Steal vs. Splurge: Maybelline and CARGO

Maybelline Expert Wear Quad Eye Shadow ($6) will enable even a shadow novice to smoke up her peepers with utter ease as the directions are etched onto each shadow. At $6, can you afford not to add this to your collection? A major barg, compared to the $32 you could be spending on CARGO's iteration below.

Speaking of Maybelline, the brand recently honored ten women who empower others through education AND provided each with a $10,000 grant to support their work.

Tamar, Anne and I attended the dinner thrown by Maybelline last week held at the New York Public Library. As someone who frequently gets in trouble for talking, I wildly appreciated being able to talk (and eat!) in a library. We were seated at the same table as the darling Jessica Fenster-Sparber, a teacher working with incarcerated youth. Jessica co-founded Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT). The non-profit organization creates school libraries inside juvenile detention centers and schools serving group homes.

Maybelline's Beauty of Education program also honored these very worthy organizations:

Hopes for Higher Education

Ivy Preparatory Academy

Sisters Working It Out

The River School

Hoodhop, Inc.

Girlfriends Talk, Inc.

Doctors Academy

Las Comadres Para Las Americas

The New Teacher Project

Thanks to Maybelline for a fantastic evening, and congrats to all the honorees!

Maybe She's Born With It...

My fab friend Jim sent me this beyond ador pic of his little chihuahua Penny, noting that she totes looks as if she's rocking some soft brown liner. Specifically, it's a dead ringer for Maybelline's Expert Wear Soft Lining Pencil in Brown. Is it not perfectly coordinated with her coloring (she is an "Autumn," as Jim noted)?

Similarly, my parents' cat, Tibby, is beautifully made up on a constant basis with the most gorge black kohl/Cleopatra liner EVER. I covet his cat eye, if you will. Does your pet have fantastic "makeup?" Send me your pics at beautybloggingjunkie [at] gmail [dot] com.