True Blood Cosmetics on HSN

Thursday August 9th Deborah Lippmann is launching a True Blood inspired line of cosmetics at 8pm on HSN. I love True Blood and I love a good tie-in product, I spent most of the summer in Ulta staring  longingly at NYX's Dark Shadows palette and China Glaze's Hunger Games polishes. I am interested in the polish collection, and will definitely watch the presentation but don't know if I will make a purchase. Deborah Lippmann's other polishes cost about $16 a bottle which is a little steep for my drugstore tastes. Here's a peek at the collection:

Whether you are going to buy or not you should have a look at these hysterical trailers HSN has put out to promote the line. I'll put up links because for whatever reason the videos won't let me embed them. 

Scratch and Bite

Embrace

Are you a True Blood fan? Will you buy?

The British Are Coming!!

The Olympics started this weekend! Have you been watching? I normally don't care about sports at all. Football...huh? Soccer...what? Baseball...meh. But for some reason J'adore the Olympics. So I was really excited to watch the opening ceremony Friday. Watching it made me miss living in London. So I decided to share some of my favorite Brit things with you here.

1. The V&A Museum

If you are in London GO. Just GO. Admission is always free (admission to all of the national museums is free) It is my favorite museum. The European Sculpture room is AMAZING. In one room you can see plaster cast reproductions of all of the greatest works of sculpture from across Europe. Standing there surrounded by all of that beauty and history is literally breath taking (and I do mean literally I suffered Stendhal Syndrome the first time I saw it). Plus there is a fashion room...CLOTHES & SHOES!!!!

2. History

3. The Scenery

4. The Television

Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Misfits, Being Human, Ab Fab, My Family, Rosemary & Thyme, Midsomer Muders, Keeping Up Appearances, Last of the Summer Wine, The Good Life, House of Cards, Poirot, Ms. Marple. There are so many good shows, in so many different genres, I could make an entire blog about noting but British television.

5. Beauty Products! (Pictured: The Kate Moss Collection for Rimmel)

Getting back to the overall theme of the blog. My fave Brit cosmetics. No. 7 by Boots, Butter London, Rimmel, Soap & Glory, Lush, and The Body Shop.

Do you have any faves from Brit culture? Let me know.