Lancome La Roseraie, $42. Available now at Lancome counters and online.
Lancome La Roseraie
Jouer SPF 15 Lip Sheers
A few Jouer SPF 15 Lip Sheers, $22 each (available now online). Review coming soon!
Sundays with Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 177
Wow, what a game, right? Kittybowl 2012 was off the hook! I can hardly believe it. Our husky tabby finally won a championship! And talk about Cinderella stories, too. A kitten from the mean streets of Mill Valley grows up dreaming of fashion and football, gets traded to the Novato Tigers, and then wins both the game and the MVP?
See, dreams really do come true.
I just got off the phone with him (he says to say “meow”). Apparently, that sack he took in the second quarter looked worse than it really was. He says he’s doing fine, and he’s getting ready to go out and celebrate with the rest of the team.
He also wanted to remind me to order his championship collar in size XXL (of course).
I swear, that cat is amazing. Not only is he a professional athlete, actor and philanthropist, he’s also a world-renowned kitty supermodel! And here are some pics from his portfolio this week. 🙂
Brushes and Bodies Are Buzzing Over Burt’s Bees $5 Mango & Orange Energizing Bar
Initially, I brought home this $5 Burt’s Bees Mango & Orange Energizing Body Bar from Target 1) because I can always use a little extra energy, and 2) because I thought it kinda looked like food, ha!
I ended up liking the invigorating citrusy scent so much that I started using it to clean more than mah bod.
When I used up the last little slivers of my bar of Becca Brush Soap, I grabbed Burt’s Mango & Orange bar on a whim, using it to clean a couple of skunk brushes that I’d used with a bright blush and a MAC 239 brush crusted over with concealer.
As luck would have it, Burt’s invigorating body bar worked wonders on the brushes, removing all of the funk from their stinky ferules and the gunk from the handles and brush heads themselves.
I’d like to shake the little hand of the bee who developed this bar and thank him/her for doing such a great job. Not only do I think it’s one heck of an energizing, moisturizing body bar, it’s also one of the better brush cleansers I’ve used in a while.
And fast, too. It cuts through hard-to-remove products like dried foundation just as quickly as Becca’s Brush Soap does and rinses without putting up a fight. After air drying, my brush bristles feel soft, clean and malleable, not crunchy or stiff.
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The Weekly Roundup: Posts You Might Have Missed
Rise and shine, morning glory. 🙂 I hope you slept well. Did you have any dreams? Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about dreaming big and told a friend of mine who’s very accomplished and encouraging about things like that. She says that people should reach beyond the stars! — even for things that seem totally outrageous and impossible — because when it comes to those dreams, in the process of reaching for the stars, you never you know where you’ll land.
Here are a couple of the things I’ve been dreaming about lately (please tell me yours in the comments).
The Cannes Film Festival For some unknown reason, I’ve become super obsessed with the idea of going to the Cannes Film Festival in France someday. Now, to attend, you’re supposed to have ties to the movie industry, which I don’t, so I have no idea how I’d ever actually get my foot in the door, but I’m trying to figure it out. I love movies, and I think it would be a blast to go.
Makeup school Also related to movies, I came across a school called Cinema Secrets through a video by Melissa Street, a movie makeup artist who’s been in the biz for 20 plus years. In it she talks about the school’s overall makeup curriculum, as well as their expertise in special effects. Now, the school’s in LA, so for me it wouldn’t exactly be a quick commute. The course I’m interested in taking is also six weeks long, so it’s still just a dream, but hey, you never know…
Have you taken the time to dream big lately? What are some of the things you’d love to do if you had absolutely no restrictions in the world?
A few beauty posts that caught my eye…
- A movie makeup artist explains how she got started — Epic Makeup
- I kinda want to wear black lipstick thanks to this post — Jazzi McG
- Create big, luscious doll lashes with this step-by-step tutorial — Beautezine
- 3 key things a blogger should do in their free time — Sherry Blossom Beauty
- Kelly checks out the new MAC Mineralize Skincare Charged Water line — Vampy Varnish
- The font freak in me loves this mani — We Heart This
- If you’re feeling kinda crafty this weekend, there’s this super cool Crayon DIY project that I’ve been dying to do — Whatever…
- The 100 best books of all time, according to Wikipedia — Wikipedia
- DIY Beauty: Make Your Own Cream Eyeshadow — Beautiful with Brains
- Have you ever tried anything from Rain Cosmetics? — Beauty in New York City
MAKEUP MONSTER: FOUNDATION FIRBOLG
FREQUENCY: Rare
SPEED: Slow
ARMOR CLASS: 10
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Foundation Firbolgs are a sub-species of Hill Giants obsessed with wiping all foundation off the faces of the earth.
Wielding giant foundation brushes they fashion from tree trunks and Griffin fur and using their keen sense of smell, they patrol remote mountain passes and strip mall parking lots, hunting for foundation wearers. When they find them, Foundation Firbolgs use their giant brushes to wipe away all traces of foundation before releasing their victims, in most cases unharmed.
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Medium
ALIGNMENT: Evil
SIZE: Huge (13′ tall)
Unexpected Encounters and the LORAC Unzipped Palette
Laura Mercier’s Gel Lip Colour in Dollface Is Here
Hourglass Hidden Corrective Concealer
MAC Unsung Heroes: Eyeshadow in Club
Physicians Formula Eye Enhancing Shadow and Liner in Nude
Laura Mercier Crème Cheek Colour in Innocent Peach
MAC Viva Glam Ricky Martin and Nicki Minaj
New Burberry Body Mist Welcomes Spring
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
YSL Rouge Pur Couture
A few of the new YSL Rouge Pur Couture Gloss Stains ($32 each, available now online).
Review in two shakes!
Just Can’t Get Enough
I’ve been spraying this stuff like it’s going out of style. Smells so good!
The new L’Eau de Chloe, $65. Available now at department stores, Sephora and also online.
L’Eau de Chloé
“L’Eau de Chloé is elegance injected with a modern twist. It’s an utterly innate sense of chic with the fresh feeling of springtime pastels, light dresses, and rose petals.
This smooth and comfortable fragrance is a totally addictive floral mix. Made with 22 percent natural rose water, the scent is fresh, carefree, and feminine with a delicate and lively mix of rose, floral notes, and green outdoorsy notes.”
– Sephora.comNotes: Grapefruit, Cedrat, Peach, Violet, Rose Petals, Natural Water of Rose, Cedarwood, Patchouli, Amber.
Style: Free. Spontaneous. Feminine.
Spring Has Sprung Like a Lilac Blossom Thanks to Pacifica French Lilac Body Butter
Apparently, my deal with El Hub not to buy any more Pacifica Body Butters until I finish the tubes in the bathroom is officially null and void.
Poor guy actually asked, “Who needs four bottles of body butter?”
Uh, I do.
Of course, it’s not entirely my fault…
Okay, it is, but I’m still blaming French Lilac ($18). 🙂
Even though it’s technically the middle of winter, my heart has moved on to springy scents, and French Lilac’s moisturizing body butter is hitting all the right notes. I fell for the shower gel a while back and like the body butter just as much.
Light and delicate, French Lilac’s official fragrance notes include lilac, magnolia leaves, heliotrope, ylang-ylang, hyacinth and nectarine, but I detect more of the lovely lilac on my skin than anything else.
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