Alert #MakeupMonday readers know that my makeup-related activity intensifies around visits to my daughter at Berkeley. I just visited her last week, and so of course we visited Ulta and Sephora at Bay Street in Emeryville, and while I went … Continue reading
Guest Post by TPII Editor and Post-ac Coach Dr. Laura Graham Laura Graham is on the editing and post-ac consulting team at The Professor Is In. She is passionate about social justice, animal rescue, and skin cancer awareness. She is … Continue reading
Some of you may have noticed a slowing down of posting on the blog and social media at The Professor Is In over the past couple of months. That is because Kellee and I are dealing with a family medical … Continue reading
This piece from WaPo, “Brows, Contour, Lips, Lashes: How the ‘full-beat face’ took over the Internet,” by Lavanya Ramanathan, is fascinating! Read it for the videos, which are aMAZing!!! I don’t take a position one way or another about the … Continue reading
See regular Intro to the #MakeupMonday series below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember my previous post on eye makeup, and my attempts to find a good long-wear mascara that stays on through my dance classes and long speaking days on campuses while not … Continue reading
One of my favorite writers, Jia Tolentino, wrote a piece in The New Yorker recently, The Year Skin Care Became a Coping Mechanism, that spoke to me deeply. Read this excerpt (actually read the whole thing–every word is brilliant) and … Continue reading
When I was a teenager, each Christmas brought disappointment. Every year I would ask for a book. And every year my mother would get me makeup. It was so upsetting on so many levels. I was a baby-academic striving to … Continue reading
Ok, technically it’s Thursday but it’s been a big week. The Sexual Harassment Survey continues to fill; we’re now at 1760 entries, and I’ve received over 150 emails sharing the names of perpetrators (oftentimes more than one name per email, … Continue reading
This week I launched the Sexual Harassment in the Academy Crowdsource Survey and 600+ entries into it, I am just a little…ummm… SHALL WE SAY… PISSED OFF? AND IN NO MOOD TO WRITE A MAKEUP MONDAY POST. CURRENT MOOD, AS … Continue reading
Welcome to Makeup Monday, my weekly series on makeup; academic and postacademic job market and productivity posts will continue on Tuesday and Friday as usual. Here is my weekly reminder: I will not engage with makeup-shaming here or on any … Continue reading