Now, where’d I put my makeup brushes…?
Oh, I should have put them right there! — in the convenient little elastic slots built into the buxom makeup bag that comes with the new Bare Minerals bareEscentuals Oh La Luxe Holiday Kit ($79).
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Now I Gotta Cut Loose (Footloose), with These Bare Escentuals bareMinerals Oh La Luxe Swatches
I won’t pretend that I didn’t try to fit Tabs into the case that comes with the new Bare Escentuals bareMinerals Oh La Luxe holiday kit ($79, available now at Sephora and also online), but you know…husky.
Here are those swatches I mentioned I’d do. Not really up to a whole lot today. So far I went for a run, cleaned up a little, started reading a new book (All These Things I’ve Done, by Gabrielle Zevin), and now I’m craving pumpkin gelato and trying to think of a way to sweet talk El Hub into getting me some.
Yup, action packed day. 🙂
How about you? What are you up to this afternoon?
Eyecolors from the left: Amour, Clover, Queen Phyllis, Celestine and Exotic Victoria
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Even Unwrapped, the Bare Escentuals bareMinerals Oh La Luxe Kit Looks Like a Present
This luxe lovely is already dressed for the holidays. 🙂 Bare Escentuals bareMinerals loose shadow fans, the new limited edition Oh La Luxe holiday kit, available now at Sephora stores and also online ($79), wouldn’t even need wrapping paper to look good under the tree.
The kit comes with…
- 9 loose Eyecolors
- 1 loose Liner Shadow
- 3 loose Blushes
- 2 All Over Face Colors
- The snazzy two-tiered zippered makeup bag (CUTE!)
Bare Escentuals bareMinerals Pretty Amazing Lip Collection and Afternoon Distractions
I don’t know if I’ll be watching American Horror Story again next week… Come to think of it, I wish I could un-see the series premiere. I’m sitting here at my desk in the middle of a perfectly fine afternoon, and I’m freaking the eff out!
I keep looking over my shoulder, half expecting to see this dude watching me from behind.
Safe place! Safe place!
The only thing keeping me sane right now is good old-fashioned distraction, and to that end I’ve been looking at pictures of kittens, devouring Kind Bars (Almond and Coconut, of course), and checking out a few kits from the new Bare Minerals bareEscentuals holiday 2011 collection, including this cutie patootie called the Pretty Amazing Lip Collection ($28).
Have you tried any of the Pretty Amazing Lip Colors yet? If you like long-wearing liquid lip products, this limited edition kit comes with four of ’em — little minis in both sheen and glossy finishes.
I plan to try a few looks with some of the many Bare Escentuals bareMinerals holiday kits next week, but for now, here’s a quick peek at the Pretty Amazing kit, along with some swatches. 🙂
Coming Soon: The New Bare Escentuals bareMinerals Ready Eyeshadow 8.0 Palettes in The Cocktail Hour and The Playlist
Calling all Bare Escentuals bareMinerals babes. Set your calendars for November 1, and title the reminder, “2 new BM eyeshadow palettes coming out today.”
The limited edition Ready Eyeshadow 8.0 Palettes in The Cocktail Hour and The Playlist ($40 apiece) promenade into Bare Escentuals Boutiques on November 1, each with eight new Bare Escentuals bareMinerals pressed eyeshadow shades.
The Cocktail Hour
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New From Bare Escentuals: The bareMinerals Cocktail Hour Ready Eyeshadow Palette
Super new from Bare Escentuals bareMinerals! The new Cocktail Hour Ready Eyeshadow Palette, $40. One of two new eyeshadow palettes available November 1 at Bare Escentuals Boutiques.
How about these colors? What do ya think?
Two Ways to Win $143 in bareMinerals Makeup (5 Winners)
- WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winners are Joanna, San D, Christina, Marian and Tammy! Congratulations, gals! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂
Woot, GEMINIS! Looks like I’m not the only one with a birthday this week. bareMinerals is officially turning 35, and they’re in the mood to party in a big way.
First with a giveaway — right here, right now (well, in a minute); second, with a gift with purchase. When you purchase $75 or more at one of their Bare Escentuals Boutiques from June 9-12, you’ll get a complimentary $20 gift card redeemable toward your next purchase (valid from June 20-July 5).
Now, on to the giveaway! 🙂
bareEscentuals has generously offered to host a kick @ss one here on MBB featuring some of their newest products (a few of which don’t even hit shelves until July). If you like bareMinenerals makeup but don’t like having to wait in line, today could be your lucky day.
Five lucky ladies (or gents) will each win:
- One (1) bareMinerals Love & Happiness Collection, a six-piece kit that includes Prime Time Brightening Sunlight Eyelid Primer, Queen Phyllis Matte Eyecolor, Big & Bright Eyeliner in Oz, Love Radiance All-OVer Face Color, Best Friend Lip Balm and an XOX charm (a $35 value)
- One (1) bareMinerals Prime Time Eyelid Primer in Sundance, a metallic peach (an $18 value)
- One (1) bareMinerals Prime Time Eyelid Primer in Urban Nature, a metallic taupe (an $18 value)
- One (1) bareMinerals Prime Time Eyelid Primer in Gunmetal, a metallic bluish gray (an $18 value)
- One (1) bareMinerals Prime Time Eyelid Primer in Racing Green, a metallic green (an $18 value)
- One (1) bareMinerals Prime Time Eyelid Primer in Chroma Violet, a metallic purple (an $18 value)
- One (1) bareMinerals Prime Time Eyelid Primer in Bronzed Twig, a metallic bronze (an $18 value)
Love & Happiness Collection clockwise from the beige jar on the lower left: Queen Phyllis Matte Eyecolor, XOX Charm, Love Radiance All-Over Face Color, Best Friend Lip Balm and Big & Bright Eyeliner in Oz
Prime Time Brightening Sunlight Eyelid Primer, from the Love & Happiness Collection
Prime Time Eyelid Primers
Swatches of the Prime Time Eyelid Primers from the left: Sundance, Urban Nature, Gunmetal, Racing Green, Chroma Violet and Bronzed Twig
Love & Happiness Collection swatches from the left: Big & Bright Eyeliner in Oz, Best Friend Lip Balm, Love Radiance All-Over Face Color and Queen Phyllis Matte Eyecolor
Swatch of Prime Time Brightening Sunlight Eyelid Primer from the Love & Happiness Collection
- There are two ways to enter, and you can do both of them for two chances to win. First, you can enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, a comment about anything at all — What was your most memorable birthday? What’s your favorite flavor of birthday cake? Is there a bareMinerals product you can’t live without? You get the picture. 🙂
- Second, you can enter by following me on
Twitter @karenmbb and retweeting (RT) the following message:
- Follow @karenmbb and RT to Win $143 in bareMinerals Makeup http://bit.ly/l3ITDG
- The deadline to enter is Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 11:59PM (PT).
- Entrants must enter using a valid email address and/or Twitter account to win.
- A maximum of two (2) entries per person — one within the comments at the bottom of this post, and a second entry via Twitter addressed to me @karenmbb.
- Contest is open to individuals of the United States who have reached the age of majority according to their local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21). Sorry, international folks; don’t worry, I’ll have something soon that includes you guys, too.
- Tabs and I (heretofore referred to as “T-Money and K-Dawg”) will select one (1) winner at random from the entries either left in the comments at the bottom of this blog post or addressed to @karenmbb on Twitter.
- The winner will be announced here within 48 hours of the deadline.
- Void where prohibited by law.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Happy hump day! 🙂
- WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winners are Joanna, San D, Christina, Marian and Tammy! Congratulations, gals! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂
Happy Birthday, Bare Minerals! I Wish You Love & Happiness
I thought it was April showers that brought May flowers, but yet it rained today. What’s up with that? I was getting a little down about it, too, until I saw the colors in the new bareMinerals Love & Happiness Collection ($35). There they were, like a break in the clouds, these shimmery pastels and brights.
The collection is, more accurately, a kit released to commemorate the company’s 35th birthday (happy b-day, BM!). I’ve played with a few other bareMinerals kits before but was never really moved. In some cases, it just seemed like there was either something missing or off about those colors. These, however, look like a garden party (complete with knee-length dresses, fine china and cucumber sandwiches) in a pretty pink box.
“Did someone say party?!”