San Francisco Fashion Week gets closer and closer! We’ve been checking out runway looks from the MAC Web site for the past few days, and here’s yet another batch of beauties, the Photoshaped series!

I think this is just stunning. I like makeup that looks natural but has a little kick to it. And there’s just no way one can hate on gold shadow. (Is that even possible?) I love the nude lips in all of these pics, too – totaly reminds me of something Angelina Jolie would rock.

Yeah, Sunday! Don’t you love sleeping in?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and smile today!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Five days till I go backstage with MAC at San Francisco Fashion week! Sometime today I’m going to plan my interview questions and plan out what the hell I’m going to wear. While I’m tempted to rock the high heels all night long, I fear that I will have to go with practical (yet stylish) shoes and clothing so that I can take pictures without having to worry about my dress flying open or my boobs hanging out.

Have you visited the MAC site lately (silly me, I know better than to ask that question of a MAC-acholic!)? Anyway, to help get you excited for SF Fashion Week, here’s another in a series of backstage looks they are currently featuring on the Web site. This is Future Graphic!

What do you think of the black-lined eyes? For some weird reason I love’em. I would love to see these looks on sci-fi hottie Mila Jovovich or Kate Bekinsale during her vampire days in the movie Underworld. I’m not crazy about that orange-ish lip, but I guess it would look really stand out on the runway.

WOO HOO! FRIDAY! El Hub and I leave for Tahoe at the crack o’ dawn today, so please send us safe travel (and no traffic!) vibes. I hope that you’re day is going well so far, and that your night is even better. Kiss a hottie!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

The countdown is on here at makeupandbeautyblog.com, and I’ve got six days until I get to peep all the makeup magic MAC has cooking backstage at San Francisco Fashion Week.

The MAC Web site currently features some backstage looks, so here are a few that we might see next week from the Techno-Colour series:

My faves here are the bright bubble gum glossy lip in the top row and the purple eye in the middle. I really hate that yellow eyebrow, bluh!

While I’m usually color shy with makeup myself, I love seeing bright colors on others and on the runway! BEAUTIFUL! I hope the artists bust out a few looks inspired by this series.

OH! I just found out that I was kindly invited by MAC to attend a dinner next week hosted by the key makeup artists for San Francisco Fashion Week, Victor and Louise, to kick off Fashion Week. Um, hello, excited much?

This weekend I will be getting some much needed rest before all of the hub-bub next week. El Husband and I will be going to Lake Tahoe! We’re going to visit the lake (apparently it’s hella cold so swimming might not happen, boo hoo), do some gambling, and maybe I’ll hit the spa if there’s time. If you have any recommendations on what to do/where to go/what to eat (!) please let me know! We’re leaving at the crack o’ dawn tomorrow so today is my FRIDAY! WOO HOO!

I hope that your Thursday so far has been mellow and that your eye makeup looks RUNWAY HOT!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

I have a theory that every MAC makeup junkie has at least two moments where MAC comes along and changes your life. The day I discovered the 266 (December 20, 2004, LOL) saved me from a life of questionable brows. It was glorious (and honestly well overdue, because my brows were a hot mess.) And my buying my first Lipglass in 2001! Little did I know that countless tubes of Spite Lipglass would be on used my lips as my adult life started to take course: when I told my mom I was moving out of the house, as I struggled finding a job out of college, and as my heart broke and healed countless times until I met my wonderful husband.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to have yet another mega-MAC moment! I found out that I will be heading backstage to witness MAC in action at San Francisco Fashion Week next week. The powers-that-be at San Francisco Fashion Week and at MAC were kind enough to invite makeupandbeautyblog.com to cover the trends that MAC will be using on the runway models and to interview the two key MAC makeup artists, Victor C. and Louise Z. backstage.

To say that I’ve been bouncing off the walls is a major understatement. I can barely hold onto my 209 and my Blitz N’ Glitz Fluidline looks all shaky and crazy, ah ha ha!

I’ll be backstage for all of the shows on August 23, 24, and 25th, and I can’t wait to show you all of the MAC looks that will be featured during the shows. If you’re attending San Francisco Fashion Week shows please come by and say hello! I would love to meet your stylish self!

I am so glad that I’ll be able to share this opportunity with you!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

I’m scurred of scarlet!

Hmmm…

I was rifling around my makeup yesterday and I found these two lovlies. That’s MAC Frankly Scarlet Powder Blush (bright rose-red matte) on the left and MAC Russian Red Lipglass (intense blue-ish red) on the right.

I put ‘em on my Christmas list last year and I just realized yesterday that I have no idea what to do with them! I don’t know what I was thinking, because I am usually very color shy when it comes to brights.

I am going to pair the Russian Red Lipglass with heavy black liner on the top lid, but what the heck should I do with the Frankly Scarlet? I don’t want to end up looking like a clown, yowza!

Any ideas?