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 …
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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.
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 …
Following Your Heart Is Harder Than It Sounds
“Follow your heart” is among the most common pieces of advice we receive, and perhaps one of the most misleading. The phrase suggests that the …
What Remains When Nothing Properly Ends
Absence of closure rarely gets named directly, perhaps because it is so socially awkward. The pain of things that have not properly ended, and therefore …
Why Is This So Hard to Ignore?
May is Small Business Month and our local Chamber or Commerce chose the theme of Artificial Intelligence and built each week around it. Last year, …
Color Analysis and the Question of Who Is Wrong
We tend to speak about color as if it were a simple matter of fact. I don’t look good in pink. It sounds scientific, like …
The Moment You Question Everything You Started
Five years in business. Fifty years old. Ten years married. And suddenly, everything feels up for review. And so you begin to look back. In …