Here’s your unsolicited floral fun fact of the day:
Bird of paradise are deer resistant and can withstand temps below freezing.
Seriously, who knew? I didn’t.
I’m going to file this under “The Things You Find When You’re Cruising the Neighborhood for Plant Ideas.”
And because “makeup” is always processing somewhere in the background of my brain, I’m wondering how I’d incorporate bird of paradise colors into a makeup look…
Maybe a bright coral lip with colorful, crisp orange liner on the upper lash line? Ooh! — then I’d add a blue cat eye flick at the outer corner with the tiniest sliver of green along the outer edge. ?
What would you do? While you ponder that, here are some things that caught my eye this week…
BRB. Gonna make some breakfast.
- Crayola is coming out with “Colors of the World,” an awesome box of crayons in colors reflecting skin tones from around the globe. ?️ I’m a mix of “Medium Almond” and “Medium Golden.” How about you?
- THIS IS INCREDIBLE! —–> Rebecca Sharrock has a rare condition that allows her to remember every moment of her life. Her first memory: “I remember being in a dark place, with a reddish light and I had my head between my legs, so I’m assuming that’s when I was in the womb but I didn’t know my age at the time. That’s the earliest I can go back, as my memories are always in chronological order.”
- Can COVID-19 “live” on makeup? Here’s what experts say about beauty best practices during the pandemic.
- Favorite read of the week: Lyndsay Tucker, a Sephora beauty consultant in the Bay Area, has Elon Musk’s old cell phone number, and she receives countless calls and texts meant for him. Unsurprisingly, some are pretty weird. “One woman volunteered to go to space with SpaceX, and another person sent a blueprint for a bionic limb. “Which is, No. 1, really cool,” Tucker says. “But I have no idea how it’s built.
- In case you ever wondered what Jackie O.’s exact skin care routine looked like! (Here’s a hint: it involves her dermatologist saying that she should hang out in the sun without a hat.)
- What drugstore brand e.l.f. is doing to stay ahead in the beauty game. By the way, if you haven’t tried it yet, their solid sponge cleanser brush soap is EXCELLENT for brushes.
- Fun fact: in the three-year pursuit to create mascara for her makeup line, Gucci Westman tested 45 different mascara wands.
- Meet Rodrigo Flores-Roux, the man behind Clinique Happy, one of the most iconic scents of the ’90s.
- Nail techs are putting their lives on the line to do nails.
- I’m a little obsessed with the product descriptions for the scents from Imaginary Authors, this small indie perfume line based in Oregon. My favorite is Falling Into the Sea:
“At the age of nineteen Nica Galas published her first book, the autobiographical tome Falling into the Sea which chronicled her short and torrid love affair among the hot beaches and lemon trees in the Gulf of Naples. The breathtaking story opens with Nica and her girlfriends picking bunches of jasmine flower for boys while they cliff-jumped into the sea. An innocent first kiss erupts into an ardent summer entanglement which is cut short one moonlit night when her lover leaps into the dark abyss never to surface, leaving Nica naked on the cliffs screaming his name. This scent is sunshine in a bottle. Wear on cloudy days to invoke the ardor of summer.”
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Belly chains? Check. Low-rise jeans? Yup. Crocheted blankets as shirt? Yes, girl, that too. I’m horrified to report that I wore
almost allmore than a few of these outdated fashion trends from back in the day. - This gal’s sweet hubby sits outside of the window of her hospital room at a table decorated with flowers and candles so they can have date nights.
- Peter Dinklage and Jason Momoa are teaming up for a vampire-themed buddy comedy, and I’m all for it.
I did this earlier in the week, and it’s super fun.
What happens when worlds collide
I’m happy to report that ’90s singer Jon B is 1) alive and 2) thriving during the pandemic. Fast forward to 7:52 to listen to “Don’t Talk,” a.k.a. my club jam from way back when.
I now know how to change a tire! I love this guy. He grew up without a dad, and now he makes how-to videos with practical “dad” advice.
I need this; you need this; we all need this in our lives right now.
Have a nice rest of your Saturday, and yes, it’s SATURDAY! No worries if you had no idea what day of the week it was until just now, friend. It’s happened to me more than a few times since March.
WAY more than a few times. Happy Memorial Day weekend. ?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
The bottle for Falling Into the Sea is pretty. I like the hummingbird coming out of the lemon… so cool!
Hmm…. I think a blue graphic eyeliner atop pomegranate-to-mango gradient wash on the eyelid. Pale coral cheeks, clear glossy lips.
I couldn’t remember which Crayola represents my skin tone (probably close to yours) but I can’t get “Ochre” and “Burnt Sienna” out of my memory (which is nothing like that incredible woman’s memory!). Also, check out “Photographer Angelica
Dass Matches Skin Tones With Pantone Colors” — it’s similar to what Crayola is doing and very fascinating to see the breadth of skin tone there really is out in the world and how makeup companies are finally (kinda sorta) catching up.
“Are you OK?” is so sweet. I miss my cockatiel, who wouldn’t talk, but he sang “Suicide Is Painless” all the time (theme song from M*A*S*H).
How is your yard coming along? Happy Memorial Day! Stay healthy and safe this weekend, all!
btw, I love interacting with your blog peeps; they’re all really good people. 😉
I try to get inspiration from nature for makeup looks from time to time and I always see the bird of paradise flower. Probably would do an orange lip and for the eyes, the blues or greens from the Elf Earth and Ocean palette, one of my favorite palettes and wearable blues and greens.
Here’s your reciprocal unsolicited floral fun fact of the day: hibiscus flowers only last one gloriously beautiful day, before closing up and falling off their plant.
Props to Crayola for trying, but they still don’t have a crayon light enough to represent my skin. It’s possible it wouldn’t show up on paper if they made one.?
I heard that Marilu Henner, the actress from Taxi and Evening Shade (love those shows!), has that same memory condition. I’m just so glad I don’t; there are so many things about my life I don’t want to remember, like my entire marriage.
Bird of Paradise are so pretty when they’re in bloom. Do you have a Sunset Western Garden book? It has a list of deer resistant plants. Email me if you’d like me to copy the pages with the list of deer resistant plants and mail them to you.
Loving that workout- she is so energizing and fun! The tunes were just perfect. I’ll have to check out her other stuff- miss my classes at the Y SO MUCH!!!
I wore the LOWEST rise jeans in the early 2000s. Nearly obscene levels of low rise. And the knit ponchos. I definitely had some purple camo pants in middle school. I wore super cropped cardigans that went just below your boobs with camis under at a job I had.
So my cousin said Jason Momoa was seen in her town here in SE Michigan for something and dang the thirsty middle aged women were out for him.
The pregnant lady with the sweet husband is my husband’s co-worker! Besides her being a PE teacher they are both life coaches. They are good, sweet peeps! The article says 28 weeks, but her water broke and she’s been in bed rest since 23 weeks. At first they only gave their baby a 1% chance. Praying so hard for them.