In the last year, I’ve become obsessed with an aesthetic that I like to call “Edwardian cyborg”: futuristic sleekness coupled with windswept Gibson-girl glamour. This is the image that started it all: You’ve already seen this photo in an earlier post, wherein I experimented with theBalm’s Nude ‘Tude palette. “Edwardian cyborg” was the name… Read More FOTD: Toward an Ethnography of the Edwardian Cyborg
I have dry lips. Like, really dry. No matter the weather, no matter the season, there’s always a possibility that I’ll wake up with my lower lip chapped or cracked or even bleeding. This has been the state of things for as long as I can remember, and I have yet to find a solution… Read More The Best Lipstick Formulas for Chronically Dry Lips
I’m back! Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post: your kind words were much appreciated. I did what I needed to get done, and now I’m excited to return to blogging. I’ve missed it a lot! Missed it so much, in fact, that I kept a photographic record of all the makeup… Read More F(all)OTDs: An October Makeup Diary
BABY, ALL I WANT IS TO LET IT GO AIN’T NO WORRIES, NO WE CAN DANCE ALL NIGHT… Ahem. On my previous trip to the UK, I limited my Topshop damage to two nail polishes and an eyeshadow. This time I was eager to try one of Topshop’s many lip products, and I settled on… Read More Beauty Abroad, Part 13: Topshop Matte Lip Bullet in Get Me Bodied
Today, as a reward for finishing an article draft and setting up a meeting with my adviser, I headed to the local Bluemercury to check out the new NARS Audacious lipsticks. I limited myself to seven swatches (as many as would fit on my hand), since I’m not audacious enough to swatch a collection of… Read More NARS Audacious Lipstick Swatches and the Allure of Audrey
I keep a running beauty wishlist over at Pinterest, and I thought I’d wax poetic about a handful of those items on the blog. 1. NARS Audacious Lipstick in Audrey Image from NARS. For the past few weeks, I’ve been zealously hunting down reviews of the NARS Audacious Lipsticks, which became available online in mid-August… Read More Wishlist: Early Fall Edition
Being a True and Compleat Account of a Recent Affair of Honour. Pistols at dawn, or swords, or concealer wands… I’ve had reddish-purple undereye circles since early childhood. Most of the time, I don’t even think about them. They’re not caused by diet choices or sleep habits, which means they’re not going anywhere; they’re as… Read More Pistols at Dawn: NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer in Vanilla vs. My Dark Circles
Hello from South Florida! I took this photo yesterday evening, toward the end of a thunderstorm. It’s hard to adhere to a regular blogging schedule when your location changes every few days, but I couldn’t resist doing this meme from Liz at Beauty Reductionista. 1. Summer lipstick you’re loving? I’ve been enjoying sheer and semi-sheer… Read More The Summer Lovin’ Tag
Name: NARS Sheer Lipstick in Dolce Vita Date Purchased: Spring 2013 (and again on Monday!) Grade: A Notes: I did it! I repurchased NARS Dolce Vita after a few months spent trying to preserve the tiny nub that remained of my first tube. I have a weird psychological hangup about repurchasing makeup. A second tube… Read More Lipstick Chronology #24: NARS Dolce Vita
Apologies for both my Beirut allusion and my ten-day absence from this blog. I was writing my second conference paper of the month, and then I was in Venice, drinking Campari and soda. I’ll probably never like Campari, even if I drink it while sitting in a Venetian campo watching little Italian boys kick a… Read More Postcards from Italy
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