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Dress, Paint, Patches, Setting of Eye-brows, and licking the Lipps with Red.

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Glossier Birthday Balm Dotcom (Plus Another Rant)

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)

June 25, 2017March 9, 2022 auxiliarybeauty18 Comments

Happy Unbirthday to Me

Auxiliary Beauty turned one today! I don’t have any especially attractive baked goods lying around, so here’s one of the peanut-butter-chocolate-chip cookies I made earlier this week. I didn’t start blogging regularly until February 2014, but my introductory post went up on January 18. Maintaining this blog has been one of the best parts of… Read More Happy Unbirthday to Me

January 18, 2015May 7, 2021 auxiliarybeauty12 Comments

On Being an "Old-Fashioned" Blogger

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

January 10, 2015May 7, 2021 auxiliarybeauty29 Comments

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