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If You Could Only Wear One Eyeshadow for the Next Month, Which One Would It Be?

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Hmm… Well, lately I’ve been enamored with MAC Sumptuous Olive, so that’s my pick! It’s a khaki with golden shimmer, and I really like what it does for brown eyes. I also really love that I don’t have to use very much of it, and the little bit I do use requires hardly any blending at all (can I get some lazy girl love? LOL!). Plus, I think it goes great with the darker lipsticks that we see a lot in fall.

If you could only wear one eyeshadow for the next month, which one would you choose and why?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

NARS Holiday 2011 Swatches

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I wish you could come over so we could swoon over swatches of the NARS Holiday 2011 collection and eat some Trader Joe’s Mango Bars (warm out here in Nor Cal today).

nars holiday 2011

I guess a virtual visit will have to do. 🙂 Come on in, but please take off your shoes first, and um, excuse the knife near the front door.

I watched five minutes of American Horror Story last night (bad idea!), and now I’m afraid of strangers with bloody foreheads showing up on my doorstep.

NARS Holiday 2011 swatches

nars holiday 2011 swatches eye products
Swatches from the left: Mandchourie Duo Eyeshadow, Ponderosa Cream Eyeshadow, Campo De Fiori Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner and St. Mark’s Place Larger Than life Long-Wear Eyeliner
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NARS Holiday 2011: Product Pics!

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NARS holiday 2011

Sleigh bells ring; are ya listening? In the lane, NARS is glistening!

Put down the jack-o-lantern, babe, and join me as we walk into a winter wonderland with the new NARS holiday 2011 collection.

Yes, holiday! It launches online next Saturday, October 15 (seems a little early this year, yeah?).

I’ve got pics of the entire collection except for the Arabian Nights Eyeshadow Trio…

And if you’re looking for swatches, click here.

NARS Holiday 2011: Product Pictures

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nars miss liberty blush
Miss Liberty Highlighting Blush

nars mandchourie eyeshadow
Mandchourie Duo Eyeshadow
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The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway: Send in Your Sign Today!

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Lovies, I have been so touched by your submissions in the The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway. So many of you have not only shared your awareness signs, but also your personal stories, and it’s been an honor participating with you, as usual.

If you haven’t had a chance to enter yet, you still have time. We’re only half way through October, but don’t delay. Bust out your favorite drawing pens, pencils, paints — heck, maybe even a few lipsticks or liners — and keep those signs coming (to submit it, you can even use your camera phone)!

Just be sure to leave a comment on the original post after you send your sign by email, Twitter, blog posting — you name it — to let me know, and please include a link or other reference to how you sent it, so I’m able to track it down.

Here are some of the lovely ladies standing up for awareness with us and participating this year. I hope you do too! love

The Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway

Email or link to a picture of yourself holding your support sign (like the examples above), and leave a comment on the original post. Not only will you be showing your support for the cause, but you’ll also be entered to win a prize package worth more than $1,100 in makeup and beauty products provided by MAC, Clinique, Make Up For Ever, Estée Lauder and Bobbi Brown.

To Enter…

  1. Take a picture of yourself with a sign that reads, “October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” Whether you show your face is up to you, but I do think it would be great to see your lovely mug. 🙂
  2. Send it to me. You can either email it to me at karen@makeupandbeautyblog.com, OR post it on your blog/facebook page and leave a link to the pic in the comments on the original post, OR upload it to Twitter and send a tweet to me @karenmbb.
  3. The giveaway is open to US and international readers, but you must be the age of majority according to your country’s local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21).
  4. One entry per person.
  5. Deadline to enter is October 31, 2011 at 11:59PM PST.

Please comment on the original post to enter.

Please take a moment to show your support, and send in your awareness sign today.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Thank you. love

The Powders in the Bare Minerals bareEscentuals Oh La Luxe Holiday Kit Are on the Loose

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Now, where’d I put my makeup brushes…?

Oh, I should have put them right there! — in the convenient little elastic slots built into the buxom makeup bag that comes with the new Bare Minerals bareEscentuals Oh La Luxe Holiday Kit ($79).

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bare escentuals bareminerals oh la luxe
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MAC Unsung Heroes: Party Line Lipstick

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Should you ever find yourself at a loss to locate a fabulous red lipstick for fall, dial 555-HOT-REDS, and kiss your lip grief goodbye.

Listen carefully to the menu because their options have changed. When you get to the part that starts, “If you like MAC Dubonnet but find it a touch too brown,” hit two followed by the pound key.

That should take you directly to today’s MAC Unsung Hero, which, incidentally, happens to be a Party Line ($14.50).

Lipstick, that is. 🙂

Not even hot chai lattes, chubby baby cats in Halloween costumes and dirty/flirty texts from Ryan Gosling can hold a candle to Party Line’s opaque, plummy red.

mac party line lipstick

mac party line lipstick
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