As longtime readers of Makeup Minute already know, nail polish is a real passion of mine. As such, I spend all too much time checking out the swatches and reading up on the latest collections over at All Lacquered Up, THE definitive guide to nail polish online.

ALU blogger Michelle Mismas, who’s collaborated with Barielle and Rescue Beauty Lounge (and been quoted all over the place as a nail expert) was nice enough to ask ME a few questions this week.
Check out my “What’s on your nails?” interview at All Lacquered Up!

My wonderful beautiful readers of Makeup Minute. I have been procrastinating on this post for a few days now. I tell you this with great sadness in my heart, but today is my last day writing Makeup Minute. It was a tough decision, but there is a lot going on in my life right now and I can only focus on so many things, some being my 4 beautiful sons and own blog A Girl’s Gotta Spa! which brought me to this great company in the first place. I know that whoever will be taking my place will fill this …read more

Aren’t my boys so handsome? Hope you had a great halloween!

If you happen to be in or around Milwaukee the 3rd from the 6th, I am coming to your city! I have been asked to speak on a blog panel happening the last day of Milwaukee Fashion Week. However, I will be there from the time it kicks off on Oct. 3rd.
Lawrence Zarian (of Regis & Kelly), Billy B, Syd Curry (celebrity hairstylist), Gilles Montezin (SATC Movie designer and upcoming Confessions of a Shopaholic) will also be there.
Joining me on the panel is Lianne from TheMakeupGirl and Christine from Temptalia.
I’d love to see you there–and tell your friends! Get 25% …read more

Here are some pictures from my time in NY during Fashion Week:

A fellow beauty blogger, Lianne from TheMakeupGirl, Samara and myself. We were at an Italian restaurant (IL Menestrello) that as Lianne put it, “Was real gangsta!” I had a great time at dinner with these ladies and we certainly laughed a lot.

I was invited to an event at Estee Lauder with Total Beauty and The Beauty Blog Network. We were given a tour of Mrs. Lauder’s office, intact the way she had it while she was still alive. The room was gorgeous, although I remarked on the fact that …read more

If you read my other beauty blog, A Girl’s Gotta Spa, then you know I was named the Beauty Guru of Twitter-Fu. If you hadn’t heard, go take a peak! On my birthday comedian Mike Doe dedicated a post all to me on his website, which really was the highlight to my day for sure. Who doesn’t want to be adored, right? (And I say that with much enthusiasm, not cockiness!)
Thank you Mike–and thanks to everyone who left comments there!
xo
Shannon

Soooo excited you guys! On Makeup Magazine featured a listing of beauty bloggers in their summer issue and I am excited to say I am in it! (I’m the 7th listed in the page below.) On Makeup Magazine lists 5 pages containing 52 beauty blogs you should be reading. But believe me, there is way more than 52 blogs out there! There are over 100 just in the Beauty Blog Network alone!
So check out the issue and subscribe! It is a great magazine and I am so incredibly honored to be in it! Woo!

I really hate having to write a post like this, but dear readers, I don’t like being fooled and I want this to be a warning to any cosmetic companies and PR people who frequent this blog, my comments section or drop me an email.
Makeup Minute is a cosmetics blog intended to be a fun place for all of my readers to come and feel like they are hanging out with an old friend. My email is posted there in the sidebar and anyone at any time can email me. That means my readers, a cosmetics brand, a PR firm, …read more

I think it’s great that you all come here everyday to read my makeup reviews, but hopefully I show a little bit of myself that you have grown to love too (?) Today is a little difficult for me to focus on MAC’s most awesomest new lines (OMG I am in love) because my oldest son Gavin, who is 9, was formally diagnosed today with Aspergers. If you are not familiar, it is an autism spectrum disorder.
My 6 year old, Connor, was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (another autism spectrum disorder) a few years ago and well, I knew that …read more

Since I like to do things with the most scientific accuracy, I put everyone’s names on a piece of paper who gave a caption in the Caption Contest and put it in a basket. I then allowed Brody to pull a name and Duncan to show the winner. Don’t question the scientificness of this–it’s nobel prize winning!

Picking a winner–Brody picked two, so Duncan picked the winning caption. You can see the intensity and seriousness of the situation.

Duncan proudly reveals that the winner is Michelle Simons.
Congratulations Michelle! You now get to have a Spinlash to call your own! I’ll be emailing …read more