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So…what is the Monday Poll? Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start. 1. Liquid or cream eyeshadow? Cream eyeshadow, please! 2. Your greatest beauty achievement? Figuring out how to do a smoky eye on my slightly hooded lids. MAN, that was challenging! 3. What’s your current makeup...

Do yourself a solid, you sensational señorita, and tap a little MAC Velvet Teddy lipstick on the apples of your cheeks as an impromptu cream blush. Don’t mind me; I’ll wait [waiting]… It’s one those tried-and-true multitasking tricks many MAC addicts (myself included) like doing. Also up there? Using lippies like Heroine and Ruby Woo as eyeshadows or even eyeliner! Which brings me to this: The new MAC in Monochrome collection, which is available now. It takes what MAC fiends have already been doing for ages — re-purposing products — and makes it…official. Going beyond lipstick Six cult-classic MAC Lipsticks...

1. Trader Joe’s Chili Lime Seasoning Blend I usually don’t like spicy seasoning because I don’t like it when my tongue feels like it’s on fire or when I’m excessively drooling, but I’m totally down with this mix of chili powder, salt and lime, which has a little bit of heat to it (not so much that I can’t handle it). Apparently, it’s TJ’s take on something called Tajín? Anyway, I love it. And I’ve been putting it on everything, including the Thai-inspired ground lime chicken I whipped up a few nights ago with chopped cucumber, pineapple and watermelon. Seriously,...

I wonder, does anybody ever just say peace-the-eff-out to under-eye concealer? OK, peeps…deep makeup thoughts right now, because if I don’t distract myself this morning, I’m going to sit here thinking about the three hairline cracks I just found on my iPhone screen, in which case I risk becoming stuck with a permanent crabby Filipino grandma frown for the rest of my life. *SIGH!* In 10 years that $169 screen repair fee (OY VEY) won’t matter, Karen. 🙁 It won’t matter. Just keep telling yourself that… So, concealer. Mine has been giving me major trubs lately, and I’m starting to...

A fascinating overlap of apparently far fields, Mathematics and Biology, sometimes through Physics (see e.g. mathematical biophysics), sometimes directly through pure mathematics (as it happens in statistics, automata theory or algebraic biology, for example). I suggest this informative wiki entry as a good introduction: Mathematical and theoretical biology. All the info about the activities in the links included below:The year of Mathematical Biology 2018 is a joint venture of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB). The main objectives are to celebrate the huge increase and importance of applications of mathematics to...