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The eye of a honey bee covered in dandelion pollen. A freshwater carnivorous plant known as a humped bladderwort. Planktonic larva of a horseshoe worm. Young buds of Arabidopsis, a flowering plant. The spore capsule of a moss. Fern sorus at varying levels of maturity. Tentacles of a carnivorous plant. The anthers of thale cress. Feeding rotifers. A starfish imaged using confocal microscopy. The annual Small World Photomicrography Competition, as awesome as always.Source & h/t HuffPost Science

Ya know, I revel in being the quirky neighbor who smiles like a maniac while taking pictures of the MAC Hint of Colour Lip Oils by some freesia on the side of the road. I don’t even care if people look at me weird. I just smile 😀 and wave 👋 like I’m supposed to be there… And, I mean, I’m not not supposed to be there. After all, who wouldn’t want to stop and admire lovely freesia? They’re beautiful, and when the freesia appear, winter is saying “Peace out!” Warmer days are comin’. Like freesia, the MAC Hint of...

This may look like your standard-issue “Oh, there’s a two-for-one body splash sale at Victoria’s Secret, so lemme go hook that up” kind of haul. Totally not. Instead of being motivated by a good deal (which is my usual motivation for spur-of-the-moment beauty buys), this purchase was brought on by tiny monsters. Specifically, flying insects. Specifically, insects that buzz around your house and sink their proboscis into your unsuspecting flesh in the middle of the night. I’ve been getting devoured by what I think are mosquitoes… THANK GOD. And I say that because for a while there I thought they...

Contrary to popular belief, the most powerful magic words are not “abracadabra” or “alakazam.” No, the most powerful magic words are “fifty percent off.” I found my favorite foaming co-wash slashed to half price at Ulta last weekend. Unfortunately, as I celebrated with a well-placed booty pop, I realized — OH, NO! — that they were on the same shelf where they keep the soon-to-be discontinued products. As you know, I’ve been trying to embrace the Marie Kondo life, so I haven’t been hoarding beauty backups as of late, but girl…I’ve gone through three of these bottles in the last...

I can’t wear Charlotte Tilbury Ecstasy blush without thinking of mid-90s club banger Set U Free. The way the lead singer breathlessly enunciates the word, “ecstasy,” about a billion times… Welcome to the decade of my formative years. Anywho…while I like how long this satiny, peachy pink blush stays on my cheeks, the main thing I love about $40 Ecstasy blush is that I can get it on my cheeks in three minutes, which is about how much time I typically have while Coy-Coy uses the potty, so I can walk out the front door looking like I actually slept...