A rhinestone four-leaf clover necklace from Forever 21, $5.
Four-Leaf Clover
Archives for November 2010
I’m Like a Bird
I picked up some costume jewelry last night at Forever 21. The store near my house has a huge wall devoted to necklaces, most of them priced at $10 or less.
I was in rhinestone heaven!
How To Cover Pimples and Scars with a Combination of Concealers
Lately I’ve been getting different kinds of breakouts — from small zits to big cystic acne — and after a lot of trial and error I came up with a system of different ways to conceal different types of breakouts. Here is how I conceal my blemishes with a combination of green concealer, cream concealer, mineral concealer, and mineral foundation.
When I took these pictures I had an active pimple (A), scars (S), and pink bumps (B) on my cheek. The active pimple was bumpy, but the scars were flat.
For active pimples I like to use a green concealer first, since my pimples tend to be very red, and using a cream concealer alone doesn’t cover up the redness. Here I’m using Physicians Formula Gentle Cover Concealer in Cover Green ($6).
I use a concealer brush to apply cream concealer over the scars, only on the discoloration. Using a small concealer brush makes the application very precise, which is important here because we only want to conceal the discoloration and not the skin around it. Here I’m using Laura Mercier Secret Camoulage/Secret Concealer in SC-2 and Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage Brush ($26).
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The Urban Decay Black Palette Is Not Just for Bad Girls
Urban Decay: The Black Palette (with Toasted from the UD Show Pony Palette) on eyes, UD Hookup Blush on cheeks, UD Lipstick in Naked on lips
Did you ever read those Sweet Valley High books? I loved ’em when I was a kid. There’s like a billion in the series… Okay, not a billion, more like 181, but that’s still A LOT of books. They’re all about the trials and tribulations of two teenage twins, Elizabeth, the perfect little goody-two-shoes, and Jessica, the unscrupulous yet lovable bad girl, who live in the fictional town of Sweet Valley, CA.
I had a Sweet Valley flashback today while swatching Urban Decay: The Black Palette. The $36 set, exclusive to Sephora, came out for fall, but I wasn’t ready for its darker shades until now.
The six powder shadows strike me as shades a Jessica would like — naughty and smokey with a bad-girl edge.
She’s the girl who’d steal your boyfriend but then charm her way back into your good graces (without you even realizing it!). Despite how dark and moody they are, the colors are still flexible enough to wear to school or work.
The palette, with its five shimmery jewel-toned shades and black-as-night matte, are the stars of the show, but the set also comes with two of Urban Decay’s cult faves, a tiny bottle of Eden Primer Potion and a 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Zero, all for $36.
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Do You Wear Scrunchies?
The fluffy pink scrunchie I wore with my ’80s Halloween look was the first scrunchie I’d worn since, I don’t know, about 1992.
It was part of an 8-pack I found at Target (Goody brand, $5), hanging beside more highfalutin doohickeys like snag-free elastic hair bands and Spin Pins in the beauty aisles.
Ya know, I’m surprised scrunchies haven’t gone the way of the dodo. I’ve been wearing ’em around the house since Halloween, trying to remember why I ever wore them back in the day, and I’ve made some observations…
- They’re loose enough that I can wear them to bed without waking up with a headache
- They’re loose enough that they don’t leave kinks in my hair when I take them out
- They’re so loose that they can’t hold a high ponytail all day long (slips down to the nape of my neck after a few hours)
- Cats like to bat them around
Elastic hair bands/ponytail holders are higher tech solutions, but scrunchies still have their place in the world.
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Karen
P.S. TGIF! 🙂
Smell Ya Later, NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in Beautiful
Oh, Beautiful, why do you tease? Yeah, I’m talking to you NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in Beautiful ($5.50).
It’s not just the newest of 61 colors in the Mega Shine line; it’s also the first NYX gloss I’ve ever tried.
The line gets raves for texture, color payoff, shade selection and price, and I’ve had great luck with NYX lately, so I had crazy high hopes for their glosses.
Maybe too high.
Don’t get me wrong. I like Beautiful’s color and texture — a subtle shimmery pink on the lips, medium weight texture, not too thick or sticky on the lips — but I just can’t hang with the scent. It’s like a preschool nurse’s office, part cherry cough syrup and plastic with a hint of Play Doh (for warmth and complexity), and it even has a little of the same flavor, too.
I tried to stick it out and leave it on my lips to test for wear time this afternoon, but I gave up after about 10 minutes. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
Still, it sure looks pretty, doesn’t it? I bet it would look killer with smokey eyes… Maybe if I pinch my nose. 🙂
Random Acts of iPhone Photography, 11.11.10
A few pics I’ve taken with my phone over the last few weeks.
Doesn’t Tabs look like a kitten in the lower left? 🙂
Panthera Mascara
The tube of Ultraflesh Panthera Mascara ($26) I ordered from Sephora arrived today.
Not gonna lie — the cat head’s a little weird. The pointy ears hurt my fingers, and the more I stare at it, the more it starts looking less like a panther and more like my neighbor’s pitbull. Hmm.
It might come in handy as a weapon…
