Name: Revlon Moon Drops Lipsticks in Orange Flip and Persian Melon Date of Purchase: April 2011 Grade: B- Notes: I’m painstakingly, ploddingly moving my Tumblr posts onto Blogger, which means that several of these posts will feature my old hair (which got pixied on January 30) and less-than-ideal lighting. Not that a month of beauty… Read More Lipstick Chronology #2: Revlon Orange Flip and Persian Melon
Name: Revlon Matte Lipstick in Really Red Date of Purchase: Late 2010 Grade: A- Notes: The first lipstick I ever bought was Revlon Certainly Red, a magenta-leaning red. I admire 22-year-old me for bypassing nudes and neutrals and diving straight into the loudest reds, but I had no idea how to wear red lipstick, or… Read More Lipstick Chronology #1: Revlon Really Red
Well, I guess it was inevitable: I have a makeup blog with a pretentious literary-allusive title now.On Tumblr, I’m modernfoppery; offline (or still online, given how often I procrastinate), I’m a 26-year-old grad student working toward a doctorate in English literature, with a focus on the 17th century. The phrase “auxiliary beauty” comes from one… Read More An Introduction
Auxiliary Beauty 