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What was the last beauty product you tried because of a recommendation from a friend? Mine is Topped With Brandy Retro Matte Liquid Lipcolour by MAC. It’s a matte deep rose. My friend Jen texted me a pic of her wearing it yesterday (“It’s a nice neutral with a little oomph. I like it because it doesn’t dry my lips out.”), and it looked so pretty on her that I had to try it too! Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict, Karen Continue reading "What Was the Last Beauty Product You Tried Because of a Recommendation From a Friend?" on Makeup...

Things that make me happy: Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake Lifting heavy weights Cats (obvs) Sleeping in Hearing Connor say her name for the first time (“Cah-nah”) The happy heart eyes on these Benefit Hello Happy Soft Blur Foundation bottles Benefit Hello Happy Soft Blur Foundation ($29, 12 shades) I like this lightweight matte liquid foundation primarily for its pore-blurring prowess and SPF 15, and as long as I only blend the tiniest amount on my combo dry/oily skin — literally, just a few drops! If I use any more than two or three drops on each cheek, and yes, YOU...

Yay for the Bay! This is the last in this series featuring products from and around my stomping grounds — the San Francisco Bay Area. “Be relaxed,” it says. Jeez, my body oil is sooooo bossy… 😂 OKURRRR! I laugh every time I bust out this bottle of EO Essential Oils Body Oil in French Lavender , which is often, because I feel like it’s giving me tough love and telling me to chill-the-eff out, Karen. Funny thing is, after I shower and slather my legs and limbs from tip to toes with this $15 lavender-scented body oil, I actually...

The other day I covered up what the beauty/fashion world calls my “imperfections” — the freckles on my cheekbones, acne scars on my cheeks, the chicken pox souvenir in the center of my forehead that I got when I was three — with big ol’ heart-shaped glitter from MAC, and you know what occurred to me? WE SHOULD BE DOING THIS, LIKE, ALL THE TIME. Screw Face Tune and Photoshop. This is much so cooler. Weirdly enough, these glitter hearts, which are even more epic in person, do a bang-up job of sticking to my skin. I wore them all...

No, the LHC will not make contact with parallel universes.The most recent news about quantum gravity phenomenology going through the press is that the LHC upon restart at higher energies will make contact with parallel universes, excuse me, with PARALLEL UNIVERSES. The telegraph even wants you to believe that this would disprove the Big Bang, and tomorrow maybe it will cause global warming, cure Alzheimer and lead to the production of butterflies at the LHC, who knows…Via BackReActionAbout rainbow gravity (Quora): What is the “rainbow gravity” theory in layman’s terms?