Okay, so I had planned to blog some product reviews today, right? Yup, it was gonna be totes sweet! I had a Clinique lipgloss set to tell you about and some cool stuff from the new issue of Vogue that I wanted to discuss, but what happened instead?

I’ll tell you what happened…

I took a 3-hour nap! — that’s what happened.

Guess I needed the rest, but I’ll be back soon, rearing to go, full of vim and vigor and whatnot. If you sign up for my updates by email, you can rest assured that days like today will be few and far between. I’m usually good for 2-3 posts/day, honest.

Tabs is here sleeping on my lap. Maybe I’ll blame him for my laziness today. The sound of his purring lulled me to sleep. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

I hope you had a more productive day than I did.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. If you like vampire movies, you gotta see Let The Right One In. El Hub and I caught it last night, and BOY-HOWDY was it good! Picture this: It’s winter in Sweden; night comes early since it’s so far north, and snow covers everything in sight. A 12-year-old Swedish vampire girl drops from trees onto her prey, the lonely inhabitants of a quiet Stockholm suburb.

Fo reals! Expect child vampire mayhem and so much more. It’s well worth the price of admission (note: it’s subtitled).

How’s it going, girls? Look what I found in the news this morning. Actress Kim Cattrall, 52, pretty emphatically says there’s going to be a Sex and the City: The Movie sequel, yea!

She spilled the beans on Britain’s The Paul O’Grady Show. Her exact words when asked “Will there be a sequel?” — “Yes there will!”

Kim had recently told reporters, “The movie was so much fun to do and be part of again. I hope we’re going to do it again.”

I Netflixed the movie DVD this week and watched it twice in one day. Can’t wait for the next one! I think it’s true that you can be in your 40s and 50s and still be fashionable and interesting. There’s more to life than mom jeans!

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Disney Does Shoes and a Bunch of Other Stuff

• Did you know that in addition to mouse ear hats, Disney also sells bridal gowns, shoes and chandeliers?

Shoe Lust, Part Deux

• I saw these red strappy sandals on Seychelles Footwear and instantly fell in lurve. With cold weather just around the corner my sandal-wearing days are numbered, but I’m oh-so-tempted!

Rabid About Twilight? Me Too!

• The Twilight Lexicon Blog features up-to-the-minute news and info on the upcoming movie! I check it every day.

Annie, Get Yer Gunn… Yer Tim Gunn, That Is

• Last night I watched my very first episode of Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. Yes, I’ve been living underneath a rock. In the show T. Gunn (of Project Runway fame) helps women discover clothing shapes and colors to suit their body types, so they can make smarter fashion choices.

  The show’s website features this really fun game called The Wardrobe Room, where you can create outfits by paring up Tim Gunn’s wardrobe essentials — tops, bottoms, dresses and jackets (no accessories though, boo). It’s fun… and addictive. I spent WAAAY too much time playing this today.

Get Your China Glaze On For Mere Duckets

• The Eighty Eight Beauty Supply online store is not the flashiest or fanciest site, but they offer a staggering collection of nail polishes like China Glaze and OPI at bargain prices.

Smell Less Stinky, Naturally

• Looking for an all-natural deodorant? Bella Sugar suggests trying Bergamot Oil to mitigate that stinky pit sitch!

New Bath and Body Works Packaging

• Beauty Addict gives the run down on the redesign of the bottles, tubes and artwork on the new Bath and Body Works Signature Collection product packaging.

Heya! I’m off to do a short run before the sun sets. Gotta burn some calories so I can eat popcorn when I go to the movies tonight. I’m taking El Hub to watch Let the Right One In, a Swedish film about vampires!

Watcha up to tonight?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

UPDATE: We have a winner! Sylvie, you were the first person to submit the correct answer, which was MAC Cosmetics Originals Glitter Swatches. Congratulations!

Clinique Holiday 2008 Blog Treasure Hunt

What’s up, girls! Tabs, that naughty kitty and part-time beauty booty pirate, is up to his old hijinks again.

Deep within the blog archives he’s hidden some Clinique Holiday 2008 treasure. Do you think you can find it?

Enter the Clinique Holiday 2008 Treasure Hunt for a chance to win some cool stuff. Just be the first to find the picture of Blackberry Bloom Tabs hidden within a post. Keep reading for your clue!

The Prize

The winner receives the following items from the Clinique Blackberry Bloom and Party Red Holiday 2008 collections; a $132 value.

Clinique = Awesome…

1. Fresh Bloom Allover Colour in Blackberry Bloom
2. Colour Surge Eye Shadow in Black Coffee
3. Colour Surge Eye Shadow in Black Amethyst
4. Colour Surge Eye Shadow in Black Smoke
5. Kohl Shaper for Eyes in Black Honey
6. High Impact Mascara in Black Honey
7. Full Potential Lips Plump and Shine in Sugarfull
8. Buttershine Lipstick in Parisian Red

How to Enter

Search through the blog archives to find the hidden picture of Blackberry Bloom Tabs (just like the one above). When you find it, shoot me an email (karen_at_makeupandbeautyblog.com) with the name of the post. The first person to email the correct answer wins.

Use any combination of the blog search box, Google, the monthly archives links in the right sidebar and the navigation links above and below each post to find the hidden pic! Good luck!

Here’s your clue…

If you’re trapped in a rut,
Use those guts.
Don’t freak out;
Tabs has no doubt,
You’ll use your smarts.
No need for martial arts!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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I played hooky earlier this week and drove into San Francisco to visit the de Young museum in Golden Gate Park. The museum has on display a new exhibit featuring a career retrospective of clothing designer Yves Saint Laurent, who passed away on June 1 of this year.

Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was born on August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria, at the time a French colony.

Yves Saint Laurent

I don’t really know much about Yves Saint Laurent clothes (they’re out of my Old Navy budget), but I’ve seen and played with the YSL luxe makeup line at Nordies and Sephora and have always been curious about the man, so I thought the exhibit might be cool.

A cocktail dress and hat, circa 1960. I’d so rock this in a heartbeat!

The exhibit features over 130 original Yves Saint Laurent designs from the ’60s to the present day, outfits ranging from sleek, sophisticated cocktail dresses to intricate haute couture gowns.

Beyond presenting his clothes, the exhibit explores the man and what had been some of his sources of inspiration during his life — art, theatre, history, literature and nature.

There aren’t any compacts or lipsticks in the hizz, but I think his influence on the entire world of beauty, from fashion to cosmetics, comes through in the patterns and colors of his clothes.

He Changed How We Dress

Ah, the pantsuit. There are several pant suits and tuxedos up in the mix, items that were signature to YSL style. In the 1960s, YSL designed and dressed women in clothes that had historically symbolized male power. The shift signaled a revolution in the history of women’s clothing. Now we wear pants day and night!

A Shakespeare-inspired haute couture gown

Couture Gowns

Who doesn’t like pants, right? Heck, I wear pants like *every* day!, but YSL was also a master of the haute couture gown.

Before my trip to the museum this week, I’d never seen a haute couture gown in person. Fo sho, they’re extremely detailed — the pleating, bead work and embroidery — but in general they’re not something you’d wear to the library on a Tuesday. It took every ounce of willpower to refrain from touching.

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