Sunday, March 20, 2016
Plumpify
Fashion is a field rife with newly coined words. At CVS today, I came across plumpify in an ad promising to add volume to eyelashes. I can't help but thinking it's sending the wrong message. And it makes my skin crawl on a purely sonic level.
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