The Tracks of Your Tears: How to Repair Your Makeup After Crying
by Amalah
How to Repair Your Makeup After Crying Hi Amy, I have a somewhat strange question to ask. I am about to go through a number of events (an IVF cycle, a close friend’s wedding, sister’s graduation) where I will definitely be crying, but still need to look presentable. What kinds of make up products or [...]
Enhancing Eyebrows with Makeup
by Amalah
Dear Amalah, I’ve never submitted a question to anyone ever but I think you will be able to help me since you are a fellow fair-skinned blonde so here goes! (That whole washing your hair at night and waking up with an oily mop on your head thing that you have? I can TOTALLY RELATE!) [...]
Get the Red Out: Color Correcting Your Complexion
by Amalah
Amy, Ok. First off you are so right about the Philosophy line with Hope in a Bottle and the face wash stuff. It actually has got down on the flakiness I have been seeing this winter. Actually I had a co-worker comment on how pretty my skin looked today. So, thanks for constantly referring to [...]
Price Tag Cage Match: Boots No7 Make-up Base vs. Everything Else
by Amalah
Review of Boots No7 Make-up Base So I was wandering the cosmetics aisles in Target the other day and came across what looked like one of my 2008 wishes come true — a drugstore-brand foundation primer. Specifically, Boots No7 Mattifying Make-Up Base, priced at a delicious $9.99. Now, Target brags that Boots is the U.K.’s [...]
The Product Whore’s Complete Guide to Samples & Freebies
by Amalah
Hi Amy, I’ve submitted a question before (about my hair and drugstore products vs. high-end products and what to do for parched out split ends), and you posted it! Yay! And it helped SO much, seriously. So you don’t have to post this one, but I would appreciate a quick response if you have the [...]
Battle of the Bases: Foundation Primers for Every Skin Type
by Amalah
Ahh, foundation primer. I remember my exact thoughts the first time I looked at the wee sample of Smashbox Photo Finish in my Sephora bag. “This,” I thought, “is a load of horseshit.” And then I tried you, cynically and with a nasty-looking crease in my forehead, and behold! I loved you. I loved how [...]
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