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What the world needs now is love, sweet, love…and it also needs all the women who hoard love makeup to shop their stashes, because when you dig into what you actually have, you find gold! Case in point: I was knockin’ around my makeup collection to find something to recreate this look Olive Wilde rocked by Mélanie Inglessis, and that’s when I rediscovered the wonder that is MAC Antiqued Eye Shadow. View this post on Instagram Director #oliviawilde at the #sxsw #booksmart premiere! #makeupbymél #smoked A post shared by Mélanie Inglessis (@melaniemakeup) on Mar 11, 2019 at 9:15am PDT Antiqued...

Sometimes I feel like a lone wolf weirdo prancing my way through life… But I know, deep down inside, that I cannot be the only person who gets cheap thrills out of things like the $3 Trader Joe’s Mystery Bags. (Good mornin’, by the way.) How cool are these?! They’re supposedly available at all Trader Joe’s stores in the US. For $2.99, you get a collection of three randomized reusable TJ’s shopping bags that are only available during the holidays. The designs are regionally specific, so you just never know if you’re going to get the bags from New York...

Conversations with my overstuffed makeup bag (Part 1) ME: “Hey, do you think I need another highlighter?” MY OVERSTUFFED MAKEUP BAG: I mean let’s get real here. Chances are you already have a go-to highlighter (or highlighters, because MOAR SHIMMER), and you’re probably attached to it, but if you, by chance, “need” a new one, or if it’s your life’s mission to become the antithesis of all that is Konmari, then…MAC ATTACK! MAC is adding two new highlighting palettes to their Hyper Real Glow line. Like the bronze and rose gold palettes in the permanent line now, these new ones...

What’s an unsung makeup hero? For me, it’s an oftentimes underrated makeup morsel, a permanent collection product that scoots under the radar screen of many makeup lovers but regularly rocks my world. The long-running Unsung Heroes series features some of my favorites. Warning: do not attempt to picture an almond hunched in a doorway, puffing away at a cigarette when you think of the words, “smoked almond,” because once you see something like that in your mind’s eye, you’ll wonder 1) what would ever possess an almond to smoke in the first place, and 2) why said almond wouldn’t know...

Zero-index material made of silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film.Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero, meaning that the phase of light can travel infinitely fast.(You may find a quick explanation of this effect here)Credit: Peter Allen, Harvard SEASVia Phys.org: To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip materialPaper (abstract & references), Nature Photonics: On-chip zero-index metamaterials