Master list of affiliated cosmetics companies (from Project Swatch)

This is a super helpful list of which cosmetics brands are owned by the same companies, in case you want to avoid everything one company owns - or just for curiosity's sake. Awesome!

How Stores Manipulate Your Senses So You Spend More Money (from Lifehacker)

Hmmm, let's apply this information to Sephora, shall we? Black and white and BRIGHT PINK, lots of shit in your way, smells like perfume, have to pick things up to look at them . . .

How to tell when beauty "blogs" are just trying to sell you shit (even if it's terrible)

Has anyone checked out xoJane's new spin-off, xoVain? (No links, because I try not to link to things I don't really like, but you've heard about googling, I presume.) I was interested to see what it was like, because, although I'm not a big fan of xoJane, it seems like a tell-it-like-it-is sort of site, and so I thought maybe their beauty blog would be low-bullshit.

Wrong.