I think mine is the Actavis Bimatoprost? Honestly they should all be fine, and effective! Which cannot be said for other stuff - - I tried GrandeLash MD and literally nothing happened. RevitaLash was maybe a little helpful, but not dramatic at all. Bimat, tho, is like OOO THAT’S BETTER. <3

I’ve only done a couple subscription boxes — I think like two months’ worth of Ipsy and Birchbox? — and they were pretty lackluster for me. So Sephora Play hasn’t really been much of an incentive? But! I miiiiight sign up for the Ricky’s one, because I am a fool a sucka hopeful.

I’ve got a couple of C things from The Ordinary — the 23% suspension and the 12% ascorbyl glucoside — and like both pretty well. I’ve also used the Oz Naturals C serum (like $18/oz on Amazon) and NuFountain C + Ferulic ($27/oz) and liked them just fine too. C is one of those things that I generally don’t see (and…

It is SO good. I swear if they weren’t vanilla scented I’d already have purchased more — London Calling and Rock With You are both glorious too!

Someone on my blog just told me that Ricky’s NYC has a subscription box now! And it’s eleven bucks! AND signing up gets you 25% off your orders!

Hey, it’s not a dumb question at all! Every time I add a new product or application technique/style to my own regimen, it takes me a while to figure out how to adjust my other stuff to compensate.

If one is brave, one can order generic Latisse (bimatoprost) from AllDayChemist for an absurdly cheap price. (I’ve been using it for months and months, and will never give it up.)

START CHEAP. Lip/cheek/eye palettes or sets for as little cash as possible are a great way to start. Yeah, the application and wear will be less than ideal, but it’s much easier to try on and wear multiple colors around the house for a while until you figure out what suits you and what you like ... THEN you can…

I always wonder if the rise of beauty box subscriptions means THAT’S where all the samples and minis are going... :\

Oooo, I have the blue-based red “Star Woman” Powermatte, and it’s ACES. I’m not wild about the vanilla scent, but I looooooove the wear and the ease of re-application.

I tried that Biossance sampler! With the teeny vial of plain squalane, and one of squalane / rose / C stuff? Loved it too, but the C one is just SO expensive and there’re SO many great C formulations out there for way less money — so I got a 2oz bottle of Timeless brand squalane on Amazon for like twelve bucks and…

I use ColourPop’s potted creme gel liner on the waterline to pretty good result. It doesn’t stay 100% perfect for ten hours or anything, but it does last WAY better than anything else I’ve tried there.

Nice! I’ve used a few things (soaps, facial cleansers, even a highlighter) that contained coconut oil and apparently had no problems. But then sometiiiiimes .... disaster. Depending on the product and how it’s made, you can’t always tell how much is in there, or whether it was added at the end of the…

I’d upgrade that to offering free reversible sterilization* to every child, of every gender and sexual persuasion, at age 10-12. I mean, imagine never having to worry about getting pregnant / making someone pregnant until both you and your partner are ready to deliberately try for a baby.

Oh man NO KIDDING! :( Soooooo many beauty things (cleansers, toners, moisturizers, etc) have coconut-derived ingredients! I mean, finding a face wash or lotion that doesn’t have capric/caprylic triglycerides or cocamide DEA... Hell I have a hard enough time just avoiding silicone/cyclomethicones. I FEEL FOR YOU.

YEP. Cocoa butter has a load of stearic acid and oleic acid — comedogenic AF! (However, there’re tons of oils and such that are fantastic for oily/acne-prone skin -- look for stuff with a very high linoleic acid content and low oleic.)

There is literally nothing good about Dove. It leaves a skim coat of gack on my skin, the stearic acid gives me acne, it smells like Grandma Bath Salts, and the whole bar melts in like ten minutes.

Counterpoint : check your local health food store (or Amazon) for a tiny glass bottle of fragrance oil by Maroma called “Olibanum & Citrus.” Oh my god. Oh my godddd. On me, it’s lovely. On my dude it’s “get over here right now.” (It’s also like sixteen bucks, which means it’s cheap enough to dump a little into a spray…

True true! However, things to look out for : those soaps in the sampler you listed all contain coconut oil, which can be super acne-inducing for a lot of people (like ... me). What we think of as “soap” is generally one or more fats / fatty acids that’s been saponified via sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide (the…

If you were using Dove before the switch, that’s not surprising. One of its main ingredients is stearic acid — a fatty acid that’s “saponified” with (usually) potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. Stearic acid (and similar, similarly-common myristic acid) is extreeeemely comedogenic. Soaps or face cleansers…