Chanel Ombre Essentielle Soft Touch Eyeshadow in Tiger Lily, $28.50. Available now at Chanel counters and also online.
Chanel Tiger Lily


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Chanel Ombre Essentielle Soft Touch Eyeshadow in Tiger Lily, $28.50. Available now at Chanel counters and also online.

The MAC Metal-X Eyeshadows ($20 each). Swatches and review coming soon. 🙂
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More fun with light trails, and a song from a band I just started listening to called Cut Copy. I think it fits the pic perfectly.
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Note the look of disdain. Clearly he doesn’t approve my $10 Snooki boots.
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Pics and swatches of a few pieces from the MAC, Naturally collection. Available now at MAC stores, counters and also online.
Clockwise from the peach blush on the lower left: Mineralize Blush in Fresh Honey ($22), Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde ($28), Mineralize Eye Shadow in Into the Sun ($20), Mineralize Eyeshadow in Twilight Fast ($20) and Mineralize Skinfinish in Redhead ($28).

Swatches from the left: Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde, Mineralize Skinfinish in Redhead, Mineralize Blush in Fresh Honey, Mineralize Eye Shadow in Into the Sun and Mineralize Eyeshadow in Twilight Fast
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Bobbi Brown Shimmer Wash Eye Shadow in Ultra Violet ($21), from the Neons & Nudes spring 2012 collection. Available now at Bobbi Brown counters and online.
Y or N?
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A few pics from lunch with my friends, Jen and Cindy, at the Absinthe Brasserie & Bar in SF.
We started with a side of french fries and a round of lemonades made with freshly squeezed lemon juice, ginger syrup, cranberry juice and ginger ale.

The restaurant’s known for their burgers, so Jen ordered the hamburger with Marin Sun Farms ground beef, aioli, red onion, lettuce and house-made pickles.

Cindy got a grilled cheese & portobello mushroom sandwich with goat cheese, provolone, fennel, broccoli rabe, pesto and bacon.

I choose the dungeness crab omelette with hen of woods mushrooms, spinach, garlic and Meyer lemon.

We also split a single fall butternut squash pancake with cinnamon butter, whipped mascarpone and Vermont maple syrup, but we ate it all before I could take a pic. Whoops!
By the end of the meal, all our plates were empty, and I left feeling full but not uncomfortably stuffed. Highly recommended if you’re ever in SF and want a good meal!
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This morning I drank a cup of tea and watched the sunrise from my office window. It was a nice way to start the day.
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