I don’t think they can handle this.
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I don’t even know where to start! Both the Vintage and Lilac Polishes are calling me, but Cosmic (“for space age nails”) looks mighty fine, too.
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Heya, ladies. How’s it going tonight? I’m kinda taking it easy. I’ve been guzzling de-stress tea and watching Law & Order: SVU reruns with Tabs. He was naughty earlier tonight (tried to eat my Trader Joe’s cookies), but he’s cool now.
While I eat another few dark chocolate stars and gaze longingly at Detective Stabler, take a minute to see what the ladies of Daily Makeover’s Beauty Bloggerati have been up to.
- A natural, peachy holiday look with a little bronzer and brown eyeshadow — Makeup Bag
- 5 tips to becoming a successful makeup artist — Spoiled Pretty
- Love + Toast Sugar Grapefruit Hand Cream sounds yummy! — Beauty Blogging Junkie
- Try these makeup tips before your next holiday party — Beyond Beauty Basics
- Create a pampering spa at home — Makeover Momma
- Enter to win a Coach bag for Christmas (nice odds) — A Mom in Red High Heels
- Pumpkin-scented beauty products? Sounds delicious, yum! — Product Girl
- Have you seen Sephora’s holiday looks? — The Jet Set Girls
- Check out these great green face scrubs — Talking Makeup
- Do you remember Terax Crema conditioner? — Hair Thursday
Have a good night! Don’t let the bed bugs bite. 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Carmindy’s New Smoky Eye Kit Makes One Heck of a Stocking Stuffer
Leave it to makeup artist Carmindy (of TLC’s What Not To Wear) to make smokey eyes even easier than flipping your hair (well, almost). 🙂
Her new Perfect Smoky Eyes Kit ($23, part of the Sally Hansen Natural Beauty Inspired by Carmindy line) comes with three coordinating eye products perfect for creating understated, elegant, just plain pretty smokey eyes.
What ya get
- Eye Shadow Palette in Storm: Three shimmery shades in gray, taupe and beige
- Lift & Define Mascara in Jet Black: A lengthening, glossy black
- Always Perfect Liquid Eye Liner in Black Onyx: A sheer liquid liner
Swatches from left to right: shimmery gray eyeshadow, shimmery taupe eyeshadow, shimmery beige eyeshadow, liquid liner, mascara
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Taking Care of Business: Lip Fusion Collection Glosses Wear Well at Work
Back when I worked as a legal assistant in the city — what I like to call my cubicle days — I would take quick mental health breaks throughout the day, like whenever I overheard one of my attorneys say, “That shouldn’t take long. Karen will handle it.”
I’d hunker down behind my monitor and start applying lip gloss like a MAD WOMAN!
I think it kept me sane… Mostly, I liked my job, but it wasn’t always emotionally easy. Lip gloss helped me get through the day. 🙂
What kinds of lip gloss? It varied, of course, but I didn’t wear many high shine varieties (many were too sexy for the office). I was partial to work-friendly shades like the ones in Fusion Beauty’s Lip Fusion Collection ($40).
Blush, a sheer and creamy baby pink
It’s a limited edition holiday set with six little Lip Fusion Color Shine Glosses in a mix of basic nude, pink and bronze.
Bare, a shimmery and sheer nude
The colors look pretty work appropriate — noticeable yet subdued — and deliver medium shine.
Goddess, a shimmery golden bronze
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How Often Do You Use Hot Rollers?
Even though I think I’m pretty adventurous with hair products and tools (don’t get me started on how I used to flat iron my hair with a real deal IRON), I’ve never used a set of hot rollers.
No particular reason why, really. I just never got around to it.
But curling irons can take forever to use! I’ve been wearing my hair curly a lot lately, and I want to get back some of the time (20 minutes in some cases) it takes me to curl.
That’s why I picked up a set of Jilbere ($35) ceramic hot rollers at Sally Beauty last weekend.
Please, oh, PLEASE, beauty gods, save me from burning myself while I figure them out! 🙂
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Karen
NARS the Multiple in Mustique
Have you tried it?
Can You Feel It, Baby?
Dagnabbit, this brush is soft. I wish you could reach through the monitor to touch it… ew, that sounds pervy.
(Powder brush from the Lancome Deluxe Brush Set, $60)