I got new glasses last Thursday (technically I’ve had the frames for a while, but I’d been using them for reading glasses, not everyday), because I’ve had to confront the fact that I need…bifocals. At 31! I got progressive lenses, which are actually taking quite a while to get used to. The new frames are [...]
Sorry for my disappearance–had a death in the family recently that hit me really hard, even though it wasn’t unexpected, so there really hasn’t been much makeup-wearing lately (why wear it when there’s a good chance I’m going to get emotional and fuck it up, right?) I have a random EOTD photographed, though my photography [...]
More lipstick swatches. I’m finally into the pinks, and I have to say that I’m a fan. (I apologize again for any goosebumps. As you can see, my arm is pretty much right against the window.)
Yes, Athena really is that light. It’s not quite white, but it’s pretty darn pale.
I’m not really much of a [...]
Today is sunnier than yesterday, so today’s shots are a bit better, but still a little blurry. I decided that they were the most color-accurate ones I’ve gotten so far, and so here they are! I didn’t put them into any sort of color order, because I knew I’d fail somehow, so they’re in the [...]
Today is the more beige-y colors. I tried to arrange them from most beige to least, but as I learned yesterday, tube color != on-skin color.
(Earth Angel especially looks a lot nicer swatched than in the tube.)
(I like Iced Honey a lot better swatched as well.) In this shot, Opal looks basically white. Which it [...]
Sometime during the week before Christmas, I read somewhere (I think it was some random Livejournal community) about this one-time deal NYX Cosmetics was doing on their lipsticks. It was a set of 60 lipsticks for $48. I did the math and took a look, because I can’t resist a bargain. Turns out it wasn’t [...]