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  • Stop Punching Yourself in the Face and Remember You’re Beautiful

    I think it’s really important to say this because I don’t think it’s acknowledged enough—not only in the makeup community, but just in general: you have your “good” days and you have your “bad” days.  I mean…It’s not like I fancy myself as some kind of life coach or guru…but maybe it means even more coming out of the mouth…

  • Jolie Beauty Intergalactic Palette: Swatches and Thoughts

    The good news is, we’ve saved a shit-ton of money on entertainment. Instead of paying $30 for two drinks, we pay $30 for 1.5 liters of gin. Instead of paying $24 to watch a movie at the theater, we pay $0 for mooching off my parents’ Netflix account. The $20 per weekend to Uber places…

  • Spend Time and Money on your Hobbies

    With all this time? And isolation? (read: I’m in my room alone and able to do stuff not in the audience of other human beings…or even the cats. They judge you. Don’t you judge me too. You know exactly what the hell I’m talking about).  Yeah.  So I do stuff in the privacy of my room that…

  • Be Creative. Be Safe. Be Well.

    I have no reason to do anything but be grateful at this moment…but FUCK, I’m bored. I was super excited to drive the empty streets of the Tampa Bay area to go to work to pick up a legal pad and transfer files from my desktop import folder to our remote system. I left the house…

  • I Have Some Sort of Disorder and I am Self-Aware.

    We’re going to talk about jewelry, and you’re going to come on a psychological journey with me whether you like it or not. “But what does jewelry have anything to do with your psychosis?” you might ask? Well, a lot actually. And not just my own psychosis. Jewelry (and all other material things to an…

  • Has Il Makiage Redeemed Itself?

    So, I gave Il Makiage a pretty hard time in my last post. Their flagship foundation just wasn’t for me, and I thought the advertisements were a bit misleading. The foundation looked way more high coverage in the ads than it ended up being in real life. That said, I was able to return it…

  • Il Makiage: Does it live up to its Ads?

    So, I caved and ordered the Il Makiage foundation. You know: the one with the ad that pops up on Facebook as if Facebook knows you’re looking for a new foundation? Spoiler alert: it does. Privacy has been rendered to a false sense of security. Everyone knows everything about you, and if you think the…

  • Second Skin: Part II (Ed Gein edition)

    In my last post, I promised I would buy the Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation and try it out for you guys; contingent upon my cheap-ass forking out $43 dollars for a consumable. Welp. As it happens, I did not have to fork out any dough because my wonderful, amazing, smart, funny, talented, beautiful and…

  • Sugar-Coated Lips

    I don’t have a particular affinity to a particular makeup brand…which is why I have so many products from so many different brands. Rather, I tend to pick products each brand does best: like NARS’ or Too Faced foundations; Tarte’s concealer, or Juvia’s Place or Morphe’s eye shadows. In fact, I don’t actually own NARS…

  • Second Skin, but not in a Creepy Way

    It’s always fun to rediscover a makeup product. For instance, I typically rotate three different foundations, depending on the look I’m going for, or for financial purposes (to preserve the more expensive stuff). Of late, I’ve been on a Maybelline/Too Faced kick, and as a result have left my NARS Radiant foundation go by the…