So…what is the Monday Poll?
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 10 (!) 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. What do you have on your lips right now?
Just a little bit of Urban Decay Lip Love ’cause my lips are so dry from the plane ride home yesterday.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Soooo many things, but the first is to unpack all my stuff because I know if I wait for too long, the bags will just sit there unopened for weeks.
3. Create or destroy?
A little bit of both? I’m going to pick create, because that’s what I like to do the most.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
Girl, awful! I mean… I really should get professional help because it’s been ages since I’ve dealt with my feet, and they could definitely use some cheese grater love.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
Never thought I’d be able to say this but I recently learned that — yay! I can actually pack light.
Back in the bay
Hi, sweet friend! Super late Monday poll, I know, but I didn’t get any sleep last night when we got back home from the airport. The baby was grumpy, we were all jet-lagged, and because it was like a billion degrees in Novato while we were gone, the house was a pizza oven. Girl, it was rough! Please forgive me if the next few posts are short and sweet. Regularly scheduled makeup programming will resume shortly. 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Here are the questions to copy/paste.
1. What do you have on your lips right now?
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
3. Create or destroy?
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
1. What do you have on your lips right now?
Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire lipstick in cashmere something. It’s a light and sheer peachy nude. Perfect for low maintenance Monday!
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Go to one spinning class and get back into running!
3. Create or destroy?
Create. I don’t get much joy from destruction…
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
Non-existent… I removed polish a couple days ago and I need to trim, shape and pain. Where am I supposed to find the time?
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
If I go wine tasting, I need to limit myself to 2 wineries, unless I have 2 days off to recover…
I hope you have a great week Karen! It’s been pretty hot down here to in the past few days, but I won’t complain, after the all the gloomy weather we’ve had this spring.
Hi Lulle,
It’s SO hot up here right now. Do you guys have air conditioning? We don’t at the moment, gah!
We don’t! I enjoy spending my days at work in the summer, lol!
1. What do you have on your lips right now? Oh lip shame, in all honesty, I started out the day with Marc Jacob’s Enamored High-Shine Lip Lacquer in Sugar Sugar but it wore off so I quickly applied my desk tube of MUFE’s Plexi Gloss in 202, my desert island shade so I would have a response for this question.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? I really need to find a festive straw bag for summer.
3. Create or destroy? Create
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now? Not bad. I got a pedicure last week but I need to go again soon. Summer and all the sandal-wearing and sand walking is harsh on my tootsies.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself? I’m having a mid-life crisis.
Do you live near a Nordstrom rack? Last couple times I was there I saw some cute straw bags.
Ooooh, thanks! Love Nordstrom Rack ?
1. What do you have on your lips right now? – Tarte Salt Lyfe
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? – I have tubs of old paid bills and paperwork and I am on a mission to go through them and shred, shred, shred. I was on a roll but lately I need to get back on the band wagon.
3. Create or destroy? – See #2 above. I’m going with destroy.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now? Ehh. Gave myself a pedicure last weekend and I need to do a touch up.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself? As I’ve gotten older, my patience is certainly not what it used to be. I guess I should work on that.
It’s amazing how fast those shredding piles get big, right? I have a huge one I need to get through sometime soon.
1. What do you have on your lips right now?
Nothing right now, but my go-to right now is Lorac Hydrating Lip Stain in Comedienne.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Finish the report for work I’ve been working on.
3. Create or destroy?
Create!
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
Only one chipped toe, Sally Hansen Miracle Gel is pretty great, and I just filed my heels last night.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
I’m a supertaster.
You *are* a superstar! 🙂
1. What do you have on your lips right now?
Urban Decay’s Epigram lipstick.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Steam clean my couch! It’s going to take ages but I know I will feel a lot better when it’s finally done.
3. Create or destroy?
Create! No question.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
Not the best. I need a foot pampering day this week for sure. I don’t wear sandals but still, I like to keep them lookin’ good for me. 🙂
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
I am really, really loving photography these days. At first it was just for fun, taking photos of beauty products, but now I really put a lot of effort into it, have invested in equipment and props, backdrops, etc. It’s going to take a long time to learn everything I need to know, but I definitely think I can call this a new hobby now.
Hi Ash,
Learning how to take pics completely changed how I view the world. What camera do you shoot with?
Just my trusty Canon PowerShot right now. Not ready for an SLR yet (skill-wise or wallet-wise, hahaha). 🙂 I have even taken some really great shots with my Samsung phone camera – it’s amazing how far phone cameras have come and how intricate their Pro settings are now!
1. What do you have on your lips right now?
Lip balm. I am about to go to sleep and already did my skincare routine.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Get ahead of scheduling my blog posts and videos for our upcoming holiday. So far I have been slacking and watching Gilmore Girls…
3. Create or destroy?
Create.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
Pretty good, I did my feet on Sunday.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
I am much more fun to be around if I don´t try to be productive 24/7.
Have fun on your trip!
1. What do you have on your lips right now?
Remnants of the dinner — cheesy broccoli soup and toast. Yay!
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Get the guest bedroom/junk room into some semblance of order. Finally. Please.
3. Create or destroy?
Destroy. It’s time to take it down to basics and rebuild.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
Pedi-what?
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
I can caulk! After years of straining to coax a steady bead out of a caulk gun, I finally tried a cheapie squeeze tube. Guess what? It works!
1. What do you have on your lips right now? Nothing. Earlier today I was using Clinique lip gloss.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Get through my final chemo session without feeling like death warmed over, or at least without long-term side effects.
3. Create or destroy? Create.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now? Don’t have one.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself? I can get through almost anything without crying.
1. Just showered. Nothing! 😀 Earlier I had on Elf Pink Rose. It’s the PERFECT pink, although the lipstick is a bit drying.
2.Yesterday I started a new fitness goal for the next 30 days, so I’d like to stick to my program for the week!
3. Create or destroy?
This is very interesting. I’m going to pick create. I created 2 little humans. Because of them I don’t have much free time for other creative things, but I know sometime my time will come to create and be artistic again.
4. Shitty! It’s legit bad. I last painted them this grayish purple color. Now the paint is all cracked and chipped, it looks like I walked through the mud, let it cake on, then dry and crack. Groooossssssss. I need new polish stat! I really want to get the Essie Clam Bake but last time I checked it wasn’t on the shelf! And I was in New Orleans! I mean, c’mon! If New Orleans doesn’t have the polish called Clam bake, then who does?
5. Something you recently learned about yourself? I don’t like highlights. I got them done for only the second time, thinking it was a fluke I didn’t like them the first time. Nope. Wasn’t a fluke.
Your trip pictures all looked so gorgeous. I’m sure it’s good to be home again, though.
1. What do you have on your lips right now? Just lip balm. We went to a local burlesque show last night and stayed out till 3 a.m. I wore a ton of makeup (and I looked awesome, if I do say so myself). Today I slept in really late, and I didn’t feel like putting on more makeup.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? To take care of some business and make some appointments.
3. Create or destroy? Create beautiful things.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now? It’s non-existent.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself? I have more fun going out now than I did in my 20s. Self-confidence is everything.
1. What do you have on your lips right now?
Farmacy balm, the apple rosemary one. Had UD Rapture Lipstick on earlier.
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
I have to finish up planning for the horse show I have coming up. And pay a bunch of annoying bills.
3. Create or destroy?
Create. Destruction makes me sad.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now?
My feet look great, I did one of those foot masks that peel everything, and it worked well, but my toenails are color-less and I’m bored with that.
5. Something you recently learned about yourself?
I’m horrible with uncertainty.
1. What do you have on your lips right now? The Estee Edit by Estee Lauder..
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? making my dining room less of a ‘drop it and leave it’ zone and more of a ‘lets sit at the table to eat’ zone.
3. Create or destroy? Destroy… destroy my love of junkfood, destroy the clutter in the dining room (seriously its bad), destroy my jigglybits at the gym.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now? I have yet to treat myself to a pedi at a spa.. my do it yourself version is cute tho..
5. Something you recently learned about yourself? That I can eat the greens I don’t like if hidden in a smoothie but that green smoothie makes me bloat like a 5 month pregnant lady popping that tummy.
1. What do you have on your lips right now? Neutrogena SPF Lip Balm
2. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Go through my closet and donate all the clothes that don’t fit or I haven’t worn in ages.
3. Create or destroy? Little bit of both. Sometimes you got to destroy a little to start the creative juices flowing to create.
4. How’s your pedicure looking right now? What’s a pedicure? Lol
5. Something you recently learned about yourself? I really don’t like a lot of frosting on my cake. I prefer a thin crumb coat.
I hope it’s cooler in your house today. It was 102 on Sunday and I was a cranky person. Not looking forward to Thursday when it’s supposed to be hot again.
Oh my gosh, that is the most darling dress on Connor! I love Hawaiian prints on dresses.