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I’d buy this in a hot minute if it were real (but it’s not, sigh).
Hey, gals! How ya be? I’m heading out the door for a quick bite to eat. Puerto Rican food, anyone? Hope your day went well.
Viva la carbs!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
I finally wrapped my grubby little hands around MAC Heatherette Eyeshadow Trio 1 last weekend, and I have to say: I love this bad boy!
Sometimes, in trios and quads, one or two of the shades just aren’t up to snuff, but all three shades MAC chose for Trio 1 — a pink, green and black — work well together. That said, Mood Ring, the green shade (more of a teal) is definitely my favorite of the bunch.
For the green, pink and black smokey eye look below, I layered each of the shadows over MAC Pink Pearl Pigment (also part of the Heatherette collection). Layering Pink Pearl Pigment underneath these shadows creates an effect similar to how the colors of a peacock’s feathers can seem to change with the light. So purty!
Even though this eye pushes the envelope as far as its appropriateness for day wear, I wore it to the movies yesterday afternoon and didn’t feel out of place.
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Hey, MAC-aholics, guess who’s offering free shipping on MAC products. Yup, Macy’s. Through April 1, MAC purchases of more than $50 made through the Macy’s Web site ship for free.
During checkout, where it prompts you for a promo code, enter the word HEATHER and hit Apply.
Planning to be in the SF Bay Area tomorrow? If so, head over to the Union Square Macy’s store in San Francisco for the final day of Macy’s annual flower show. For two weeks each year, the Union Square store gets decked out with fresh flowers and elaborate floral displays. The theme of this year’s show was A Mosaic of Spain. My hat goes off to Macy’s for putting these shows together. Stop by if you get the chance because the flowers are amazing! Here are a few pictures I took from my visit:
Mariah Carey’s makeup always looks fierce, especially when she wears a bronzed cheek like she did in her live Monday night performance on MTV’s The Hills.
Mariah totally works her wardrobes (no matter how questionable her taste in clothing) and flat-out owns that killer five octave voice. She mixes just enough ‘tude with a dash of crazy diva to always stand out in a crowd (and to really stand out in a crowd, try this other MAC look on for size).
Re-create Mimi’s signature look with two products: 1) MAC Heatherette’s Smooth Harmony Beauty Powder ($22) , and 2) your favorite cheek brush!
Shimerless Smooth Harmony, part of the Heatherette collection, is a medium-golden bronze compact powder. If you’d like to draw more attention to your cheeks but don’t want to wear pink, coral or plum blush, give Smooth Harmony a try. I think it would look hot with smokey eyes or paired with neutral shades [Continue reading…]
So, it’s official — I’m a MAC brush geek. Last night, watching the season premier episode of The Hills on MTV, my eagle eye peeped a brush that looked exactly like the MAC 217!
There it is, in all its brush glory, at the Teen Vogue shoot in Paris. A makeup artist uses it to prep a group of French debutantes before their big photo session…
Maybe I’m wrong, fellow brush geeks, but that sure looks like a MAC 217 to me.
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Hey, MAC Viva Glam fans, if you’re on the prowl for a new dance remix featuring Fergie’s song, Glamorous, MAC launched a special site to help. It just launched today. The first 15,000 folks to download Fergie’s song will get it for free (and you know I like free!). The song, titled Viva Glam Remix, is bass-and-drum heavy, so make sure you’re ready for this jelly before you start bumping it at full blast. Also on the site are e-cards, along with a behind-the-scenes look at Fergie’s Viva Glam ad shoot.
Glamorous, oh, the flossy, flossy!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
MAC’s highly anticipated Heatherette collection dropped this week, and two of the Lipglasses really caught my eye — Style Minx and Sock Hop.
Style Minx, a sparkling bright pink fuchsia, appeals to the pink lipgloss lover in me. After applying two coats, my lips turned a bold, can’t-miss-me bright pink. Girl, I looked so ready to hit the club!
It took some effort with Style Minx to get the results I wanted. In hindsight, I would recommend using it with a lip liner. On my first attempt, I skipped liner and ended up with pink everywhere! The shade is so bright that even the smallest traces of product are apt to stand out like sore, pink thumbs if any color extends beyond the natural lip line.
While playing with Style Minx, I was pleasantly surprised by how very pretty it is when toned down. As a test, I applied a single quick coat to my lips, blotting afterwards with a tissue. What remained was a rosy, deep pink stain perfect for more conservative daytime wear.
With the help of a lip liner and a lip brush (as opposed to the included Lipglass wand), I expect to have better luck on my next attempts with Style Minx. A liner should establish a crisp boundary to reign in some of the pink, and the use of a separate lip brush should provide a lot more control than the wand does. I’m not kidding, ya’ll — this stuff is pink!
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Imagine a nearly transparent version of your favorite brightly colored lipstick — what you’d end up with would look a lot like MAC’s new Strobe Kiss and Strobe Current Tinted Lip Conditioner Sticks, two little lovelies from MAC’s new Strobe Collection. In stick form both look bold and bright, but they apply unexpectedly sheer. Picture a transparent wash of color.
I got my hands on two of the five available shades — Strobe Kiss, a light coral with golden shimmer, and Strobe Current, a shimmery red plum. [Continue reading…]
