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Happy Friday, babes! I hope you slept well. 🙂 Do you have a minute this morning for a quick dive into drugstore fun with Neutrogena’s Moisture Shine Gloss ($9)?
The line of sheer, non-sticky, medium-weight glosses has been around for a while, with 14 colors to choose from in natural shades of pink, purple, peach, copper and nude.
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Today Tabs refused to return my tube of Max Volume Flash Mascara ($7), and now we’re not talking…
When I offered to trade for some Sonia K., he turned his back to me, whipped out his iPhone, and sent me this text:
“Sonia = 2008, Rimmel = 3000-and-late.”
I suppose he was trying to say that Sonia K. had better watch her back if she hopes to keep the tabby cat drugstore beauty market happy because the competition got fierce! Rimmel’s been hitting product homers galore.
Max Volume Flash Mascara in Extreme Black
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What’s up, chica? How’s your day been? Rocking hard, I hope, like old school Van Halen (insert headbang [HERE]).
One of my favorite morning rituals lately involves a cup of green tea (with honey, YUM!) and your comments. This morning I was looking at the comments on Saturday’s Tokidoki Perfetto Liner post. Lots of us were brainstorming ideas for ways to wear Donutella, the funky pink liner in the pictures.
Back in my musical theater days, I wasn’t one of those people who could do it all — sing, dance AND act. They existed, though, little jacks and jills of all trades on the stage, and we called them triple threats!
Rise and shine, morning glory. 🙂 It’s hump day! Here are a few more swatches of the Too Faced Glamour Glosses ($19) we looked at the other day.
There are 12 shades in all. The three here are codenamed…
From left to right: Peek-A-Boo, Pillow Talk, Erotic
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They say good things come in small packages, and in the matter of Urban Decay’s Face Case, it’s true.
Well… mostly.
The small price for this cutie pie initially caught my eye — a mere $14 for a complete makeup palette for eyes, lips and cheeks! Gotta love a steal of a deal. 🙂
Face Case comes stacked with a nice mix of work and play shades, including…
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Once upon a time, a bronzer without orange undertones was about as hard to find as a straight dude into Lifetime movies (love the Tori Spelling ones). Oh, how the times have changed!
A scene from the Lifetime/T-Spell tour de force, “Co-ed Call Girl”
Homies, say buh-bye to the days of orange Oompa Loompa skin and hola to Smashbox Halo Hydrating Perfecting Bronzer ($39).
Part of the Naked Beauty collection for summer 2010, Smashbox created this golden brown bronzer with a matte finish to universally flatter all skin tones. Not only is the color supposed to work on everyone, Smashbox says Halo also hydrates skin and reduces the appearance of wrinkles.
I’ve been wearing it for the last few days and found Halo has a lot of good stuff to offer.
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Lovely lashes after just one coat? Like, when does that happen? Mascaras that only need one layer to work well are even rarer than hit movies starring J. Lo (still lovin’ ya, Jenny!).
Maybe that’s why I like Smashbox Hyperlash Mascara ($21, available in a single shade called Blackest Black). A single coat makes lashes look visibly thicker, darker, smoother and uber-glossy. The tips of my lashes fan out at the corners, too, for that doe-eyed lash look I really love.
Straight up, I can’t remember the last time I thought the first coat of a mascara looked this good.
One layer
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