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How good are you at sticking to your beauty budget?

How good are you at sticking to your beauty budget?

I don’t have a set amount per month so much as I look at spending by season (which is mostly by quarter) and allocate more spending towards the second half of the year (holiday is pretty intense).

— Christine

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Best Foundation for Summer

Best Foundation for Summer

What's the Best Foundation for Summer that you've tried?

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In this weekly feature, it's all about sharing your all-time favorites—what you'd recommend to others, what you've really enjoyed, and so on.

Do you have any beauty products that have sentimental value to you?

Do you have any beauty products that have sentimental value to you?

I have a few! One would be MAC Jealousy Wakes eyeshadow, since that was my shade, and then both Revlon False Eyelashes and Illamasqua Nail Varnishes put our award logo on their physical products, so I have those in my office cabinet on display as well.

— Christine

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Survey Says... June 15th, 2016

Survey Says... June 15th, 2016

Happy Wednesday! Here's this week's survey, which you can copy and paste and share as a comment.

  • Your skin tone/coloring:
  • Last product you resisted?
  • Last product you caved on?
  • Last product you wished you had purchased?

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Sneak Peek: 18 x Anastasia Lipglosses Photos & Swatches

Sneak Peek: 18 x Anastasia Lipglosses Photos & Swatches

Here are swatches of 18 of the permanent shades in the Anastasia Lipgloss ($16.00 for 0.16 fl. oz.) range. I actually swatched these--to my shame and horror!--back in December and only took the time to edit yesterday. I know I have several more of the glosses to photograph/swatch...

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If you had to start your collection over, would you do anything differently?

If you had to start your collection over, would you do anything differently?

I’m going to give my answer as if I was just a regular consumer (not a blogger), and I would say that I would do more research before purchasing items, buy less but buy the things that I loved and worked the best for me, and return more things that didn’t work well (particularly if it was a...

— Christine

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Sneak Peek: Makeup Atelier Eyeshadow Palettes (x7) Photos & Swatches

Sneak Peek: Makeup Atelier Eyeshadow Palettes (x7) Photos & Swatches

Makeup Atelier Eyeshadow Palette ($35.00 for 0.44 oz.) include five shades in each palette. The majority of the ones I have are mostly matte to matte with a couple of shimmers. Only one of them was full of shimmery shades (Amazon). Have you tried one of the...

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Rant & Rave: Powder Highlighters

Rant & Rave: Powder Highlighters

Tell us what you love and hate about...

Powder Highlighters

Mostly raves–I love a great highlighter! They’re a definite weakness. I don’t like when they’re really, really pigmented and metallic, though, as I tend to personally opt for more medium-level highlighters that are buildable.

— Christine

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