Updates and a Question
How's that for an uncreative title? Just popping in to let you know that I've wanted to post in the last week, but my aged computer has stopped connecting to wifi AND the wifi in my apartment isn't...
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My 15 Favorite Beauty Products of 2016
Because it's year-end-roundup season until January 31, damn it. I'm back online, so it's time to present my favorite new-to-me beauty products of 2016! As always, I've listed these items in the order...
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Low-Buy 2017 Progress Report: January
Well, we somehow got through January, even if we spent the last third of the month refreshing various news sites in growing horror. And now it's time for my first low-buy progress report of 2017! A...
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How Renaissance Is the ABH Modern Renaissance Palette?
Having devoted the better part of a decade to studying Renaissance (we in the biz prefer "early modern") literature, I perked up when I heard that Anastasia Beverly Hills had released an eyeshadow...
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Help Me Choose My New Font!
One of my goals for this year is to pull my blog's aesthetic out of 2007. I may be meticulous about my makeup, but I'm not a particularly visual person in most other aspects of life. (I remember one of...
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Drugstore Liquid Lipsticks, Part 1: Milani Amore Matte Metallic Lip Crème in...
Milani was perhaps the first drugstore brand to release a true matte liquid lipstick, back in the summer of 2015. I tried one of the original limited-edition shades—Crush, a dark brown—but hated it....
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Drugstore Liquid Lipsticks, Part 2: Wet n Wild Liquid Catsuit Lipsticks in...
I never paid much attention to Wet n Wild until recently. They've truly stepped up their game in the past couple of years, and perhaps the best evidence for that is their new line of "Liquid Catsuit"...
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Low-Buy 2017 Progress Report: February
A short list for a short month!New Makeup:NARS blush in Threesome: $30NYX Butter Gloss in Blackberry Pie: $5Yay, I managed to buy just two new pieces of makeup! One was carefully planned, while the...
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In Pursuit of Pastel Pink, Part 1: NARS Blush in Threesome
For at least two years now, I've been searching for the perfect cool-toned pale pink blush, something that will give me that fresh-faced but slightly artificial k-beauty look. Here's Jiwon of Spica for...
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In Pursuit of Pastel Pink, Part 2: Glossier Cloud Paint in Puff
I can't remember getting as excited over any Glossier release as I did over the Cloud Paint cream blushes, which launched a week and a half ago (following a "soft launch" at the Oscars). Two days...
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Reverse Lipstick Chronology #1: MAC Whirl
SPRING BREAK WOOOO...oh, right.The weather may suggest otherwise, but I'm now on spring break. That doesn't mean very much in ABD world, since I should technically spend every waking hour chipping away...
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On the "Fakeness" of Social Media
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...
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Reverse Lipstick Chronology #2: Maybelline Smoking Red
Drugstore makeup has become a lot more interesting over the past few years, and I can't help but envy people who are just getting into makeup now and have access to so many weird lipsticks at...
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Reverse Lipstick Chronology #3: Urban Decay Roach
I was eight for most of 1996, but I remember that year quite well. In fact, I remember it as an especially good year in my young life. My parents and I had moved to San Francisco the year before, back...
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Your Daily Memento Mori, Courtesy of Ulta
Earlier today, while scrolling through Facebook and minding my own business (well, other people's business, if we're getting technical), I came upon this Ulta ad:Okay. Okay. LET'S UNPACK THIS, as we...
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Low-Buy 2017 Progress Report: March
I'm back with some makeup and some thoughts!New Makeup:L-R: Whirl, Metal Head, Men Love Mystery, Puff, Otherworldly.Swatches, same order.Glossier Cloud Paint in Puff: $14.40 (20% off)MAC Matte Lipstick...
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FOTD: Cyborg Easter Bunny ft. NYX Twilight Tint
Happy Easter! Full disclosure: I'm one of those secular assholes who welcome the Easter season not for its religious significance but for the positively pagan abundance of egg-shaped chocolate. Growing...
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Maybelline Inti-Matte Nude Lipstick in Naked Coral
You know that feeling when you blind-buy a lipstick, hoping that your instincts are right and the shade will flatter you and fill a hole in your collection, and it turns out to do both of those things?...
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K-Pop Beauty Inspiration, Spring 2017
As you probably know by now, I am k-pop girl-group trash. I watch a lot of k-pop videos, which means that I encounter a lot of k-beauty. Sometimes I resolve to devote an entire post to the makeup in...
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MAC Metallic Lipsticks in Metal Head and Pale Rose, and a Lipstick Taxonomy
Now that beauty-throwback trends have slid forward in time from the Brown '90s to the Iridescent '90s, brands are releasing a flood of metallic lipsticks—or, at least, what they call "metallic...
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