Product Reviews: TouchBack Duo BrowMarker and The Face Shop Color My Eyebrow

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In case you didn’t know, eyebrows are having “a moment.” Forget everything you heard in the early 2000s about tweezing, waxing, and threading your brows into wispy arched lines; today, those ocular accessories should be thick, dark, straight, even “boyish.”

My eyebrows actually happen to be naturally thick-ish, although I did deliberately narrow them somewhat back in the late 90s through repeated plucking. However, this spring, my seasonal pollen allergies gave me itchy eyes, and I ended up rubbing the affected area until I wore a small bald spot in one eyebrow. Now my brows were asymmetrical and potentially off-trend. What to do?

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Back from Vacation: Travel Perfumes, October 2015

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I haven’t blogged for the past week or so because Mr. TC and I were enjoying an off-season beach getaway. Now that I’m feeling relaxed and refreshed, I’ll be writing again soon. (When work and other obligations permit, that is!)

I always enjoy reading travel-perfume posts by other bloggers (like this recent one at Scents of Self!), so I thought I’d share this snapshot of the perfumes I packed for my vacation. It’s a mix of old and new fragrances, including various roses and two marine-ish picks that feel right for an autumn beach visit. It turned out to be a good assortment for this trip.

Product Review: Smashbox Baked Fusion Soft Lights (Baked Starblush)

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As I’ve probably mentioned before, I don’t indulge in every cosmetics category as deeply as I do in lipstick. I own just two blushes, for example, and a few single-serving samples of bronzer and highlighter, and I usually find that’s enough for me to have on hand.

However, when I received an offer of this combination blush-highlighter from Smashbox, I was so taken by its rose-y colors and its fun pinwheel effect that I had to accept.

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