Beauty

  • Beauty Wednesday: What Do You Keep Trying?

    I thought today we would talk about the beauty and hair things that we want to like and adopt into our repertoire — but that, despite multiple tries, you still don’t quite “get”. Weird question, I know, but for me I can list a few things that are in this category: – False eyelashes —…

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    Beauty Wednesday: Beauty.com 20% off Sale is On!

    OK — I know we just talked about this, but since the Beauty.com Friends & Family sale is an official thing (now through 11/9), I thought we’d talk about some of our favorite picks. (Apparently you have to click through a special link (like this one) to get the discount to work.)  In my cart:…

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    Beauty Wednesday: What’s On Your Wishlist?

    So: last year, around this time (before official Christmas season), there were some killer Friends & Family sales at most of the major beauty stores — Sephora, Beauty.com, even Ricky’s. So I’ve been trying to get my wish list ready at the different places, and thought we could talk about it — what beauty items…

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    Coffee Break – Mademoiselle

    I’ve always heard amazing things about Essie Mademoiselle, the color featured here. Best-seller! “A grown-up pink!” “The perfect nude!” But on me, it tends to be a bit too pinky. So a friend taught me this trick a while ago: you layer different pinks to get a nude-for-you look. I think a lot of New…