I opened up a box this morning and the second I turned around Tabs jumped in to stake his claim.
What is it with cats and cardboard boxes? He’s so weird.
Tabs: Beauty in a Box!
My HiP Face of the Day with the L’Oreal Midnight Muse Eye Shadow Duos
As much as I love a good bargain, budget beauty doesn’t always deliver. With some drugstore beauty products, you just don’t know what caliber of quality you’re gonna get.
The HiP Eye Shadow duos we looked at last week from the new L’Oreal Midnight Muse collection showed a lot of promise, and you showed a lot of interest, so I took two of them (Enchantress and Darkwave) out for indoor test drives today.
Now I know why these HiP shadows have so many fans. 🙂
The matte and high-shine shimmer shadows in both duos are easy to blend and exhibit very little fallout. These are top-shelf drugstore beauty products. We’re talking glass case material here, like the kinds of products that deserve their own display at the very front of the beauty aisle.
New Makeup Line: Sante America
Sante is an eco-friendly German makeup brand that recently launched in the US.
There’s makeup for eyes, lips and cheeks ranging from $7-16, and the products are cruelty-, fragrance- and preservative- free.
Pictured above: Eyeshadow Trio in Rose Wood 03 ($16).
I’m taking this shadow (along with some lip and face products) on a test run this weekend. Will holla if anything’s worth checking out. 🙂
The New LORAC Holiday Lip Gloss Collection Is Tie Dye For
LORAC Tie Dye For Lip Gloss in Shocking Twist
In college I had a classmate who wore tie-dye jam band concert tees to chemistry class EVERY SINGLE DAY. I’d sit there trying to take notes with my four-color clicky pen (mind you, these were the days when pagers were “cutting edge”), but the shirt would call to me from the across time/space. “Karen,” it would whisper, “look over here. Stare into my magic swirls…”
When I would finally give in and steal a glance, I’d get trapped! — unable to look away.
Like I was being sucked into the swirls!
All this without ever having taken a bite of shirt dude’s “special” brownies, which he kindly offered to me before class on many occasions.
It’s all very The Yellow Wallpaper, I know, and by the end of the year I wound up with a full-blown case of tie-dye trauma!
But you know what they say, right? Time heals all wounds. And, now, thanks to the LORAC Tie Dye For Lip Gloss Collection ($25 for a set of five tubes), I can finally appreciate multi-colored swirls again. 🙂
$5 Wet N Wild Color Icon Kits Were Built with Xmas Shopping in Mind
Wet N Wild Color Icon Kit in Sugar Plumb Fairy
I wonder how much it costs to mail a letter to the North Pole. I ask because I’d really like to thank Santa for releasing these Wet N Wild Color Icon Kits ($5) for the holidays.
Being just $5 each and coming with six coordinating shadows and a mini-eyeliner, the four kits give new meaning to the words, “travel friendly.”
Well, the liner’s nothing to write home about. I mean, it’s nicely pigmented, but it feels a little rigid against my skin. The shadows, on the other hand — oh, the shadows! Rich, bold and just as buildable as the the company’s fab Color Icon Singles.
Again, these are just $5, WOW!
Of the four kits — Sugar Plum Fairy, Golden Goddess, Snow Sprite and Night Elf — I’ve tested two of them so far.
Wet N Wild Color Icon Kit in Snow Sprite
Snow Sprite
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NYX Push Up Bra Eyebrow Pencil: Yes, That’s Glitter
In a way I’m kinda glad my MAC 266 brush and pan of Concrete eyeshadow went missing, because now I’m trying different stuff for brows like the NYX Push Up Bra Eyebrow Pencil ($10). It’s a dual-ended eyebrow enhancer with a brow pencil on one end and a highlighter on the other.
I’m haven’t quite figured out why there’s glitter in the brow pencil side, but we’ll see what happens!
The Korres Vitamin E 10-Color Pencil Kit Is Worth Writing Home About
Holy wow! That’s a lot of liners. And they’re full size too!
The pencils in the Korres Limited Edition Vitamin E 10-Color Pencil Kit work out to just $3.25 each ($32.50 for the kit). Of course, all of them are green. 🙁
No, not literally. I mean they’re eco-friendly and 100% natural, according to Korres, made with moisturizing Vitamin E and jojoba oil. And considering that eyeliners this size (standard 0.04 oz. pencils) usually go for $16 apiece, the kit’s one of the best holiday bargains I’ve seen this year so far.
Korres included a wide range of pigmented colors in popular shades from their permanent line…
From left: Long-Lasting Eyeliner in 1 Black, Long-Lasting Eyeliner in 1S Black Soft, Long-Lasting Eyeliner in 2 Brown, Long-Lasting Eyeliner in 4 Green, Soft Eyeliner in 4S Purple
Swatches from left on NC35 skin: 1 Black, 1S Black Soft, 2 Brown, 4 Green, 4S Purple
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The Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Palette Helped Me Face My Neighbors (and the Day)
Okay, methinks it’s time to stop scaring the neighbors. With last week’s beehive and that other blast to beauty’s past, I got more than a few sideways glances every time I went outside.
I don’t really know my neighbors very well, but I’m sure they know me — as the crazy lady who walks her cat on a leash while wearing lots of eye makeup and bathrobes, ha! I love it. 🙂
I kept getting that look. You know the one, where they’re afraid to make eye contact, but their glassy, straight-ahead stares betray what they’re really doing, which is watching you from the side with their peripheral vision… I do it a lot at restaurants to see what everyone else is eating, haha.
This morning I decided to give ’em a break and go back to wearing something a little less shocking in public. Out came the new Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Palette ($45).
The Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Palette from left: Eye Shadow in White, Metallic Eye Shadow in Tin, Eye Shadow in Storm, Long-Wear Eye Paint in Onyx
Have you seen it yet? One of three new kits in the just-released Choose Your Glam collection, it comes with four powder eyeshadows perfect for black/gray smokey eyes.
I’ve been chomping at the bit for this one, specifically for the sparkly black Long-Wear Eye Paint in Onyx.
Bobbi makes a pretty big deal about how it can be worn either wet or dry, but isn’t that true of most powder shadows?
Eh, with glitter like this, who the hell cares!? They can say whatever they want as long as they catch me when I swoon. 🙂
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