I guess I'll be the lone voice of dissent. I found Ipsy to be way more uneven than Birchbox. Some months, cool, Urban Decay. Other months my bag was filled with drugstore junk and off-brand items. Ipsy tends more towards makeup than Birchbox, but Birchbox works with more reputable companies. Make sense?
Sleep With the Fishies
Fishies
You usually don't want to match your brow color exactly, you want to go a bit lighter. Three shades might seem WAY too light, but you actually have to try it on to see how it works. Here's a good link to show what I mean - swatched, the colors all look way too light and red for her dark brows, but actually applied,…
My favorite rich person bathroom thing are the disposable paper towels. Seriously, they buy fancy disposable paper towels that match their decor and use those instead of cotton towels because it's considered more hygienic. I can understand doing it during a party, because after about the 4th use in an hour a cotton…
My family works in factories, my husband's family owns factories. And overall, this rings true for us as well - with one major exception. My husband's family has NO PROBLEM expressing their anger and frustrations with each other. Screaming matches, throwing things... The sort of antics that if you lived in my working…
A good friend wore a veil with condoms taped to it to her bachelorette party. By the end of the night, other bar patrons had bought most of them for a buck a pop and she was $19 richer.
Let me begin by saying that when I was a kid, my mom had this particular nickname for me. I'm not sure where it came from, but it's relevant to my story.
Don't forget the time she encouraged her brand's fans to harass one of the most prominent makeup bloggers and doxxed her private email! That's super normal, right?
There are several companies making matte liquid lipsticks. Sephora's Kat Von D line is probably the most famous and raved about. Anastasia just launched a line of full of them, and Stilla has Stay All Day.
My grandparents got married two weeks after meeting. They celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary in April.
I've googled "Amy Poehler lipstick" a seriously creepy number of times. She's always wearing the perfect shade!
UD's brushes are all synthetic. Their whole schtick is being cruelty-free.
My most WTF Christmas gift this year? A handwritten recipe from my grandma... featuring a food ingredient that I'm allergic to.
Also worth noting - those in the know in the security industry who are not trying to come up with an excuse for more military presence in Asia have determined that Lizard Squad are likely the ones behind the Sony hack, not North Korea.
Ah yes, the answer to so many questions.
How did you sleep through a tree falling over?
Oh, man, Magic Nursery Dolls also work into my best/worst Christmas present story.
The way the recent Gina-Boyles tryst ended was perfect. "I'm about to Olivia Pope this sitch" indeed.
People who can't answer "what do you do for fun?" are the most ridiculously boring, rock-like people on the face of the earth.