The Weekly Roundup: Posts You Might Have Missed - Makeup and Beauty Blog

This week was hands downward one of the funnest weeks I've had blogging since 2007. My tiara goes off to MAC for coming up with such a absurd creative concept (Wonder Woman) and for going all out with the thought. I can't wait to see more.

They could have said, "I know! We'll become a Wonder Woman license, throw the logo on some compacts and jack up the price." That would have been the Happy Repast approach, but it's non the approach they took. They decided to focus on an era from Wonder Woman's comic book by (the more contemporary WW is stylistically completely unlike), carefully selected the colors for the collection, and put everything together with great products and original promo artwork to form a cohesive artistic concept.

I'm non a fan of everything MAC does, and sometimes I think they rush things out the door, merely when they practise go all out with a clear vision like this, they're awesome. This is makeup, after all, and it's rarely revolutionary. It'southward near ideas, concepts and stories only equally much as it's about colors, brushes and calorie-free. At to the lowest degree for me, it's the concepts that fill my head with ideas, the stories that make full my centre with desire, and bully products that brand me want to seal the deal. Yes, that was a little corny… 🙂

The Weekly Roundup: Posts You Might Have Missed

THE DOLCE & GABBANA Hole-and-corner GARDEN
ULTRA Smooth LIPSTICKS AND GLOSSES

As promised, here are those swatches of the ii lipsticks and ii lipglosses from the new Dolce & Gabbana Secret Garden Collection.

What practise you remember? Ultra shiny, right? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they're aptly named. Read more than…

$59 SMASHBOX STYLE FILES
FOR EYES LIPS AND CHEEKS

The three portable palettes in the Smashbox Style Files ($59) are totally easy to crack. What I mean to say is, at that place's no 128-bit encryption or complex p@ssW07ds hither. Merely a batch of dazzler bits (in shimmery neutrals to deep jewel tones) for eyes, lips and cheeks.

For my makeup today, I felt like something fun and fresh, but I didn't desire to think too hard.

Enter the Smashbox Style Files, a new limited edition Sephora sectional set.

These colors aren't as pigmented as I'd hoped and suffer from some pretty mean fallout, merely I do like how easy they are to alloy. In all, you become eight shadows.

Each of the foam liners double as bases for the shadows, and so that's pretty cool. And the pencil liners cling to my lash and water lines similar truthful champs. With this set, you get four Cream Liners and two Limitless Eye Liners.

The lip and cheek palette comes with 2 Lip Glosses and 2 Cheek colors (my favorite things almost the entire kit!). I Honey how effortlessly these blushes melt into my pare. The non-sticky lippies, however, I could probably live without. Both unscented, unflavored colors wait most identical on my pigmented pucker. Read more…

ARE YOU A MAC
WONDER WOMAN?

Unless you've been holed upward in your secluded superhero lair (every hero needs 1, yo!), chances are you've probably heard rumblings about the new MAC Wonder Woman Drove, which twirls onto shelves Feb 10 in North America and internationally this March.

MAC teamed up with DC Comics this time to create a limited edition makeup collection inspired by one of the toughest ladies in comic book history. She fights offense in foxy hot pants (and sometimes a skirt) and has a penchant for practical accessories, like bullet-deflecting bracelets, magic lassos and boomerang headpieces, besides!

At that place's no denying it â€" this daughter is tough AND beautiful.

Bang-up for 2,000 years sometime (I wonder which face cream she uses).

Just like Diana Prince right before a beam of magic light transformed her into Wonder Adult female, I've been practically spinning in circles in my human knee-high boots ever since I saw the showtime promo pics for this super-sized 33-piece collection for optics, lips, face and nails. Read more than…

A FEW MAC WONDER WOMAN
LIP COMBINATIONS

What up, fellow Wonder Women? I thought yous gals might like to run across some potential lip combinations with the Lipsticks and Lipglasses from the soon-to-be-released MAC Wonder Woman Drove.

These are just to spark some ideas, of course. Let'south go those creative juices flowing!

Nearly that, what's your current favorite lip philharmonic (liner/lipstick/gloss)? Or do y'all like to wear just 1 affair at a time? Inquiring minds want to know. Read more…

MY CLARINS NEO PASTELS
MONDAY FACE OF THE Twenty-four hours

Sooo, estimate who'due south procrastinating? 🙂 Yes, I have about a billion things on my to-exercise listing, simply none of them are equally much fun as makeup.

I put the new Clarins Neo Pastels Collection to piece of work today for this hither face of the day.

I loosely based the middle portion of the look on the Neo Pastel makeup tutorial hither, and the edgy look of the blackness liner along the waterline is one of my favorite parts.

The Centre Quartet Mineral Palette's shiny end makes these dramatic and fun, just I observed some patchiness from both of the purple shadows (only not as much as the pastel quad in the Dolce & Gabbana Underground Garden Drove). Read more…

THE MAC PACKED TO Become
TRAVEL EXCLUSIVES FOR Jump 2011

Planning whatsoever trips before long? If y'all are, and they happen to involve a short airport layover, you might be able to MAC 🙂 practiced employ of your wait time with the new MAC Packed to Go travel Exclusives for spring 2011.

Travel exclusives are express edition sets, and sometimes individual products, special to travel hubs like airports and duty free stores (y'all won't discover them at regular stores or counters).

A lot of the bigger beauty brands similar MAC, Dior, Estee Lauder, Chanel and Guerlain (to name just a few), have them, and they're a benefaction to dazzler obsessed travelers like us.

MAC Packed to Go is being released in two "phases" for spring.

The showtime, available now, features three MAC Look In A Box kits, each one designed with a different themed look in mind using products for eyes, cheeks and lips.

The second phase, which launches in March, will encompass eleven MAC Packed to Go sets organized by category, similar lipstick, Lipglass, mascara and castor.

I always effort to keep an eye out for travel exclusives because some of them contain hard-to-notice limited edition pieces from long lost (but not forgotten!) collections, making them great opportunities to snag something y'all might not have had the chance to get the commencement time around. Read more…

See CLINIQUE'S CONSERVATIVELY
SHARP MILLY PALETTE

Greetings and salutations, mon amie. I wanted to quickly show y'all the new Clinique Milly Pretty in Prints Palette ($36) in action.

What do ya think? I followed the tutorial that comes with the eye and cheek palette this afternoon, and the whole affair took simply near 10 minutes to do.

The palette comes with four shadows and a chroma; the shadows incorporate merely the right amount of paint, and all of them are super easy to blend. Heck, I'd telephone call the palette downright perfect if it wasn't for the matte brownish shade, which left mad fallout on my cheeks when I used it as a liner today (which is what the tutorial suggests). Read more…

WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 5
MAC MUST HAVES?

I was digging through my MAC favorites this morning when I remembered a question asked by reader Sheila Z in the comments yesterday.

"Karen, I'll be getting my makeup done this saturday at MAC for my brother-in-police's engagement political party. Part of the process requires that I buy at least 5 items. What are the acme 5 y'all recommend?"

Hey, Sheila. Pardon me for this, but right at present I experience Ready For The Globe! "Oh, oh, oh, oh, Sheila!"

(Delight tell me yous're familiar with that vocal.)

With that out of the way, let's get back to dazzler. 🙂 You're going to have such a boom at the MAC counter on Saturday. For what it's worth, here are my v (current) MAC must-haves. Read more than…

HAVE Y'all SEEN THE NEW
ZOYA INTIMATE COLLECTION?

If you lot've however to get your make full of regal, this leap's prince of the color-sphere, feast your eyes on the sweet new shades in Zoya's Intimate Collection ($vii each; available in six colors).

These brand me want to play dress-up…like I should exist wearing a floral print dress with heaven-high pumps as I sport them on my nails.

And for some reason I can seem them going well with the Laura Mercier'south Silk Road Collection…

I only just put these on, then I tin't speak to wear fourth dimension however, simply the other Zoya polishes I've tried resist chips and fading exceptionally well, particularly when worn with the Color-Lock System (THE All-time!). Read more…

Your friendly neighborhood dazzler aficionado,

Karen

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