Just For Fun

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Good morning, glories. 🙂

How’d you sleep?

I’ve only been awake for a few minutes, which means I’m nowhere near awake yet, LOL!

The coffee is brewing, and I’m sitting here at my computer desk, catching up on the news…

The New York Times has a fascinating article about beauty schools and how the curriculum has changed over the past 20 years.

Tabs is stretched out on the floor under my chair and purring loudly. He’s getting a massage from my toes.

I just remembered — I have a birthday coming up this week, whoa! Yup, I’m heading full speed towards my mid-30s.

Age is a funny thing, ladies…

I have a better understanding of myself and the world around me than I had in my 20s, but I’m becoming more resistant to change, more set in my ways. I used to be more willing to take risks! — with my career, my hobbies, travel, you name it.

I think that adventurous girl’s still in there somewhere, but she is getting harder to find.

I hope I’m brave enough to take some chances this year…

Brave like the name of the prize in today’s MAC Style Warrior giveaway!

The prize

One lucky lady will win a tube of creamy MAC Style Warrior Brave New Bronze Lipstick (a $14 value).

How to enter

To enter, please leave a comment below describing the bravest thing you’ve ever done or plan to do soon.

Tell me about your biggest leap of faith or greatest act of courage, a choice that changed your life or took a lot of guts for you to do.

I went skydiving about 10 years ago.

Sometimes I can’t believe I went through with it. They had me sign a waiver where the words “death and dismemberment” came up repeatedly, LOL! But I did it.

Now, whenever something scares or intimidates me, I tell myself, “Karen, you jumped out of a plane. This isn’t half as scary as that.”

I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59PM PST Monday night.

Good luck, my brave friends! 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. I had a blast at yesterday’s NARS event in the city. I’m prepping some pictures and tips and will post them very soon.

This giveaway is closed! Thank you for entering. I’ll be contacting the winner by e-mail soon.

If you were forced to do one or the other 24/7 for an entire year (to job interviews, prom, the beach, your wedding…), would you rather 1) have to wear a combination of knee-high leg warmers and slitted Kanye West glasses OR 2) have porcelain veneer vampire fangs?

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

For a period of one year, would you rather 1) give up toilet paper OR 2) refrain from all forms of body hair removal?

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

Would you rather 1) have your hair go suddenly and completely gray OR 2) have to accompany Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag on a cross country road trip in a car without air conditioning or radio?

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

Would you rather 1) have to give your pet(s) up for adoption (TABS!) OR 2) have to eat nothing but earthworms (they are high in protein) and carrots for the next three years?

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

If you had to choose, which of the following men would be your baby daddy: Kevin Federline, Michael Jackson or Bobby Brown?

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

Photo by Dawn Endico

While having lunch with a friend, you run into your ex — you know, the one who totally crushed your heart. You’re single now and look totally smokin’ HAWT. The chemistry’s still there; your ex asks you out to dinner, but you *know* it’s just a front to start things up again.

Do you say yes to dinner OR no thanks?

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

C’mon, you know you wanna play YOU MUST CHOOSE! Just copy the list below, and paste it with your answers in the comments. 🙂

The Tough Choices Edition

1. The knee-high leg warmers/Kanye West glasses combo OR porcelain veneer vampire fangs?
2. Give up toilet paper OR all forms of body hair removal?
3. Overnight gray hair OR Speidi road trip?
4. Pet adoption OR earthworm/carrot diet for three years?
5. Baby daddy: K-Fed, Michael Jackson or Bobby Brown?
6. Your ex wants you back: yes or no?

Let the weekend begin!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

A new study published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management shows that makeup can boost a woman’s earning potential by a whopping 25 percent!

Researchers studied 186 men and 98 women who all lunched alone in the same restaurant, served by two waitresses aged 19 and 20.

After a beautician applied makeup to the waitresses, male customers were 70 percent more likely to leave a tip, and the average size of each tip rose by 25 percent.

The addition of makeup had virtually no effect on the amount of tips that female customers left, but the researchers said the results had implications for all women in the workplace.

Psychologist Ingrid Collins of the London Medical Centre said men tipped the made-up waitresses more because they appeared more alluring — and also because cosmetics made them seem more “child-like and needy…”

OUCH!

“It makes men feel they need to be masculine and tipping, providing for this need, does that rather well.”

Or, did the women wearing makeup just look cleaner, tidier, more confident and organized?

What do you think? Would you wear makeup if it meant earning more money at work?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen