fragments

This might get ugly.

I just finished a review for a product that many of you probably won’t believe. It is that left field, that unassuming, and if I told you what it was you’d think I’m crazy. I will probably be posting it next week, ‘cause I already have a review queued for Monday morning.

On another note, what would everyone think of an Indie’s Choice Awards? I love Temptalia and all, but every year the Reader’s Choice is dominated by MAC because MAC’s reputation proceeds them (regardless of the fact that they’ve turned to crap over the last few years) and nobody bothers to try anything else. Or there’s the indie categories that companies like NYX somehow win, and I seriously don’t know of any people who think NYX is indie.

I’d put up a list of categories and take recommendations until the end of the year, through a special submission form on my blog. Next January, every hopeful that got suggested at least twice for a category will be voted on.

Right now I have brilliant fanfic in one tab (Warm and Fuzzy for you Caskett shippers) and a new blog entry in another. I’m writing up a new Sephora complaint, as they keep coming back like herpes. Something is massively wrong with your company when one can continuously write complaints about it over a span of years.

I have the remnants of two different eyeliner pencils on my face; the test runs for reviews I am writing. Let’s just say that after 10 hours, the results are…well, not where I applied them.

And gratis is awesome. I am more excited about having new things to review than the fact that I got the stuff for free.

“I would just like to thank you for your videos. I love make-up and I had never bothered doing research about what I was using because I assumed it would all be safe (I guess I tend to run on the honor system). But your videos enlightened me and I have begun doing research before I purchase from businesses online.”

I ride a very slippery slope making the videos I do. I run the risk of being made a pariah of the “beauty blogger world” because so many people have no interest in the drama, and don’t want to associate with people who, in their minds, perpetuate it. But I can’t just ignore the things I see and hear, and pretend that everything’s puppies and rainbows, when my speaking up might save one person from injury or being ripped off.