Just look at that pigment and that perfect posture.
Gosh, I love them…
How’s it going today, babe? What have you been up to? I’m just taking a break from my chores to check in and say hi. 🙂
Can I Get an AMEN From the MAC Retro Matte Lipstick Lovers?
7 Ways to Win a $50 eGift Card From Sephora! (Ends Monday)
Hey, you need anything from Sephora?? Tabs is heading down there this morning on his bike, and he says he can bring you something back. Let me know. I’ll text him your order. 🙂
Meanwhile…
Good morning! I hope you slept well and had a great night.
So, that movie last night, Riddick, turned out to be better than I thought. It was actually pretty good, but yes, I am a sci-fi nerd, so the bar, ya know, isn’t set very high.
Amidst all the carnage in the movie — and there is carnage; it’s a Vin Diesel flick, after all — there’s even something cute, but I won’t say more. I don’t want to spoil it for you, and you’ll know what I’m talking about if you see it.
Now let’s get this show on the road, shall we? It’s giveaway time, and you could win a $50 e-gift card to spend on anything you want at Sephora.
Good luck, and have a wonderful weekend, babe. Maybe we’ll bump into each other on Twitter or Facebook today.
- One (1) Sephora eGift card containing $50 sent to the winner by email (international readers, you may opt to receive $50 sent by PayPal instead).
- Enter using the Rafflecopter widget below.
- Open to U.S. and international readers.
- You must be 18 or older to enter (or otherwise an adult based on your local laws).
- Your comment can be about anything at all, but here are some ideas if you’re stuck: Who’s your favorite romcom movie star? Best movie makeup you’ve ever seen? What’s your favorite eyeshadow palette of all time? Best meal you had all week? Invent a word to describe the way you feel right now. What’s the most precious keepsake you own? Have you ever been to Kansas? — you get the idea.
- You can enter in up to seven ways to boost your chances of winning.
- The giveaway ends on Monday, September 15, 2013 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Time).
- Full terms and conditions are available in the widget.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Beauty Bribe Yourself With Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Energy Body Bath & Shower Gel, or Refreshing Body Cream
Beauty bribery, babe. It’s the key to getting sh*t done, I kid you not.
If I find myself dragging my feet or otherwise struggling to finish a task, I dangle the idea of getting a little beauty treat if/when I finish, like a carrot in front of a horse’s eyes, and 99.9% of the time, it works.
Of course, you have to be strict with yourself here. I mean, if you don’t finish the task, you don’t get the treat.
The trick works particularly well on household chores (like one lipstick for cleaning two toilets), tasks that require standing in long lines (go to the DMV, get a new nail polish) or any activity tied to sweating (30 minutes of exercise for a new body care product).
And the treat doesn’t have to be a brand new product. It can be a special treatment, like a relaxing bath or manicure, with something you already own.
Like this week, the only reason I exercised at all was Dolce & Gabbana!
I tell myself that I only get to take a shower with Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Energy Body Bath & Shower Gel ($35) after I go for a run.
Seems to be working.
And after I dry myself off, I follow up with Light Blue Refreshing Body Cream (a $51 splurge, albeit a wonderful one).
Both have the same crisp, fruity floral scent as the regular Light Blue fragrance, one of my staple perfumes.
On me, Light Blue is refreshing like a resort vacation, with jasmine, apple, orange and musk notes. If you like light, summery scents like MAC Turquatic and Bobbi Brown Beach, you might lurve Light Blue.
There’s also a Light Blue deodorant, by the way, and sometimes I wear that, too.
Three Cheers for the Three Tiered Sonia Kashuk Floral Print Triple Train Case!
The new Sonia Kashuk Roll Up Valet bag might be better at keeping makeup and brushes separated and organized…but sometimes you don’t care about organization and just want to bring along a sh*tload of stuff!
Well at least I do. 🙂
I have a confession — packing light does not come naturally to me (unlike my knack for tracking down new Kevin Federline-esque fedoras).
It’s actually really hard. Whenever I fly somewhere, I pare down because I have to, but dangnabbit! — those carry-on luggage restrictions sure cramp my style.
Now, when traveling by car, since I can bring however much I want and don’t have to haul my cookies around an airport, I tend to go a little cray-cray in the makeup packing department.
Let me put it this way: I’m the girl with five different face powders and six bronzers at any given time, and oh — what’s that? You want to borrow a glittery nail polish? Can do. I’m sure I have at least two or three of them with me…
It’s time like those, when I can bring however much I want and indulge in my makeup hoarding tendencies, that Sonia Kashuk’s Floral Print Triple Train Case ($19.99) is mah jam.
New for fall, the three-tiered zippered travel case has become my go-to bag whenever I want to bring along hella blushes, powders and/or eyeshadows.
Bulkier products like face powders fit nicely into the bottom tier, which is the deepest level of the bag, and when I stand them up in two rows, the bag fits about 20…
A Permanent Papaya: Le Metier de Beaute Papaya Creme Lip Creme Lip Gloss
Sigh… Like I really needed another reason to obsess over Le Metier de Beaute.
Their shimmery, peachy golden pink Papaya Creme Lip Gloss packs so much pigment that I let out a purvey “Oooooohhhh!” the first time I saw it swatched (would have made R. Kelly proud).
Le Metier de Beaute Papaya Creme
Have You Ever Had a Mani/Pedi Mishap or Full-On Disaster?
I was looking at my hands last night and thinking, “Dang, this is a disaster!”
Got me thinking about mani/pedi mishaps…
I haven’t had any nightmarish nail salon experiences, thank goodness (knocks on wood), but I have heard some pretty gnarly stories.
The closest to a mani/pedi disaster was probably the time I treated myself to a fancy pedi at a shoo-shoo-foo-foo spa.
My toes looked great when I left! — but then I accidentally kicked the leg of a table and totally jacked up the pedi on my right foot.
Grumpy!
Since I rarely go out and actually get my nails done, and it costs a small fortune, I was quite…perturbed (batsh*t crazy angry) the rest of the day.
What about you? Have you ever had a mani/pedi mishap or full-on disaster?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. TGIF!!! 🙂
Lush Las Vegas: Is It Just Me, or Does Everything in This Store Look Good Enough to Eat?
One of the BEST things about the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, other than the faux beach-themed swimming pools (with actual white sand!), of which the Lazy River is my fave, there’s also a huge Lush store.
And it’s HUGE!
It took about 20 minutes to sniff my way around the store’s perimeter… It was like Alice in Wonderland up in there, and there were so many yummy smells!
I was pretty much just window sniff shopping, not really intending to bring anything home, because my carryon luggage was already filled to the brim.
But it definitely was a reminder that I need to stop by a local Lush store soon…
Everything’s a Little Brighter With New Urban Decay Naked Illuminated Shimmering Powder for Face and Body
When I picture no-makeup makeup, as in makeup that looks “au naturale,” Urban Decay isn’t the first brand that springs to mind. I mean…the have an entire sparkly rainbow of glitter eyeliners living in their permanent collection (and they’re great!).
Lately, though, with new additions to UD’s Naked Skin product line, they seem bound and determined to get makeup lovahs thinking about them in that way.
But based on my first swatch of the new Naked Illuminated Shimmering Powder for Face and Body ($29) on the back of my hand, I did not expect subtle. In the swatch I saw a silvery beige powder so frosty, so sparkly, that I pictured roller skating rinks and knee-high socks.
We’re talking disco ball territory.
