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Product Spotlight: Sally Hansen Sheer Color Therapy Nail Polish

March 30th, 2020 by Karen Leave a Comment

sally hansen color therapy sheer
Not just therapy for your nails…

If you like pastel paws but don’t want to go full-on painted Easter egg, these sheer Sally Hansen polishes hit the spot. They’re from Sally’s moisturizing Color Therapy lacquer line and are $8.99 each.

Fighting crabbiness one stroke at a time! Now, I’m not saying that the Sally Hansen Color Therapy Sheers will solve all your social distancing dilemmas (like, why is it so hard to find baking soda at the store right now?!), but they should help in a couple key areas, like if your nails need serious TLC! The moisturizing argan oil-infused Color Therapy formula helps reduce chipping and splitting.

And, is it just me, or is there something intensely empowering about a set of freshly painted claws? I feel like a tiny @ss kicker when my nails are done and I’m wearing big hoops.

These sheer shades, which are part of a sub-collection of the Sally Hansen Color Therapy nail polish line, are my new faves. There are only a handful of them, including cool-toned lavender Bare Tint, and cool light pink Bare Kiss, which has a hint of greige.

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Two coats of Bare Kiss, along with the Sally Hansen Color Therapy Nail Corrector Base Coat and High Gloss Top Coat
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Bare Kiss after seven days of wear

Like all of the Color Therapy polishes, these have a flat, extra wide brush that fans across your entire nail to completely coat it with paint in one swipe… Not that I’ve got anywhere pressing to go these days, but manis and pedis are much quicker when I use this brush.

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Categories: Drugstore Beauty Finds, Nails, Product Reviews, Sally Hansen

Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 620

March 30th, 2020 by Karen 32 Comments

So…what is the Monday Poll?

Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start.

    1. How comfortable are you eating by yourself in a restaurant?

    I can’t remember the last time I did it, but I’m totally, TOTALLY comfortable. Sometimes I prefer eating by myself and being able to sit quietly with my thoughts, which I don’t get to do very often. Sometimes I just want to eat a meal in peace. Oh, DARE TO DREAM!

    2. Have you ever ridden in a police car?

    Nope, and I have no plans to do so in the future, thank you very much.

    3. How late did you stay up last night?

    “Late,” in quotes, because late for me is anything after 9:15, and I was up till 10:30 watching All American and trying to unwind.

    Such is life right now!

    4. What does your makeup bag look like?

    Well, I have quite a few makeup bags (big surprise!), but my favorite one right now is a clear bag I got from Wander Beauty. It’s plastic and rectangular and has burgundy trim on the sides, and it opens from the top, so it’s great for travel…but the only place it travels these days is from my desk to a drawer. Should I ever go someplace else in the future, I’ll be taking this bag with me because I can see everything in it, and I like that it opens from the top, so I don’t have to go digging around to find what I need.

    5. How many blankets are on your bed?

    Hmm… OK. This is an ambiguous question, I realize. Does one count a sheet as a blanket? Or a comforter? So, I’m just gonna count everything that rests on top of my body as a blanket, which means a sheet, a blanket and a quilt. So three!

    Have a good day today, all things considered. Talk to you soon. 😊

    Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

    Karen

    P.S. Here are the questions to copy/paste with your answers in a comment. Talk to ya soon.

    1. How comfortable are you eating by yourself in a restaurant?
    2. Have you ever ridden in a police car?
    3. How late did you stay up last night?
    4. What does your makeup bag look like?
    5. How many blankets are on your bed?

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Categories: Just For Fun

Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 600

March 29th, 2020 by Karen 5 Comments

Jeez, it’s almost April already… I can’t believe it. Tabs would have been so sad to miss March Madness this year. 🏀 He was a huge basketball fan and a baller.

In fact, he was Draymond Green’s son’s godcat and a basketball consultant, among other things. Basically, he was one of those multi-hyphenate sports stars. He played football, of course, but he also played basketball in cat college, and he was good, too!

He didn’t make it into the pro league, but fortunately for Tabs, he had a good cattitude about it. He took his knowledge and started a successful basketball consulting agency.

He was the Jerry Maguire of cat agents. 😸

His legacy still lives on, and not just through the kitten basketball camps that his foundation funds, but also through Sundays With Tabs (this is the 600th installment!), which continues to inspire kittens and cats around the globe. 😊

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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Categories: Just For Fun, Tabs

Saturday Surfing, March 28, 2020

March 28th, 2020 by Karen 3 Comments

Saturdays are for cuddles.

Good morning, my friend. How are you? ❤️ No, really…HOW ARE YOU? I hope you’re feeling well, and not just physically. This is a weird time right now, and you might be struggling to adjust to the new normal (I know I am).

So, this is totally going to sound nerdy, but I actually have a “self-care” section on my weekly to-do list, because if I don’t write things down, even basic life necessity things like remembering to stay hydrated, I’ll forget.

swell water bottle
Quick sip!

Ah… That’s better. 😊

Some weekend reading…

  • Your fellow attendees will be mighty impressed if you wear one of these 11 simple, fun eye looks on your next Zoom meeting.
  • Across the United States and Europe, perfume companies are ramping up production of hand sanitizer.
  • Sheltering-in-place is changing how we look.
  • Did you know that Ruby Woo, MAC’s number one lipstick shade in the U.S., was a happy accident that MAC magicians/product developers stumbled onto while they were tweaking the formula for one of their other scarlet shades — Russian Red? FUN FACTS!
  • Something I’ve known for a long, long time: Pets aren’t big on surrendering space to their humans for the purposes of exercise, so forget trying to do that downw dog, plank or push-up without a cat butt in your face. It ain’t happenin’, folks!
  • This artist hides cats in his “catscapes.”
  • One positive amid the coronavirus crisis? Pet adoptions have soared. 🐈🐕🦄
  • 13 rules I’ll teach my daughter


Gratitude.


I’ve been using this system for organizing my days for the past two weeks and really like it.


Just found this series on cooking recipes from The Great Depression from someone who lived through it.


There is a 100% chance I’m wearing my “daytime pajamas” as I watch this fashion video.


Spring rainy day music


Simple, elegant

Wise words from Missy Elliot…

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Welp🤷🏾‍♀️I didn’t know that 18 years later this line would come in handy🙂👍🏾 #Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup…#quarentine

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me and coycoy hugging

Take care, my friend. Talk to you soon.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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Categories: Just For Fun

Real Makeup Life: Gnarly Brow Gel

March 27th, 2020 by Karen 11 Comments

mac clear brow set
Believe it or not, these are the same product (Exhibit A).

I present to you Exhibit A.

Above is a picture of a brand-spankin’-new tube of MAC Clear brow gel (my go-to at the moment because it reigns in stray brow hairs without a stiff crunch), and um…another picture of the exact same product, but one that’s been living in my makeup bag for the past few months.

I know. Ewww. I said the same thing when I saw them next to each other.

I’m pretty sure there’s NO WAY I’m the only person on this planet whose brow gel gets gnarly like this. I mean, I’m not super proud of it or anything, and it’s probably something I shouldn’t be sharing on the Internet, but here we are. Gnarly brow gel happens.

I probably also shouldn’t be surprised, because I have a habit of running the gel through my brows *after* I fill them in (makes them look more natural IMO and less obviously filled in), and I use brow gel daily, but still…shocked!

If you use clear brow gel, does this happen to yours, too?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. TGIF! Right?

Actually, about that…El Hub and I were just talking about how, with both of us home all day during the week, the days have been blurring together. Is this happening to you? And it’s been hard to plan special things to do, because we aren’t going to restaurants or to stores or the mall, which are things we’d normally do to treat ourselves on the weekend for fun.

We do make meals and rent movies and go for walks and drives, but coming up with new ways to treat ourselves at the end of the week has been tricky.

Does this make any sense? Is this also happening to you?

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