This is one of those face products that you have to be in a certain phase and mindset to appreciate. With that said, if full coverage is your jam, keep on walkin’ Miss Lady. However, if you’re searching for a concealer that doesn’t look heavy and stays out of fine lines, add Hourglass Veil Retouching Fluid to your wishlist ASAP!
For skin that looks like skin
It’s a semi-sheer liquid concealer with a doe foot applicator, and it’s available in six shades in the Hourglass permanent collection. Since it’s Hourglass (which means pricey), it’s not exactly budget, so a tube is $36. You do get a formula that’s free of a lot of things, including…
- Parabens
- Fragrance
- Gluten
- Sulfates
- Nanoparticles
- Phthalates
- Synthetic Dyes
- GMOs
- Animal testing
I’m trying to reduce the amount of products with phthalates in my makeup collection (here’s why), which is one of the main reasons why I use it. I also love how it’s a beast at covering stuff while still looking natural.
I wear the shade Sand underneath my eyes, around my nose and at the corners of my mouth (I’m an NC42 in MAC, by the way). Sometimes I set it with a little MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural Powder, and sometimes I don’t. Either way, my skin looks like real skin, which is my aesthetic nowadays since I have very little tolerance for anything opaque or heavy.
Have you ever tried YSL’s famous Touche Eclat? This product is similar, but so much easier to blend, and I think it looks more natural. It’s worth your time to swatch during your next Hourglass counter visit. I usually restock at Sephora, but Ulta carries the line, too.
Some more thoughts on hobbies
Well, we’re three months into 2022, and I’m still in pursuit of new hobbies.
I’ve kept up reading solely for pleasure, and wow! It’s amazing how reading just a few minutes for fun can change how you feel. I find myself craving books now. Like, I physically feel off if I skip my reading-for-fun time. It makes me happy, so I’m going to keep it up.
Oh! I tried something new last week. I picked up a puzzle at a local bookstore in town, Copperfield’s, and enjoyed it so much. There’s something very meditative about searching for pieces. Connor helped me when she was in the mood, too.
I can’t wait to do another one, although I do wish there was some sort of library-like service with puzzles. I can see myself getting into it, but the last thing I need is more stuff in my house, ya know?
Last thing. I’ve been cooking my way through a cookbook!
A little backstory: I used to like baking and cooking, but last year, it bummed me out.
For most of 2021, I hated — like full-on despised — making food. I was stoked at first to be at home and cook when everything shut down in 2020, but after a while I started feeling like I took on a full-time kitchen job without realizing it. Last year, I was completely over it, and I’d get angry every time I had to cook, especially at dinner (I call it “dinner rage”).
Anyway, I recently started cooking new dishes, and it’s helped me to feel less rage-y. LOL. Here’s a couple things I made from “The Easy Filipino Cookbook” by Roline Casper.
Happy Friday to you, and I hope you had a great week!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Those recipes you made look delicious! My library has a puzzle exchange where you can bring your old ones and get a different one. Helps with clutter! I also get them at thrift stores and spend so little that I don’t feel bad getting rid of them again. Only once or twice were they missing a piece.
That’s a GREAT idea! I would love to find some vintage puzzles.
How are you and the little ladies? I hope everything went smoothly for you all!
We are doing great! Thanks for asking! They spent a little time in the NICU but nothing serious. Recovery for me was rough the first couple days but now I feel pretty good! It’s good to be home with them! 💕
I feel you so hard, you don’t even know. That first week back was rough for me as well. You’re definitely NOT alone! I hope the nurses gave you extra pairs of those crazy underpants, btw. I remember having NO SHAME about asking for more.
Take a nap!
I was thinking of you because I finally picked up some Zella live in leggings. I’ve only worn them once so far but they seem really good. Food looks great!
So glad you finally got a pair. 🙂 I still have my two black pairs after all these years, and they’ve held up great.
Happy Friday!
My town has a couple Facebook groups for solely for trading puzzles. Most people do porch pickup, so you can avoid human interaction if you’re an introvert like me.
OK, well that’s amazing! I’m going to see if they have something similar in my town, too. Thank you, Eileen!
Everything you cooked looks hella good! Talk about cooking rage… it’s been years and I mean YEARS since I lost my joy for cooking – around the time it felt like a full-time thankless job and I decided I wasn’t going to do it 🤡 I know it will soon come back to me though… Right after I get to cleaning my kitchen
You may be able to combine your love of reading and the puzzles. I’ve recently got into puzzles named ‘The World of…’ and they do great ones e.g. Jane Austen, Dickens, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes etc. The Jane Austen one is so brightly coloured and they all have many, many characters in them and a life-size poster of the jigsaw to tell you who everyone is – magic!
I hear you on the cooking rage. With Dear Husband home all the time, because lockdown=no business trips, I quickly got tired of cooking every single night, even though we often had leftovers.
That beef picadillo looks scrumptious. The first house I lived in with Dear Husband, we had a neighbor who did catering and she made too much picadillo, so she brought some over. I swoon every time I think about that dish.
We’re puzzle addicts too. There’s this social networking service called Nextdoor and they have different neighborhood groups depending on where you live. You can get recommendations for home repair people, read the whining and gossiping for your area, etc. There’s a message board in our area that exchanges jigsaw puzzles. We mostly drop off and pick up from front porches. Maybe there’s a puzzle group up in your area.
I feel you with the dinner rage – I never really liked it to begin with, but if I HAVE to do it for extended periods of time it makes me SO angry!
Thankfully my husband enjoys it, so he usually does the cooking and I do the laundry – no folding rage so far.