Mmm, so creamy.
Dolce & Gabbana’s True Monica Collection Lipsticks, $33 each. Available now at select Saks Fifth Avenue Stores and online.
Dolce & Gabbana’s True Monica Collection Lipsticks
Tom Ford Beauty’s Escapade Cream Color for Eyes
I want to swim in it!
Tom Ford Beauty’s Cream Color for Eyes in Escapade ($40), from the new summer 2013 collection. From the new Tom Ford Beauty Summer 2013 collection available now at Tom Ford counters and online.
Coral? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Coral! The MAC Temperature Rising Lipsticks Take Lips on an Alternate Route to Summer
Oh, my gosh, it’s happening! The annual coral migration has begun.
Every year around this time huge flocks of corals migrate from their winter hideaways to makeup counters everywhere, gathering in large numbers wherever there are lip displays.
It’s one of my favorite things. 🙂
When the corals come back in spring and summer, it’s like, it reminds me that the world will keep turning… Frozen yogurt will keep tasting great, the Real Housewives of My Butt will keep screaming nonsense at each other on Bravo, and RyGos will keep looking hot under pretty much all circumstances.
But some makeup lovers don’t get that fired up about coral. I have a friend who refuses to wear it on her lips because she says it makes her feel like a “South Beach grandma” (her words).
Gotta be honest, I don’t get it (SERIOUSLY, HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE CORAL?!), but I can appreciate wanting to be different and going against the flow, which brings me to the four new lipsticks in the MAC Temperature Rising collection.
See that? No coral whatsoever. Instead, MAC went a riskier route with beige, violet and bronze, and you know what?
I think it works.
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5 Things MAC’s Ripe For Love Powder Blush Would Say if It Could Talk
5 things MAC’s Ripe For Love Powder Blush would say if it could talk
1. Ditch your boyfriend.
Boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever. Your tanned skin and I, we belong together, just the two of us, you and I.
I don’t care where we go. I don’t care what we do. I don’t care, pretty baby, just take me with you. Let’s hit that beach we talked about, sip umbrella drinks, and nap all day long because I’m from MAC’s Temperature Rising collection. And I’m hot like that.
At night, you can put on that look I like with the chocolate smokey eyes and glossy copper lips, and then dust me on top of some bronzer on your cheeks before we head out.
Oh, the trouble we’ll find…
2. I’m officially called a mid-tone peach but…
…I think of myself as a papaya.
A juicy, ripe papaya begging to be devoured. Don’t even bother with a spoon. No shame! Just bite into that thing, and let the juices dribble down the side of your chin in slow mo.
3. I hate your shoes.
Blergh! Especially the flat Life Stride pair that you borrowed from the cafeteria lady wear when your feet ache.
Screw that. My name is Ripe for Love, hello! — so I’m all about, pardon my French, the fracking pumps. One layer of me on your cheeks (that’s all you’ll need because I’m pigmented like whoa!) and you’ll be glowing like Halley’s Comet.
Why? Because I’m THAT good, if I do say so myself.
4. I have a softer side…
It’s true. My scene, like my friends in Temperature Rising, is more about sultry summer nightlife, where molten metallics throb and glittery glosses throw air kisses with shimmering bronzed skin.
But look, I’m not all about seduction. I also have a softer side.
I can go from Do Me Baby to Let’s Wait A While in the flick of a wrist. All it takes is the gentlest caress of my feather-light powder on your cheeks, so we can do all kinds of things together, like go to the ice cream shoppe, your next book club meeting, work — heck, even that froo-froo yarn store where you fondle all the skeins but never actually buy anything.
I promise, I’ll behave.
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How Do Ya Like Your Liner?
I’ve been mulling this over since a long chat I had with a makeup artist friend who mentioned that whenever she does someone’s makeup, they usually have very, very strong opinions about how they like their eyeliner to look.
Hmm… Am I that way, too? I like to think I’m pretty open about trying different things, but I don’t know.
I guess it depends on my overall look. I’m not averse to any particular formulas, like I’ll wear pencils, gels, creams or liquids, and I’ll line my lash lines, water lines or sometimes both.
I went through a phase in the ’90s where I’d only line my upper lash and water lines, mostly because I hadn’t yet discovered the trick of setting my liner with eye shadow or powder, so it would always smudge all over the place, and I’d end up looking like a deranged forest sprite.
Once I figured out layering, it was on! And nowadays I’ll line my lower lash line, too, sometimes even just by itself. Give it a try one of these days with a bright color, like a teal or purple, for a cool, minimalist effect with bare lids and tons of mascara.
Smudgy or crisp lines? Yes and yes! Cat eyes, smokey eyes, it’s all good. 🙂
One big no-no for me has to be droopy liner, where instead of your liner lifting up at the flick like in these pics here, it slopes down.
I just can’t. I dunno, I feel like it makes me look like one of my mom’s sad porcelain dolls…
So let’s talk liner!
How do you like yours? Sharp and crisp? Smudgy? Just along your upper or lower lash lines? Water lines? What do you (and don’t you) like when it comes to eyeliner?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Dolce & Gabbana’s True Monica Collection: Smooth Eye Colour Quad in Smoky 105
So stoked about this! It looks like a great everyday type of quad.
Dolce & Gabbana’s new Smooth Eye Colour Quad in Smoky 105 ($59). From the True Monica collection, available now at select Saks Fifth Avenue Stores and online.
Tom Ford’s Skin Illuminator in Fire Lust
Tom Ford’s Skin Illuminator in Fire Lust, $65. From the new Tom Ford Beauty Summer 2013 collection available now at Tom Ford counters and online.
Four Mallards Walk Into a Bar… Wait, I Mean, Behold the MAC Bare My Soul Eye Shadow X 4 Quad!
Because I generally try to avoid bubbling vats brimming with bacteria, I’m not the type to spend my summer nights hot tubbing (unless it’s with RyGos or J-Ren). But if I were, my dream scene would look something like this:
So totally feeling this makeup!
I was so excited about the MAC Temperature Rising collection’s highlighted skin, metallic, glossy lips and strong focus on smoldering eyes that toe a slightly menacing line between seductive and spooky that I tried to paint a picture of it over the phone to my mom (who never wants to talk about makeup), and the best I could come up with was, “The girl in the promo pic looks like Nelly Furtado sitting in a hot tub at night under a heat lamp wearing Mrs. Roper’s jewelry. Oh, and she’s sandwiched between two dudes from Magic Mike.”
With three neutral powder eye shadows and a single smokey green pan, Bare My Soul ($44) must be a hit among cool, stylish mallards… It has a brown, a taupe, a gold and a coppery green.
Quack! See, Mallard duck colors. The slightly shiny finish even says, “I’m a mallard duck, yo.”
What do hot mallards have to do with MAC Temperature Rising, the release to which Bare My Soul belongs?
Absolutely nothing, far as I can tell. 🙂 Well, the mallard part doesn’t, but the colors sure seem conducive to summery smokey eyes with copper, gold, bronze and brown.
I’ll use the taupe and gold for dusting all over my lids (and/or highlighting) and the chocolatey bronze and coppery green for deepening and smoking out my look.
The coppery green, also known as When in Rio — jinx! You owe me a Coke if you thought, “That’s a Club dupe.” It reminds me a lot of MAC Club on my NC 42 skin, except a little more brown and less red.
I swear these powders feel softer than the powders in the past few limited edition quads, but I’m not totally sure why… Sure do like it though.
PRICE: $44
AVAILABILITY: Coming May 16 to maccosmetics.com and May 23 to MAC counters and stores
MAKEUP AND BEAUTY BLOG RATING: B+/A-
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen