December 2011
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THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE TALK ABOUT LISBETH...
Sarah and I have been e-mailing way too much about this goddamned Lisbeth Salander collection, which I’ve mentioned before? Yes? Anyhow she wrote a good thing about it so I don’t need to write another thing since it’s all the things I would think anyhow (we’re serious about the intern), but I am still e-mailing about it and wringing my hands becuase GODDAMNIT I WANT IT I...
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MAKEUP TUTORIAL PART DEUX: AFTER DARK.
OKAY KIDS. Makeup tutorial, part two time! So you did that nice classy cat-eye with the orange lipstick thing earlier in the day, right? And now you just got home from work and are going to, I don’t know, something FABULOUS and you want to look like a grungy alien witch mermaid goth from space in the 90’s or something, yeah? But like you don’t actually want to pull out the blue...
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NINA LEEN
Russian-born Nina Leen was one of the first female photographers to shoot for LIFE magazine, which, fortunately for us, means there’s a ton of her work available on the Google LIFE photo archives. While mostly known for her work with animals (including a dog named Lucky that she adopted and apparently put hats on), it’s Leen’s photographs of women that I find most...
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MAKEUP TUTORIAL (AT LONG LAST!): EVERYDAY RETRO
So you guys all comment or ask me for a makeup tutorial like once a goddamned week, I swear, and I finally did it! For some reason this felt super awkward? Like way more awkward than taking photos of my outfits? It’s really weird to do one step of your makeup and then take a picture and then after like eighteen photos I’m all “ew god that is WAY TOO MUCH OF MY FACE this is so...
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WOULD YOU LIKE US TO ASSIGN SOMEONE TO BUTTER YOUR...
FOOD POST TIME Y’ALL. Mixing sweet and savory is kind of my jam, and while my usual breakfast is pretty modest (yogurt with some almonds, fruit and a protein bar, toast with peanut butter and honey, etc) I actually have a huge weakness for breakfast pastries and muffins and sweetbreads and so on. These muffins — with no butter but full of omega-3’s from olive oil, and fiber...
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