Archives for October 2010

These New Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow/Liners Live Exclusively at Sephora

October 5th, 2010 by Karen 75 Comments

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I feel like I’ve been robbed of a Tuesday afternoon. Seriously, where’d it go? One minute I’m playing with a few of the new Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow/Liners ($19 each; exclusive to Sephora), and the next minute it’s dark and I hear crickets outside!

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Maybe I was just having so much fun finger painting my lids that time got away from me.

I know I’ve gushed over Benefit’s Creaseless Creams many times before. I’m like a broken record with them, “Benefit Creaseless Creams! Benefit Creaseless Creams!” Sorry. It’s just that I like ’em that much.

More on the Benefit Creaseless Creams…

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

Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow: A Quick Look

And now with Purple Snap, Tidal Rave, Silver Spoon and Icy White showing up at Sephora, I better warn you — I’m going to do it again!
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The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway: Send in Your Sign Today!

October 5th, 2010 by Karen

Good luck!

Heya, honeybears! I just wanted to show a few of the wonderful entries in The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway.

Look at these lovely ladies standing up to raise awareness this month!

Kudos, Amber! [INSERT RAUCOUS APPLAUSE HERE]

Love your smile, Michelle 🙂

Kerry, you’re so creative!

The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway

Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment on the original post. Not only will you be showing your support for the cause, but you’ll also be entered to win a $400 prize package of makeup from MAC and Chanel.

To Enter…

Take a picture of yourself with a sign that reads, “October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” Whether or not you show your face is up to you, but I think it would be great to see your lovely mug. 🙂
Send it to me. You can either email it to karen@makeupandbeautyblog.com, OR post it on your blog/facebook page and leave a link to the pic in the comments on the original post, OR upload it to Twitter and send a tweet to me @karenmbb.
The giveaway is open to US and international readers, but you must be the age of majority according to your country’s local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21).
One entry per person.
Deadline to enter is October 31, 2010 at 11:59PM PST.

You gotta comment on the original post to enter (and not on this post here).

Come on, ladies! Let’s raise awareness together, so send in your sign today.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Does your phone have a camera? You might be able to snap your pic and email your entry from there. 😉

Is Cargo Triple Action Mascara an Eyelash Triple Threat?

October 5th, 2010 by Karen 30 Comments

cargo triple action mascara review

Cargo doesn’t get enough love… That’s what I’ve always thought. They’re like an actress who you KNOW deserves top billing in big blockbusters but keeps getting saddled with bit parts in movies that go straight to DVD.

And I swear to Tabs they have my house bugged! It’s like they’re watching me rush in the mornings because so many of their products are designed to save time, like their new Triple Action Mascara ($20, available in a single shade called Black).

New for fall, it’s supposed to do it all, a regular triple threat, able to thicken, lengthen AND curl. Yes, actually curl, or so they claim, like a lash curler.

Is that even possible??

Cargo says it is, thanks to “advanced pigment and styling polymer technology!” — and a special brush.

I’m the type of gal who’ll use multiple mascaras to get a great lash look, but I’m not married to the idea. If a single mascara really could do it all, I’d definitely prefer that (hallelujah!).

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Too Faced Leopard Love and the Raddest Drag Queen Name, Evah!

October 5th, 2010 by Karen 15 Comments

The Too Faced Leopard Love Complexion Perfection Kit ($30, from the fall 2010 collection) comes with a bronzer, blush and highlighter to create a naturally flawless face.

I kinda love that the blush is named “Candy Leopard.” If I was a drag queen, that would most def be my stage name!

Tabby in a Cat Tower

October 5th, 2010 by Karen 21 Comments

Tabs chillin’ in his new cat tower.

You know how cats are… I can’t tell if he loves it or hates it. Perhaps if it had a built in automatic gravy dispenser he’d be more enthusiastic, hmm.

Did You Ever Wear Braces?

October 5th, 2010 by Karen 113 Comments

When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you

I sure did, and I rocked my metal smile for eight — EIGHT! — years. Needless to say, if nature had been allowed to take its course without metallic intervention, my teeth wouldn’t look the same today (the phrase “jacked up” comes to mind).

Er, yes… those are mine

You wanna know something funny? I used to think headgear was cool. Mind you I didn’t have to wear it, but Jeff did. He was this really cute boy in my fourth grade class, and when he walked through those cafeteria doors with that huge strap hugging the back of his head — instant puppy love!

Man, I’m a weirdo…

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

The Boots No. 7 Opulence Eye Palette: When Russian Tsarinas and the ’80s Collide?

October 4th, 2010 by Karen 43 Comments

Does your Target have a produce section? Isn’t that the most convenient thing ever? I was at ours yesterday, allegedly there to buy grapes, when I ran into the Boots No. 7 limited edition Opulence Eye Palette ($10).

It comes with five powder eyeshadows (four shimmers and one matte) in shades of gold, brown, navy, beige and black. The colors, Boots says, were inspired by Russian Tsarinas and the 1980s, because, ya know, those two things totally go together so well. 🙂

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Lego My Fred Farrugia Makeup! These Fred Farrugia Makeup Modules Really Click

October 4th, 2010 by Karen 68 Comments

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Ooh, girl, we’ve all got our weaknesses, don’t we? Tabs? He’s a ho for turkey. Sliced, minced, diced, with gravy or without — he loves it all.

Me? I’m a sucker for products with clean, simple designs.

And Nutella.

I guess that’s why I went nuts over the Fred Farrugia makeup line.

All that gorgeous white space, those rounded edges, the simple shapes and solid colors… If Apple made makeup, this would be what it looked like (and then they’d sell a bunch of overpriced accessories for it, ha!).

The line’s not the easiest to find here in the U.S., but it is available at select Sephora stores in Europe. I found it at a store in Milan, but it’s also listed online at Sephora France and Italy, among other places I’m sure.

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