View of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands…
My Favorite City
You Can’t Hide Your Smokey Eyes
Tabs has built-in smokey eyes — so not fair!
For the rest of us, there’s the Benefit Smokin’ Eyes Palette for eyes and brows ($36).
Set Sail for the Isle of Sheer Cheeks and Lips with the New Bobbi Brown Nautical Collection
Bobbi Brown plans to deck you out this summer with her new Nautical Collection.
The new line includes blushes, glosses and a mascara in a variety of sheer colors. The look itself features flushed cheeks, shiny lips with a hint of color and a clean, defined eye. It’s a breezy, simple summer look oozing classic Bobbi style — understated, natural and elegant.
The entire batch of Sheer Color Cheek Tints
Bobbi stoked the 11-piece collection with six Sheer Color Cheek Tints ($22 each), four Sheer Color Lipglosses ($20 each) and a new mascara called Perfectly Defined Mascara ($22).
The blushes and mascara are permanent additions to the line, but the glosses are limited edition.
All of the Sheer Color Lipglosses
Perfectly Defined Mascara
I’ve been road testing four of the Nautical Collection products…
1. Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer Coral
2. Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer Pink
3. Sheer Color Lip Gloss in Popsicle
Sonia Kashuk’s $13 Coral Reef Highlighter Brush
Sonia Kashuk is frickin’ *bringing* it in the brush department this spring. Just like the travel brushes in her Hidden Treasures Brush Set ($20), her limited edition Coral Reef Highlighter Brush ($13) performs like a champ and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
When I want a veil of sheer, shimmery powder or bronzer, Coral Reef handles the job perfectly.
The domed brush head resembles the head on a kabuki brush. It’s a little different than a regular kabuki, though, because the bristles (sooo soft!) are less densely packed, and the brush head feels fluffier.
It lays down sheer layers of color evenly on my skin. I’ve used the brush to apply highlighting powder, bronzer and blush, and it works well with all three types of products. This doll’s a multi-tasking monster.
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Jennifer Garner: Her Best Hair?
Anyone else planning to watch Jennifer Garner’s new movie, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (with Matthew McConaughey)? It comes out this weekend.
I know she probably won’t do any butt-kicking in the movie like she did as CIA agent Sydney Bristow in Alias, but I wish she would. Homegirl’s beat downs were freaking inspiring. That show had some *fab* fight choreography.
Born April 17, 1972 in Houston, Texas, Jennifer Anne Garner majored in chemistry before changing to drama. Maybe that’s why she lit up the screen with Michael Vartan in Alias.
Now she’s got a long list of film credits, including a couple with hubby Ben Affleck (Daredevil and Pearl Harbor).
With the exception of the crazy wigs she wore in Alias, she’ll usually stick to classic, feminine hairstyles, but she’ll still cut loose from time to time.
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Karen
Whenever I’m Near the Water
I feel at peace.
Let’s Take A Trip
A MAC Trip, that is.
(The 4 Classic Eye & Cheek Palette from the MAC Trip Collection)
MAC Fix+ Rose Romanced My Dry Skin
I’ve had an itchy trigger finger with my new bottle of MAC Fix+ Rose ($17). The stuff’s so great I haven’t been able to keep my hands off it!
MAC took spring and rose waters and infused them with minerals, and the resulting face spray feels about as refreshing on my skin as anything I could imagine.
Too bad it’s limited edition…
It was released with the A Rose Romance collection, so it won’t be around forever.
I think MAC’s original Fix+ Spray ($17) pales in comparison. Fix+ Rose just feels more hydrating to me and doesn’t leave the same heavy film I seem to get with Fix+ Spray.
As for the fragrance?
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