š
Sheer, watery lip stains are not talked about enough. That blotted, diffused lip that everybody wants is IMO hard to achieve with Gen G or Bisou Balm, because those, while nice, are kind of drying and crayon-like. Stains are what gives you lit from within popsicle mouth. Dot a tiny amount, blot it around, be insouciant and extra alive wherever you go.Ā Ā
For some reason America is kind of bad at them. Korean brands are the best overallāthe Etude House Dear Darling Tint is a standby. This āāCoco Crushāā is by a Filipino brand called BLK. Itās my fave because itās brown, which is hard to find. Itās looks subtle and a bit dusky and sordid, but organically sordid, like good bedhead.
Sep 30, 2024
Related Recs
š
I used to do it the natural way by eating red candies, fruits (prickly pears do a great job), or lemons (the citric acid would react with my lips to make it more plump and red).
Currently in love with the Sacheu Lip Tint, i use the shade Muah-ve. It takes 5 mins and will last all night. I apply it as a lip liner & inner triangles on my top and bottom lip to give them a little contour and plump, then go over with a clear gloss. āØāØ
Jun 20, 2024
š«¦
A sometime struggle I have is feeling like my lips arenāt defined- why is this happening? Age? Dehydration? All of the nutrients being drained from my body to create two obscenely beautiful children? I was suffering along until I came across this trick. Simple yet life changing (if I remember to do it).
Feb 25, 2025
š
Absolutely underrated shade. Makes me feel like I just spent an afternoon in the summer sun eating fresh blackberries and raspberries that stained my fingers and lips
Feb 7, 2024
Top Recs from @arbys_rising
This is long because itās the one thing I bought off an IG ad that has actually been life changing. For years I wanted a dumb phone to fight my phone slash online shopping addiction, but I didnāt wanna lose maps and a good camera and the iMessage āechoā effect. This does that. My Brick lives on my fridge, and once I tap my phone to it, any app I havenāt whitelisted is blocked. And you can block anything. Even the calculator! Which it deservesā¦after I blocked the obvious ones like IG and shopping, I realized how addicted I was to *information itself*
Occasionally, Iād need to Google something of import, butĀ Ā mostly, I used it to scratch my gnawing, itchy brain. Iād habitually fact-check conversations as I had them, to look up interior photos of the restaurant Iād soon be going to, to search, for the hundredth time, whether fish can feel pain.Ā So anyway I blocked Chrome and Safari and it was nuts. I canāt really get stuck in my bed in a phone hole because the phone fun dries up real fast. I have to just.. get up? Read a book? Incredible. When I do unbrick, usually because I need to do promo for my book, I feel feral and off leash, I turn into a zombie ipad kid, and itās sobering but makes me glad I have something to stop it. Itās nice being able to purchase a personal quality that you lack.Ā Ā
Sep 30, 2024
I donāt like having lots of pill bottles displayed on my bathroom shelf or nightstand. My pharmacy doesnāt even use the iconic orange ones, and besides, it all feels a bit too Girl Interrupted for a woman of 33.
To find a pill box that could hold multiple bottleās worth of pillsāthat also wasnāt ugly and plasticāI had to find boxes not meant for pills. Ebay has tons ofc, and all you need to do is get the measurements and find a velvet jewelry organizer insert thatāll fit. There are a billion.
Sep 30, 2024
š
A mastery of physics. A shape that serves exactly one purpose. Itās singular like a ringing crystal glass. Itās stubborn like a key. The arguments for and against a shoehorn are exactly the same: itāll make each day just a little easier. It offers a frictionless on ramp to the rest of the world. You don't need to gnash your heel into your shoe, you don't need to pause and sit and lace and unlace. You can just slide into the shoe and out the front door before you even have time to think.
Sep 30, 2024