inexpensive and long-lasting!
This month I am crazy about CREAMS. stay tuned for some of my favorite cream makeup products all throughout January.
BRRR! You guys…it’s so cold!
I know that that need to sound mildly humorous coming from a Californian, but seriously, there’s a big difference between northern California and southern California. here in NorCal, it gets nearly freezing…
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Hardy-har-har, yes, I know that 37 degrees isn’t arctic, but let me tell ya, it’s been so cold in the mornings that my butt bones, my teeth and even my eyebrows are cold!
Now, you’re probably thinking, “DUDE, why are we talking about the weather??” Well, because — gotcha! — cream makeup makeup, i.e. eyeshadow, cream blush, foundation, what have you. When the temperature drops, cream products come in extra helpful because they tend to last longer when you aren’t sweating buckets.
Truth be told, though, I’m an all-year-round cream product junkie because I like how smooth they look on my skin (unlike powder), and I’ve been all about cream everything considering that I hit 40.
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That said, the theme this month on MBB is “Crazy about Creams,” and I’ve been wearing today’s guests of honor off and on for a lot more than a month. They’re the sincere appeal Creme Cheek Blushes.
“Buildable and blendable color ideal at your fingertips, our cream blush is your go-to for an instant, dewy flush for cheeks. The lightweight formula melts onto skin effortlessly and comes in a stashable compact for easy on-the-go application.”
— honestbeauty.com
Directions:
Use your fingers or a sponge to lightly dab the cream blush onto the apples or your cheeks. blend upward toward cheekbones in a circular motion.
Tips:
Smile to easily find the apples of your cheeks for spot-on application every time.
“Here at sincere Beauty, we pride ourselves on delivering clean appeal products that work. Our Crème blush is formulated with naturally derived fruit extracts (like apple, raspberry and grape!) which indicates that, sometimes, natural separation can occur. You may or may not notice small droplets on the surface of the product, please rest assured that these droplets are completely normal and will naturally absorb back into the formula after use. This does not impact the quality of the product. We got you, babe. keep on being beautiful.”
I’ve been using two of the four shades — a coral pink and a white wine — and both are sheer-ish, so they’re natural looking. Plus, the satin finish goes well with any number of foundation finishes, including velvet, matte, satin and even dewy finishes. It’s all good.
The shades are also incredibly inexpensive at $12.99, although you’d think you were working with a $32 Bobbi brown Pot Rouge or a $29 Laura Mercier Cheek Cream), and beyond the awesome price, these have something else elevating them beyond the average cream blushes, and that’s longevity. They actually stay where they belong and don’t pull a disappearing act halfway through the day.
Ingredients:
Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Beeswax (Cera Alba), Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Polyglyceryl-6 Polyricinoleate, C10-18 Triglycerides, Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Triethyl Citrate, Alcohol, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, Rubus Idaeus (Raspberry) Fruit Extract, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract, Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry) Fruit Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract. may CONTAIN: Mica (CI 77019), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Red 6 (CI 15850), Red 30 Lake (CI 73360), Ultramarines (CI 77007)
If the MAC cream Colour Bases work well on your cheeks, you’ll probably also like these because they feel very similar. just like you can with the CCBs, when you pick this up from a pan with a fingertip or a sponge, you can get hold of a good amount, even though they’re somewhat dry (as in not wet) for a cream. They apply creamy, even and smooth, even around dry spots.
Lyric videos are the best things ever!
I can’t even tell you how much time I spent in my youth getting the lyrics to songs completely wrong… case in point: Throughout a lot of of my childhood, I thought the chorus to Sade’s Smooth operator was “Ooh, Barbaretta. Ooooh, Barbaretta,” instead of “Smooth operator. Smooooth operator.”
Coast to coast LA to Chicago…
Anyway, did you know that they have these things on “the ‘tube” called lyric videos, where you can listen to a song and also see the lyrics on the screen?
Fascinating!
This is a discovery that I find to be both 1) life-altering and 2) quite funny at times, because the things that I think people are saying in songs are often SOOO WRONG.
Like, I’d been hearing this song on the radio latelyមានឈ្មោះថា “រាងកាយ” ដោយក្រុមតន្រ្តីមួយដែលមានឈ្មោះថាខ្លាំង ៗ ហើយទោះបីជាតន្ត្រីមានការចាប់អារម្មណ៍យ៉ាងខ្លាំងក៏ដោយខ្ញុំមិនដឹងថាតារាចម្រៀងកំពុងនិយាយអ្វីទេ។ ប្រសិនបើវាមិនបានសម្រាប់វីដេអូទំនុកច្រៀងនេះទេខ្ញុំប្រហែលជាបានរស់នៅក្នុងជីវិតដែលខ្ញុំបានគិតថាគាត់កំពុងនិយាយអំពីនំដូណាត់ជាច្រើនដែលគាត់និយាយថា “ខ្ញុំចង់បានស្នេហានាវិកនោះ” ។
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