YOU GUYS. The struggle is so real. The other night I opened my purse (a.k.a The Black Hole) to look for a pen so I could take notes in a meeting, but instead of finding a pen…I found five tubes of lipstick.
Five.
Believe it or not, that was actually low for me.
One time when I couldn’t find my car keys, I dumped out my Kate Spade and — I kid you not — half a MAC counter fell out. Funnily enough, all of the lippies were more or less the same nude shade. ?
Even though the rational part of my brain was like, “Dude, this is Rick-sanity. You’re two shakes away from biting off someone’s ear in hand-to-hand combat,” the non-rational part was high-fiving a million little angels.
You feel me.
(Now for a little light reading…)
- Um…can you clear out any space in your makeup drawer? If you’re a Shiseido fan, you might want to! The line is revamping their ENTIRE MAKEUP LINE THIS SEPTEMBER. Rumor has it they’re trying to draw more 20- and 30-somethings to the brand, and the revamp also means that more than 100 products will be retired, so if there’s something you can’t live without, better stock up now before it’s gone baby, gone.
- More proof that people from ye olden times loved makeup and perfume as much as we do — researchers recently found a sarcophagus of an ancient Roman woman from the 3rd century buried with a string of pearls, perfume bottles, a makeup palette and a small jar inscribed with a Latin phrase that means “good luck.”
- Rihanna: musician, makeup visionary, entrepreneur extraordinaire *and* patrol saint of lost luggage!
- Breadstick Bronzer and Spaghetti Sparkle Blush? — Olive Garden faked a makeup palette on social media, and people actually wanted it to be real!
- There are legions of beauty lovers who like to make a Sephora pit stop before hitting up clubs, brunch, power lunches, what have you, and this is what the makeup artists and staffers really think of doing your makeup in the store.
- For your botany moment of the day! — a tropical vine commonly known as the “lipstick plant,” Aeschynanthus radicans gets its name from the flower buds that peek out of dark-colored tubes that look like tubes of bright red lipstick.
- You may have heard about these collagen-building “growth factors”: They were first discovered by two scientists back in the ’50s, and the discovery earned the duo a Nobel Prize in 1986. Here’s what they are, what they do in skin care products, and where they come from.
- —–> Why one woman stopped painting her toenails.
- Hand art is the new nail art!
- —–> My favorite read of the week.
- If you were a teen or a tween in the ’90s, chances are you remember St. Ives Apricot Scrub. Now it’s a fragrance and the rollerball you never knew you needed.
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At Floris, a historic London perfumery that has been around since 1730, you can join the ranks of the royals and create your own scent. Floris created the official perfume for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding — a warm, citrus-y unisex fragrance with notes of bergamot, orange blossom, ginger and green tea.
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Speaking of fragrances, these bees make their own perfumes and carry them around with their legs (!).
Dude, nature is so freakin’ cool.
- Natural beauty brand Captain Blankenship recently launched in Sephora and Target, and I’m intrigued. The founder, Jana Blankenship, started her line in her kitchen.
A dance from the season 2 finale of a show I’ve been watching lately called Better Things. This family does does this as a graduation surprise for one of the daughters… I would LOVE if someone ever did this for me!
Stuck in my head at the moment…
Goal for the month of August: untie the knots in my upper back. I just tried a few of these stretches, and now I feel like a whole new girl.
Ever since I got my hair chopped, I’ve been on a mission to try some new styles, like this half-up, half-down combo braid/messy bun. It looks easy and totally doable.
So, what lipsticks are you rollin’ with today? It’s Saturday, so I expect no less than three. ?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
When you said you had 5 lipsticks part of me was like “that’s it?” lol! I think I have about 4 in my purse right now but in my desk drawer at work I have about 6 of basically the same color! Thanks for the video of upper back stretches, definitely gonna try those!
Mac amorous,Mac creme in your coffee, givenchy boyish rose, Dior addict fluid stick rieuse.. lol.. makeup addicts
Hmmmmm I’m a fan of that Olive Garden palette though….
That mock Olive Garden palette is hysterical! 😀 😀 😀
Thanks for the reminder to clean out my bag. I had: Too Faced Melted Fig and Melted Nude, ColourPop Ultra Satin in Marshmallow, ColourPop Ultra Glossy Lip in Fluff, Nyx Lip Lingerie in French Maid, and Fenty Beauty Iridescent Lip Luminizer in Vaycray.
I want a Olive Garden palette lol! Ha, that’s so me trying to find a pen in my purse.
Oh so me, all the lipsticks and liners and not a pen in sight. That happened to me two weeks ago while I was fishing for a pen for a male coworker. Tres embarassing.
I’ve got Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Nude, Firebird, Unicorn and Backtalk. I think there’s a also a mini Marc Jacobs in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang too.
I love the bit about the ancient woman!
At any given moment there are at least 4 lipglosses in the car (they don’t melt in the Texas heat). Makeup pouch has at least 4 lip sticks. Most are some variation of berry, nude or red.
To be fair I also have pens and notebooks, a deck of cards and a flashlight in the glove box.
It’s about being prepared for all emergencies including dry undecorated lips.
LOL this is where all my lippies go! I cleaned out my closet last week, and that included a bunch of purses. I also found a whole bunch of lippies! I wondered where those went … !
The perfume links made me wonder have you written a post about perfumes you like, recently? I know for me that changes every couple years.
Cleaned out my bag yesterday before we went to The City and Berkeley to celebrate Dear Daughter’s birthday, yet again. I put in a clear lip balm, Tom Ford mini of Casablanca from the Nordy’s Anniversary Sale set, Clinique Bare Pop and Marc Jacobs Enamored Gloss Stick in One Mauve Time. Surprisingly it was the other stuff weighing down my bag, like four pencils, 5 pens, two different Moleskin books and a ton of hard candies and cough drops.
Despite the fact I don’t wear lipstick every day, I have a ridiculous amount of lipstick in my purse because you never know if there might be an emergency and you need that burgundy lippie!
Some fun reads this week! Loved the Bloomberg article on fragrances!
In this comment’s edition of things that remind me of other things: Captain Blankenship? Did you ever watch MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge)? Two of the “characters” were Kenny Blankenship and The Captain (Captain Tenneal). We used to laugh so hard at that show. It was a much better version of Wipe Out. Though the commentary is likely not up everyone’s alley. 🙂