Happy Sunday, friend. 🙂 If you live here in the States, I hope you remembered to spring forward.
Spring! Spring! Spring!
My in-laws are visiting this weekend, and we’re on our way out to brunch. Banana pancakes for everyone!
A few beauty posts that caught my eye…
- Bobbi Brown’s new brow kit lets you customize your own brow shade — Cafe Makeup
- Love the blues and corals in the new Art Deco summer collection — Makeup4all
- NARS introduces the Artistry Sessions online video tutorials — Older Girl Beauty
- Are you as busy as you think? — The Wall Street Journal
- I found photographer Tom Hussey’s series of portraits called “Reflections” incredibly moving (use the arrows on the sides of the page to scroll through the pics) — Tom Hussey
- 18 ways to inspire everyone around you — Marc and Angel Hack Life
- Create your own custom makeup brushes with this DIY project — A Beautiful Mess
- A minimal makeup look featuring a pink cheek flush — Lisa Eldridge
- Just added to the to-try list: By Terry Mascara Terrybly — The Non-Blonde
- Is it a crime to meow at the moon? — Cat Gossip
The makeup monsters are back again this week with another beastie, this one a nightmarish creature of dark makeup magic!
Balm Beholder
Description: It’s a cold, windy day, and your lips are chapped. You pause outside the mall to re-apply your favorite lip balm when you hear a low groan behind you. You whip around! Floating there before you is a hideous orb-like creature with a single unblinking eye, a huge maw with extremely chapped, raw lips, and smaller eyes attached to wriggling stalks, gah!
Frequency: Rare
Speed: Fast
Armor Class: 7 (flight makes them difficult to corner)
Special Attacks: Balm Beholders must consume moisturizing lip balms to survive. Any creature that makes eye contact for more than a second with the Beholder’s large eye is momentarily paralyzed by the monster’s stunning gaze attack, which the beholder uses to incapacitate victims while it steals their lip balm.
Special Defenses: None
Intelligence: Very
Alignment: Evil
Size: Medium (4′ diameter)
Height and Comfort From the Unisa Kami Wedge Shoe
Get Runway Eyes With Milani’s New Spring 2012 Eyeshadows
Just Another MAC Chenman Face of the Day
My Fingerprints on the MAC & Marcel Wanders Collection
Milani High Speed Fast Dry Nail Lacquers
I’m Lovin’ the Bold Look of Lancôme’s Rouge in Love Lipsticks
Vampires Won’t Need the NP Set Glam Set
Gah! There’s a Pixi in My Lip Tint!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Description: Primer Pests are an invasive species of toad rapidly spreading around the globe. Believed to be a mutation created in an underground cosmetics lab, they are attracted to makeup primer. Can’t resist it, actually.
Description: Abominable Powder Punishers are gargantuan, grossly confused and filthy beasts that perceive all powders as a threat. They believe that poofs of powder are actually swarms of tiny biting insects, and they swat furiously at them when exposed.
Description: Stench Dragons are a subcategory of dragons that spend much of their time stalking perfumeries and fragrance counters. Powerfully stinky, they tend to be aloof, solitary and self-centered. Their motto is, “It’s all about me.”
Description: Long, long ago, a powerful evil sorceress/former makeup artist created Liner Lamia to guard her makeup counter while she was away, but a small number of the mischievous creatures escaped! Tentacled gremlins with eye liners for arms, they really just like to mess up makeup.
Description: Bronzer Bugbears are huge, slathering ogres with a taste for bronzer. They consume it for the talc and silica, which they need to survive, and also like to roll around in it like elephants do with mud.
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