Beauty: Sparkles for your 4th, and some random David Bowie worship

Way back before you could buy glitter gel at Claire's, like '94 or something, I went through a phase of layering Crayola Glitter Glue over my blue eye shadow. Kind of gross, but actually really effective. Now I'm probably too "mature" for both the Claire's stuff and any art supplies stolen/borrowed from my little sister's craft box, but I still fancy shimmery things like Shiseido Silky Eye Shadow, Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil, and sometimes Maybelline Expert Wear Eye Shadow (preferred shade: Antique Jade).

My two new favorite sparkly products, perfect for Fourth of July: FACE atelier's Gold Rush eye shadow line and Rimmel Underground's Light Beam After Dark Lip Gloss. The eye shadows come in six golden shades, each with a slightly metallic glimmer that Pierre La Roche could've used to apply that freaky astral sphere to Ziggy Stardust's forehead back in the day (see left). I'm most into the Bullion shadow, which has a bit of a Creamsicle-dreamy tint to it. (And at first the color name made me think of chicken stock, but then I heard George Clooney in Three Kings barking, "No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup!" and it all came together.)

Equally glammy is the Rimmel gloss in Strobe Light, which is all silvery-shiny and bubblegum-flavored. The coolest part: Push down the little button on top of the cap, and you've switched on a tiny-yet-powerful LED light at the cap's base - all the better for peeking into the little mini mirror attached to the gloss' vial. Genius! And I'm especially psyched to try it out whilst dodging randomly tossed fireworks at Echo Park Lake's annually terrifying D.I.Y. pyrotechnic spectacular tomorrow night.

(Cute nogoodforme.com side note: I still have a few sparklers left from the box that our Kat sent me a very long time ago, during holidaytime of either 2000 or 2001. I might light one up and spell out my name tomorrow night, 'cause capital cursive 'L's are the loveliest letters in all the land.)

Posted by Liz in Beauty
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