A beauty blog blooming with fresh makeup reviews, swatches and beauty tips from your friendly neighborhood beauty addict
Various creams and lotions for lifting, firming and smoothing specific body parts have been around for years (hello, Clarins Bust Beauty and Nivea Good-Bye Cellulite Cream), and while I doubt that any over-the-counter cream will make the dimples on my thighs disappear, I’m not against trying anything once. 🙂
I’ve been testing two new products lately, one from Nude and one from Lush: Nude Advanced Probiotic Skincare Smoothing Body Refiner ($70) and Lush Lovely Jubblies Breast Cream ($25).
Today I started the day with a long list of good intentions and tasks on my to-do list, but several other pressing matters needed attending to, like housework and these cute kittens 
at the Marin Humane Society.
The Society’s temporarily reduced their usual $100 adoption fee to $50. For a CCL (crazy cat lady) like me, that’s like a Feline Friends & Family Sale! 
Gee, I can get two for the price of one!?
Oooh, glittery goodness! A few of the new glittery NYX Slim Eye Pencils ($3.50 each).
If you can’t remember the last time you awoke to a fresh-faced flush (when was that again? 1998?), recapture those cherubic cheeks of yore with Jemma Kid Make Up School Blushwear Creme Cheek Colour ($23).
Swept and blended onto bare skin or layered atop foundation, this cream-to-powder blush delivers fast, flushed cheeks in a long-wearing formula. Available in three shades (Pomegranate, Guava and Paw Paw) and packed with vitamins A, C and E, the velvety powder finish hangs on for hours.
I love the colors in the new NARS Beautiful Life Lip and Cheek Palette ($55).
Swatches and review coming soon. 🙂
Makeup resolve weakening…
Stila resistance futile…
I went to bed last night thinking about Stila’s lovely hot pink Custom Color Blush ($20). I heard it calling to me from Sephora (I live just five minutes away).
“Karen,” it whispered in my ear.
“Karen, come play with me.”
Um, okay. 🙂
Like a mood ring for cheeks, Custom Color Blush reacts with skin pH (a measure of acidity or basicity), changing color based on the wearer’s body chemistry.
Part of the company’s fall collection, it’s one of the more sci-fi products I’ve seen in a while. With what Stila calls a “spherical silicone elastomer treated powder,” it supposedly also diffuses incoming light, resulting in a soft-focus effect that, according to Stila, softens the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
Hmm…
Swatch of Stila Custom Color on NC35 skin
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like some Stila in the sky!
Like the brightest stars 
on a crystal clear night, the shadows in the new Stila Backstage Eye Palette twinkle just a little brighter than every other fall product that crossed my path at Sephora yesterday.
Affordable ($28), and filled with fun colors, Backstage looks lovely in its pretty purple packaging.
A few tubes of NYX Studio Liquid Liner (available in 12 shades, $4.50 each).
