Heliotro.pe » Beauty Neologisms http://heliotro.pe (Mostly) natural skin, hair and beauty Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:08:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How to fill in overplucked brows http://heliotro.pe/2011/02/07/how-to-fill-in-overplucked-brows/ http://heliotro.pe/2011/02/07/how-to-fill-in-overplucked-brows/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:37:19 +0000 Virginia (Heliotro.pe) http://heliotro.pe/?p=634 Step 1) Decide to buy a house.

Step 2) Become incredibly stressed out, overtaxed and insomnia filled with the details of said process.

Step 3) Completely forget to take care of yourself in any fashion, from brow plucking to shaving to basic feeding and cleaning.

Step 4) Decide to use your only free time to [...]]]> http://heliotro.pe/2011/02/07/how-to-fill-in-overplucked-brows/feed/ 0 PAX Beauty (and beasts) http://heliotro.pe/2010/09/03/pax-beauty-and-beasts/ http://heliotro.pe/2010/09/03/pax-beauty-and-beasts/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:47:36 +0000 Virginia (Heliotro.pe) http://heliotro.pe/?p=579

Every year since like 2006, Seattle’s own Mike and Jerry of Penny Arcade have put on an increasingly massive video game fan convention. This thing started for fans by fans (as opposed to for developers by developers), and the turnout in fantastic. Both literally and figuratively. PLUS, my work is throwing a big party [...]]]> http://heliotro.pe/2010/09/03/pax-beauty-and-beasts/feed/ 1 New term — SKINQUIRIES! http://heliotro.pe/2010/07/02/new-term-skinquiries/ http://heliotro.pe/2010/07/02/new-term-skinquiries/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:45:53 +0000 Virginia (Heliotro.pe) http://heliotro.pe/?p=560 Not a Heliotro.pe original, but still a delightful beauty neologism. :)

]]> http://heliotro.pe/2010/07/02/new-term-skinquiries/feed/ 0 Magic marker stylings http://heliotro.pe/2010/06/26/magic-marker-stylings/ http://heliotro.pe/2010/06/26/magic-marker-stylings/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:33:30 +0000 Virginia (Heliotro.pe) http://heliotro.pe/?p=539 I LOVE this Jolinean (ooh, new beauty term!) look, but I’ve long been intimidated by liquid eye liner, because I simply suck at applying it. My hand is shaky, I guess, and many formulations are unforgiving if you have to go over the same area twice, and being extremely fair means that mistakes show up [...]]]> http://heliotro.pe/2010/06/26/magic-marker-stylings/feed/ 4 New beauty term (and new category) http://heliotro.pe/2009/06/25/new-beauty-term-and-new-category/ http://heliotro.pe/2009/06/25/new-beauty-term-and-new-category/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:14:47 +0000 Virginia (Heliotro.pe) http://www.alleyesonher.com/?p=418 I sometimes get struck by utter genius when I’m in the shower, and last Tuesday was no exception.  I’ve invented a whole new beauty term!

Brotox \BROH-tawks\ noun 1 : A male who exhibits evidence of creepily unnecessary anti-wrinkle treatments; 2: An alternate name for Botox when used on male subjects.

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