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A few pics I’ve taken in the past couple of weeks with my iPhone.
Clockwise from left: Helvetica Neue Ultra Light (aka my current font crush) on a chocolate bar from Whole Foods, the neighbor’s cross-eyed cat (I’m convinced she’s trying to adopt me), breakfast and the neighborhood wild turkey gang.
I sure do love the detailing on Paul & Joe’s lippies. It’s such a nice touch!
(Paul & Joe Lip Treatment Stick from the Paul & Joe Alice in Wonderland set from earlier this year.)
What follows is a brief cautionary tale…
Neglect your mani/pedi long enough, and your fingers and toes may turn to eagle talons. It’s true. I speak from experience. I’ve neglected my nails to the point where I could carve hearts in trees, bluh!
Enter the Lori Greiner by Orly Manicure Keeper Nails Necessities Kit ($18), a handy (ha!) three-piece set of goodies designed to make at-home manicures easier. You get a bottle of Rubberized Basecoat to bump up the wear time of your polishes, a bottle Smudge Repair to smooth over any nail polish mistakes (I always make at least one) and a small bottle of Fast Dry Drops to cut down the drying time of polished nails.
Is that an apparition in the corner or just a tabby who won’t sit still?
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Gimme, gimme jewel-toned blues and greens, soft browns, pinks and golds!
SING IT WITH MEH!
Gimme, gimme jewel-toned blues and greens, soft browns, pinks and golds!
ONE MORE TIME!
Gimme, gimme jewel-toned blues and greens, soft browns, pinks and golds!
I’m as happy as a kid at the front of the deep fried Twinkie line at the county fair. 🙂 Girl, grab your ball gown and bedazzled mask, and prepare to be lured by a Smashbox Masquerade.
Available online now, Masquerade’s a small but comprehensive fall release with seven limited-edition pieces dressed in sophisticated indigo blue packaging. Pink, gold and peach shades softly light up lips and cheeks, and rich browns and beiges — along with a sprinkling of jeweled shimmery greens and blues — smolder on the eyes.
I think there’s something scary seductive about this collection. When I read the color story, I felt the shades drawing me into a fantasy that starred detailed satin ball gowns and glittering masquerade masks. I think the collection’s much prettier and softer than last year’s Reign, which had a cool edginess to it, but some of the colors in Reign weren’t the easiest ones to wear (two words: red eyeshadow).
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Bigger isn’t always better, but Fusion Beauty definitely thinks size matters when it comes to lips. The eight shiny stars of their new Infatuation line of plumping lipglosses ($29 each) are supposed to increase the size of lips and keep them plumper over time.
Remember Amplifat (here’s some info on it from an earlier review)? It’s the secret plumping sauce behind these glosses, too.
One of two glosses in the new Masquerade Fall 2010 Collection.
The packaging looks and feels a lot like the MAC Dazzleglass tubes…
Review in a few!
Intrigue, a warm pink blush, is one of seven pieces in the new Smashbox Masquerade Collection for fall 2010.
Review and swatches in a hot sec. 🙂
My bad luck in the crap shoot that is genetics = totally your gain. Why else would the powers that be bestow upon me a dense thicket of body hair if not to serve as a guinea pig for all of (hairy) womankind?
Peep the latest episode in the epic struggle between Karen and all forms of hair removal technology — this bottle of EOS Evolution of Smooth Pomegranate Raspberry Shave Cream.
I picked it up at Tar-ghay 
last week when the cute pink bottle caught my eye (it was also on sale for $2, down from the regular $5).
The Pomegranate Raspberry version is one of seven scents in the line. EOS dipped into their garden for these paraben-free bad boys, adding aloe, oat and shea butter to moisturize parched skin.
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