Sonia Kashuk Gel Liner #BestOfBeauty
For a few months, I’ve been using a new eye liner that I am absolutely in love with and I keep meaning to tell you about it!
I’ve never been great at applying liquid eyeliner, and it seems awfully harsh for everyday wear. But I’m not crazy about pencil eyeliners either; they never really seem to go on smoothly enough for me, so I usually end up layering over them with a dark eye shadow to smudge it up a bit and get it right into the lash line.
For a while, I used a tightline cake eyeliner by Laura Mercier that you had to apply with a brush, but it was high maintenance because you also had to purchase an activator used to wet the eyeliner, and then you had to clean the brush or it would get cakey. It was also expensive.
Then I received the entire Sonia Kashuk makeup collection at an event with Target, and I discovered her Dramatically Defining Long Wear Gel Liner. I already had a great smudge brush so I tried it out one day and I haven’t looked back.
This is so much easier to apply than the tightline cake eyeliner that required wetting it to apply, and it’s about 1/3 the price.
I like that you can control how thick it goes on, and that you can get it right into the lash line (which is key to applying eyeliner. You do NOT want to see eyelid between the liner and your lashes.) I can create a nice fine line or I can smudge it so that it’s more subtle, depending on the look I’m going for. And it stays on ALL. DAY. It doesn’t move. It also doesn’t ever rub off onto my brow bone, which tends to happen with pencil eyeliners. It comes in black or brown, but I’m hoping she will eventually create some more fun colors. I’d love to have it in plum.
If you don’t have a proper brush, Sonia Kashuk’s Essential Eye Kit is a great starter kit and includes a smudge brush like the one I mentioned above.
Weekly Menu Plan 05.20.13 #glutenfree #realfood
I’m getting ahead this week, posting on Sunday. GO ME! MONDAY: Bacon & Mushroom Cream Sauce over Zucchini Pasta (I’m very excited that it’s soon going to be zucchini season again!) TUESDAY: Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole with a side salad WEDNESDAY: Buffalo burgers on the grill using this Gourmet Burger recipe, baked beans, and Simple Sautéed Spinach THURSDAY: Linguine with Shrimp Scampi with… Continue Reading →
Shoe Crush: Stuart Weitzman
My mom introduced me to Stuart Weitzman many years ago. Okay, not to Stuart, himself, but to his shoes. Which is the next best thing. She often bought his shoes for her professional business outfits and loved the fit and style, and I would drool and fawn over them but never had a reason to… Continue Reading →
5 Fabulous Beach Bags Under $50
This post was inspired by the gorgeous straw beach bags we all received at the Mom 2.0 Summit from their title sponsor, Dove Beauty. I was as thrilled with the bag as I was with the assortment of Dove products hiding inside. I love a big, gorgeous beach bag and I’ve been in the market for… Continue Reading →
Homemade Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
NOTE: These are NOT gluten free. One of the boxed convenience foods I often fall back on is granola bars. I buy the ones from Cascadian Farms because they are organic, which means no GMOs (genetically modified ingredients) and because I like their story and believe the company truly does try to operate in a… Continue Reading →
I Just Turned In My First Draft!
A few weeks (months?) ago I shared that I am writing an eBook — not the one of the ones I’ve had in my head for a few years (I have all sorts of ideas floating around in my head of eBooks I’d love to write based on my blog’s content; maybe someday I’ll get… Continue Reading →
Daily Mom Style 05.14.13
I’ve been rather lazy this week with my photo-taking, and since I’m going to physical therapy 3X a week for my plantar fasciitis, I’ve been spending a lot of time in yoga pants. But here’s what I’ve got. Day 1 I have no recollection of what day this was or what I did. I was… Continue Reading →
5 New Favorite Gluten Free Snacks
In my perfect world, I would grow all our vegetables in the backyard with our own compost for fertilizer. I’d have chickens for eggs and even a milking cow for all our dairy products. My husband would hunt for our meat, and I’d sprout and soak all our grains and make all of our baked… Continue Reading →
Epilogue
One of my all-time most popular posts is How I Got Off Nexium. Not a week goes by that I don’t get new comments on this post or a personal email asking for advice or sharing a success story. A lot of people want to know how I did it, and how long it took… Continue Reading →
Weekly Menu Plan 05.13.13
Good Monday morning! Do I sound chipper? I do not feel chipper. I’ve been up for an hour and I’m on my second cuppa coffee (I usually just have one) and I’m finally starting to feel somewhat awake. I’m also feeling quite uninspired to plan my meals for the week. I wish someone could do… Continue Reading →
Airocide: A Review
We’re an allergy family. Seasonal allergies plague 3 out of the 5 of us, we all have some level of allergic reaction to dogs and cats and horses, and then there are the food allergies and sensitivities. Most of us have a mild form of asthma, and there’s a history of eczema as well. Science is… Continue Reading →
