Just For Fun

International fashion icon and beauty diva Tabs (short for tabby cat) moonlights as my pet — or, more accurately, he allows me to moonlight as his person. When he’s not jet setting to Paris or Milan for photo shoots or partying with his fashion friends on the banks of Italy’s Lake Cuomo, he’s here with me, cleaning burs from his bottom and daydreaming about hummingbirds and sunny windows.

Each Sunday afternoon Tabs shares photos from his portfolio. Here are 10 of the beauty and fashion modeling jobs that helped turn Tabs into the feline superstar that he is today (click here to view the gallery). 🙂

1. Mood:

Cognizant… but just barely!

2. Eyeshadow:

Stila Front Cover Look No. 2 (the next palette up to bat for my Wedding Palette Auditions).

3. Fragrance:

Very Irresistible Givenchy.

4. Anxious about…:

Getting through the workweek. It will be another hectic one ’cause I’m training somebody new. And I still haven’t thought of a Halloween costume!

5. Happy about…:

The sun (it’s bright and crisp outside on this lovely fall day), my Strawberry Frosted Pop Tart, the boots I’m going to wear today — It’s all about the small things… 😉

6. Blush:

Stila powder blush in Tint.

7. Nails:

Sephora’s OPI Metro Chic on my toes. Bare fingertips (for now).

8. Morning drink:

A steaming hot mug of mango white tea… YUM!

9. Song of the day:

Pink’s So What. Sidenote: Dang, Pink is cool! Who puts their ex-husband in a video for a song about their breakup? I’d love to meet her.

10. Goals for the week:

To remember to *breathe* and to find Tabs a kitty Halloween costume.

Let’s get Monday off to a good start. If you’re just sitting in that cube/class/hella boring meeting right now… copy the empty list, and paste it with your answers in the comments. 🙂

Le list

Mood:
Eyeshadow:
Fragrance:
Anxious about…:
Happy about…:
Blush:
Nails:
Morning drink:
Song of the day:
Goals for the week:

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Do you have a favorite store or website for makeup? Are you a Nordstrom or Sephora gal, or do you prefer beautycrunch.com?

I like Nordstrom and Sephora for in-store browsing because they have great return policies, but I like beautycrunch for bargain basement deals.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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My Halloween Costume (I wish)

• I saw this haunting skull-and-rose print dress in a store window this week. It’s by Bay Area independent designer Catherine Jane. At $335, it’s not in my costume budget, but maybe they’ll mark it down on the day after Halloween… Stuffed crow sold separately!

Zombies 101

• Speaking of Halloween, I found this helpful book the other day, the Ultimate Zombie Survival Guide. Did you know that zombies can’t climb stairs? Good to know, right? If you don’t have time to read the guide, there’s also Zombies in Plain English, a three-minute video guide. Don’t wait; be prepared, and survive the next large-scale zombie attack.

What Lies Within Us Bracelet

• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Wear those words of wisdom with this thoughtful engraved sterling silver bracelet from Target, $70.

Goodbye, Grumpy-saurus

• You know those morning folks who wake up running on all cylinders the minute they get out of bed? Yeah, I am *so not* one of them. I was royally grumpy all morning long until I heard Love at First Sight by Kylie Minogue.

Late Night Drunk Dialing E-mailing: Step Away From the Keyboard!

• These days, after a night of partying, don’t drunk dial your ex. No, try drunk e-mailing him/her instead, but be smart. Use Mail Goggles, Google’s new “sobriety checkpoint” feature in Gmail, to prevent you from making a complete ass of yourself the next time you’ve overloaded on pina coladas. Once you’ve enabled the feature, you’re prompted to perform five simple math problems within a 60-second window before you’re able to send e-mails between the hours of 10 pm and 4 am on weekends, ha! No kidding. Think of all the potential mortification this could thwart. I *so* wish I’d thought of this. Still loving you, Larry and Sergey!

Budget Back Massage

• You don’t have to spend $100/hour to get a decent massage. Work out those kinks with a little help from Babyassface. All you need is a tennis ball. Now, help me think of some way to get Andy Roddick involved…

How Well Do You Know Your Mullet?

• Are you weirdly fascinated by mullets? I am. Take Bella Sugar’s Guess the Celebrity Mullet Quiz to gauge your mullet identification prowess.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

• Marin County photographer Mindy Pines has an interesting way of framing casual moments and turning them into art. Her photo blog, F-StopMarin.com, features everyday people, scenes and landmarks out here in my neck of the woods.

Evolution of Style

• I still have way too many Banana Republic tops from 2005, so I devoted mucho time this week to surfing the web for cute clothes. My favorites were these 40s-style dresses by Stop Staring, an indy clothing line out of Los Angeles. The Ashley, Raileen, Vogue Rosalyn and Vogue Glamour Blush dresses totally spoke to me. I added them to my shopping cart but didn’t pull the trigger (maybe next time).

Hope you’re having a lovely day so far! I’m off to grab some lunch. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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How cool would it be if we went trick or treating but got makeup instead of candy? Out of some of these recent collections, which makeup treat would you choose?

10 Recent Makeup Collections

Bobbi Brown Limited Edition Palettes and Sets
Lancome’s C’est Magnifique Holiday Color Collection
Estee Lauder’s Vintage Jewels Holiday Color Collection
MAC Red She Said
MAC Manish Arora
Shu Uemura Mika Collection
Chanel Holiday 2008
Benefit Holiday 2008
Smashbox Rapture Holiday 2008
Nars Holiday 2008

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen