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 […]

I read about Maybelline Superstay lipstick over at Mighty Goods today, and I had to immediately run to the drugstore to try it out. I love the concept of long-wearing lipstick, but I’ve never found a brand that didn’t make me feel like I’d coated my mouth with a particularly drying form of nail polish. […]

Many years ago, I used to apply black eyeliner by melting the waxy tip of a Wet n’ Wild pencil with a hair dryer, then running it around and around my eyes until I looked like a startled raccoon. A raccoon who apparently owned one too many Cure albums.
These days I’m all about reducing […]