From left: Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Gel CreamLiners for Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes and Green Eyes (each $11)
Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Gel CreamLiner
Archives for April 2010
Physicians Formula Healthy Wear Pressed Bronzer
Have you tried Physicians Formula Healthy Wear Pressed Bronzer ($15)? What do you think?
Thanks to Marc Jacobs, Spring Smells Fresh As a Daisy in the Air
Oh, Marc, you tricky boy! The blue daisies perched atop each bottle of Daisy in the Air ($57 for 1.7 fl oz) led me to believe that a new version of your Daisy fragrance had arrived, but, alas, it’s the same delicate scent, only dressed in new limited edition attire (with matching blue paper garland!).
A floral eau de toilette, Daisy the fragrance smells more like a violet to me, and she’s been gracing our airwaves for years. Her free spirit takes me back to fun spring breaks and summer vacations, to days way before there were so many things to do or places to be…
Saturday Surfing
What’s up, weekenders? How’s your Saturday coming along? Are you doing anything fun? So far today I’ve gone to breakfast (thanks for the Hamilton Cafe reco, Marisol!), took care of some bills, played with Tabs, and now I’m snapping as many product pictures as I can before the sun goes down. We had great light here this afternoon, so I’m trying to take advantage of it.
Do you have time for a little break? 🙂 Grab your mouse; let’s go surfing!
Random bright spots
- Is it time to spring clean your closet? — College Fashion
- How to make a scent linger longer (without overdoing it) — Daily Beauty Reporter Blog
- Oh, hon, my hair wants Ojon Restorative Hair Treatment — We Heart This
- Cheaper than getting your hair did: Bella road tests Lady Gaga’s Coke Can Curlers — Bella Sugar
- Christine explores Chanel’s Les Pop Ups Polishes — Temptalia
- The Benefit gals are breaking down the diff between Eye Bright and High Brow — The Secret Life of a Benefit Girl
New in beauty
- Benefit’s Bright Lights Big City Set ($48) has everything it takes to look bright, beautiful and sexy
- Colorful? Absolutely. Practical? Hmm… Have you seen Shu Uemura’s Gem Glam Flawless Glow Powder ($55)?
- Kim Kardashian’s Sephora Gift Set ($55) comes with her perfume and a makeup palette to dupe her signature smokey eyes
- Revlon says their Grow Luscious Mascara ($8) will make your lashes grow longer (in so many words)
- Sephora’s Color Artist Lipstick Palette ($32) comes with 15 shades in a sleek, travel-friendly case
What a beautiful interpretation of one of my favorite INXS songs… Yes, that’s Beck. 🙂
Watching this makes me hyper…
OH, HELL YAH! — Aiden’s baAAAaack!
Enjoy the rest of your Saturday. Oh, Tabs is on the rampage right now… He’s been giving me his “Feed me some gravy, bitches!” face because he finished the last of his Fancy Feast tuna in gravy last night. All he’s had to eat since then has been Science Diet, and he’s none too pleased.
Sorry, cat. We all learn to deal with disappointment sooner or later. Today was just your time. 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
MBBTV #9: Cheer Up with Tokidoki Prisma Lip Gloss
Good morning, glory. 🙂 How did you sleep? I’m sorry I haven’t touched base in a while, but I was mostly offline last night. El Hub found inexpensive tickets (thanks to a TravelZoo Weekly 20 deal in their free email newsletter) and took us to the symphony! We watched Duncan Sheik sing alongside the SF symphony orchestra. Not something we do very often, but it was nice to unwind. We got all dressed up, too (so did he!), and then had a quick dinner after the performance.
I wanted to take pictures, but you’re not allowed during the performances (something that’s rarely stopped me from trying, ha!). I did sneak this one innocent iPhone shot though: tuning their instruments.
Back to makeup and beauty — I spent part of this week playing with Sephora’s new Tokidoki Prisma Lip Gloss. If you love cute packaging AND Tokidoki as much as I do, here’s a video with some closeups and observations. I have reservations about the gloss itself, but I’m such a fiend for cute packaging!
For more on the Tokidoki makeup line at Sephora…
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
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Essie Resort 2010
A big ol’ pic of the Essie Resort 2010 polishes (go here for a full review).
Tokidoki SANDy and Moofia Mints
From left: Tokidoki SANDy Nail File ($5) and Moofia Mints ($5)
The nail file works REALLY well and the mints are yummy!
NARS Cactus Flower: A Bloomingly Blendable Blush
Confession time: part of the reason why NARS Cactus Flower Cream Blush ($26) drew me in was because it looked so freakin’ scary in the pan, LOL! I’ve had serious love affairs with brighter-than-bright NARS cheek colors before (Mounia, anyone?), so I hoped from my fingers to my toes that scary blush lightning 
would strike twice with this shimmery reddish coral.
Cactus Flower’s one of eight cream blushes in the NARS permanent makeup line. The texture feels slightly thinner than MAC and Illamasqua cream blushes to me (almost like a gel blush), and I think that’s part of the reason why it’s so smooth and easy to blend.
It makes the lazy beast in me dance jigs whenever I put it on because of how little work it takes to use — just a few swipes with my fingers, and less then a minute later I’m out the door.
Wearing Cactus Flower at the start of the day. NOTE: I am NOT nekkid in this pic. 🙂 I’m actually wearing a tube top, ha ha!
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