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Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 284

August 12th, 2013 by Karen 52 Comments

Meow, Monday!

You might be wondering, “So what the heck is this Monday Poll thing anyway?”

Well, it isn’t much of a poll. It’s more just a constantly evolving (devolving?), somewhat random list of questions I’ve been putting out to readers every Monday morning for the past five years. I’ve always enjoyed reading your answers in the comments, and I hope you enjoy reading mine.

  1. What’s your favorite time of day?
    Early in the morning, just as the sun is rising when the world still feels like it’s waking up, and all I can hear outside are a few birds singing (the earliest risers).
  2. What color are your eyes?
    Chocolate brown with a navy blue ring around the iris.
  3. If you could read minds, would you want to?
    Oh, hell no! I don’t want to know what pervy guys are thinking about women’s butts, or have access everyone’s worries.

    It would come in handy at the poker tables though… Too bad I don’t know how to play cards!

  4. What’s the next makeup product you plan to purchase?
    I need a refill of Bobbi Brown’s Foundation stick.
  5. If you could shapeshift into an animal, what animal would it be?
    Either a cute little finch or a hummingbird (would love to be able to fly).
  6. Your sweet snack of choice at the movies?
    Sour Patch Kids AND Peanut M&Ms! Yes, please, I’ll take both. 😀 And, um, throw in some kettle corn while you’re at it…
  7. Something you have to remember to do today?
    Text my brother at noon to wish him good luck on his job interview today.
  8. Do you ever go to sleep with wet hair?
    Yup. I know some folks don’t like to, but I think it saves time, and when I wake up in the morning, I get a fun surprise! — either a head of cute, sexy bedhead curls, or a total hair disaster.
  9. Which do you wear more often: bracelets or necklaces?
    Necklaces. I have a hard time finding bracelets that don’t just slip off my small wrists. Plus, bracelets always get in the way while I’m typing.
  10. A helpful lesson you recently learned?
    I’ve learned that I do better when I don’t check my email first thing in the day. Better to do my heaviest mental lifting first thing and then work on admin tasks later.

Le List

Now it’s your turn. Just copy and paste the following questions into a comment with your answers. I look forward to reading ’em! 🙂

1. What’s your favorite time of day?
2. What color are your eyes?
3. If you could read minds, would you want to?
4. What’s the next makeup product you plan to purchase?
5. If you could shapeshift into an animal, what animal would it be?
6. Your sweet snack of choice at the movies?
7. Something you have to remember to do today?
8. Do you ever go to sleep with wet hair?
9. Which do you wear more often: bracelets or necklaces?
10. A helpful lesson you recently learned?

Stay focused, keep your eye on the prize, and remember, you CAN do this. 🙂 Have a great day, my love!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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Categories: Just For Fun

Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 256

August 11th, 2013 by Karen 8 Comments

Tabs the Cat on the September Cover of Elle Magazine

Sometimes I’m absolutely amazed by Tabs…

He’s the most productive cat I know. Over the course of the past 48 hours, he held a meet-and-greet for beauty biz insiders at his cat ranch near Half Moon Bay, tried CrossFit for the first time, ran a half marathon, went to the hardware store to get supplies for his bird feeders, did the grocery shopping for the week (although all he got was gravy), tended to his garden, flew to New York to work with Elle Magazine and MAC, put on an impromptu fashion show at the mall, helped an aspiring kitty model get her big break and finished another chapter in his memoirs.

All that, and he was home in time for dinner. 🙂

Who is Tabs the Cat? About six years ago I befriended a stray, flea-bitten tabby cat with a bad case of worms. I could see he’d fallen on hard times, but his profound knowledge of high fashion and department store cosmetics led me to believe that he was more than meets the eye. We became fast friends, and now he’s actually my boss (and a successful kitty model).

Tabs the Cat for DCSW Designer Cat Shoe Warehouse

Tabs the Cat for BECCA Beach Cat Tints
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Categories: Just For Fun, Tabs

Perfect for Princess Fiona’s Purse, $3 Maybelline Baby Lips Electro Balm in Minty Sheer

August 11th, 2013 by Karen 11 Comments








Maybelline Baby Lips Minty Sheer
Maybelline Baby Lips Minty Sheer 2
Uh…the new Maybelline Baby Lips Minty Sheer ($3)

Ya know, I had a feeling Maybelline’s Baby Lips Electro Balm in Minty Sheer would be, well, minty and sheer.

But I guess I also secretly hoped it would turn my lips a cray-cray green, like Illamasqua’s Shoot. 🙂

Part of the six-piece Electro Balm collection (which all look very colorful in their tubes), Minty Sheer is available now at drugstores, in She-Hulk’s makeup collection and online.

Heck, it’s not bad for three bucks!

Shiny, sheer color in a moderately moisturizing (but not incredibly so) mint lip balm with a gimmicky twist — a way to freak people out as you touch up yo’ pout in public.

Maybelline Baby Lips Minty Sheer Box

Maybelline Baby Lips Minty Sheer Box 1

Maybelline Baby Lips Minty Sheer Box 2

Maybelline Baby Lips Minty Sheer Swatch

Maybelline Baby Lips Electro Balm in Minty Sheer

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Categories: Daily Beauty

7 Ways to Win a $50 eGift Card From Sephora!

August 10th, 2013 by Karen 383 Comments

A Makeup and Beauty Blog giveaway

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A debonair cat and the New Hourglass Femme Nude Lip Stylos ($30 each), available now at Sephora…

Saturday salutations and greetings, my friend! Up and at ’em. There’s coffee to be had, husky tabbies to be loved and lip glosses to be worn.

Oh, and Sephora giveaways to be entered. 🙂

You know how we do it around here.

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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Categories: Giveaways, Just For Fun

Have You Ever Had a Perm?

August 9th, 2013 by Karen 33 Comments


Baby Karen had stick-straight hair back in the day…

I have naturally wavy hair now, but I didn’t always. Up until my tweens, my coif was a curtain of stick-straight Asian girl hair.

In all of my childhood pics, I’m rockin’ the same wanna-be Dorothy Hammel hair…except for the year when my grandma went to beauty school at the community college.

That fall she learned how to do perms.

I don’t recall exactly how it went down or whether I protested, but somehow Granny talked my mom into giving both of us perms.

Oh, boy…

I was really young at the time (I think I’d just turned four), so I don’t remember it well, but I do know that in all the Thanksgiving and Christmas pics I have from that year, my mom and I have the same short bowl-cut perm with curls that look a little too tight.

And my mom looks pretty cranky, LOL!

Years later in high school, when spiral perms were all the rage, my best friends Jen and Cindy had them, and I was the only one of us who didn’t.

It was a good time to have wavy hair. Those were the days… Haha! Of course, that all changed in the mid-’90s when straight hair came back with a vengeance, but that’s another story for another time. 🙂

How about you, love? Have you ever had a perm, and how did it turn out? Did you like it enough to do it again? Please share your perm adventures in the comments.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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Categories: Hair, Just For Fun

You Glow, Girl! Creamy, Luminous Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Powder in Moonstone

August 9th, 2013 by Karen 24 Comments

Becca Moonstone Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed
Thank you, Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Moonstone… Now if I could only wake up looking like this, LOL!

I bet Ryan Gosling would notice when you were wearing the new Becca Moonstone Shimmering Skin Perfector (because he’s dreamy like that!!), but odds are most people wouldn’t.

The luminizing face and cheek powder isn’t really one of those products that grabs you by the eyeballs and won’t let go, like
Guerlain Rouge G de Guerlain Lipstick in Madame Batifole, which prompts peeps to cross busy streets to ask, “GUUURRRL, what’s on your lips!?”

Ya know what, though? That’s why I like it. 🙂

Moonstone gets a different kind of attention. It’s subtle, like a good perfume. Similar to when dudes wear flat-front pants pants instead of pleats, it’s not necessarily a dramatic change, but it’s a SERIOUS UPGRADE.

It’s something I’d wear when I want luminous, glowing skin that doesn’t look hella greasy.

Becca Moonstone Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed
Moonstone’s one of three new Shimmering Skin Perfectors available now exclusively at Sephora for $38 each.

But don’t freak out the first time you swatch this shimmery yellow gold. I should warn you — it looks crazy shiny at first, but once you buff it out, ooh, baby! It’s like late afternoon sun on your cheeks…

Becca Moonstone Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Swatch

And get this — Moonstone is also kind to pores and fine lines.

I should know. I have both! 🙂 And when I wear it on my face/cheeks, I barely notice either.

Becca Moonstone Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed box

The most similar products I can think of are the Ambient Powders by Hourglass, but Becca’s Shimmering Skin Perfectors have a different texture.

Becca Moonstone Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed in hand
In my paw (claw?) for scale…

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Categories: Becca, Face, Makeup, Product Reviews

I Could Kiss This Cafe: Laura Mercier Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour in Cafe

August 9th, 2013 by Karen 16 Comments






Laura Mercier Cafe Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour
Laura Mercier Cafe Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour
Laura Mercier’s Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour Cafe ($24)

If you have pigmented lips like mine and have trubs finding “my lips but better” colors, first, I FEEL YOUR PAIN!

Second, you gotta get Laura Mercier’s new Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour in Cafe on your pout, ASAP. A pigmented rosy nude with a creamy finish, it looks notably natural on lips with plenty o’ pigment.

As fall is coming round the mountain, you’re gonna need something to wear with those smokey eyes. 🙂 #justsayin

Look for Cafe now on Laura Mercier counters, at Neiman Marcus stores and online.

Laura Mercier Cafe Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour swatch

Laura Mercier Cafe Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour swatch
Goofy face…
Laura Mercier Cafe Rouge Nouveau Weightless Lip Colour swatch
Distant gaze…
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Categories: Daily Beauty

I Bet Covergirl Clean Glow Blusher in Roses Would Blossom on Lighter Lovelies

August 9th, 2013 by Karen 4 Comments









Covergirl Clean Glow Blusher in Roses
Covergirl Clean Glow Blusher in Roses
Wearing Covergirl’s Clean Glow Blusher in Roses ($8.99) on the apples of my cheeks

Pale pretties, y’all should able to rock Covergirl’s Clean Glow Blusher in Roses pretty hard ($8.99, one of two new shades for summer).

The lightweight cheek powders come with three colors in each pan. Wear them separately, or mix them together to create your own custom color.

Roses gets a little lost on my warm-toned tan… It doesn’t really show up well on my cheeks, even when I pack on three or four layers, because I think this one has its heart set on lighter lasses, where I bet it would work well as an everyday cheek color.

If you’re looking for a basic pink matte blush on a budget, take a closer look at Roses when you get a chance.

It’s available now online and at drugstores and Ulta.

Covergirl Clean Glow Blusher in Roses Swatch

Covergirl Clean Glow Blusher in Roses

Covergirl Clean Glow Blusher in Roses

Covergirl Clean Glow Blusher in Roses

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