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My biggest beauty-related frustration would have to be my brows. The hairs are incredibly fine and light, so if I'm not wearing any brow product, they disappear in most flash photographs. The front is noticeably thicker than the arch and tail (though that isn't saying much). And because I sleep on my side, my brows often end up looking like cockroach antennae, poking every which way and necessitating copious layers of brow gel to tame them. A lot of beauty bloggers say they skip their brows when they're doing "quick makeup," but for me, that's not an option.
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Maybelline Define-a-Brow comes in a thin, bright green, twist-up tube with the product on one end and a comb on the other. I've seen this product range in price from $2 to $5; I personally got two pencils for $5 and had a $1 coupon to drop the price even lower. That seems like a real steal, but it's worth noting that you don't get a ton of product: there's only .001 oz of brow goodness in there. Compare that to .003 oz in the Anastasia Brow Wiz and the never-ending .14 oz Shu Uemura Hard Formula pencil. Still, the tiny size makes it handy for traveling or tossing in your purse.
The packaging is cute and the lid stays on there, but beyond that, it's pretty lackluster. For starters, you can't retract the brow product: once you've twisted it up, there's no going back. This means you have to twist up a little, start doing your brows, twist up more as you need it, and so on and so on. It's a bit fussy and time consuming. The rigid plastic comb is also absolutely useless, unless you have the thickest, most unruly brows known to mankind. A spoolie would work better for most people.
The formula of the Define-a-Brow pencil is very creamy, with just a hint of waxiness. Though pigmented, it's hard to overdo, in part because the thinness of the pencil makes it easiest to use quick, small strokes. I was able to use brow gel and brow wax over this product without smearing or pulling off the color, provided I used a tiny amount--too much brow gel will result in bare patches on your brows. I got good wear from this product as well, with no fading throughout the day.
The Define-a-Brow shade range is rather limited, with only 4 shades. 3 of those shades looked very yellow, but the shade I picked--Medium Brown--looked a tad more neutral. As you can see in the above photos, it really, really isn't; it has a definite red cast that looks incredibly fake on my face. I might have been able to get away with this when I had my bright red hair, but as a mousy brunette, it's not working for me.
Here is Define-a-Brow in Medium Brown compared to the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Medium Brown. You can clearly see that the ABH product is ashier. Not surprisingly, the Anastasia suits me better. Again, you won't find much in the way of ashy shades in this range, so unless you like a warm brow, steer clear.
Define-a-Brow is a decent budget option in terms of the actual pencil, but the shade range leaves much to be desired. The packaging is also outdated and only halfways functional. If Maybelline makes a few tweaks to this pencil, they'll have a much better product on their hands.
Is the Shu fussier to use? I thought it was your HG! My brows hairs are kind of sparse too, but I never seem to have much problems doing them. Do you draw in lots of little hairs? I usually just run a slanted twist up a couple of times and spoolie blend with little regards to natural strokes and it looks pretty okay to me. Plus I never ever use gel or anything. Maybe I'm a brow philistine? Hahaha.
That colour does look atrocious on you (and probably 95% of people.) Good brow colours are tough to find!
It is my HG! LOL! I just hate the idea of carrying it around and losing it, so I sometimes look for a cheap-and-easy alternative.
I definitely wouldn't call the Shu fussier. It's just formulated in such a way that you do have to take a bit more time to draw things on--it reacts to the oil in brow hairs. Really great for both natural brows and heavier ones. I don't really draw in individual hairs with pencils because my brows are so freaking fine, but rather, I use short strokes throughout.
I think you'll like the NYX Micro Brow pencil. I was using the Anastasia Brow Wiz since the color was called Ash Brown, but I can't tell the difference between that one and the NYX pencil. The only downside is that I can't find the NYX pencil in stores, I have to order it.
Chelle in Taupe is the only one that has really been spot on for me. It seems to be a true taupe I add a powder to warm it up a touch. It matches my winter roots so its nice to color in my baby blonde brows that blend into my pale face lol.
I used to use a La Femme pencil in Taupe, and it was a great $2 pencil. But it's so hard to find those true taupe shades at the drugstore!


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How did you get become an associate director of recruitment at DePauw?
Just as we advise our students to find their college match, we, too, spend time finding our professional space in a college or high school that will be a match for us!
I graduated from Augustana College (IL) wide-eyed and ready to face the world, but unsure of what it is I wanted to do. My career counselor had previously worked in undergraduate admission and was able to make connections to help start my career in Galesburg, IL, at Knox College. From there, my career then centered around my "College Fair Alphabet Buddies." Each fair, I would be sandwiched between "Lake Forest" and "Kenyon," whom I enjoyed chatting with and getting to know, but after two travel seasons and a desire to move to Chicago, I left the admission field and started a new (albeit very short) job at the YMCA.
Shortly after moving to Chicago, the opportunity to transition back into college admission at Lake Forest College presented itself to me, as I had made some quality connections with my "College Fair Alphabet Buddies", and I was fortunate to join an incredible team at Lake Forest College for three years.
After attending the IACAC Middle Management Institute, I left with a lot more questions than answers within our profession. I had made great connections at the Institute but also had thoughts on diversifying my professional portfolio to gain experience at a large, urban, Catholic institution. Fast forward a few years, and I was working in undergraduate admission at DePaul University. While my time at DePaul was fantastic, I am the product of a small private liberal arts college, and I yearned to return to my small school roots. Again, I called upon my "College Fair Alphabet Buddies" and moved one more table down, changed one letter on my business cards, and continued my career at DePauw University. I now get to stand next to friends and old colleagues, while also promoting the small private liberal arts college experience that I value so much. I am fortunate to have the support of great networks and "College Fair Alphabet Buddies" in the Illinois ACAC and the Chicago Area Regional Representatives Group (CARR) to help me advance my career and stay connected to the profession.
The cliché answer would be that "I love the cyclical nature of the work that we do" (which I do), but I love even more that every day, in every interaction or decision we make, no matter the cycle, we are changing the lives of the students that we serve. Whether it's a tour guide or an overreaching parent, a junior who is new in the college search process or an admitted senior, a school counselor who never previously considered your program or a mentee, we are agents of change. We must not take for granted how important and impactful our words, decisions, and profession is in shaping the future.
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"The French government is to deploy its military anti-terror force as reinforcement during Act 19 of Saturday Yellow Vest protests.
The decision by President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, came after violence marred last weekend's protests, spiking to levels not seen since December.
Many targets by the movement in Paris and other cities included known landmarks and stores or places seen as elitist, such as the Parisian restaurant Le Fouquet's on the Champs Elysées.
Following the terrorist attacks at Charlie Hebdo in 2015, military officers have been patrolling the streets across the country as part of Operation Sentinel.
Now, they will be dedicated to ensuring security at the next round of Yellow Vest demonstrations, which have been held every Saturday for the past 18 weeks.
But last week's demonstrations, which some Yellow Vest leaders had suggested may be their last, turned into some of the most violent to date.
After the weekend, the French government sacked the top police official in Paris, 66-year-old Michel Delpuech, for failure to keep the protests in the capital from spiralling out of control.
In addition to the landmark restaurant in Paris, more than 100 other businesses were damaged along the Champs-Elysées.
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Howard Dean Doesn't Know What 'Free Speech' Means, Twitter Steps In
By Kira Davis | 9:00 PM on April 21, 2017
Yesterday Governor Howard Dean tweeted out this little gem in regards to free speech and offensive speech (specifically Ann Coulter's doomed Berkley visit). Keep in mind as you're reading that this is a man who once wanted to be the leader of the free world and actually expected people to vote for him to do that job.
Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment. https://t.co/DOct3xcLoY
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) April 21, 2017
Oof.
Don't worry, Twitter took him to task right quick.
This man ran for president.
— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) April 21, 2017
Can you help me out and explain what things you would jail people for saying?
I assume nothing on the Democrat platform.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 21, 2017
You're an idiot. How did you get through medical school?
— Neal Boortz (@Talkmaster) April 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/855455017465020417
https://t.co/fraK74PWFV
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 21, 2017
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— neontaster (@neontaster) April 21, 2017
Hate speech is protected. Two words … Skokie Illinois or three words … Westboro Baptist Church.
— David Webb (@davidwebbshow) April 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/jamesrtoy/status/855224065254150144
https://twitter.com/RealKiraDavis/status/855222362001752064
Don't quit your day job, Governor.
Don't quit your day job … whatever it is, because the law, particularly constitutional law, ain't your bag.
— Ron Sandack (@RLSandack) April 21, 2017
Kira is an author, freelance writer and Editor-at-large for RedState. She has appeared on Fox News, OANN, The Blaze and The Dr. Phil Show. Kira is also a regular guest host at KABC radio in Los Angeles and occasionally fills in for The Dan Bongino Show. Her podcasts "Just Listen to Yourself" and The Kira Davis Show are heard by hundreds of thousands of listeners across the country and the globe. Kira lives in Southern California with her husband and two children. She is a dog person but has been known to tolerate cats from time to time.
Kira's new book, Drawling Lines: Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely In the Arena of Ideas launches January 25, 2023 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
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- A rare issue, which could lead to crashes, was fixed.
- The hate symbol on gloves has now been removed from the shared game world. Now, it is not appearing when you are running around in the game. However, it is still appeared at the inspection or item icon. A hotfix is scheduled for next week to permanently remove this.
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- Conversely, all clans are entitled to act as guides for guide games.
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Movie Review: Men in Black 3
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PG certificate, 106 minutes
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin
A decade after the release of Men in Black II and fifteen years after the first film in the series, the MIBs are back. The film is available in both 3D and 2D versions, the 2D version being the film seen.
Both Agent J (Will Smith, After Earth, Focus) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones, Jason Bourne, The Family), are still working for the Men in Black, and are still partners.
Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement), a criminal, murderer and the last surviving Boglodite, has Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Men_In_Black_3.jpgescaped from the LunarMax prison on, not surprisingly, the Moon. Agent K was the one who originally arrested him, and Boris definitely bears a grudge. K's defeat of Boris led to the death of the rest of the Boglodite race, so Boris returns back to 1969 and kills K in the past.
When Agent J wakes the next day, he is the only one who remembers K - everyone else remembering him - for those that actually remember him at all - as having died 40 years ago. Agent O (Emma Thompson, The Love Punch), the new head of the MIB after Z's death (Z being the head of the MIB in the previous two films), tells J that he will have to travel back in time to 15th July 1969 to stop K from dying, thus preventing the alien invasion now happening in the present that had previously been stopped by K's actions in 1969. Time jumping back to the past apparently involves climbing to very nearly the top of the Chrysler Building in New York and "jumping" off it.
Shortly after arriving back in the past, J runs into a young K (Josh Brolin, Guardians of the Galaxy, Sicario, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) and winds up teaming up with him to stop Boris. With the present day Boris having gone back to 1969 too, there are now two Boris the Animals running around in the past. J and K have to defeat them both. J also runs across a young Agent O (Alice Eve).
A substantial proportion of the film has Josh Brolin playing the part of a young Agent K, which he carries off well. He actually sounds like a younger Tommy Lee Jones - apparently the result of months of studying Jones on Brolin's part. If you are a fan of Tommy Lee Jones, he unfortunately doesn't appear in the film much, as the majority of the film is set back in the past.
The film itself is the usual science fiction silliness of the MIB franchise; yes there's death and destruction, but there is also quite a bit of humour. This is also the first film Will Smith has starred in for several years (the last being Seven Pounds in 2008), but he still seems to remember how to play the part of J. The logic of the film is sometimes a bit strained, but that isn't unusual when dealing with time travel. If you like the other films in the Men in Black series, you will like this one. If you didn't, you won't.
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This is a great review but I won't be seeing this movie for a couple reasons: 1. I'm not a Josh Brolin fan and 2. I'm over the MIB movie series.
I'm personally not that familiar with Josh Brolin - it looks like the only thing I've seen him in was American Gangster
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Alleyway leading to the beach where we liked to grab an ice cream at the end of the day. It was very picturesque but hard to capture.
Cool surf shop. Motorcyles seem more abundant than people here.
At the Kite Club on our second visit where Andy watched the wind and the kids made friends with the pups.
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Tasty food, comfy seats and a super view. Frustrating for Andy but the rest of us had a fab day!
Killing some time. These people love to drift and do this whenever they see a current.
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The driving is so insane we were warned not to do it in the dark. Headlights, driving on the correct side of the road and signaling are all optional and generally opted against. Andy was cool as a cucumber and got us around safely with only a few minor heart attacks. This is our view of a Puerto Plata intersection at night. I wish photos had sound.
Day 3 and out comes little gofly, our tiny kite.
And he's up! We thought Andy did a great job and had fun watching him get up and go. He was harder on himself and it was pretty tough with all the experts flipping and flying all around him but he did really well.
At one point we counted about 70 kites flying at one time. Crazy crowded but really cool to watch.
An ice cream treat after all of our hard work collecting sea beans.
Evelyn got a chance to take Stormy over a couple jumps.
Back at our temporary home, Ocean World, Andy took on the role of arts and crafts teacher while we hunkered down, obsessed over wind forecasts and plotted our move along the north coast. Here's the painted stick race he came up with. Does the picture reveal how gross this was? Who needs an intestinal parasite AND one that burrows into your feet? Ick.


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10 debut books to read this June
June 1, 2021 by vitcavage
Summer is here and the books aren't stopping. The first half of 2021 ends with a pile of debuts so delectable it was hard to narrow Debutiful's recommendations down to just ten. The books featured below range from dark queer romances to somber reflections on race in America to books filled with off-the-wall humor.
Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; May 18)
Parks-Ramage's riveting novel is about a queer romance that turns darkly tense over the course of the affair. When a young man gets entwined with an older, successful, and famous man, everything seems perfect. That is until the two go away for the summer and sinister secrets and abuse start to spill out. The novel grips you on page one and doesn't let go until the very last page.
Bewilderness by Karen Tucker (Catapult; June 1)
An intimate friendship between two young women drives this riveting novel set in rural North Carolina. Tucker writes a poignant and heartbreaking novel about opioid addiction, friendship, and desire filled with memorable and beautifully written passages.
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin (Little, Brown; June 1)
Lin reimagines the Western novel in his debut that follows a Chinese-American on a tour of vengeance to find his wife. The page-turner has copious amounts of action that leans heavily into raw violence that is perfect for readers who ask, "Is there anything like a Quentin Tarantino movie as a book?"
Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti (Graywolf Press; June 1)
In her debut story collection, Nkweti blends and bends genre from story to story. One story leans into a zombie outbreak in West Africa. Another is a murder mystery that borrows from tropes in graphic novels. Everything Nkweti does feels completely refreshing as she twists and turns the expectations of what a short story can be.
Future Feeling by Joss Lake (Soft Skull; June 1)
A book so wild, trying to explain why you should read it would do it injustice. But let's try? There's a dog walker obsessed with a minor celebrity who he tries to put a hex on, but the hex gets directed to another man. All three are trans and the dog walker and celebrity are forced to team up to save the third from the misplaced hex.
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris (Atria; June 1)
This is the story of the only Black employee at a company who has learned to curb the micoaggressions her white coworkers throw at her. Life is as good as it cane be until another Black employee is hired. Then things start to get… weird. She gets threatening messages telling her to leave the company. The result is a sharp social commentary and tense thriller that everyone will be talking about all summer.
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez (Doubleday; June 8)
When a young man leaves his broken home to start a new life, he realizes it will be more difficult that he imagined. He turns to sex work to help make ends meet in Mendez's novel about race, class, and sexuality. The character is unlike anything I have ever read. He's black, queer, and grew up a Jehovah's Witness. He's rough, raw, and real. Just like the rest of the book.
Doubting Thomas by Matthew Clark Davison (Amble Press; June 8)
An accusation about an openly gay elementary school teacher kicks off this novel that questions how progressive we can be as a society while old stereotypes still boil to the surface as an easy way to scapegoat someone. The novel is haunting in ways that are unexpected. It will break your heart but also leave you filled with anger after seeing the injustice queer professionals have to go through.
Something Wild by Hannah Halperin (Viking; June 29)
Beginning with two adult sisters returning home to move their mother out of their family home, the story is seemingly about sisterhood and the ebbs and flows of the closeness and distance the two shared. That is, until a secret about their mother's violent relationship comes to the forefront. Halperin allows her characters to be flawed as the story bounces across time to paint a portrait of a complicated family and offers no easy answers.
Mona at Sea by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Santa Fe Writers' Project; June 30)
Fans of Hilary Leichter's Temporary will enjoy this new, thought-provoking novel about employment. Here, Mona is 23, unemployed, and lost. In a country propelled by "what do you do" and "how much do you make," so many novels have turned to these themes of what if you don't work and what if you don't make. Elizabeth Gonzales James allows Mona to be lost and expertly crafts her story in thoughtful passages that will make the reader fill adrift at sea.
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