Usually, what draws us in is the person animating the face: their smile, eye contact, expressions, energy, and particularity. We don’t experience a face as …
Makeup
The Poetry of Presentation
The product is never just the product. We bring our memories, insecurities, desires and ideas about beauty to it. The same lipstick can feel like …
Consequences
Time never argues with neglect.
A National Lipstick Day Tradition
To celebrate, enjoy our National Lipstick Day favorites: 💄 Lipsticks — $18 ✏️ Lip Pencils — $16 One to wear. One to write.
The Presence of Absence
Beauty has always asked something of us. Sometimes it asks us to stand before a painting or to listen to an orchestra. And sometimes, unexpectedly, …
The Celebratory Cigarette
And yet, that is what makes it wonderful. The appeal is the convenience and the strange transformation that happens along the way. The gas station …
The Tattoo Artist with No Tattoos
Imagine meeting a tattoo artist with no tattoos. Would it make you pause? How about a makeup artist who doesn’t wear makeup? A wedding planner …
What Obsession Understands About Desire
Horror films are rarely about monsters. More often, they take ordinary human tendencies and push them to their logical conclusion. The supernatural simply illuminates what …
The Exchange Rate
One of the more surprising discoveries of visiting the Pacific Northwest has been the diminished status of makeup. People there wear makeup. But it seems …
A Feast For Starving Eyes
One of the least acknowledged forms of generosity is beauty made by ordinary people on ordinary days. These acts are rarely profitable. Often they are …