Just For Fun

1. Mood:
   Let me put it this way: I’ve got a smile on my face. 🙂 I had a really nice time with my family yesterday, and today El Hub is working from home, where he can keep me company.
2. Three things on your bucket list?
   1) To grow and eat my own watermelon (I know it’s silly, but I’ve always wanted to do it), 2) to spend a month wandering through Italy, and 3) to cover the Cannes Film Festival for MBB!
3. If tattoos only lasted a year, would you be more/less likely to get one?
   Hmm… What an interesting proposition. Well, I know myself pretty well. I think I’d be more inclined to get one, probably get something, think it was neat for about a month, and then get tired of looking at it and spend the next 11 months regretting it and obsessively trying to cover it up, LOL!
4. Something that drives you nuts?
   The phrase, “You do you, and I’ll do me.” Damn you, Jersey Shore!
5. What’s the number one quality you value most in a pencil eyeliner?
   Texture. Good ones gotta glide across my skin. If there’s any tugging involved, I can’t deal.
6. Three things that inspire you?
   1) Regular people who change the world for the better, 2) traveling to new places and 3), believe it or not, long, hot showers.

   I feel like I come up with my best ideas in the shower…

7. Does the sound of silence make you uncomfortable?
   Not at all. I tend to get over stimulated in noisy situations. Yup, I’m not one of those people who can carry on two conversations at the same time.

   I also think that being able to sit quietly and comfortably with someone can be one of the most intimate things you can share.

8. What’s one sentence that summarizes 2012 for you so far?
   It hasn’t always been easy, but I feel like we’re getting somewhere.
9. Your best experience on public transportation?
   Once, while I was on the ferry coming home to Marin from San Francisco, the captain of the boat got on the intercom and pointed out a whale skimming along the surface off our bow.
10. Weekly goals:
    To log at least 12 miles on the treadmill, go to yoga class at least once (I miss being stretchy!), check out the Novato Public Library, and make fish tacos for dinner.

Good morning and happy Monday, my friend. 🙂 Did you have a good weekend? I hope you got everything you needed to get done and still had some downtime.

If you get a moment, please stop by and say hi in the Monday Poll. I always love to hear from you.

1. Mood:
2. Three things on your bucket list?
3. If tattoos only lasted a year, would you be more/less likely to get one?
4. Something that drives you nuts?
5. What’s the number one quality you value most in a pencil eyeliner?
6. Three things that inspire you?
7. Does the sound of silence make you uncomfortable?
8. What’s one sentence that summarizes 2012 for you so far?
9. Your best experience on public transportation?
10. Weekly goals:

I hope inspiration finds you this week.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

The new Lancome Le Curler, $23, available June 2012

Well…sometimes I use my lash curler before and after applying mascara.

I know! I’m bad. 🙂 It’s a big no-no among many makeup artists who say that curling lashes coated with mascara leads to broken lashes.

I don’t do it all the time. Only when my lashes straighten out right after away I finish applying my mascara, and I’m always very careful to exert just the slightest pressure on the curler before ever-so-gently easing my lashes out of them so they don’t stick to the pads and break off.

Yup, I’m a rule breaker, but you know what they say about rules (they’re meant to be broken).

Oh, and sometimes I like to wear my darkest, moodiest lipsticks in the middle of spring and summer. So what if it’s 90 degrees out? If the mood to wear an opaque matte plum to the pool strikes in the middle of August, I don’t even hesitate.

Why not, right? It’s fun to mix things up.

How about you? What makeup “rules” do you like to break?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

This tends to happen whenever I come across pics of myself from the ’90s. Back when the pictures were taken, I probably thought I was blazing beauty trails and setting trends, but yeah, that was usually not the case, LOL!

Most of my cringe-worthy moments revolve around lipstick, and I have a ton of terrible pics from my sophomore year in college. I was going through a phase where I loved the look of really dark red lips — so dark they were almost black — and whenever I’d go out at night, I’d line my lips with black eyeliner (!), and then fill them in with the darkest red I could find.

Oh, but it got worse…

After my dark red phase, I was all about dark purple lip liner, on top of which I’d apply a frosty, peachy beige lipstick, and then a dot of clear gloss smack dab in the center of my lower lip.

Yeegh!

On top of everything else, I also had really bad hair back then. One day I decided to chop my long hair down to what I called my “Dharma ‘do,” inspired by Jenna Elfman’s then short, flippy hair.

Buuuuut, it didn’t quite turn out the way I’d hoped. The layering, the waves, the shortness of it all? — disaster.

I remember catching a glimpse of myself in the mirror one morning and practically jumping out of my skin! Who the heck is that!? My hair was sticking out in all sorts of crazy directions, like a little brown Ronald McDonald.

Yep, those were rough years…

Describe a time you saw yourself wearing makeup and thought, “What was I thinking?”

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Friday is so close I can almost taste it! 🙂

I hope you a had a great, great day today. This is my favorite time of year. Sunny with a cool breeze. Perfect for eating outside, which I did again tonight. When El Hub got home from work, we ducked out for Mexican food (had the fish tacos again, yum!), and now I’m settling down to watch a little TV.

How does your Friday look? More importantly, what are you up to this weekend?