Designer Chris Benz Creates Globetrotter Beauty Case for Beauty.com(TM)

BELLEVUE, Wash. and NEW YORK, March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beauty.com, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of drugstore.com, inc. (Nasdaq: DSCM) joins forces with award-winning young designer Chris Benz this spring to offer customers a fresh and handy beauty accessory. Starting March 1st shoppers who visit www.beauty.com/chrisbenz will receive a Chris Benz miniature suitcase free with their $100 Beauty.com purchase. Benz, a Seattle native, brings his colorful, spirited take on American sportswear to his original design for Northwest-based Beauty.com, Inc. The petite teal valise comes complete with mini luggage labels, an elasticized inner pocket, and tiny lock and key, and is ideal for stowing travel essentials, cosmetics, or other precious cargo.

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"I have always been intrigued by the glamorous Golden Age of travel, when women would pack a custom-made train case filled with portable versions of the most elegant fixtures of their dressing table," says Benz. "Collaborating with Beauty.com got me thinking about the modern version of that ritual, because the site works so seamlessly for people constantly on-the-go, and because the right products (in the right sizes) are a huge feature of how we move from place to place today. I loved the process of selecting the items I believe are absolutely essential to make a woman feel ready for anything no matter who she is or where she goes, and then designing a classic suitcase to house them all in one of my favorite shades of blue."

Valued at more than $130, this designer creation comes packed with the following FULL and sample-sized prestige beauty samples:

• FULL SIZE Laura Geller Powder Eye Liner Pencil
• skyn ICELAND™ The ANTIDOTE Quenching Daily Lotion
• Origins Clear Improvement® Active Charcoal Mask
• Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer
• PHYTO Phytocitrus Restructuring Mask, Color-Treated Hair
• NUXE Reve de Miel® Hand and Nail Cream
• Nick Chavez Beverly Hills Flocker
• FULL SIZE Urban Decay Pocket Rocket Lip Gloss, Doug (Medium Pink)
• Murad Intensive Wrinkle Reducer™ for Eyes
• Exuviance® Evening Restorative Complex

"We love the unique perspective that Chris Benz brings to the Beauty.com designer bag series," says Kathleen McNeill, president of Beauty.com. "His Globetrotter Beauty Case is valuable, sensible, and easily tucks into a suitcase for the savvy beauty customer who is often on-the-go."

Site wide gifts with purchase are just one of the perks available to Beauty.com customers. Other benefits include "Everyday Free Shipping," 5% back on every purchase, the free sampling center, 100% color match guarantee, and a shared online shopping cart with Beauty.com's partner site, drugstore.com. Beauty.com personalizes beauty shopping online with the Skin Care and Hair Care diagnostic tools, which provide product regimens tailored to the customer based on interactive surveys. A new site feature also invites customers to shop the best beauty buys and value sets in addition to the brand-specific gifts with purchase available. Beauty fans can also get the latest tips, trends, and promotions sent directly to their email by signing up for the free weekly Beauty Bulletin on Beauty.com.

About Beauty.com – The World of Beauty Online™

Beauty.com, Inc. is a leading online destination for prestige beauty products. The web store provides a highly personalized shopping experience and offers more than 200 brands from widely recognized to niche, hard-to-find products. Beauty.com is wholly owned by drugstore.com, inc.

About drugstore.com, inc.  

drugstore.com, inc. (Nasdaq:DSCM) is a leading online retailer of health, beauty, clinical skincare, vision, and pharmacy products. Our portfolio of brands includes: drugstore.com™, Beauty.com™, Skinstore.com™, and VisionDirect.com™. All provide a convenient, private, and informative shopping experience while offering a wide assortment of more than 45,000 products at competitive prices.

The drugstore.com pharmacy is certified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) as a Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site (VIPPS) and operates in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations in the United States.

About Chris Benz

Chris Benz's bold, exuberant collections convey a sense of history as well as progress, and a keen understanding of the emotional, vibrant aspects of how women want to dress. With the best of American sportswear, European craftsmanship and the ever-evolving concept of modernity as his guides, Benz brings new life to the canon of women's wear essentials each season.

Chris Benz was inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2009, and his clothes have been featured extensively in such publications as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Women's Wear Daily, Spur, and international editions of Vogue, Glamour, and In Style. The collection is available in stores throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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SOURCE Beauty.com, Inc.