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Empties, Fall 2014

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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 included) love such posts. Maybe because it's the closest the law-abiding among us will ever come to the thrill of rifling through someone else's household trash. Maybe because it gives us all hope that we, too, will someday have the excuse to buy a bunch of new things. In the world of beauty addiction, the optimist's glass (or tube, or pan, or jar) is always half empty. I wanted to delay this post until I'd used up Revlon Plum Velour, so that I could have an exciting empty tube of lipstick, but the empty containers of everything else kept piling up... 1. Burt's Bees Royal Jelly Eye Creme Eye cream is the Pascal's Wager of cosmetics. I suspect that most eye creams are placebos, but what if they're not? Once you start using eye cream, there's no way ...

Lipstick Chronology #24: NARS Dolce Vita

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Name: NARS Sheer Lipstick in Dolce Vita Date Purchased: Spring 2013 (and again on Monday!) Grade: A Notes: I did it! I repurchased NARS Dolce Vita after a few months spent trying to preserve the tiny nub that remained of my first tube. I have a weird psychological hangup about repurchasing makeup. A second tube of a well-loved lipstick just doesn't give me the thrill of the new and unknown. And since no product is perfect, not even Dolce Vita, I can't help thinking that if I keep looking, I'll come upon something even better. But with Dolce Vita, my neurosis went too far. I found myself avoiding my favorite lipstick because I was afraid to use it up. Two days ago I decided that enough was enough, and $26 plus tax later, I have a shiny new tube of my trusty goes-with-everything lipstick. Just in time, too, since I can't in good conscience continue to use my old one. I mean, look at it. I feel like I'm turning into my mother, who has used up and repurchased the same t...