Web Gems

Welcome to our repository of some of the favorite products, services, and sites that we've found in our web travels. This is a great page to browse for gift ideas.

Sometimes we here at Lady Licorice play a game we like to call "Pretend Shopping Cart." It involves picking a fantastic online store, spending a good hour browsing their wares, and filling your shopping cart with all the items you would buy if you had unlimited funds in real life. It may sound masochistic, but sometimes it's enough to shake that "must go shopping NOW" feeling that tends to rear its head on Friday afternoons. Our current favorite place to play Pretend Shopping Cart is Plasticland. Everything they carry, we want. From sailor-inspired cropped sweaters to purple satin trenchcoats, they have "fun and feminine" down pat.
>> Go shopping at Plasticland.

Few things are more frustrating than a perfectly-planned outfit gone wrong. Whether it's a kimono-style top that exposes just a bit too much boob, a deodorant smear on your new Ella Moss dress, or an annoying tights + pencil skirt static problem, you're going to be pretty annoyed. But much to our delight, Couture Candy has just come out with an ingenious kit that basically eliminates every wardrobe malfunction known to woman. It's called The Essential Stylist Kit, and you can get yours at Couture Candy ($60.00)

Feeling in the Valentine's Spirit this year, thanks to an especially well-behaved boyfriend or hot new romantic prospect? Tshirt aficionado Gail Schneider has created the perfect tanks for eating chocolate fondue by the fireplace ($70 each). Want one? Get 15% off AND free shipping and handling when you mention "Lady Licorice" when you place your order!
>> Shop now.

Looking for the perfect feminine carryall for your home-to-work or home-to-school commute? The fantastically pink Athena Embroidery Tote from Kolobags is a laptop bag like none other, boasting a fashionable quilted-look exterior, plenty of interior pockets for your essentials, and a removable shoulder strap. The Athena is a welcome splash of color next to your dark winter coat, and would also be great against your lighter, brighter summertime wear. It's our favorite laptop bag for PCs and Macs with screens that are 15.4" or smaller - refined and rich-looking!

Get it exclusively at Kolobags.

Product Review: Model in a Bottle

If you had a way to banish foundation migration, eyeshadow creasing, and all other unpleasant incidents involving a clash between your makeup and your face/life, chances are you would be pretty pleased, right? The amusingly-named Model in a Bottle does this amazingly well. We took the lavender-scented makeup-fixing spray out for three separate test drives: a long, lingering dinner, a day of errands, and finally, a six-hour stint at a sweaty afterhours. In all three cases, we looked remarkably unhaggard upon returning home, with everything from concealer to eyeliner staying smartly in place.

Get yours at ModelInABottle.com.

There are more jewelry stores on the web than you can shake a stick at, but which ones stand out? We've picked six that deliver gorgeous, unique women's jewelry, from oversize cocktail rings to nature-inspired necklaces.

Check out our favorite online jewelry stores.

All these months of long pants and chunky knits call for plenty of glimmery jewelry to avoid forgetting that you are, in fact, female. Until the spring hits, we suggest cheering yourself up with baubles from The Posh Stone. Designer Erin Woloshansky's polished, unpredictable designs (which use pearls, quartz, and topaz) should do the trick!

>> Shop now.