I love finding hidden treasures in everyday things, like the underside of the petals in this zinnia flower.
It’s in the Details
Run Six Miles in a Minute (Or Just Look Like You Did) With MAC’s Immortal Flower Blush
Prior to today, if I’d heard the phrase, “immortal flowers,” I would have thought, “plastic plants,” like the kind my eccentric aunt hoards.
Now, though, I’m still thinking that…but I’m also thinking about a blush from MAC’s new All About Orange collection.
Bright peach MAC Immortal Flower Blush is such a dainty delight. It’s almost the exact same color as my cheeks after I finish a six-mile run…sans the icky perspiration and treadmill karaoke, which is when you silently mouth the words to whatever you’re listening to while you’re running and occasionally fist pump in the air (so help me gawd, when Beyonce is belting in my ear about claiming my diva status, it cannot be helped).
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Orange You Going Nude This Summer? The MAC All About Orange Cremesheen Glasses Think You Should
Everyday nudes…
A phrase like that could mean a few different things. It could refer to the billboard down the street from my brother’s apartment in SF that reads, “Touch Our Junk.”
(I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean junk of the discarded/reused/recycled variety.)
It could also refer to eminently wearable nude glosses — the kind you’ll happily wear over and over.
I 
nude gloss…
This time of year, I love it even more than usual because it’s just swipe and go. You can’t get much lower maintenance than that.
If your boo comes home from work early one random afternoon and says, “Eff this workaday crap, babe! Let’s go be beach bums in Hawaii,” nude glosses are good for times like that… Matte red lips just don’t go with that scenario.
Christina Aguilera could probably pull off matte red lips, a retro tankini and water wings, but me? Not so much. I’d look like the main event in an underwater circus.
Yet another of the many benefits of nude glosses…
A few days ago while rifling through my bag for the chocolate I keep stashed “for emergencies” (don’t front, I you know you do this too), the only nude glosses in my purse were the new Cremesheen Glasses ($20 each) from MAC All About Orange.
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A Bit o’ Bobbi and Gray Makes for a MAC Rainy Season: The $40 MAC Rainy Season Eye Shadow X 4 Quad
Like a freak summer thunderstorm, MAC’s $40 Rainy Season Eye Shadow X4 quad might seem a little out of place this time of year, but it sure is practical. I’ll give it that.
Maybe it’s the combination of conservative cool and warm-toned grays, but there’s something very Bobbi Brown about it, I think.
It’s hard to go wrong with shades like these. They’re useful — especially for soft cat eyes, mrrrow! — but useful doesn’t always set my world on fire, if you know what I mean.
Will I look back in five years, sigh wistfully with a tear in my eye and say something like, “Remember the Rainy Season quad from the MAC All About Orange collection? Gosh, that one sure rocked my world.”
Um…probably not.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t like it. I do.
Like it, that is.
I get why it was included with the orange lip and cheek products in All About Orange, but…ya know. Fine.
Splurge and Steal With Summer Nail Polishes: New on Gloss Daily
Hey, friend. If you have a sec, please stop by the Ladies’ Home Journal beauty blog, Gloss Daily.
I have a new post up that your paws might enjoy: Splurge and Steal With Summer Nail Polishes.
If you like it, please Tweet, Like and/or leave a comment. 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Clarins Splendours Summer Bronzing Compact
My Summer Garden
A few new plants sprouting up. 🙂
I can’t remember if these are zinnias or peppers…
I’ll Take a Grande Honey Jasmine To Go, Please: The New MAC Honey Jasmine Blush, That Is
Got a new tea tonight from Trader Joe’s. Honey Jasmine. I’m really looking forward to having a cup tonight.
Mmm… Honey Jasmine.
Kidding! It’s not a tea, or at least I don’t think so, although it does sound delish, doesn’t it?
It’s a new blush from MAC — a fresh squeezed coral cutie from the MAC All About Orange Collection, and it’s making me think of tea.
And Honey Boo Boo.
Yeah…I really need to stop watching reality TV (she says, while programming her Tivo to record Million Dollar Listing: New York).
Swear to gawd, I just did that. 🙂
Oh, and if you have a tan, babe, Honey Jasmine sure looks sweet on bronzed cheeks.
I picked up a little more color on my quick SoCal jaunt last week, and I’ve been wearing Honey Jasmine every day since.
I gauged the wear time last weekend during a very important business meeting… Okay, it wasn’t a meeting. It was a Law & Order: SVU marathon. 🙂
When I peeled myself off the couch after four hours, I took a look in the mirror, and my blush seemed a touch darker than it did earlier in the day. In my mind, I heard the SVU “Dun-DUUN!!” and wondered if Benson or Stabler would be able to solve this mystery…
Probably. They’re talented like that.
