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I’m 100% on board for coffee and gunmetal eyeliners (they’re workhorses, for sure), but sometimes you want — no, you NEED! — to wear something besides the usual, and that’s when something I like to call “The Double Purple” comes into play. By adding a gorgeous violet gradient to your lower lash lines, you can incorporate a colorful complexity in your eye makeup while exerting minimal effort. This tip is great for smaller lids and hooded eye shapes, as the focus is on the lower lash lines. Here’s what you’ll need Grab two of your favorite purple pencil liners —...

Hello and happy Caturday! I feel like Smokey the Bear saying “Only you can prevent forest fires” in this picture. I was taking pics of makeup and listening to Taylor Swift and… Well, you can guess how that went. I almost deleted the pics, but eh, life is short. If you can dance and laugh at yourself, you must not be doing *everything* completely wrong, ha ha! 🤣 On the VIP subject of nails, I finally painted mine yesterday afternoon while Connor was napping. This is two coats of Sally Hansen Mega Strength in She-Ro. Let’s hope it lives up...

I like to bake. Naw, dawg, I LOVE TO BAKE. Love. It. 🍞🥧😍🎂🍰❤️🍪🍩 What’s that? You need a cake baked from scratch? Brownies? Lemon bars? A loaf of artisan bread?? I GOT YOU, GIRL. That said, when someone tells me that they don’t like sweets, or they claim to never, ever order dessert, my lips immediately form into a tight smile and my right eye starts twitching…because I’m completely short-circuiting inside. HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE DESSERT…? 1011101011010101111010110100010011101010111 That does not compute. Thankfully, it’s sweet stuff galore in the MAC Oh, Sweetie Lipcolour collection. In fact, the glosses are named...

Misunderstanding the genome: a (polite) rantVia Ars Technica UK (Image by Micah Baldwin) “…Some misconceptions result from mistaken intuition; common sense can be misleading in biology. Some stem from the difference between healthcare and public health. Small false positive and negative rates quickly add up when we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people, after all. And some are legal misconceptions—what the FDA does or doesn’t care about or what information an insurance company is allowed to use. In any case, we’re a long way off from using genomes to tell us how smart our kids are or how well they’ll do athletically,...

OK…so, this blog is called “Makeup and Beauty Blog.” I realize that. It was makeup that brought most of us together, but I’d love to hear about your other hobbies, too. What are your interests? Do you like antiquing? Renaissance fairs? Knitting? Hiking? Stand-up paddle boarding? Something else? I like to cook and bake. I like gardening, reading, cat wrangling, exercising (well…sometimes it’s a love/hate thing), photography, and I love watching movies. A few years ago I tried knitting for a spell, but it didn’t take…most likely because I’m terrible at it. 🙂 So I quit. I also used to...