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Don’t these flowers look kind of surreal?
I saw them on a walk a few days ago and had to stop and take a picture. I love the way the grayish brown branches contrast with the hot pink flowers.
Note to self: try a gray/brown eye soon, and pair it with a hot pink lip. 🙂
I’ve been wearing Fire Lust Skin Illuminator (repackaged in Tom Ford’s summer 2014 collection, but previously available) a lot lately with my BECCA Matte Foundation, sometimes on top of the foundation, and other times mixed in with it and applied to the skin.
A super subtle and shimmery peachy pink, I think Fire Lust is just OK by itself, but I think it can be great with other products, where it adds just a hint of a summery glow…
It’s available now at Tom Ford counters ($65) and also online.
Quick look at the new Brow Pow Eyebrow Powder by theBalm, available in Blonde, Light Brown and Dark Brown.
POW!
Coming soon to theBalm counters and theBalm.com…
The packaging kind of reminds me of Benefit. I’m a sucker for anything comic-bookish or superhero-related.
Whenever I wear shimmery strawberry pink Ophelia Lip Gloss, I always think of Hamlet. I wonder if Francois is a Shakespeare fan…
He hath of late made many tenders of his affection for Shakespearean names.
Where is the beauteous Majesty of Ophelia!?
Ha. OK, that’s enough.
You can find Ophelia and her 29 siblings in new NARS Lip Gloss line now.
Ladies and gentle tabbies, next time your feline friend/employer goes hiking through tall grasses and ends up covered in pollen and smelly plant funk, may I suggest a waterless bath using John Paul Pet Waterless Foam Shampoo for Dogs & Cats ($12.99). It smells great and dries quicker than two swishes of a cat’s tail.
While on safari yesterday in my back yard, I wandered into uncharted territory. I cannot help it; I have an explorer’s heart, and I’m compelled to go where no other cat — as far as I know — has gone before. In this case, that included a tall patch of wildflowers and grasses.
Unfortunately, my curiosity left my normally immaculate coat in a state of disarray. I came out covered with pollen and a mysteriously stinky plant filth.
Back at the office, I charged my assistant with finding an immediate solution. I am a kitty supermodel, after all. There’s no way I’m going about my day with my fur in less than tip-top condition.
Meow! Time was of the essence because I had a nap scheduled for the early afternoon. My assistant rushed out to Petco and returned with John Paul Pet Waterless Foam Shampoo for Dogs & Cats ($12.99, part of a line that also includes a gentle puppy and kitten shampoo, paw wipes, and ear and eye wipes).
She squeezed a few pumps in her hand, and a smile spread across my feline face. Mmmm… It smelled faintly of powder and almonds.
It’s designed to penetrate, deep clean and deodorize coats for water-averse cats and dogs while gently soothing skin.
Ingredients: Water (aqua), cocamidopropyl betaine, sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate, prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, hydrolyzed whole oats (pending), chamomilla recutita (matricaria) extract, aloe barbadensis leaf juice, sodium hydroxymethlgycinate, cocamide DEA, citric acid, propylene glycol, fragrance (parfum).
She massaged the luxurious foam into my fur, avoiding my sensative ears and eyes, working all the way down to the tip of my tail.
I recorded the massage on my iPhone, and I think you can tell by my purrs that I enjoyed it.
After that, she brushed the product through my fur until it dried, which, much to my delight, only took a few minutes.
Ooh-la-la! My fur was incredibly soft. I could actually see the difference. It definitely looked smoother and smelled better. I felt like a million bucks and, because it dried so quickly, I didn’t have to reschedule my nap.
Tabby needs his beauty sleep!
According to the side of the bottle, the product was tested on humans first, and it’s cruelty-free. That gets two husky paws up from me.
Purple flowers in the house, y’all!
Well, technically not inside the house, but near it.
In the neighborhood, at least.
I saw these on my walk earlier today… Don’t the ones up there look like crinkly paper?
I’m so glad I had my phone with me because the wildflowers are going crazy right now! All of the trees, flowers and grasses are pretty happy about the heavy rain we got earlier this month.
I always love this time of year when everything’s still green… There are so many beautiful things to see. You just have to look for them. 🙂
This is it. This is the palette in Tabs’ Easter wallpaper — the Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess The Nudes Eyeshadow Palette.
It’s a personal favorite of the Easter Tabby’s, available now as part of the Bronze Goddess summer collection at Estee Lauder counters and esteelauder.com.
Tabs has great taste. I can’t wait to take this one out for a spin. 🙂
Seriously. I have been eating all day long!
First, a yummy Easter brunch with my in-laws at Hilltop 1892.
I had the veggie egg scramble with asparagus, tomatoes, mushrooms, with home fries and fruit on the side…
Then, with my tum sufficiently primed, it was off to the East Bay to have Easter Lunch at my parents’ house.
Observe the crazy hair…
It’s El Hub’s fault.
Sort of.
See, whenever we have somewhere to be by a specific time, El Hub, knowing that I often run a few minutes late getting ready, says that we have to leave the house about 15 minutes before when we actually have to leave…to compensate for me running late.
Only thing is, he made the mistake recently of actually telling me that he does this. So, now when he says, “Sweetie, we have to be out of the house by 9:45,” I automatically give myself 15 extra minutes to get ready, haha!
Except that this morning he didn’t do that, and when he said that we had to leave the house by 9:45, and I secretly thought the real time was 10, it wasn’t. It really was 9:45, so when 9:45 rolled around and he said, “OK, babe, it’s 9:45. We have to go,” I was like, “Ummmm… I thought I had 15 more minutes?”
So, yeah. I had to rush through my hair and makeup this morning.
Hence the crazy hair.
To make a short story long, LOL!
Everything worked out fine, though. It was a great day. I hope yours was too. 🙂