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Clarins Is Going for Baroque with the Barocco Holiday 2010 Collection

November 10th, 2010 by Karen 92 Comments

karen of makeup and beauty blog wearing the clarins barocco collection from holiday 2010

Ladies, I haven’t felt very glamorous this week… On a scale of 1 to 10, my glamorousness has been hovering around a -3. With scrunchies in my hair and my bum glued to the couch and wrapped in stretchy pants, I’ve watched just about every zombie movie and TV show released since 1969. Has it been educational? Sure, but it hasn’t been great for glamor.

The new Clarins Barocco Holiday Collection couldn’t have come at a better time.

Look at all that fancy… 🙂 It’s like a shot of fabulous straight to the heart!

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clarins barocco collection holiday 2010 review swatches photos

The floral swirls/filigree designs both inside and out, and the rich berry, gold, black and peach shades seduced the sweat pants right off me (actually, they were raggedy yoga pants). These are products begging to be worn with a shimmery golden gown and dangerously high heels.

Clarins drew their inspiration for the collection from the Baroque style, characterized by dynamic movement, overt emotion and self-confident rhetoric, and prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century in Europe.

The collection itself is limited edition and very small, with just four pieces, but man, oh, man they’re striking!
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NYX Casting Call 10 Color Palette

November 10th, 2010 by Karen 14 Comments

The new NYX 10 Color Palette in Casting Call, $9.75.

How do you feel about all that gray?

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NYX Velvet Rope 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette

November 10th, 2010 by Karen 13 Comments



The NYX 10 Color Eyeshadow Palette in Velvet Rope ($9.75).

It’s one of four new Runway Collection eyeshadow palettes just released for holiday 2010.

Would you rock this?

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Categories: Daily Beauty Keywords: nyx

Plum Curious: How Does Romp Eyeshadow from the Cowboy Junkie Palette Compare to Other Purples from Urban Decay?

November 10th, 2010 by Karen 46 Comments

urban decay cowboy junkie comparisonswatches of romp along with other urban decay purples including flash freakshow ecstasy acdc fridgid
Urban Decay eyeshadows clockwise from bottom left: Freakshow, Flash, Romp, Frigid, AC/DC and Ecstasy

Last night when MBB reader Steph B asked this about the Urban Decay Cowboy Junkie Palette ($38), I thought it was a perfect excuse to paint my arm purple. 🙂

“Romp is the only color in the set I really want. How does it compare to some of the other UD purples you can buy as singles? Is it close to Ecstasy or Purple Haze?”

-Steph B

Hmm… Good question. To get to the bottom of it, I busted out some of the similar Urban Decay purples in my stash to do a quick comparison.

I don’t have Purple Haze, but Flash, Freakshow, Ecstasy and Frigid are currently available as singles in UD’s permanent line; AC/DC is from last fall’s Book of Shadows Vol. II.
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Categories: Makeup Keywords: urban decay

Zombies Don’t Use The NYX Eyebrow Shaper (and It Shows)

November 10th, 2010 by Karen 60 Comments

nyx eyebrow shaper review box

Some mornings I just CANNOT get it together, and even something as simple yet important as operating the coffee maker might as well be quantum physics.

I call those my makeup-for-dummies days, and when they strike I turn to instant coffee my arsenal of tools and tricks to fake a good night’s sleep.

Can’t have my neighbors mistaking me for the first wave in the coming zombie apocalypse, right?

The latest addition to my makeup-for-dummies kit, NYX’s new Eyebrow Shaper ($8.75), is one of several new eyebrow products from NYX this fall. It’s a colorless, waxy brow gel in pencil form — perfect for sculpting and taming unruly brows — and for me it takes the place of having to fill in my brows with a colored brow pencil, wax or eyeshadow, particularly when I’m tired and/or lazy (read: often).


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Clarins Barocco Collection for Holiday 2010: The Barocco Face Palette

November 9th, 2010 by Karen 12 Comments





The new Clarins Barocco Face Palette ($55) from the Barocco collection for holiday 2010.

What do you think?

clarins barocco face palette review swatches photos

I’m totally in love with the packaging!

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Clarins Barocco Collection for Holiday 2010: The Barocco Eye Colour Trio

November 9th, 2010 by Karen 10 Comments

Pictured above: The Clarins Eye Colour Trio ($40) from the limited Barocco collection for holiday 2010.

Fill in the sentence and add your answer to the comments!

The Clarins Barocco Eye Colour Trio palette makes me want to _______.

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Could Orofluido Beauty Elixer Be the Next Big (Hair) Thing?

November 9th, 2010 by Karen 66 Comments

orofluido oil review

When I went to get my bangs trimmed a couple weeks ago my stylist gave me a sample of Orofluido Beauty Elixer (regularly $32 for a 3.38-oz. bottle) and raved on and on about how it was to going to change my life, starting with my hair.

orofluido oil review

I’d never heard of Orofluido before, but it’s a small indie haircare line a little more popular in Europe than here in the States. They only list two products on their website — the Beauty Elixer that my stylist gave me, and something new called Shine Spray.
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