Which color’s your fave out of this batch?
Barielle All Lacquered Up Collection, Part Deux
The Colors of My Neighborhood
Blue, magenta, green, brown, gray, maroon…
Retro Roundup: Saying Adios to August 2009
- Yes to Carrots Lip Tints Say YES to Affordable Lip Color
- Make Up For Ever Glossy Full Couleur Lip Gloss Plus Your Favorite Pair of Earrings Equals Easy Makeup Tip
- LORAC Red Carpet Reveal Collection Swatches, AKA Morning Makeup Therapy
- Dolce and Gabbana Makeup: Say Hello to Luxury Lipstick Lust
- Bobbi Brown Ivy League Face of the Day
- What’s Your Favorite Full-Coverage Foundation for a Natural Look?
- CoverGirl Exact Eyelights Eye Brightening Liner Keeps Going and Going…
- Givenchy Gloss Interdit Lip Gloss: Pretty Plum Shades for Fall
- MAC Make-Up Art Cosmetics: Something for Everyone
- Lip Look: Resolutely Red Lipstick from the Upcoming MAC in High Def Collection
- Just Browsing: The Best Brow Kits for the “Eyebrow Challenged”
- A Summery Face of the Day with Too Faced Natural Eye Palette
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Saturday Surfing
- 15 Questions with Illamasqua’s Creative Director — Beauty and the Blog
- Something tells me Tabs would not be cool with a kitty mani/pedi — Pet Sugar
- Speaking of crazy manicures… — Bella Sugar
- 3 Jedi mind tricks to feel better in a nanosecond — Zen Habits
- I just *knew* the interwebz were giving me ADD — Stanford University News
- OPI’s Holiday Wishes collection looks amazing — Scrangie
- I’m dying over the new Barbie Loves Stila Smudge Pots — Stila
- Time to dust off ye olde knitting needles — Spindle Cat Studio
- 15 Ways to find an hour a day of extra time for focused learning — Mission to Learn
- Get your Scottish shortbread on — We Heart This
- Listen to Nikka Costa’s Pebble to a Pearl CD; it’s really good — Nikka Costa
- Love this look makeup artist Troy Jensen created for Rachel McAdams — Troy Jensen
Ugh, gals! It’s like sauna central up in here right now. The glow I’m sporting ain’t the sexy kind. It’s more along the lines of a sweaty beast.
What are up to? Is it hot there?
I think I need to escape my apartment until it cools down… I may go to a movie, at least for the air conditioning. 🙂
Whatever you’re doing tonight, I hope it’s fun!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Sears Getting Back into Cosmetics?
I remember being a kid and loving the heck out of Sears. Why? Because back in the days before Sephora and MAC, Sears meant popcorn, warm nuts and Icees, yum!
Sears may not be the retail powerhouse it was when Reebok high-tops ruled, but they’re hoping to change that with the help of high-margin beauty products. Eight years after getting out of the cosmetics biz, the 115-year-old company is getting back in, hoping that beauty can give their flagging bottom line a boost.
The company plans to open full-service beauty counters at 13 pilot stores in LA, Chicago and New York this week, with hundreds more to open in other Sears locations over the next two years.
The words “beauty” and “Sears” don’t really go together in my mind, but they’ll be carrying big drugstore brands like CoverGirl, L’Oreal and Maybelline, as well as niche brands like Burt’s Bees and Yves Rocher (for which Sears will be the sole US retailer). Who knows, right? Stranger things have happened.
Sears will try to differentiate its beauty business by mixing mass-market prices and displays with department-store service in a mall.
I wonder if they’ll bring back the Icees and warm nuts… 🙂
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Karen
P.S. According to Sears, grand opening celebrations are being held in each of the pilot Sears Beauty locations on Aug. 29-30 and Sept. 5-6, featuring complimentary makeovers and gift baskets (in case you live near one of the stores).
Other offers include a free cosmetic bag and brush set with any $25 cosmetics, fragrance or bath purchase and a $10 Sears reward card with any $50 cosmetics, fragrance or bath purchase.
THIS Purple Reigns: Bobbi Brown Metallic Long-Wear Cream Shadow in Starry Purple
G’morning, my indigo girls and violet vixens! 🙂
You know what they say — Saturday mornings are made for sparkly purple shadows like Bobbi Brown’s new Metallic Long-Wear Cream Shadow in Starry Purple ($22).
I was so entranced by it this morning that I forgot to fill my first cup of joe, and believe you me, it takes something mighty fierce to make me forget my morning caffeine.
Pretty, yah?
It’s one of the eight shimmery cream shadows Bobbi released for fall.
I almost got lost this morning, star gazing into the pan of shimmery deep purple. Thanks to all the glitter — green, red, purple, blue and silver flecks — I think Starry Purple has enough personality to carry off lid looks without the help of other eye products, not that she wouldn’t also complement mascara and maybe even a set of false eyelashes.
I haven’t tested it for durability, yet, but I’ll let you know how it stands up to some daily wear this weekend.
How was your evening last night? Did you do anything fun? Let’s see… We stayed in, ordered pizza and re-watched the governator and badass Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 for the ga-jillionth time.
Speaking of science fiction, is anyone else looking forward to James Cameron’s Avatar? Have you seen the new trailer yet? Some folks on Twitter are saying that they think the special effects look too “shiny,” as in artificial. I don’t know. I like what I’ve seen.
Hope you’re Saturday got off to a faboo start. 🙂 What’s the plan for today?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Barielle All Lacquered Up Collection, Part Uno
How do you feel about that sparkly green? I’m kinda lurvin’ it.
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