Josie Maran “Fingerpaints”

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SugarShock Beauty checks a former model’s new make-up line, Fingerpaints.
TheMakeupGirl invites you to peer into her handbag.
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I’m jotting to you from LAX, five minutes from boarding a plane Tokyo.

Will Kristopher meet her second — third? fourth? sixty-ninth? — cousins, relatives that relate to the latter part of her Cracker Jap’ness?

Will she buy used panties from a vending machine?

Can she get a side of yoga hip-hop with her green tea soy latte from Starbucks in Japan?

Stories to follow.

XXXO,
K

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Kiki de Montparnasse strip poker set, $225 KikiDM.com

I’m looking at my legs lazy-stiff in the air, my foot melting into the flesh-colored leather of my stilettos, feeling the bed sheet rub against my naked back. I try to keep quiet, hearing him on the phone, breathing, talking to his Black Card concierge.

“So there aren’t any Elvis chapels open this late? Can you keep looking?”

He puts his Blackberry on the nightstand, muzak crackling through its speakers while a distant man searches for a cheap chapel, though we’re already consummating a fleeting mirage of marriage.

He dives deeper in, and my head tips further back, to face our hotel room window. Upside down, I see the few neon blocks that’s all of Vegas most people will ever know: a miniature of a medieval castle, of the Eiffel tower, of New York, New York. Of the world. It glitters, cheap: the city is an overpriced cocktail that people pay for to cure their pleasure-desert thirst.

I smile at him. “You sure you don’t want to wait until we’re married?”

Tarte 4-Day Stay Lash Stain at Makeup Moxie

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