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 more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007).
1. When’s your next hair appointment?
Goodness gracious, who knows! I was hoping to get a good chop in sometime in February because my hair’s been feeling really heavy lately, but I think I might wait until March to be on the safer side.
2. A beauty-related thing you’ve been loving?
Ooh, layering multiple face moisturizers. It’s the only way I’ve made it this far through winter. Dang, my skin is dry!
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight?
If a big bowl of pho were to miraculously appear, I wouldn’t mind it at all.
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch?
Mascara, for sure. It makes such a big difference in how awake I look!
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products?
Solid five, and then some. LOL! If it smells funky or tastes weird, I won’t have anything to do with it. I’ve gotten a lot pickier about flavor and scent in the last few years…
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight?
Brow bone highlight. A subtle one, though, so nothing overly frosty or shiny. Just a tiny bit of matte blended in underneath the arch of my brown to lift my hooded lids a touch. It makes a difference!
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow?
Right now it kinda is. But if I got back into the habit again, it wouldn’t be at all.
8. How are you feeling today?
Pretty good overall, but a little lonely. Mondays are always a shock to my system because with Connor in school and El Hub at work, so the house is eerily quiet. It’s great for concentration but I miss having my people around.
9. Lemon bars or brownies?
Lemon bars today. I’d love something a little sour and a little sweet.
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. When’s your next hair appointment?
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise?
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight?
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch?
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products?
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight?
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow?
8. How are you feeling today?
9. Lemon bars or brownies?
P.P.S. Good morning, beautiful friend! Please be extra gentle with yourself this week. 🤗
1. When’s your next hair appointment?
It was Saturday and it was fantastic! There was also waxing for the first time since the pandemic started!
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise?
Funny you should mention layering moisturizers, because I’ve been doing that for my hands and feet. Pure Argan oil (beauty section at Trader Joe’s), Neutrogena Hydroboost Body Gel Cream, and O’Keefe’s Working Hands. It’s a heavy-duty mix for bedtime and it works.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight?
It’s cool today, so I’m happy about the 15-Bean Soup in my slow cooker. We’ll have it with honey cornbread. (Although if someone offered a grain bowl with lamb kefta and harissa, I wouldn’t hate it.)
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch?
Foundation, to cover the weirdness that is my skin right now.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products?
Five! I can’t deal with much flavor or scent.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight?
Cheek.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow?
Yes.
8. How are you feeling today?
Low-key stressed. I have several small tasks that need doing and I can’t seem to prioritize or focus on any one of them.
9. Lemon bars or brownies?
Brownies is my default answer to all dessert-related questions that don’t involve cheesecake, lol. (But I love lemon in the Spring.)
Your dinner sounds absolutely delicious, YUM! Happy Monday, Suzanne!
1. When’s your next hair appointment?
I don’t have one scheduled! Just got a chop last month.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise?
I’ve been doing purple eyeliner with my new purple eyeglasses.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight?
Pasta!
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch?
Probably mascara too, so important, especially for my blond lashes.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products?
5+!
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight?
Cheek!
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow?
I only do colorful shadows as liner, so it’s not weird as liner, but weird as shadow.
8. How are you feeling today?
A bit tired but pretty good.
9. Lemon bars or brownies?
Mmmm brownies.
1. When’s your next hair appointment? It’s going to be a long time. I have medium length that just got cut a little shorter than I wanted…and I have decided to grow it back out long.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? Face oils:) I’m obsessed.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? Pizza…it will forever make me happy😁
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? I can’t pick just one…concealer and mascara. They make the most difference on my face.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? 5…I don’t like scents in my cosmetics.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? I love both…but cheek if I had to choose one.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? I only wear colorful eyeshadow as a liner. I don’t have the time to play with colors anymore.
8. How are you feeling today? Stressed
9. Lemon bars or brownies? Warm brownie with vanilla ice cream please!
1. When’s your next hair appointment?
TBD! It probably would have been this month but Chicago is ~not~ doing well with covid, so I’m holding off. My color – purple – is wildly grown out but it’s applied in a way where it can almost pass as an ombre and I can easily throw more on myself, so I think I’ll do that in a week and see where we’re at in a month.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? Cuticle oil! We have two humidifiers running 24/7 but we also have radiators and it is soooooo dry (now making a mental note to put pots of water on the radiators LOL) – cuticle oil has been saving my witch hands,
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? Fries!! But we’re waiting on our oven to be replaced so we’re stove-top only right now. Skillet meals only!
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? Foundation stick (bare minerals complexion stick) – SPF and evens tone for me.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? I’d say 5 in that I prefer none at all, and that I’ll pass on most if it’s flavored anything more than like, honey or vanilla.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? Cheek. I’m incredibly fair and once foundation goes on I need that dimension back on my face, haha.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? Not entirely, I’ll wear purples, pinks, and greens.
8. How are you feeling today? Exhausted. I’m getting over bronchitis and it’s my first day back to work. I need a nap!
9. Lemon bars or brownies? Hmm….the limit does not exist? 😂
1. When’s your next hair appointment? in may .
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? omorovicza balancing moisturizer
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? tacos
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? lipstick
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? 3
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? cheek but i like the part between the brows and bridge of the nose
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? not really
8. How are you feeling today? i would like to take a nap
9. Lemon bars or brownies? brownies. i even order some in the middle of the night from killer brownies
1. When’s your next hair appointment?
I just had one last week, after about 6 months! It felt so good and I love the cut. I’ve been letting it grow out, so it’s big and gray and wild and curly!
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise?
Brow pencil. It feels like it just pulls everything together.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight?
I’m going to have shrimp cocktail platter and champagne!
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch?
Tinted spf and concealer instead of foundation.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products?
It’s important that it not have any, lol. I can tolerate some, like Mac and Tom Ford that have the vanilla-type, but really cannot stand the floral ones. For that reason I cannot wear Dior, YSL, or the new Valentino ones.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight?
Cheek.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow?
No, I do it a lot. Guess that’s one of the very few nice side effects of the pandemic and mask wearing, it really forced me to play around with eye makeup.
8. How are you feeling today?
Pretty good, it’s my Sunday and I’m enjoying a glass of wine in the sunshine on my back deck. Pretty alright.
9. Lemon bars or brownies
Lemon bars atm, but that could change instantly.
1. Mid Jan and ya girl is excited! I love doing my hair and it’s been 3 months. I’m pretty regular with maintenance.
2. Colorful eyeshadow. Thanks for the tips on your previous post, Karen!
3. Making some spaghetti tonight!
4. My ILIA tinted serum SPF moisturizer.
5. 5. I hate scent in my lip products.
6. Um…neither.
7. Nope. I have nowhere to go
8. A bit “aimless” but I’m working on that this year. (aimless in quotations because I’m not actually but am hard on myself)
9. Lemon brownie?
1. When’s your next hair appointment?
The 19th of January! I have to get my hair done before my cruise. It absolutely needs it.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise?
Cheekbone beauty products!
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight?
Um, I haven’t even thought about it. Food?
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch?
Concealer. I actually had to build mine from scratch and that’s the first thing I get. And a good mascara.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products?
1. I hate scent and I never taste lipstick?
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight?
Brow if I have to pick.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow?
Right now? Yep.
8. How are you feeling today?
A bit sluggish.
9. Lemon bars or brownies?
BROWNIES!
1. When’s your next hair appointment?
I don’t plan in advance.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise?
Truly Coco Rose Whipped Body Butter. I’ve been using it on my hands every night before bed. Dreamy!
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight?
Anything that somebody else has made. Tonight it’ll be vegetarian Pho that I didn’t get to eat at lunch.
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch?
Mascara, so my lashes wouldn’t be invisible.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products?
5 – I prefer no flavor and no scent.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight?
Brow bone.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow?
Yes. I don’t have much lid space so gravitate toward neutrals.
8. How are you feeling today?
Kinda sad. My houseguest left unexpectedly this afternoon, so now I’m feeling lonely. 9. Lemon bars or brownies?
Lemon bars today, brownies tomorrow.
1. When’s your next hair appointment? My husband trims my long hair every 2-3 months—no appointment needed 😃 I’ll be due for a trim in about another month.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? Body lotion, body lotion, and more body lotion! My skin has been so dry.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? Grilled garlicky flatbread with mozzarella, slices of fresh tomato, and some shredded fresh basil. This cold and windy day I’d love something to remind me of summer.
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? I’d buy a versatile neutral eyeshadow quad or quint; something with a light shade (highlight) a couple mid-tones (shade and sculpt) and a dark shade (liner). Les Beiges eyeshadow palette in Natural would be perfect.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? A 5. If I find the scent or taste too strong or unappealing, that’s a deal breaker.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? I love a subtle highlight on the brow bone.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? Weird? No, but when I use color it is pretty subtle.
8. How are you feeling today? It was a good and productive day followed by a relaxing evening and so all’s good.
9. Lemon bars or brownies? I love lemon bars when the filling is fresh and tart. I make my own curd with a combination of Meyer and Eurika lemons picked from our trees.
1. When’s your next hair appointment? I have no idea.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? My new Dior Forever Natural Nude Foundation. I love the feel on my skin.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? Anything I don’t have to prepare.
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? I would buy the best skincare for mature skin and then work my makeup collection around that.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? I don’t like scent or flavor at all in my lip products.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? Probably brow bone although I never use highlight of any kind.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? Yes.
8. How are you feeling today? Extremely cold.
9. Lemon bars or brownies? Why choose, I’d have both.
it is about 19 degrees out east today. I am layered to the gills. Be well and stay safe!
1. When’s your next hair appointment? My stylist currently has the Covid, so when she’s fully recovered, and ready to come back to work.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? The variety lately in foundations! So many light coverage options for those of us that want a little glow or a little blue, but not a heavy full coverage foundation.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? Anything I don’t have to cook, but I also don’t want to go out to eat, so looks like I’ll be making something quick and easy.
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? Blushes, all the blushes. Creams, powders, gels. All of it.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? 5! I either want no scent or mint. That’s it. If it smells like cake or any other sugary baked good, I’m out.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? They’re both so nice, brow I guess.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? Yes. I don’t do much to my eyes, I wear glasses and I like a natural vibe.
8. How are you feeling today? So good! My sophomore went back to school today, my regular schedule is back on, yay!
9. Lemon bars or brownies? Lemon bars. Brownies are so delicious but they give me horrific canker sores. And lemon bars are just heaven.
Happy Wednesday! I hope you’re doing well!!
1. When’s your next hair appointment? I’m certainly due for a cut, so I should really get on that.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? I need to find something to love. My regular moisturizing routine isn’t cutting it, so I will have to experiment. I like your layering idea!
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? Sicilian style pepperoni pizza from one of our local places. But I won’t! 🙂
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? Same. Mascara for sure.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? I’d say 3. If it works really well, I can overlook the taste/smell as long as it’s not rancid.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? I’m going with you again on the brow bone.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? Totally. Anything that’s not natural looking makes me so self-conscious. But I know it’s what you get used to!
8. How are you feeling today? Good! One of the fellas tested positive last week (totally fine, no issues) and we’re waiting for a call from the HD with paperwork – he should be released today but hasn’t even had the prelim call because they’re so behind. Anyway, he will need to upload the release paperwork so he can head back to college. I’m very sorry for the healthcare workers that just can’t get a break!
9. Lemon bars or brownies? I’m not chocolatey, as you know, but I’m going with brownies. HAHA!
I hope it’s not too late to answer this week’s poll. Not sure why I’m so late.
1. When’s your next hair appointment? Supposed to be the first week in February, but I’m gonna keep an eye on the numbers and I might push it further out. Although my stylist’s husband works for Google so they get frequent, free testing done.
2. Something that’s you’ve been loving, beauty wise? Revitalash and Clinique naturally glossy mascara.
3. Something that you’d be happy to have for dinner tonight? Anything I don’t have to cook. But maybe teriyaki salmon or Oyaka-don.
4. What’s the first thing you’d buy if you were to rebuild your makeup collection from scratch? Shiseido Synchro Skin Foundation. One in Self-Refreshing for summer and Radiant Lifting for winter.
5. On a scale of 1-5, how important is flavor and scent to you when it comes to your lip products? 5+ I really hate scent in my lipstick unless it’s vanilla. Same with flavor. I do not want to be tasting rose perfume.
6. Brow bone or cheek highlight? Subtle brow bone. I’m not into reflective highlights.
7. Is it weird for you to wear colorful eyeshadow? Yes. I was clearing out the other day and found an UD Spectrum palette and thought, I don’t even know how to wear these gorgeous blues, turquoises and purples anymore. I like the four neutral shades in that palette though.
8. How are you feeling today? Middle of the road. Not bad, but with my achy bones not great either.
9. Lemon bars or brownies? Both, but I haven’t had lemon bars in a while. So I asked Dear Daughter if she’d make a pan of her meyer lemon, ricotta bars before she leaves on Sunday.
Hope you’re having a good week.