What were the odds that I’d review two lipsticks named “Crush” in three days? Pretty good, actually, since drugstore beauty brands love to name their lip products “Crush.” There doesn’t seem to be any color theme linking them together, either. Milani’s Amore Matte Lip Creme in Crush is dark brown; Maybelline’s Coral Crush lipstick is,… Read More Now for a Crush Worth Crushing On: Revlon Balm Stain in…You Guessed It
If you distilled all of 2015’s lip-color trends into a single product, you’d come up with Milani Amore Matte Lip Creme in Crush. Crush ticks all the boxes: it’s a dark brown (check) liquid lipstick (check) that dries to a flat matte finish (check). Interestingly, it’s also a marriage of high-end and low-end trends. Matte… Read More Brown Is Back, Bitches: Milani Amore Matte Lip Creme in Crush
My love for k-pop is no secret. And as luck would have it—good or bad luck, you decide— I started this blog mere weeks before I fell down the k-pop rabbit hole. Many of us can blame Kate of Drivel about Frivol for one obsession or another; for me, that obsession was k-pop, which I’d… Read More K-Pop Makeup: The Products
As you know, I’m going on the academic job market for the first time this fall. Accordingly, I’m now interviewing lipsticks for the position of Interview Lipstick. Am I doing this to put off compiling my job materials? Maybe, but there’s no denying that first impressions are important. Academia has no set dress code. In… Read More Professionalesque, Part 2: Urban Decay Rapture
As a preteen and young teenager, I had a brief flirtation with witchcraft. There was something in the air at the time: The Craft had come out several years before, the Harry Potter series was gaining worldwide popularity, and bookstores were full of titles like Spells for Teenage Witches. Growing up in San Francisco made… Read More In Search of Lost Witchcraft: NYX Simply Vamp Lip Cream in Enamored
We’re almost a week into August, but do you really care? I don’t. 1. MAC Candy Yum-Yum I’ve had this lipstick for two years and I’m still not sure if it flatters me. How is that possible? I don’t even know. I can never predict how I’ll feel about it when I put it on:… Read More July Favorites (Beauty and Otherwise)
In the last month or so, I’ve been pondering the future of this blog. I started Auxiliary Beauty halfway through my fourth year of my PhD program, at a moment when I felt like I might actually be in graduate school forever. I had written one chapter of my dissertation, but the end was nowhere… Read More FOTD: Professionalesque
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