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Paragon of Purple: Fenty Cheeks Suede Powder Blush in Drama Cla$$
Eleven and a half years have passed since I bought my first purple blush, Tony Moly Cristal Blusher in Milky Violet, at a Korean beauty store in Manhattan. From the vantage point of 2026, late 2014 might seem like a long-lost paradise, but was it really? Sure, I’d never heard the phrases “President Trump,” “novel…
Interview Makeup (Travel Edition)
To state the obvious: it’s been two months since my last post! I devoted those two months to searching for teaching jobs at prep schools, which meant many Zoom and phone interviews and, eventually, four overnight campus visits, three of which required air travel. I was fortunate to get so much interest from schools, but…
My 12 Favorite Beauty Purchases of 2025
Last year, I bought 32 new pieces of makeup and nail polish, making 2025 my most abstemious (“abstemious”) year since I started keeping track of my beauty purchases in 2015. I generally aim for no more than 40 new items a year and exceed that mark by a few, but 2025 was different. I was…
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