Lots of linkies this week!
In beauty:
– Exciting news for one of my very favorite bloggers, Autumn Whitefield-Madrano of The Beheld – she's writing a book!! I think she is possibly the most insightful and articulate writer on various topics related to beauty, so her book will no doubt be amazing. It also reminds me to get moving on my coffee table book, as well as another, meatier beauty book on a completely different topic. 😉
– It's a good thing Mint didn't include me in their survey of beauty shoppers; otherwise I may have skewed their results, one of which found that a woman will spend, on average, $15,000 on beauty products in her lifetime. I can tell you I will spend significantly more than that, if I haven't already. And they only shop for makeup 5 times a year?! Try 5 times a week. (via Refinery29)
– I consider myself to be fairly savvy and up on the latest beauty trends, but even I cannot keep up with this seemingly endless alphabetization of foundation/skincare mashups. You know about BB creams and possibly CC creams, but now there are DD creams? This is getting out of hand.
– Michael Kors will be debuting a beauty line in August. I have to say that all the more recent fashion companies' releases of beauty collections (Burberry, Tom Ford, D&G) are all sort of running together in my head packaging-wise, and Kors is further muddying the pool. With the exception of D&G's limited edition pieces, they're all very similar, which is disappointing.
Miscellany:
– Another one for the "duh" file: study finds that women are more tired than men, at any age.
– Thieves in Germany made off with 5 metric tons (the equivalent of nearly 14,000 jars) of Nutella. Given that I go through a big jar of this highly addictive spread roughly every 2 weeks, I can't say I blame them.
– Simply adorable Pantone food pairings.
– I meant to include this in last week's links – a guide to the best British slang. This is the main reason that I want to move to London.
– I have heard countless times that it's a terrible idea to get your Ph.D. in any humanities field, which is why I abandoned my lifelong dream of pursuing a doctoral degree years ago (and have been absolutely miserable job-wise ever since). Nevertheless, every time I read an article like this one detailing just how awful it is in academia, my response is always the same.
Once again, I don't CARE if I'm unemployed or working a crappy job the rest of my life, I want my damn Ph.D!
– While that incredibly unpleasant, dream-smashing article came via the Hairpin, the site did a great round-up of the top mermaid destinations. And guess what else, the aforementioned Deborah Lippmann Mermaid collection is up at her website! This mermaid wanna-be has ordered and is anxiously awaiting the beautiful polishes that will magically transform me into a sexy sea siren.
What's up with you this week?