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The Weekly Roundup: Posts You Might Have Missed

March 13th, 2011 by Karen 16 Comments

Makeup and Beauty Blog Weekly Roundup

Good mornin’, ladies. 🙂 I’m rising and shining a little later than usual today but rising and shining nonetheless. How did you sleep? Did all of your clocks spring forward like good little timepieces?

I stayed up way past my bedtime last night watching TV and movies, and now I’m quite sleepy. I streamed a wonderful movie on Netflix called Listen To Your Heart. It’s about a young musician who falls in love with a hearing-impaired girl from New York’s upper crust. The girl’s controlling mother, played by Cybill Shepherd (anyone here remember Moonlighting?), tries to keep them apart, so it’s one of those love-that-cannot-be stories but much better than usual. Even El Hub was quietly sobbing on the couch.

Do you have anything special planned today? I have a few chores to do, but after that I think I’ll take the tabby for a walk…

The Weekly Roundup: Posts You Might Have Missed

Givenchy Rouge Interdit Lipstick in Candide TangerineGIVENCHY ROUGE INTERDIT
LIPSTICK IN CANDIDE TANGERINE: A MODERN TWIST ON RETRO ORANGE

Um, did I really just spend 20 minutes dancing around my living room to Biggie’s Juicy?

Yes, I did (I suspect you aren’t surprised). And why did I do it? Givenchy! Candide Tangerine, their newest lipstick color, makes me REALLY wish I could rap. If I could, I’d spit a few bars about how downright juicy it is.

Imagine pieces of peeled tangerine dipped in concentrated Hawaiian Punch. THAT’s how intensely pigmented Candide Tangerine is.

I’m wearing two layers for opaque coverage in these pics; a single layer produces more of a stained look. Read more…

Straight Talk: This Curly Girl Also Loves Straight Hair STRAIGHT TALK: THIS CURLY GIRL
ALSO LOVES STRAIGHT HAIR

Looking back, I realize now that holding a scalding hot laundry iron inches away from my face probably wasn’t the smartest thing I’d ever done, but I was a curious teenager, and I’d heard from my friend Jessica that the quickest way to get straight hair was to iron it.

(pause)

Okay, this was the early ’90s, and flat irons hadn’t quite made their way into every straight hair-challenged girl’s bathroom yet, so, one day, after pressing the wrinkles out of my favorite pair of Z. Cavariccis and my black-and-white polka-dot shirt (complete with sheer black sleeves!), I placed my long, wavy hair on the ironing board and…

(Seriously, do NOT try this at home.)

It didn’t take long to turn my unruly lion’s mane into a sleek curtain of straight hair. “Victory!” I roared. Adrenaline burned through my veins! — or I guess it could have been heat from the iron. Read more…

Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow Swatches BENEFIT CREASELESS CREAM SHADOW
SWATCHES AND REMARKABLE SELF-RESTRAINT

G’morning and happy Tuesday, friend. I was feeling kinda blah yesterday afternoon (been cold and rainy here), so I stopped by Sephora for a little pick-me-up.

In a somewhat shocking display of self-restraint, I managed to make it out of the store with just one thing — Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow in Strut ($19), a shimmery charcoal gray.

I’ve been meaning to bring it home for a while but just never got around to it. I bet she’ll look cute (and we’ll know soon enough) worn with a couple of my favorite Creaseless Cream go-to girls, Skinny Jeans (a shimmery pewter) and Birthday Suit (a shimmery chrome). Read more…

Kerastase Paris Chroma Sensitive Cleansing Hair Balm DOES THE NEW KERASTASE PARIS CHROMA
SENSITIVE CLEANSING BALM PREVENT HAIR COLOR FROM FADING?

Good morning and happy hump day, babe. 🙂 Just a quick heads up for the cuties with color-treated hair and the silicone-free product enthusiasts out there.

Luxury line Kerastase Paris has come out with a pricey yet promising new shampoo. It’s called Chroma Sensitive Cleansing Balm ($42 for a 6.8-oz. bottle), a low-foam cleanser designed to gently clean without washing away hair color.

Kerastase claims, among other things, that their low-foam, low-friction “Color Protect System,” a mix of a mild cleansing agent (1/4 of the recipe) and a deep conditioning agent (the other 3/4), smoothes the surface of each hair, preventing color pigments from escaping.

They suggest using it for the first three shampoos following a color service, and then alternating every other wash with your regular shampoo. Read more…

NARS 413 Bleecker Street Lipstick NEXT STOP: NARS 413
BLEECKER STREET LIPSTICK

Well get my plaid shirt, hoop earrings and clunky Timberland boots, because the second I slipped on the new NARS 413 Bleecker Street Pure Matte Lipstick ($25), I felt like I’d just stepped out of a hot tub time machine set for 1995.

It was the Clueless decade, when Alicia Silverstone, Sugar Ray and little black backpacks were En Vogue (just like the group!). Colors like this matte rosy brown were all the rage. I remember wearing a similar shade to countless (boring) college lectures on organic chemistry and physics.

This new NARS shade (I’m trying to find out if it’s permanent or limited edition) was created exclusively for the recent opening of the company’s first flagship store in the West Village at 413 Bleecker Street in New York City, and, at least for now, the store is the only place you can get it. Read more…

The Givenchy Le Prisme Eye Quad in Candide Garden THE GIVENCHY LE PRISME EYE QUAD
IN CANDIDE GARDEN: THANKSGIVING IN MARCH

Today an eye quad made me nervous. And hungry. For turkey?

The Givenchy Le Prisme Eye Quad in Candide Garden($56), the lone quad in the new Givenchy Naivement Couture Collection for Spring/Summer, made me a little nervous because of how sheer the colors looked swatched on the back of my hand. I tried not to write too much into it before getting them on my lids, but before I could talk myself down, a word popped into my head that worried me even more: Thanksgiving! That’s what the orange, yellow and brown shades reminded me of, and I contemplated putting the quad down right there…

Don’t get me wrong — I love the holiday. In fact I’ve always been a fan. I’m down with the colors of the harvest and falling leaves and those cute cartoon turkeys, too, but was I ready to wear those shades on my lids? In March?

Apparently, I was. 🙂 And I’m so glad. This wee little quad with its four powder shadows is actually pretty darn good (if not great, except for the price). Read more…

Smashbox Softbox Collection SMASHBOX SOFTBOX COLLECTION
FOR SUMMER 2011: DIFFUSE ME, PLEASE

Heads up, fellow Smashbox fans! The line’s just made their new Softbox Collection for Summer 2011 available online, and from the look of things, it’s right up my alley (and maybe yours).

Photographers use softboxes and specialized bulb umbrellas to diffuse bright light sources and eliminate harsh shadows, making the light that falls on their model appear softer and more natural.

It’s the same premise Smashbox applied to the products in their Softbox Studio collection. The three makeup sets for eyes, lips and cheeks mimic the qualities of natural light and embody the idea of effortless beauty.

Speaking as a practical person, I love these shades because I know I’ll be able to wear them. 🙂 Expect to see lots of neutral browns, beiges, pinks and taupes — colors equipped to take you straight from the office to dinner and drinks. Read more…

Estee Lauder DayWear Moisturizing Sheer Tint ESTEE LAUDER SAYS DAYWEAR DOES IT ALL,
YET THIS MOISTURIZING SHEER TINT WITH SPF15 COMES IN JUST A SINGLE SHADE

Okay, here’s a product name I may not be able to remember: Estee Lauder DayWear Sheer Tint Release Advanced Multi-Protection Anti-Oxidant Moisturizer.

Wow, 12 words? It could be a sentence if we squeezed in a verb.

Let’s try it!

Estee Lauder Likes DayWear Sheer Tint Release Advanced Multi-Protection Anti-Oxidant Moisturizer…

Tada! Let’s call it DayWear for short.

DayWear is a product I’d like to remember, because I think it has a few good things to offer fans of the barely-there makeup look. In a nutshell (I’ve always loved that phrase; I picture things in little nutshells), it’s a lightweight, super sheer tinted moisturizer that comes in just a single shade, and it’s designed to work on most skin tones, giving them a healthy, even-toned glow. Read more…

NYX HD Studio Photogenic Grinding BlushNYX HD STUDIO PHOTOGENIC GRINDING BLUSH
MAKES ME WANT TO TWIST AND SHOUT

Ah, to be a bored teen without wheels in the Easy Bay suburbs circa 1992 again… When you live in a town where the most exciting thing to do is get an ice cream cone at Thrifty’s, you figure out ways to amuse yourself.

On Friday nights my friends and I loved to watch The Grind on MTV. Remember that dance show? We’d crank up the volume and electric slide around the living room as the show’s host, Eric Nies, who was almost always shirtless for some reason, introduced the hits.

It wasn’t the most exciting way to start the weekend, but it was either that or ice cream at Thrifty’s…

We sure could have used something like these new NYX HD Studio Photogenic Grinding Blushes ($16.50 each; available in eight shades) back then. Dang if these things wouldn’t have kept us busy. Read more…

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

The Weekly Roundup: Posts You Might Have Missed / Originally published March 13th, 2011

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  1. Nina says

    March 13th, 2011 at 9:17 am

    what a nice way to relax after a long bout of cleaning the house — lemme read some posts again!

    sunday already!!! kinda bummed that the weekend flew!

    Reply
    • Karen says

      March 13th, 2011 at 10:51 am

      Hi Nina,

      🙂 The weekend goes way too fast. I’m about to do a little cleaning myself… laundry time!

      What do you have lined up for the rest of the day?

      Reply
      • Nina says

        March 13th, 2011 at 12:00 pm

        i baked a cake. its an oatmeal cake with a coconut topping! 🙂

        now im just chillaxin. ill go work out in a bit!

        Reply
        • Tiffany says

          March 13th, 2011 at 12:29 pm

          that sounds yummy, Nina! care to share the recipe? I am obsessed with all things coconut…

          Reply
          • Karen says

            March 13th, 2011 at 12:59 pm

            Yeah! I’d love to get a copy of it too! Is it like a breakfast cake? Or more of a dessert cake?

          • Nina says

            March 13th, 2011 at 2:13 pm

            i will share it! the soft copy is in my work computer so ill do that tomorow!

          • Nina says

            March 13th, 2011 at 2:13 pm

            its mroe of a desert cake … the texture is great and the taste of the brown sugar and oatmeal is yum!

  2. Vijaya says

    March 13th, 2011 at 9:47 am

    Is it sad that I’m going to read the NYX blush thing a second time?
    Vijaya recently posted … China Glaze Crackle Polishes

    Reply
    • Karen says

      March 13th, 2011 at 10:54 am

      I re-read stuff all the time! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Kimberly says

    March 13th, 2011 at 11:09 am

    i love your highlights! My hair is as dark (maybe darker) as yours, and i want to get highlights. How did you explain to your hairdresser how you wanted them??

    Reply
    • Karen says

      March 13th, 2011 at 1:04 pm

      Hi Kimberly,

      I brought in these pics of Mila Kunis and Nicole Richie…

      https://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mila-kunis-nicole-richie.jpg

      …and she did a version that works for my hair. She did ombre highlights in which the roots are darker than the ends.

      Reply
  4. Tiffany says

    March 13th, 2011 at 11:30 am

    Happy Sunday! My day has also consisted of cleaning 🙁

    Reply
    • Karen says

      March 13th, 2011 at 1:06 pm

      Boo for cleaning! I thought by now we’d all have cleaning robots like in The Jetsons, LOL!

      I’m doing laundry myself… it never seems to end.

      Reply
      • Rachel says

        March 13th, 2011 at 10:11 pm

        i just started a blog about makeup and products that iv bot and review them could you take a look at my blog and tell me if i should keep writing on my blog or no thank you 🙂
        Rachel recently posted … Curled lashes all day

        Reply
  5. hailing says

    March 13th, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    What do you recommend to cover dark spots , wish makeup covers a lot ???

    help

    Reply
    • Rachel says

      March 13th, 2011 at 10:14 pm

      i like using Benefit Cosmetics
      Erase Paste it helps a lot to cover up dark spots on face it’s really good stuff heres a link http://www.ulta.com/ulta/browse/productDetail.jsp?productId=xlsImpprod820372
      Rachel recently posted … Curled lashes all day

      Reply

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