A shot of my small (but growing) collection of cocktail rings. 🙂
Do you collect any jewelry?
Ring Me Up
Powerful Magic!
I feel like a great sorceress when I’m wearing this ring.
The Cat’s Eye cocktail ring by Ariella, Nordstrom Rack (about $20 on sale).
Amazing Things Happen When You Wear the Chanel Sophisticated Eye Collection’s Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Vanites
When I wear the Chanel Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadows in Vanites ($57; part of the new Chanel Sophisticated Eye collection), unicorns shoot glittery rainbows from their horns, every cat within a 10-mile radius rolls on its back and flashes its tum, and Ryan Gosling materializes on my doorstep and offers to take me to Pinkberry for a salted caramel fro-yo.
Well, at least that’s how I feel when the colors in this divine eyeshadow quad are decorating my lids.
I tried them on this afternoon, and the purple, pink and two duo chromes couldn’t have been much easier to blend; I barely had to flick my wrist. It was like swish, swish, DONE!
“Ooh, nice!” El Hub said when he got home from work, which loosely translated means, “Your eye makeup, while bold, doesn’t scare me like it does sometimes when you wear crazy-@ss purples.”
Chanel Vanites on lids and lower lash line, Chanel Inimitable Intense Mascara in Purple on lashes, and MAC Eye Kohl in Fascinating on lower water line
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Put on Your Moon Boots! NARS Silver Odyssey Blasts onto Counters Next Week
Every single picture I’ve taken so far today has ended up looking more or less like this…
America’s Next Lloyd Christmas Model?
I know, right? (It’s been a rough day.) Tyra and Ms. J would probably slap the ombre highlights off me if they found out I was still posting spacey pictures of myself on the Internet and not smiling with my eyes.
More photographic evidence…
Lost in the Louvre (but having a great brow day!) circa 2005
Speaking of spacey looks, have you seen the new NARS Nail Polish in Space Odyssey ($17) yet? The Hubble Space Telescope took this shot of it on my paw…
Who’s Up for a NARS Space Odyssey?
Ohai, sparkly, silvery goodness!
Meet the new NARS Nail Polish in Space Odyssey ($17), one of two limited edition products from the NARS Silver Odyssey collection created to celebrate Fashion’s Night Out on September 8 (check out their Facebook page for additional NARS FNO deets).
The NARS Silver Odyssey collection includes…
- NARS Nail Polish in Space Odyssey, $17
- NARS Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner in Via Crispi, $23
Coming soon to narscosmetics.com.
Swatches in two shakes of a husky tabby’s tail…
Lancôme Doll Lashes and Ragdoll Kitties
Wait — so you’re telling me that blue-eyed baby Ragdoll kitties have absolutely nothing to do with the new Lancôme Doll Lashes collection?
Are you sure? Because the word “Doll” appears right there in each product’s name.
Oh, well. Leave it to a cat lady to just hope/assume that Lancôme was referring to adorably docile Ragdoll cats. 🙂
Although I’m a little bummed that felines didn’t play a role in the six-piece eye collection, I still like the idea behind the release — coordinating eye makeup to create a bright, wide-eyed look.
The collection, available now at Lancôme counters and also online, centers around the new Hypnôse Doll Lashes ($25), a volumizing mascara designed to create a full lash look, but the accompanying eyeshadow quints and liners also look like fun, especially if you like pinks, taupes and purples.
Here are some quick swatches. Have a look, and let me know what ya think.
1. Color Design Doll Lashes Edition Eye Brightening All-In-One 5 Shadow & Liner Palette in Pink Envy, $48
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Gimme, Gimme, Glitter
You know you can’t look away!
Chanel Beiges Ombres Tissees Iridescent Effects Eyes Beiges ($75) from the Chanel Les Aquarelles de Chanel collection, available now.
Benefit Knows Watt’s Up: Their New Highlighter Brightens Brows and Cheeks with an Incandescent Glow
Okay, so I know that it’s totally Benefit’s style to give their products cheeky names, and I get that the name they gave their new Watt’s Up face highlighter ($30 for a 0.33-oz. tube) plays on the idea of light bulbs illuminating the skin, but I can’t help but think of something else every time I say the name…
WASSUP!
LOL! I loved that old commercial. 🙂
Team B describes the color of their new highlighter, a solid stick with a cream-to-powder finish, as a luminous, sheer champagne. I turned it on this afternoon, and I really did feel like I was glowing (on me it’s a shimmery, peachy glow).
I’m reminded of a NARS Multiple in how the product looks and feels — smooth, thin and slightly dry to the touch. The concept has been approached before, but here I like Benefit’s execution.
First, I’m glad they chose not to go the liquid route, a la Moonbeam/Highbeam, because it means not having to worry about accidental spills and getting the product all over the place. Second, with the highlighter on one end of the stick and a blending sponge on the other, I don’t need an extra brush. All I do is glide the creamy stick along my cheek and brow bones (it works on bare skin and atop makeup), and smooth out any edges with the sponge.
