May Favorites!!

Ahh, May...the weather warmed up, we did a lot of gardening, our kitchen renovation progressed.  I'm actually sitting at our new kitchen table writing this post...if you had seen our previous kitchen design, you might realize this is a huge deal for us!  The previous owners of our house were ambitious DIY-ers with no skills and no tape measure, apparently....everything was just slightly off.  So, obviously I'm excited about the granite countertop...not necessarily because it is a lovely granite specimen but moreso, I'm excited to have a counter that is actually touching the wall...no 1/2 inch gap.  Our kitchen is probably my most favoritest thing about this month and it isn't even finished yet!  But you will see our granite as my photo backdrop.  But without further ado...the other May favorites!!

I can't get enough of Tiffany and their iconic Tiffany Blue.  Our living room walls are accidentally Tiffany Blue - it did not look quite that dark on the little paint card.  And the ceiling is crisp white; it is like living inside a Tiffany box - a girl's dream, sorry Husband!  Anyway, anytime I can see Tiff Blue, i'm happy, so of course I've been paining my nails like crazy with China Glaze's For Audrey.  It is Tiffany in a bottle and the name...siiiiiiiiiiigh...love it.  I love Audrey and Breakfast at Tiffany's.  I actually own two bottles of it...just in case something goes terribly wrong with one, I have a backup!  Anyway, it is such a fun color for Spring/Summer!  I never took a picture of myself wearing it and I have a different color on now, but it is straight up Tiffany Blue.  Get a bottle (or two) here!

I am a diehard Chanel Chance wearer...it is my signature scent.  The only deviation is really between the original Chance and the Eau Fraiche variation.  Buuuuuuut, I'm been experimenting with scent a little bit.  After smelling and sampling Tom Ford's Black Orchid, I had a revelation...maybe it is ok to use more than just your signature scent.  Or maybe you can have multiple signature scents...like signature mood scents or signature seasonal scents.  Or maybe this is just my subconscious finding a way to buy more beauty products...what a clever subconscious I have!  I haven't splurged on Black Orchid...YET, but I have every intention of doing so.  In the meantime, my seasonal scents have been Bobbi Brown's Beach and my May favorite, is Oceane by Outremer Paris.  I know what you're thinking...it's French, that's why you bought it.  Actually, that's what drew me to the lineup of bottles, it has this vintagey French label, but I picked Oceane and went in for a smell and it was so refreshing.  When you imagine the perfect marine, sea salt air kind of smell, that's what Oceane is like.  It is clean, aquatic, and I'm terrible at describing scents.  And huge bonus, it was only $18 at Anthropologie for a 50mL bottle!  Except I can't find it on their website anymore, but Amazon has everything, and it is available here.

Have I mentioned that I'm obsessed with Moby Dick and when I was little, I wanted to be on a whaling ship with my friends Ishmael and Queequeg?  This feels familiar, maybe I have.  I love anchors, and seashells, and salt air, and the Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT, and perfumes named Oceane...all because they have to do with the sea.  I'm drawn to anything nautical, related to the sea, etc, and I secretly love the movie Aquamarine...yes.  Soooo, when the MAC Alluring Aquatic collection came out, I wanted a lot of it.  Now, I work and go to sleep at an old ladyish hour, so I wasn't awake to be online and order what I wanted or line up outside a MAC store on a Thursday morning to be one of the first to get my hands on it.  And my unfortunate procrastination meant that most of the items I wanted were sold out...most of the eyeshadows and the Submerged nail polish.  In hindsight, that would've been the perfect usage of a vacation day, but c'est la vie.  But I did snag a few pieces and I'm loving the Extra Dimension Bronzer in Aphrodite's Shell, the Extra Dimension Blush in Seduced at Sea, and a Lustre finish lipstick in Siren Song...the names alone...the names!  Anyway, the packaging...um, gorgeous.  It is a metallic blue with raised bumps to resemble water droplets!  I may just keep the compacts whenever I finish them because they are magical, just stunning.  Aphrodite's Shell is a very light golden bronzer and actually perfect for my skin to give it a nice glow.  The Seduced at Sea Blush is described as a "midtone neutral plum"...gorgeous, the perfect summer flush.  The Extra Dimension products are described as "liquid-powders" and they definitely have a different but beautifully soft texture.  They are both luminous without being over-the-top shimmery.  The Siren Song lipstick is pretty, shimmery nude.  Perfect for barely there lipstick wearers like myself.  I've been wearing them nonstop since I got them.  Try to find whatever Nordstrom, MAC, Macy's or Bloomingdale's might have left, but they are definitely worth the search!

Last up is an item I received in May Birchbox and I'm squeezing the life out of the small sample tube to get every last drop!  It is the Marcelle BB Cream in Golden Glow.  BB Creams are hit and miss with me, I want to love them because I don't always want to wear foundation in the summer (though I just bought Chanel's Vitalumiere Aqua for summer) but I haven't found The One yet.  I really like the Physican's Formula Super BB powder, but I'd rather use a cream.  But then this tiny sample arrived in the mail...I squeezed out a small pearl and immediately thought boooo, this is way too dark for me, but we were trying to leave to get to the farmer's market and I don't care what those people think of my color matching skills, so I went with it.  It melted beautifully into my skin and miraculously, the color blended perfectly...not too dark.  It has great coverage for a BB, made my skin look flawless, and I felt very Golden Glow-y.  Just a little concealer and blush and I was ready to head out the door.  I'm about to buy the full size, I'm just so impressed with this!  I think it is pretty reasonable at $27, get it from Birchbox here. 

What did you love in May???