Beauty product reviews, makeup tips & news from your friendly neighborhood beauty addict
May 22, 2013
Published in: Just For Fun
Mint mania happening over at Glossdaily.com
I have a new post up on the Ladies’ Home Journal beauty blog, Gloss Daily.
Get Newly Minted: 7 Mint Green Makeup and Beauty Products
If you’re feeling mint green this season too, you might want to check it out.
While you’re there, could you please leave a comment/Tweet/Like the post on Facebook, too? Tabs will purr for you. 
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
May 22, 2013
Published in: Daily Beauty
May 22, 2013
Published in: Daily Photo
A few vintage Tabs pics taken in the fall of 2009…
May 21, 2013
Published in: Eyes, Face, Kits and Sets, Lips, LORAC, Makeup, Product Reviews
Minty! That’s LORAC’s Mint Edition Palette refreshing my eyes, cheeks and lips
Not that I need another clutch…but if someone were to build one based on LORAC’s Mint Edition Eye/Cheek Palette, I would not be averse to the idea.
I’m just sayin’.
How cute is this!?
With the silver and black accents?
I used to rock a pair of mint green Bongo Jeans in the exact same color about a zillion years back (it had zippers and bows around the ankles), and now I suddenly have the urge to put my hair up in a side ponytail with a scrunchie and peg my pants…
What year is this again? Did we just go back in time?
Wait — I don’t think so, but LORAC looks like they did for the retro design. This eye, cheek and lip set launched earlier this spring, but it looks like it could have been released a few decades before that.
Regardless of the palette’s release date, mint is having a moment — I’m seeing it on purses, shoes, nails, makeup — and Mint Edition is riding the wave…
LORAC included all of the basics for a minty fresh look in this $42 set (a $160 value) — eight eye shadows (four mattes and four shimmers), a powder highlighter, a powder blush and a full-sized liquid lipstick.
Liquid Lipstick in Retro
May 21, 2013
Published in: Face, MAC Makeup, Makeup, Product Reviews
Here I’m wearing MAC Refined Golden Bronzing Powder just below my cheekbones…
Like Tabs the Cat, star of screen, stage and glossy magazines, MAC’s $25 Refined Golden Bronzing Powder does it all, deepening tans, thereby allowing me to live out my bronzed beach surfer babe dreams (irrespective of the fact that I spend most of my time with my butt in front of a computer), and sculpting cheekbones like Michelangelo sculpted marble and clay. We’re talkin’ real-deal contouring here.
To my eye, it’s the darkest and most intense of the Temperature Rising collection’s four powder bronzers, making it ideal for skin tones NC42-ish and darker.
So refined…
Flecks of golden glitter spice up this pan of deep golden tan, which I probably would have liked even without the glitter for the color itself, which never looks muddy, ruddy or dirty on my skin, perhaps due to the golden undertones.
Did you say, “hrmpf!” when I said, “glitter?” Not to worry. MAC didn’t go overboard with this glitter (not that there’s anything inherently wrong with going overboard on glitter). This isn’t Bollywood-caliber shimmer, which I also like.
MAC Refined Golden on NC42 Skin
