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Get Jouer delivered ideal to Your Door! Jouer launches Le Matchbox, a new subscription Box service

chic SoCal casual makeup brand Jouer is jumping into the subscription box ring with a new quarterly service of their own, and the twist is a quiz. Each selection (the boxes are $45 each, sent out four times/year) they send is figured out by your answers to a list of questions. You take the online quiz (questions about eye color, things like that), and then based on your answers, they fill each box with a different set of products and colors to best suit you. ADVERTISEMENT Each box comes with both full-sized and sample/mini items — all from the Jouer...

The Tom Ford shade & Illuminate Lip Duos

The six new Tom Ford shade and Illuminate Lip Duos, available now, $60 each Brand new TF cream shadows! Just kidding. They aren’t cream shadows…but they look like they are, don’t they? ADVERTISEMENT I can’t be the only person out there who thought that these new Tom Ford shade and Illuminate Lip Duos were actually cream shadows. In fact, I may or may not have tried one of them on my lids (FYI, I don’t recommend doing this, although, off the record, it was kind of fun!). Are these cream shadows or what?? Tom’s new shade and Illuminate Lip Duos...
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Salon Adventures! Smocks, Garret Markenson REVERIE and Oribe Airbrush root Touch-Up Spray

OK, so…you know those smocks that you put on before you get your hair cut at a salon? Well, at the place where I get my hair done (Fox + stone in Corte Madera, California), they hang them in a tiny private changing room, so that when you walk in, you take off your jacket (or your shirt, if you’re feeling so inclined), and put on your smock before you sit in the chair. They’re just the regular ol’, basic smocks. You slip into them like a jacket and tie the front. ADVERTISEMENT Anyway, when I walked into the beauty...

Quick makeup Tip: fight glitter Eyeshadow fallout by shielding Your Under-Eye area With a tissue

This is what I like to call “the tissue trick,” even though I’m doing it here with a paper towel. To avoid getting glittery fallout all over the freakin’ place, I like to shield my under-eye area by tucking a tissue under my lower lash line and using it as a protective glitter-catching barrier. ADVERTISEMENT Ah, the joys of glittery fallout! It comes with the territory when you’re working with glitter eyeshadow. The stuff gets everywhere! — under my eyes, on my cheeks, on my nose, on my chin, in my brows, in my hair, on my cat, the counters,...
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Benefit They’re genuine Push-Up liner as well as They’re genuine Mascara, now offered in a lot more shades

using the new benefit They’re genuine Push-Up Liners in beyond Purple, beyond Blue as well as beyond eco-friendly on my upper lash line, as well as two coats of They’re genuine Mascara in beyond Blue on my lashes Is this the genuine life? Or is this just fantasy? Please tell me that I’m not hallucinating as well as that these vibrant new gel liners as well as mascaras by benefit are not simple makeup figments of my imagination. Are they fake…? Did I dream up this whole blue/green/purple situation? Please pinch me since I requirement to understand if They’re Real....

The special edition hey there Kitty 5″ Sensor Mirror by simplehuman

You’re never too old for hey there Kitty. The evidence: this OMG-inducing hey there Kitty 5-inch Sensor makeup mirror by simplehuman. ADVERTISEMENT How charming is this special edition mirror?! Straight-up, though, it’s $150, which…I KNOW. but it’s a technological marvel. Plus, hey there KITTY. If you haven’t heard of simplehuman before, they make all manner of streamlined, modern-looking products for the home, including waste baskets (I have a small one in my office ideal now), dish racks, shower caddies — all kinds of functional doodads and gizmos. and they also have a line of fancy makeup mirrors. ADVERTISEMENT Cats &...
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NARCISO Eau de Parfum by Narciso Rodriguez

For reasons I don’t comprehend but am not absolutely shocked by, I keep calling this new fragrance by designer Narciso Rodriguez, “NAR-SISCO,” as in the Thong tune Sisqo. ADVERTISEMENT Don’t understand why…since it’s about a million degrees of separation from shaking butts in booty floss, but often things happen that we aren’t indicated to understand. ADVERTISEMENT I’ve been using everything week long (the eau de parfum, not the booty floss), even though its cedar, amber and musk notes make it seem a bit warm for the late summertime heat wave we’ve been having, and the gardenia and Bulgarian increased notes...

NARS autumn 2016 very first Impressions

NARS autumn 2016 Ooh, the NARS autumn 2016 collection makes me wanna unleash my inner artiste! Look whatsoever those pencils… My goodness. I’m lured to get one of my adult color books. ADVERTISEMENT Coming July 15 to NARS shops as well as the NARS website, as well as sometime in August to Sephora as well as NARS counters, this one’s mainly about the pencils. NARS velvet Eyeliners from the left in Black Moon, Mambo, Curacao, Kaliste, London, Blue Lotus, Last Frontier, Las Pozas as well as Darklight ($24 each) The huge news? The new $24 NARS velvet Eyeliners, which are...
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Tantalizing Trios Await! With the Transformative bareMinerals ready Convertible Eyeshadow Palette, You Can Take It With You

The new $39 bareMinerals ready Convertible Eyeshadow Palette This new $39 ready Convertible Eyeshadow palette by bareminerals is a lot like the last Transformers movie…except without the fast-twitch camera cuts, ear-splitting explosions and, ya know, robots. OK, so now that I’ve thought about it more…it’s actually nothing at all like the last Transformers movie. ADVERTISEMENT But it is like the slogan. “More than meets the eye.” With 12 full-size shimmery eyeshadows that you can pop in and out, this holiday set is something of a quick-change artist. The idea is to place three colors into the smaller mini-palette in the...
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More of a Rebellion Than a Revolution, the new urban Decay sheer revolution Lipsticks Still pack Some Pigment Firepower

The brand new urban Decay sheer revolution Lipsticks ($20 each), new for spring 2015 A lot of makeup lines have been doing the sheer lip thing for a while, so really, the idea is NOT that revolutionary anymore. Like Clinique Black Honey? That’s one of the O.G. sheer lipsticks from the back in the day, so at this point, we can safely assume that a new line of sheer lipsticks will probably not leave you slack-jawed at your desk with drool dribbling from the left corner of your mouth and a mind so completely blown that you may cease to...