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MAC Dare To Wear Lipglass Swatches & Review

VV — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:27:15 +0000

MAC’s new Dare To Wear collection has six new limited edition Lipglasses. These aren’t the same Lipglasses of ‘yore though, these are different!

MAC Dare To Wear Eyeshadow Swatches & Review

VV — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:05:31 +0000

Happy Friday!

MAC just released the Dare To Wear collection this week and I picked up a few of the eyeshadows and lipglasses.

Living Room Remodel

VV — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:41:33 +0000

Awhile I ago I promised I would show before and after pics of the remodel stuff we are doing at the house. The remodel includes: new berber carpet throughout (except family room which is bamboo), new baseboards, new windows, skylight installation, new paint in 2 rooms and a new IKEA library unit. Well I have been stalling a bit because we still need to get the baseboards, windows and skylight done. But I thought I would show you one room that’s pretty much done, except for the windows.

This is our living room/dining room right before the new carpet was put down. The paint color in here isn’t new, we did this when we moved in (FIVE coats people, FIVE!!).

Brenda Novak White Heat – The Novel & Three Custom Color Lip Gloss

VV — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:00:49 +0000

If you have been reading my site for awhile, you know I am an avid reader. I read all kinds of things, but mostly contemporary fiction, crime/thrillers and historical fiction. However when I heard that New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak was coming out with a new book alongside a lip gloss, you KNOW I had to check that out!

Confession: I had never read anything by Brenda Novak until this past week. I have seen her books for years and years in stores, but because they were labeled as “Romance/Suspense” I overlooked them. That was a mistake on my part because she writes a really gripping story!

White Heat is her new book which just came out on July 27th. It’s the first in a 3-book series. White Heat might be labeled as romance/suspense, but don’t let that fool you. A bodice-ripper it’s not. It’s more what I would consider a thriller or action story with a little romance thrown in, as most books have.

The book is about two special operatives, Rachel Jessop and Nate Ferrentino who work for a private security company called Department 6. They might be boss and subordinate, but they also have a romantic past…Or maybe it’s not so “romantic”. Either way, they have to work very closely together on a case involving getting inside a cult called The Church of the Covenant in an Arizona Ghost Town called Paradise. Hence the name “White Heat”.

I don’t want to give any fun details away, but the story is a really good one, and it was a very gripping, fun, fast read.

If you are looking for a fun summer read, I would suggest picking this one up. Please know I would never, ever recommend a book that I didn’t actually like and read myself!

The follow up novels called Body Heat and Killer Heat will be released in August and September, respectively. I will be checking those ones out now for sure!

Deborah Lippmann Fall 2010 Across The Universe & Bad Romance Swatches & Review

VV — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:00:32 +0000

I am a huge liar. I tweeted out that I didn’t really want to buy the new Deborah Lippmann fall colors because they were chunky glitter and I wasn’t that into glitter. And yet, here we are.

To be fair, these were sent to me for review, I didn’t actually purchase them. However now that I know how awesome they are, I WOULD purchase them!

What made me shy away from these were the last chunky glitters I had reviewed from her. I had a lot of trouble getting them to look decent, and felt it was more time consuming to place the chunks “just so” than I wanted to deal with. But these are much better.

Bad Romance

Bad Romance is a black base with purple micro and hexagonal glitter in it. The black base is on the sheer side, but really is almost perfect with two coats. I should have used three, but I was in a serious hurry to beat the lowering sun, so I kinda slapped it on quickly. I love this color and the chunks didn’t give me any problems. I let the first coat dry for about 2 minutes before I went for the second one and that way, the larger chunks stayed where they were supposed to. This was two coats.

NYX Smokey Eyes Palette Swatches & Review

VV — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:00:34 +0000

NYX Cosmetics has a hot little palette out called Smokey Eyes. It’s packed with ten beautiful eyeshadows – all you need to come up with a brown, grey or black smoked out look.

Behold The Cuteness!!

VV — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:59:58 +0000

My god. I just came across this pic of Chewbacca as a wee lad. SO cute, I could eat him

butter LONDON Fall 2010 Collection Swatches & Review

VV — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:00:48 +0000

butter LONDON’s new fall collection for 2010 is a tribute to the late, great, fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

Obviously I didn’t know the man, but have been reading fashion magazines for most of my life, and was well aware of his unique and quirky style. I think a few of these nail colors definitely match that same vibe that he gave off with his clothing line. Oh and did I mention one of my all-time favorite MAC Lipglasses is one that he created with them? Yep it’s called White Magic and sadly, I am running out of my back-up tube!

This collection includes five colors, four of which I have to show you today. The one I don’t have is called Old Blighty and it’s a brick red creme.

The formula on these was really quite awesome. They had great coverage and nary a streak in sight, even with the yellow one!

Victoriana

Victoriana is a vintage looking type blue with loads silver shimmer. This is a really gorgeous, amazing blue, and the second I applied it, I fell in love. It’s VERY opaque also, you could almost do one coat. I have nothing else like this color. This was two coats.

Vampy Varnish Fav’s Featuring: Taupe

VV — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:01:17 +0000

Taupe (aka mushroom) is probably in the top three of my favorite nail polish colors (behind olive green and dark vampy colors). Something about how unusual it looks draws me in every time. I have never met a taupe that didn’t look good on my skin tone.

Today’s post is an ode to taupe, and I have featured my top ten favorite ones. Most are cremes, but I do have a few shimmers in there as well.

All of these have been reviewed before on my site, so these aren’t full reviews.

So without further adieu, here they are in no particular order.

NYX Purple Smokey Look Eyeshadow Kit

VV — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:30:15 +0000

Lately I have been on an NYX kick. I guess it’s because I never really used their stuff until recently, and I didn’t realize how nice a lot of it is!

They have this new eyeshadow kit called Purple Smokey Look, and it’s pretty awesome.

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