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Sundays With Tabs, the Archives: From Anastasia to Zoya

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Sundays With Tabs, the Archives

The archives. As I’m sure you’re aware, our benefactor here on Makeup and Beauty Blog is world-renowned kitty supermodel/entrepreneur Tabs the Cat, star of stage, screen and printed glossy magazines, and the CFO (Chief Feline Officer) of Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC, a Feline Fortune 500 company.

Over the course of his prolific career, Tabs has worked on hundreds (more than 540!) kitty modeling campaigns for fashion and beauty brands both big and small, and here they are, all of them in a single, GIGANTIC post! 🙂

In alphabetical order, starting with Anastasia…

ANASTASIA

ANASTASIA

APPLE

APPLE

APPLE

AQUOLINA

AVEDA

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A Holiday Party Eye Makeup Look With Purple, Bronze and Gold

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holiday makeup tutorial bronze purple

I received a few requests to see a tutorial after a look last week with pink cheeks and bronze, gold and purple eyes, so here it is!

I keep this one in my back pocket for date nights and parties because it’s a little bit dressy, but not full-on formal. Could be a nice look to wear to a work holiday party.

Last week I used a couple of limited edition products from BECCA that are out of circulation now (the Halcyon Days Palette and Cabrera Liner Duo), so this time around, to make things a little easier to duplicate, I replaced those pieces with similar colors from MAC’s permanent line (the other BECCA products here are still available).

The products

holiday makeup tutorial bronze purple swatches
Swatches from the left: BECCA Eye Tint in Gilt, MAC Soba Eyeshadow, MAC Woodwinked Eyeshadow, MAC Prunella Eye Kohl, MAC Teddy Eye Kohl, BECCA Marcella Eyeshadow, BECCA Lychee Beach Tint, Becca Damselfly Blush, BECCA Flowerchild Blush, MAC Sublime Culture Cremestick Liner and Illamasqua Intimacy Lipgloss

Step by step

holiday makeup tutorial bronze purple

  1. Start by patting the shimmery bronze eyeshadow all over your lids.
  2. Next, sweep your satiny golden brown eyeshadow directly on top of the bronze eyeshadow you just used.
  3. Then, pat a warm peachy gold from your lashes down into the crease.
  4. Line your upper water line and upper lash line with your plum liner, and then smudge out the edges with your golden purple eyeshadow.
  5. Line your lower lash and water lines with your reddish golden bronze liner.
  6. Fill in your brows, and apply mascara.
  7. Now, blend the pink blush on your cheeks, and layer the peach and pink powder blushes on top.
  8. Lastly, line and fill in your lips with your pinky nude liner topped with a layer of nude gloss.

holiday makeup tutorial bronze purple
Additional makeup worn in this look: MAC Concrete (brows), BECCA Radiant Skin Satin Foundation in Bamboo (all over face), BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector in Moonstone (around the center of your face) MAC Select Moisturecover Concealer in NW25 (under your eyes), Chanel Natural Finish Loose Powder (all over your face) and Le Volume de Chanel Mascara (lashes)

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Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 221

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Tabs for MAC How the Cat Stole Christmas

I remember working at jobs where things would slow down this time of year.

Slowly but surely, the office would empty as people, one by one, went home for the holidays. Meetings would get cancelled, people would spend half the day shopping at their desks for presents online, and everyone just sort of pushed off as much as possible until the new year.

Ah, the good old days…

That’s not at all how it is working for Tabs. Here at Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC, this is our busiest time of year.

Awards shows, TV holiday specials, star-studded celebrity gala events and advertising campaigns for limited edition holiday releases — right now we’re a 24/7 operation. I don’t even get a weekend off until next year.

Like today, Tabs had me out shopping for linens and place settings for his big annual holiday shindig.

It’s this huge party he throws every year for everyone who’s anyone in the kitty modeling business. Hundreds of cats fly in from all over the world. There’s a hosted gravy bar, catnip cocktails, a huge seawater aquarium stocked with ahi, a play area outside. Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet’s My Cat From Hell, is on hand to give free consultations and complimentary cat massages.

It’s total cat heaven. Problem is, it’s my responsibility to set everything up. While Tabs is off on some exotic location somewhere shooting his kitty modeling ads, I’m trying to figure out how many ahi a 100,000-gallon fish tank can support.

I don’t know…10,000?

But really, it’s not all bad. I get to see and do some really neat things. I’m busy, and it’s stressful, but right now in my life I can’t imagine doing anything else.

Oh! — I almost forgot. Here are the latest kitty modeling pics from Tabs. 🙂

Tabs for the Illamasqua Cat Invasion Collection

Tabs for the OCC Wheel of Feline Fortune Collection
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You’ll Be Thrilled to Find Kohl in Your Christmas Stocking if It’s the New Laura Mercier Smoky Effects Mini Kohl Eye Pencil Collection

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Laura Mercier Smoky Effects Mini Kohl Eye Pencil Collection
The new Laura Mercier Smoky Effects Mini Kohl Eye Pencil Collection

Normally, waking up on Christmas morning to find coal in my stocking would be a big holiday bummer. Did Santa have me on the naughty list? I’d wonder, turning to Tabs for support.

But if that coal was spelled with a “K” and had a label that said, “From: Laura,” I’d be dancing like Snoopy from A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Kohl, as in Laura Mercier’s Smoky Effects Mini Kohl Pencil Collection ($48). One of these in my stocking, and there’d be no doubt on which of Santa’s lists my name appears, because this set of eight creamy, soft and smudgy holiday cookie-sized (read: big) pencils is nice, nice, nice. 🙂

All but one of the colors, Jet Black, have been around the block a few times. A couple of them qualify as basics in my book, like Brown Copper (like a slightly more golden MAC Teddy) and the brand new, limited edition Jet Black, but that’s not to take anything away from them at all. They’re wearable workhouse shades, the kind that are always good to have, but it’s the other colors — Black Violet, Stormy Grey, Black Gold, Black Turquoise, Black Navy and Antique Jade — that I think most makeup nerds will covet (lots of duo-chrome action going on).

Shimmery, complex and unexpected, these pigmented liners could easily have been from MAC, NARS or Illamasqua.

Almost like real storm clouds, Stormy Grey, a longtime LM favorite of mine, shifts in the light from a deep gunmetal to a peacock blue, while my other favorite, the blackened, burnished Black Gold (LOVE!) makes this Forty Niner fan’s heart flutter.

The set is helping me discover some new Laura faves, like Black Violet, a shimmery black tinged with royal purple, and Black Turquoise, which reminds me of MAC’s teal grayish green Club Eye Shadow, if it were an eyeliner instead.

Laura Mercier Smoky Effects Mini Kohl Eye Pencil Collection Swatches

Laura Mercier Smoky Effects Mini Kohl Eye Pencil Collection Swatches
From the left: Antique Jade, Black Navy, Black Gold, Black Turquoise, Black Violet, Brown Copper, Jet Black and Stormy Grey

Laura Mercier Smoky Effects Mini Kohl Eye Pencil Collection
From the left: Antique Jade, Black Gold, Black Navy, Black Turquoise, Black Violet, Brown Copper, Jet Black and Stormy Grey

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Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 242

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The One and Only Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll!

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 four years. I’ve always enjoyed reading your answers in the comments, and I hope you enjoy reading mine.

  1. Mood:
    Thoughtful. Happy. I’m trying to appreciate the little things today. 🙂

  2. Cupcakes or cookies?
    Oooh. Tough! I’m a firm believer in both, but right now I’m gonna have to go with cookies, especially semi-sweet chocolate chip cookies…

    I’ve been craving semi-sweet chocolate chips 24/7 lately. Mmm…

  3. Are you an outdoorsy person?
    Only during regular business hours, haha. I like hiking and water sports (in particular, anything having to do with the beach, like surfing, swimming, stand-up paddle boarding and snorkeling), but I’m also part prissy princess; I can’t handle hardcore wilderness expeditions and overnight hikes.

    I gotta have my creature comforts, ya know? I will go camping…if the camp has indoor plumbing, gets a cell phone signal and has beds that aren’t lying directly on the ground, LOL!

  4. A fragrance or scent that reminds you of your mom?
    Dior Poison. She wore it a lot back when I was in high school. And Oil of Olay moisturizer, which is what she usually wears on her face. I catch a whiff whenever I give her a kiss on the cheek.

  5. Three things you like (non-makeup/beauty related):
    1) Driving up to a parking meter and finding leftover time on the clock.
    2) Tabs sleeping on the bed in the crook between my legs at night.
    3) Spaghetti squash.

  6. Three things you like (makeup/beauty related):
    1) Illamasqua Skin Base Foundation
    2) Skinceuticals C E Ferulic Serum
    3) Chanel Loose Powder

  7. It’s the last day of middle school. Will you sign my yearbook? 🙂
    Of course! KIT (keep in touch), LYLARS (love ya like a real sis) and DBS (don’t be a stranger). See you next year! Class of 1989 rulez!

  8. Have you ever had an at-home hair coloring disaster?
    Yeah…like every time I’ve ever tried to do it myself. It’s just one of those things I’ve never had much luck with. The color always either ends up way too dark, or patchy, or the bathroom walls and ceiling end up covered in hair dye. Thankfully, I’ve never accidentally given myself a bad chemical burn or been left with totally cray hair color.

  9. What are three things you’re happy about right now?
    1) My desk is uncluttered and clean (for once…but we’ll see how long that lasts).
    2) I have a job that lets me express my creativity.
    3) I have family living within driving distance.

  10. Weekly goals:
    To get to bed by 10 every night (dare to dream!), to eat more protein (it’s trickier being a vegetarian), to go through the storage boxes in the dining room, to find a trustworthy painter in the area, and to start investigating fitness classes, because my workouts have been kinda uninspired lately.

Greetings and salutations, my friend! It’s another beautiful Monday — despite a little rain — and I feel lucky because I get to share my day with you. 🙂

Hmm… My tummy’s rumbling. How about a snack while you let me know how you’re doing in today’s Monday Poll? A croissant perhaps? Your pick — we have plain, Meyer lemon or chocolate (pick the lemon; it’s awesome!).

To complete the Monday Poll, just copy the following list, and paste it with your answers in the comments.

Le List

1. Mood:
2. Cupcakes or cookies?
3. Are you an outdoorsy person?
4. A fragrance or scent that reminds you of your mom?
5. Three things you like (non-makeup/beauty related):
6. Three things you like (makeup/beauty related):
7. It’s the last day of middle school. Will you sign my yearbook??
8. Have you ever had an at-home hair coloring disaster?
9. What are three things you’re happy about right now?
10. Weekly goals:

If you start feeling over-stressed or anxious this week, try to sneak away from whatever you’re doing for a few minutes. Change your point of view if you can, take a few deep breaths, grab a snack, and think about something that makes you happy, like playing with your dog/cat/best friend (your cat, only if he or she isn’t currently hating you, as in my case, LOL!).

Say it with me now, “I’m going to have a great week.” 🙂 I’ll be right back with your croissant.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 214

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Tabs for the Tarte Vampire Cat Lip Tint in Type O Negative

Okay, so the writers of The Walking Dead are totally earning their keep so far this season. Fo’ reals! The show is in the midst of a third-season renaissance!

Sure, you have to like zombies and whatnot, but luckily, I do. 🙂

I got so fired up watching tonight’s episode that as soon as it was over I clicked over to amazon.com and started filling my cart with emergency supplies! — you know, just in case.

  1. Aquamira Water Treatment Drops 1oz – $10.83
  2. Fancy Feast Gourmet Cat Food, Grilled Seafood Variety Pack, 3-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24) – $13.68
  3. Mainstay Emergency Food Rations – 3600 Calorie Bars (Single) – $8.49
  4. Mountain House Freeze Dried Meals (Pack of 10) – $39.99
  5. Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Tissue (40 Rolls) – $31.50
  6. Emergency Mylar Thermal Blankets (Pack of 10) – $8.57
  7. Ambient Weather WR-111A Emergency Solar Hand Crank AM/FM/NOAA Digital Radio, Flashlight, Cell Phone Charger – $41.87
  8. Emergency Fire Starter – $3.25
  9. Cyalume SnapLight Industrial Grade Chemical Light Sticks, Yellow, 6″ Long, 12 Hour Duration (Pack of 10) – $10.19
  10. 100 Feet of Rothco 550lb. Type III Nylon Paracord (in Pink) – $8.43
  11. SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situation – $12.18
  12. UAG Limited Signature Series Tactical 10.5″ Black Stainless Steel Military Combat Grade Battle Axe Tomahawk Hunter Camping Survival Tool With Nylon Belt Sheath – $17.99
  13. Leatherman 830039 New Wave Multitool with Leather/Nylon Combination Sheath – $60.89
  14. First Aid Only Outdoor First Aid Kit, Soft Case, 205-Piece Kit – $21.75

LOL! But seriously, I should probably have some of these things around the house…and not just for zombies, but for any kind of emergency.

Do you have an emergency kit at home? If you do, what’s in it? Obviously, Tabs has one just for his personal supplies — kitty litter, cases of gravy and bags of dry food, spare feather toys, that kind of thing — but I feel like we should have one for the humans, too. 🙂

In other news, Tabs had a pretty busy week of kitty modeling. Lots going on in the world of feline fabulosity, and here are some of his latest pics…

Tab for the Paul & Joe Great Pumpkin Gravy and Grocery Bag

Tabs for Illamasqua Cat Philanderer
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Limelight Looks: A Hayden Panettiere Inspired Makeup Tutorial

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Hayden Panettiere Makeup Tutorial

I need another TV show addiction like I need another Bouchon Bakery macaron (OMG! — the peanut butter and jelly ones are a revelation!), but in my defense, when I couldn’t fall asleep the other night, at least I watched a new show like Nashville and not an episode of the Jersey Shore.

I actually really like the show. It stars Hayden Panetierre and Connie Britton as dueling country music divas. I’m not sure if it’ll be the next Friday Night Lights, but the music’s catchy, the story’s entertaining (so far), and it showcases some pretty makeup looks.

Hayden plays a cross-over country artist, and in the last episode she wears a shimmery greenish brown smokey eye in the video for a song called Telescope.

GURL, work those shorts!

I thought it looked really cool, so I gave it a try today, but with a little twist to make it slightly more wearable (’cause that’s how I roll, boo).

I used a mix of makeup from Too Faced, MAC, Illamasqua, Bobbi Brown and Revlon, but of course you could use similar products from other brands.

too faced sweet indulgences
The Too Faced Sweet Indulgences Palette

Before we jump in, let’s gather our makeup first. We’ll need…

The eyes: step by step

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