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The new Jane Iredale Fall Collection has arrived!

It’s called Naturally Confident and it includes goWarm Eye Steppes®, Mania Lip Fixation® and Complete In Touch Highlighter.

Here’s how to achieve this fabulous look:

Face

• With the Handi™ Brush, apply PurePressed® Base in your favorite shade using light, downward strokes.*

• Using the Camouflage Brush, apply Active Light® in your favorite shade to the under-eye area for a brightening effect. For home use, apply directly to the skin and blend using fingertip.*

Eyes

• Using the Eye Shader Brush, apply Steamy from the goWarm Eye Steppes to the entire lid, blending into the crease and to the lower lash line, using the Smudge Brush.

• Apply Beach from the goWarm Eye Steppes to the brow bone and inner corner of the eye using the Mini-Dome Brush.

• Apply Dark Topaz Mystikol® to the upper lash line, blending with the Smudge Brush.

• Apply PureLash™ Extender & Conditioner to the upper and lower lashes followed by Black Ice Longest Lash Thickening and Lengthening Mascara.

• Use the Blonde PureBrow™ Gel to define and enhance brows.

Cheeks

• Combine your Eye Steppes and My SteppesTM in a snap! Using the White Fan Brush, apply Whisper PurePressed® Blush from the Cool My Steppes to the apples of cheeks blending upwards towards the temple.

• Apply Complete In Touch highlighter to the top of cheek bone, blending up with fingers.

Lips

• Mania Lip Fixation on lips.

* The model shown here is wearing Warm Silk PurePressed® Base and Active Light® No.1.

Looking for something to do while you’re rained in tomorrow? Clean those dirty makeup brushes! I found this great 10-minute You Tube video (worth watching every minute of it) from Vlogger, Michelle Phan. She explains how to effectively clean your brushes, freeing them from makeup, dirt and bacteria with two inexpensive items that most of us already have in the house. I tried it today with my own makeup brushes at home and I can’t believe how well this worked! Let me know if it worked for you too!

I just stumbled upon BHLDN, a fabulous website for brides offering an elegant, offbeat and whimsical approach to everything bridal. Here are some of our favorite takes on traditional hair accessories for the big day. Which one do you like?

Languid Bow Headband--$220.00

North Star Blusher Veil--$375.00

Libelle Headband--$290.00

Feathered Corsage Birdcage Veil--$300.00

Don’t shoot the messenger, but fall is only two months away! Here are a few links to some hair and makeup ideas showing up on the runways.

On the one hand I’m mesmerized yet on the other I’m unsure about my feelings for this collection of exquisite necklaces made from hair–that’s right–hair. But I guess that’s exactly how artist, Kerry Howley, wanted me to feel about her latest creations. A recent graduate with honors from London’s Middlesex University, Howley designed the hair necklaces entitled “Attraction/Aversion” as her graduation collection.

Howley explains, “Attraction/Aversion is a material exploration of how people can feel seemingly opposing emotional responses simultaneously. The necklaces are made of human hair, a familiar material that we take pride in. However once off of the body hair becomes an innate source of aversion. Kerry wanted to see if she could make discarded hair attractive again.”

How do you feel about this art form?

I‘m sure I‘m not alone in admitting that I read my sister‘s diary when I was young.  Living up to my role as a precocious, some may say obnoxious, little brother I snuck into her room, pried open the lock (honestly my dog could have picked that lock), and reveled in her innermost thoughts. Imagine my dismay when all I read were some notes about pre-teen crushes and pages and pages dedicated to New Kids on the Block.  Disappointing yes, but it stayed my thirst for knowledge that was completely none of my business.  Fast forward 20 years and Facebook has made the diary, and that flimsy lock, all but obsolete.

People are on Facebook for all sorts of reasons, but I would contest that most people fall into one of two categories.  Those that love to share information, and those who love to read it.  I find myself more in the latter category than the former.

Like most of you on an average day my News Feed reads like the suburban lifestyle section in any small town newspaper.  Babies are born, local restaurants are reviewed, and sporting results are either lauded or berated.  Though every once in a while, my News Feed turns into the front page of the National Enquirer and honestly, I’m riveted.  It’s a gossip column only better because I know these people.  I should qualify “know” with “probably went to junior high with them and haven’t spoken since 1992“, but that doesn’t make me any less vested in the outcome.

We all have a handful of Facebook friends that share the things we only think of saying then delete from our memory banks.  They have no qualms about telling us all exactly what they think of their boss and exactly what he can do with his deadline.  They are only too happy to share the details of what their sister in law’s meddling has done to their relationship with their mother in law.

While the rest of the country was hanging by their flat screens for the Casey Anthony verdict last week,  I was glued to my laptop because an old high school friend was live blogging his divorce proceedings.  I haven’t seen him in 10 years, and I’ve never met his now ex-wife, but I now feel like I have.  Consequently if you are in the Boston area and see a woman who looks like a cross between the Wicked Witch of the West and Godzilla, that’s her according to his last description.  Maybe she wears a lot of green?  Here I am again, all these years later after my first breaking and entering and I’m still reading things that aren’t any of my business.  Am I alone here?

Facebook was created to bring people together and give them a path to connect to the world at large.  Conversely it gives some the anonymity to say what they need to say to an audience of profile pictures not people, and release the weight of their circumstances.

Either way in 20 years Facebook will probably be a thing of the past, but I have a feeling there will be plenty of people with stories to share and plenty of us to read them.  I just hope there is a space to leave a comment.