Re: dry lips. Try going cold turkey on the lip balm. I've read that they put stuff in them which makes them dry out (once the initial 'mmm-smooth'-ness has worn off), and maybe that's a crazy conspiracy story but I have never had as dry lips as when I started using a particularly nice Nivea lipbalm. Eventually I just…

This is strangely challenging. I haven't voted yet.

I wear makeup every day (not schlubby at home days, obvs) and I did not previously believe myself to be unusual in that, and yet somehow this whole series has been populated by women who wear almost no makeup on the regular. I feel like I must be a unicorn. But since I had no idea that I was alone in makeup wearing,…

I love this so much but I'm flummoxed by the space behind her. Is Eudora sitting on a built-in daybed? Is the dresser in a bathtub?

The image of this is so funny to me, but I almost understand it. I mean, who trusts Sephora lighting? Of course, issues with lighting and photos on the internet is what brought us "The Dress." For this very reason I have become obsessed with Collier's recommendation of Colourpop, all their lipsticks have a matching…

There's no such thing as "too many."

YASSS Laura Mercier Black Orchid!!! I have so many little stubs of this lipstick in various purses and coat pockets. I said this in another comment weeks earlier, but that lipstick is my "sisterhood of the traveling lipstick". It looks good on ALL my friends, no matter the skin tone.

I feel that way about those eyeshadow crumbles and smushed hunks of lipstick that used to be in beauty mags. Love them.

Revlon Lip Butter in Fig Jam is a good dupe for black honey.

Yes. I felt comfort reading Kara's makeup diary, glad to know I am not alone in having nearly identical shades of the same lipstick. I have three orange reds, three hot pinks. And clearly only I know the difference, I've had family complement my "red lipstick" in both hot pink and orange red. Am I the only one who…

Whenever I feel like the world is terrible, I buy a new lipstick to cheer myself up, as if a new lip color will make my problems and stresses not recognize me.

There are makeup "roleplays" of those whisper videos. They are my heaven.