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You know you’re rollin’ deep with the beauty blogging crew when you seriously start thinking about shaving your swatching arm.

You know you’re rollin’ deep with the beauty blogging crew when you have about 300 effed up macro pictures of your left eye because that’s how many it took to get one decent shot of the eyeshadow look you did for today’s post (gah!).

You know you’re rollin’ deep with the beauty blogging crew when you put off washing your makeup brushes (and you’ve got hella makeup brushes, fo’ reals) FOR WEEKS, letting them pile up until it takes you — I’m not kidding — 45 minutes to get through them all! The struggle is so real!

You know you’re rollin’ deep with the beauty blogging crew when you can recall, with shocking accuracy, the first makeup collections you fell in love with (mine were Barbie Loves MAC and MAC Smoke Signals).

You know you’re rollin’ deep with the beauty blogging crew when you get your camera so close to a pristine pan of product that you accidentally put a dent in said pan with the edge of the lens when you’re taking macro shots. DOH!

You know you’re rollin’ deep with the beauty blogging crew when you can write 600 words on a single black eyeliner and feel hella good about it when you’re done.

And you know you're rollin' deep with the beauty blogging crew if you love reading about makeup, writing about makeup, talking about makeup and generally obsessing about makeup all day long.

That's what the #bbloggers Tee stands for. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Fellow cat ladies and feline fanatics, when you walk into a pet food store and see the adoptable rescue kitties just sitting there with their big, bright eyes blinking slowly and their awkward, fluffy paws padding around, it’s hard not to say, “I want them meow. Please give them to me. I’ll take all the cats.”

Sigh… I can’t do it right now because of Tabs. He’s an only child, so to speak (basically, he’s territorial). He wouldn’t tolerate another cat in his house, but if I had my way, and I know that if you had yours, you’d take all of them. All the cats.

This formfitting tee feels softer than a tabby’s tum, and I love the scooped neck. It’s made from a super soft 50% polyester, 37% ring-spun cotton, 13% rayon blend. Normally with shirts I wear a small or a medium (I’m 5 feet 1 inches tall), and I’m wearing a medium here.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

If…

• You have 12 brown eyeshadows that are almost identical but you know all of their names and subtle undertones
• You have 10 tubes of lipstick in your purse at any given moment and have a valid reason for carrying each one
• You already have a drawer filled with neutral palettes and have no qualms about starting a second one
• You can easily talk for 15 minutes about black eyeliner, or
• You spend a little too much time staring at other people’s brows

You might be a makeup nerd! 🙂

Welcome to the club.

This is one of the new tees in the store. It’s made of super soft tri-blend fabric (50% polyester/25% ring-spun cotton/25% rayon), and it’s black, so it goes with everything (including tabby cat hair). The fit is on the looser side, so there’s some room for casual slouchiness.

I’m wearing a small in this pic, but this shirt also fits dudes! If you have a makeup nerd friend who happens to be a boy, hey, he just might freak out when you get him this for Christmas or Hanukkah or his birthday, or just because he’s awesome.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

What do you think I keep in my Drawn to Lipstick Makeup Bag?

Cat treats? UD Naked3 or the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette? A travel pack of Nutella? Little shards of my broken hearts from old relationships with boyfriends? All of the crazy Post-It notes I write to myself at 3 o’clock in the morning?

All of these guesses would be valid, but none of them would be correct in the case of this particular bag.

Because this bag gets filled with tubes upon tubes of pink lipstick.

But you could put any of those other things and more in it, too.

I highly recommend it for storing Post-It notes, because it’s nice to keep them all in one place. Same goes for cat treats.

One of my favorite things about this bag is the eye-catching color. I can always spot that bright pink in my purse.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Yeah, this pillow is craziness.

It’s absolutely nuts. THAT’S WHY I LOVE IT!

Uh…I think you know this guy on this side. 🙂 This cat has to be familiar to you, but if he isn’t, for shame!

This pillow is firm, yet squishy. I keep it upstairs in my office on my computer chair because it gives me nice lumbar support while I’m sitting there writing, a.k.a. staring out the window and pretending to write.

The outer portion of the pillow has a zipper and slips off, so if you want to wash it, you can, which is quite handy when you find cat/baby barf on it, and seriously, I find cat or baby barf on everything these days.

Oh, yeah! -- and there's a positive affirmation on the back.

If you ever need validation about whether your makeup looks good, just hold up your pillow... YASSS! Are you making the right life decisions? YASSS! Should you have glazed pumpkin scones for dinner with half a bottle of wine? YASSS!

So many reasons to love the Space Tabby Throw Pillow.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

I drink coffee out of this mug every morning, and every morning it makes me smile. 🙂

The kitty is all, “Oops, I’m sorry! Before I can do that task for you, I’m gonna need to have my coffee first… I’m sure you understand.”

Anna Oh, who was one of the interns on Makeup and Beauty Blog during my maternity leave earlier this year, created this lovely design.

Anna’s an illustrator and all-around cool chick who rocks her winged liner like WHOA.

I have a four cup coffee maker, and this version is the larger 15-ounce version of this mug, which fits about two cups with room for lots of cream (and a bit of sugar, of course).

Side note: How do you like your coffee, by the way?

Umm...I also like how this mug feels in my hand. The handle is a good size, which is an odd thing to say, I know, but I have several mugs with funky handles that don't quite fit right, and I'm super uncoordinated in the morning (big surprise), so anything that can help make my morning a little easier, like a coffee mug with a comfortable handle, gets my day off to a better start.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen