MAC’s Chilled on Ice ($18.50), one of eight new Pro Longwear Paint Pots available now at maccosmetics.com.
MAC’s Chilled on Ice Pro Longwear Paint Pot
Archives for February 2013
Pug Love
Meet Rex the Pug. He’s a 14-year-old cancer survivor who can no longer walk, but he still enjoys the great outdoors. Every day, his dad takes him out for daily strolls in his red Radio Flyer wagon.
Any day you get to spend time with a sweet old pup is a great day. 🙂
Is the New MAC Antique Diamond Pro Longwear Paint Pot a Dupe for Benefit Skinny Jeans?
My first thought when I saw MAC’s new Antique Diamond Pro Longwear Paint Pot?
Skinny Jeans. Benefit Skinny Jeans, because like my beloved Skinny Jeans cream shadow, Antique Diamond also has that grayish khaki thang going on.
But yeah…that’s just about where the similarities end. As soon as I got Antique Diamond on my lids, I could see that it wasn’t a lot like Skinny Jeans. I think both shadows are fab, but they are very, very different.
Olive green Antique Diamond looks lighter, cooler toned and shinier to me (hello, frosty finish!). Like, in trying to think of the inspiration behind it, I’m thinkin’…frozen lichen on the side of a tree on a sunny winter’s day?
Whatev, I like it. 🙂
Doesn’t it seem more delicate than Skinny Jeans? Could have something to do with Antique Diamond’s fine flecks of silver glitter.
Don’t get me wrong — I 
Skinny Jeans. I just think Antique Diamond is a little daintier, like if Skinny Jeans were motorcycle boots, Antique Diamond would be a pair of kitten heels.
I’ll usually pat a layer on my lids with a finger, and then, to offload a little of the color, buff it down by gently running a MAC 217 all over the lid, leaving behind an almost transparent tint of cool olive green (so pretty!) loaded with silver shimmer.
And it lasts from that first bite of French toast at breakfast till that last piece of pizza at night…
(Yes, someone’s hungry for junk food right now.)
Like Butter, These Bargain Glosses Make Everything Better: The $5 NYX Butter Glosses
Just in case you were wondering, if you wear one of the new $5 NYX Butter Glosses while eating cinnamon walnut French toast with a heaping scoop of butter, you will not — I REPEAT! — will not experience butter overload.
(As if there were such a thing.)
On my lips, each of these 12 new moisturizing, non-sticky lip glosses feel all smooth and slick like little sticks of butter…but they don’t taste or smell like butter (whew!)
Nope, more like brown sugar and vanilla, yum!
Yes, yum. 🙂
I’ve had mixed luck with NYX lip product flavors and scents in the past, know what I mean?
Not these though. As far as my nose and palate are concerned, NYX nailed these. On a sensory level, these Butter Glosses represent probably the best experience I’ve ever had from the line. Both the brown sugar and vanilla notes are faint, too, just barely there, and dissipate quickly after 1-2 minutes.
One swipe from the doe-foot applicator leaves behind a sheer layer of color and satiny shine, while a second layer ups the coverage to medium.
Either way, these don’t last all that long on my lips. Most of the time I get about an hour.
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Milani Ultrafine Liquid Eye Liner: A Tricky Tip Barely Holds These Back, Thanks to a Fantastic High-Shine Finish and a Fabulous $7.49 Price
Can I steal you away this morning for a 15-minute break?
Yes? Cool! Follow me. I’ll drive. 🙂
You and I are SO hitting up that drugstore over there…
Wait — you say you have to fill out those TPS reports first (LAME)? Okay, well, you know where to find me. I’ll be in the beauty aisle, by the Milani stuff, ogling the new Ultrafine Liquid Eye Liners.
I can’t believe they’re less than $10! How did Milani manage to make them pigmented, waterproof (long-lasting), quick drying, AND give them such a high-shine finish?
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MAC’s Let Me Pop Pro Longwear Paint Pot
MAC’s Let Me Pop ($18.50), one of eight new Pro Longwear Paint Pots available now at maccosmetics.com.
New Hot Spot
Tabs just discovered that he loves to sleep in the circular base of this side table. Cats are so weird!
Inspired by Illamasqua: A Black and White Speckled Cat Eye Face of the Day
Oh, that trip to Sephora the other day with all the dudes milling about? I forgot to mention that I didn’t leave the store empty handed.
Nope. I walked out of there with a scribe…
Scribe? The white liquid liner from Illamasqua?
From the makers of White-Out correction fluid, LOL! No, no, but it looks a little like that, doesn’t it?
I picked it up because of that speckled cat eye look Illamasqua did for their spring 2013 Imperfection collection. Ever since I saw that promo pic, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of dotted cat eyes with black and white…
This afternoon I decided to give it a try, and the first thing I did was line my upper lash lines with MAC Blacktrack Fluidline, because I wanted something with a matte finish to contrast with the liquid liner’s shine.
Then, I did the white dots using Illamasqua Scribe, and finished with some black dots using Milani’s new Ultrafine Liquid Eye Liner in Black Vinyl.
Give it a try! — and if you do, um, save your mascara for the very last step. I made the mistake of doing my dots last and ended up with white liner all over my mascara…
Yup, hot mess.
I was already wearing two coats of Chanel Le Volume and didn’t want to make matters worse, so to clean up the white on my lashes, I painted over it with the black Milani liquid liner I used for the dots (Black Vinyl).
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