This morning came very early, especially since I stayed up way too late last night.

Can you say 4 hours of sleep? Luckily for me, I don't need a lot of sleep, but on a consistent basis I need a bit more than 4 hours.

I basically threw some clothes on, used a cut piece of MAC wipes (cleansing towelettes $15 for 45) to carefully freshen my eye makeup -- I removed a bit of smudge, but not the eye makeup, and put on lipstick.

In less than 5 minutes I had a pick-me-up, and I was ready to go to take my youngest to school.

I took a couple of pictures, but I'm not sure I'm going to share them. I looked good, but not the way I looked later in the day. Let's keep the illusions, shall we!

Here's the lippie I chose:

NYX Gold Pink

But I want to report on how well the MAC graphblack and earthline holds up after a long night and very little sleep. Nothing migrated into my eye, despite the fact that I apply the graphblack to the waterline.

For most people, I would have looked as if I had done my complete makeup, not that I had slept in it.

I think that is a pretty good recommendation, don't you!

I was talking with the MAC SA last week who did my makeover, and she told me that these pencils are waterproof, which might be why they work so well. But there is nothing on the pencils to indicate they are.

I bought these colors because first, I loved the way they looked on another SA the week before, and when she put them on me, I loved the way they looked on me too.

Meantime, on other nights and mornings, the skin around my eyes has been irritated from whatever makeup I didn't remove, either from the mascara, pencils, or minerals -- or all of it) and I had to take off the complete eye makeup, cleanse and re-moisturize before I could head out the door -- and sometimes it took a couple of days for the redness of my skin to recover.

Not today. I was good to go. And I did.

I had a great day, how about you? This was just the beginning.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-09 23:47:56.

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My Avon rep has had a good sale over the weekend because packaging and colors are changing, so I picked up some glosses. She had a limited number of colors, but it is always fun to pick up something you might not normally wear until it is too good to pass up.

All I did was add
Avon Glazewear Extreme Coral Crush

I thought it was a beautiful color. It made me happy!

Karin

Originally posted 2009-04-23 21:30:44.

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What I did
freshen my lippie
I could have gone green, but I still felt like using Swank (blue.)
AL Swank drylined top and lower, then AL disintegration rocks! glam glitter over.

Earlier:

Which do you prefer or is it apples to oranges?

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-30 14:53:55.

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Yesterday when I had my hair cut, I was offered a makeup tweaking, but since I had my full face on, I asked if I could possibly come in today for it. Here's what I look like after running around for a few hours. All products are MK.

It was a very pleasant few minutes, and I felt like I had treated myself.

I didn't retouch anything when I got home.

I really like MK minerals.
They are convenient, neat packaging, easy on the eyes (dual meaning) -- I am never irritated by them -- and backed by a 100% money back guarantee.

Their brushes are very nice, for the most part.

Eyes:
Crease: Iris
Outer corner: Dusty Lilac
Cheeks: Strawberry Cream
Liner: Deep Brown
Mascara: Black, none on bottom (interesting, yes, since I'd considered that this week)
Lips: Dusty Pink, followed by Pink Diamonds lip gloss

She said I had great lashes. I think they are short, LOL. She recommended I curl them. They aren't curled here, but I always curl them at home.

She began with a little powder on my eye lid.

I thought it was interesting how she did the liner, and I might try it like that tomorrow. She started on the outside of the iris of my eyes. The only thing I would do is bring the line a little into the inner corner so it isn't so abrupt.

Anyway I had fun! There's nothing like a makeover, even if it is a 10 minute pick-me-up.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-12 16:28:01.

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All I did was change the lippie. It was a 30 second pick-me-up.

NYX Goddess of the Night gloss in Gold Pink 131
The color is deeper and more of a wine than either of the photos show.
It was a little tricky using the applicator (which is fairly large) to color my lips evenly.
It's a very pretty color.

Originally posted 2009-03-08 19:43:05.

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All I did was switch the lippie.

All info can be found at my first FOTD.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-14 18:04:13.

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This was taken about an hour ago. I haven't touched up anything, except to put on the second Lancome lippie (gwp at Belks) Fashion Icon Metallic. Isn't it pretty! Amazing how much a lippie can be a pick-me-up!

You can see how well the Spinlash mascara has held up too. It still feels (as well as looks) crisp, not smudged.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-04 20:13:03.

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I've wanted to tweak my look all day, but am just getting around to it.

I had an idea when I put the NYX trio shadow set away, after I posted my FOTD, that they might make beautiful blush, so I took my MAC fiber optic small blush brush and brushed it across all 3 of the shadows and applied as blush. I think I will like it as blush more than eye shadow. What do you think?

Here I added:
Avon Ruby Slippers Glazewear Dazzlers
I think it perked it up. Plus in this picture you can see the brown in my crease. The other pictures I posted earlier didn't really show that.

Here's what it looked like earlier with the other lippie and minus using the shadows as blush:

Tell me what you think.

I hope you've had a happy, fulfilling day!

Karin

Originally posted 2009-04-22 17:19:27.

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All I did was add Rimmel Kiss and Stay Lip gloss in 110 First Kiss.

The Meow looks great with it! I like this shade of lippie. I updated my review of this gloss. You can see it here.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-13 19:10:29.

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I did this late in the day yesterday -- then my Internet went down. It was fixed this morning.

I added Chanel Silvery to the eyes and Chanel Soft Mink to lips.

Without the greys:

Which do you prefer? I know which one I like!

Karin

Originally posted 2009-04-01 13:13:55.

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