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Colour Pro Powder Blush in Peach Glow by Gorgeous Cosmetics ($30), an Australian makeup line that’s now available in the US at Nordstrom stores and online.
Hope you’re having a lovely Sunday so far! What are you up to? I’m chilling at home today.
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Time to rise and shine (and spring forward!). 🙂
Happy Saturday, friend. I’ve been having a very nice morning so far. It’s sunny here today, so I’ve got the drapes open while I read magazines at the dining room table, drink my coffee and fiddle around online.
Not sure what I’m gonna do yet today… Part of me wants to go for a walk, or maybe a picnic (or both!), but we’ll see. I definitely want to do something outside.
I hope your weekend got off to a good start. Have you entered this weekend’s Sephora eCard giveaway yet? It only takes a comment and/or tweet. Full deets are down below.
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A closeup of Estée Lauder’s See-Thru Blush ($50), one of three pieces from the new Mad Men Collection. Available now at counters and online.
Like lightning lighting in a bottle.
Sunsets inspire the new highlighting powder from Too Faced, the $32 Sweetheart Beads Radiant Glow Face Powder.
To both set your makeup and give a golden pink/late afternoon glow to your skin, just swirl your brush in the jar of multicolored powder hearts, and apply all over your face.
GURL, you don’t have to tell me about the power of lighting. When I think of how many times my friend Jen and I went clubbing and ended up talking to a dude who looked like a Baldwin in the dim club lighting, but then when the lights came up, we were like, “WHOA?!”
It’s that kind of shared trauma that bonds girlfriends for life. 🙂
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Why do I find little dangling charms so irresistible? Charms on just about anything, like phones, bracelets, the ends of pens and pencils, tubes of Physicians Formula Sexy Booster Sexy Glow Glossy Stain…
Charmed, I’m sure. 🙂
Maybe it’s the way they sparkle when I wiggle them around. It triggers some kind of primitive cave girl thing… Whatever it is, those silvery high-heel charms are charming the heck out of me.
And speaking of charming, that’s actually their schtick — except with regard to pants, as in “charming the pants off you.” These two new pigmented, $9.95 gloss/stain hybrids in Red and Hot Pink, like the Physicians Formula Sexy Booster Sexy Glow Blush in Rose we looked at before, are designed to do just that.
With ingredients like horny goat weed and a musky vanilla scent, they’re supposed to evoke a sultry state of mind while tinting lips with a long-lasting lip stain and a satiny finish.
Truth be told, I haven’t yet felt the urge to bump Barry White and crawl all over a rotating heart-shaped bed while wearing either of these shades…but I do feel like raising my hands in the air and waving them around like I just don’t care, which is something I normally do for drugstore versions of high-end makeup products.
These remind me of those $32 Yves Saint Laurent Glossy Stains…
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I wouldn’t exactly say it erases pores, or gives me supernaturally smooth skin, but the new $30 Bronzed & Poreless Pore Perfecting Powder from Too Faced does seem to smooth things out.
Where my pores are usually like, “OH, HAI! WE’RE KAREN’S PORES!” wearing Bronzed & Poreless Pore Perfecting Powder’s super soft, fine grains, my pores are definitely softer spoken, like “Oh, hello. Don’t mind me. I’m just one of Karen’s pores.” 🙂
Bronzed & Poreless, one of two powders in the new Hello Sunshine summer collection, is the more matte and orange of the two. The other one, Endless Summer 16-Hour Long-Wear Bronzer, showcases more gold.
If you’re looking for warmth above all else and/or have light or medium skin tone, I’d probably go with Bronzed & Poreless instead of Endless Summer, as Bronzed & Poreless sits on the lighter end of the bronzing spectrum.
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Another shot of the Too Faced Sweetheart Beads Radiant Glow Face Powder hearts ($32; from the new Hello Sunshine collection for summer 2013).
