Best Lipstick Formulas 2019

Hey! I promise that my blog still exists and that I'm still alive. Look, I even have a pin to prove it: Appropriately, I took this photo while waiting outside my therapist's office. However, posts have been scarce this month for a few reasons: I don't know where my money will come from after August, where I'll be living, or whether I'll even stay in academia, so most of my energy has been devoted to sorting that out I'll probably be defending my dissertation in a few months and it needs a lot of editing plus an introduction, hahaha kill me I've been revising an article that I want to send off again by the end of the month The weather has been shitty and overcast for most of May, limiting my ability to take decent photos Literally everything else in the world is awful?? I have a habit of announcing a blog hiatus only to write a post two days later, so I'm not going to do that now, but I think it's fair to say that posting may be slow over the next fe...

Like many of us, I go through polish phases. Sometimes I prefer neutral cremes, sometimes bright pastels, sometimes dark shimmers. The category I'm most fickle about, though, is the glitter topcoat. I've accumulated quite a few over the years (so pretty in the bottle!), but I usually find it hard to wear glitter on ordinary occasions without feeling either childish or inappropriately festive. Recently, though, I've entered something of a glitter phase. Carolina and I have discussed the temptation to buy glitter during difficult emotional periods, and I think that's part of the reason I've worn so much sparkly nail polish since the late fall. It's brutally cold outside, I'm on the academic job market, I don't know where I'll even be living in six months —glitter makes it all a bit more tolerable. Yes, gross materialism and all that, but there's nothing wrong with making your aesthetic environment a little prettier to counteract whatever else is g...