Huge thanks to everyone who entered the Makeup Museum's giveaway! Now it's time for MM staff to announce the winner. Big Sailor Babo will be doing the honors. Yay! Cassandra, please send me your address and I'll get this boxed... Read more →

Huge thanks to everyone who took the time to enter the Museum's 10-year anniversary giveaway! I was so happy to have so many entries from all over the world. I really loved seeing all your comments too, but Typepad's commenting... Read more →

Welcome to yet another format of Curator's Corner. As I noted previously, I don't want to completely abandon this feature, but it's still too hard for me to keep up so I decided to try a "monthly rewind" of sorts.... Read more →

You might remember the super-awesome birthday card the husband made me a while back in the shape of a mer-Babo. I always knew they existed since the Sailor Babos told me so, but I had never seen a real live... Read more →

I'm kicking off summer with a very sweet smackdown! Because it involves macarons (or as MM staff calls them, "fancy French cookies"), I've selected the Museum's education specialist, Cookie Dreamer Babo, to serve as referee. I also needed to keep... Read more →

Let me start off by saying that I am not a dog person. It might have something to do with having a truly nice cat for 18 years (always wanted to cuddle and never hissed once!), or regularly being exposed... Read more →

I remember thinking how cute and novel these wine bottle-shaped lipsticks were when they were making a sensation back in the fall. (I do have one on the way but the package somehow keeps getting delayed so here's a stock... Read more →

Hello, March! As it is the first day of the month in which spring supposedly will arrive, I thought I'd share Paul & Joe's spring 2017 collection. Consider this part 1 of a 2-part celebration of the beauty brand's 15-year... Read more →

To help soothe and distract myself from the horrific political unpleasantness today brings, I'm doing another round of staff picks.* While I strongly prefer summer to winter, some Museum employees are definitely the opposite. Ugly Yeti, Ice Bat and both... Read more →

MAC's Star Trek collection may be old news by now, but I know certain Museum staff members are still quite enamored by it. The collection also got me thinking about other space-inspired beauty products, which staff members promptly decided to... Read more →