I'm Baaack!!!

I didn't mean to go missing last week. Sometimes life becomes very overwhelming and gets in the way of this one woman show at Beautiful Makeup Search. I don't think I have ever gone a week without staying in touch here, and I truly apologize for the lack of updates. I am back now, and have so much to catch up on.

I am working on gathering all of the fall makeup collection information. I know - fall collections? It has just started to feel like summer here in the Northeast, but trust me, you will love what is coming up. I also have a ton more eye products to tell you about, so my All About the Eyes feature will continue. It will become more of a regular thing, and not just a month-long spotlight, as I had originally planned. Look for 2 or 3 additional All About the Eyes post each week. There is so much I am loving and I can't wait to share them all with you. Really - I could right a new eye post each day throughout the rest fo the year for all of the beauties I have discovered.

As always, thank you for your continued support and now... let's get back to beauty!

VOTE NOW in the QVC Customer Choice Beauty Awards.

You all must know by now that I am (a) a sucker for beauty awards and (b) a huge fan of QVC Beauty. Imagine my delight when I got an e-mail today announcing the QVC Beauty Awards.

The categories range from hair care, nail care, skin care, scent and include, of course, different types of makeup products. You will notice some familiar brands and products in the running. Just a few of the brands are Mally Beauty, Bobbi Brown, Ojon, WEN by Chaz Dean, Dr. Denese, Laura Geller, Philosophy, Tarte and more.

What are you waiting for? Get on over and vote for your faves!

Happy Birthday America!

One of the most beautiful things is our great country, the United States of America. And on today as we celebrate this special day, let us not forget those who have fought for us and to keep our nation free.

The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!