Skinmarket (1999-2002)

I only found out about the short lived teen cosmetics store, Skinmarket through my regular searching on eBay for discontinued cosmetics. A few weeks ago, I ran across this bright yellow, sparkly eyeshadow:

My “brow” color is the skinmarket eyeshadow, the lid shadow is Neo Orange pigment from MAC.

Skinmarket’s web presence isn’t found easily online in 2013. I went on archive.org and only found one record of their website, from 2001. I took screencaps of what wasn’t broken from their website:

Source by Flickr user John Forsythe.

 

Starbucks new logo, a preview.

More info here. The dingbats who only go to starbucks for frappuchinos are like, “but I need words on the starbucks logo!” …

The new siren sorta reminds me of a network logo or a green cloud against a white sky.

Nouveau Cheap – “From the Vintage Vault”

On a related note from the Cover Girl old Compacts post I made this summer, there is this category on this beauty blog, Nouveau Cheap of old cosmetics the author has found around her house.