Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling particularly celebratory or patriotic this Independence Day, but I also wasn’t going to miss the chance to wear blue highlighter and metallic red lipstick at the same time. I thought I’d use this FOTD post to write a quick review of a product I bought back in November: ColourPop… Read More Reverse Lipstick Chronology #4: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Let’s Play
Glossier keeps coming up with new marketing strategies to put me off and new products to tempt me back in. No sooner had I planned a post on Glossier’s MLM-esque rep program than they released a fucking birthday-cake-scented lip balm with sparkles and holographic packaging. I have a price, and Glossier knows it. So this… Read More Glossier Birthday Balm Dotcom (Plus Another Rant)
My boyfriend recently left his job in the UK, which is great news relationship-wise: we met in my former graduate program and have been long-distance since I started my current program seven (!) years ago, and now we’ll actually be able to live together for more than a couple months at a time. On a… Read More Kiko Velvet Passion Matte Lipstick in 319 Chocolate
Most makeup collectors have their color kryptonite, particularly when it comes to lipstick: pinky nudes, corals, blue-based reds. For me that color is, and has pretty much always been, magenta. Or whatever you want to call it: bright plum, dark fuchsia, anything that walks the line between purple and deep pink. I just did a… Read More Magenta Madness: MAC Rebel and Wet n Wild Nice to Fuchsia
(You have to read “faked” with two syllables, as if this is a Donne poem, or the title won’t make sense.) In the past two days, swatches and reviews of Urban Decay’s new Naked Heat palette have been making the social-media rounds. (Here’s a sneak peek from Temptalia and a review from Makeup and Beauty… Read More FOTD: Faked Heat
Something different today: a mini-review of a product that isn’t makeup! You’ve probably noticed that my obsession with color makeup is several orders of magnitude greater than my interest in skincare, brushes, haircare, or “boring makeup” (mascara, brow stuff, concealer, etc). But for variety’s sake, I thought I’d write about a new tool that’s been… Read More Real Techniques Mini Sponges
Hey! I promise that my blog still exists and that I’m still alive. Look, I even have a pin to prove it: Appropriately, I took this photo while waiting outside my therapist\’s office. However, posts have been scarce this month for a few reasons: I don’t know where my money will come from after August,… Read More Life Update
I’ve owned two Glossier Generation G lipsticks, Jam and Cake, for over a year now, and I wear both pretty regularly. They have their flaws (enumerated in the reviews I’ve linked), but I love the ease and subtlety of the sheer matte finish. So when I heard that ColourPop was releasing a new lipstick formula… Read More Sheer Matte Showdown: ColourPop Blotted Lip vs. Glossier Generation G
Now that beauty-throwback trends have slid forward in time from the Brown ’90s to the Iridescent ’90s, brands are releasing a flood of metallic lipsticks—or, at least, what they call “metallic lipsticks.” But there tends to be a huge amount of variation between one formula and another, and even between one shade and another. Some “metallic” shades… Read More MAC Metallic Lipsticks in Metal Head and Pale Rose, and a Lipstick Taxonomy
As you probably know by now, I am k-pop girl-group trash. I watch a lot of k-pop videos, which means that I encounter a lot of k-beauty. Sometimes I resolve to devote an entire post to the makeup in one music video, only to find an even better look in another video three days later.… Read More K-Pop Beauty Inspiration, Spring 2017
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