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I’ve always been a beauty girl, whether it was an obsession with the perfect nail polish application or collecting a million lipglosses, but for some reason hair has been the one category where I am admittedly lax about. I’d just rather spend the extra five minutes perfecting my mascara than finding out how to use […]
Any company that invites not just me, but Ben and Aria to events as well automatically receives roughly, oh, a billion extra brownie points in my book. It just so happens that Urban Decay’s founder Wende Zomnir is not only a gorgeous businesswoman but also a generous and understanding mother too. Thus, I packed up my husband […]
You may or may not know that my background isn’t strictly in the beauty realm but I actually have a degree in industrial design. One thing I learned from my shop days is how important it is to have the right drill bit, a sharp saw, and a good pair of safety goggles (I know, […]
Over the past year or so I’ve been trying out Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) as a possible alternative to Dropbox. It’s gradually improved to where I think I can rely on it. With my Dropbox subscription up for renewal in a couple of weeks, now’s the time. In this post I’ll describe how to […]
Gird your loins, beauty lovers. Nicely girded? Alright, it’s that time of year again when Sephora does their grand 20% off sale for VIB status shoppers (you get this if you spent $350 in the last year there, which is embarrassingly easy to do). There’s a 15% off sale in the Spring but this holiday […]
If there was ever a lipstick that I want to tell everyone “You’ve GOT to try this” it’s this one. Trust me, there are plenty of lipstick formulas that come across my desk but very few I am as excited about sharing as Burberry’s Full Kisses line which was sent to me as part of […]
This post is based on a lightning talk I gave at CocoaConf San Jose a couple of days ago. It’s that time of year– the time when summer time, or “Daylight Saving Time” as we for some reason call it in the USA– is ending. That time when a developer’s thoughts turn to date math […]
Becoming a mother is something I’ve always dreamed about and always wanted to do. In so many ways, it has been far more rewarding and far more of a sacrifice than I could’ve ever imagined. It’s officially been 100 days since this life-rocking event happened in my life so in reflection I wanted to share […]
You know how you wake up some days, look in the mirror and just think, “Hey I look pretty okay today!” Maybe you got a couple extra hours of sleep or maybe the window is letting in that perfect natural light that makes your skin glow. I was pondering about that in relation to makeup […]
It’s that time of the year again where every makeup company is buzzing about their new holiday collections and Shu Uemura definitely has one of the most exciting ones this year! As in holidays past, they have teamed up with Takashi Murakami for a limited edition collection featuring his iconic flower motif. To start off, […]