Archives: July 2011

July 2, 2011

Hard Candy Backstage Pass Kal-eye-descope Baked Eyeshadow Duo Swatches & Photos

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Hard Candy Kal-eye-descope Baked Eyeshadow Duo’s are shadows which are baked on a terracotta disk and you can use them either wet or dry.

They come in fourteen different color combos.

Backstage Pass is a really nice combination of colors. One side is a pale shimmery vanilla and the other is a medium shimmery swimming pool blue.

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Categorized: Hard Candy
July 1, 2011

MAC Bloggers’ Obsession Collection Swatches, Photos and Review

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At the beginning of this year MAC emailed 60-80 beauty bloggers about a top secret blogger collaboration collection they were putting together.

They gathered color ideas from these bloggers (yours truly was included) and then chose 9 finalists after a couple months of reviewing the submissions. Sadly I wasn’t one of them, but I was very honored to be included in the process in the first place!

These 9 finalists were flown to MAC’s headquarters in Toronto to “concoct” their color at their lab. What resulted was a collection of four eyeshadows and five lipglasses called Bloggers’ Obsession.

I think it’s really awesome that a company as large as MAC wanted bloggers to create something on this scale. It’s a big step forward for all beauty bloggers!

The colors that interested me the most were Evolution Revolution Lipglass (from Karen at Makeup and Beauty Blog), Caqui Lipglass (from Lily at Beauty Maverick ), All My Purple Life Lipglass (from Patrice at Afrobella) and Jealousy Wakes Eyeshadow (from Christine at Temptalia). And yahoo for two of them being from the Bay Area! icon smile MAC Bloggers Obsession Collection Swatches, Photos and Review

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Categorized: MAC, Summer 2011
July 1, 2011

I Would Totally Swim Here

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The Roman Pool at Hearst Castle is just gorgeous. It’s an indoor pool decorated floor to ceiling with millions of 1″ Italian tiles, some with fused gold inside.

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Categorized: Looking Glass
July 1, 2011

VV Friday Poll

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Happy Fourth of July weekend to those in the US!

For me it’s a nice long four day weekend, and I plan on doing some fun things, eating lots of grilled food items and relaxing!

Since summer is finally officially upon us I am making this poll a general summer theme.

  1. How was your week?
  2. My week was decent, it went by somewhat quickly (for once).

  3. Are you planning on going to any summer concerts? Which ones?
  4. No, haven’t been to one in many years now. I thought about going to see Soundgarden until I saw that the cheapest tickets were over $90! I remember when tickets were…nah never mind icon smile VV Friday Poll

  5. What’s on the nails? Doing a special 4th of July mani?
  6. Just took off Chanel Peridot.

  7. Do you ever visit county fair’s during the summer?
  8. Yes! I love county fairs they are SO summery. Usually I just go to eat…

  9. If the above answer is yes, what’s your favorite “fair food”?
  10. If there is BBQ there I will be all over that. If not, a corn-dog and deep-fried mushrooms will work icon biggrin VV Friday Poll

  11. Watermelon, yay or nay?
  12. I am not a huge watermelon fan for some reason anymore. I really don’t like the aftertaste of fresh watermelon, but I love artificial flavored watermelon stuff. Continue reading »

Categorized: Poll