Teeny, tiny perfume bottles rule!
The new Benefit Crescent Row Set, new for holiday 2011 ($36; available now online).
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Teeny, tiny perfume bottles rule!
The new Benefit Crescent Row Set, new for holiday 2011 ($36; available now online).
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Is your pet waiting to be discovered? If your feline friend or canine companion longs for a life of international celebrity, the Tabs the Cat School of Modeling can help. Call 1-800-555-5555 today.
And speaking of being discovered, here are those swatches of the Be Discovered and Click It You’re It kits from the new Smashbox Holiday 2011 collection.
Now I’m sitting here on the couch covered in cat hair and glitter. Yup, it’s business as usual here for a Saturday night… 🙂
Click You’re It
Eyeshadows 1 through 5 in the palette above
Eyeshadows 6 through 10
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More Benefit holiday 2011! Swatches and pics of the new Ticket to Glossytown kit ($24; available now online).
The kit includes So Frisk Me (a gilded berry), Nudie-Tude (a goldspun twist), Spiked Punch (a juicy coral), Life on the A List (a bubblegum pink), Foxy Lady (a diamond rose) and Kiss You (a clear fucshia).
Swatches from the left: Kiss You, Foxy Lady, Spiked Punch, Life on the A List, Nudie-Tude and Frisk Me
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Now pose for the camera.
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My inner-shutterbug has developed quite a crush on Smashbox lately, and they’re back behind the camera again with another photography-fueled collection (remember fall’s Girls on Film?), this one for the holidays.
They’ve kept their lens zoomed in on kits and palettes this time around. The new Snappy Holidays collection features kits for the face, lips and eyes. Here’s a close look at two of the sets, Be Discovered and Click You’re It, of which the former isn’t listed on the Smashbox website yet.
So far, I can say that I definitely dig the blushes.
I do wish they would have placed the cream liner on a separate tier, but still, I can’t wait to play with this palette!
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Pics and swatches of the new Benefit I’m Glam Therefore I Am kit, new for holiday 2011 ($36; available now online).
Review coming soon!
Swatches from the left with the flash: Eyeshadows in Pink Fancy, Icy Lilac, Posh Amethyst and Precious Pewter
Swatches from the left with the flash: Glamming Face Powder mixed with Glamming Face Powder II, Girl Meets Pearl, Life on the A List Lip Gloss and Bad Gal Lash Mascara
Swatches without the flash
DANGIT! SHOOT! DRAT! BLAST!
I’m so peeved right now… I lost another mechanical pencil. And not just any pencil. I lost my Pentel drafting pencil. My lucky drawing pencil, gah!
Where hath thou gone to, oh lucky pencil? Why art thou hiding from my firm embrace? Momma just wants to draw pictures of kitties and makeup… Is that so wrong? In the grand scheme of things, ’tis surely a noble cause.
In other news, welcome to the weekend! 🙂 I hope all is going well on your end of the keyboard. If a missing pencil is the worst part of my day, I’ll consider myself a very lucky gal.
Oh, I rented a movie last night that really surprised me. Something Borrowed? Have you seen it? It got a frighteningly low 14% on Rottentomatoes, but I don’t know what those critics were smoking because I thought it was much better than that. Sure, it’s probably not gonna win any Academy Awards or anything, but I thought it was one of the better rom-coms to come along in a while. Even El Hub enjoyed it, and that was after I’d talked him out of renting Captain America (so he was already a little salty).
As a friendly reminder, The 2011 Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway ends on Monday, so please take a minute to send in your support sign and leave a comment on the original post, if you haven’t already.
And now, without further ado…
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Hi again. 🙂 I know you have an artistic side just screaming to get out. Put it to good use this weekend by entering The 2011 Breast Cancer Awareness Month Sign Project and Giveaway. If you haven’t yet, it’s something you don’t want to miss. It’s easy, it matters, and that huge pile of products from MAC, Clinique, Make Up For Ever, Estée Lauder and Bobbi Brown (click here for the full details) needs a good home.
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Top row from the left to right: Pure Color Long Lasting Lipsticks in Candy, Beige, Fuchsia Fever, Cafe Chic and Scarlet Siren. Bottom row: Pure Color EyeShadows in Sugar Cube, Polished Platinum, Enchanted Forest, Silver Bell and Black Crystal.
Available now at select airports and duty-free stores.
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Exhausted from the day, I stopped by the mall last night before the Project Runway finale to pick up a few pieces of “comfort chocolate,” and I figured that since I was already there, I might as well pay a quick visit to the MAC store.
I wasn’t there for long, but I spent every minute of the visit with the MAC Holiday collection.
We’re — how shall I put this? — still getting to know each other. It’s that awkward stage, ya know, where I’m attracted to the packaging but haven’t quite figured out how I feel about the products yet, in particular the frosty, cool colors in the sub-collection called Glitter & Ice.
I told myself, “Don’t be scurrred,” but I couldn’t help it. Frosty, cool-toned shades like the ones in Glitter & Ice don’t always play well with my warm undertones. Often they’ll look ashy on my NC42 skin.
But today, not wanting to give up without a fight, I decided to channel Tim Gunn and “make it work,” so I used one of my all-time favorite makeup tricks — pairing a cooler eyeshadow with a warm matte brown in the crease.
The brown’s warmer tones tend to balance out cool, frosty colors, and the trick has one more very cool side effect: whenever I blink or close my eyes, it reveals a quick flash of shimmer (fun!).
How do you know if you have warm or cool undertones?
If your skin has a lot of yellow in it, you probably have warm undertones (think Jennifer Anniston or Beyonce), but if it contains more red than yellow, you may lean cool (a la Courtney Cox or Oprah).
Here’s another way to tell: take a look at the veins on your inner wrist. If they appear green, then you’re probably warm toned; if they look blue, then you’re probably cool. For a more detailed explanation, check out this helpful post by my friend Jen over at BSB.
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