I am a fan of lip balm. And when I say “fan,” I mean the kind of fan who has perhaps fifteen to twenty lip balms planted around the house, in the purse, in the pockets.
My favorite lip balm of all is Blistex DCT: it’s made with cocoa butter, aloe, vitamin A, and […]

I can’t beat Swistle’s 90 second makeup routine. In fact, I can’t even come close, because I am both vain and a massive product whore, but I thought I’d share my own current routine — not because I’ve got any useful time-saving tips, but because I personally love hearing other people’s makeup rituals and I’m […]

After many months of searching for the right concealer and trying various products, I think I have settled on a cover-up that may not completely erase my dark eye circles (only a professional lighting artist could do that at this point, I think), but does as good of a job as can possibly be expected: […]

It took 8 years of constantly running short on time (get up earlier? I don’t know WHAT you could be talking about) to refine a 90-second make-up routine that lets me wear it on any except the most desperate of days. This is assuming I WANT to wear make-up, which I do. For […]

Recently I’ve been wearing mascara, which I’ve historically viewed as a mostly pointless beauty product appropriate only for people with very pale eyelashes or a ridiculous amount of free time.
As it turns out, that’s because I’ve been using crappy product — clumpy, globby stuff that requires a half-hour of picking through each lash afterwards […]