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What Crystal Knows About Me

May 06. 2015

Have you heard of Crystal?In short, it's a web app that attempts to analyze and summarize your personality through your web presence. Its main objective is to help improve communication — you can look up anyone you wish and their Crystal profile will tell you how best to communicate with them.Some have found the service "eerily accurate," while others find it problematic.Intrigued, I requested an invite and was granted access a couple of days later.I felt weird creeping on anyone I know — even J — so I decided to try the algorithm on myself.I wouldn't say that my Crystal profile is "eerily accurate." (But then again, it's only 40% confident that its analysis of me is correct.) For example, I practically...

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Giveaway: 5 Items from the Shiseido Spring 2015 Collection (A $150 Value)!

Feb 23. 2015

A couple of months ago, Shiseido invited me to the launch of their Spring 2015 line at the luxurious Aire Ancient Baths in Tribeca. I was naturally excited to go out, sans kids, to what seemed to be a sophisticated, adults-only affair. What I didn't realize was how fish-out-of-water I would feel at this event; I felt severely underdressed, inelegant, and flat-out dumpy in a room full of tall, thin, impeccably-dressed women — most of whom were beauty journalists/bloggers and editors at fashion magazines. But it didn't matter, because I was super stoked to meet Heidi Manheimer (CEO of Shiseido USA), and Tomoko Yamagishi (Senior VP of Marketing of Shiseido USA), who introduced to us the Spring 2015 collection. After the presentation, we got to...

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Books, Personal

“Bad Sleeper”

Feb 21. 2015

Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work. But I truly suffer at night. Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am. The...

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Beauty, Personal, Reviews

Kevyn Aucoin Sensual Skin Fluid Foundation Review: My New HG Foundation!!!

Feb 02. 2015

Can it be? Have I finally discovered a new foundation to replace my beloved "complexion perfector," the Giorgio Armani Maestro Fusion Foundation?The Kevyn Aucoin Sensual Skin Fluid Foundation was released late last year to rave reviews. It is the latest in the liquid-to-powder foundation trend that began with the launch of GA Maestro two years ago. (You can read my thoughts on some of the other liquid-to-powder foundations here.)So what made me want to try the Sensual Skin Fluid Foundation? It was an article in Refinery29, "Foundation Just Got Way More Amazing" — which talks about the liquid-to-powder foundation trend and reviews 6 of the most popular ones — that first sparked my interest. And the more I researched the Sensual Skin Fluid Foundation, the more I realized...

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