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Essie Wedding Collection 2011 4-Piece Mini Cube, $17. Available now at beauty stores, salons and also online.
From left to right from the light pink bottle: Made to Honor, Borrowed & Blue, First Dance and Better Together.
Remind me why I didn’t doze off watching Thor last night with El Hub. Oh, yeah… The abs. 🙂 Thank you, Chris Hemsworth, for all of the sit-ups you do. A grateful blogger salutes you!
And how are you doing, young lady? Did your Friday get off to a good start (I hope so)? Mine started off great, then took a minor detour. I’ll explain more in a minute, but for now, I have kisses! Honey-infused kisses from the Urban Decay Lip Love Honey-Infused Lip Therapy glosses ($16 each). Here are swatches of all five shades. They’re available now at Sephora stores and also online.
Have you given any of these a try? If you have, what did you think? I’m really diggin’ Lolita (of course, I would like the scandalous one, LOL!).
From the left: Stung, Drizzle, Failbait, Lolita and Taunt
Swatches from the left: Drizzle, Failbait, Taunt, Lolita and Stung
Stung
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It’s after midnight on the East Coast, but it’s never to late to dance! In fact, this is the perfect time to dance with Benefit’s new ChaChaTint Mango-Tinted Lip and Cheek Stain. It doesn’t officially debut until June 1, but it’s on sale today only (5/13) for a special one-day event on HSN (Home Shopping Network) and HSN.com.
And that’s not all. It’s regularly $29, but it’s being offered today as part of a $33 set ($77 value) that comes with three other products, too.
In all, the $33 Benefit Now to Wow! Color Collection includes…
Domestic shipping is just $2.50.
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Well, more like 20 minutes at the beach, LOL!
Earlier today I popped by Huntington Beach quickly before heading back to the airport. That’s the view from the pier.
A surfer paddling out into the lineup in Huntington Beach, California.
At one point on my quick trip to Southern California this week, I must have taken my eyes off the sidewalk in front of me for a moment (oops!), because before I knew it, I’d fallen into a rabbit hole…
And this wasn’t just any rabbit hole. Nope, it was a magic one that transported me to Newport Beach and the offices of the largest independently owned color cosmetics company in the United States. 🙂
Despite appearances, this quiet, unassuming gray building nestled on a side street in Newport Beach isn’t an accountant’s office or a place that makes frames. It’s actually the offices of Urban Decay.
Sweet carnival of chroma, batgirl! The outside belies the pageantry of purple taking place inside these walls. The interior is a cornucopia of color (I never would have guessed it from the building’s facade).
It’s a makeup triple threat! The new Too Faced Primed & Poreless Bronze Tint face primer doesn’t just sing, dance and act put pores and imperfections into stealth mode, it also gives the skin a warm, bronzy glow while keeping the sun’s damaging rays at bay with the power of SPF 20.
Too Faced developed it to work with as many different skin tones as possible (and it seems to deliver pretty well on that), so gals from every color of the rainbow could rock it.
Which brings us to the purpose of this morning’s post…
Are you ready for another giveaway? 🙂
Twitter @karenmbb and retweeting (RT) the following message:
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Oh, and if you haven’t already entered to win yesterday’s giveaway for all four Urban Decay Primer Potions, you have until 11:59PM Pacific Time Thursday night (tonight). Pacific Time because that’s where Tabs and I live. 🙂
The violet shade from the MAC Surf Baby Summer Stash Crushed Metallic Pigment set ($32.50 for four shades).
How’d you wear this?
