Where To Click For New Picks

At the click of a button everything you could ever need in your house and your hand bag is directly at your finger tips. Why bother braving the congested malls when retail shopping can be done right from where you're sitting?

As long as you know where to go in cyber space, your virtual shopping cart can be filled to the brim with this season's trends in an instant. To help you find your way around the web for the best deals and quality products, here are our top picks for online shopping:

Fashion
Shopbop - One of the leading online shopping boutiques for women who can appreciate fashion in a wide range of styles, anything from dresses to swimwear. Shopbop offers selections from over 100 designers and acts as a one stop shop site, featuring free worldwide delivery and free return shipping. 

Jewelry
Sugarlime -  Popular among stars such as Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Aniston, and Anne Hathaway to name a few, Sugarlime prides itself on its affordable jewelry featuring the best in hand selected semi-precious and precious stones, including Swarovski crystals. Sugarlime has also had ongoing involvement with charitable organizations such as Unicef, BC Children's Hospital, Canadian Cancer Society, Canuck Place, Education Without Borders, Children's Wish Foundation, BC SPCA, Adoptive Families, and the Alzheimer Society of BC. With numerous locations across North America, their products can be purchased from their site with a beautiful highlight gallery to browse from. 

Home
18Karat -  Consider yourself the luckiest of merchant hunters if you have long been on board with this gem. 18Karat is a line of deluxe home decor products that produce new collections twice a year and two catalogs annually, each with up to 500 new items. Their website is impressive and easy to navigate, with online views of their collections in high resolution images. You can browse through their 'Creative Lounge' blog for updates on new promotional offers and tips on home and garden.

Beauty
Cake Beauty -  Cake founder Heather Reier describes her beauty product line as "indulgent products that mix a dash of sass with a generous helping of 90 to 95% high quality, natural ingredients." In our words, this is a deliciously fragrant line created for the senses and the sweet tooth. From everything to hand creams, lip gloss, scrubs, and body mist you can browse the online Cake Shoppe and indulge in all of your favourite cravings. 

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Courtney Gilmour
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		Courtney is a published writer, stand-up comic, and shameless Internet enthusiast. She holds a double bachelors degree in English Literature and Communication Media Studies, specializing in semiotic theory, however she doesn't get Shakespeare and has never won a game of Scrabble. Currently she lives in Toronto and works as a writer for WOMAN.CA.
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