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Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 210

Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 210

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  • You might be wondering, “So what the heck is this Monday Poll thing anyway?”
    Well, it isn’t much of a poll. It’s more just a constantly evolving (devolving?),Cheap Jerseys, somewhat random list of questions I’ve been putting out to readers every Monday morning for the past four years. I’ve always enjoyed reading your answers in the comments, and I hope you enjoy reading mine.
  1. Mood:
  2. Just peachy.

  3. Milk,The Sula Beauty Eye Crayon in Never Say Never May Prefer Drier Lids Than Mine, dark or white chocolate?
  4. How ’bout milk and dark, please? Milk when it comes to chocolate candies, and dark when it comes to brownies, cookies and cupcakes.

    Mmm… cupcakes.

  5. Peeta or Gale?
  6. Team Peeta all the way,Cheap NFL Jerseys,Coach Outlet Online store, ever since the first book.

  7. Have you ever rocked out to a Paula Abdul song?
  8. Three words: Forever Your Girl.

  9. Fingerless lace gloves: cute or tacky?
  10. If you’d asked me in 1988, I would have said, “cute!” I used to think they were awesome back when Madge wore ‘em. Now? Not so much.

  11. The current state of your eyebrows?
  12. Long overdue for a trim and a session with my Tweezerman tweezers.

  13. Have you ever worn feather extensions in your hair?
  14. Nope,Coach Factory Outlet Online, but Tabs has.

  15. Strapless dresses: yea or nay?
  16. Yea, but only if I’m wearing a gravity-defying bra.

  17. What’s the most surprising thing a stranger’s ever said to you?
  18. That I can remember? Well, it wasn’t directed at me, but maybe the time I overheard a flight attended describing me to a coworker as “the young girl sitting in the aisle seat.”

    I was 35 at the time (read: score!).

  19. Weekly goals:
  20. Just one: keep smiling. :)

Hey, hey, happy Monday!

Got a sec for the Monday Poll? I sure hope so.



1. Mood:
2. Milk, dark or white chocolate?
3. Peeta or Gale?
4. Have you ever rocked out to a Paula Abdul song?
5. Fingerless lace gloves: cute or tacky?
6. The current state of your eyebrows?
7. Have you ever worn feather extensions in your hair?
8. Strapless dresses: yea or nay?
9. What’s the most surprising thing a stranger��s ever said to you?
10. Weekly goals:

Enjoy your week! I’ll try to do the same.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. The Walking Dead last night — what did you think? Can I suggest a couple of alternate titles for the episode? How about, “I would have killed for more zombies,louis vuitton outlet,” or, “The moral dilemmas are killing me quicker than this zombie bite”? :)

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Stare deeply into the ginormous gem on the top of MAC’s Fascinating Ruby: 3 Plum Lips ($22.50) palette… IF YOU DARE!

Concentrate hard enough, and the gem will imbue you with mystical makeup powers and reveal the deepest secrets of the universe.

Okay, not really… This gem doesn’t do anything cool like that,How to Look Your BEST in Pictures, but it does contain some pretty cool makeup.


From left to right: Mutual Attraction, Insinuate, Marvel

MAC likes to push the envelope with the packaging of their holiday stuff, and they’re at it again.

Part of the MAC Passions of Red holiday 2008 collection,Coach Factory Outlet, Fascinating Ruby doesn’t work for me the way that the elegant and edgy packaging of last year’s Royal Assets holiday collection did. Matter of fact, I think it’s a little corny, but who cares, right? I’m here for the makeup more than anything else.

And speaking of that, I like each one of Fascinating Ruby’s three plum lip shades. The set comes with two lipsticks, a gloss and a teeny,Christian Louboutin, tiny lip brush.

I ended up ditching the brush because using it to apply product was like trying to paint with a needle, so I opted for my trusty MAC 316 covered lip brush instead.

  • Mutual Attraction gloss: A shimmery, reddish plum gloss. The silver glitter turns up the drama factor,Cheap Jerseys, but I think I’d like it more if the glitter were gold.
  • Insinuate lipstick: I love this cool pink-plum with subtle golden pearl and can’t wait to wear it with purple smokey eyes!
  • Marvel lipstick: A shimmery, deep magenta plum. My lip color really brings out the red in this lipstick. I bet it’ll be a nice option for when I want to wear red with a conservative look.


From left to right: Mutual Attraction, Insinuate, Marvel

I have a good time with plum. I think it’s a user-friendly color, and all of the shades in this palette feel perfect for the season.

MAC Fascinating Ruby: 3 Plum Lips

Price: $22.50
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In addition to the Fascinating Ruby 3 Plum Lips palette, the MAC Passions of Red holiday collection includes four eyeshadow palettes ($38 each) and two additional lip palettes ($22.50 each) in shades of cool pink and coral.

So,cheap louis vuitton bags,The Sula Beauty Eye Crayon in Never Say Never May Prefer Drier Lids Than Mine, what do ya think of that giant ruby on the package? It’s like MAC meets Raiders of the Lost Ark, LOL!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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Stocking Stuffers Galore – More Makeup and Beauty Blog’s Holiday Wishlist 2007
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My favorite part of holiday gift giving is getting fun stocking stuffers. Forget practical stuff like socks, underwear and dental floss. BLAH! I want fun makeup. Here are a few choice Holiday 2007 stuffers that the girls (and boys) in your life will dig.

More MAC Finery! Plum Lips – Oh La Lovely

Yesterday I posted some pictures of Coral Lips, my favorite group out of MAC’s Limited Edition Finery sets. Here are a few pics of the Plum Lips set, which comes a close second.

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By far the stand out lippie here is Culture Class,monster beats headphones, a rich plum frost. I especially love it with a layer of Contessa Lipglass.

If you’re waffling between the two sets then I’d suggest looking at what colors you have missing in your lipstick collection. The Coral Lips set is definitely my favorite, but because I have so many coral colors I’d probably skip the set and go for the Plum.

In addition to being super cute, the lil’ tweed clutch is actually really handy! I put a compact and lipstick in one yesterday and popped it in my purse. Yes, I do see the irony of putting a little purse in a big purse but I was able to find my lipstick THAT much quicker.

Each set is $32.00. Buy a set for yourself and another one for your sister-in-law or best gal pal.

Lola Holiday 2007 Spellbound Palette – For the Glamour Girl

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Lola’s Spellbound Color Clutch ($38.00) is one of the most beautiful palettes this Holiday season. It’s very vintage and 40s looking, with a pretty velvet design and rhinestone accent. You get: a mirror, three lip glosses, two crème blushes and 18 shadow shades in coordinating pans.

This palette gives a makeup newbie all she needs for plenty of fun hours of experimentation. Plus,Cheap Jerseys, it’s so handy and portable and hello,Cheap NFL Jerseys, really super cute. The stand-outs are the crème blushes and lipglosses. They wear well and feel great on my cheeks and lips.

Your favorite niece or closest cousin will love it!

Bye, Bye, Dry! Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream RULES

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My skin in the wintertime becomes a mess of alligator-esque, ashy dryness. I just discovered Elizabeth’s Arden’s Eight Hour Cream and THANK JEEBUS! Now I can’t live without it.

I’m not the only one who loves it. The Intensive Moisturizing Body Treatment is so great that it recently won an Allure Beauty award. Unlike lame-o Maybelline Great Lash Mascara (puke!) which wins every year for no good reason,Louis Vuitton handbags outlet, Eight Hour Cream really deserves the title.

It’s thick and rich (I barely have to use any) but it sinks into the skin easily and doesn’t leave an oily film. It has a slightly herbal, unisex smell that you’ll either love it or hate. I don’t mind it so much because the product leaves me completely moisturized, and my skin feels soft all day. No scaly, itchy, or uncomfortable legs, hooray! It’s really all that and a bag of Cheetoes,Two Ways to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora!_11111, people!

The Hand Cream is now a staple in my purse. Like the Body Treatment,Coach Factory Outlet Otore, it’s rich and moisturizing and doesn’t leave your hands feeling slick or oily.

Put this in everybody’s stocking. Your favorite metrosexual will forever be in your debt.

One huge 6.8 oz tube of Eight Hour Cream Intensive Moisturizing Body Treatment is $25.00. The Eight Hour Cream Intensive Moisturizing Hand Treatment is $17.00.

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Oh gawd! So yesterday I had all these plans to work on the blog but I got distracted by a little thing called sleep. I came home, sat on the couch, and next thing I knew it was eight or nine.

Anyway, I’m so glad that today is sunny. I am going to run a few errands, and then I get to read the manuscript of a beauty book that I’m working on for work. Yay! I’m so excited.

Hope your day has been fun so far! Doing anything exciting?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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When you think of L’Oreal, do visions of candy bars dance through your head? Don’t be alarmed if they do. As a matter of fact,Coach Factory Online,Cheap Jerseys,The Solar-Powered, Super-Duper, Sun-Protecting Tomato, after this post, you may never again be able to look at a tube of Voluminous Mascara without picturing a Nestle Crunch bar.

Swiss food giant Nestle owns a 28 percent stake in L’Oreal. Today Nestle,Coach Factory Online, which owns bits and pieces of dozens of different companies, sold an $11 billion chunk of contact lens maker Alcon. What does this have to do with L’Oreal? Well, rumor has it that Nestle intends to use the proceeds from the Alcon sale to stage a full takeover of L’Oreal. Yes, Nestle is sweet on makeup.

This afternoon, in the pursuit of “makeup knowledge,” your girl 1) ate a Nestle Crunch bar and 2) uncovered a few fun facts about L’Oreal.

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  • L’Oreal’s largest single shareholder is 85-year-old French heiress Lilian Bettencourt,Cheap NFL Jerseys, daughter of L’Oreal’s founder. Worth an estimated $22 billion, Bettencourt is also the world’s richest woman.
  • Swiss food company Nestle owns 1/4 of the company.
  • L’Oreal is the world’s largest cosmetics company.
  • L’Oreal is also the top nanotechnology patent-holder in the United States.
  • L’Oreal was founded in 1907 by Eugene Schueller,Coach wallets, a young French chemist who developed an innovative hair-color formula. He named his improved hair dye Aur��ole. With that, the history of L’Oreal began.
  • L’Oreal employs 50,500 people (only 24 percent work in France) in over 130 countries.
  • Spokespeople for L’Oreal have included Aishwarya Rai, Matthew Fox, Ben Affleck and the Spice Girls.
  • L’Oreal consists of over a dozen global brands split into five groups: consumer products, professional products, luxury products, active cosmetics and The Body Shop.


  • Consumer Product Brands
    Garnier
    L’Oreal Paris
    Le Club Des Createurs
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    Professional Products
    L’Oreal Professional
    Kerastase
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    Matrix
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    Luxury Products
    Lancome
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    Kiehl’s
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    Victor & Rolf
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    Active Cosmetics
    Vichy
    La Roche Posay
    Inneov
    Skinceuticals
    Sanoflore

    The Body Shop
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Sources: wikipedia, Forbes, LOreal.com

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The nanotechnology and Matthew Fox things are a little out of left field, yah?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Before you jet, beauty lover,The Bronze Goddess Is Back- Estee Lauder Summer 2010, check out the home page for more makeup reviews. :)

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Greetings, girls,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and happy Thursday. :) Save a spot on your pink lipgloss wishlist for Benefit Ultra Shines gloss in Foxy Lady ($18). She’s a shimmery,dr dre monster headphones, sheer rosy pink with just enough pigment to work in most situations.

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Foxy Lady’s one of five lipglosses in the Benefit Ultra Shines line. For deets on the others,The Smashbox Masquerade Collection Unleashes a Sultry, Smoldering Makeup Fantasy for Fall 2010, check out Benefit Dancing Queen Ultra Shines Lipgloss Is My Jam and I Could Kiss Benefit for Bringing the Ultra Shines Lip Shine Glosses into the World.

Like a great pair of strappy black sandals, this foxy girl can be dressed up with smokey eyes or worn casual with smudgy liner and a swipe of mascara. :) Available now at Benefit counters and benefitcosmetics.com.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,coach outlet online,

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Comment to Win $150 in Rimmel

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One thing I’ve noticed about getting older is that time seems to move a lot faster than it used to. It must be a side effect, ha!

Like, I can’t believe 1999 was 10 years ago…

In the summer of 1999 I was hooked on Krispy Kreme and Cibo Matto. I’d moved back home after college and remember how tough it was adjusting to life back under my parents’ roof.

As much as I love my family,Wholesale Jerseys, that summer was rough. Turns out I wasn’t the same person I’d been when I first left for school five years earlier.

There were lots of arguments, and sometimes I’d have to just get away. Most of the time I’d hit the local drugstore to hang out in the makeup aisle,MAC To The Beach- A Bit of Blue for a Rainy Spring Day,coach handbags outlet sale, like some weirdo lipgloss stalker.

It was on one of my late-night drugstore runs that I discovered the Rimmel makeup line.

I dug the simple packaging, price and mix of bright and neutral colors right from the start, and since then several Rimmel products have become staples in my makeup bag.

Some of my Rimmel favorites…

  • Kajal Pencil in Jungle Green
  • Gentle Eye Makeup Remover
  • Rimmel Light Beam After Dark Lipgloss

This summer Rimmel celebrates their American 10-year anniversary, so I figure let’s do this right and mark the milestone with a super summer giveaway. :)

The prize!

One lucky lady will win a Rimmel prize package worth $150. Among the products in the giveaway: previews of Rimmel’s upcoming Sexy Curves Waterproof Mascara and Glam’Eyes Lash Flirt Mascara (arriving in stores next month).

The complete prize package includes…

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  6. Colour Rush Eyeshadow Quad in Chocolatine
  7. Colour Rush Eyeshadow Quad in Bronzed
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  10. Natural Bronzer in Sundance
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  12. 1000 Kisses Lip Liner in Natural and Indian Kiss
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To enter, just leave a comment at the bottom of this post. In it, tell me what you were doing in the summer of 1999. Were you living at home and going to middle school, graduating from college,Cheap NFL Jerseys,Coach Factory Online, starting your first big job,Urban Decay Fall 2011- Swatches, Pics and a Fun Tuesday Face of the Day,Cheap Jerseys, training for the next Olympics or cultivating your own Krispy Kreme addiction like moi? :)

I��ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59PM PST Wednesday night.

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Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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MAC works hard to keep us on our toes. Doesn’t it seem like they always have something new up their sleeves? I just love that!

Next Thursday another new collection arrives. Colour Ready, a small release containing just nine products,Cheap Jerseys, includes three new additions to the MAC Prep+Prime makeup primer line along with a smattering of colorful lip and eye goodies.

My friends at MAC sent over a few of the new Prep+Prime products to preview. I’m still in the midst of testing (oh, please, oh,Cheap NFL Jerseys, please don’t break me out!),Coach Outlet, but I thought you gals might want a quick look.

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Leave it to MAC to take regular old makeup primer a step forward. Prep+Prime Skin Refined Zone ($19.50) specifically targets the t-zone area (forehead,How Often Do You Clean Your Makeup Brushes-,Louis Vuitton Outlet, nose and chin), where many women have trubs with excess oil and large pores.

According to MAC, Refined Zone’s the ultimate multi-tasker. It controls oil, minimizes pores and primes the t-zone for foundation. In addition to all these things, Refined Zone also treats skin, exfoliating clogged pores with salicylic acid.

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MAC designed the clear,Cheap Coach Handbags, colorless gel to be worn beneath or on top of makeup. I patted some on my t-zone this morning. It dried lightning fast, and my skin felt instantly smoother. I really hope it doesn’t break me out, *crosses fingers.*

If you have a sensitive nose like I do, take heed — my tube has a weird smell that reminds me of barbeque coals. Hmm…

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The second item, Transparent Finishing Powder ($21), also looks interesting.

It’s a loose powder that sets makeup, eliminates shine and adds a glow to the skin without looking heavy or caked on.

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It contains corn starch, which MAC says creates a smooth texture, silica to absorb oil without dehydrating the skin, and mica to add a lil’ bit of glow. It’s designed to work on top of either foundation or moisturizer.

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A quick swipe of Prep+Prime Transparent Finishing Powder
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It disappears right into the skin after I buff it in with a brush!

I dusted some powder on my face this morning and noticed how smooth my skin felt, and it didn’t leave a chalky cast on my skin (yay!). The other MAC powders in my stash — Blot Pressed, Select Sheer Loose, Invisible Set, Mineralize Skinfinish Natural and Sheer Mystery — don’t irritate my combo and acne-prone skin, so I hoping Prep+Prime doesn’t, either.

I’m ready for color!

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All this Colour Ready talk is making me hungry for brights, so today I’m busting out Cargo’s Tahiti palette. Got any ideas for looks I could try? :)

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,I Feel Anything But Neutral About NARS Bilbao Lipstick,

Karen

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Lorac Closeup Real Life to Red Carpet Natural to Dramatic Tutorial Kit

If you’re a busy gal who craves classic glam and love shades like peach and taupe, has LORAC got a kit for you. The new LORAC Close Up: Real Life to Red Carpet Natural to Dramatic Face Tutorial ($39) comes with five full-size products for eyes, lips and cheeks and two convenient step-by-step tutorials.

The first one demonstrates how to do a natural day look, and the second one covers a more dramatic look for nights (there’s also another card filled with additional tips). Most of the time I think the tutorials that come with kits sound cooler than they actually are. Often they’re little more than a few brief steps printed on the back of the packaging, but LORAC went a little further with these. The two tutorials have from six to seven steps printed with thumbnail images on 6″ x 6″ stickers and a spiral-bound card stock stand. You can either stand the cards up next to you while you follow along,louis vuitton outlet store, or peel off the stickers and affix them to a mirror, counter or wall.

I felt like doing the dramatic red carpet night look today and was surprised by how little time it took — just 20 minutes,Cheap NFL Jerseys, which isn’t bad for a full face.


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“Sweep the lightest shade from the Starry-Eyed Baked Shadow Trio in LORCstar from lash line to brow bone,” Step 1 states, and I find the rest of the steps just as easy to follow. It also helps that the shadows themselves are totally easy to blend.

While the mascara isn’t nearly drag enough for me, I’m sold on this kit (LORAC also has a similar one called the Close Up: Real Life To Red Carpet Eye Tutorial). I love the tutorials and the peach and taupe shadows, but I’m also glad that LORAC included my favorite liquid liner of all time, Front of the Line Pro ($23).

PRICE: $39 (works out to about $7.80 per piece)
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A feline fan of the finer things

Okay, weird! This morning when Tabs climbed up on my lap for a snuggle, I caught a whiff of expensive Italian cologne coming from his scruff, like he’d spritzed his pulse points,blog.livedoor.jp/coachkeysud4g, LOL!

He must have found my small sample tube of Acqua Di Parma Colonia Body Lotion…

Great. :)

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,MAC Cosmetics Face of the Day- Hot Pink and Silver,

Karen

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