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Archives for August 2010
Essie Fall 2010 Swatches
A few quickie swatches of the Essie Fall 2010 nail polishes, available September.
Clockwise from bottom: Merino Cool, Sew Psyched, Velvet Voyeur, In Stitches, Little Brown Dress and Limited Addiction ($8 each).
Swatches from left on NC35 skin: Merino Cool, Sew Psyched, Velvet Voyeur, In Stitches, Little Brown Dress, Limited Addiction
Full nail swatches in just a few. In the meantime, do any of these catch your eye?
These Chanel Ombres Contraste Duo Eyeshadows Are Smooth Operators
Chanel should have issued a warning with their new $42 Ombres Contraste Duos: “Caution: The contents of this compact may be hard to resist!” 🙂
Seriously, you might want to steel yourself against potential temptation and simply stop reading now. 
The part of me that loves elegantly effortless makeup just can’t get enough of these eyeshadow duos. The six of them make me feel like screaming, “Gimme, gimme more!”
This fall luxurious textures and intense pigments have been all the rage among the high-end makeup lines (hello, Givenchy Le Prisme Quartets!), and while these duos may not look the part at first, they’re no exception.
Each one comes with a light cream shadow designed to be used as a base and a darker powder matte shadow for contouring and creating the illusion of depth.
Conveniently, skin is where these products really POP! — both in terms of color and texture — and being as smooth as they are makes them remarkably easy to blend.
In the look below I’m wearing Khaki (a matte dark green) from the Khaki-Clair duo. In it I’m barely wearing any, yet the ample pigmentation makes the color pretty hard to miss. BONUS: These leave behind absolutely no shadow fallout whatsoever — zip, zero, zilch.
Wearing Khaki-Clair
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Viva La MAC Viva Glam! Swatches and Pics of the New Cyndi and Gaga Lipglasses
Back in college I volunteered as a peer health counselor, and one of my responsibilities was to visit the different dorms on campus and give presentations on HIV/AIDS awareness. Even though it took a lot of time, it was one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done (I felt like I was really helping people).
In a small way, MAC’s Viva Glam program allows me to still feel like I’m helping people, and maybe that’s one of the reasons why I like the limited edition MAC Viva Glam Cyndi and Viva Glam Gaga Lipglasses ($14.50 each) so much.
Well, it doesn’t hurt that they’re gorgeous, too. 🙂
If I had to pick between the two, I think I’d probably go with Cyndi’s shiny coral. Don’t get me wrong — I love Gaga’s creamy light bluish pink, but I tend to find warmer colors a little easier to wear.
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Thursday MAC Attack: MAC Viva Glam Cyndi and Gaga Lipglasses, Prep + Prime Beauty Balm and Fabulous Felines!
G’morning, glory. 🙂 Got some great news this morning for fellow MAC fiends.
MAC Viva Glam Cyndi and Gaga Lipglasses to go with the lipsticks released earlier this year
Two new limited edition Viva Glam Lipglasses, Cyndi and Gaga ($14.50 each), sashay onto MAC counters early next month (Sept. 2).
Matching the two previously released Cyndi and Gaga Viva Glam lipsticks, Cyndi’s will be a mid-tone coral; Gaga’s, a light bluish pink. Both will be available for six months through February 2011.
MAC started the Viva Glam initiative all the way back in 1994 to help men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, and every dollar raised from the sale of Viva Glam celebrity-promoted products since then has gone to support the cause (they’ve raised missions so far).
Hourglass Femme Rouge Lipstick
Hourglass Femme Rouge Velvet Cream Lipstick in Nocturnal, one of 12 shades in this new line of hydrating, water-resistant and paraben-free lippies ($30 each).
The case is refillable, which I think is kinda cool.
Chanel Ombres Contraste Duo Powder Eyeshadows
Four of the six new Chanel Ombres Contraste Duo powder eyeshadows, $42 each. Clockwise from left: Berry, Khaki, Gris and Misty. Not shown: Bleu and Taupe.
See anything you’d like to wear?
Pacifica Is on a Roll: Pacifica Perfumes New Portable, Affordable Fragrances
Heya, ladies. 🙂 How was your hump day afternoon? We got home from Reno a few hours ago, and since then I’ve done a load of laundry, watered the plants, given Tabs his overdue lurvies and took some pictures (with a little help from Tabs) of Pacifica’s cute line of Roll-On Perfumes ($12 for a 10-ml bottle).
Available in eight classic Pacifica scents — Hawaiian Ruby Guava, Brazilian Mango Grapefruit, Malibu Lemon Blossom, Tahitian Gardenia, Mediterranean Fig, French Lilac, Lotus Garden and Tuscan Blood Orange — and one new fragrance called California Star Jasmine (shown at the top), they should easily slip into most makeup bags or purses; size-wise, they’re TSA-approved, so you can pop ’em into a carry-on bag for air travel.
I brought the California Star Jasmine Roll On with me to Reno, and whenever I needed a break from the casino air — a mix of recycled cigarette smoke, desperation and perspiration — I’d bust out the little tube, roll it on my wrists, and take a deep breath (it smells like oranges, jasmine flowers and white musk on my skin). Just like that, I’d feel instantly better — transported from the dusty Nevada desert to a sandy Southern California beach.
