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@Emy10, the PC lip gloss worked well with a few tweaks to keep it from coming out of the tube in separate parts. That stinks that PC isn't carried in Sephora Canada. Sephora online doesn't carry the entire catalog of Paula's Choice products but it stinks that Sephora Canada doesn't have any of them. ☹️ A few months back, I caught sight of a PC bottle in the store when they were ringing up my purchase and I mentioned to the cast member that the brand has some very good products and it would be nice to see a few of them in store and more of the product line available online. The cast member mentioned they were sent the bottle of the BHA 2% toner for a class or training? but that she had never heard of the brand and didn't know whether or when that store might stock any of the products. Maybe with the acquisition by Unilever, PC products will become more accessible at Sephora, both in store and online across North America. Keeping my fingers crossed that will be the case. 🤞

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@dianasavannah I have pretty typical associations with autumn. Smoke and leaves burning. Certain spices like cinnamon and cloves. Anything warm and ambery is nice this time of year. Incense-y scents too. I just tried Interlude Woman by Amouage. It's very weird and less commercial than Interlude Man but it's working for me right now 🙂

@Ge77 Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream Plumping & Hydrating Moisturizer is pretty thickYouth To The People Superberry Hydrate + Glow Dream Mask with Vitamin C 2 oz/ 59 mL This is an overnight mask but I've been using it as a super heavy moisturizer

Been watching horror movies 🙂 I really recommend The Love Witch. It's perfectly shot to look like a retro gallo movie but it's a total send up that focuses on female characters. There is so much great makeup and fashion in this movie!!

Like others, I'm also working from home and masking up when I leave the house so I definitely have been using less makeup. I have no idea how I'm going to get through my new bottle of foundation! Though I am trying more skincare because wfh definitely allows you to do skincare throughout the day and experiment more with new products. I got curious after so many people responded about buying less makeup. I found a report by market research company The NPD Group. It's pretty interesting and reflects our responses: Spoiler "... makeup was the “hardest hit” out of the U.S. prestige beauty categories, showing a 23% decrease in 2021 compared to the first half of 2019..." Despite this, "Makeup sales increased 22%, compared to the first half of 2020, with tinted moisturizers serving as one of the very few areas of the makeup category that actually posted growth over 2019... So while the makeup category still has a steep hill to climb in terms of recovery, products that blur the line between skin care and makeup show promise for the category... "Skin care, which saw $2.9 billion in sales in the first half of 2021, isn’t as dependent on brick-and-mortar stores as makeup and hair. Skin-care sales are up 21% compared to 2020 and up 6% compared to 2019... "Fragrance, another primarily brick-and-mortar store-dependent category, saw sales increase by 82% in the first half of 2021, to $2.3 billion... this success was seen in the luxury side of fine fragrance. In early 2020, the overall fragrance category faced the same impact as makeup with huge declines in sales... A Euromonitor 2021 report also noted that "post-pandemic beauty" would see recovery driven by the Asia-Pacific region, especially the Chinese market and that skin-care is poised to become the strongest driver for sales, especially those focused on science and research. I'm not familiar with NPD Group but Euromonitor is a huge player when it comes to market research. "... makeup was the “hardest hit” out of the U.S. prestige beauty categories, showing a 23% decrease in 2021 compared to the first half of 2019..." Despite this, "Makeup sales increased 22%, compared to the first half of 2020, with tinted moisturizers serving as one of the very few areas of the makeup category that actually posted growth over 2019... So while the makeup category still has a steep hill to climb in terms of recovery, products that blur the line between skin care and makeup show promise for the category... "Skin care, which saw $2.9 billion in sales in the first half of 2021, isn’t as dependent on brick-and-mortar stores as makeup and hair. Skin-care sales are up 21% compared to 2020 and up 6% compared to 2019... "Fragrance, another primarily brick-and-mortar store-dependent category, saw sales increase by 82% in the first half of 2021, to $2.3 billion... this success was seen in the luxury side of fine fragrance. In early 2020, the overall fragrance category faced the same impact as makeup with huge declines in sales... A Euromonitor 2021 report also noted that "post-pandemic beauty" would see recovery driven by the Asia-Pacific region, especially the Chinese market and that skin-care is poised to become the strongest driver for sales, especially those focused on science and research. I'm not familiar with NPD Group but Euromonitor is a huge player when it comes to market research. I'm also feeling pretty tapped. I have a lot of new responsibilities due to the pandemic and volunteering and community organizing has eaten up a lot of my free time. I do really appreciate having the space here to not worry about these more pressing matters. I also appreciate coming here where I feel like my gender isn't being used against me - the pandemic has really put a greater burden of care and all these new kinds of invisible/unpaid work onto women and especially women of colour.

 October Favs 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻👻 Regimen labs level serumPaulas Choice super hydrate maskCharlotte Tilbury Color ChameleonBiossance Rose oilLisa Eldridge Lipstick

@itsfi @lmaster It is definitely too pretty to pass up❤️

Hi! Currently I’m using the CeraVe Foaming Cleaner, which is fine for me right now, but I’m looking for something better. I use my sister’s Tacha Water Cream Moisturizer, but I don’t think it really works for me. I don’t currently have a sunscreen.

thank you!