girl still needs a beauty treat every once in a while. Apparently lipstick sales soar during a recession and I am happy to say I am doing my bit to keep that story true. I love lipstick because it is powerful, it shows passion and confidence, and [...]

Estee Lauder have pulled the plug on Prescriptives, their niche cosmetics brand, with effect from 31 January 2010. They did not have that many beauty counters anyway, but none now remain. Their devoted fans hopefully had enough advance warning to stock up on their favourite items at a discount in the closing down sale, but [...]

It’s obvious that you don’t slap on loads of foundation if you are going for a fresh-faced, natural look. But for those of us not blessed with perfect skin and who need a little help achieving “no makeup makeup”, follow these basic ground rules for some help. Exfoliate regularly to get rid of dead skin [...]