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"Makeup fans, if you&amp;#x27;re not already in love with Daneen and her fabulous beauty-centric site Spoiled Pretty, you will be after today. Not only is she seriously obsessed with makeup and hair products, but she&amp;#x27;s fun, hilarious and makes the best pop culture references. For proof, just check out how she managed to pack shout outs to the Flux Capacitor and Clueless in with some incredibly thorough foundation and lipgloss recommendations&amp;amp;#8212;all in a single interview! TGBD: First, how did you decide to start the blog? Daneen: After I got married in June 2007, I found myself with a good amount of free time on my hands. I didn&amp;#x27;t have any more wedding planning to do, so I was looking for another artistic outlet. Creative writing has always been a hobby of mine, and I love cosmetics like no one you&amp;#x27;ve ever met&amp;amp;#8212;so everything sort of came together. And voil&amp;amp;agrave;&amp;amp;#8212;you have Spoiled Pretty. TGBD: Have you always been into makeup or did it grow on you later in life? Daneen: From a young age, I&amp;#x27;ve been a cosmetics connoisseur. Most beauty addicts can pinpoint a moment in their life when they fell in love with hair and makeup. For me, it was my Barbie Styling Head. Back in the day, I would spend hours trying to replicate the exaggerated 1980&amp;#x27;s beauty trends on my Barbie Head. I braided and teased her hair within an inch of its life. At one point, I remember filling my mini hands full of Eucerin lotion and slicking Barbie&amp;#x27;s hair back a la Robert Palmer&amp;#x27;s &amp;amp;#8220;Addicted to Love.&amp;amp;#8221; And in the &amp;#x27;80&amp;#x27;s, the head came with powder and cream &amp;quot;makeup&amp;quot; that was probably only meant for Barbie&amp;#x27;s plastic face but inevitably ended up all over my &amp;amp;uuml;ber sensitive one. It broke me out something awful. They didn&amp;#x27;t worry as much about toxicity and choking hazards back then. Ah&amp;amp;#133;those were the days. Now that I&amp;#x27;m all grown up, my beauty addiction has not waned. In my world, new lipgloss can be the difference between a good week and a bad one. I have a recurring dream about being &amp;quot;accidentally&amp;quot; locked in a Sephora store overnight. And when my purse was stolen 5 years ago while backpacking in Europe, the item I missed the most wasn&amp;#x27;t my cash, camera or passport...it was my limited edition MAC cheek/lip stain. Yes, I realize how ridiculous that sounds, but I am a makeup fiend. I justify my compulsion by sharing my product reviews with Spoiled Pretty readers. TGBD: Let&amp;#x27;s discuss products: What shampoo do you use? Conditioner? Daneen: My hair is perpetually parched. My strands miss moisture like the deserts miss the rain, so when it comes to shampoo and conditioner, I gravitate to the most moisturizing products I can find. Aveda Dry Remedy Moisturizing Shampoo is a staple in my shower for this very reason. It&amp;#x27;s so thick that when I squeeze it into my hands, I always double check the label because I swear it is the conditioner (Dry Remedy Conditioner comes in an identical tube). This shampoo is one of the few I&amp;#x27;ve tried that delivers immediate results. When it comes to beauty products, I&amp;#x27;m all Paula Cole &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t want to wait&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212;so instant gratification is a huge plus for me. Even before I apply conditioner, my hair already feels softer and healthier. As for conditioner, I have a few favorites. Moroccanoil Masque, Elasta QP DPR-11, and Philip B White Truffle Nourishing Hair Conditioning Creme are all excellent choices. But my holy grail is Barry Fletcher&amp;#x27;s Moisture Therapy Revitalizing Conditioner. It hydrates, strengthens, and leaves my strands unbelievably soft. Plus it smells just like a pina colada and costs around $10. TGBD: What are the key products in your makeup bag? Daneen: I&amp;#x27;ve had CoverGirl Outlast Lipstains in my possession for the past few weeks, and I&amp;#x27;m enamored. Since I was afforded a sneak peek of the product, I&amp;#x27;ve worn at least one of the shades every day. I top them off with a little clear gloss and it lasts for 6+ hours. So you&amp;#x27;re looking pretty all day long without touchups but it comes off easily with makeup remover. You know the commercial/song that goes &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d Like To Buy The World A Coke?&amp;quot; Well, that&amp;#x27;s how I feel about CoverGirl Outlast Lipstains. Another makeup bag must-have is Urban Decay&amp;#x27;s 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencils. Their main ingredient must be crack or some other controlled substance because that&amp;#x27;s the only explanation I can find to rationalize my addiction to these liners. The pencil effortlessly glides over your lid and is blendable for the first 30 seconds, then it dries to a long-lasting finish that lasts all day and all night. This is the perfect pencil for lining the inner rims of your eyes. My favorite is Stash (dark green/gold). But you really can&amp;#x27;t buy just one. She&amp;#x27;ll need friends. My new favorite foundation, Make Up For Ever&amp;#x27;s HD Invisible Cover Foundation, ensures that I don&amp;#x27;t look like a &amp;quot;full-on Monet,&amp;quot; in the immortal words of Cher Horowitz. The oil-free, medium-to-full-coverage formula creates a soft-focus effect that softens lines and blurs imperfections so that your skin looks luminous in any light, and even close up. HD Invisible Cover Foundation is an instant ego boost because you&amp;#x27;re inundated with compliments when you wear it. TGBD: Is there a beauty trend right now you&amp;#x27;re dying to try? Daneen: I&amp;#x27;m kind of obsessed with Rihanna&amp;#x27;s hair right now. The cut and color are the physical manifestation of cool. My hair hasn&amp;#x27;t been that short since I was..probably&amp;amp;#133;two years-old. And I&amp;#x27;m deathly afraid to chop my locks, because my hair takes foreva eva to grow. But there&amp;#x27;s something so chic and edgy about her hairstyle that I can&amp;#x27;t not covet it. What I need is a convincing wig. TGBD: If you could wave a magic wand and make all women stop making one beauty blunder, what would it be? Daneen: If I had a magic wand (this has been a longtime dream of mine), I would get rid of the fillers, foreskins and other nonsense people are injecting into their faces. Yes, they&amp;#x27;re non-invasive&amp;amp;#133;but they can still eff you up. A little bit of Restylane turned Meg Ryan from America&amp;#x27;s sweetheart into a duck-billed platypus. I rest my case. TGBD: How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? Daneen: From the time I begrudgingly roll out of bed on a weekday morning, it takes me about 30 minutes to leave my apartment. I&amp;#x27;m too busy (lazy) to wear a full face of makeup on the regular&amp;amp;#133;so nine times out of ten, I&amp;#x27;m walking around with a nekkid face, save for mascara and/or lipgloss. But when I go all out with my makeup, I get the most wide-eyed stares and confusion ensues&amp;amp;#133;like it&amp;#x27;s the big reveal at the end of an episode of Extreme Makeover. Makes me wonder just how busted I must look 90 percent of the time. Ugh&amp;amp;#133;I shudder to think. TGBD: And what do you know now about beauty that you wish you could tell your teenage self? Daneen: Ooh&amp;amp;#133;if I had a DeLorean equipped with a Flux Capacitor, I&amp;#x27;d go back in time and tell teen Daneen to stop picking at her zits, because hyperpigmentation isn&amp;#x27;t pretty. Then I&amp;#x27;d tell her to ditch the glasses with the graduated tint (father doesn&amp;#x27;t always know best). Finally, I&amp;#x27;d give her a sports almanac and tell her to bet big&amp;amp;#8212;because beauty can be an expensive addiction. Thanks Daneen! You can read more of her witty and spot-on views of the latest makeup and hair looks at Spoiledpretty.com. And check out our past Blogging Babes interviews here (including chats with Grace of Design*Sponge and the Gofugyourself.com ladies)!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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