CRUELTY FREE BEAUTY FAVES #2

Since I last talked about cruelty free beauty back in August I've had an increase in subscribers (hi and thank you!) so just to reiterate: I committed to buying only cruelty free brands towards the end of 2016, and throughout 2017 slowly switched up everything in my makeup and beauty kit to cruelty free (meaning that neither the company, nor the parent company uses animal testing, nor do either have a third party perform this task for them) and honestly I don't regret it for a second.

I very occasionally get a little twinge of envy when somebody mentions a new NARS palette, or when the beautiful collections from Too Faced are released (those heart shaped highlighters. Oof.) But ultimately it's all just paste and powder that I smear on my face to feel cute, and bunnies look better without chemical burns so I get over it pretty quickly. I did a round up in the summer of some cruelty free beauty products I had been loving, which you can read here, and I've since built up a collection of a few more that I want to share.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY // READING RECOMMENDATIONS

The 8th of March is International Women's Day! A day when we appreciate the generally undervalued half of the human race, and everything they do for the world, both on the micro scale, within the home and the family, right up to the macro, kicking-ass in government and taking bold leaps in the scientific, artistic and political spheres.

  Women have provided some of my most formative reading over the years, and so I'm offering a few recommendations of books written by women, about women, that I have not only loved, but that have fundamentally changed the way I think about gender and female-ness. Enjoy!