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Tabs was really hoping this collection would include cat treats, LOL!
The 16-piece collection of mostly cool-toned hues lands exclusively at MAC Macy’s counters this Friday, November 23d, from midnight to 4 a.m. as a Black Friday preview.
After Friday, US shoppers can find it online at maccosmetics.com December 6 and in stores December 23 through January 17.
Just a quick glimpse at a handful of the pieces…
I wonder if MAC was referring to a short haircut when they gave this shimmery, light golden pearl member of Club Plushglass its name.
Hmm… Probably not!
While gorgeous all by itself, I think this $19.50 workhorse purse gloss really looks fetching with smokey eyes.
It’s yet another great member of the always dependable Plushglass family. I love that I can just plop ’em on without a mirror, on account of how sheer they are. No muss, no fuss. And they fade over time without leaving one of those funky white lip lines behind…
Current brush crush: the MAC 163 Flat Contour Brush ($35). I use it to apply cream bronzer and liquid foundation. 🙂
It’s no longer on the MAC website, but you can still find it at counters and online at nordstrom.com.
“Bond, I’m going to need you to be on your toes for this next assignment. This group is very dangerous.”
“Whatever you say, M.”
“I’m serious, Bond. Cat ladies are the real deal. They’ve been known to actually persuade spies to abandon their missions and join the cat crusade. They will not stop until the world goes full-on feline!”
“So…does that mean I have to keep my paws to myself?”
Yeah, so if the curmudgeonly cat lady thing doesn’t pan out for me over the next couple of years, I might just become a full-time, self-employed Bond girl. Seriously! I’d have no problem slinking around the house by myself all day long looking all mysterious and sultry like Savarine, the Bond girl from Skyfall, the latest installment in the series.
I’d be totally fine with that.
In the movie, which opens this Friday across North America, Savarine is played by French actress Bérénice Marlohe. I’ve forbidden myself from reading any spoilers, even though I desperately want to (just two more days!), but movie stills are okay, especially when the makeup, hair and nails are to die for, like they are in these pics of Savarine.
Ooh, I 
that gray eye look… It’s kinda smokey, and I dig the cat eye shape.
See how the shadow slightly wings out at the ends? I feel like it elongates the eye. Oh, and peep the inner corners, and how her eyeshadow tracks her tear duct, ending in a slightly pointed tip. Makes it look even more feline, meow! 🙂
I was really inspired today by Savarine’s look, so I thought I’d give it a try this afternoon and wear it with OPI’s dark plummy red Skyfall nail polish.
Dear Jeremy Renner,
It’s been a while…
Okay, we’ve never actually communicated, but I quite enjoy writing you these letters and will continue to do so because 1) I have a tendency to babble, and 2) you’re so very, very hot.
Jeremy, I have a proposition for you.
Do you remember the Kelly Clarkson concert I mentioned going to last Saturday?
Of course you do. Well, since the show, I’ve been listening to a lot of Kelly’s music, and I’ve grown particularly fond of Don’t Rush, her new country duet with Vince Gill.
Here’s my idea: you, me, a karaoke bar and that song.
Awesomeness, right? You could gaze adoringly into my eyes as we sing the chorus (please!), but I should warn you — don’t be distracted by my cool cat eyeliner, with its extra little twist.
Yeah, it’s a new look I’ve been rocking all day long.
It’s like a regular cat eye, except with an extra, second wing running parallel to the main flick.
I saw it on the artwork for Kelly’s single, Already Gone, and thought, “Haaay! How cool is that?!”
And it wasn’t even that hard to do. I started with a regular cat eye using my favorite gel liner, MAC Blacktrack, and my go-to Sonia Kashuk Bent Liner Brush. Then, when I finished with the cat eye, I drew a tiny extra flick on each eye.
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I’m not usually awake ’round midnight, but I just might stay up for this MAC eyeshadow. 🙂
MAC Extra Dimension Eye Shadow in Round Midnight ($19.50), from the Glamour Daze collection.
“James?”
“Yes, M?”
“Be…careful.”
“Always.”
“No, James, I mean it. This Tabs character is…dangerous. This whole playboy tabby supermodel persona of his is just a cover. We know he’s up to something… We just don’t know what it is yet.”
“What do we know about his current location?”
“We know you’re close. He was spotted last night at a Petco in Novato, and we expect him to return there tonight. He appears to have a penchant for gravy…”
“Doesn’t everyone?”
“I want you to be there when he arrives at the Petco tonight.”
“And?”
“Bring him in, James. I want you to stop that cat.”
T-minus four days till the new Bond movie unleashes suave justice on American movie goers and I. CAN’T. WAIT.
I grew up on a steady diet of James Bond. 🙂 Both of my parents loved the movies, and when I was a kid, whenever a new one would come out, my folks would pack us all up in the car, and take us to the local drive-in.
Yep, I said drive-in. We used to have an actual drive-in movie theater in our town (some years ago the lot was turned into a strip mall).
Skyfall, the latest film in the Bond franchise, opens this Friday nationwide, and OPI recently released a new 12-piece Bond movie-inspired nail polish collection of the same name.
I was taking a shower the other day when I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to do a series of makeup looks inspired by Bond girls and the colors in the new OPI Skyfall collection?
Yes, yes, I think it would. 🙂
And for the first one, how about Elektra King? She plays cat and mouse with Bond in 1999’s The World Is Not Enough.
It’s not one of my favorite Bond films — I cracked up laughing at the pained expression Pierce Brosnan makes in the unintentionally funny seduction/torture scene below — but I love, LOVE the nail polish based on the movie in the Skyfall collection!
It’s a shimmery purplish taupe with tiny flecks of glitter, and it looks almost like a silvery khaki sometimes, depending on the light.
So beautiful…
In the 1999 movie, Elektra King is played by the gorgeous Sophie Marceau. There’s a scene during which she puts JB through hell while wearing a sultry smokey eye and a full-length purple, taupe and black gown — you know, because when you’re inflicting pain upon an international super spy, why settle for sweats?
One of the first things I’ve been doing shortly after getting up every day this week is tap out a quick list of things I’m grateful for. I usually do it on my phone, and sometimes in the early morning dark before dawn.
There’s something about these lists that curbs the urge to run around like a crazy person wielding a fork…
I kid! But no, seriously, the lists help. Whenever I feel that little twinge and tighten my grip on the closest cutlery, I open the Notes app on my phone and reread my lists. Seeing what I’ve written there in front of me puts things in perspective.
Because I don’t want to write the same lists every day (after all, there are some things that would appear on every list), I jot down the very first things that come to my mind each morning.
Here are five of the things I’m grateful for today, along with brief explanations, so you don’t go thinking I’m completely off my rocker! 🙂
OHMIGOSH! I’m in lurve. I can’t remember the last day I didn’t wear this shimmery, peachy nude highlighter. I think I’ve worn it every day since Glamour Daze came out.
Ah, but shimmery highlighters can be tricky to wear, especially if you have any blemishes. Luckily, Superb handles imperfections, well, superbly. It’s just so forgiving, and the glow it gives lasts me all day long. Better still, it doesn’t settle into my fine lines, nooks, pores or crannies.
The formula, which is somewhere between a liquid, cream and a powder, is very well behaved.
I just pat it on the tops of my cheekbones, down the bridge of my nose, on my cupid’s bow and on my chin with a large, firm, paddle-shaped eye brush (the MAC 227 does a great job).
Then, I buff and smooth away any visible edges with my favorite tapered blending brush, the MAC 224.
What about its availability? Well, you’re in luck! It’s…Superb. 🙂
Haha. Okay, not really. I just wanted to play with the name one more time. Superb is currently a hot commodity, and last I checked, it was listed as sold out on MAC’s website. You should be able to find it, though, at MAC stores, counters and online at nordstrom.com.
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So I’ve had this PJ Salvage flannel pajama top for about a year now, and I usually use the pockets to hold cat treats and pens (and sometimes my lint roller…’cause that’s how cat ladies roll), but it never occurred to me before to actually use the pockets to warm my hands.
What a revelation!
It occurred to me last night while I was lying in bed. My hands were freezing, and without thinking, I thrust them into the pockets.
Huzzah! So warm, so comforting… It was like hearing a soft lullaby or getting a hug from my mom.
Whoever came up with the idea to put pockets on pajama tops, you sir or madam, were a genius.
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