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I Went (Mostly) Vegan for a Week! Here's What Happened
Last week I went vegan, with the exception of the occasional splash of milk in my coffee (I'm sorry, non-dairy milk is not the same). I'd been meaning to do this experiment for at least a year, but...
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FOTDs: From the Archives
Early this month, just after returning from England, I started my summer job in the university archives. These archives house documents related to the history of the university, over a century's worth...
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A Journey Through Purge-atory, Part 1: Lipsticks and Glosses
Just call me Virgil.To save some money in the coming school year, I'm moving at the end of the summer into a two-bedroom duplex apartment. As moves go, this one will be almost comically easy, since my...
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ColourPop Highlighters in Lunch Money and Monster
When ColourPop released a line of 15 highlighters early last month, I didn't take much notice. I'd never used a highlighter before, and since this hot, humid weather gives me a perpetual...let's call...
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ColourPop Cowboy Eyeshadow and Lippie Primer, and a Sneaking Suspicion
Today I'm reviewing the second half of my recent ColourPop order: the Super Shock Shadow in Cowboy, a matte lavender, and the Lippie Primer, a clear lip primer that, according to the CP website,...
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So, How About Those New Year's Resolutions?
Now that exactly half of 2015 is behind us, I thought it might be interesting to revisit the beauty resolutions I made at the end of last year and see how many I managed to keep in the last six months....
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June Favorites (Beauty and Otherwise)
Welcome to another installment of my not-actually-monthly compilation of monthly favorites! Some bloggers use favorites posts to spotlight new purchases, but I prefer to feature older favorites as well...
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Lipstick Chronology #34: Revlon Candy Apple
Name: Revlon Lip Butter in Candy AppleDate Purchased: November 2013Grade: ANotes: After my last post, which took me forever to write, I thought I'd clear my palate with a quick installment of my...
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I Have a Plum Problem: MAC x Giambattista Valli Eugenie
By ordering Eugenie, a matte plum lipstick from the six-piece MAC x Giambattista Valli collection, I broke four of my cardinal makeup-buying rules:No limited-edition makeup, and especially no...
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A Journey Through Purge-atory, Part 2: Eyeshadows and One More Lipstick
Greetings from a cramped hotel room on Manhattan's Upper West Side! This endearingly unhip neighborhood is special to me because of the time I spent in a history program at Columbia in the summer...
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Postcard from the Subtropics
Just a quick administrative note: I'm staying for a few days at my grandmother's house in Florida, where the Internet is, as usual, not working (I'm writing this in a Starbucks). I was counting on...
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FOTD: Professionalesque
In the last month or so, I've been pondering the future of this blog. I started Auxiliary Beauty halfway through my fourth year of my PhD program, at a moment when I felt like I might actually be in...
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July Favorites (Beauty and Otherwise)
We're almost a week into August, but do you really care? I don't.1. MAC Candy Yum-YumI've had this lipstick for two years and I'm still not sure if it flatters me. How is that possible? I don't even...
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In Search of Lost Witchcraft: NYX Simply Vamp Lip Cream in Enamored
As a preteen and young teenager, I had a brief flirtation with witchcraft. There was something in the air at the time: The Craft had come out several years before, the Harry Potter series was gaining...
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Professionalesque, Part 2: Urban Decay Rapture
As you know, I'm going on the academic job market this fall. Accordingly, I'm now interviewing lipsticks for the position of Interview Lipstick. Am I doing this to put off compiling my job materials?...
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K-Pop Makeup: The Products
My love for k-pop is no secret. And as luck would have it—good or bad luck, you decide— I started this blog mere weeks before I fell down the k-pop rabbit hole. Many of us can blame Kate of Drivel...
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Brown Is Back, Bitches: Milani Amore Matte Lip Creme in Crush
If you distilled all of 2015's lip-color trends into a single product, you'd come up with Milani Amore Matte Lip Creme in Crush.Crush ticks all the boxes: it's a dark brown (check) liquid lipstick...
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Now for a Crush Worth Crushing On: Revlon Balm Stain in...You Guessed It
What were the odds that I'd review two lipsticks named "Crush" in three days? Pretty good, actually, since drugstore beauty brands love to name their lip products "Crush." There doesn't seem to be any...
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A Hiatus of a Kind
It's fair to say that shit just got real. In the last few days, I've been coming to terms with everything I need to do this semester (primarily applying for academic jobs, but also teaching and...
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Stress-Fueled Impulse Purchase #1: Essie Leggy Legend
Guys, I miss beauty blogging. I miss it so much that in the week since I announced my semi-hiatus, I've worked on four different draft posts. I'll open an empty post, add a title, write a few sentences...
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