Links for the week, plus some bonus pics of my Holiday Heap haul.
– Estée Lauder allowed Yahoo Beauty an exclusive peek inside their compact archive. I wish they'd release a coffee table book of all their limited-edition compacts.
– Easily one of the strangest fragrances ever invented.
– This truck brings a fancy nail salon experience directly to clients.
– Hooray! We are one step closer to banning microbeads.
– Hair news for the week includes two new trends (aurora borealis hair and beard braids), plus a look at the history of hair color. I also admired this Chinese barber who uses hair cuttings to create celebrity portraits. And even cooler was this (Baltimore-based!) stylist who recreates ancient Roman hair styles…I hope she got a chance to see this exhibition that I mentioned a while back.
– Beauty dreams do come true: Essie is re-releasing their cult favorite Starry Starry Night, which I've been coveting for years.
– Sit down and shut up, IBM.
– What is it with adults forcibly scrubbing off kids' makeup lately? This woman actually used steel wool to scrape eyeliner off her son *shudder*.
The random:
– S-K covers both the B-52s and a holiday-appropriate Ramones song.
– This is exciting!
– In '90s nostalgia, Crystal Pepsi will be returning, and Green Day fans should check out this 1990 video. Aww, they were just babies!
Now for some pictures of what I got from the Charm City Craft Mafia's Holiday Heap show. First up is this mermaid paper cut print. I had to get it because, duh, mermaids.
We went a little crazy with the adorable stuff that Cedar and Fawn had. They primarily do ceramics but they also had this set of 10 tiny houses. We have no idea where we're going to put them but they were too cute to pass up.
As a funny (or not so funny) side note, a few minutes before I took pictures of these I managed to completely fall and land very hard on my right shoulder and upper back. I was very pleased with what we got at the craft show and arranging everything all nice and pretty on the kitchen island for pictures and then BAM! Down I went. I now have several huge bruises and can't move my arm much, but I'm grateful that 1. I didn't wipe out in public, only in front of the husband (who laughed hysterically once I confirmed nothing was broken/dislocated); 2. I was still in the staging phase of the photos and not holding my camera, otherwise it would have gone flying out of my hand; and 3. I hurt only my upper body and not my legs/knees/feet – my lower half can't sustain any more injuries! I still have no idea how I fell either, all of the sudden I just lost my balance and came crashing to the floor. The husband says I was so excited about our haul that I simply couldn't remain upright…I guess that's plausible. More likely is that I'm just super clumsy.
How was your week?