Category: Makeup & Skincare

I refuse to call makeup “beauty.” Love the British term, “slap,” but we’ll leave it to them. I’m more than happy, however, to participate in

All the tube-contained lip unguents I own. I use that tortured descriptor to exclude neither the necessary lip gloss, nor lipstick nor lip balms. Oh,

Older women. We consider time! We come to terms with our face in the mirror! We paint it! In the comments to the post about

I have ignored eyebrows for decades. “Face-framing,” I’d say, “What the heck, what do we need to frame, per se?” Made it through the 90s

Some can’t resist new shoes. Some collect lipsticks, small coral tubes of cheer in a drawer. Me, skincare. Love it. I am made nearly unruly

How is it that in all this time of masks, the only type of makeup I’ve worn has been tinted sunscreen and lip balms. Nobody

I am enjoying my current skin care products. I shall share here, as you may enjoy them too. First, as the easiest first step towards

If I were to look for one good thing about this enforced homestay, I’d say it’s getting better at what I already know. Not that

A couple of weeks ago, I had very long hair.   Now I don’t. This is better. You can see that my hair’s now about

More and more I experience retirement as a quest to balance the small against the large. Or the large against the small, either way, equivalence.

January in the Northern Hemisphere is a teeny time of year. We abstain, we center, we consider. On the other hand, some things are cute.