The three palettes from the new Tarte Puttin’ on the Glitz Limited-Edition Color Collection & Clutch, $48. Available now online.
Swatches and review coming soon. 🙂
Tarte Puttin’ on the Glitz Limited-Edition Color Collection & Clutch
Archives for November 2011
Take Out Your Dancing Shoes for the Tarte The Starlet Limited-Edition Makeup Vanity
My neighbors probably don’t need another reason to think I’ve completely lost my mind, but that didn’t stop me from giving them another one today.
Since they already know that I take my cat out for walks on a leash, snap pictures of myself in the front yard, drive to the grocery store wearing false eyelashes, and periodically leap like this in the street, I figured heck — I have nothing else to lose. Might as well take pics of myself dancing in front of the windows while I blast Footloose and try on Tarte’s new The Starlet Limited-Edition Makeup Vanity ($52). 🙂
If I only had an old VW Bug and an empty barn, LOL! But more on the movie in a few…
As for The Starlet, a holiday kit containing makeup for eyes, lashes and cheeks, she really should be handled with care. Within my first minute with it, I’d already scratched the mirrored top.
Miss Piggy for MAC Swatches and Product Pics
When I was four, my favorite thing on television was The Muppet Show. I remember sitting in front of our set and praying I wouldn’t have to get up to fix the bunny ears on top of the TV, because I didn’t want to miss a single second.
I especially loved the two old dudes in the balcony who made fun of everyone, the adorable Fozzy bear, the Swedish Chef (“Bork! Bork! Bork!”) and of course, the diva of all divas, Miss Piggy.
How could you not love a glamorous pig in high heels, pearls and opera-length gloves? 🙂
It’s been a while since Miss P. and the Muppets were in the spotlight, but they’ll be back on the big screen once again, this November 23, in their new Disney flick, simply called, The Muppets.
To coincide with the movie’s release, MAC’s releasing the minuscule Miss Piggy for MAC collection, a three-piece release for eyes, exclusively online in North America and select countries on November 14.
Take a look at the pics and swatches below, and let me know if anything strikes your fancy.
Clockwise from the lower left: Lash in 36 ($15), Penultimate Eye Liner in Rapid Black ($17.50) and Eye Shadow in Miss Piggy Pink ($15)
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Happy Noses Make for Happy Holidays with the Benefit Crescent Row Limited Edition Set
Benefit’s at it again this year, adding fragrant fuel to the fire that is my current obsession with petite perfume bottles, by taking us down another holiday trip down Crescent Row. Their new $36 Crescent Row Limited Edition Set bundles together four of the line’s 0.43-oz. (they’re small but cute) eau de toilettes.
The official fragrance notes
- Laugh with Me Lee Lee — A light blend of citrus, jasmine and lily blossoms
- My Place or Yours Gina — An alluring affair of pink pepper (a spice made from dried berries), wild raspberry and patchouli
- Garden of Good & Eva — A crisp floral spiked with pear, jasmine and freesia
- Ring My Bella — A seductive floral with lily, jasmine and vanilla
More on the Benefit Crescent Row fragrance family…
Breaking Dawn
Tabs watching the morning sun filter through the oak trees.
Make Way for the Starlet
Tarte The Starlet Limited-Edition Makeup Vanity ($52), available now exclusively at Sephora stores and also online.
She’s elegant, yah?
The Tarte Lip Service Limited-Edition LipSurgence Collection and a Snickers-Fueled Sugar High
Tarte LipSurgence in Swank on mah lips!
Believe it or not, this swatch session for the new Tarte Lip Service Limited-Edition LipSurgence Collection ($29) actually began as something somewhat normal…
LipSurgence in Perky
But then I had two of these tiny Snickers bars (because it’s physically impossible to have just one)…
They don’t call ’em “Fun Size” for nothin’
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You’re Destined for Fame (and Fallout) with the Smashbox Be Discovered Holiday Palette
I doubt Hollywood’s even looking for a short, sassy Filipino chick without any acting experience to star opposite Ryan Gosling in an upcoming romantic comedy, but if, perchance, I’m ever stopped by a famous director at Petco and asked to play the wind beneath Ryan’s wings, you can bet I’m putting down those 20 cans of gravy, girl, because we’re going to Hollywood! 🙂
Logic places the chances of this happening somewhere below 0.000001%, but ya never know… Maybe the new limited edition Smashbox Be Discovered palette (about $60, from the new Snappy Holidays 2011 collection) will improve my odds.
Maybe…?
Okay, well, a girl’s gotta have dreams, and if yours happen to involve holiday kits brimming with color, Smashbox would like you to consider this: the 66-piece Be Discovered palette, with its four mini-makeup brushes and shades for eyes, cheeks and lips. At $60, it works out to less than $1 per piece.
Not too shabby, tabby.
For more on the Smashbox Snappy Holidays collection, check out…
The bulk of the pieces in the palette consist of products for eyes — 45 powder shadows and nine cream liners, to be exact. That’s more color than a girl could shake a blending brush at!
But (there’s always a but), like the eyeshadows in the company’s Click You’re It palette, also out for holidays, these like being babied. Some of them require lots of layering to show up on my tan skin, and more often than not, I also end up sweeping away a considerable amount of fallout.
A few thoughts on the rest of the kit…
- Cheek Products — My favorite pieces in the palette! The Bronzer, Blushes and Soft Lights Highlighters apply smoothly with commendable color, yet despite being packed with pigment, they remain easy to blend.
- Cream Eyeliners — I like the soft, dreamy lines I’m able to draw with these, as well as the variety of colors, but some of them migrate when I forget to pat a powder shadow on top.
- Lipglosses — Preternatural pigment and a three-hour wear time for the win!
- Mini Brushes — They get job done, but I wouldn’t depend on them for everyday use (unless I had a crush on scratchy bristles).
The Smashbox Be Discovered kit: click here to see more product pics, and here to see oodles of swatches
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