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millingroundireland · 5 months
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Chaos erupts: Where was John Mills buried after all?
On this blog, I have accepted that John R. Mills was buried in Chester Cemetery in Chester, Orange County, New York. I was not the one that put this in his bio, but rather put in by information from a previous researcher. When I requested a new photo of John's gravestone (and that of his wife Margaret) the first message I got from Gary Allen was "Walked entire cemetary and could not locate a readable gravestone for this person Aug. 23, 2018." He has still not found a readable marker of Margaret there. A few days later, Gary included two better photos of the stone, which showed a John Mills who was 88 years old, but dying on October 19, 1852. In the caption below the photos, which I have put below, Allen wrote "this was the only John Mills headstone that I found in the Chester Cemetary but death date is 1852 not the date you indicated." Later he told me on Find A Grave that "I did walk the entire Chester Cemetery and this was the only Mills that I found. There are quite a few unreadable gravestones." After I sent a message to him, he told me: "I know the problem, I have been doing my genealogy for 40 years & have been misdirected a number of times. Good Luck." That's a sentiment I can definitely agree with!
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This is a problem. It means that John was buried somewhere else (with the John Mills shown above being someone different entirely), as was his wife Margaret, perhaps indicating research which was not as complete as it could have been. As such, I sent the following email to Find A Grave ([email protected]) on August 25th, titled "Requesting deletion of two Find A Grave entries," requesting to delete the following entries for John R. Mills and Margaret Ann Mills, noting that the person who managed them "is no longer living." I further added that "as such, I cannot make any edits or changes (I did submit some, but never heard back)" and that "the photos to the entry of John Rand Mills and Margaret Ann Bibby Mills will be re-uploaded to new entries which I will re-create as new entries as soon as you have let me know that the above two entries have been deleted. I don't want to make duplicate entries as I have got in trouble for that in the past on here, but has usually worked itself out."
Later, I sent a follow-up email to three emails, not just one ([email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]), telling these Find a Grave administrators, that "I discovered today that someone has already created an entry for the other John Mills. So, there is no need for me to create a new entry for that fellow. I request, once again, that you delete the entries for John Rand Mills and Margaret Ann Bibby Mills, as the two entries have incorrect information (the gravestone photos are not for the correct John Mills) which cannot be corrected by those managing the entry." I further added that "as soon as you have let me know that the entries have been deleted, I will create new entries for John Rand Mills and Margaret Ann Bibby, placing them as buried in Pottersville New Cemetery (since their children are buried there), then asking for a photo of of their graves." Two days later, I was granted membership rights over John and Margaret's Find a Grave entries, which I'll talk about more in a future post.
This post was originally published on WordPress in March 2019.
Beyond the email, I was a bit afraid this would be the case. Back in April of last year I wrote that:
In 1876, John Mills died in Minerva, Essex County, New York, apparently while he continued his job as a miller. He was buried in Chester, Orange County, New York. This seems strange because it is 142 miles away from Glens Falls and 173 miles from Minerva, John’s last confirmed residence. I have contacted appropriate historical societies in hopes of gathering information on this topic. However, it is possible that Mills family members were living in that area of New York, or even Bibby family members since his wife Margaret was buried there. Perhaps she was going on a trip to visit her cousins or even her parents. We don’t know exactly but can only make historical suppositions.
So, if John wasn't buried in Orange County, New York, then where was he buried? Well, the best candidate is Pottersville New Cemetery where Joseph B. Mills, Dorothy "Dora" Ann Mills, and Margaret E. “Maggie” Mills were buried. We know that this cemetery is "east side of US Route 9" and sits in Pottersville, which is within the Town of Chester in Warren County, New York. It is also, apparently "quite a bit larger than the old" Pottersville Cemetery. What about the old cemetery? Well, we know that two Millses were buried there (Charles S. Mills, 1857-1859 and Freddie C. Mills, 1881-1883), which is confirmed by this transcription (also noted here), and that it is on the "west side of US Route 9." So, that is my guess for where he is buried, of the many cemeteries in the county. While I wasn't able to find Margaret or John here, I did find a map of where the cemetery apparently is:
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We know that transcripts of those who were buried at the Pottersville Old Cemetery were handled by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1922:
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Also Warren County has records of the two Pottersville Cemeteries (new and old) in their vaults:
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We also know that an individual named Samuel Griswold was buried in a Pottersville Cemetery in 1872:
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A cemetery in Pottersville was noted in a tour book for cars in 1918, about a person buried in an unmarked grave in Pottersville, and another buried in a Pottersville cemetery. Who knows, maybe both John and Margaret are buried in unmarked graves? Its not beyond question. After looking back at the photo of the New Pottersville Cemetery, it is clear that one of them has an exact address (7952 U.S. 9 Pottersville NY 12860) and that people began being buried there in 1863, actually making it a possible candidate for where John and Margaret were buried. It is also called the "Griswold Cemetery" as it was called in 1959, in 1961, in 1972, and in 2017:
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So, the mystery continues!
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aconitemare · 3 years
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Does anyone know good blogs for pet photos? I like pictures of pets
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fluffytherapy · 7 years
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Blog Update! (Two, really)
Survey Results!
Thanks to everyone who answered my survey yesterday/this morning! 67 people responded to the poll on SurveyMonkey. 
13 responded that I should post the submission as normal
9 responded that I should edit the caption to remove the reference
43 responded that I should leave the caption alone but tag it. 
2 provided an ‘other’ one was not to post it at all and one was to remove the reference and also tag it as an animal that is deceased. 
I also got a few responses directly to the post and as anon messages. The one that stuck out suggested a read-more. I often forget that’s a thing because I only just figured out how to do it recently. 
So when considering my results, 64% of responders went with posting the caption with a tag. When combined with the 19% who were okay with the submission being posted completely as normal, that is over 80% who are okay with the caption left intact. 
Therefore, I have decided to tag any post that mentions animal death with “animal death mention” (once I post this, it will be added to the submission box). I will also put the caption under a read more though it is possible I will forget sometimes. 
GoFundMe Requests
Also: On occasion I’ve had people ask me to promote their GoFundMe posts for their animals. I’ve been a bit conflicted about this because I don’t want to bring people down too much with long descriptions of animals in need of help, but there is a following here that might be able to help. Therefore, I’ve decided to try to compromise between the two. If you want to promote your GoFundMe, I will allow you to submit a photo of your animal with a hotlink to your GoFundMe post/GoFundMe. The link should be clearly marked as a GoFundMe and tagged as “Fundraising Request” (I’ll also add it to the submit box). Your submission here should not contain the details of what you’re fundraising for. Your fundraiser should also be specifically for an animal. 
So far, I’ve only received 2-3 requests for GoFundMe promotion so I’m going to try this format out. If I start getting flooded with them, I may revisit this policy and not allow that sort of thing. 
I hope that this is reasonable enough to please as many people as possible. I know not everyone will be 100% behind everything, but I’m doing my best. I’m feeling a bit under the weather today and queuing your submissions is making my day much better. Keep them coming! 
I’ll reblog this again this afternoon and this evening so that (hopefully) everyone sees it! 
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About 18 months ago, Jenny Gyllander created an Instagram account by the name @thingtesting.
The premise was simple. Gyllander, who was at the center of the London startup ecosystem as an investor with the British seed fund Backed.VC, would upload photos of interesting direct-to-consumer products with a caption that served as a bite-sized review. The experiment began with Birchbox, a provider of curated boxes of beauty products that rose to prominence amid the subscription box hype of yesteryear. In her short review, tailored perfectly for the Instagram generation, Gyllander admitted to being “like 10 years late to this much hyped subscription-everything party,” adding that “after two boxes and ten products, only three products were relevant to me.” Her honesty, and perhaps more importantly, her brevity, garnered her a small following of venture capitalists, founders and consumer brand enthusiasts.
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Since that first post, Gyllander has featured and reviewed more than 100 products on her Instagram account — which today counts 32,800 followers — quit her day job and began building an Instagram inspired, full-fledged review business.
“I found something I am very, very passionate about,” Gyllander tells TechCrunch. “Finding the D2C niche was for me a little bit of a holy grail. It’s where brands and startups align for the first time in a concrete way.”
With a $300,000 pre-seed investment from angel investor and Homebrew co-founder Hunter Walk, who previously called Thingtesting “The best VC on Instagram,” early Spotify investor Shakil Khan and more, Gyllander wants to create a full-scale D2C review platform with a team of reviewers and content creators, and a portal for her loyal followers to write and submit their own reviews. She compares what she envisions for Thingtesting to that of Rotten Tomatoes. Akin to the popular website for movie and television reviews, each product review on her future website will include a Thingtesting score and an audience score. The goal is to help consumers shop smarter and filter through the D2C noise.
“People are confused right now by the sheer amount of products launching,” Gyllander said. “I want Thingtesting to be a filter for people to consume better … It’s a role department stores used to have back in the day but no body has really filled that role in the online world.”
Gyllander, already making money from what was once a side project, has plans in store to generate significantly more revenue. Currently, she’s capitalizing off Instagram’s Close Friends list, which the social media hub launched last year to allow users to share content to fewer people. Gyllander, like a slew of other Instagram Influencers, however, quickly realized an opportunity to monetize content using the feature, a trend explained in detail in a recent report from The Atlantic.
Gyllander charges a lifetime fee of $100 to her followers hoping for a spot on her Close Friends list. Those followers are then provided exclusive content, including behind-the-scenes looks at her product review journeys. So far, 300 people have been granted access to the exclusive group as others sit on the waitlist. Gyllander explains she hasn’t green-lit every request to enter the coveted group because she wants to maintain a sense of community as the account grows in popularity. Early next year, she hopes, she will have launched a Thingtesting website and a new subscription-based membership tier targeting D2C connoisseurs, investors and anyone interested in a front seat view of the booming D2C industry.
As Thingtesting morphs into a digital review platform and expands from the bounds of Instagram, Gyllander will have to work harder to differentiate what she’s built from other review sites and D2C blogs. Her secret weapon, she believes, is her authenticity.
“It’s my honesty,” Gyllander said. “And it’s the fact that there’s no payment involved from the brands and that I’m not being paid to review products. That’s something quite rare in the Instagram world today. There aren’t that many accounts that are just talking about new products with non-monetary incentives.”
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Since launching with a review of Birchbox, Gyllander has shared her thoughts on Magic Spoon, a D2C cereal company: “one bowl kept me full for hours,” she wrote, ultimately concluding she wouldn’t continue eating the cereal. More recently, she referred to the D2C aperitif brand Haus as “stunning;” wrote a lukewarm review of the blue light-protecting eyewear brand Felix Gray; and posted a glowing summary of Dripkit, a D2C coffee brand.
To secure a spot on Gyllander’s grid, a product must bring something new to the market, as well as boast killer branding and packaging. The former VC says she tries out about 20 products a month and shares official reviews of four or five.
“The majority of people today, when it comes to modern brands, they have their first interaction through an ad or an influencer telling them about the product,” Gyllander explained. “Discovery is in a weird place right now when it comes to the general consumer.”
It’s difficult to imagine a venture-scale business within Gyllander’s vision for Thingtesting. But one should never underestimate the value of an exclusive and hyper-focused network. Gyllander, in a short time, has created a meeting place for D2C aficionados and venture capitalists and, as she’s proven, her thoughts are worth paying for.
‘The best VC on Instagram’ is now VC-backed About 18 months ago, Jenny Gyllander created an Instagram account by the name @thingtesting. The premise was simple.
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cyberblogin · 5 years
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About 18 months ago, Jenny Gyllander created an Instagram account by the name @thingtesting.
The premise was simple. Gyllander, who was at the center of the London startup ecosystem as an investor with the British seed fund Backed.VC, would upload photos of interesting direct-to-consumer products with a caption that served as a bite-sized review. The experiment began with Birchbox, a provider of curated boxes of beauty products that rose to prominence amid the subscription box hype of yesteryear. In her short review, tailored perfectly for the Instagram generation, Gyllander admitted to being “like 10 years late to this much hyped subscription-everything party,” adding that “after two boxes and ten products, only three products were relevant to me.” Her honesty, and perhaps more importantly, her brevity, garnered her a small following of venture capitalists, founders and consumer brand enthusiasts.
Since that first post, Gyllander has featured and reviewed more than 100 products on her Instagram account — which today counts 32,800 followers — quit her day job and began building an Instagram inspired, full-fledged review business.
“I found something I am very, very passionate about,” Gyllander tells TechCrunch. “Finding the D2C niche was for me a little bit of a holy grail. It’s where brands and startups align for the first time in a concrete way.”
With a $300,000 pre-seed investment from angel investor and Homebrew co-founder Hunter Walk, who previously called Thingtesting “The best VC on Instagram,” early Spotify investor Shakil Khan and more, Gyllander wants to create a full-scale D2C review platform with a team of reviewers and content creators, and a portal for her loyal followers to write and submit their own reviews. She compares what she envisions for Thingtesting to that of Rotten Tomatoes. Akin to the popular website for movie and television reviews, each product review on her future website will include a Thingtesting score and an audience score. The goal is to help consumers shop smarter and filter through the D2C noise.
“People are confused right now by the sheer amount of products launching,” Gyllander said. “I want Thingtesting to be a filter for people to consume better … It’s a role department stores used to have back in the day but no body has really filled that role in the online world.”
Gyllander, already making money from what was once a side project, has plans in store to generate significantly more revenue. Currently, she’s capitalizing off Instagram’s Close Friends list, which the social media hub launched last year to allow users to share content to fewer people. Gyllander, like a slew of other Instagram Influencers, however, quickly realized an opportunity to monetize content using the feature, a trend explained in detail in a recent report from The Atlantic.
Gyllander charges a lifetime fee of $100 to her followers hoping for a spot on her Close Friends list. Those followers are then provided exclusive content, including behind-the-scenes looks at her product review journeys. So far, 300 people have been granted access to the exclusive group as others sit on the waitlist. Gyllander explains she hasn’t green-lit every request to enter the coveted group because she wants to maintain a sense of community as the account grows in popularity. Early next year, she hopes, she will have launched a Thingtesting website and a new subscription-based membership tier targeting D2C connoisseurs, investors and anyone interested in a front seat view of the booming D2C industry.
As Thingtesting morphs into a digital review platform and expands from the bounds of Instagram, Gyllander will have to work harder to differentiate what she’s built from other review sites and D2C blogs. Her secret weapon, she believes, is her authenticity.
“It’s my honesty,” Gyllander said. “And it’s the fact that there’s no payment involved from the brands and that I’m not being paid to review products. That’s something quite rare in the Instagram world today. There aren’t that many accounts that are just talking about new products with non-monetary incentives.”
Since launching with a review of Birchbox, Gyllander has shared her thoughts on Magic Spoon, a D2C cereal company: “one bowl kept me full for hours,” she wrote, ultimately concluding she wouldn’t continue eating the cereal. More recently, she referred to the D2C aperitif brand Haus as “stunning;” wrote a lukewarm review of the blue light-protecting eyewear brand Felix Gray; and posted a glowing summary of Dripkit, a D2C coffee brand.
To secure a spot on Gyllander’s grid, a product must bring something new to the market, as well as boast killer branding and packaging. The former VC says she tries out about 20 products a month and shares official reviews of four or five.
“The majority of people today, when it comes to modern brands, they have their first interaction through an ad or an influencer telling them about the product,” Gyllander explained. “Discovery is in a weird place right now when it comes to the general consumer.”
It’s difficult to imagine a venture-scale business within Gyllander’s vision for Thingtesting. But one should never underestimate the value of an exclusive and hyper-focused network. Gyllander, in a short time, has created a meeting place for D2C aficionados and venture capitalists and, as she’s proven, her thoughts are worth paying for.
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Professor Avital Ronell
A New York University (NYU) professor of German and Comparative Literature Avital Ronell, 66 has been found responsible of sexually harassing her former graduate student Nimrod Reitman, 34 who is male.
According to New York Times, an 11-month Title IX investigation found Ronell responsible for physical and verbal sexual harassment, saying that her behaviour was “sufficiently pervasive to alter the terms and conditions of Mr. Reitman’s learning environment.”
The university subsequently suspended Ronell for the coming academic year.
Reitman said the harassment went on for three years. He also shared text messages where Ronell referred to him as “my most adored one,” “Sweet cuddly Baby,” “cock-er spaniel,” and “my astounding and beautiful Nimrod,” the New York Times report said.
According to New York Times, Reitman said Professor Ronell kissed and touched him repeatedly, slept in his bed with him, required him to lie in her bed, held his hand, texted, emailed and called him constantly, and refused to work with him if he did not reciprocate.
In a statement to New York Times, Professor Ronell said:
Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage, as well as a penchant for florid and campy communications arising from our common academic backgrounds and sensibilities. These communications were repeatedly invited, responded to and encouraged by him over a period of three years.
Reitman and his lawyers have drafted a lawsuit against the university and Professor Ronell following the university’s decision.
Reitman said that he only went along with Professor Ronell’s behaviour because of the power she wielded over him even though he felt violated.
Professor Ronell said that Reitman “desperately sought her attention and guidance,” New York Times quoted her as saying in interviews she submitted to the Title IX office at N.Y.U.
According to Reitman, the harassment started in 2012 before he started school, when Professor Ronell invited him to stay with her in Paris for a few days.
He said that the day he arrived, she asked him to read her poetry in her bedroom while she takes a nap.
“That was already a red flag to me. But I also thought, O.K., you’re here. Better not make a scene,” Reitman said, adding that she later pulled him into her bed.
“She put my hands onto her breasts, and was pressing herself — her buttocks — onto my crotch. She was kissing me, kissing my hands, kissing my torso,” Reitman said, adding that a similar incident took place that evening.
He said he confronted her the next morning about the incident and said he wasn’t comfortable with it.
He said that the behaviour continued when he got to New York and one time, after Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, Professor Ronell came to his apartment because her power had gone out.
He said she convinced him that they could sleep on his bed together, despite his objections, adding that she groped and kissed him each night for nearly a week.
Reitman shared emails where Professor Ronell wrote in June 2012:
“I woke up with a slight fever and sore throat. I will try very hard not to kiss you — until the throat situation receives security clearance. This is not an easy deferral!”
Another email, dated July, 2012 read: “time for your midday kiss. my image during meditation: we’re on the sofa, your head on my lap, stroking you [sic] forehead, playing softly with yr hair, soothing you, headache gone. Yes?”
Reitman Nimrod
Professor Ronell’s lawyer Mary Dorman said she (Ronell) “denies all allegations of sexual contact in their entirety” in a submission to the Title IX office.
Professor Ronell added that she stayed just two nights in Reitman’s house on his invitation after the hurricane.
Professor Ronell told the Title IX office that she didn’t know Reitman was uncomfortable until she read the investigators’ report.
New York Times reports that Professor Ronell “and some who are backing her have tried to discredit her accuser in familiar ways, asking why he took so long to report, and why he seemed so intimate with Professor Ronell if he was, in fact, miserable.”
Professor Ronell, in March 2018, said that Reitman had a penchant for “comparing me to the most egregious examples of predatory behaviours ascribable to Hollywood moguls who habitually go after starlets.”
Reitman however said that he complained about being uncomfortable but she resisted. He accused her of sending pro forma recommendations on his behalf, making him difficult for him to get jobs.
Title IX investigations later found out that her recommendation letters “were comparable to those for other former students”. Reitman also got two postgraduate fellowships.
An NYU spokesperson in a statement to New York Times said that the university was “sympathetic” to what Reitman has been through adding that “given the promptness, seriousness and thoroughness with which we responded to his charges, we do not believe that his filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university would be warranted or just.”
Following the university’s decision, friends and colleagues of Ronell, including “prominent feminists,” according to New York Times, wrote a letter to the university in her defence.
The draft letter was published on a philosophy blog in June, and it had the signature of Judith Butler, described as “one of the most influential feminist scholars today”
Although we have no access to the confidential dossier, we have all worked for many years in close proximity to Professor Ronell and accumulated collectively years of experience to support our view of her capacity as teacher and a scholar, but also as someone who has served as Chair of both the Departments of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. We have all seen her relationship with students, and some of us know the individual who has waged this malicious campaign against her.
We wish to communicate first in the clearest terms our profound an enduring admiration for Professor Ronell whose mentorship of students has been no less than remarkable over many years. We deplore the damage that this legal proceeding causes her, and seek to register in clear terms our objection to any judgment against her.
We hold that the allegations against her do not constitute actual evidence, but rather support the view that malicious intention has animated and sustained this legal nightmare.
We testify to the grace, the keen wit, and the intellectual commitment of Professor Ronell and ask that she be accorded the dignity rightly deserved by someone of her international standing and reputation.  If she were to be terminated or relieved of her duties, the injustice would be widely recognized and opposed.
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Fenty Beauty have a line of Shimmer Sticks and today, I am going to be talking about, swatching and showing you face pictures of the Starstruck Shimmer Stick!!!
PHOTO GALLERY!!!
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Starstruck is a Shimmery Champagne Gold Shade
Starstruck Swatches
FACE PHOTO PRODUCT GALLERY!!!!!
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The Fenty Beauty Shimmer Stick in Starstruck is a luminous highlighter in stick form. The consistency of the highlighter is extremely soft, light, thin and slightly creamy. The texture is so different than any other highlighting stick I have tried, and it feels very dry and has no wetness or stickiness to it.
The finish is described as cream to powder and you can certainly notice this because the consistency is so dry and has no wet or damp feel to it. However, I would class the formula as more of a cream and certainly NOT a powder, but it is an extremely thin and dry cream that doesn’t have the consistency you typically think of when you hear the word creamy in relation to highlighting sticks.
Starstruck has high pigmentation and a high glow/shine intensity , and it is certainly more of a bright, intense highlighter and not a sheer one. The ratio of glitter to pigment is even, meaning there is a perfect mix of colour pay-off to shimmer/glitter pay-off and unlike some of the highlighters in the Fenty range (like Trophy Wife), it doesn’t have crazy levels of glitter that far exceed the pigmentation. It is also a glitter/shimmer that is built into the actual formula, meaning you will obviously not get any visible glitter fall-out (again, this is in contrast to Trophy Wife, which has tones of visible glitter).
You can wear the Starlight shimmer stick pretty much everywhere on the face and body, making it an extremely versatile product. You can obviously apply it to the cheek area as a highlighter, but it also works extremely well on the eye area as an eyeshadow and as a lip topper, aswell as a body highlighter and probably a million other things.
In terms of application, I did notice a few things. Firstly, you need to be in good lighting when you are applying it, and you will see different results in different lighting and mirrors. When I was first using it, I noticed that it wasn’t coming up in the slightly dark, dull lighting I was applying it in. However, when I looked at my face in good, bright lighting, I noticed that I had actually put way too much on, and I had WAY too much product on my face. It was an absolute mess and ever since then I have made sure to apply this under bright lighting.
There are multiple methods and ways you can apply the highlighter. Firstly, you can swipe and/or dab the product directly onto the face, cheek or eye area using the actual stick, which is my preferred method because of how simple and easy it is. This method will not be an option for makeup artists who need to follow proper hygiene practices, and applying stick products directly to the face is considered by some as unhygienic. This is because the top of the product can hold onto things that were on the face from the previous application, but for the general consumer, I do not find a problem with applying it directly using the stick itself. What I do in order to try and keep the top layer of the product nice and relatively clean is to make sure that I swatch it on my hand/arm after I have applied it, which strips off the top layer that has just been directly on the face. Using a makeup wipe or something similar to wipe it over is also an option.
The second way you can apply Starlight is by using a makeup brush like a flat top or buffer brush. Here, you would dip into the stick and coat the brush, and then you would apply it directly to the face/eye area and build it up using the brush. Another option is to apply the product to the fingers, and then dab it wherever you want.
While all methods produce the same/similar results, applying the product straight to the face using the stick is going to give you a more pigmented finish more quickly, whereas you will have to keep going in and building it up using a brush, which will take longer. Using the fingers to apply the product is also a more quick option than using a brush, but ultimately, all methods of application will give you a high colour pay-off, the only thing that varies is the amount of time it takes to build it up.
There are also TWO ways (what I mean by ways is method) , to apply the Starlight highlighting stick -using swipping motions and dabbing/patting motions. When you swipe a product on, you are running it down ,up or across the face in one, slick move. When you dab/pat product on, you are buffing the product into the skin in little jumpy motions. Both of these methods work extremely well with the Starlight shimmer stick, but they do produce slightly different results.
If you swipe the product on the face, you get a extremely pigmented result pretty much straight away. If you dab/pat the product on, you gradually build the pigment up bit by bit. I usually use a combination of these two methods, first swiping things on to build that initial layer up, and then going back in using dabbing motions to add intensity and to blend the product out a bit.
In regards to using a brush/the fingers to further blend the product out on the face, you have two options. You can leave it as it is because when the product applies, it applies pigmented but sheer enough that it already looks blended out. If you want to diffuse the product more into the skin,  you can pick up a buffer brush and work/blend the product in more so it’s not as noticeable. It will just depend on how much colour pay-off you get on application, and sometimes you will get a harsh line and you may need to blend things out a bit more and sometimes you won’t.
The packaging of the shimmer stick’s twisty tubes is absolutely amazing. They feel so so sturdy – the actual packaging and the stick of product both feel extremely strong. You get NO resistance or tugging when you apply it to the face, it just glides onto the skin without fight and feeling like it’s going to break, which is a MASSIVE problem with highlighting sticks as most brands make them so so thin that they are very flimsy and break when faced with just the tiniest bit of resistance. This is how you do any type of cream stick, you make it strong so it doesn’t feel like it will snap, and I give massive props to Fenty for this! In terms of functionality and appearance, the sticks are magnetic so can be connected with other sticks, and they are extremely visually appealing and feature beautiful nude packaging with halographic, reflective writing.
I am extremely happy with the Starlight Shimmer Stick by Fenty Beauty!! It has a beautiful, light, non-messy formula and applies extremely easy to the face. It can be used for so many things, and I love it so much as a highlighter, as an eyeshadow and as a lip topper. It is the perfect tone and shade for me and my pale skin, and while it is certainly pigmented and very opaque, it is such a soft subtle, white/yellow shade that is extremely flattering. The packaging is extremely sturdy and the consistency of the product is not weak, meaning the sticks can handle the resistance you get when you apply it directly to the face.
All in all, I LOVE this shimmer stick by Fenty Beauty and am keen to try more shades in the Shimmer Stick range!!
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What do you think of the Fenty Beauty Shimmer Stick in Starstruck?? Let me know in the comments below babes!!!
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Fenty Beauty Match Stix Shimmer Skinstick in Starstruck Review, Swatches + Face Pictures Fenty Beauty have a line of Shimmer Sticks and today, I am going to be talking about, swatching and showing you face pictures of the…
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