Hi, I’m a member of the Dollar Shave Club because I have no shame and shave my legs with men’s razors. Who needs a fancy Venus Razor when I can buy a Mach3 Razors and get the job done like a world class champion. Hey, if nothing else I’m all about truth around here! Remember, I did confess to buying men’s razors in the past.

I’m a girlie girl you know this and I love all the pink frou frou razors as much as the next girl but in reality, I get a way smoother shave from a dude’s razor. Come on, be honest with me, you know when Summer comes and Venus starts putting out peach scented razors you’re one of the first people in line to buy one of those bad boys.

My sister recently purchased a Flamingo Razor from Target and she Facetimed me a few weeks ago and she was like, “THIS DOESN’T WORK! It doesn’t have a moisturizing strip!” The first thing, that entered my head was shaving cream. This girl does not understand the use of shaving cream. She relies on those moisturizing strips like they are going to perform a miracle shave for her. I kindly explained to her, “You’re using it wrong. Even if it doesn’t have a moisturizing strip you should use shaving cream because it’ll make the glide a whole lot better.” I mean, even with the moisturizing strip, which is a nice little extra to have around, you still need shaving cream in my humblest opinion.

Fast forward a few hours later to another Facetime call, “It still isn’t working even with shaving cream!” Dude, do you not know how to shave your legs? Must I step you through these things…! She ranted nearly 30 minutes about the horror of the Flamingo Razor.

Anyway, I decided to give it a try. Flamingo recently launched at Target so, I picked one up online and gave it a go. She’s right. It sucks. I never knew how important that damn moisturizing strip was until it was gone. Flamingo’s pretty nifty in some ways. She has five blades, all of which are sharp, she’s cheap as day old chips, and she’s pretty if not basic. But she drags like a mother even with a full leg of shaving cream on. I honestly, never realized before how helpful that little moisturizing strip was. It really create a smoother glide. Flamingo has perks for sure but without that moisturizing strip it just doesn’t give me the smoothest shave in the world.

Have you tried the Flamingo Razor?

Does it work for you?

Where to buy

Target

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Dear Diary,

Today it’s been 151 years since isolation and I’ve been inside with my eyebrows too long. Things are starting to fall apart. At first things were going well! We had great arches together, we had smooth, even lines but weeks went by and the brows turned on me.

Sincerely, the Muse.

Remember in 2015 when I went to the Benefit Brow Bar and it went something like this:

Well, I’m here to say that the situation is getting bad here. I need a threading badly. If I wait any longer I may just have one brow instead of two tomorrow. There’s some sexual attraction between the two and they are really trying to connect badly now. Ha…

No but seriously, I thought I’d take things into my own hands last month so I ordered the Finishing Touch Flawless Brow. People, it does not work. I know you’re gagging for a review over there and it’s coming soon but DON’T BUY IT. It’s way too difficult to actually use a unit like this on such a small area. You have to sort of do circles around the area you want to remove the hair and it just doesn’t quite work out right. I have A LOT of real estate around my eyes. I mean, I can totally do a Mimi over here no problem. From my lid up there’s just a lot of area I can get eyeshadow onto but even that extra area didn’t making working with this unit easy.

My next step was to try Flamingo and yeah, that’s a bad idea because I almost ripped off an entire brow. Something I learned in quarantine, I do not know how to wax my own eyebrows. Hey, but really good news! Flamingo is actually awesome. Who remembers the Sally Hansen Wax Strips? You had to rub those bad boys together like you were starting a camp fire to warm the wax before putting them on. Flamingo is way more user friendly. Tear the two strips of wax off each other, stick to the area you need to remove hair, and rip it off. It’s pretty painless plus they include wipes to remove any excess wax and a serum to soothe the area you waxed. They actually just started carrying Flamingo at Target and you can also snag the kits at shopflamingo.com. I highly recommend them but just don’t try doing your brows unless you’re a pro!

I mean some people can walk around all hairy like Amanda Palmer. She has hair under her arms, on her legs, and on her face since the Dresden Dolls were a thing. Girl, even made a song about her pubes. But it makes me uncomfortable AF when my brows are doing weird ass things. I like things less hairy thanks every so much!

The worst thing about this? How comfortable will I be going in for a waxing when things do begin to open up?

How do you feel about heading to the salon for a threading or a wax when things re-open?

Do share!

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Enjoy 25% Off your Fenty Beauty purchase! The new blushes are $15 bucks each during the sale! Plus free shipping! No code, just checkout and the discount is applied.

Happy Hauling!

Where to buy

Fenty Beauty

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Hi there, I’m Isabella and I’m addicted to reading Wincest Fanfic. I make no apologies for this. There are fics like The Incestuous Courtship of the Antichrist�s Bride where Dean is ahem cough forced to become Sam’s bride that just float my boat.

Am I admitting this sh1T on a public website? Screw it. I am!

Anyway, my Wayward Sisters I see you out there! I know you. I wanted to tell you the sad, sad news broke yesterday that Supernatural will return with the last seven seasons for Fall. Ugh. We have to wait that long to see Sam and Dean ride off a cliff Thelma & Louise style. I’m so convinced that’s how it ends. What do you think?

We all need to sit around the campfire, hold hands, and sing the song of our people for a little comfort now.

Oops! I got off the topic of makeup for a minute there. Let’s bring it back to that arena. Remember when Hot Topic released two different Supernatural Eyeshadow Palettes and we all wanted them rather badly because we aren’t grown adults we’re 12 year old children over here. Ha…! You know I do sometimes wander how it would be if some of my fandoms entered my life when I was like 16. I can just picture myself at 16 being obsessed with Supernatural. You know I’d be wearing that eyeshadow palette advertising to the world that my fandom was the bestest fandom. Nowadays, it’s like holy cow I bet that palette has traces of asbestos. With age, experience may not come, but makeup knowledge does.

If your fandom includes things that go bump in the night and big tall men that battle them come on down! The kettle is on. Let’s chat for a second.

P.S. Did you know Misha texts fans? Yeah, that’s a thing!

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Haus Laboratories, Lady Gag’s makeup line, is releasing a new Stupid Love Eyeshadow Palette and I admit that I tilted my head, looked at the photo posted on Instagram, and muttered out loud, “It’s about bloody time!” But wait, they already have one right!?

I swear, Haus Laboratories was one of the weirdest makeup collection launches ever. When you have Lady Gaga behind a brand you expect really big things but instead of launching with a big bang, Haus Labs really tiptoed softly into our beauty world with a really small launch of product. Unlike Riri’s Fenty Beauty launch, Haus Labs was like a two product launch and there was a lot of fanfare that went into the launch as you had to pre-book it eighteen years in advance. Ok, it wasn’t eighteen years but it was a few months and it was like only on Amazon and it felt like a really big pain in the a$$ to get some Haus Labs makeup.

I mean, are you picturing Lady Gaga sitting at a meeting with a creative team and saying, “Ok, we’re doing this people! We’re launching this line and it’s going to include two products and were bringing it exclusively to Amazon!”

Eh?!

Huh?

Hi, how ya doing there, I don’t shop makeup all that much on Amazon. Insert shifty eyes here. I really don’t….

Am I alone!?

Ok, you can get it on the Haus Labs website as well but you would think something as huge as a brand created by Lady Gaga would make its way to Sephora or even to a higher-end department store. To date, Haus Labs has 709,000 followers on Instagram. That number should be way bigger. In the brand’s defense, they are very much in their infancy. Stepping into Sephora can be risky business as we know from brands like Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics. Sephora is great exposure but it also comes at a higher risk for newly launched or indie brands.

On some levels I respect Haus Labs’ roll. They didn’t overwhelm us, they didn’t start producing flashy products right off the bat, they also didn’t slam us with release after release. All this is respectable. However, all this also means our attention wandered quickly. Case in point, I thought the Stupid Love Eyeshadow Palette was the first palette the brand produced when in reality they have another. See? My attention wandered away there for a second. It’s just a very uneventful brand that feels like it should have more followers than it currently does. Will it have any sustainability? Time will tell if we’ll see Haus on the clearance brand at some point.

For those interested, the Stupid Love Eyeshadow Palette launches at Amazon and on on the brand’s website May 19th. It includes 18 shades and will be $48.

Does the launch excite you?

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