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Sheer Matte Showdown: ColourPop Blotted Lip vs. Glossier Generation G
I've owned two Glossier Generation G lipsticks, Jam and Cake, for over a year now, and I wear both pretty regularly. They have their flaws (enumerated in the reviews I've linked), but I love the ease...
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Life Update
Hey! I promise that my blog still exists and that I'm still alive. Look, I even have a pin to prove it:Appropriately, I took this photo while waiting outside my therapist's office.However, posts have...
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Real Techniques Mini Sponges
Something different today: a mini-review of something that isn't makeup! You've probably noticed that my obsession with color makeup is several orders of magnitude greater than my interest in skincare,...
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FOTD: Faked Heat
(You have to read "faked" with two syllables, as if you're reading a Donne poem, or the title won't make sense.)In the past two days, swatches and reviews of Urban Decay's new Naked Heat palette have...
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Magenta Madness: MAC Rebel and Wet n Wild Nice to Fuchsia
Most makeup collectors have their color kryptonite, particularly when it comes to lipstick: pinky nudes, corals, blue-based reds. For me that color is, and has pretty much always been, magenta. Or...
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Kiko Velvet Passion Matte Lipstick in 319 Chocolate
My boyfriend recently left his job in the UK, which is great news relationship-wise: we met in my former graduate program and have been long-distance since I transferred to my current school seven (!)...
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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...
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Reverse Lipstick Chronology #4: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Let's Play
Needless to say, I wasn't feeling entirely celebratory this Independence Day, but I also wasn't going to miss the chance to wear blue highlighter and metallic red lipstick at the same time. I thought...
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Some Thoughts on NARS and "Cruelty-Free" Beauty
Last month, NARS shocked many of its customers by announcing that it was expanding into China, whose government requires animal testing on all imported beauty products. Like most successful smaller...
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NYX Modern Maven and a Liquid Suede Metallic Matte Anti-Haul
The only makeup store close to where I live is an especially snobby Bluemercury, so when I visit my mom in San Francisco, I tend to spend more time than strictly necessary in Sephora and Ulta. During...
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FOTDs: The Lowcountry
Hello from Alabama! I just returned from a weekend that combined several discrete types of awkwardness. There was the mundane "socializing with your significant other's extended family" awkwardness,...
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Urban Decay Metallized Vice Lipstick in Amulet
Though I was skeptical of Urban Decay's decision to pull its entire Revolution lipstick line last year and replace it with the even more extensive Vice line, I've come to appreciate the wisdom of that...
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NYX Faux Blacks Eyeliners in Blackberry and Burnt Sienna
When Urban Decay released the Naked Heat collection earlier this summer, the product that really tempted my resolve was not the Naked Heat palette itself but one of the two limited-edition 24/7...
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A Highlighter for Special Snowflakes: Topshop Glow Stick in Otherworldly
One of the less charming aspects of being an American millennial in 2017 is getting called a "special snowflake" by old bigots on the internet. From my occasional perusal of right-wing Twitter accounts...
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Topshop Otherworldly Part 2: EXTREME MELTDOWN
I am not a serial depotter of beauty products. I admire people with a more utilitarian approach to makeup, people for whom packaging means little to nothing. But I'm not one of those people, and I...
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Lipstick Project Pan, Fall 2017
After three and a half years (!) of beauty blogging, I've learned which panning projects work for me and which are guaranteed to fail. I can usually push myself to finish a piece of makeup if three...
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I'm Alive (Barely)
Ugh, you guys. I'm so sorry. You know the drill: some months are busier than others in academia, and until January I'll be very busy indeed. Here are my responsibilities for the next few months:Finish...
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ColourPop Super Shock Shadow in So Quiche
Let's talk about ColourPop for a second. I shared my first impressions almost three years ago, back when online-only brands that used a fast-fashion production model were rare enough to seem sinister....
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Lipstick Project Pan Update #1
Since my last post, I've crossed a few thresholds: the autumnal equinox, my 30th birthday, and my dissertation deadline. (For the record, 30 feels exactly like 29, and I was so busy in the weeks...
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YouTube Made Me Buy It: Wet n Wild Megaglo Highlighter in Precious Petals
Earlier this year, as I sat watching a YouTube makeup video—a review of some gimmicky product, maybe Farsali Unicorn Oil or Ciaté Glitter Flip lipsticks—my boyfriend walked past and wondered, "Do you...
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