YES! Friday, at last. 🙂 What a challenging week, ladies, but it’s winding down.
Did you do anything fun last night? I can’t remember what I did… I think there was some chasing involved — Tabs chasing. My new thing is walking around the house, saying “Gravy,” which is his new nickname. He’s a fiend for gravy — tuna in gravy, seafood feast in gravy, salmon in gravy.
To start our Friday, here’s a quick look back at some of the things we were talking about on the blog this time last year. 🙂
- How to Cover Up Dark Circles for a Wedding, Prom or Party with MAC Cosmetics Studio Finish Concealer: I suffered through a really bad bought of insomnia a few weeks ago, and my dark circles were extra terrible. My regular concealer, MAC Select Moisturecover, just wasn’t gettin’ it done. My friend Jen’s wedding was right around the corner, and I didn’t want to show up looking like death warmed over. I needed serious coverage, and I needed it fast.
- MAC Makeup for Work: Club and Woodwinked Eyeshadows: I’m sporting two of my very first MAC eyeshadow purchases, Club and Woodwinked (both part of the permanent collection). I could write sonnets on both of these colors, as they’ve seen me through a lot over the past few years. Club, a shimmery duochorome, flashes from green to brown, and Woodwinked is a warm, shimmery gold. Today I paired ‘em for this easy, breezy, work-friendly daytime eye.
- 5 Plum Posts: An Ode to Purple Makeup: Stila Convertible Eye Color in Violet made quick work of this smokey purple eye. The Violet shade’s pencil is a shimmery, dark plum; the coordinating shadow is a shimmery lavender.
- A Smokey Eye Tutorial with MAC Cosmetics Metal Urge Gilded Ash Cream Shadow and Cocomotion Pigment: I don’t know if I’ll ever tire of doing smokey eyes. There are just so many different ways to work the look, like this spin on a daytime eye for work. It’s a method I learned from my favorite MAC artist, Jen, using products from the MAC Metal Urge and Red She Said collections.
- Japanese Beauty Product or After-School Snack? Put on yo’ thinking cap and try to guess what this mystery product is!
- With Pop Beauty Cat Eyes Liners It’s Good to Be Catty: OBSESSION ALERT! Pop Beauty Cat Eyes Liners ($16) make applying eyeliner easy and, well, kinda fun.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Another year gone by – and it flew pretty fast!!!
I love the MAC Makeup for Work post — its awesome!!!
I’m glad you like it! So many people think of MAC as a line with crazy colors, but there’s so many wearable, work-friendly shades, ya know?
I so agree. My go-to shades for work are Mulch and Expensive Pink. Whether alone or together – they are work friendly and can be jazzed up for a night out! 🙂
I love some of your combos, like woodwinked and club for work. Those are two colors I probably would never think about wearing to work because they look quite shimmery and dark, but if applied right, I think I could make them work! It’s great to learn new color combos from you!
.-= Kajal Couture’s last blog post… Manish Arora Makeup for Spring/Summer 2010 =-.
Yay! 🙂 Do you have any MAC work combos that you love? Inquiring minds wanna know!
I’m glad I’ve finished most of my christmas shopping – it looks like I need to pick up some supplies for those looks! I love when you do work appropriate looks, I’m just going to have to start combing your archives for old ones…
And also, I’m going to have to bring some emergency make up to work. I forgot it at home today, luckily I’m wearing glasses today, and that helps, but I still look kind of Zombie-like!
OHHH, I’ve totally been there! I agree, the glasses help. 🙂
Here’s what I kept in my “emergency” stash:
Dark brown eyeliner (for filling in brows and lining eyes)
Lash curler
Mascara
Tinted moisturizer
Glasses (helps to hide any dark circles, LOL!)
Cream blush (doesn’t require a brush)
Lipgloss
Awesome, thanks!
Now I just need to find a tinted moisturizer that works for me. On a slightly separate track, I tried to get a sample of DuWop Foundation of Youth at the store and neither I nor the clerk could get any out of almost full bottles, any tips? I ended up leaving with a Stila sample.
Also, do you have any recommendations for cream blush? I currently use a MAC powder blush, but have never tried a cream blush…
I really like the Club and Woodwinked look. I am always on the lookout for eyshadow combinations I can use for work.
I can’t believe another year has gone by. Christmas is already next week. Crazy!
Last night we got Chinese take-out and a friend brought over Rescue Dawn to watch. A pretty low key evening, but that’s the way I like it. 🙂
Have a great Friday!
Hey Ruchita,
Glad you like that combo. Let me know if you have any that you like for work, too!
What’s tripping me out is that it’s gonna be 2010! It feels like yesterday was 2000.
I will need to add both Club and Woodwinked to my collection and I keep on trying to get these but I get distracted by all these limited edition stuff and keep on going off budget!
.-= amy’s last blog post… LAVANILA Laboratories The Healthy Fragrance Mini Roller-Ball 4 Set =-.