To add a little fun to your life, check out Urban Decay’s Pocket Rocket Lip Gloss ($19.)

Each gloss color (there are has a different man on the cap. And — so silly — when you tilt the tube, the man is stripped to his underwear — front on one side, rear on the other. It’s a conversation stopper!

It will be hard to choose from David, Julio, Eric, Jesse, James, Kirk, Timothy, or Doug.

This formula is so slick and cushiony, you would love it even in a plain ol’ tube. Ulta

Scented
Yes.

Brush
Yes.

Lip plumping, high-shine and moisturizing
Yes.

Additionally Ulta is giving away 2 free 24/7 Glide-on pencils ($18 value) with any $20 UD purchase — and on top of that $3.50 off (valid until 3-13-10) of any $10 purchase with the code 40162.

I like UD pencils. Now I just wish I could see the colors of the Rocket Lip Gloss in person.

Karin
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NYX Glitter Pallet is available in a number of colors online from Cherry Culture or in store at Ulta. This is from the Paradise pallet.

I got my hair cut today, and it surely needed it! Everywhere I went, someone mentioned how well they liked my eye makeup. The pink glitter is very becoming.

Eyes:
Base: Dior pink toned cream shadow
Crease: NYX Glitter Pallet Pink — bright bubble gum color with multi light pastel glitter
Outer Corner: NYX GP Dark Black with Multi Glitter
Lined top in waterline: Mary Kay black eye pencil
Lined bottom in waterline with MAC graphblack, just outside with earthline
Drylined bottom outside MAC: Ulta Jade mineral powder looks green, pulls gold from the glitter
Mascara:
Top: Lancome Cils primer, Oscillation over it;
Bottom: Definicils
Blush: MAC Dollymix
Brows: Merle Norman powder

Highlight: my own shimmer powder mix, no time for anything else, topped with a bit on BE on my nose

Lips:
Revlon Wine with everything cream gloss
This is a very pretty color. I thought I might want to add silver glitter, but it has a gleam all its own. This is the formula I liked so well.

Again, I used DuWop Reverse Liner just to make sure it wouldn’t migrate, but I don’t know that I needed to. It’s still going strong a couple of hours later.

Verdict:
I raced through trying this product for the first time in order to be on time for my hair cut. You can see how it went on uneven. The pallet has great colors and I will definitely try it again. It comes with 1 applicator with sponges on each end and 1 applicator that has a sponge on one end and a brush on the other. I don’t see how you could use the brush. The product is suspended in a heavy gel. It’s not particularly waxy, but it means the glitter stays put.

I used my finger to apply it because nothing else worked.

One reviewer talked about using this as liner and having to go over it several times to get it even, but that it lasted all night. I have other glitter liners that are a lot easier to use. I don’t know that I would try this as liner. Maybe! She talked about using it on her face, arms, decolletage, etc.

I need to play with it some more, but meantime I look good enough to race around town anyway!

What do you think?

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-11 14:11:02.

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2009 was a good year. Any time one’s health is good, and that of one’s family and friends, it is a good year. Then throw in a few good times, a lotta good perfumes, some good books and movies, and it becomes a very good year indeed.

It’s always nice to put some thought into those things we love.

Best Perfumery Trends in 2009:
It has to be oud, which is everywhere, suddenly for us in the west, but always a presence in the east. I am not located in a place easy for access to many of these, so I’m personally limited in knowledge to the ones I’ve sampled.

Kilian Pure Oud

First, perfumes.
As for perfumes, remember I’m in the back of beyond as far as easily sniffing some of the lines, so if you have a favorite or are a favorite, if I have samples, I’ll be glad to add my voice.

Best expensive niche:
Andy Tauer Une Rose Chyprée: A wearable rose, with vintage aspects, not quite dirty.
Anything by Ormonde Jayne or Andy Tauer or Ayala Moriel or Neil Morris or…

Best less expensive niche
Anything by Sonoma Scent.

Best in fragrances more easily found, some niche:
Kilian Back to Black
Kilian Pure Oud
Guerlain exclusives, take your pick. I like a number of them, including Moscow, Double Vanilla, 68, Chypre Fatale, La Petite Robe Noire…then there’s also Mon Precieux Nectar…I buy from Guerlain @ Palazzo in Las Vegas, ask for Claire. Call (702) 732-7008 or email: GuerlainPalazzo.STORE@lvmhuspc.com. Be sure to tell him that you heard it from me. (I saw them recently on a trip more locally, but the sales agent blew the sale with me. That’ll teach her, LOL!)

Serge Lutens, take your pick.
Prada, the original, and L’eau Ambree.
Chanel exclusives — I like Coromandel.

Best surprising fragrances
Le Jardin Retrouvé should be more fully known. I was glad to get a chance to review them.

Best inexpensive fragrances
Make Me Smooth
Bathed and Infused

Skin care that really works:
These are not new for 2009, but they still are going strong, and more importantly, work.

Best Moderate to expensive
Arbonne products RE9 or FC5; RE9 for the body is terrific.
Estee Lauder New Perfectionist CP+
La Prairie Cellular Anti-wrinkle Firming Serum; Cellular Hydrating is good too.

Best inexpensive skincare
Avon Ultimate Gold or Anew Alternative Intensive Age Treatment

Best cosmetic trends 2009
Minerals, everywhere. Some much better than others in texture and look.

Best color products, Not Mineral
High end
Chanel

Less expensive
Arbonne
Aromaleigh
Maybelline
NYX

Best lip gloss
MAC dazzlers comes in first
Beaute
Arbonne
Chanel

Best mineral niche
Aromaleigh or Fyrinnae

Best new product
Kindle 2 International — would be made better if it incorporated the ease of reading library ebooks, if our library had any. Please send us a free wireless download to add this in order to be competitive with Sony’s ereader. (Elena, you will really enjoy yours! Congrats on receiving it as a gift this Christmas.)

The best things in life are still free
You can find a gazillion free ebooks to read on your Kindle or other ebook reader before you even consider buying any ebooks.

Don’t forget to take time to view sunrises or sunsets or enjoy seeing bodies of water, free to all if we but take the time.

Internet friendships that become RL friendships. This is an amazing time we live in, when we can be instantly connected to friends around the world. You know who you are! I regularly keep in touch with friends in Europe and China, as well as at home from coast to coast. Not to mention checking in on blogs and yahoogroups I love that originate anywhere.

The qualities of hope, inspiration, gratitude, happiness, safety…

Don’t forget prayer…

What are your favorites?

I’m sure I left something out…
If I think of anything amazing, I will add it as the day goes on…

Have a good one!

Karin
www.savvythinker.com

Check out the other particpants:

http://mossyloomings.blogspot.com

http://1000fragrances.blogspot.com/

http://ayalasmellyblog.blogspot.com/

http://bittergracenotes.blogspot.com/

http://qwendy.typepad.com/shoescakeperfume/

http://www.eiderdownpress.com/Perfume_Journal.html

http://www.scenthive.com

http://olfactarama.blogspot.com/

http://journal.illuminatedperfume.com/

http://arosebeyondthethames.blogspot.com/

http://thenonblonde.blogspot.com/

http://underthecupola.blogspot.com/

and http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.com/

http://sonomascent.wordpress.com/

http://alliam-aredhead.blogspot.com/

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I wanted a quick makeup today. Sometime easy. And something purple.
Eyes:
Base: Nude Frost + BE Queen Phyllis
Lids: Ulta Amethyst, a gwp and really beautiful, with some copper or gold micro glitter
Drylined: MUFE Irisee, gorgeous color, a little brighter than Amethyst
Inner Corner: Arbonne Illume
Concealer: Guerlain
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Mascara: Arbonne, 2 step

Primer and foundation: Vital Radiance
Rouge, under my sparkly mix powder: Chanel stick
Blush over my sparkly mix powder: Arbonne Promise
Highlight: Arbonne Bashful

Lips: Lancome Prodige + Fusion

I hope you’ve had a good Saturday!

How do you like this one? Have you ever used the Ulta shade?

Karin
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I was really pleased with how this turned out.

Eyes:
Base: L’Oreal Sapphire Crystal cream, then beige sparkly mix
I tried to do it without the mix, but I could tell it was going to go on unevenly.
Crease: Ulta Lagoon
Outer corners: Ulta Marine – this a gorgeous, bright, sheeny color — Lagoon was not nearly as sheeny.
Lower Liner: MAC graphblack wetlined, then earthline below, then drylined with Maroon.
Upper Liner: earthline tightlined on outer corners.
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Mascara: Estee Lauder Magna Scopic Navy — I can wear this EL mascara in all the colors
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Lined lips: Shiseido Lively Rose

My glimmer powder mix over Mary Kay cream rouge.
Primer: Aromaleigh
Foundation: Chanel
This foundation looks great in the bottle because the container changes the look of the foundation. Once out of the bottle, the foundation is more yellow. So far, I can’t find a match in Chanel to the old color I loved.

Topped with Guerlain Meterorites primer to change the color from being too yellow. The primer is made to go under foundation, but it works well on the top too.

I loved Maroon in the Ulta colors. By tonight, the colors had moved into the crease. I’ll have to try it again with a better mix of base.

It was a happy look.

What do you think? Have you tried Ulta mineral shadows?

Karin

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NYX jumbo lip pencils $3.50 are a bargain for the price. They feel good; don’t migrate, but are not dry; they feel moisturizing.

You can get them online at Cherry Culture. or instore at Ulta, which is where I found these two pencils, but not online.

I think it would be hit or miss what you’d find instore at Ulta. There was very little stock at the store I went to, and what they did have was spotty in colors. Update: But when I went a second time a week or so later, their stock was replenished, but already some colors were gone.

Pink Nude 03.
While it looks clear in this photo, in actuality, it is very shimmery, almost white, like an updated look from the 70s. It works very well in combo with other colors that might be too dark.

And I think it would be a beautiful highlighter up the center of the face. It is just pink enough.

Soft Fuchsia 702
The color is very true to the photo. I like it!

Do you like these pencils? What colors do you have?

Karin
5 for price
5 for formula, perfect! moist, but doesn’t migrate
5 for lasting power

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