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The $38 Benefit Femme Metale Precious Metals Eye Makeup Kit: An Alchemist’s Delight

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Benefit Femme Metale
Before the new limited-edition Benefit Femme Metale Precious Metals Eye Makeup Kit entered my life, the closest I’d come to metallic greatness was the time James Hetfield and I shared a sidewalk.

For $38, you get three full-size Creaseless Cream Eyeshadows and three large sample-size pencil liners in the Sephora exclusive kit — a headbang-worthy bargain (insert sign of the beast [HERE]), considering the Creams usually go for $19 a pop.

Femme Metale’s gilded metallic shades, new but limited edition, give the kit an almost steampunk vibe, and all six colors apply with shimmer to spare.
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I’d Fly Across the Universe for a Lippmann Bad Romance: Lippmann Collection Fall 2010

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I’d travel across the universe to have a bad romance with Deborah Lippmann’s two new glitter-ific fall polishes ($18 each).

Fun, flirty, and catching more light than Vampire Edward’s bare chest in broad daylight, Bad Romance (a glittery fuchsia in a black base) and Across the Universe (a glittery blue-green in a navy base) sing siren songs of shimmery seduction LOUDER than the other Lippmann glitters I’ve tried in the past.

They owe their new singing voice to a shinier jelly base, ooh la la!

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Compared to the almost matte-like finishes of Lippmann’s Ruby Red Slippers (2009) and Superstar (2008) glitter polishes, these are practically flood lights!

And I like it. 🙂 What’s glitter, after all, without the shine? It’s like toast without Nutella (or Justin Bieber without the fever).
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Korres Raspberry Liquid Lipstick Swatches and a Friday Hello

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korres raspberry liquid lipstick swatches

Today when I asked myself if I should stop by Sephora on my lunch break, the answer hit me like one of Zeus’s thunderbolts: “Of Korres!”

Korres, the Greek maker of natural skincare, color and body products, has been piquing my interest lately. Here are swatches of the colors in their Raspberry Liquid Lipstick line ($22 each).

Pretty, yah?

korres raspberry liquid lipstick swatches
Korres Raspberry Liquid Lipstick swatches from left on NC35 skin: Nude Beige, Natural, Berry, Fuchsia, Red

I only discovered them last week, but already my lips are in lurve — with everything from the colors to their high-gloss shine and comfy, non-sticky texture. A+
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Two Ways to Win MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer

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Heavens, can it true? Have we really made it to Friday? 🙂

Let’s celebrate this momentous achievement with a Fabulous Felines giveaway!

The Prize

One lucky lady will win a MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer ($14.50 value), a shimmery, long-wearing yellowish caramel gloss with red and gold pearl.

How To Enter…

2ways2enterEntering is easy. There are two different ways, and you can do both of them for two chances to win.

  1. First, you can enter by retweeting (RT) the following message:

    Follow @karenmbb and RT to win MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer http://bit.ly/bsCBvp

  2. Second, enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, a comment about anything at all! — your favorite desert, what you wish you could do for a living, what you’re wearing on your lips today, or what you’d buy if you found a crisp $100 bill on the sidewalk.

    What am I wearing on my lips today? Three things from Burmese Beauty (I’m a makeup CCL!). I’m wearing Frost Lipstick in Pet Me Please, Lustre Lipstick in To Pamper and Lipglass in Jealous.

  • International peeps and readers living overseas, please feel free to enter. The giveaway is also open to y’all. Entrants everywhere, however, must be at least 18 years of age or older.

Recap…

  1. Enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, and don’t forget to use a valid email address so I can reach you if you win.
  2. Retweet the following message on twitter:

    Follow @karenmbb and RT to win MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer http://bit.ly/bsCBvp

I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, September 12.

सौभाग्य!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

MAC Venomous Villains: A De Vil-ish Face of the Day

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WOW! Where does the time go? Today it occurred to me that the MAC Venomous Villains collection’s just a hop, skip and a jump away (September 30).

Can I get a WOOT, WOOT! (and an evil cackle) from all the MAC-aholics in the hood? 😀

The collection, a collaboration between Disney and MAC, features four separate color stories, each one based on a different Disney villain — Cruella de Vil, of 101 Dalmatians fame; Maleficent, from Sleeping Beauty; the Evil Queen, scourge of Snow White; and Dr. Facilier, from The Princess and the Frog (find out more about the whole collection here).

Despite the subject matter and cartoon imagery, these Trix aren’t for kids. The colors are decidedly grown up, and the products MAC caliber through and through.

Today I took Cruella’s color story out for a spin with a softened version of a classic black cat eye and paired it with rosy cheeks and a glossy red lip.


MAC Venomous Villains Cruella de Vil makeup clockwise from lower left: Eyeshadow in Sweet Joy, Eyeshadow in De-Vil, Eyeshadow in Carbon, Powder Blush in Darkly My Dear, Lipstick in Heartless, Lipstick in Innocence, Beware!, Beauty Powder in Her Own Devices
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9 Things: I Could Never Date Someone Who…

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The cat and I are a package deal

If 41% of all tweets are considered pointless babble, does that mean the other 59% are awesome little pearls of wisdom like this one that crossed my path last week?

Someone posited the following for consideration: “I could never date ______.”

Hilarity (and zillions of retweets) ensued. 🙂

Even though El Hub and I have been together since the dawn of time (roughly a decade), I still remember what it was like to be lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.

Here are nine things on my “I could never date______” list. What’s on yours?

1. Someone who really, really loves earthworms

He could be perfect in every other way, but if he kept earthworms as pets or owned an earthworm farm, our relationship would not go far.

2. Someone who hates my cat

What can I say? Tabs and I have a relationship that my male friend would simply have to accept. I definitely need a dude who’s down with the kittehs.

3. Someone with a dramatically different perspective on punctuation

I’m no card-carrying member of the punctuation police, but, homie, better, know, the, basics, if you catch my drift.

One of the boys I dated ended every sentence with an ellipsis.

Hi… How was your day… Mine was great… I spent all day listening to old Stevie Wonder records… Now I’m making myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich…

Drove me nuts! Of course, he was a DJ and knew music like the back of his hand, which leads me to…

4. Someone with uncompromising taste in music

Music’s always been a big part of my life, and I’ve always tried to keep an open mind about different genres, unlike some of the dudes I dated. One of them would only listen to techno — constantly. Another absolutely hated hip-hop (sacrilege!).


Old school!
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