Dior Misty Mauve 5-Colour Eyeshadow Palette from the fall 2010 collection, $58.
What do you think of the colors? Like/love/lust/eh?
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Dior Misty Mauve 5-Colour Eyeshadow Palette from the fall 2010 collection, $58.
What do you think of the colors? Like/love/lust/eh?
by Karen 5 Comments


Dior Pink Design 5-Colour Eye Palette ($58) from the fall 2010 collection. Review/swatches in two shakes. 🙂


The scheduled festivities at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week: Swim may have ended earlier this week, but for makeup lovers like us, the show must go on!
Before we say “later!” to the bikini-clad hotness that stalked Miami’s runways, here’s one last peek at a look the artists from Make Up For Ever created for the Tyler Rose show. Once again, the Aqua Creams were in full effect.


The final Aqua Cream MBB giveaway of the week starts in three, two, one…
Make Up For Ever hooked us up with a doozy to end the series, this one larger than the rest. The prize includes SIX of the Aqua Creams for eyes & cheeks (a $132 value).

Pink Beige

Plum

Purple

Intense Blue

Turquoise

Emerald Green

One lucky lady (or gent) will win ALL of the following six Aqua Cream Shadows:
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Pink Beige, a shimmery pinkish beige for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Plum, a shimmery, plummy burgundy for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Purple, a shimmery lilac for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Intense Blue, a bright blue sheen for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Turquoise, a shimmery turquoise for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Emerald Green, a golden green sheen for eyes and cheeks ($22)
Entering is easy. There are two different ways, and you can do both of them for two chances to win.
Follow @karenmbb and RT to win $132 in Make Up For Aqua Creams http://bit.ly/bAhIVR
The song that’s stuck in my head? I’ve been listening to Phoenix’s Sometimes in the Fall on repeat all morning long!
I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59 p.m. PST on Wednesday, July 21 (that’s today).
Chúc may mắn!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
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Each morning at 11 a.m. my time (Pacific Standard), the veil between our world and the world of magic lifts for the briefest of moments, and in that moment — no longer than the blink of a fairy’s eye — an email goes out to Makeup and Beauty Blog subscribers everywhere.
Okay…maybe it doesn’t work exactly like that, but an email does get sent, and it includes my latest posts in ready-to-read format. You’ll get peeks at upcoming makeup collections, alerts about product giveaways and ideas for makeup looks to try at home — all washed down with a spoonful of crazy cat lady (sorry… I can’t help myself when it comes to Tabs).
Subscribe now to let Tabs and I lift your spirits every day (we’ll keep doing our best!), and never miss another post. Thanks for visiting. 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Remember chat when chat was fun? Twitter’s kinda like that. Follow me on Twitter @karenmbb for up-to-the-second makeup news, Nutella cravings and cat sightings.
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man•grove |ˈmanËŒgrÅv|
noun
1 a tree or shrub that grows in muddy, chiefly tropical coastal swamps that are inundated at high tide. Mangroves typically have numerous tangled roots above ground and form dense thickets.
2 a grove of shirtless hot dudes : Ooooh, gurl, check out that mangrove over there!
Even if someone at NARS had foliage in mind when they named this golden green eyeshadow, I can’t help but picture something else. 🙂

NARS Mangrove eyeshadow
Mangrove bloomed as an eyeshadow single with the NARS Fall 2010 collection. Francois (first name basis, yo!) loves unexpected colors and textures, and Mangrove fits the bill.
My first impression? — pureed vegetable baby mush. As an eyeshadow, it doesn’t jump out of its pan as something traditionally pretty, but like the plant from whence it draws its name, it just needs a little time to grow.
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Do you have a willpower weakness when it comes to a certain kind of makeup? Something that always makes you weak in the knees? I’ve got quite a few, truth be told, and one happens to be shimmery neutrals. They’re like the Nutella of my makeup world; I just can’t get enough!
As soon as I saw pics of what the Make Up For Ever artists did for the models at the Aqua Di Lara and Qiss Qiss shows at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week: Swim — those glistening gold, bronze and brown eyes! — I let out a “WOW!” worthy of double rainbow proportions.

The look at Aqua Di Lara

The Qiss Qiss look
Straight up, neutrals don’t have to be boring. Not at all. Here I think they look sexy AND sassy.
If you think you’d like to give looks like these a try, the Make Up For Ever Aqua Creams can help.
To turn up the temperature on this lovely Tuesday, Make Up For Ever‘s sponsoring another sizzling Miami Fashion Week prize package for us featuring FIVE MORE of the Aqua Creams for eyes & cheeks (a $110 value).
One lucky lady (or gent) will win ALL of the following Aqua Cream Shadows (check out my review here):
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Gold, a shimmery yellowish gold for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Golden Copper, a shimmery copper for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Warm Beige, a shimmery champagne for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Satin Brown, a shimmery warm brown for eyes and cheeks ($22)
One (1) Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream in Taupe, a shimmery brownish taupe for eyes and cheeks ($22)

Gold

Golden Copper

Warm Beige

Satin Brown

Taupe

Entering is easy. There are two different ways, and you can do both of them for two chances to win.
Follow @karenmbb and RT to win $110 in Make Up For Ever Aqua Creams http://bit.ly/9Fyqvh
My first Make Up For Ever product? This one’s easy! It was their lovely Lift Concealer!
I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59 p.m. PST on Tuesday, July 20 (that’s today).
Good luck!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
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The title pretty much says it all.
He’s been really, REALLY naughty as of late. I think he misses being outside when it’s warm out, so he acts out.
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Fusion Beauty LipFusion Conditioning Sticks with SPF 15, $22 each.
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