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Two Ways to Win MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer

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Heavens, can it true? Have we really made it to Friday? 🙂

Let’s celebrate this momentous achievement with a Fabulous Felines giveaway!

The Prize

One lucky lady will win a MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer ($14.50 value), a shimmery, long-wearing yellowish caramel gloss with red and gold pearl.

How To Enter…

2ways2enterEntering is easy. There are two different ways, and you can do both of them for two chances to win.

  1. First, you can enter by retweeting (RT) the following message:

    Follow @karenmbb and RT to win MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer http://bit.ly/bsCBvp

  2. Second, enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, a comment about anything at all! — your favorite desert, what you wish you could do for a living, what you’re wearing on your lips today, or what you’d buy if you found a crisp $100 bill on the sidewalk.

    What am I wearing on my lips today? Three things from Burmese Beauty (I’m a makeup CCL!). I’m wearing Frost Lipstick in Pet Me Please, Lustre Lipstick in To Pamper and Lipglass in Jealous.

  • International peeps and readers living overseas, please feel free to enter. The giveaway is also open to y’all. Entrants everywhere, however, must be at least 18 years of age or older.

Recap…

  1. Enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, and don’t forget to use a valid email address so I can reach you if you win.
  2. Retweet the following message on twitter:

    Follow @karenmbb and RT to win MAC Fabulous Felines Lipglass in Schemer http://bit.ly/bsCBvp

I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, September 12.

सौभाग्य!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

MAC Venomous Villains: A De Vil-ish Face of the Day

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WOW! Where does the time go? Today it occurred to me that the MAC Venomous Villains collection’s just a hop, skip and a jump away (September 30).

Can I get a WOOT, WOOT! (and an evil cackle) from all the MAC-aholics in the hood? 😀

The collection, a collaboration between Disney and MAC, features four separate color stories, each one based on a different Disney villain — Cruella de Vil, of 101 Dalmatians fame; Maleficent, from Sleeping Beauty; the Evil Queen, scourge of Snow White; and Dr. Facilier, from The Princess and the Frog (find out more about the whole collection here).

Despite the subject matter and cartoon imagery, these Trix aren’t for kids. The colors are decidedly grown up, and the products MAC caliber through and through.

Today I took Cruella’s color story out for a spin with a softened version of a classic black cat eye and paired it with rosy cheeks and a glossy red lip.


MAC Venomous Villains Cruella de Vil makeup clockwise from lower left: Eyeshadow in Sweet Joy, Eyeshadow in De-Vil, Eyeshadow in Carbon, Powder Blush in Darkly My Dear, Lipstick in Heartless, Lipstick in Innocence, Beware!, Beauty Powder in Her Own Devices
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9 Things: I Could Never Date Someone Who…

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The cat and I are a package deal

If 41% of all tweets are considered pointless babble, does that mean the other 59% are awesome little pearls of wisdom like this one that crossed my path last week?

Someone posited the following for consideration: “I could never date ______.”

Hilarity (and zillions of retweets) ensued. 🙂

Even though El Hub and I have been together since the dawn of time (roughly a decade), I still remember what it was like to be lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.

Here are nine things on my “I could never date______” list. What’s on yours?

1. Someone who really, really loves earthworms

He could be perfect in every other way, but if he kept earthworms as pets or owned an earthworm farm, our relationship would not go far.

2. Someone who hates my cat

What can I say? Tabs and I have a relationship that my male friend would simply have to accept. I definitely need a dude who’s down with the kittehs.

3. Someone with a dramatically different perspective on punctuation

I’m no card-carrying member of the punctuation police, but, homie, better, know, the, basics, if you catch my drift.

One of the boys I dated ended every sentence with an ellipsis.

Hi… How was your day… Mine was great… I spent all day listening to old Stevie Wonder records… Now I’m making myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich…

Drove me nuts! Of course, he was a DJ and knew music like the back of his hand, which leads me to…

4. Someone with uncompromising taste in music

Music’s always been a big part of my life, and I’ve always tried to keep an open mind about different genres, unlike some of the dudes I dated. One of them would only listen to techno — constantly. Another absolutely hated hip-hop (sacrilege!).


Old school!
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New Lady Million by Paco Rabanne Eau de Parfum Sure Knows How to Make a First Impression

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paco rabanne lady million

Her multi-faceted bottle catches light like a gilded yellow diamond, but it’s her fragrance that sealed the deal for me. New Lady Million by Paco Rabanne Eau de Parfum ($88), available exclusively at Sephora starting September 20, understands how important a good first impression can be.

The official fragrance notes include…

  • Top: bitter orange, raspberry and neroli (a plant oil with a spicy scent)
  • Middle: jasmine, gardenia and orange flower
  • Base : patchouli, amber and honey

paco rabanne lady million side 2
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Reporting for Beauty Duty, Ma’am: Les Khaki de Chanel Nail Polishes for Fall 2010

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chanel les khaki de chanel swatches review photos khaki brun khaki rose khaki vert

Leave it to Chanel to make baby poo/army green into a nail polish that looks downright effin’ cool to me. Last year, they stormed my beaches with another gorgeous green, Jade, forever and always my five-star general of Chanel polishes, but the three shades in the new limited edition Les Khaki de Chanel collection ($25 each) are bringing up the rear.

I like it when beauty products appear to combine contrasting concepts, and I think the rugged, outdoorsy elegance of Khaki Vert (a creamy army green), Khaki Rose (a creamy, rosy brown) and Khaki Brun (a creamy, cool brown) just…works.

These are well-groomed thugs wearing tuxedos, y’all, and I hope to see them gracing fingers and toes this fall.

Let me know what you think! 🙂

Tabs and his Chanel Khaki nail polishes
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How Do You Feel about the Tarte TEN Palette?

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tarte ten palette swatches review

It’s true, your honor. I’m horribly, terribly guilty — of abusing denim.

Especially in the late ’80s.

I guess I was just copying my friends. First, it was that pair of cheesy Guess overalls… You see, I wore them with one strap up and one down. Yeah, I should have known it was wrong, but I was just a kid then.

And that wasn’t the worst of it, either. Soon, I graduated from overalls to cropped jeans jackets. They were bedazzled, with golden studs.

That was probably my worst crime…

To help you understand — not that I’m trying to defend my actions — this all happened around the time my parents forced me to get a boy’s haircut.

Simply put, I was a bedazzled, denim-wearing mess who looked like a tween Filipino Elvis.

Then, just when I’d thought I put those days behind me forever, I saw the Tarte TEN Limited-Edition Collector’s Palette ($44)…

And the purple packaging triggered a flashback, an acid-washed trip back to my fashion-challenged days (NOOO!).


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