I just realized that everything I ate yesterday for lunch was orange, haha! I totally didn’t do it on purpose, although I can imagine my third grade self getting a kick out of it.
A Very Orange Lunch
Archives for 2013
Big Snakes on a Blog! Or, the New MAC Year of the Snake Large Eye Shadows in Once Upon a Time, Altered State, Carbon and Aztec Brick
Here’s to hoping that these four new Large Eye Shadows from MAC are the closest I ever come to having snakes on top of my eyes!
Not that I have anything against snakes (of the reptilian variety). My aversion to slithering creatures doesn’t extend to snakes. It’s more of an anti-worm policy (they’re so slimy and squiggly, YUCK!). I’m definitely not anti-snake.
I actually think they’re pretty cool and inspiring, really. All sleek, graceful and frightening at the same time, kind of like Grace Jones in Conan The Destroyer.
And speaking of Conan, these snake-patterned 0.10-ounce pans are also pretty huge (twice the size of MAC’s regular 0.05-ounce pans).
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Too Faced Added a Bushel of Berries — Yes, for Spring — to Their Moisturizing La Creme Lipstick Line
Berries in the springtime? Absolutely! Why not? 🙂
Too Faced just added four new shades to their deliciously creamy and potently pigmented La Creme Lipstick line, and if you love berry shades, your makeup bag runneth over with good luck.
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For Chic Burgundy Cheeks, Try the New NARS 413 BLKR Multiple
The question is, would I wear the new sheer burgundy cream stick Mutiple in NARS 413 BLKR on my eyes?
Hmm… Probably not, unless I were planning to attend an apocalypse party or wanted to celebrate the mid-season return of The Walking Dead this Sunday night with an undead chic look.
Burgundy eyeshadow plus Karen’s eyelids equals zombie 
time! But if burgundy’s your jam, you could wear it on your eyes, because NARS designed their (The?) Multiples to work pretty much everywhere — eyes, cheeks, lips, and even your bod, where you could use it to contour.
Dark, imposing and almost Medieval in stick form, 413 BLKR manifests into a much more approachable sheer matte burgundy on cheeks, where it gives a tint like I just spent an hour outside on a sunny hillside, looking up at the clouds and daydreaming…
Too Faced’s New Spring 2013 La Creme Lipstick Shades
Say hello to Too Faced’s four new La Creme Lipsticks. From the left: Bumbleberry (a satin garnet), Loganberry (a berry pink), Teddy Berry (a dusty rose) and So Berry Sexy (a fucshia berry).
P.S. Too Faced just started a giveaway where you can enter to win a dress by designer Misha Nonoo along with some sweet Too Faced spring 2013 goodies (a Sweethearts Blush, a Romantic Eye palette and a La Creme Lipstick in So Berry Sexy). For deets and to enter, visit toofaced.com.
The Face of an Angel
Umm, NOT.
Guess who’s on his mommy’s sh*t list? One very uncooperative diva kitty model. Tabs wasn’t in the mood to pose at all with the new MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pots ($18.50 each). Once I placed them on his tum, he let me sneak in three measly shots, and then he got up, walked across the room, plopped down again and shot me dirty looks for the rest of the day.
MAC Took a Shine to Snakes This Year, and Their Efforts Are Slithering Into Makeup Bags: Introducing the Three MAC Year of the Snake Lipsticks
[RING! RING!]
ME: Yellow.
EL HUB: Hi, sweetie.
ME: Hi.
EL HUB: How’s it going? Have you had lunch yet?
ME: I’m at Petco.
EL HUB: Getting gravy for Tabs?
ME: No, I’m looking at snakes.
EL HUB: …
ME: And I’m listening to Biggie on my headphones and actually doing The Snake while I watch them.
EL HUB: Not.
ME: Yes.
EL HUB: Why are you doing that?
ME: It’s research…and I’m looking for inspiration to help me write about the new MAC Year of the Snake collection lipsticks.
EL HUB: [LAUGHING] Okay, is it helping?
ME: It is! I’m doing like Don Draper. Remember that Mad Men episode where he said, “Think about it deeply, then forget it. Then an idea will jump up in your face”?
EL HUB: No.
ME: Well he did.
EL HUB: Maybe you could just write about how weird it is to do The Snake in the middle of Petco while actually looking at real snakes.
ME: Hmm… It does sound weird when you say it that way. 🙂
What was the first thing I noticed about the three new lipsticks in the Chinese New Year’s-inspired MAC Year of the Snake collection? That’s easy — their righteous reptilian packaging!
Those intricate snake patterns along the sides of the bullets? So cool! I just love those kinds of little touches. It turns something as ordinary as a tube of lipstick into a little work of art.
MAC included two brights — Cockney and Plumful — and one neutral — Freckletone — with the collection, all of them in the MAC Lustre Lipstick formula, which is one of my favorite MAC formulas on account of how easy it is to wear.
Lightweight, smooth, shiny and moisturizing, the Lustres last for me from 3-4 hours. When I want to wear a lipstick but feel like my lips are parched and desperately seeking TLC, I’ll often reach for a Lustre.
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I’m Drawn to the New Dior Diorshow Art Pen
I guess you could spend the entire eight hours that Dior’s new quick-drying, long-wearing Diorshow Art Pen ($30) lasts on lids stomping on catwalks and smiling with your eyes. 🙂
Or, you could spend that same amount of time…
- Watching the last three episodes of Homeland, Season 2, while wondering whether it’s too late and/or unrealistic to consider a career as a television writer (I’d love to work on something like 30 Rock).
- Finishing four loads of laundry and shaking your fists in fury after you find your very furry, very misbehaved cat rolling around on top of a freshly washed load of light-colored laundry like it’s his job.
- Writing several long lists, like “Things to do before my birthday,” “Where I want to be in 5 years,” and “Ways to make the world a better place.”
- Watching the entire Super Bowl from start to finish, and then having a “Hallelujah!” moment when you realize that you were actually able to follow what was going on, thanks to your husband’s patient football tutelage.
- Watching the Puppy Bowl, while mumbling about how cats always seem to get the short end of the stick when it comes to prime-time TV coverage…
- Coming close to tears TWICE during the commercial breaks (the Clydesdale horse one and the gorgeous imagery in “God Made a Farmer”)… Freakin’ PMS!!
I really like this liner. It’s available in a single shade, Catwalk Black, a rich, true black without any blue tones that dries quickly to a high-gloss finish. One swipe delivers intense pigment, so I can quickly line my eyes without having to keep adding layers.
