Just For Fun

You might be wondering, “So what in tarnation is this Monday Poll thing anyway!?”

Well, it isn’t exactly a poll. It’s more of a constantly evolving (devolving?), somewhat random list of questions I’ve been putting out to readers every Monday morning for the past NINE (!) years. (It’s like a kickstart for your brain.) I’ve always enjoyed reading your answers in the comments, and I hope you enjoy reading mine. 🙂

London, Paris, LA or Tokyo?

Bonjour, Paris! Today, Paris, for sure, because I’m in the mood to eat yummy French things. Also, I love little French babies with their little French accents. THEY’RE SO CUTE! I think it would be so cool, too, if Connor grew up speaking French. She’d be this little half Asian baby speaking French.

And the architecture, the history, the art and the stylish people who ride around on bicycles with loaves of bread under their arm. In this particular fantasy, I wear red lipstick and high heels every day and carry a really long, elegant umbrella as I walk to my office where I do something fabulous, of course, like write copy for Chanel.

2. Do you ever wear men’s fragrances?

I just finished rocking Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue Men’s Shower Gel every day for about three months until I used up the bottle, so the short answer to this question is “yes.”

3. Have you ever driven a classic car?

Nope. Not that I’m a bad driver, because I’m not, but I don’t think you should trust me with your teal ’57 Chevy that you lovingly restored from the ground up with your bare hands because I’d probably be so stressed out about putting a dent in it that the stress of putting a dent in it would probably lead me to put a dent in it. 🙂

4. Are you wearing false lashes today?

Nope, just a coat of mascara today.

OK…not just “a” coat. Maybe like five coats!

No false lashes today, but maybe later this week.

It’s funny, but if you watch enough YouTube videos, you start to think that every lady who wears makeup also wears false lashes every day, which is just not even true! For normal life, I wear false lashes maybe once or twice a month. The main reason I wear false lashes is for makeup looks on the blog.

5. Is the inside of your purse neat or messy?

You don’t want to look inside my purse unless you want to see inside a nightmare, haha.

It’s super messy right now. There are receipts I need to file away, half a dozen lipsticks rolling around, an empty plastic bag that was at one time used to carry Connor’s binky… And those are just the tip of the iceberg.

6. Who was the last person you held hands with?

It was Connor. She wraps her little baby fingers around one of my fingers when I feed her.

I give you…fruit!

I don’t know why, but fruit always tastes better to me when somebody else peels it.

I mean, I’ll happily wash a piece of fruit for myself and eat it with the peel on, but when my mom came over the other day, she peeled the persimmons in the picture at the top and arranged them so cutely and sweetly in a bowl. It was nice.

Happy Monday, my friend. 🙂 I really hope today goes smoothly for you. Please have a wonderful week. I’ll talk to you soon.

P.S. Here are the questions to copy and paste…

1. London, Paris, LA or Tokyo?
2. Do you ever wear men’s fragrances?
3. Have you ever driven a classic car?
4. Are you wearing false lashes today?
5. Is the inside of your purse neat or messy?
6. Who was the last person you held hands with?

I daydream about lipstick all day, but apparently that wasn’t enough. I also needed to dream about it at night!

MAC Impassioned, NARS Yu, NARS Dolce Vita, MAC Paramount…

The Lipstick All Night Throw Pillow always makes me smile when I see it out of the corner of my eye (except when I see Tabs making biscuits on it with his claws).

Technically, you could throw this pillow at somebody because it is a "throw" pillow...but I wouldn't suggest doing that (not unless they insulted your cat and, in that case, it would be totally justified). I'd suggest hugging it instead, because 1) the world needs more hugs, and 2) the soft yet firm nature of this pillow makes it infinitely huggable.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Who’s a lady nerd?

This girl!

Who usually has had no idea what to do with her hands when she takes pictures of herself?

Again, THIS GIRL!

Please excuse the dorky jazz hands, but this was actually the best picture of the bunch.

As you can tell…I have absolutely no idea what to do with my hands. Do I put them in my pockets? Make shadow puppets? Give a thumbs-up sign? I don’t know.

Of course, being a lady nerd also means that I devote an inordinate amount of time to figuring this out.

What the hell do I do with my hands...?

*sigh*

This shirt, BTW, is super soft. It's a classic fit tee that skims your curves without clinging to them, and we have it in a nice range of sizes. For reference, I'm 5 feet 1 inches tall, and I'm wearing a small in these pics. And I still have room to breathe.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

You might be wondering, “So what in tarnation is this Monday Poll thing anyway!?”

Well, it isn’t exactly a poll. It’s more of a constantly evolving (devolving?), somewhat random list of questions I’ve been putting out to readers every Monday morning for the past NINE (!) years. (It’s like a kickstart for your brain.) I’ve always enjoyed reading your answers in the comments, and I hope you enjoy reading mine. 🙂

1. Pick one: boyfriend jeans or jeggings?

Jeggings for sure.

Stretchy jeggings, ideally.

Dark stretchy jeggings.

OK, those are all of my requirements. 🙂

2. Have you ever done a photoshoot?

I do them all the time for the blog, sort of, and I did one a long time ago at a Neutrogena event. There was a professional photographer, and there were even props. There was a guitar and a cowboy hat, and I remember trying to get up in the mix but feeling so awkward…

It’s one thing to take pictures of yourself when you’re both the photographer and the subject, but it’s something else entirely when somebody else is behind the camera taking pictures of you.

I just felt really awkward and had no idea what to do or where to put my hands or how to turn…

I wanted to be the person behind the camera, instead of in front of the camera.

3. Camouflage: a do or a don’t?

Weirdly enough, I think this is a do.

I am guilty of wearing camo. I kind of love it in small doses, like a pair of camo pants, for example, and then a black shirt and black pants. Or jeans, a white shirt and a camo jacket.

But head-to-toe camo? No, I don’t do that.

4. With whom would you rather hang out — King Kong or Frankenstein?

This is a very tough question, because with Frankenstein you could scare a bunch of people, and that would bring me some weird sense of delight, but I would probably choose to hang out with King Kong, because then we could get to different vantage points that I’ve never seen before, like I could hang out on his shoulder, and we could climb to the top of the Transamerica building.

That would be really effing cool.

5. Metallics or mattes?

Again, very tough question…

I’m going to go with my gut and say mattes.

Deep breath in, deep breath out. Repeat.

Hello, Monday!

I hope that your day is a productive one, and I hope you’re feeling good. I also hope that your nails are painted. Mine aren’t at the moment, but they will be by the end of the day. 🙂

Have a good one, my friend.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Here are the questions to copy and paste…

1. Pick one: boyfriend jeans or jeggings?
2. Have you ever done a photoshoot?
3. Camouflage: a do or a don’t?
4. With whom would you rather hang out — King Kong or Frankenstein?
5. Metallics or mattes?