The Much-Promised MAC Cosmetics Post

It’s no secret to anyone that knows me that I’m a total MAC Cosmetics junkie; my husband rolls his eyes anytime “MAC” or “Cosmetics” comes out of my mouth. (The same could be said for him and G.I. Joes or Transformers.) In the past eight months since discovering the brand, I’ve spent a [...]

“Little Miss Fancy-Fingernails Shimmy Shimmy Lipgloss Barbie!”

Today, I bring to you the ultimate in cosmetic multitasking:

Enbrightenmint!
According to the Tarte Cosmetics website:
BriteSmile® and tarte cosmetics have teamed up to give you something to grin about: a healthy smile. With just a few clicks of this double-ended whitening & brightening wand you’re sure to reach new levels of kiss bliss.
After whitening teeth [...]

“There were two types of girls: the fast girls and the honorable girls with the bad reputations because they happened to look sharp with… makeup.”

On Saturday, Lobsterclaw and I headed out for a much-needed “adventure” — whenever we leave the house, things typically go wrong so we’ve labeled them “adventures” instead of “disasters” — to a MAC counter for the master class. Due to forces beyond our control, we arrived fashionably late by twenty minutes. Not only [...]

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Apparently, some of the photos of my wee little MAC collection are garnering some attention and, while I fully plan on writing a post about shades and tips and all kinds of girlie, makeup-related things, today just isn’t the day that this is going to happen. (Have I mentioned that being a responsible, employed [...]

“We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we’re fussin’ n fighting like we ain’t supposed to be.”

Jezebel, a celebrity-fashion-all things woman website, wrote an article yesterday with a pretty attention-getting title: Maxim, Entertainment Weekly Agree: Jews, Blacks, Asians Not So “Sexy”
I know, right?
Anyway, they point out that the top two unsexiest women according to Maxim magazine, Sarah Jessica Parker and Amy Winehouse, are both Jewish; naturally, this must be some type [...]

“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”

I’m in the ladies’ bathroom at work, washing my hands like you’re supposed to — and I only say this because there are a surprising number of people who don’t and ewwww — when I spy a stack of catalogs nearby. I don’t know what it is about the bathroom but people tack up [...]

“At his age he should be battling acne! Not evil witches!”

I was a little absent yesterday. Hey, I’m allowed to take sick days every now and then, right?
(My tattoo is itching so bad right now. WHERE IS MY CHEESE GRATER?)
Can we take a second and talk about beauty products? Anybody that doesn’t have a vagina is free to leave at this [...]

“The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying.”

I’m going to take a minute to absolutely gush about some products I bought while on a shopping spree in Sephora this past weekend. (Let’s not talk about what that did to my bank account, okay?)
I inherited my mom’s large, oily pores and have tried virtually everything under the sun to combat genetics — [...]

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

Last night, I went to my first Mary Kay consultant party.
Now, before I go any further, let me just say that my introduction to Mary Kay started off in the pages of a Bloom County comic strip collection, The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos. (“Even their uzis are pink!”) (And, actually, the [...]

“Her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.”

Can someone please explain the mystery of the “vulva tattoo”? There are apparently a lot of people searching for this and they are inadvertently winding up on my site. So I figured, maybe I’ll educate them on that which they so desperately seek — but then I remembered I’m a huge wuss and [...]