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Peonies. 🙂
I received them as a gift this week.
Aren’t they beautiful?
Buuuuuut, they aren’t cat-friendly, so I have them on a very high shelf in a room Tabs isn’t allowed to go into.
I also love freesia, hydrangeas and sunflowers…and about a zillion other flowers, LOL!
What are your favorite flowers?
To the creator of the accent nail: BLESS YOU. 🙂
You made it so much easier to pick a nail polish! (Because I don’t actually have to pick one color. I can use two. Or three. Or four.)
I’m currently wearing a two-shade mani with Tom Ford’s Coral Beach (the main coral color) and Indiscretion (the hot pink accent nail).
It feels like a good summery combo to me.
Both are available now at Tom Ford counters and online for $32 each.
Also, the necklace I’m wearing in these pics is the Neon Spray Necklace ($49) by Kristin Perry.
I sure love Kristin Perry’s jewelry.
Sometimes two is better than one. (NOTE: please don’t tell Tabs I said that. He insists that one plus-size tabby is more than enough.) 🙂
While you can certainly wear either of the hella pigmented Powder Blushes from the MAC Moody Blooms collection by themselves — I mean, Bred for Beauty and Worldly Wealth look stunning on their own (just don’t forget to blend, blend, blend) — layered together they create a downright bewitching combination blush!
I like to start with a layer of shimmery golden bronze Worldly Wealth first, and followup with pink Bred for Beauty dusted directly on top. Then I buff the two together with a clean powder brush.
Worldly Wealth’s shimmer peeks through bright pink Bred for Beauty, which has a flatter finish, creating a sweet sun-kissed and complement to warm coppery eye makeup like I’m wearing here.
Just add a pinkish coral lip, and you’re good to go! 🙂
Like deep green leaves bathed in the light of a full moon, these beautiful bulbs of tuberous terrific-ness gleam! — but not like high-shine metallics or frosts. Their sheen is more muted and shrewd than that…
I can really see it in the six Moody Blooms collection Sheen Supreme Lipsticks ($17 each).
While bronzy plum Moody Bloom and pinkish coral Phosphorescent radiate a few watts of warmth, most of these lecherous lippies live on the cool- and neutral-toned sides of the garden, which makes sense to me. I think it balances well with the warm earthy copper, brown, and warm pinkish gold eye makeup in the release.
As for the semi-opaque Sheen Supreme Lipstick formula, it still lets some of my natural lip color peek through, so these definitely aren’t sheer, and my lips like how they feel — plush, creamy and super soft, almost like a gloss.
As they fade on my lips over the course of about two hours, they leave behind a lovely stain — particularly the brighter colors, like pinkish coral Phosphorescent, my favorite of the bunch, and dark bluish pink Pheromonal.
Unfortunately, they aren’t the most moisturizing lip products in the glam garden, but I think they’ve improved over the original MAC Sheen Supremes released in 2011.
Those back then sucked all of the H2O out of my lips, but I think this batch in Moody Blooms is a little better.
They don’t completely dehydrate my lips, but if I lived in a desert, I think I’d probably apply a layer of lip balm first. I wore Phosphorescent a lot up in Napa last weekend, and it was hot and dry! By the end of the weekend trip, my pucker was starting to get a little parched.
Did you dye your hair a different color, ditch your signature red lips for pink, or set aside your neutral eyeshadows to focus more on brights?
Mine was chopping off 6 inches of hair last week! 🙂
How about you? What was your last major makeup or big beauty change?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Happy hump day.
Pardon me while I freak out a little (in a good way) over the three new Fluidlines in the MAC Moody Blooms collection.
They look like great layering shades, don’t they? I can’t wait to try these as bases with the new Moody Blooms Eye Shadows…
All three will be blooming with the rest of the Moody Blooms collection online at maccosmetics.com June 24, and at North American stores and counters June 26.
Nightshade… I love that word. 🙂
If you’re going to blow your calorie budget on your birthday, might as well go big or go home 🙂
Found my new favorite Italian restaurant yesterday, Ca’ Momi Enoteca at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa.
The market is like the Ferry Building in San Francisco but on a smaller scale. It’s a big upscale mall in a warehouse lined with food booths, gourmet meat and cheese counters, spice and culinary counters and small Wine County shops.
Ca’ Momi Enoteca, which is one of several places to eat there, serves traditional Italian food (they’re actually certified as authentic by the Italian government!), and it is LA BOMBA.
While we were up there in Napa, we also found a great Japanese (modern style with a large eclectic menu) place downtown called Eiko’s, about a 10-minute walk from the Oxbow Public Market.
Delish!
I learned that Napa has A LOT of good places to eat and a great walking downtown.
In all the years I’ve lived here (more than 10), we’ve actually only been to the town of Napa twice! — because the other time we unknowingly went to kind of a boring area. We usually go to other small towns in the area. I definitely want to go back to Napa now, though. It was yummage to the extreme.
Blueish pink Bred for Beauty and peachy bronze Worldly Wealth, the two powder blushes in the new MAC Moody Blooms collection, are making me a happy horticulturist/beauty botanist. 🙂
One word: pigment.
And lots of it.
Just as a random but potentially helpful warning, if you aren’t paying close attention while applying these blushes — like, if you happen to be watching Game of Thrones and dancing to I’m Every Woman while Daenerys Targaryen pets her dragons on screen — be advised that you may have to take the color down a notch or two or 12, so have an extra blush brush or foundation brush handy.
With these blushes, sh*t gets real, and it gets real in a hurry! It’s easy to go overboard with this much pigment, but you should be fine if you use a light touch (and don’t forget to blend out the edges!).
If you’re feeling creative, try layering a bit of bright pink Bred for Beauty on top of Worldly Wealth.
I’m a big fan. 🙂