Author: Hilary Baumann

  • Cosmetic Toxins

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    I stumbled across these the other day and I think it’s a good reference. I’ll probably do a follow-up post when I have more time. See what’s harmful in your cosmetics: http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep2/index.php Campaign for safer cosmetics: http://www.safecosmetics.org/index.cfm “[Their] goal is to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry…

  • Pressing Pigments into Pans

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    Recently I sent someone on MakeupAlley.com some lipgloss pans – they wanted them to press pigments into. I finally got around to asking exactly how one goes about pressing pigments into pans and she pointed me to these two tutorials: http://community.livejournal.com/mac_cosmetics/13855130.html http://community.livejournal.com/mac_cosmetics/19940521.html#cutid1

  • Acne Solutions

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    Yes, I still get acne. Yes, like a lot of people I’ve tried almost every acne product at the drugstore. Yes, I’m allergic to benzoyl peroxide (if you haven’t tried products with this in it, you definitely should – it works wonders for those people who don’t break out in a rash like I do.…

  • Quick update!

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    Last week I caught a bit of the bug that was going around and was sick for a couple of days. This week my furnace died and the whole thing is currently being replaced, from duct work to adding a sump pump. House is frozen, just trying to keep up with work. I’m self employed…

  • Rimmel eyeshadow depotted fits perfectly in a Mark “Customize your face” case – mezzo size

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    I hated how the lids on the old rimmel eyeshadow cases came off (the newer rimmel cases are hinged though.) I had three rimmel shades I wanted to keep so I was looking around on ebay and saw the Mark “Customize your face” case/pallet. It was a decent price and it LOOKED like the rimmel…

  • Waterproof eyeliner trick

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    Here’s a neat little trick to applying waterproof mascara as an eyeliner: 1) Take a fine tipped brush (see my previous post about buying brushes at an art store if you don’t already own one.) 2) Open your waterproof mascara and pull the mascara brush out. 3) Get some of the mascara off of that…