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After a makeup application, score a photo with your new look at Macy's Estee Lauder counter this weekend.

Photography courtesy of Estee Lauder

How many times have you cringed at your [choose one of the following: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blog, Stumble Upon, Yelp, Going.com, MySpace, Match.com, all of the above] profile picture and wished that a fairy makeup godmother would descend from the heavens, paint your face perfectly and then snap a profile photo that finally does your countenance justice?

Jennifer Ouellette velvet and lace headband $26.13 (reg. $68), available at Barneys New York

Photography courtesy of Barneys New York

Christmas cash burning a hole in your handbag? Post-holiday sales are in full swing. A few on our radar this week:

Robert Gufler (left) and Johnny Bueno offer cuts and color in a new Union Square salon.

Photography courtesy of Johnny Bueno

For hair cut, color and styling services that come with Bay views, a garden setting and the freedom to choose the music tinkling or blaring (your choice, natch) from the speakers during your time in the chair, look no further than Union Square’s newly-opened Johnny Bueno Color Studio.

Photography courtesy of Union Square Shop

Bestow random acts of kindness, and you may be rewarded in unexpected ways. No, we’re not recalling a message from our last fortune cookie, but the latest holiday promotion from Macy’s.

On Friday, Dec. 11, two street teams (dubbed the Macy’s Believe Newsboys) will be roving through downtown San Francisco looking for people doing good acts in their daily lives. When they spot a deserving individual, street teams will reward them for their positive deeds and acts of kindness with $25 Macy’s Believe Bonus cards, good toward future purchases at the department store.

In full odd and awkward fashion grown humans dressed as insects descended on Union Square to celebrate Cirque Du Soleil's OVO. Swarms of wing-ed clad performers proved the best remedy to warm the antennae is to dance. Area shoppers put away their lists for brief spurts of bugging out.

Photography courtesy of ThisIs50.com

With his long-awaited new album Before I Self Destruct released online this week, it was no surprise to find hundreds of fans pouring onto the Macy’s Union Square cosmetics floor yesterday evening for a chance to meet Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, in town for the launch of his new men’s fragrance, Power by fifty cent, sold exclusiv

Gown by Russian Hill bridal salon Atelier Des Modistes

Photography courtesy Atelier Des Modistes

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