Um, wait. I’m on an AVC page, yet the very topmost navbar on my screen is a menu of Gizmodoverse sites in black, with AVC’s menu underneath it? What the hell is THAT about? Did I miss the part where the switch to Kinja = AVC getting rolled into Giz/Jez/etc?

I didn’t even try, but then I don’t have an extensive AVC comment history that I care to archive.

I LIKE THAT NAIL POLISH! THAT IS ALL. :D

Heh, knock yourself out! :D

Really hope they have one that has tiny golden crab charms on it.

Heh. We’re obviously NOT beauty pros, but she’s hilaaaaarious. I feel like at the least, we’re good for showing that you can participate in and enjoy all of this shit with NO SHAME, even if you’re not a perfectly gorgeous 22-year-old with perfect skin and perfect hair etc. <3

I just hate Reddit’s format, and having to click off-site for images etc, ugh. (Also there’s so so so much garbage on there! I don’t want to be associated with gross horrible jerks!)

I haven’t tried any of their stuff, but I see a lot of it getting pretty good reviews. I just get real real eyerolly at their freakouts over ZOMG THIS HAS FRAGRANCE, ESSENTIAL OILS ARE BAD. (Tho I do agree with them always giving points off for products that have active ingredients subject to spoilage or oxidation and…

It does not make you a terrible person! It’s nice to have good skin! (Says the person constantly fighting with her skin.)

PLANT STEM CELLS omfg. If I see something that egregiously stupid in marketing copy, I write off not only that product but THE ENTIRE BRAND, because fuck you.

True, and agree that dept store brands (and of course drugstore brands) are more likely to have poor formulations (wrong pH for the active, or not enough of it to be effective, or combined with something that cancels out its effects). Do research before you shell out for something expensive! Paula’s Choice Beautypedia…

I got a couple of k-beauty lip things, and they’re pretty good! Also I just ordered Yet Another Matte Lipstick (one of the new Anastasia bullet/non-liquid ones) and two NYX liquid liners to try (Epic Ink and ... uhh, another one whose name I can’t recall). I WANT/NEED to be able to use the stylo pen kind because…

My friend/blogging partner got that palette too, and her take was basically “this effing sucks, except for like 2-3 shades that’re okayish.” :(

Like, his wife is trying to explore and improve her sexual responses, AND SHE IS ACTIVELY INCLUDING HIM IN THE PROCESS. If that shit you mentioned is at all indicative of his general personality? Girlfriend has far more patience and empathy than I do — I would’ve kicked his snively ass to the curb a long damn time…

OMG Illamasqua AND inglot AND kryolan AND SpaceNK I AM SO JEALOUS [but my bank acct is going “whew”].

Well I ALSO got that swirly “Lava Lips” lipstick in Activist, and [despite the black plastic case that’s brittle as hell and also shows fingerprints like a mofo, sigh] it’s GREAT and I love it, so the whole order wasn’t a total waste. Oh man that WOULD be a fun store to visit! Oh and Inglot is also at the top of my…

Yeah, they’re one of the few brands whose stuff I buy anyway, because oh man the Glossy Stains and the Rouge Pur Couture mattes are SO GOOD even though they’re fug. But I ordered one of Illamasqua’s lipsticks in the LE “rose gold” (ugh, I know) packaging and the case is just, like, FOIL-FINISH PLASTIC — and it’s the…

Like these days it’s 80% Political Things To Get Angry About (like we need more of that) and 15% Celebrities I Don’t Care About, and only 5% “yay!” so, yeah. :\

I am! Hiiiii! :D And yeah I’m not around as much these days. Kinja keeps getting worse and worse, and the content keeps getting less and less interesting/relevant to me, soooooo... ya know. [PS I’m here all day erry day! <3]

The texture and finish look GREAT and the wear is supposedly GREAT and [some of] the colors look GREAT and the price isn’t even ridiculous! But that case. I can’t. I mean, have they seen Givenchy’s cases? Anna Sui’s? Burberry? LQ? Feh.