Product Review: LUSH Emotional Brilliance Translucent Face Powder

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Nothing forces us to assess our usual makeup routines like a summer heat wave. This is the time to pare down, to lighten up, and to keep things simple. It’s also the time when we (or I, at least) need to fight extra facial shine. The problem is that most “mattifying” makeup also has a tendency to look chalky, or else it includes ingredients that irritate my skin.

LUSH’s Emotional Brilliance Translucent Face Powder is beautifully simple, and it’s been my everyday finishing powder for the past year. For special days/nights, I still turn to Caron’s loose powder, but Emotional Brilliance is a basic yet effective (and affordable) alternative.

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On the Street: Midtown West

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I was on my way to dinner with friends in Midtown when I saw this sign posted in the doorway of an office building. I laughed as I took the picture. What on earth is a “Poets’ Security Force”? Is this force composed of moonlighting poets? Or is it a team of security officers working to keep poets safe? Does the entrance exam require all applicants to compose or recite verse? Is there a uniform, perhaps something incorporating black turtlenecks?

So many questions.

Image: photo by Tinsel Creation, somewhere in the West Forties.

Covet: TheBalm InStain Long-Wearing Powder Staining Blush

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Of all the beauty products in my regimen, blusher is one that I rarely re-purchase, only because I take months and months (and months) to use up a single container of blush. Right now I actually own two blushers (one from Sunday Riley, one from 100% Pure) and I haven’t “hit pan” on either one. But, even though I’m not in the market for a new blush, I can’t help eyeing this one from TheBalm.

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