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Are you ready for your photo?
Of course you are, with the Revlon PhotoReady Primer + Shadow palette in Graffiti (about $7.50).
Available now online and at CVS, Rite Aid and Target stores (and probably about a zillion other drugstores that carry Revlon).
To all my dry-lipped ladies, throw yo’ hands up! Throw yo’ hands up! Throw yo’ hands up!
If I were a platinum record-selling rap superstar, and not just a husky tabby’s professional pet assistant, that would be my on-stage audience response chant.
I seriously doubt that it would catch on pop culture fire like “Who let the dogs out” did, which reminds me, remember when people were using that in casual conversation, like “How’s it going, Jane?” “Oh, it’s going great. Who let the dogs out!? Who, who, who, who — who let the dogs out!?”
So annoying…
Whatevs, I live for excitement! I want everyone to throw their hands up like I did when I tried the four lippies in Laura Mercier’s new $48 Luxe Stickgloss Collection holiday set.
Sheer and slick, like a cross between a lipstick and a balm, they hydrate like ca-ray-zaaaay! — and look great, too. Rosy pink Brown Sugar, warm pink Baby Lips, coppery Courtisane and plummy Peony glow with a soft, sophisticated shine, and they also make my lips look a little fuller, methinks.
Because every gal needs an endless supply of my-lips-but-better shades! I say we pool our collective knowledge today to build a list of great go-to nude lip possibilities.
You gotta wear something with smokey eyes this season, right? 🙂
Here are the nude lip colors I’ve reached for most this fall…
How about you? What are your go-to nude lip products these days?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. TGIF!!!
Three reasons to FREAK THE EFF OUT when you meet BECCA’s latest highlighter, the new $38 Shimmering Skin Perfector in Rose Gold…
So modern… So elegant…. I almost couldn’t bear to touch it with my finger the first time.
What is this 1849 again? The start of another gold rush? 🙂 The pan really does look like it’s made from rose gold, doesn’t it?
It also makes skin glow, but not in that disco ball/oily way. I like this glow a lot.
You’ll feel like a queen — a terrifying spider queen! — in MAC’s Spider Queen Pro Palette X 6 ($44 US, $52 CAN).
It hails from the great beyond the Rick Baker collection, a festive Halloween-themed special effects release that arrived a little earlier this month.
It’s available now at select MAC locations, haunted mansions, graveyards and online…
Some artists wield pencils. Others command paint, clay, pen or pastels.
My medium of choice: cat fur.
Gurl, you don’t even know! My cat is one hairy beast. In fact, he’s so hairy that a sculptor could fashion a different life-size model of him out of stray tabby hairs and fur balls every week.
My second favorite artistic medium would have to be eyeshadow, I think, mostly because there are just so many different things you can do with it, and this new palette by Laura Mercier is unlocking my inner artiste, big time.
The $48 Artist’s Palette for Eyes (a Sephora exclusive) will have you itching to break out your makeup brushes. The six warm neutrals, and six cool pinks and purples, practically beg to be swept, blended and patted on lids in any number of enticing holiday eye looks.
Come to mama, smokey eyes!
Don’t even worry about busting your wrist while blending these eyeshadows. They’re pigmented, but the soft, finely-milled powders blend ridiculously well.
I lurves me some bokeh!
These are from yesterday. I bet you’ll never guess what they are. 🙂
They’re purposefully out-of-focus pics of the the Benefit Countdown to Love Advent Calendar.
Weird, right!?
Mine are still p@ssed off at me about the ’90s, LOL!
I ran into a makeup buddy at Sephora last week, and what did we end up talking about?
Brows. 🙂 Of course, hers looked perfect — all lush, full and meticulously trimmed.
I asked her about them, and she said it took her “a whole month” to grow them out.
Cat lady says what now…?
A whole month? Gee, I’ve been growing mine out since May, as in five months ago, and I still feel like they could be even fuller. Sure, Raul, the notorious bald spot on my left brow (curse you, Raul!) isn’t as obvious as he was last spring, but it ain’t exactly like Brooke Shields up in there, if you know what I mean.
I blame it on the ’90s, otherwise known as the decade when I almost plucked my brows into oblivion. I look back on it now as one those unfortunate beauty lessons I guess I had to learn the hard way.
Yup, big sigh…
How about you? Are you happy with your brows right now? Are you growing them out or doing anything else with them? Or are they already thick, wild and jungly, and in desperate need of a thread/wax/trim? Inquiring minds want to know.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. If you and your brows are looking for ideas, there were some fantastic tips in the comments on this post earlier this month: What Are Some of Your Best Brow Tips?