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F(all)OTDs: An October Makeup Diary
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!...
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My Eyelid Thing
Or so I call it in my head, because I've been unable to find a clinical name for an extra fold in each eyelid. I'm talking about this:Internet research has yielded almost no information. The closest...
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Lipstick Chronology #27: Back to 1996 with Cindy Crawford's Basic Face
In the summer of last year, while browsing the venerable Bookshop in Chapel Hill, NC, I made a curious find.Published in 1996, long before "basic" became an insult, Cindy Crawford's Basic Face is a...
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OPI First Class Desires (Holiday 2014) and a Halloween FOTD
In the last year, my local supermarket has begun stocking the latest OPI and Essie releases, which is both an incentive to go grocery shopping and a severe test of my willpower. I've been disenchanted...
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Spacegirl Incognito: Tony Moly Cristal Blusher #04 Milky Violet and Broccoli...
Few things can induce me to brave midtown Manhattan on a Monday afternoon, but lavender blush is one of them.Tony Moly is a Korean drugstore brand that has recently made inroads into the American...
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Project Make-a-Dent: Autumnal Lipstick Edition
We makeup fiends are a fickle bunch, hailing a product as a holy grail one week and forgetting about it the next. I slip in and out of lipstick infatuations as regularly as I once slipped in and out of...
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Lipstick Chronology #28: MAC Candy Yum-Yum, Maybelline Fuchsia Flash, and a...
Names: Maybelline Color Sensational Vivid Lipstick in Fuchsia Flash, MAC Matte Lipstick in Candy Yum-YumDates Purchased: March 2013, August 2013 Grades: A, ANotes: You may wonder why, given my devotion...
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The Best Lipstick Formulas for Chronically Dry Lips
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...
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FOTD: A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty, or Artificial Handsomeness
Toiling in the knowledge mines, one occasionally comes upon some fascinating gems. Or, more prosaically: I typed the phrase "auxiliary beauty" into Early English Books Online to see what would pop up....
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Lipstick Chronology #29: NYX Perfect
Name: NYX Round Lipstick in PerfectDate Purchased: August 2013Â Grade: BNotes: The blunt self-congratulation of the name "Perfect" makes me want to start a line of self-deprecating lipsticks: "Good...
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Before Black Friday, There's Wishlist Tuesday
I've been particularly short on funds this month, hence the plethora of tl;dr ~creative~ posts and the absence of product reviews. Luckily, I just received my latest stipend check, so I'm planning to...
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FOTD: Toward an Ethnography of the Edwardian Cyborg
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:...
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Pinks for Winter: Revlon Moisture Stain in Barcelona Nights and Lip Butter in...
I was planning to wait until spring to buy these two bright pinks, but I had a $7-off-$17 coupon for Revlon burning a hole in my wallet, and there were no other Revlon products I really wanted. So here...
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Empties, Fall 2014
I've used up quite a few products, mostly skincare, in the last month or two, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to write my first empties post. I've been wondering why so many people (myself...
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FOTD: Marsala Monday
Yes, I know it's Tuesday (Wednesday, in some time zones), but I wore this makeup yesterday. Deal with it.Last week, Pantone revealed its color of the year for 2015: Marsala, a soft plummy brown....
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Lipstick Chronology #30: Milani Sangria
Name: Milani Color Statement Lipstick in SangriaDate Purchased: August 2013Grade: C+Notes: In my experience, sangria is almost always a mistake. I can't stomach the taste unless I'm tipsy to begin...
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2014 in Review, Part 1: My 14 Most Disappointing Beauty Purchases
Well, I guess that was an eight-day hiatus! It crept up on me, as such things do. First the weather was gloomy for days on end, so I couldn't take decent photos. Then I took an overnight trip to visit...
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Lipstick Chronology #31: NARS Mysterious Red
Name: NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Mysterious RedDate Purchased: November 2013Grade: ANotes: How excited am I to write this post? So excited that I broke my (never very strict, let's be honest)...
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2014 in Review, Part 2: My 14 Favorite Beauty Purchases
Greetings from San Francisco, where I've spent the past few days recovering from jetlag and dissertating at neighborhood coffee shops. With three days of the old year remaining, it's time to post a...
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2014 in Review, Part 3: Beauty Resolutions for 2015
I meant to write this post on New Year's Eve, but I ended up falling asleep at 10:30, because--well, let's pretend it was because I'd partied so mind-blowingly hard before that, and not because I'd had...
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