Author Archives: Voxy

Guest Post! Review: Urban Decay Naked 2

Guest post and photos by Chaos! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since picking up my Naked palette (the original version) after searching for it in at least four Sephoras across two separate continents, I have not left the house without it. While this shows how much I love the thing, and also helps me justify my purchase of a [...]

Review: Bare Minerals Insider’s Kit (with Cheek Tint and Color-Shift Eyeshadow)

A few months ago, a friend and I sat down at ULTA and had little mini-makeovers, just for fun. This particular friend has a very busy telecommuting job and two small children, so she has had neither the time nor the external motivation to keep up her makeup routine, and I think she misses being [...]

Random Swatches: Too Faced Tinted Beauty Balm

Comes in four shades. From top to bottom: Vanilla Glow, Cream Glow, Nude Glow, Beach Glow. For the record, I am an NW20 in MAC and all of these are *far* too yellow for me.

Review: Chanel Blush Horizons Blush Éclat Douceur

I am so glad to see the return of blush for spring. Not that it ever totally disappeared, but the seasonal focus is so often on lips or eyes that poor blush gets the bum’s rush. It is Land of Blush in the Voxpartment. There are blushes everywhere. Because you never know when you might [...]

Bang Your Head On Your Desk: China Glaze’s Hunger Games Nail Polishes

Did you hear a giant sort of WHOOSH-BOOOOOM!!!! sound just now? That was the sound of irony flying over the collective heads of China Glaze and sixteen million teenage fangirls. Some of whom are probably our own students. I didn’t comment on this before because it seemed like circumstances were conspiring against the release of [...]

Review: Benefit Watt’s Up! Highlighter

OMG, you guys, I have picked up so many unexpectedly fabulous products lately that I can’t stop squeeing as I put on my makeup in the morning. If you hear a sound like a stuck pig coming from somewhere in the Midwest, that’s me. I also feel a little bit guilty about it because I’ve [...]

Guest Post! Review: Nails, Inc. Magnetic Polish in Trafalgar Square and Whitehall

Guest post by Chaos! ~~~~~~ This is the fastest-drying nail polish in the world. OK, so I haven’t figured out the drying time of all the nail polishes in the world, because a nail polish review needn’t be so scientific, but this stuff dries very quickly. This is awesome, and definitely contributes to how easy [...]

People’s Choice Awards Beauty: You’re Kidding Me, Right?

I swear to God, I must have been born on some other planet. I don’t know which planet that was, of course. I don’t even know if it was in our solar system. All I know about it — and this is purely inductive reasoning here — is that its inhabitants are probably generally human-shaped, [...]

Fenomenally Phunny Philm

In the phew short hours since this waltzed into my Phacebook inbox via a phriend-of-a-phriend (thanks, Rob Rogers [not the phamous famous one]), it appears to have gone viral, as I am now seeing it everywhere! Well, good phor it, I say, and good phor its creator, Jesse Rosten. LOVE.

“It’s Like There Is an Intoxicating Flower Coming Out of Her Mouth”

Via style.com’s Beauty Counter blog: “If you’re unfamiliar with Japanese artist Nobuyoshi Araki’s work, the retina-burning ombré pink lips at Prabal Gurung were likely a bit of a jarring site [sic]. But put in the context of the photographer’s vivid images of exotic blooms, the mouths made perfect sense. ‘It’s like there is an intoxicating flower coming [...]