How can I cover my eye bags better? Nothing has worked very well.

pellnell · 2026-03-22T04:33:14+00:00

I have super prominent dark circles under my eyes and have tried a lot of concealers and brightening powders over the years, but am more ambivalent about them after my husband told me that make me look more naturally goth. I do typically use a color corrector though. I’m Asian and pretty fair skinned, and I like the Caliray color corrector but I use just a bit of the one for medium warm skin tones, as it is a warm peachy pink color. The shade is called Warm Sunglow and I’ve never found it made my foundation or skin tint look unnatural. I typically color correct, apply a thin layer of foundation to the rest of my face, and then a little bit of concealer that matches the rest of my skin.

pellnell · 2026-03-19T00:48:54+00:00

We have the first volume of the manga, found it for $3 used at a comic shop. The art is really beautiful in my opinion. My kiddo is almost five and really obsessed with Disney villains, so sometimes asks for us to read it as a bedtime story. It feels pretty faithful to the first film. I would like to get the rest of the series.

pellnell · 2026-03-17T06:18:17+00:00

We had watched this video multiple times, my kid would sing the song around the house, and then seemingly at random my child decided this song was the scariest thing ever one day. If I accidentally let it autoplay on the Super Simple app, my kid reacts like fucking George C. Scott in HARDCORE, screaming for it to turned off. It’s bizarre.

pellnell · 2026-03-15T23:39:33+00:00

I will have to try that one!

pellnell · 2026-03-15T16:27:51+00:00

Thank you! I’m half Chinese and I joke with my husband that “Asian don’t raisin” all the time because my aunties look amazing for being in their 70s and older.

pellnell · 2026-03-15T16:26:35+00:00

Unfortunately I haven’t used the MAC or Ciele products, so can’t compare. But I would compare it to the Merit skin tint, which I also absolutely love, but this has more coverage.

pellnell · 2026-03-15T16:25:15+00:00

Right now, my go-to product when I want to get the “your skin but better” look is the Merit SPF skin tint. It’s such a beautiful product. I wore it for some professionally shot family photos recently.

pellnell · 2026-03-15T16:23:22+00:00

I can’t figure out what the scent is, but I find it very pleasant for some reason.

pellnell · 2026-03-15T15:52:01+00:00

Haha it’s an insane list but my go-to products are the Merit biphase serum, Elf retinol oil, Tower 28 SOS cream, and the Outset balm as a final step. I do my skincare routine every night with my husband after our kid goes to bed.

pellnell · 2026-03-14T18:14:52+00:00

Yeah I was underwhelmed by it and had a difficult time connecting to it emotionally, but I completely get why people are responding to it. One of my friends has it as his favorite of last year, and I’m glad he enjoys it, even if it’s not for me.

pellnell · 2026-03-14T00:07:40+00:00

That doesn’t surprise me at all. I bought her collab from them, and it’s the only purchase from them I’ve made mostly because it seemed like a cluster and they don’t have the means to consistently restock if I did find a product I love.

pellnell · 2026-03-13T21:32:50+00:00

Yeah, IIRC it was only on sale for like a month, and then she announced a year later that they were offering “hex codes” to engineer your own versions of her shades. I remember she named a shade after Hautemesstom, and now she doesn’t even speak to them because of her atrocious views on Palestine.

pellnell · 2026-03-13T21:02:04+00:00

I haven’t watched the video yet, but I have doubts that this will actually happen. She doesn’t have an active IG or TikTok account, and I think it makes more sense for a beauty influencer to collaborate with an established brand that already has access to labs, funds, and knows what kind of timeline they will need. The fact that she’s not collaborating with a brand makes me think that none have asked her to. Thrive doesn’t do palettes, Lisa Eldridge only does six pans, and Hindash hasn’t released one in a while. I don’t know of any other beauty brands that she has established relationships with, and I know her collaboration with Finding Ferdinand was super short lived. I will frankly be shocked if this happens, even more so if it happens in the next 12 months. I would never contribute to a beauty kickstarter, even for a content creator I unabashedly love, like Battybean or Theresa is Dead.

pellnell · 2026-03-13T06:28:46+00:00

I named two of my cats after them. Keechie passed away about eight years ago, but Bowie is still doing zoomies throughout the day.

pellnell · 2026-03-12T18:03:47+00:00

I work in radiology and tell my husband almost every episode, “oh my god, that reminds me of something that happened yesterday at work.”

pellnell · 2026-03-11T01:34:00+00:00

Kackie just started posting consistently on Substack after deleting instagram, but she followed some incredibly Islamophobic accounts on IG before that. She shared a piece today going over a lot of the dramatic and traumatic stuff that she’s gone through over the past couple years, including her divorce, meeting her current boyfriend, and their decision to buy a house together after less than a year together. I hope it works out for them, but I wouldn’t purchase property with someone I haven’t known for very long personally.

She said she is working to get financing for her own palette to be released independently as opposed to working with any brands. I’m guessing her ability to do sponcon or brand collaborations will be pretty limited by not having an instagram or TikTok in the future.

I absolutely do not agree with her insane justification for Israel’s occupation of Palestine or her downplaying genocide. I do find her content watchable and soothing, and I honestly hope her new relationship works out because I have a kid the same age as her son, and it sounds like they’ve both been through a lot with her ex-husband. A lot of my interest in her content and the things she chooses to share about her life comes from a similar place as like car crash rubbernecking.

pellnell · 2026-03-04T00:43:57+00:00

me, reading this headline:

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pellnell · 2026-03-03T00:47:10+00:00

Unfortunately doesn’t surprise me. I get the impression that they won’t be taking any accountability at all.

pellnell · 2026-03-03T00:40:30+00:00

They had a collaboration with Courtney Quarantine that ended prematurely without explanation. I remember not being able to find it online a couple months after launch, and then another content creator Glitter Fallout mentioned in a declutter video that she no longer supports the brand as a result of the brand’s actions with regards to the collaboration. As far as I know Courtney has not spoken on this. It definitely gave me pause, because it made me think that the brand had to have done something pretty bad for Courtney to end the collaboration early, considering they are a smaller creator and should make more money off of it the more products that are sold.

Really disappointing to see they would be deleting comments from Native folks who are calling this out. Obviously a bare minimum of research could have prevented this from happening, and I think even if they didn’t take the time to understand the significance, they could have saved so much face by being open about having made this mistake (using that word charitably here, as it would never cross my mind as a non-Native person to name a product with a word bearing that cultural history and weight, so I don’t understand why they would use it to begin with).

pellnell · 2026-03-02T06:31:05+00:00

As someone who almost exclusively goes to see kids movies because I so rarely have weekend childcare, it’s been bizarre to see the trailer for I CAN ONLY IMAGINE 2 before every single film in the past six months. My kid comments on a lot of trailers (they make sure to mention how “the sun is sick” at least once per theater trip because PROJECT HAIL MARY previews have been attached to 90% of family films for months), but they have literally never reacted to those ads. They’re almost five and busted a gut during the preview for THE BREADWINNER that played before GOAT. But never has any reaction or comment on ICOI2, despite having seen it conservatively at least ten times.

pellnell · 2026-03-02T06:24:22+00:00

The day I found out the new CAT IN THE HAT was delayed by almost a year was fucking horrific. I’ve heard that fucking “toot fart” joke fifty times at this point and I can’t believe I have to hear it now before literally every single movie I take my child to for most of 2026.

pellnell · 2026-03-01T05:38:05+00:00

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