Best Lipstick Formulas 2019

It's been so long since my last post! I've just been too busy to blog, despite having a pile of things to review and the desire to review those things. It's really a terrible feeling. The science-fiction class for which I'm a TA had two paper deadlines in two weeks (don't ask me why), so I was doing what felt like nothing but grading for what felt like forever. But now that my grading is done and classes are almost over, you can expect more frequent posting in the weeks to come! First on my to-review list is a product I'm very excited about: Glossier Boy Brow in Brown. I haven't written much about my eyebrows on this blog, because I don't like doing much to them. I'm very grateful to my past self for not overplucking my naturally thick, dark brows, as so many girls and women did when thinner brows were popular. I'm young enough to have missed the heyday of sperm brows, but their baleful influence lingered for years. When I was a teenager and yo...

My face has emerged from the shadows!  My previous post on theBalm's Nude 'tude palette was devoted to swatches and mini-reviews of the colors. As promised, this post features four looks I've concocted since then, plus an alternate use that isn't a look per se. I began by pushing myself to focus on the shades I use least often, but fell back for the last two looks on my favorites: gray-taupe Selfish and brown-taupe Sophisticated. All of the eyeshadows were applied over NYX HD Primer. For a refresher on the colors, here's my palette after almost two years of ab use. 1. Rose Gold, or: Who Needs Naked 3?  Shades used: Stubborn, Snobby, Stand-offish ( sic ) Application: Stubborn all over the mobile lid, Snobby blended into the center as a highlight, Stand-offish in the crease and on part of the browbone. Field Notes: I like this more than I thought I would, and I'd use it again as a tonal complement for other peaches and/or pale pinks. (In the photo above, I...