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Meet some of my favorite MAC nude shades this week from the MAC Strip Down collection. DUDE, the world is your oyster when it comes to nude lipsticks. I mean, there are so many out there, right? But you know, when I think about the old-school, original nude lip look, I think of MAC. I started wearing MAC in the ’90s, and that’s when I became aware that nude lips were totally a thing. MAC has created so many iconic colors — colors that everybody rips off. Hello, old-school Whirl? We all know that Kylie was “deeply inspired” by it...

Meet some of my favorite MAC nude shades this week from the MAC Strip Down collection. Fun fact about MAC Whirl: Back in the day (as in pre-2015), Whirl, a dark matte brown with a tinge of rose, only existed as a lip pencil. Way back before the dinosaurs 🦕 disappeared, I used to outline my lips with Whirl pencil, fill them in, and then top everything off with Chapstick to create my own DIY Whirl lipstick. Yeah! In 2015, MAC finally turned this iconic color into a lipstick — the Whirl Matte Lipstick we know and love today. I...

Most of the times when I go to HomeGoods, I’m dressed caj with minimal (or negligible) makeup, but sometimes I like to go gladiator style and do my hair and makeup and get a little more dressed up so I can enter the store like I’m entering an arena. YES, HOMEGOODS IS A MOTHER-TRUCKIN’ ARENA. Granted, there are no predatory animals, javelins, swords or armored warhorses galloping at you while you admire a delicately painted lemon bowl (handmade in Italy!), but if I see you pushing your cart toward the last farmhouse-inspired botanical print, trust that I will body check...

Hiya, friend! 😃 OK, listen… I’m all for healthy, balanced meals, but sometimes you just gotta start Saturday with a cupcake. The one above is a carrot cake cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Mmm… 🥕🧁 I guess one could argue that the shredded carrot counts as a serving of veggies… Perhaps? Yes? Am I reaching? I think I may have mentioned this before, but I recently stumbled upon a new career as a toddler chauffeur, and in case you were wondering, no, I don’t get overtime or time-and-a-half on holidays (I wish!). That said, while I go drive my top...

Makeup brushes! — I HAZ THEM. And I’m assuming you do too. I’m gonna go out on a limb (not really) and guess that you have more than a few brushes in your collection, so tell me, friend, which makeup brushes do you always use, and which ones do you never (or very rarely) touch? First of all, I’m much pickier about eye brushes than I am about face brushes, which I think is because my lids are sensitive, and I have absolutely no patience for scratchy stuff on my skin. I think there are many great eye brushes out...