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Benefit Stay Flawless 15-Hour Primer Base
Pair It Up: Kick Your Summer Makeup Repertoire Into High Gear With Matching Lips and Tips
This summer inspiration is brought to you by Target. Find more fun and surprises all season long on Target’s #SummerUp Pinterest board.
Lounging languidly beside any pools this summer? Planning any barbecues at the beach? Don’t forget those all-important warm-weather essentials like your swimsuit, big floppy hat, sunscreen, cooler filled with drinks and snacks, and of course, your matching lips and tips. 🙂
Some among us may argue that those last two items aren’t summer fun essentials. Either way, I sure do love bright nails and lips this time of year, especially when they match!
Gotta get that quick burst of color from your fingers as you write your name in the sand, or blow kisses into your camera phone as you snap a quick selfie to send to your sweetie (“Wish you were here, boo!”).
I searched high and low for a few fun, affordable combinations to wear this summer and combed through countless contenders (a tough job, but someone had to do it) to come up with the following five trendsetting color combos.
You don’t have to pay Dolce & Gabbana prices to look fashionable and fab. These five lip and tip pairings are available now at Target stores and online at target.com.
Look 1: Fruit salad
This juicy combo with lime green nails and lush peach lips begs to be worn with umbrella drinks and on lazy days by the pool.
Look 2: Playful purple
Nothing says “fun in the sun” quite like shiny purple tips and shimmery violet lips.
Look 3: Think hot pink
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Let’s Go for a Run
I cannot wait to take these bright kicks out for a spin. 🙂
The Brooks Ravenna 4 ($110) running shoes, available now at Lady Footlocker stores and ladyfootlocker.com.
Chanel’s New Leading Lady Is a Smooth Starlet: Take the Stage With Chanel Le Vernis Nail Colour in Starlet This Summer
This leading lady is worthy of a summer tentpole film and a handful of Oscar nominations. Maybe even a sleeper hit that takes Sundance by storm, or a blockbuster rom-com opposite a foppish Brit boy with floppy hair and nice arms. 🙂
This Starlet has some serious stage presence. Chanel Le Vernis Nail Colour in Starlet has that certain something I like, that “it” factor that pushes it ahead of so many sweet and summery coral ingenues.
Admittedly, I rarely meet a coral I don’t love or like, and Starlet is no exception. But it differs from most coral shades in that it also leans pink, depending on the light, to showcase more of its rich pink salmon side in the shade and a cherry blossom pink in full sun. It also has subtle opalescent shimmer, which elevates its production value from indie film to Hollywood big budget.
I was so excited to try Starlet the day I brought it home that I actually painted my toes with it in the middle of the night in almost pitch-black darkness before settling down to watch one of our generation’s most esteemed films, Step Brothers (“This is a house of learn-ed doctors”), and passing out on the couch.
Not really being able to see what I was doing because I didn’t want to turn on the lights, I expected to have to re-paint my toes the following morning.
Nope. Turns out I didn’t have to. To my surprise, my toes looked nearly perfect, because Starlet is smooove…
You could be painting your toes with one eye half open in the dark, and there’s a decent chance your pedi would turn out alright. 🙂
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The $28 Kensie ‘Jamie’ Lace Trim Bralette: Taking Couch Surfing and Layering to Cute New Comfy, Lacy Heights
I purchased this bra to wear to a funeral.
Wait — stay with me.
I purchased it for the passing of my thirty-seventh year, also known as my birthday.
I was kind of emotional that day, to be completely honest. After taking stock of my life and my accomplishments the past year, I just felt like I should’ve done more, been better, seen more things…
I don’t know… Maybe I shouldn’t have watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi so many times this year.
The day before my bday, I got myself to Nordstrom to look for a pair of birthday shoes (it was during the tail end their semi-annual shoe sale), but for the life of me, I couldn’t find the perfect pair.
Their inventory had already been picked over by early risers and seasoned shopping vultures, and what remained were the leftover, forgotten bones of unwanted heels withering in the wasteland of sad temporary shelving…
Dejected and disappointed, I lumbered over to the lingerie department, hoping to find a cute bra to wear on the first day of my thirty-eighth year, one that would make me feel girlie and special.
That’s when I discovered the $28 Kensie ‘Jamie’ Lace Trim Bralette [INSERT IMAGE OF ME STANDING ON A TABLE AND DOING THE RUNNING MAN]. 🙂
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What’s the Most Difficult Aspect of Dealing With Your Hair?
I got 99 problems and my hair is one…
My wavy hair has a natural tendency to go big, puffy, unruly and wild. It would be so cool if I could romanticize the situation by saying, “My hair’s like my personality! It wants to roam free, and it simply will not be tamed!”
But I can’t.
So I won’t. 🙂
I’ve had more awful haircuts than I can count, and have spent many, many hours and possibly millions of watts frying my hair into submission, trying to outwit its natural tendencies.
The hardest thing about dealing with my hair has always been just figuring out what the hell to do with it…
My mom has naturally straight hair and has never really been into hairstyling, so she had no clue. And none of my friends growing up had curly hair, so I couldn’t turn to them for advice, either.
It took a looong time — maybe 20 years — to finally get some kind of handle on my hair.
Now, I mostly know how to wrangle it into submission, so these days, I’m more concerned about my roots. I used to be able to go at least two months between touch-ups, but as more gray peeks through, I’m down to every six weeks.
I actually don’t mind going to the salon to get them done. Its a nice break to sit still for a few hours and read trashy magazines and drink tea. 🙂
How about you? What’s the most difficult aspect of dealing with your hair?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Oh, Yellow There
One of my favorite colors. So happy and bright! 🙂
Who’s That Handsome Boy?
My sweet tabby.
