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!

An AMAZING holy-shit guide to buying pencil makeup products (from Beauty and the Bullshit)

This is mandatory reading. Seriously.

Some highlights:

• 'Your brands do not manufacture your pencils. They all source from the same suppliers. [...] There is no exclusivity.' [Ed.: HELLO DUPES. Dupes are frequently exactly the same product, then. Holy shit.]
• 'Sharpening has its advantages you know. [...] In automatic pencils, the lead hangs inside the plastic container unlike in wooden pencils which is totally embedded/supported by the wood.  This has an implication to the texture.  That means that the texture should be hard enough so that even if it is thin, it will not break inside the plastic encasing.'
• '...a good rule of thumb is that the more sophisticated (read, better) formula will be in a plastic "wooden" pencil with airtight caps [i.e. ones you have to sharpen].'

Blew my fucking mind, even though it's all so logical once you think about it.

Anti-Aging Myths from Beauty With Brains

Anti-Aging Myths from Beauty With Brains

Keep your junk happy

I know this is off-topic, but read it anyway. Vaginal health for everyone! (And it’s cheap! Don’t waste money on douches.)

Keep your junk happy