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A Glittery Green and Gold St. Patrick’s Day Look with Milani and MAC

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Hawaiian fun fact of the day: It’s not unusual to meet mixed race islanders. The state’s basically a big ol’ melting pot! It’s one of the things I love about Hawaii. 🙂 Ask a local their nationality, and they’ll usually rattle off a long list.

El Hub happens to be one of those kids, and his laundry list of nationalities includes Irish… I’m sure you see where this is going, LOL!

Every St. Patrick’s Day, he gets the urge to celebrate, and I get to be Irish for a day!

On the agenda for tomorrow night: a pub that serves green beer, and since I want to look the part, this morning I worked on my St. Patrick’s Day green and gold eye look using MAC and a mix of new drugstore stuff from Milani.


Cheeks: MAC Blush Ombre in Ripe Peach; Lips: MAC Lip Pencil in Mouth Off, MAC Lipstick in Victorian, MAC Naked Honey Salve


Eyes: Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion in Eden (entire eyelid), Milani Liquif Eye Metallic Eye Liner Pencil in Gold (enter eyelid and lower lash line), Milani Infinite Liquid Eye Liner in Eternal (on lid and barely into the crease), Milani Liquif Eye Metllic Eye Liner Pencil in Black (waterlines and upper lash line), Milani Crystal Eyez in Gorgeous & Glowing (on lid), MAC Fix Studio Lash in Black (upper and lower lashes)


From left: Milani Liquif Eye Metallic Eye Liner Pencil in Gold, Milani Liquif Eye Metallic Eye Liner Pencil in Black, Milani Infinite Liquid Eye Liner in Eternal, Milani Crystal Eyez in Gorgeous & Glowing
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MBBTV: Episode 3 — A Few Ways to Use MAC Beauty Powder in Shell Pearl

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Heya, ladies. Have you picked up any goodies from MAC Liberty of London? If you haven’t considered the Beauty Powder in Shell Pearl ($25), here are a few ways I like to use it (click here to see the video).

Enjoy the rest of your Friday night, and I’ll catch up with you soon. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Episode 3 Links:

Give Me Liberty of London (and Cupcakes)

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Breakfast of champions!

Last night El Hub brought home some mini-cupcakes from a bakery he passes on his way home from work. 🙂 They were red velvet, lemon and chocolate, and THIS is how I felt when I opened the box:

Frickin’ sweet tooth’s always getting in the way of the whole eating better thing, grrr!

I managed to exercise enough restraint (shocking!) to save two of ’em for, um, my breakfast today, but I think the sugar messed with my brain. All I could think of was cupcake-inspired makeup looks, which lead to this pink attempt with a dash of purple.

Using products from MAC’s Give Me Liberty of London and MAC Too Fabulous, I started with a pink lip courtesy o’ Lip Pencil in Trimmed in Pink (a creamy pink from Too Fab), Lipstick in Petals & Peacocks (a creamy pinkish magenta) and Lipglass in English Accents (a creamy bluish pink), and because it reminded me of cupcake frosting I applied Beauty Powder in Shell Pearl (a shimmery golden peach) to my lips with my fingers.
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Two Ways to Win MAC’s Azalea Blossom Ombre Blush

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  • UPDATE: Mar. 14, 2010. The giveaway is now closed, and the winner is being contacted. Good luck! 🙂

Sometimes you gotta cherish the little things, ya know? Like the fact that we made it to Wednesday. 🙂 A small feat, yes, but the first part of the week was kinda rough for me (haven’t been getting enough sleep).

I’m glad it isn’t Monday and feel like celebrating! Pour another cup of coffee (whee!), and let’s toast to Wednesday with a MAC giveaway starring one of my favorites from MAC’s Spring Colour Forecast collection.

Congrats to Jackie for winning last week’s MAC Blush Ombre in Ripe Peach!

The prize

One lucky lady will win MAC Blush Ombre in Azalea Blossom (a $25 value), a light pink powder blush with a finish that’s about half way between a shimmer and a matte.

How to enter…

2ways2enterEntering is easy. There are two different ways, and you can do both of them for two chances to win.

First, you can enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post. In it, tell me the name of your favorite flower.

Urmf! I can’t decide on just one. How about lilies, azaleas, irises and roses?

Follow me
Second, enter by following me on Twitter and retweeting (RT) the following message:

RT @karenmbb: RT to win MAC’s Azalea Blossom Ombre Blush (a $25 Value) http://bit.ly/aUkuHp

Recap…

  1. Enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, and don’t forget to use a valid email address so I can reach you if you win.
  2. Follow me on Twitter and retweet the following message:

    RT @karenmbb: RT to win MAC’s Azalea Blossom Ombre Blush (a $25 Value) http://bit.ly/aUkuHp

I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59 p.m. PST on Saturday, March 13.

Gangi þér vel!!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

  • UPDATE: Mar. 14, 2010. The giveaway is now closed, and the winner is being contacted. Good luck! 🙂

Declare Your Independence from Brown and Beige with MAC Give Me Liberty of London

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In Disney’s made-for-TV The Girl Who Spelled Freedom, a young Cambodian refugee beats all odds to become a national spelling bee champion just four years after arriving in the U.S.

I vividly remember that movie even though it aired in 1986 because of an idea it gave my mom…

Because of that movie, my mom decided to turn me into America’s Next Asian Spelling Bee Champ (LOL!).

Even though she grilled me every night with word lists, the plan still failed because it suffered from one fatal flaw: I can’t spell. 🙂

I never won a spelling bee, but I did become pretty good at busting out of makeup ruts. Case in point: I was stuck in a serious neutral eye makeup phase for about a week until today’s brush with the MAC Give Me Liberty of London collection.

Here are swatches of 13 of the 17 makeup goodies. I’ll post an update with the remaining Beauty Powders, Lipglasses and MAC Lipsticks soon.
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MAC Unsung Heroes: The Technakohl Liners

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Question por tu: Do girls with thicker, fuller lashes have more fun?

A flirty fringe comes in handy when you’re batting eyelashes with a stranger across the room, or in my case with the old dude working behind the counter at the See’s (hook me up with another chocolate sample, holmes!). 🙂

My wimp-tacular eyelashes and I rely on MAC’s Technakohl Liners ($14.50, available in 11 colors), magical, twist-up mechanical makeup pencils that tightline like WHOA!


Graphblack, Brownborder

Yo, what’s tightlining?

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A Summery Sunday Face of the Day With MAC Too Fabulous

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Finding cute, CHEAP accessories always puts me in a good mood. Like these leopard print shell earrings from H&M (a mere four buckaroos!) — finding them made me feel kinda like this…

The colors and print reminded me of summertime, which lead (is it lead or led?) to this peach, bronze and orange look with a mix of MAC products from Too Fabulous, Spring Colour Forecast and MAC’s permanent collection.


Lip Pencil in Mouth Off, Lipstick in Fresh Salmon, Mineralize Blush in Sun & Moon
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