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Chances are, as you read this, I’m running up or down the stadium stairs in San Francisco at Oracle Park. Or, I’m passed out on the ground from doing one too many burpees. 😳 The Spartan race I signed up for a while back is happening today, so I’ll be getting my sweat on with my HIIT buddies from the gym. But before I go do that, let’s do this. It’s Saturday Surfing time. 😊 The dos and don’ts of mixing skincare ingredients If you live near San Diego, the Oceanside Museum of Art currently has an exhibit called “Tiny...

It’s questionable whether these ought to be considered a tool…but I’ll allow it! 😁 I bought these funny eyeliner stickers from E.L.F. a couple weeks ago for only $2! They looked like they’d be fun. Plus, I haven’t worked a wing in a hot second, and one can never have too much help when it comes to winged liner! What about you? What was the last beauty tool you bought? Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict, Karen Continue reading "What Was the Last Beauty Tool You Bought?" on Makeup and Beauty Blog.

OK, now…I’m going to start doing something that may sound kinda cray to my fellow lovers of lotions and other beauty products, a.k.a. MY PEOPLE, but I don’t think I’m going to keep beauty backups around anymore. Wait, wait! — I mean, I’ll have to make a few exceptions, like for the skin care I’ve used daily since the last Ice Age, like Kate Somerville Anti-Bac and my Clarins cream, but I don’t really think I need to keep that many other extras in the house. Most of them just sit around taking up wasted space and money. Granted, it...

“You must be my Summer Starrrrrrr!!!” I dare you to NOT sing Madonna’s Lucky Star out loud whenever you think of the name of this kit, ’cause I sure as heck can’t do it. Mega-influencer and glamazon YouTuber Patrick Starrr is back with another collab with MAC, Summer Starrr, and it’s all about warm shades and peppy packaging. The summer collection includes a kit containing an eye quad, glosses and a bronzer; and a separate shimmery face powder, and they’re up on the MAC website right now. The Summer Starrr Full Face Kit ($49.50) I looooooove me a summer eyeshadow...

For the next seven days, I will be ditching under-eye concealer, which is craziness, considering the fact that there was a time when I’d literally never leave home without it. No, seriously, I used to apply under eye-concealer to pick up the mail…right outside the house. Lately, however? Nuh-uh. It has NOT been doing me any favors, and I don’t know exactly what happened, because I really haven’t changed my skin care routine. Suddenly, though (or so it has seemed to me), everything I put under my eyes looks heavy and thick and textured and like — pardon my French...