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Super quick hi on this beautiful Thursday morning because I’m running late, ahh!
Here’s a bright pink I wore yesterday to work, MAC Billion Dollar Smile, a bright pink that’s totally up my alley. 🙂
What lip color are you rockin’?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
I’m a little surprised that I don’t look more frazzled in this picture because about 20 minutes before I took it, I stumbled down the hill in our cul-de-sac like a Looney Tunes cartoon character!
No seriously, I full-on rolled down a hill. We live in a neighborhood with tons of oak trees that produce these gigantic acorns, and as I was walking Connor down the hill to school I guess I wasn’t really paying attention to where my feet were landing, so when I stepped on an acorn, which basically was like a massive marble, my right ankle rolled underneath me.
That set off a chain reaction of me falling to the ground, and right as I hit the pavement, I reflexively tucked into a round ball, which then caused me to tumble down the steep hill even more as I clung onto Connor’s little pink backpack with dear life!
Honestly, I’m at a point in life where I’m just happy that if I fall, 1) I actually get back up, and 2) I have all of my teeth intact, so thank you, Goddesses of the Universe, for having my back. Otherwise this selfie would’ve looked very different, OMG!
Long story short, I’m wearing Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Tinted Lip Oil in Happy, which is a cool pink. Oh, and my ankle is a little bruised. Not sprained though.
This lip color will forever be burned in my mind as what I was wearing the day I rolled down the hill.
Oh, and here’s more thing that was super weird about it. It seemed to all happen in slow motion, like, I floated out of my body and was watching the whole thing happen right when it was happening. So weird!
Anyway, my coworker noticed that I was limping and asked what happened, and after recounting all the sordid details, she proceeded to tell me an even crazier story of when she fell and rolled down a hill.
She lives in San Francisco on a very steep hill, and as she was walking her dogs, they ran into two puppies with very bad manners (she called the puppies “Menace” and “Mischief”). Somehow her dogs and Menace and Mischief got into a scuffle, and she ended up rolling down the hill in her pajamas and landing in a big pile of dog poop.
Rolling down hills, 100% do not recommend!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Happy Tuesday! For day 2 of the Fall 2024 Lipstick Challenge, I’m wearing an oldie but goodie — NARS Dragon Girl, a cool-toned red lip crayon.
I’ve got the old school version in the black packaging, RIP. NARS reformulated their lip crayon line into what they call the Powermattes, and you know, sometimes I wonder why brands don’t just leave well enough alone. Anywho, I like the color of the older version, which I think is slightly cooler and more magenta.
Two things before I head out! One, for some reason I always want to call this lipstick “Dragon Roll,” like it’s a type of sushi, hahaha! The second is that if I look a little dazed and confused in these pictures (which I took right before heading into the office), it’s because my co-worker caught me taking selfies, and I was kinda embarrassed to be having a full-on photo shoot in my car so early in the morning. 🙂
What lip color are you wearing today?
Have a most excellent Tuesday, my friend!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
I’m challenging myself to wear lip color everyday this week! I got started a little early yesterday with a MAC liquid lipstick called A Little Tamed.
Do you want to join me? I’m setting the bar pretty low and giving myself the option of wearing the same color a few times, but I’m hoping that I’ll feel motivated to do a new color every day.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
So…what is the Monday Poll?
Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007).
My friend took me out to tea yesterday. I don’t know what it is about those tiny little sandwiches and a hot pot of earl grey, but it does a lot for my soul.
Halloween because it’s fun, you get to dress up and it doesn’t involve getting gifts or orchestrating a big meal!
Driving next to big semi-trucks on the freeway that are going waaaaaay too fast.
Roasted red pepper pasta with garbanzo beans and basil topped with lots of parmesan cheese. YUM!
I made myself take some downtime and did absolutely nothing housework related. Sure, there are tufts of pet hair floating down the hallway and I’ll need to do a grocery run after work, but I actually feel rested.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Here are the questions to copy/paste with your answers in a comment. Talk to ya soon.
1. Something nice someone did for you recently?
2. What’s your favorite holiday?
3. Something that makes you nervous?
4. My favorite weekday lunch is?
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend?
Rosie may not look like a fighter, but she’s a tiny tiger! She’s 9 pounds of torbitude and ferocity.
She’s so tough that our herding dog shakes in her boots when Rosie comes around the corner!
And she isn’t just fierce. She’s also a genius.
Tough, smart and beautiful. She’s the total package, and she uses her gifts to help the downtrodden. After hours, when she’s done with her scientific research for the day, she switches her lab coat for a trench coat and hits the mean streets to solve crimes.
The criminals of Novato know her as Two-Meow Rosie, Furrensic Investigator.
Like her predecessor, she keeps Novato safe.
You see, Tabs moonlighted as a crimefighter as well. When the runway shows were done, and the studio lights turned down, Tabs patrolled town as Tabby San, Ninja Detective…
We don’t know yet whether Marnie will follow in their law enforcement pawsteps. I sure hope so… It would be a shame if she turned to a life of crime.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Hey, hey Saturday! I’m still around, and I’m still alive, and I’m still wearing Candy Yum Yum lipstick by MAC! I found it last week while I was rooting around inside a makeup drawer and decided that even though it’s fall, hot pink is still wildly appropriate for the season, ha ha ha!
I’m just realizing right now that I’ve yet to wear any dark, rich and cozy wine, burgundy, brown, garnet or red fall lip colors, hmm. In fact, my lipstick game has been pretty MIA for a while now.
Still, I gotta give props to myself and to all the makeup lovers out there who are doing a decent job filling in brows, curling lashes and basically doing the bare minimum to look somewhat undead. LOL!
It’s funny to me that I haven’t really been wearing anything on my lips because lipstick and gloss are usually my favorite part of the makeup process.
Lately, I’ll paint on some base and blush and whatever else I have time for in the mornings, and by that time I realize I need to leave or I’ll be late, so, I just assume that I’ll put on my lip color at work after I have some tea.
But is that happening? NOPE! Maybe I should do a short week-long challenge to wear a lip color every day next Monday through Friday to work. Who’s with me?
Speaking of work, here is my forever challenge: I get back home after picking Connor up from school, and then I start doing chores and prep for the next day, and then the last thing I want to do is make dinner because I’m starving.
I ran into an acquaintance recently who’s also a working mom; she works in the food industry and knows lots of good tips and tricks for making meals and whatnot. Anywho, she told me she experiences this same sort of hanger (aka hungry anger), too, and the way she gets through it is to snack on a little fruit and cheese while she prepares dinner.
I started doing this, and WOW! Amazing how a little snack can be so life changing.
Last week I snacked on a bit of Breakfast Cheese by Marin French Cheese (I get it at Trader Joe’s) with apple slices or grapes while I made dinner. I felt like a human being again.
This is a little random, but while we’re on the subject of fruit, I’ve found the best way to get my people to eat ALL the fruit in the house.
When I get home from the grocery store, before I put the fruit away, I wash, dry and prep all the fruit, stash it all into clear containers, and then chuck them into the fridge so it’s available to eat right away.
I’ve noticed that when I do this, every single last bit of fruit gets eaten and none of it is ever wasted. Try it sometime!
Last but certainly not least, how is life on your end of the keyboard? I hope that you’re happy and healthy and that work has been treating you kindly.
I’m off to take Connor to a dance performance, the first one of the year. Her dance team is dancing to “Grease Lightning” at a local street fair celebrating classic cars and nostalgia for ye olde days of yore, which I’m realizing now, are like, the ’90s and early 2000s. Ha!
How are you spending your Saturday?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
So…what is the Monday Poll?
Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007).
My coworker last week. I was wearing a little more coverage than usual, so I think the overall look was more polished than the bare bones FOTDs I’ve been wearing for months now. Amazing what a difference a little bit of concealer makes!
Marnie and I were like the Scooby Doo detectives in our neighborhood, ha ha ha! We were working a case to unveil who had stolen all the tuna sandwiches in our circle.
The Bay Area is experiencing a heat wave, ugh! It’s supposed to hit 94. I’m so over it.
Lately I’ve been obsessed with snickerdoodles.
Pretty good! I’m mostly happy to be relatively pain free; I fell down a couple weeks ago and hurt my neck and back, and it’s only now that I’m finally starting to feel like myself again. It should also be finally slowing down at work for a bit (it’s been a crazy couple of months), so I’m hoping to not be so exhausted at the end of the day and have more energy for my non-work life.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Here are the questions to copy/paste with your answers in a comment. Talk to ya soon.
1. Last person who complimented you on your makeup?
2. Last dream you can remember?
3. Today the temperature in my neighborhood is/was ____.
4. Your cookie of choice?
5. How do you feel today?