Tarte TEN Limited Edition Collector’s Palette, $44.
Yay or nay?
Tarte TEN Limited Edition Collector’s Palette
Two Kittens
I took a pic of these these two cute kitty brothers at the Humane Society a few weeks ago with my iPhone. I love their pink noses.
A MAC Fabulous Felines Face of the Day: Burmese Beauty or Cat Diva?
Today I spent half the afternoon massaging a cat’s ego. Get this: Tabs thinks he was the inspiration behind the MAC Fabulous Felines Burmese Beauty color story.
He even had me type a letter to MAC corporate… Apparently, he knows someone in the Makeup Artistry Division.
2200 Feline Court
Novato, CA 94947September 3, 2010
Snowflake
Assistant Director of Makeup Artistry in Charge of Feline Accounts
M·A·C Cosmetics
575 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012Dear Snowflake:
I still have not received the royalty check you promised for the use of my likeness in the MAC Fabulous Felines campaign.
I understand if it was just a simple oversight. These things happen, but I would like to avoid litigation, if possible, and would appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Tabs
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I told him that I thought MAC probably just had Burmese cats in mind, but he smells a conspiracy. At one point in our argument today he twitched his tail, drew out his claws and told me to “talk to the paw.”
Lancome French Coquettes and Pre-Dental Swatching
Heya, ladies. I swung by the mall before my dental appointment yesterday, you know, to steel myself for potential doom (actually, everything went well), but I only had a few minutes, so I moved with a quickness! — like a rabid tween stalking Robert Pattison.
I made a beeline for the Lancome counter because I haven’t been to one in a while, and they had the new French Coquettes fall collection on display, fun!
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A MAC Fabulous Felines Face of the Day: A Russian Blue on Brown Eyes
Vets say he’s an American Shorthair, the cat-chall breed for kitties of questionable lineage (the miscellaneous cat-egory of the kitty world, if you will).
And I’d always figured Tabs was cool with being called an American Shorthair, but ever since the arrival of MAC’s Fabulous Felines, I’ve been finding evidence to the contrary — posters of exotic purebreds on the wall, copies of Cat Fancy around the house, and his diary left open to a page in which he referred to himself as an “Egyptian Mau/Ragdoll/Toyger hybrid.”
Yeah…whatever, dude. 🙂
It’s probably just a minor identity crisis brought on by the Palace Pedigreed color story, which he says he likes because it makes him “feel fancy,” and who could blame him? I like it too, especially the plums and blues.
Palace Pedigreed items clockwise from lower left: Lipglass in Lap of Luxury, Palace Pedigreed quad, Frost Lipstick in Cunning, Superslick Liquid Eye Liner in Signature Blue, Mineralize Blush in Pet Me
Up until a few years ago, I was terrified of getting either color anywhere near my brown eyes.
Now, I’m hooked!
I tried to make blue eyeliner the focal point of my look today, and here’s what I came up with…
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MAC Best of Breed Lipglass
MAC Lipglass in Phat Cat Best of Breed, $14.50.
Blue gloss is supposed to make your teeth look whiter, but I dunno…
(Thanks to readers Mariah and Amanda for pointing out the correct name!)
MAC Jade Dragon
MAC Nail Lacquer in Jade Dragon, $13.
I think this would look cute on toes!
It Would Be a Crime to Keep Hourglass Film Noir Mascara Away from Your Fringe
The alley grew darker the deeper she went, but she knew he came this way, the cat with the tabby fur.
She sped around a corner and almost tripped on something metal and loud, a trash can maybe. She didn’t stop. It was dark, so dark. Out of breath, her heart racing, she barely made out the silhouettes of two dogs playing cards under a fire escape before she passed them.
“Which way’d he go?” she barked, pivoting on three-inch heels.
No answer. Damn scamps. She didn’t stop, couldn’t stop, just kept running, arms flailing wildly in the dark.
“Hello!” she cried out, to nowhere, to everywhere, to him. “Please, wait!”
Still nothing. So she kept running, deeper into the night. He was here. She knew it, somewhere, the cat with the tabby fur…
At $28 the new Hourglass Film Noir Mascara is priced more like a big budget Hollywood blockbuster than art house film noir.
Available in a single shade, Onyx, a deep, dark jet black, it borrows a page (or two) from Chanel’s new $30 Inimitable Intense Mascara — sleek, sophisticated packaging, similar lash lengthening prowess and volume plumping powers; all that, and it lifts curls, keeps them lifted all day long and resists smudging, too.
What Hourglass says about Film Noir…
- That it conditions and hydrates lashes with pro-vitamin B5
- That polymers in the formula help it adhere to lashes while also resisting smudging and fading
- The triple-cut, hourglass-shaped brush distributes the product across lashes while creating volume, lift and length
- It’s free of parabens, sulfates and pthalates
While similar, Inimitable’s spiky lash look limits its flexibility. It’s also not the easiest product to layer (gets clumpy and messy after one layer).
Film Noir has the smoother formula (how smooth is it?). It’s smoother than that sweet talking ex-boyfriend who kept making excuses for not returning your Notorious B.I.G. CDs…
I’m not bitter. 🙂
And it doesn’t clump at all, not even after three (or more!) layers, delivering beautiful definition.
