Caturday greetings from a new friend
Good morning as well as pleased Caturday from one feline lady’s corner of the Web in northern California. exactly how YOU doing? Does the world feel topsy-turvy to you like it does to me? Is uncertainty churning in the pit of your stomach whatsoever hours of the day as well as night?

Yeah, me too.

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I’m naturally wired to worry, as well as keeping my spirits up hasn’t been easy, however I’m trying. I count my blessings commonly as well as I #stressbake. I likewise try to focus on easy pleasures, one of which is taking long walks with the CoyCoy every morning.

We leave the home best after breakfast as well as head outside to check out our neighborhood. Over the past few days, we’ve listened to birds sing, waved hi to our neighbors (from six feet away, of course), sprinkled in puddles, as well as satisfied a new kitty neighbor.

Say hi to Nine, a gray stray who set up camp down the street from us. According to a friendly feline woman who lives close-by as well as feeds nine all the time, he lives on the hill behind condo number 9, as well as he’s extremely friendly, however we’ve been told he will nip your fingers if he’s feeling feisty… We see him everyday as well as offer him treats if he’s around.

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I don’t foresee him moving in with us any type of time soon since Rosie is queen bee around here, however I hope somebody in the community ultimately takes him in.

A new kitty good friend is always a gift.

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SUPER CUTE

Stay clam as well as bake.

I like the method you comb your hair; I like the trendy clothes you wear.

“Your wings don’t have to be twins, however they have to go to the exact same party.”

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How are you holding up?

Your friendly community charm addict,

Karen

let me be the very first person to state that my hair looks absolutely BONKERS in these pics, as well as that’s even AFTER trying to really do something with it.

I am one YouTube video away from hacking it off! note to self: next time a worldwide pandemic approaches, book a hair visit before the world shuts down.

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Sigh… now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I was believing about a Monday Poll concern from a while back (’80s or ’90s?) before I started doing my makeup, which is exactly how this ’90s-inspired plummy pink look came about. whatever I’m utilizing is drugstore makeup since I’m still riding a may-jah budget plan beauty wave right now.

A drugstore dupe for an iconic ’90s lipstick

My primary motivation was an old-school ’90s standby that’s still around called Clinique Black Honey Lipstick. It’s a sheer, ever-so-slightly shiny lippie that all of my college good friends used back in the day. There utilized to be a Clinique counter inside the UC Davis bookstore, as well as every quarter when it came time to buy books, we’d all go to that counter to get our books so we might prevent the routine long lines. The only thing you had to do to utilize that line was buy at least one piece of Clinique makeup, which is exactly how every woman I understood ended up with countless tubes of Black Honey.

Anywho…I just recently discovered a drugstore dupe for it in honest beauty Plum decrease Lip Tint, as well as it looks precisely like Black Honey! To keep with the plum theme, I paired it with an awesomely economical plummy-pink eyeshadow combination I discovered over at Covergirl, as well as pink cream blush cheeks (which I did with a Revlon lipstick).

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Covergirl So Saturated Eye combination in swank is so good!

The combination is the full Spectrum So Saturated Eye shadow combination in Posh, which includes eight powder eyeshadows in pink, plum as well as burgundy tones. The powders are on the fluffier side, so there’s definitely some after effects if you aren’t cautious as well as fail to remember to eliminate any type of excess from your clean head, but, on the flip side, the colors are rich as well as virtually blend themselves.

Just a few wrist flicks as well as you’re good. These are long lasting too. I wear mine without a primer, as well as it’ll last the day. swank is $13.49 over at Ulta, if you’re interested.

That layered liner life

To break up all the pink as well as plum tones, I layered two liners on my upper as well as lower waterline — a matte black as well as a sparkly purple. The purple didn’t truly show up on its own, which is why I drew the black liner on first, then layered the purple on top. If you ever have a liner that doesn’t deposit as much pigment as you’d like, starting with a layer of black liner beneath it is the fastest method to ramp up the intensity. You can likewise do this technique with white liner, by the way!

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Layering two shades adds a bit something additional to your lash lines. try it with your jewel-toned liners when you get a chance. Blues as well as eco-friendlies work particularly well.

Makeup used in this look

Eyes: Covergirl So Saturated combination in Posh, Covergirl full Spectrum Defining moment Liners in Blackest Black as well as Deep Plum, Maybelline the Falsies Mascara, Covergirl simple breezy Brow in Medium, Maybelline Tattoo studio Brow Pen in medium Brown

Cheeks: Revlon Creme Lipstick in Pink Velvet

Lips: honest beauty Lip Tint in Plum Drop

Base: Covergirl clean Fresh Skin Milk in Tan mixed with Maybelline immediate Age Rewind Concealer in Golden, Covergirl Trublend Minerals loose Mineral Powder in Banana, Covergirl Moisturizing Trueblend Base Business

Your friendly community beauty addict,

Karen

like this blush for fast, fresh makeup! The lipstick is MAC velvet Teddy, as well as the eyeshadow is Clinique great deals o’ Latte, by the way.
The 10-Minute makeup Must-Haves series shows off a few of *the best* makeup for quick (but sensational!) skin, eyes, cheeks as well as lips.

Five minute, 10 minute… Heck — three-minute makeup! You can do it *all* with Clinique Blushing blush Powder blush ($24 each). These absolutely goof-proof powder blushes are great for those out-the-door days, which I’ve come to like as well as appreciate lately.

You may have observed that I’ve been using shade Sunset glow a great deal lately (like, all last week!). It’s a gorgeous golden coral with a satin finish, as well as the magic behind this (and all of the blushes in this family) is that it’s semi-transparent, indicating that you can take your blush brush, dip it into the pan, do a swish or two on your cheek, a quick blend at the edges, as well as be absolutely as well as totally done. You won’t be stuck erasing a difficult line of demarcation at the edges of your cheeks. Instead, you’ll discover a soft, subtle gradient, as well as it nearly just occurs naturally if you tons a clean with this blush as well as carefully tap-tap-tap it a few times on your cheek. It’s like powder blush for dummies!

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Built these up so you might see what they look like when they’re layered heavily. I’m an NC42 in MAC, however I believe both of these blushes will look charming on a lot of skin tones.
And HELLO, flexibility. If I’m ever in the mood for a lot more color on my cheeks, all I have to do is pop one more layer or two on, since these blushes likewise develop up beautifully.

Fresh, natural colour develops to preferred intensity with shaping brush. enduring wear, oil-free. Silky formula sweeps effortlessly over cheekbones to produce a natural look. Fresh, jet-milled colour develops as well as blends beautifully to preferred intensity with custom-made shaping brush. enduring wear, colour-true. Oil-free.

— clinique.com

I’ve been using Sunset glow for warm-toned eyes as well as cheeks, as well as soft pink Cupid with cooler tones. Both blushes lay down just the best amount of color, so my deal with looks fresh as well as radiant, as well as my makeup looks polished however not excessively done.

On top of all that, this blush lasts! When I put it on with the rest of my deal with in the morning, I’m fine up until the end of the day.

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I likewise like — as well as this is a little thing, however one of those things that’s helpful when you’re rifling with your makeup bag at the fracture of dawn — exactly how the bottom of the packaging shows the blush color, so you can quickly pick out what you want to wear at a glance.

The difference is subtle, however it’s there!

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And if you’re all about bright lip colors — reds, hot pinks, crazy corals — then these blushes are produced you! They produce just sufficient color on your cheeks to complement a strong lip without overwhelming the rest of your makeup. I bet MAC Relentlessly Red, fashion Legacy, Crosswires or vegas Volt would look amaze-balls with Sunset Glow, as well as woman about Town, candy Yum Yum or Pink Pigeon would look stunning with Cupid.

Your friendly community appeal addict,

Karen

I will totally get to these purple lids in a second (BECAUSE PURPLE), but first, can we pleeeeease talk about the latest mystery to unfold on this end of the keyboard — a mystery also known as “The Haunting of Casa MBB”?

Don’t worry, there’s nothing terribly sinister afoot (I’m not splashing buckets of holy water on things left and right, in case you’re wondering!).

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I’ve been gently “haunted” for the past few weeks by my favorite Chanel blush brush, which has been disappearing and reappearing all over the house in the most random places. I’ve found it on my bed, in the hallway, on the middle of the stairs, on the kitchen floor.

Last week I found it smack dab in the middle of living room, just sitting there on the carpet right in front of the couch.

Hmm… ?

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I just assumed that Connor had grabbed it and played with it and forgot to put it back, but when I asked her about it later she said, “No, mama, I have my own brushes.” (Hahaha! She totally does!)

Now, this brush just so happens to be one of my favorite blush brushes because it’s super soft, and the brush head fits perfectly on top of the apples of my cheeks and underneath the hollow of my cheekbones, so I can use it for blush and bronzer. The bristles are also perfectly floofy, so it blends like a dream.

I thought, if an otherworldly entity/spirit has been obsessing over it, I completely understand.

But it ended up not being due to a makeup brush-loving ghost. The disappearances were in fact due to a cat.

YUP! look who I just found outside my office doing her “hunter’s mewl.” It’s this cute little growl/grumble Rosie Posie does whenever she stalks and hunts one of her soft toy balls and she wants to show off the riches of her spoils.

I went into the hallway to investigate and give her the usual attention she likes after she catches her prey (“Oh, good job, Rosie-Pose! You’re such a good mouser. look how well you stalked your toy!”), and that’s when I caught her red-handed (red-pawed?) with my Chanel brush in her mouth.

Mystery solved!

I guess from this point forward, this brush will have a special hiding place…inside a drawer!

(QUICK UPDATE: later in the day, I also caught her dragging my NARS blush brush around, so she appears to be expanding her hunting horizons.)

Jewel-toned purple lids

OK, so let’s talk purple lids. Now, this might look a little familiar to ya because I’ve been doing variations of this look using the same neutral colors in the crease, inner corner and lash lines, but with different jewel tones on the lids. First, green, and then blue, and now purple!

Find your core

This totally wearable look relies on finding a core group of matte brown and beige eyeshadows for your crease colors. once you find ones you like, then you can just keep them on standby, and then quickly swap out the jewel tone on your lids with other colors to create different looks!

I’ve been using the same set of warm browns and beiges in this series…

Beige matte shadow base: NARS tinted Smudge proof Eyeshadow Base in Light

Beige shadow: MAC Mylar

Light warm matte brown shadow: MAC Soft Brown

Mid-toned warm matte brown shadow: MAC Saddle

Dark mate brown shadow: MAC Brun

Bronze pencil: MAC Teddy

For the purples, I’m wearing a shimmery purple called Guilt Trip, a dark purple called Drift (both are from the urban Decay born to Run Palette) and a dark purple UD pencil called Empire.

The foundation, powder blush/bronzer and lipstick are the same products I recently used in a 10-minute makeup look in this It Cosmetics foundation review (which I’m also wearing in this pic, by the way).

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As you can see, I’m pretty stoked about this look, and I’m excited to wear makeup again!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

What a totally unreal time. Tiger King, gravy shortages, long lines at Petco. Tabs would have been going out of his mind!

I do feel like he would have discovered constructive methods to channel all that rage…

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Like when he started a catnip shipment service during the last recession.

And of program he would have continued modeling…

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Knowing him, he would have utilized the quarantine to perfect his skills as well as reenter the workforce as an even bigger kitty mogul.

Your friendly community beauty addict,

Karen

MAC Smoked Almond, a.k.a. THE BEST.
What’s an unsung makeup hero? For me, it’s an usually underrated makeup morsel, a long-term collection product that scoots under the radar screen of numerous makeup enthusiasts however routinely rocks my world. The long-running Unsung Heroes series features a few of my favorites.

Warning: do not attempt to photo an almond hunched in a doorway, puffing away at a cigarette when you believe of the words, “smoked almond,” since when you see something like that in your mind’s eye, you’ll question 1) what would ever possess an almond to smoke in the very first place, as well as 2) why stated almond wouldn’t understand that smoking was poor for it.

Every day for the past week before my shift has started at the bakery, I sit in my vehicle in the car parking great deal as well as apply a layer of this beautifully bright rosy brown lipstick on my lips, as well as each time I do this, I state the exact same thing to myself in the mirror.

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“SO PIGMENTED!”

I’m speaking intensity to the extreme.

Totally an NC42, man!
And yet in spite of its intensity, Smoked Almond isn’t one of those challenging lippies that is SO saturated that it becomes a pain in the bum as well as you end up needing a PhD in chemistry to apply it. You can still completely do it freehand, directly from the tube, while half-asleep, WITHOUT a lip liner or brushes or a Christmas miracle, for that matter. Smoke Almond’s creamy consistency virtually melts onto lips the moment it touches them. No dragging whatsoever. just a smooooove glide.

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My lips tend to dry out as well as virtually shout, “MOAR moisture!” from the rooftops, however Smoked Almond, which has MAC’s Amplified formula, has sufficient hydration to keep ’em pleased all the time long.

Smoked Almond on my lips

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This is a great everyday/daytime color to keep around if you have numerous rosy or rosy brown blushes like NARS Amour or Charlotte Tilbury Ecstasy in your collection. It’s likewise long-wearing as well as doesn’t relocation or scoot when you lay down a layer, as well as it feels lighter than a kitty whisker kiss on your cheek.

Your friendly community charm addict,

Karen