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Karin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:03:49 +0000

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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FOTD Meow Eyes, AL blush, Milani lip gloss

Karin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:13:44 +0000

Trying out Meow eyes again today, but different colors.

Used my new fiber optic AL brush again. Love this brush. Get one! I will do a review in the next few days. I used it for everything except the outer corners. It makes application a snap!

In the order of application:
Base: Avon light purple cream; my golden beige sparkle
Crease: IdealEyes Anti-Social Purrl
Outer corners: VandalEyes Pole Dancing
Inner corners: ScandalEyes Nicole S (I used this yesterday too).
Mascara top: compared two Guerlains; the one is the dual ended one.

This is a pretty container:

Lined bottom MAC: graphblack in waterline; earthline below it.
Mascara lower: the tiny brush for lower lashes from the dual ended.
Drylined: ScandalEyes Feral
Brows: Clinique pencil

Cheeks:
AL Breathless rocks sonic rouge (great color)
Using a fiber optic brush -- I took about 3 grains; 2 would have been enough.

Later I updated my lips with Cover Girl Incredifull lipstick (see my review tomorrow.)

Primer(s)
Today I used Guerlain Meteorites Perles Light Diffusing Perfecting Primer

over a bit of Smashbox primer, under Chanel foundation. The Guerlain is wonderful for correcting a foundation that needs a little help. The Chanel alone is a bit yellow. I wish I could still get the foundation that they discontinued. That color was perfect!

And, of course, my mix of glimmer powder over the foundation. You can find the recipe under Savvy Thinker quick find or here.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-14 16:16:16.

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Take 2 Vamping up Chanel Lumiere Tendresse

Karin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:20:25 +0000

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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FOTD Sunday

Karin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:51:39 +0000

I was matching my top, which is a serendipitous match to a wonderful wrap skirt/dress from Las Vegas. They sell these wraps in several places, including inside and outside the mall and by the Venetian food court, but I hadn't bought one until this past trip. It looks best on me as a skirt. My girls wear theirs as dresses too. All you are limited by is your imagination and the colors of the patterns they have. Included in the price is a DVD with styles and a sheet detailing how to wrap.

Eyes:
Base: Nude Frost
Shadows: Sheer Cover Eye collection, the warm colors
Drylined top and lower: AL Lagoon
Brows: Clinique pencil
Concealer: Dior Skinflash
Nose: MAC Concealer, blended with triangle sponge

Primer and Foundation: Arbonne
Rouge: MK stick
Powder: My sparkly powder
Highlight up the center of my face: Benefit Georgia Peach
Blush: Chanel Rose Petal

Lips: Arbonne Gleam a perfect match!

Take 2
Later during Book Girl's Arbonne party I layered up the Audrey Eye Look over the top of this one. I never thought to take a picture of me. I was too busy taking every one else's picture!

What do you think?
I was really pleased with how this turned out. Days like this I think I should keep a color log of really, really good combos. I feel the same way when I get a good comment here. I go back and take a second look to remember what I did.

To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, if you don't have a representative, just ask.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-07-27 13:36:01.

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FOTD Take 2, Five Minute Pick-me-up

Karin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:08:38 +0000

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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FOTD Take 2 Five Minute Pick-me-up

Karin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:24:52 +0000

Take 2, five minute pick-me-up
Milani Glitzy Gloss Lady Like 08
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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FOTD Take 2

Karin — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:04:06 +0000

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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Take 2 + Avon Glazewear Dazzler gloss

Karin — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:33:56 +0000

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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FOTD Take 2

Karin — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:51:33 +0000

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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FOTD Take 2 Mary Kay Spring 2009

Karin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:36:48 +0000

I was working with the MK Spring 2009 Luminous Eye Colors. An earlier look using these colors is here.

You can see how looks can be varied using the same color pan. In RL the colors were blended, but distinct. The flash makes the colors look uneven. The eye to your left is more the way it looked in RL.

I'm posting today what I looked like on Wednesday because my blog was down.

Crease: luminous brown, a beautiful color
Inner Corners: luminous lime
Outer Corners: luminous teal

Lower: Lined with MAC pencils graphblack in waterline, earthline below, then the luminous teal dry lined below that, also used for upper line.

Upper: tight lined with MK teal pencil from this collection, then drylined above the lashes with luminous teal.

I don't remember any of the other colors I used for cheeks or lips. Sorry!

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-20 09:34:53.

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