Massive On-Going Clearance Sale at Dawn Eyes Cosmetics!

Hi everyone! Dawn Eye Cosmetics is having a massive clearance sale (to make room for new colors) until Midnight on June 6, 2012 (at least for the following listed shades; more colors will be released and will have an extended sale term). Prices are on full-size jars only: $2.75 per jar. I assume that her regular shipping prices apply. Here's massive list no. 1 (alphabetized for ease of searching colors), and the sale link is HERE:

Almost Concrete Jungle

Almost Dark

Almost Hot Pink

Almost Neon Pink

American Bluebird

Amorous

Aquableu

Aquableu II (which was never actually released by accident, but is a sparkly version of Aquableu)

Ass Kickin’ Copper

Awestruck

Baby Doll Pink

Baja Sunrise

Basic Green Shimmer

Basic Pale Copper

Basic Soft Bronze

Blue Grey Pearl

Blue Raspberry

Blue Sundae

Blurple

Blush

Bone

Bright Blue

Bright Pink Sparkle

Brilliant Burnt Orange

Bubble Gum

Bubbling Spring

Caribbean

Chocolate Diamond

Close to Coral

Conch

Concord Grape

Copper Beige

Copper Crystal

Coral Conspiracy

Cosmic

Dark Brown Matte (NOT a Spearl color!)

Dark Brown Matte (NOT a Spearl Shade!)

Date

Day Lily

Deep Pink Sparkle

Dew Drops

Diamond Sky

Dusk Takes Over

Dusty Roses

Electric Lavender

Emeralds & Sapphires

Empirical

Evening Clouds

Evening Falls

Evening Glow

Faerie Dance

Feed Me Seymor

Flame Dance

Flaming Fancy

Flutterby

Football in KC

Football in Pittsburgh

Forget Me Not

Fresh Earth

Frostbite

Frosted Evergreen

Georgia Peach

Girly Girl

Glacier

Gleaming Chrome

Glistening Pine

Glittering Aquamarine

Glittering Grey Fire

Glittering Hibiscus

Glorious Green

Glowing Green

Gold Encrusted Amethyst

Golden Bone

Golden Fleece

Golden Jade

Golden Peacock

Golden Peacock Blue

Golden Peacock Green

Golden Sparkle Pink

Green Silk

Grey Fire

Hey Barkeep!

Hidden Moonlight

Holographic Black

Holographic Lavender

Holographic Pale Lilac

How Sweet the Sound

Hyacinth

Intense Metallic Blue

Ivy & Ivory

Jacket Blue

Jade

Jeweled Pewter

Just Silver

KC Red

KC Red

Kelp

Khaki with Kick

King’s Robe

Kiss Kiss

Kiss Me

Kissable

Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues Holographic

Late Fall

Lavender Daydream

Lavender Paradise

Lemon Ice

Lemon Sparkle

Light Green & Gold

Lively Lavender

Magnificent Magenta

Mardi Gras

Matte Peach (NOT a Spearl shade!)

Medium Copper Sparkle

Medium Dark Brown Matte (NOT a Spearl color!)

Medium Grey Matte (NOT a Spearl color!)

Metallic Lavender Sparkle

Metallic Teal

Midnight Kiss

Miss K II

Moonlight Serenade

Moonlit

Morning Forest

Morning Glory

Mystic Dawn

Navel Orange

Night Sky Gold

Noble Metal

Not Your Everyday Blue

Nude

Olive and Pimento

Olive Sands

Opulent

Orange Julius

Orange Sherbet

Pale Grey Matte (NOT a Spearl color!)

Pale Lavender Shimmer

Pale Lilac

Pale Mauve w/ Green Shimmer

Peace

Peach Bubbly

Peach Bubbly

Peach Zinger

Peacock Teal

Peacock Teal II

Perfect Pink

Petal Pink

Pine

Pine Plus

Pink Parfait

Pink Pearls

Pink Shimmer

Pink Sparkle Metallic Champagne

Pink Sparkling Beige

Pirate Tears

Pittsburgh Blue

Pittsburgh Red

Pittsburgh White

Plain Brown Matte (NOT a Spearl color!)

Plain Burnt Orange

Plain light Brown

Plain Pale Soft Rose

Plain Palest Soft Rose

Plain Soft Rose

Playoff White

Playoff Yellow

Pleasantly Pink

Plum Sparkle

Porcini

Pretty Blue Stone

Pretty Pale Blue

Provoked

Purple & Gold Sparkle Copper

Purple Forest

Purple Passion

Purple Peeps

Purple Sparkle Silver

Rainy Day Purple

Rebel Purple

Red

Red Sparkle Pink

Rich Plum Wine

Rosé

Rose Gold

Rubies on the Beach

Sahara

Sands of Time

Shamrock

Shimmering Pale Pink

Shock Value

Silver Borealis

Silver Prism

Silver Shimmer Grey

Smoked Teal

SMR

Soft Green Gold Shimmer

Soft Lavender

Soft N Sweet

Soft White Beach

Someday

Sparkling Beige Pearl

Sparkling Golden Jade

Sparkling Golden Purple

Sparkling Grape

Sparkling Jade

Sparkling Pink

Sparkling Purple Gold

Sparkling Purple Grey

Sparkling Tea Roses

Spray Paint Landscape

Spring Buds

St. Patrick’s Day

Sterling Character

Sultry Blue

Summer Blue Sky

Summer Wheat

Sun Kissed Seafoam

Sunlight

Sunlit Coral

Sunny Side Up

Super Sparkle Pink

Take Me with You

Take Your Teal

Tea Time Rose

Third Day Purple

Traveling Pink

Tusk

Twinkling Deep Brown

Twinkling Teal

Ugly Gold

Ultimate Purple

Verdant Brown

Verdant Dark Brown

Very Hot Pink

White Gold

Who the “H” Knows?

Wild Strawberry

Wild White

Wine by the Sea

WTF?

Year Old Penny

Yellow Green Shimmer

I''ll list the new colors as soon as I get them from Dawn. HAPPY SHOPPING!

Aaaack! Finally!

Just a mini-post to let you know I finally caught a very small swath of sunlight in my office to take photos/video for the Silk Naturals review I promised. It's been overcast here in southeastern Pennsylvania for weeks now; hence, the lack of reviews. Now I just have to actually write the review, LOL. I should be back in action this weekend if not before. Thanks for being patient!

Zoya Contest = Woot!

I picked and repinned the following shades: Rory, Lara, and Shelby. What colors did you repin?

 

Click here to go to the Zoya Surf Collection board, and HAPPY PINNING!  :)

Mega-Belated Weekend Shout-Out to Gabriela N.-S. and Others!

Talk to the hand. Gabriela's hand, I mean, LOL. Gaby was kind enough to send me a photo of her results from trying the newspaper mani I published recently, so I made her an honorary Fleur.

I like the "old-timey" look of this mani

She has also become a new follower and dutifully answered my "getting-to-know-you" questions (i.e., [1] Describe yourself in three words and why, [2] What three foods do you like best and why? and [3] What would be your three "desert-island" cosmetics and why, i.e., if you were stranded on a desert island, which three cosmetics (brand and type/name please) would you most want to have with you and why)? Here are her answers:

1. Hilarious. Audiences agree. Sarcastic (see "hilarious"). Tough. I am a 33-year-old widow. I lost my soul mate and husband of 13 years recently. I can't explain how or why, but I'm still standing.

2. Any and all fruit. Specifically pomegranates. I'll put on a pair of gloves and peel/shell (?) a few at a time into a large bowl. I then add a dash of salt and lime juice and eat it with a spoon. The combination of tangy/salty/sweet always makes my mouth water. I've done it this way since I was a kid. Delayed gratification makes it all the more delicious. My mom's handmade tortillas. Corn and flour. The corn tortillas I love to eat with queso fresco, which she makes herself. The flour tortillas I bathe in butter and roll them into burritos. I've always eaten them standing at the stove with her as she cooks them. It's comfort food. My mom's posole. She only makes it around the holidays, but whenever my husband and I visited her in CA from AZ she always made some for him because it was his favorite also.

Pomegranate: the glamour girl of the fruit world!

3. I could manage going without makeup. But I would NEVER go without nail polish. On a desert island, no one is going to see my face, but I can always admire my own pretty tips and toes. So I'd only take polish. With a collection of over 500 bottles, I couldn't choose only 3. But if I had to, I could narrow it down to my 3 favorite finishes: holographic (Glitter Gal) , duo/multichrome (Sally Hansen Nail Prisms), and flakies (Finger Paints [I couldn't find a link to this finish, so I'm sending you to Scrangie's blog!]).

Gabriela, I would be tempted to throw some tequila into the pomegranate-lime-salt mixture, LOL. Also, I'm just getting into nail polish (although I don't do a full mani), so I appreciate knowing about those brands and finishes you mentioned!

The following people joined my blog since the last shout-out: mynewestaddiction, lacquerloon, and Makeup Zombie. Hey all <waves madly>!

WnW Nail Pail, Purple Mesh Earrings, and My Mom's Nail Humor

WnW Nail Pail posing with kitchen orchids :-)

Whew, I'm beat. I took on some work from a colleague who needed some help, and although it's interesting work because it's different from my regular medical and environmental editing, it's a lot of small chapters to look over. I've reviewed more than 600 pages in the past few days, and I have 110 pages left to check tomorrow.

It's a book of personal correspondence between a judge who sat on the Supreme Court from 1924 to 1961 and includes his letters to and from such famous people as presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower, as well as Oliver Wendell Holms, Walter Lippmann, and publisher Alfred A. Knopf , and discussing such things as the Sacco and Venzetti trial and the "New "Deal" engineered by FDR. Pretty cool stuff, even though I am in no way a history or legal buff. The use of the English language by the judges and dignitaries at that time was so wickedly good that it makes us, in the 2000s, look like dunderheads. Kind of like when you see "Sense and Sensibility" and come away from the movie and want to wield your English as beautifully and properly as the actors did :-) Le sigh. However, I did get a kick by the somewhat liberal use of "ain't" by this and other Supreme Court judges!

WnW Nail Pail

I recently joined Yardsellr, which is like on on-line yard sale.I still haven't figured out some of the nuances yet, but I have managed to buy two pairs of earrings (and some loose beading beads) that were nearly free, one of which are these long, dangly purple wire mesh earrings. I think they are funky and cute! But just like any yard sale, mostly everything is junk that no one wants. You have to hunt for the "treasures," which is part of the fun! Have you bought anything from Yardsellr yet?

On the blog horizon: the promised SN review (it's been too gloomy here to take pics), Avon's Glow eyeliner in  Desert Gold, the Physicians Formula eyeliner set I bought the other day (I like it a lot), and probably something else I'm forgetting.

I'm just so busy putting out fires that I haven't had time to post, so I'll leave you with some funny photos of my 75-year-old mom trying to "model" her "nail" (yes, I've got her doing it now, too). We almost both peed ourselves laughing when we took these photos. Hope you laugh as much as we did doing this!

My mom chose the WnW yellow polish

  The Wicked Witch of the West school of nail modeling

 The Cirque du Soleil school of nail modeling

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuff You Must Buy

You. must. shop. here. now. LaRu etsy shop. Here are a few product photos to whet your appetite (photos reprinted with artist's permission):

Pink Bunny Necklace

Love Gun necklace

Hipster Buns print

 

Skeleton Couple print

Be On the Lookout for a Good CVS "Red Box" Coupon!

After weeks of dreary un-needed CVS Extra Rewards coupons being dispensed from the ubiquitous "red box," e.g., $1.00 off CVS hemorrhoid cream, BOGO free hearing-aid batteries, and $.50 off Porcelana cream (or some red boxes in certain stores not working at all ), I finally scored a couple of coupons I could use today, one being, in particular, a coupon for $7.00 off any Physicians Formula item, with no minimum spending to be met! Since CVS has $5.00 off any PF cosmetic item this week, that means . . . FREE MAKEUP!

I got the Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Eyeliner Trio [for] Hazel Eyes. It has the following colors in it: taupe, pink, and black with pink shimmer. The original price was $10.99 less $5.00 CVS weekly special + $7.00 Extra Bucks coupon = FREE! I was able to put the left-over $1.01 from the PF coupon to a box of individual Soothe eyedrops, plus I had another $4.00 Extra Bucks coupon for that to begin with. So, all in all, something fun and something needed, both for no or little actual moolah out of my wallet!

I'll be reviewing them at some point, which should be fun since I don't usually wear eyeliner, LOL :-) But, if it's free, I'm game!

Just wasted to give you a heads up to remember to scan your Extra Bucks card or tag at the CVS "red box" this week!

Because I *Am* That Weird

I am not a nail polish girl at all in any way, shape or form. I can appreciate a beautiful and/or clever mani on someone else, but doing one for myself is a time-consuming for what I consider little personal payoff. So . . . drum roll of weirdness please . . . when I'm in the mood, I just do "My Nail." Yep, that's right. I mani just one perfect nail because I don't have the time, patience, or lack of perfectionism to do a whole handful of nails only to have them chip one day or even a few hours later. To me, it's like wearing a piece of jewelry.

And, yes, I do use a good base coat and top coat, but the danged things still chip like a mofo. In my dreams, my nails would look like Scrangie's nails or like Short and Sweet's nails: Fairly short, shapely, and properly, even glowingly, lacquered. But such is the stuff of dreams, so I console myself with My Nail. My favorite ever nail was done with a blood red shimmery polish (Zoya Ivy) and had one small crystal applied to it. I told people it would be my wedding nail if I ever got married. I've even discussed with a friend the benefits of a cupcake nail so I could snack discretely when I wanted to, LOL :-)

Like this but with REAL cake and frosting [not my nails obviously]!

I was playing around with a crackle polish (Sally Hansen White Crackle Overcoat) the other day, and was having so much fun I did three nails (oh, the folly!). They lasted for a couple of days (I figured out that crackle polish is very forgiving: chips don't show that easily and for that reason I may use it way past its fashion). For the base colors, I used Essie Turquoise and Caicos, Sally Hansen Insta-Dry in Mauve It (third row down, fifth swatch over in color chart), and Zoya Ivy with the SH White Crackle Overcoat.

This is my "special three-finger" nail weirdness: 

This is my usual every day nail weirdness:

OK, commence laughing :-)