Just a quick announcement: I’ve created a virtual tip jar at https://ko-fi.com/auxiliary_beauty! I can’t add the Ko-fi widget to my homepage without upgrading to a paid WordPress Business account, which would sort of defeat the purpose, so this post will have to suffice. I hesitated before doing this, because money inevitably makes everything a little… Read More Buy Me a Coffee (If You Want)!
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)
Yesterday I came across a very insightful post on r/MakeupRehab, titled “A thought on the fakeness of Instagram…” It’s a long post, so I won’t quote it in full, but the writer argues that successful Instagrammers like her sister, women whose posts feature them “in trendy places in even trendier outfits,” perpetuate an internalized misogyny… Read More On the “Fakeness” of Social Media
One lazy evening last year, I was reading an online forum devoted to snarking on beauty bloggers and YouTube gurus: know thy frenemy and all that. As someone who studies satire for a living, I have nothing against anonymous snark forums, at least in principle. Bloggers like to profess shock that such websites even exist—imagine,… Read More On Being an "Old-Fashioned" Blogger
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