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Lancôme's gifts with purchase offers are always a best bet, and this time around is no exception. From now until Jan. 28 at Saks Fifth Avenue, a $65 Lancôme purchase will get you a Sophie Theallet-designed cosmetics case — apparently she got the memo on the whole put-a-bird-on-it movement — full of beauty loot. The fashionably playful bag comes brimming with the following seven products: Visionnaire, Bi-Facil, La Base Pro, Hypnôse Doll Lashes mascara, and your choice of a moisturizer, lip color, and four-pan eye shadow compact. And as if that's not enough, you can stop by any of the beauty brand's Saks counters during the promotion and enter to win a fashion- and beauty-packed trip to NYC. A cute bag with even cooler products: it's a win-win with this deal.

Across the pond, these Lancôme Beauty Christmas Crackers are a grand way to usher in the holiday season. Crackers, which generally consist of a small gift and a message of some sort, are a much more common lagniappe in the UK, but if you want these and won't settle for anything less, you can always make your own cracker by putting your Juicy Tube or L'Absolu Rouge inside a piece of thin cardboard tubing, wrapping it in tissue paper, and tying the ends with ribbon.

All this month, Dillard's and Lancôme have been raising funds to support St. Jude, and this Friday the 21st (aka "Genes Day"), it's your chance to help out even more. The beauty brand will donate $7 from each purchase of Génifique Youth Activating Concentrate ($58 to $125), pledging $300,000 from the day's sales to benefit the children's hospital. Watch the video above to see Lancôme's Michelle Phan and Arlenis Sosa talk more about the event. And to learn some truly touching statistics that I learned after visiting the hospital firsthand, just keep reading.

Did you know that it takes $1.7 million dollars a day to operate St. Jude Children's Research Hospital? Even more astounding is the fact that no child is ever denied treatment regardless of his or her family's financial situation. Recently, Lancôme flew a group of online beauty editors (including myself) down to Memphis to visit St. Jude where we not only experienced a truly inspiring look behind the daily goings-on at the hospital, but interacted with the kids firsthand. What I found to be most touching, however, was the unbreakable spirit of the patients; children who are being treated for the unimaginable: pediatric cancer or other catastrophic illnesses. To see more, and learn how you can make an impact, just keep reading.

Nothing is more fun than getting together with your girlfriends and trying on makeup. That’s why Lancôme Hypnôse Doll Lashes has created a new way to try on makeup online. Go to the Lancôme Hypnôse Doll Eyes Facebook app and get dolled up! The app uses existing Facebook pictures, which you can customize with your favorite look. Change your hair, your makeup, and more! It’s a fresh and fun way to play with Lancôme!

We've already seen a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Emma Watson's new ad for Lancôme Trésor Midnight Rose, and now the short film has just been released. In it, Emma looks like a sylph who has just stepped right out of a Jean-Luc Godard film in 1960 — and, on her way, stopped by a John Hughes movie in the 1980s to borrow clothes, a soundtrack, and mood lighting. It's a fun commercial, but are you charmed by its French New Wave film aesthetic?

There's no doubt that Kim Kardashian looked like a princess on her wedding day. After all, she did wear three different couture gowns and a sparkling diamond headpiece. But while most of her look (as well as the event) was over the top and glamorous, her makeup was surprisingly a little more subdued and romantic. Find out which Lancôme products her longtime makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic used after the jump.