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Forget for a second the ongoing trend of beauty brands relaunching products in smaller sizes while charging the same price for them (because that’s what’s happening here with the recently relaunched NARS eyeshadow duos and singles), and try instead to focus on the tantalizing taupes, gorgeous golds and beaming bronzes in these NARS eyeshadows, which also happen to be some of my personal faves, oh la la!

I’m not overjoyed that NARS whittled the pans down to 0.04 ounces from 0.07, and, in the case of the duos, is charging the same price (still $35), but at least the singles, which used to be $24, are $19 now…

Even so, every time I see Fez on my lids, I’m like, “François, how YOU doin’?” Because if there’s one thing NARS still does really well, it’s neutral colors. I’m still a sucker for them.

Far as I can tell, these updated versions of my go-to’s are pretty much the same as the previous versions. They’re just as smooth and just as loaded with pigment, and now have new packaging. The pans also pop out, so if you want to stick them into another palette, you can do so without having to perform a seance/minor surgery, which is what de-potting eyeshadows always looks like to me in YouTube vids.

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NARS Newness! Some of My Go-To NARS Eyeshadow Singles and Duos Have Been Relaunched, and There Are New Tinted Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Bases Forget for a second the ongoing trend of beauty brands relaunching products in smaller sizes while charging the same price for them (because that’s what’s happening here with the recently relaunched NARS eyeshadow duos and singles), and try instead to focus on the tantalizing taupes, gorgeous go...

Merry Christmas, sweet friend. How are you? I hope your day is filled with love and light (and that Santa stopped by with a lipstick or two).

I’m about to sit down to Christmas breakfast with my parents, El Hub, Coco and my brother, and then in a bit, we’re off to visit my glam granny.

Kind of a funny story – one Christmas Eve when I was a kid, it was raining nonstop. It was a full-on deluge! My granny jokingly said that when it rains on Christmas, “Jesus is crying,” and so, of course, being a natural worrywart, I took it seriously and became VERY CONCERNED about why Jesus would cry on Christmas… I spent hours wondering, “Why was he crying? Shouldn’t somebody comfort him? Does he need a tissue?” For years, I vexed over the weather when Christmas came around!

Anyway, eat all the carbs today because they don’t count on holidays. 🙂 And don’t forget to be extra kind to yourself.

Love you so, so much.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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Merry Christmas Merry Christmas, sweet friend. How are you? I hope your day is filled with love and light (and that Santa stopped by with a lipstick or two). I’m about to sit down to Christmas breakfast with my parents, El Hub, Coco and my brother, and then in a bit, we’re off to visit my glam granny. Kind of a...

The benefits have been discussed here on MBB before, and I have friends who swear by it, but I’ve yet to give it a try.

I thoroughly acknowledge that my upper lip and my chin could probably do with a razor shave, because, yeah, sometimes I get close to turning into a full-on hipster lumberjack, but I just can’t bring myself to do it.

This will probably sound crazy…but I think it would make me feel too much like a dude shaving his face. I know, that makes no sense at all! But I’d still rather wax or pluck.

How ’bout you? Have you ever shaved your face?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S.

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Have You Ever Shaved Your Face? The benefits have been discussed here on MBB before, and I have friends who swear by it, but I’ve yet to give it a try. I thoroughly acknowledge that my upper lip and my chin could probably do with a razor shave, because, yeah, sometimes I get close to turning into a full-on hipster lumberjack, bu...

What am I missing? Am I not shaking these bottles enough? Did I not put enough on? Because I swear to hot dogs, I must have spritzed both Pinklite and Goldlite on my face 20 times, and, I mean, it feels really good. It always does when I spray regular MAC Fix+ on my face, and I expected these shimmery versions would to at least slightly dazzle, but I’m not seeing the dazzle.

Let me do it one more time…

OK, so I can see itty-bitty sparkle flecks if I get allllll up in my mix with my mirror, but they’re extremely subtle… Maybe too subtle for those desiring shiny robot bling shooting from your face at every angle. You’d probably have to open one of these bottles and straight-up pour it all over yourself or dunk yourself in a bathtub filled with it.

Either way, fleek highlights aren’t my thing at the moment, so I’m cool with how chill the effect is.

Sweet. Little. Tiny. Sparkles.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. TGIF. 🙂

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MAC Fix+ Pinklite and Fix+ Goldlite | Irrational Robot Bling Fears What am I missing? Am I not shaking these bottles enough? Did I not put enough on? Because I swear to hot dogs, I must have spritzed both Pinklite and Goldlite on my face 20 times, and, I mean, it feels really good. It always does when I spray regular MAC Fix+ on my face, and I expected these shimme...

Good mornin’ and happy Caturday 😺 to ya.

Quick question: Have you ever wished that you could crochet for the sole purpose of being able to make a handmade sweater for your cat?

If yes, then you will totally get why I want this book I saw at Barnes and Noble!

I wonder how long the cats on the cover actually had those sweaters on…because Tabs would have slipped out quicker than a cheetah chasing dinner.

Anywho…if you’re looking for a gift for your favorite crazy cat lady, I think this would be purr-fect.

I’m taking it easy today because, once again, I caught a bug. 🙁 Yup, I made it cold-free for three weeks, so I guess it was time, LOL! Everyone tells me that the first year of preschool is the hardest because kids bring home everything, so everyone is sick all the time, and they weren’t kidding.

Oh, well. I’ve heard it tapers off around April, so fingers and toes crossed I make it till then, ha ha!

Now I’m off to go eat the hearty breakfast El Hub made for me and Connor.

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Saturday Surfing, December 15th, 2018 Good mornin’ and happy Caturday 😺 to ya. Quick question: Have you ever wished that you could crochet for the sole purpose of being able to make a handmade sweater for your cat? If yes, then you will totally get why I want this book I saw at Barnes and Noble! I wonder how long the cats on the co...

YOU GUYS. The struggle is so real. The other night I opened my purse (a.k.a The Black Hole) to look for a pen so I could take notes in a meeting, but instead of finding a pen…I found five tubes of lipstick.

Five.

Believe it or not, that was actually low for me.

One time when I couldn’t find my car keys, I dumped out my Kate Spade and — I kid you not — half a MAC counter fell out. Funnily enough, all of the lippies were more or less the same n**e shade. 😁

Even though the rational part of my brain was like, “Dude, this is Rick-sanity. You’re two shakes away from biting off someone’s ear in hand-to-hand combat,” the non-rational part was high-fiving a million little angels.

You feel me.

(Now for a little light reading…)

Um…can you clear out any space in your makeup drawer? If you’re a Shiseido fan, you might want to! The line is revamping their ENTIRE MAKEUP LINE THIS SEPTEMBER. Rumor has it they’re trying to draw more 20- and 30-somethings to the brand, and the revamp also means that more than 100 products will be retired, so if there’s something you can’t live without, better stock up now before it’s gone baby, gone.

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Saturday Surfing, August 4th, 2018 YOU GUYS. The struggle is so real. The other night I opened my purse (a.k.a The Black Hole) to look for a pen so I could take notes in a meeting, but instead of finding a pen…I found five tubes of lipstick. Five. Believe it or not, that was actually low for me. One time when I couldn’t find my c...

You guys, I found the BEST foundation, and, GASP! — it’s full-coverage.

I KNOW! Who am I…? What happened to Karen??

I almost never wear full-coverage because full-coverage usually means full-effort. You’ve gotta blend and stipple and buff and blend and blend so that your skin doesn’t go all cake-face. But with this liquid foundation by Wander Beauty, I literally do a 60-second slapdash job with my fingers, and my skin looks even-toned and natural.

Wander Beauty is an up-and-coming makeup line you can find at Sephora (and also on the Wander Beauty website). Their whole shtick is makeup for the busy makeup-lovin’ lady-on-the-go, or really anyone who likes put-together makeup but doesn’t have all the time in the world for complicated looks. (Remember Bobbi Brown before Bobbi left? It’s kinda like that, but with more of an emphasis on the whole travel angle.)

And that pretty accurately describes the payoff for N**e Illusion Liquid Foundation. Effortless, simple, elegant. You can put it on in a moving car while you’re half-asleep. A one-ounce tube is $40, and it comes in 12 different shades for all skin types.

I put it on this morning, then took pictures of it throughout the day.

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Product Spotlight: Wander Beauty N**e Illusion Liquid Foundation You guys, I found the BEST foundation, and, GASP! — it’s full-coverage. I KNOW! Who am I…? What happened to Karen?? I almost never wear full-coverage because full-coverage usually means full-effort. You’ve gotta blend and stipple and buff and blend and blend so that your skin doesn’t go al...

DUDE…there’s a lot of sunscreen action happening on my body right now. I’ve got Clinique on my left arm, Supergoop on my right, a little Neutrogena on my neck, some Babyganics on my left cheek (the cheek on my face, in case you’re wondering, haha!).

No, I’m not going to the pool. Still too cold for that. But May is moving at light speed, and summer is quickly approaching, so I’m testing some “new to me” things.

This makes me cringe to admit, but I haven’t been very good about wearing sunscreen lately…

I know, I know. 🙁 Just been too lazy. Even though I religiously applied it from the age of 19 onward, I sort of fell off the wagon about a year ago, and I’ve been off and on ever since.

Long story short, though, I’m back into it. In fact, I jumped into the sunscreen swimming pool at the deep end, but I’ve been much more careful about what I put on my face since I broke out in January. Now when I’m testing something new on my skin, I apply it to small test patches, instead of slathering it all over with reckless abandon.

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Saturday Surfing, May 19th, 2018 DUDE…there’s a lot of sunscreen action happening on my body right now. I’ve got Clinique on my left arm, Supergoop on my right, a little Neutrogena on my neck, some Babyganics on my left cheek (the cheek on my face, in case you’re wondering, haha!). No, I’m not going to the pool. Still too...

It’s always funny to me to hear myself say this out loud: “Growing out your grays is hard.” Because it’s not like you’re running a marathon or anything. You’re literally just existing! But it really is difficult, and of the many challenges one endures when growing out their grays (and there are indeed many!), I think one of the hardest is adjusting to the new texture.

My grays have a completely different texture than the rest of my hair. They’re coarser, rougher, bumpier… LOL. I wish you could see this weird little hand wave move I just did with my left hand when I said “bumpier.”

Oh, Karen, you’re such a weirdo. 😂

As I was saying, I call my grays my “ramen noodle hairs” because the wiriest of the bunch look like a block of dry, crispy dehydrated noodles.

So…what’s up with that? According to Jay Kushner, Senior Stylist and Director of Stylist Education at Joseph C***a Salon in San Francisco, “The texture change when trying to embrace your natural gray hair can be a bit of a challenge for most people…it manages differently. As we age, a reduction of melanin (the pigment which puts color in hair) and sebum (the moisturizing oil secreted from the scalp) can contribute to the hair becoming more dry, coarse and wiry.”

To help you tame your hair’s texture, Jay recommends using an oil-based shampoo, conditioner and mask, as they usually work well because they’re moisturizing, softening and smoothing, and he likes Iles Formula Shampoo ($35), Conditioner ($41) and Mask ($67).

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Grays Gone Wild It’s always funny to me to hear myself say this out loud: “Growing out your grays is hard.” Because it’s not like you’re running a marathon or anything. You’re literally just existing! But it really is difficult, and of the many challenges one endures when growing out their grays (and th...

If the pain is caused by arthrosis, then such a compress helps to quickly remove it: crush 2 aspirin tablets, add 1 tsp. honey, for viscosity, you can add flour, spread the mixture on a sore joint, attach burdock or cabbage leaf, fix it with a warm dressing overnight (HLS 2009, No. 2, p. 30)

Lemon
Lemon has the ability to pe*****te and destroy, and Vishnevsky ointment - to warm and stretch. Therefore, for pain in the joint, this method is effective: cut off a circle of lemon and fix for the night, on the second night to make the same compress. and on the third night - a compress with Vishnevsky ointment. After the third night, the problem disappears. (HLS 2009, No. 12, p. 31)

Treatment of diseased legs with horse gel at home.
The woman was constantly aching and aching knee joints, nothing helped. I could not sleep at night. I read several times about the treatment of joints with horse gel, which can be bought at a veterinary clinic and decided to use the gel. The result appeared immediately - after the first application, the woman slept quietly all night, and in the morning she got up without joint pain. (HLS 2009, No. 13, p. 27)

A simple folk remedy for joints.
Mix in a ratio of 1: 1 5% iodine and 10% ammonia. Insist 4-5 days. The liquid becomes transparent. With this composition, rub problem areas 2-3 times a day. Compresses can not be done - there will be a burn.
The man suffered joint pains, he used various folk remedies, but the disease progressed - first only legs, then back, neck. After applying this rubbing 2 times a day, on the sixth day everything went fine. (HLS 2009, No. 18, p. 19)

How to cure joint pain with formic alcohol and menovazine at home.
A woman in her 70s got sick knee and hip joints. It was hard to walk, could only sleep on her back. She went to doctors for a long time: surgeon, therapist, neurologist, rheumatologist. Everyone said that in 70 years it should be so. She decided to be treated herself - every evening she stamped on the Kuznetsov ippler. And before going to bed I rubbed my joints alternately - one evening with menovazine, the other evening with formic alcohol. After 5-6 evenings, improvement began, and then the pains completely disappeared. (HLS 2010, No. 8, p. 31-32)

Alternative treatment with burdock, elecampane, comfrey.
If the joints hurt, rubbing the following ointment will help: take 100 g of fresh roots of burdock, comfrey, elecampane. Scroll them through a meat grinder and mix with 400 g of interior fat, put in a clay pot, cover and cover with dough. Simmer in the oven for 2 hours at the lowest heat, then wrap it up warmly and leave for 6 hours. Then strain, squeeze, add 10 ml of oil solutions of vitamin A and E. Rub this ointment into the joints overnight. Cracks in the heels also pass from the use of this ointment. (Healthy Lifestyle 2010, No. 10, p. 30)

Mokritsa
Woodlice well cleans joints from salt deposition, normalizes metabolism in the body, so it helps with arthrosis. It is necessary to fill a full three-liter jar with dry wood lice, pour 500 g of vodka into it and pour cold boiled water to the top. Insist 2 weeks, drink 1 tbsp. l three times a day until completely cured. (Healthy Lifestyle 2010, No. 10, p. 30)
If the joint is sore, swollen, reddened, compresses made of lice can help - stretch the grass, put it on a sore spot and wrap it tightly. (HLS 2010, No. 13, p. 28)

Home treatment with potato sprouts.
A glass of sprouts is poured into a glass of vodka and insisted for 21 days. This folk remedy is often used, it gives a quick result. Instead of sprouts, you can take potato flowers. (Healthy Lifestyle 2010, No. 16 p. 10)

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Pain in the joints of various parts of the human body appears due to many factors.

Some of them require treatment of the root cause of pain, for example, bursitis or hormonal disorders, while others can only be drowned out by pharmacy and folk remedies, as they become the result of an old injury.

And in those and other cases at home, you can make various recipes to combat pain in the joints of the arms and legs.

Compress for pain with arthrosis. If the pain is caused by arthrosis, then such a compress helps to quickly remove it: crush 2 aspirin tablets, add 1 tsp. honey, for viscosity, you can add flour, spread the mixture on a sore joint, attach burdock or cabbage leaf, fix it with a warm dressing overnight (HLS 2009, No. 2, p. 30) Lemon L...

The main symptom of the problem is pain in the joints of the legs. From it you can determine whether the body needs help. If during the day the pain is tolerable, and at night it intensifies and becomes aching. The stiffness of the joints in the morning should also alert. Timely diagnosis is the key to successful therapy. In case of joint inflammation, the doctor directs the patient to undergo ultrasound, X-ray, MRI and a biochemical blood test.

When confirming the diagnosis, if possible, treatment at home is prescribed. It is carried out only with the approval of the doctor and includes:

Massage. This is a type of manual therapy that has been widely used to treat diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The procedure normalizes muscle tone, increases the amplitude of movements, improves metabolism and blood circulation.

Therapeutic gymnastics. It is unacceptable only for fractures and dislocations. In such cases, only breathing exercises are used. With arthrosis and arthritis, exercises are useful, but the specific complex should be selected by the doctor.
Acceptance or local use of drugs. Different medications are used depending on the nature of the inflammation. At home, they use antibiotics, chondoprotectors, anti-inflammatory drugs, glucocorticoids, antimycotics, antiviral or antifungal medications.
Massage
The massage procedure is useful for any pathology of the musculoskeletal system, except for the period of exacerbations and gout. It helps reduce swelling, redness, and pain. The effect is achieved due to increased blood circulation and improved metabolic processes. The massage regimen is determined by the individual characteristics of the patient and his disease. At home, you can perform the massage yourself, but doctors recommend using the services of professionals.

The procedure is best left for a while after therapeutic exercises. This will help to avoid muscle pain and improve muscle tone. Massage is carried out in a calm, relaxed state according to the following rules:

sensations should not bring pain, they should be pleasant;

lymph nodes should be avoided;
movements are performed from the periphery to the center - from the foot to the groin;
soft stroking movements alternate with rubbing, patting and tweaking;
Before massaging a specific area of ​​the body, it is necessary to massage the entire limb;
on the inner side of the thigh it is impossible to make shock and vibrating movements;
the whole massage should take 15-20 minutes.
Foot massage

Physiotherapy
It is necessary to engage in physical therapy daily. Each training begins with the basics. The first load is moderate - it is increasing gradually and little by little. All training is carried out on the principle of "from simple to complex." It is important to deal not during an exacerbation of the disease, but during remission, when severe pain does not bother. After weakening, you can proceed to exercise therapy.

A clear number of repetitions and approaches of each exercise is determined by the general well-being, severity of the disease and physical preparation of the patient. For leg problems, gymnastics is performed while lying down. After each exercise, you need to rest for 2-3 minutes, so that breathing has time to recover, the pulse has stabilized. In general, gymnastics can be carried out as follows:

Lie on the floor, bend your legs at the knees. Further simulate movement, as when riding a bicycle. This exercise is effective for gonarthrosis. To develop a knee will help rolling a small ball or stick on the floor with your feet. Squats or half-squats are also allowed, but relying on a stable object.

Lying on the floor, perform circular motions alternately with each foot. At the same time, they should be bent at the knees. It is useful for coxarthrosis. In addition, it is recommended to perform lifting of a flat leg, alternating swing movements upward with straight legs, raising and bringing fingers together, flexion / extension of the knee.
Sit on a chair. In this position, perform rotational movements of the foot, circular movements of the fingers, alternately tearing the heels and fingers off the floor, rotational movements of the heel. These exercises develop an ankle in arthrosis.

How to treat joints at home The main symptom of the problem is pain in the joints of the legs. From it you can determine whether the body needs help. If during the day the pain is tolerable, and at night it intensifies and becomes aching. The stiffness of the joints in the morning should also alert. Timely diagnosis is the key...

When a person has a joint pain, he does not always seek help from a doctor, trying to solve the problem on his own. All kinds of medicinal and folk preparations recommended by friends, colleagues or advertising are used. Such a treatment will not only not bring any benefit, it can aggravate the problem.

What should not be done with joint pain:

Use warming ointments. Quite often, if all joints are sore or the pain is localized in a specific place, people begin to apply warming ointments, which is fundamentally the wrong tactic. The main cause of the unpleasant symptom is inflammation and swelling. When using warming ointments, blood flow is increased, vasodilation occurs, which further increases the inflammatory process and edema itself. For a short time, the burning sensation that occurs after applying warming agents distracts a person from pain and it seems to him that the ointment helps. This is a false opinion and the problem will only worsen in the future, therefore it is strictly forbidden to use warming ointments in case the joint hurts.
Use chondroprotectors as a treatment. Drugs designed to initially protect and restore cartilage from damage, are effective only at the initial stage of treatment of the disease. Using them as an independent therapy is impractical, which is confirmed by clinical experiments and studies. Chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine (which are part of the preparations) - the chemical compounds that make up the basis of cartilage, are designed to restore cells and intercellular lubricant, as well as relieve a person of pain. For a long time, chondroprotectors were used as an independent treatment of joints, but after that they conducted some studies proving that chondroprotectors are not effective in serious diseases and can be used only at the initial stage of the disease or as a prophylaxis.

What to do when joints hurt and how to get rid of pain, only a doctor knows. Many drugs that are sold at the pharmacy as a panacea for joint diseases cost a lot of money.

Applying them out of ignorance, a person will spend a lot of money on the acquisition of such funds and valuable time that will be wasted in vain on the wrong treatment.

Many joint diseases are successfully treated at an early stage, the main thing is to get diagnosed in a timely manner and begin treatment prescribed by a qualified specialist.

The main causes of joint pain
The causes of arthralgia (joint pain) are irritation of the neuroreceptors located in the structure of cartilage, a variety of factors that arose against the background of the underlying disease. If the joints of the knees and elbows hurt, then this may be due to the pathological process in them, as well as to the usual bruise and the appearance of an internal hematoma.

The most common joint disease that occurs in a chronic form is osteoarthritis. As a result, hip, knee joints are affected. There is a disease due to degenerative-dystrophic disorders of the joint tissue, interarticular fluid, ligamentous apparatus.

The disease often develops in adulthood, against the background of obesity, as a result of trauma, with a lack of certain vitamins. The main symptom of the disease is severe pain, aggravated by physical exertion and reduced at rest.

With spondylitis, the intervertebral, costal-vertebral and sacroiliac joints are affected, a person feels aching constant pain in the back and buttocks, which intensifies at night. Over time, the patient's posture is disturbed (the spine is bent), the body temperature rises slightly, internal organs are affected - the heart, kidneys, eyes.

As a result of reactive arthritis, the joints of the legs are affected, which is expressed in acute pain, swelling, hyperemia, and fever. The disease often occurs after infections - intestinal, colds, urogenital. The disease is quite serious and requires immediate treatment.

With rheumatoid arthritis, small joints of the hands and feet, knee and elbow are affected. Symptoms of the disease are severe pain in the joints, deformation of the cartilage, cramping pain in the morning, etc. The disease is dangerous due to its complications, as a result of which almost all internal organs and systems are affected.

If the joint hurts, the cause may be hiding in psoriatic arthritis. The disease affects those people who have a genetic predisposition to psoriasis.

Almost simultaneously, in such patients, damage to the skin and joints occurs. Symptoms of the disease - pain in the heels, lower back, hands and fingers. In addition to pain, there are signs of redness and swelling of the tissues.

With gout and pseudogout, the metabolism is disrupted, as a result of which salts are not excreted from the body, but are deposited in the periarticular tissues.

What can not be done with joint pain When a person has a joint pain, he does not always seek help from a doctor, trying to solve the problem on his own. All kinds of medicinal and folk preparations recommended by friends, colleagues or advertising are used. Such a treatment will not only not bring any benefit, it can aggravate the prob...