What do you think of the gold glitter in the limited edition Estee Lauder Pure Color Long Lasting Lipstick in Extravagant Berry, ($22)?
Ooh, Sparkly!
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Does Estee Lauder Nail Lacquer in Extravagant Pearl Score a Base Hit?
Whether in beauty or baseball, no one bats a thousand, not even Estee Lauder (GO, GIANTS!).
Of their two new holiday nail polishes, I’m totally into sparkly purple Extravagant Night ($18), but frosty champagne Extravagant Pearl just isn’t a base hit for me.
Looking at it on my nails, I’m not seein’ beautiful bubbly. More like — sorry, EL — coagulated leftover oatmeal.
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What Nail Polish Are You Wearing?
I’m wearing Estee Lauder Nail Lacquer in Extravagant Night ($18), a dark plum with gold, pink and purple glitter. It’s one of two nail lacquers in the Estee Lauder holiday 2010 collection available for pre-order online.
Extravagant Night feels very holiday to me, and I really like the multi-colored sparkles. The formula’s thick, though, and it takes forever and a day to dry, grr.
Anywho, watchu got on your paws on this lovely Tuesday?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Estee Lauder Pure Color Five Color Lip Palette in Extravagant
Estee Lauder Pure Color Five Color Lip Palette in Extravagant ($42), available for pre-order on esteelauder.com.
Do you like these colors?
Estee Lauder Extravagant Night Nail Lacquer
Estee Lauder Extravagant Night Nail Lacquer ($18), available now for pre-order on esteelauder.com.
What do you think?
Estee Lauder Blue Dahlia Nail Lacquer: A Midsummer Night’s Blue
An inky blackish blue with a whisper of deep purple, Blue Dahlia Pure Color Nail Lacquer ($18) looks like a midnight summer sky on tips and toes. One of two polishes in EL’s fall 2010 collection, (the other’s called Surreal Violet), it makes me long for late-night adventures and broken curfews, and it’s yet another reason I’ve joined the Blue Dahlia bandwagon.
The shine? Otherworldly. If I were a super heroine, I’d deflect laser beams with Blue Dahlia’s luminous shine.
The Estee Lauder Blue Dahlia Collection Makes Me Happy to Sing These Blues
Do you ever just stop and stare up at the sky as it changes colors at dusk? As the day slinks away? Doesn’t it look like someone’s cranking up the saturation on everything? Okay, yeah, so it might sound kinda boring, but you gotta do it every so often.
Estee Lauder Creative Makeup Director Tom Pecheux says that’s the kind of light — the colors that emerge at the moment day turns to night — that inspired the company’s new Blue Dahlia collection (have you seen the 1946 movie of the same name?).
The punchy purples, electric blues, pale pinks, elegant taupes and juicy raspberries in the 16-piece limited edition release tell a tale of cool-toned colors for eyes, lips and nails.
Today I explored five of Blue Dahlia’s delights…
Both the Blue Dahlia Five Color Eyeshadow Palette ($42) and Sepia Sand Eyeshadow ($20) to my eye demonstrate how far Estee Lauder’s eyeshadows have come over the last few years, both in terms of color and quality. They strike me with a sharper edge than the EL of days gone by.
Despite how pigmented they are, these soft, smooth powder shadows could almost blend themselves. They’re everything I love most about what Estee Lauder has become — rich, classy and eminently wearable. Makeup and Beauty Blog Rating: A
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Does Estee Lauder’s Sumptuous Waterproof Bold Volume Lifting Mascara Pass the Treadmill Test?
Deep thoughts from the males of Casa MBB:
- “You don’t need to wear lipgloss to bed, sweetie.” — El Hub
- “Meow. Mrrrroooow.” (Translated: “Woman, you must provide gravy for me to pose for you. Check the contract.”) — Tabs
- “I just don’t see how wearing mascara while you’re on the treadmill is a necessary thing.” — El Hub
There are soooo many things dudes don’t get — like why women need 10 pairs of black shoes (HELLO!), or why it’s completely rational to wear mascara during a workout.
What can I say? I feel less Uncle Fester if I’m huffing and puffing with a lil’ bit of eye makeup on. 🙂
For today’s treadmill sesh I wore Estee Lauder’s new Sumptuous Bold Waterproof Mascara ($18.50, available in brown and black).
Aboard the treadmill
Sumptuous Waterproof (I have it in black) totally kills when it comes to lifting the lashes and keeping a curl; eyes look w i d e and awake with it on.
More reasons to like Estee Lauder Sumptuous Waterproof Bold Volume…
- Deep, rich color
- Smooth, non-clumping formula
- Lashes feel soft and light, not crispy or heavy (dontcha hate that?), with it on
- With a good eye makeup remover like Bliss Lid + Lash Wash, removal is a cinch; no scrubbing neccessary
And I gotta give props to Sumptuous Waterproof for resisting smudging and flaking.
To see how well it performs in the waterproof department, I put it to the test today, popping on three layers before I went running on the treadmill.
Nekkid lashes
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