New Faves: Makeup Must-Haves

So since summer is officially here, I began my annual hunt for the “perfect summer foundation.” My requirements are that it must be light but provide moderate coverage, it can’t get streaky or melt off, easy to apply, minimum SPF 15, and natural-looking. With the wonderful humidity in Tulsa, I usually forego makeup all-together in the summer, since any makeup I wear sweats off by about noon. Over the winter I used Smashbox’s cream-to-powder foundation, and it was great. However, it seemed a bit thick for what I like in the summer, and I know it wouldn’t last on me. SO this weekend I stopped by my old faithful and trust-worthy Bobbi Brown counter in Dillard’s, and I found some new staples:

Bobbi Brown Tinted Eye Brightener: I had heard/read about eye brightener but never really thought I had under-eye circles or needed any help. This stuff is a MIRACLE. It made my eyes pop and made me look completely refreshed!

Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation SPF 15: so weightless and easy to apply! It seriously feels as if I have nothing on my face, but makes my skin look completely flawless. If you buy no other cosmetics for the summer, BUY THIS!

My day look is completed with a swipe of MAC Shadestick in “Shimmersand” and Dior Iconic Mascara in Black (the only color it comes in – people on the street ask me about my lashes when I wear it!).

What are your summer makeup must-haves??

Kim Loves Her Curves

Okay, so if I had cellulite and still looked like this:

Kim Kardashian's New Cover Shoot for Life & Style

I WOULD LOVE MY CURVES, TOO!

As is, every day I find another little wrinkle or bump, and I curse Father Time. Kim, we now have a love/hate relationship. I still love you, but I hate my genes just a little bit more.

I’ll probably feel better when the sun is shining again and I can get just a teensy bit more tan…

I've Gotta Get Outta This Town.

Let me start off by saying that I live in the hippest, most culturally open and diverse city in Oklahoma. And I love Tulsa. It’s beautiful, it has movies and theater and restaurants and fun parties and chances to dress up and even an independent film theater…but it’s still Tulsa. Tulsa, with its snow and ice and crazy allergens and the fact that it has a population roughly around one-quarter of a million people. Tulsa may be a bit too small for this girl. I may be allergic to everything both beautiful and ugly in Tulsa, except my husband and my two dogs (and the jury’s still out on the little one).

Maybe I’m just sick of the cold. Starting 2009 in paradise (Riviera Maya, Mexico) with my hot hubband didn’t help matters. Neither has the two days of accumulating frozen precipitation that we just got.

Anyway, the search is on! Where can I live that’s friendly, fairly affordable, temperate, has a low rate of allergens (preferably NO allergy season!), and a healthy job market?

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TO BE CONTINUED (suggestions welcome).