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Headlining THE ESSENTIAL R. KELLY are an amazing 11 hits that went to #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles and/or Hot 100 charts, comprising "Honey Love" - Radio Fade (1992), "Slow Dance (Hey Mr. DJ)" - Video Mix (1992), "Bump n' Grind" (1994), "You Remind Me Of Something" (1995), "Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)" featuring Ronald and Ernie Isley (1996), "I Can't Sleep Baby (If I)" - Radio Edit (1996), "I Believe I Can Fly" - Radio Edit (1996), "Be Careful" by Sparkle featuring R. Kelly (1998), "I'm Your Angel" - Radio Version duet with Celine Dion (1998), "I Wish" (2000), and "Step In The Name Of Love" - Remix (2002).
Beyond his litany of #1 hits, THE ESSENTIAL R. KELLY weighs in with an impressive additional 18 tracks that rose to Top 5 or Top 10 status. They range from his 1991 chart debut "She's Got That Vibe" (with Public Announcement, his first vocal group) to 2009's "Number One," featuring Keri Hilson. Among this grouping of Top 5's and Top 10's are such touchstones as 1993's "Sex Me (Part I)" - Street Radio Edit (his debut single under his own name and his first certified RIAA gold million-seller); 1994's "Your Body's Callin'"; 1999's "When A Woman's Fed Up"; 2001's "Feelin' On Yo Booty"; 2002's "Ignition" - Remix; 2003's "Thoia Thoing"; 2004's "Happy People" - Radio Edit; 2005's controversial "Trapped In The Closet (Chapter 1)"; and many more.
Packed with this lion's share of top-charted R&B and pop hit singles are original album versions, hard-to-find remixes, rare movie soundtrack cuts (several of them out of print), and career-defining collaborations. THE ESSENTIAL R. KELLY is the source of several important "firsts":
- The first collection to include his collaborations with Ronald and Ernie Isley (the #1 "Down Low"), Nas ("Did You Ever Think" - Remix Radio Edit), Celine Dion (the #1 "I'm Your Angel" - Radio Version), T.I. & T-Pain ("I'm A Flirt Remix" - Main Version), Usher ("Same Girl"), and Keri Hilson ("Number One");
- The first collection to include his outside collaborations ('featuring R. Kelly') with The Notorious B.I.G. ("#!*@ You Tonight"), Sparkle (the #1 "Be Careful"), Ja Rule ("Wonderful," also featuring Ashanti), and Cassidy ("Hotel");
- The first double-CD collection to gather three of R. Kelly's major movie soundtrack chart hits, namely the three-time Grammy Award®-winning "I Believe I Can Fly" - Radio Edit (from 1996's Space Jam), "Gotham City" - Remix (from 1997's Batman & Robin), and "The World's Greatest" - Radio Edit (from 2001's Ali).
It was 1998 when R. Kelly made Grammy Awards® history with "I Believe I Can Fly," the first R&B artist in 25 years to sweep three categories with one song, since the Temptations at the 1973 awards (with "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"). At the 40th annual Grammy Awards® on February 25, 1998, "I Believe I Can Fly" won for Best Male R&B Vocal, Best R&B Song, and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television. Only three R&B artists' songs have achieved a rare triple-play Grammy® win since then: Alicia Keys with "Fallin'" (2001), Luther Vandross with "Dance With My Father" (2003), and Beyoncé with "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" (2008).
To date, R. Kelly has another 21 Grammy Award® nominations under his belt, including R&B Album Of the Year nominations for his last three consecutive albums, Untitled (for 2011), Love Letter (2012), and Write Me Back (2013). Also to R. Kelly's credit, his Trapped In The Closet Chapters 6-12 package was nominated for the Best Long Form Music Video Grammy Award® for 2005; and the Trapped In The Closet Chapters 13-22 package was nominated for the Best Long Form Music Video Grammy Award® for 2007. Most recently, iTunes made all 33 chapters available of the entire Trapped In The Closet video narrative.
With some 78 chart singles as lead artist (and his name attached to more than 50 more chart single collaborations, plus dozens of guest appearances on albums), combined with an astounding 18 RIAA gold and platinum awards and over 54 million records sold, R. Kelly is far and away the best-selling R&B male artist of our time. The point is underscored in Joel Whitburn's authoritative Hot R&B Songs 1942-2010 where R. Kelly is ranked the #1 Artist Of the 1990s, and the #3 Artist Of 2000-2010.
(Explicit version: RCA/Legacy 88765 44450 2;
Clean/edited version: RCA/Legacy 88765 44739 2)
CD One - Selections: 1. * She's Got That Vibe (Radio Edit) (A, #7 R&B, #59 Hot 100) • 2. * Honey Love (Radio Fade) (A, #1 R&B, #39 Hot 100) • 3. * Slow Dance (Hey Mr. DJ) (Video Mix) (A, #1 R&B, #43 Hot 100) • 4. * Sex Me (Part I) (Street Radio Edit) (B, #8 R&B, #20 Hot 100) • 5. Bump n' Grind (B, #1 R&B, #1 Hot 100) • 6. Your Body's Callin' (B, #2 R&B, #13 Hot 100) • 7. You Remind Me Of Something (C, #1 R&B, #4 Hot 100) • 8. Down Low (Nobody Has To Know) (featuring Ronald and Ernie Isley) (C, #1 R&B, #4 Hot 100) • 9. * I Can't Sleep Baby (If I) (Radio Edit) (C, #1 R&B, #5 Hot 100) • 10. * I Believe I Can Fly (Radio Edit) (D & H, #1 R&B, #1 Hot 100) • 11. #!*@ You Tonight by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring R. Kelly (E) • 12. * Gotham City (Remix) (F, #9 R&B, #9 Hot 100) • 13. Be Careful by Sparkle featuring R. Kelly (G, #1 R&B, #32 Hot 100) • 14. When A Woman's Fed Up (H, #5 R&B, #22 Hot 100) • 15. * Did You Ever Think (Remix Radio Edit featuring Nas) (H, #8 R&B, #27 Hot 100) • 16. * If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time (Radio Edit) (H, #5 R&B, #12 Hot 100) • 17. * I'm Your Angel (Radio Version) (Duet with Celine Dion) (H & I, #5 R&B, #1 Hot 100).
Note: * indicates single master.
CD Two - Selections: 1. I Wish (J, #1 R&B, #14 Hot 100) • 2. Feelin' On Yo Booty (J, #9 R&B, #36 Hot 100) • 3. * The World's Greatest (Radio Edit) (K, #31 R&B, #34 Hot 100) • 4. Ignition - Remix (L, #2 R&B, #2 Hot 100) • 5. Thoia Thoing (M, #6 R&B, #13 Hot 100) • 6. * Step In The Name Of Love - Remix (Radio Edit) (L, #1 R&B, #9 Hot 100) • 7. Hotel by Cassidy featuring R. Kelly (N, #6 R&B, #4 Hot 100) • 8. * Happy People (Radio Edit) (O, #7 R&B, #19 Hot 100) • 9. Wonderful by Ja Rule featuring R. Kelly and Ashanti (P, #3 R&B, #5 Hot 100) • 10. In The Kitchen (Q, #16 R&B, #91 Hot 100) • 11. Trapped In The Closet (Chapter 1) (Q, #5 R&B, #22 Hot 100) • 12. * I'm A Flirt Remix (Main Version) (featuring T.I. & T-Pain) (R, #2 R&B, #12 Hot 100) • 13. Same Girl (Duet with Usher) (R, #4 R&B, #20 Hot 100) • 14. Number One (featuring Keri Hilson) (S, #8 R&B, #59 Hot 100) • 15. When A Woman Loves (T, #15 R&B, #93 Hot 100) • 16. Love Letter (Radio Edit) (T, #13 R&B, #102 Hot 100) • 17. Feelin' Single (U, #13 R&B) • 18. * U Saved Me (Radio Edit) (O, #14 R&B, #52 Hot 100).
Note: * indicates single master.
Album index:
A - from Born Into The 90's (Jive, originally issued January 1992, by R. Kelly and Public Announcement)
B - from 12 Play (Jive, originally issued November 1993)
C - from R. Kelly (Jive, originally issued November 1995)
D - from Music From And Inspired By The Movie Space Jam (Warner Sunset, originally issued November 1996)
E - from The Notorious B.I.G. album Life After Death (Bad Boy, originally issued March 1997)
F - from Music From And Inspired By The "Batman & Robin" Motion Picture (Warner Sunset, originally issued June 1997)
G - from the Sparkle album Sparkle (Interscope, originally issued May 1998)
H - from R. (Jive, originally issued November 1998)
I - from the Celine Dion album These Are Special Times (550 Music, originally issued November 1998)
J - from TP-2.COM (Jive, originally issued November 2000)
K - from the album Ali Original Soundtrack (Interscope, originally issued November 2001)
L - from Chocolate Factory (Jive, originally issued February 2003)
M - from The R. In R&B Collection: Volume 1 (Jive, originally issued September 2003)
N - from the Cassidy album Split Personality (J Records, originally issued March 2004)
O - from Happy People/U Saved Me (Jive, originally issued August 2004)
P - from the Ja Rule album R.U.L.E. (The INC Records, originally issued November 2004)
Q - from TP.3 Reloaded (Jive, originally issued July 2005)
R - from Double Up (Jive, originally issued May 2007)
S - from Untitled (Jive, originally issued December 2009)
T - from Love Letter (Jive, originally issued December 2010)
U - from Write Me Back (RCA, originally issued June 2012)


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Since WWE stars had to travel through pretty rough weather this past winter, Vince McMahon is leaning towards doing more house shows on the west coast during the months of October through January, as the conditions on that side of the country are not nearly as harsh.
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Ricardo Rodriguez, who has been training a lot lately to become an in ring performer for WWE, has revealed that he will be working the TLC pay per view tonight. However, he will simply be working with the Spanish announce team.
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We ordered a set meal for 180 dirham each first course of soup was lovely
Second Course of pastilla was cold in the middle sent it back got another which was also just as cold in the middle so we left in
Main course was ok but put off by pastilla
Fruit was ok
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By Daniel Abadi
Editor's note: The piece below by Daniel Abadi first appeared on the Hadapt blog and is republished with permission here. The framework presented provides insight into the very dynamic market around "Big Data Innovators" and should be of use for classifying many other firms in this interesting space. -bg
Recently InformationWeek published a piece, authored by Doug Henschen, that listed 13 innovative Big Data vendors. The complete list is reproduced below:
1. MongoDB
2. Amazon (Redshift, EMR, DynamoDB)
3. Cloudera (CDH, Impala)
4. Couchbase
5. Datameer
6. Datastax
7. Hadapt
8. Hortonworks
9. Karmasphere
10. MapR
11. Neo Technology
12. Platfora
13. Splunk
These 13 vendors distribute 16 unique data management products (since both Amazon and Cloudera offer multiple distinct data management/processing systems), all of which push the boundary on Big Data management.
In this post I will attempt to subcategorize these 16 products into a competitive grouping, where products placed inside the same group can be considered replacements for each other (and hence are competitive), and each group is complementary to every other group.
Before starting this classification, I will remove three products that, while potentially being interesting from a Big Data perspective, are often used outside of what has become known as the "Big Data realm", and therefore their primary competitors did not make it on the InformationWeek list. These three products are Splunk (which typically competes with companies focused on the security, compliance, and IT operations management verticals), Amazon Redshift (which typically completes with traditional MPP database vendors), and Neo Technology (which, although usually classified as a "NoSQL database", its focus on graph data makes it highly unique from a technology and use case perspective relative to the other NoSQL databases on this list).
The remaining 13 products can be classified into four distinct groups:
1. Operational data stores that allow flexible schemas
2. Hadoop distributions
3. Real-time Hadoop-based analytical platforms
4. Hadoop-based BI solutions
Group 1 (operational data stores that allow flexible schemas)
This group is composed of database products that can be used to manage active data for dynamic applications with hard to define (or hard to predict) schemas. The database must be optimized for inserting, retrieving, updating, or deleting individual data items in real-time (latencies on the order of milliseconds), but should also support some sort of interface for performing analysis of the data stored within. The dynamic nature of the typical use case for databases in this group implies a NoSQL interface, and either a key-value or document-store retrieval model. From the InformationWeek list, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Couchbase, and Datastax all fit in this category. Although there are some significant technical differences between these products, they can nonetheless be roughly described as potential replacements for each other in Group 1 use cases.
Group 2 (Hadoop distributions)
The products in this group are designed for very different situations than Group 1. Hadoop is typically used for large scale data analysis and batch processing. Rather than inserting, retrieving, updating, or deleting individual data items, Hadoop is optimized for scanning through large swaths of data, processing and analyzing the data as it proceeds. Hadoop has become the poster-child for "Big Data" due to its proven massive scalability, and its ability to handle the "variety" aspect of Big Data (since Hadoop does not require data to fit neatly into rows and columns in order to be analyzed and processed). From the InformationWeek list, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, and Amazon EMR all fit in this category.
Group 3 (real-time Hadoop-based analytical platforms)
Group 3 takes Hadoop to the next level, transforming it from a mere batch processing system to a full-fledged analytical platform that can answer queries in real-time. Furthermore, by adding a more robust SQL interface to Hadoop (in addition to industry-standard ODBC connectors), group 3 products help to hide the complexity of Hadoop and the need for Hadoop specialists, since traditional business intelligence and visualization tools are now able to interface directly with data stored inside Hadoop. From the InformationWeek list, Hadapt clearly fits in this category, and with certain caveats, so does Cloudera Impala (the caveats are that as of the time of writing this blog post (a) Impala is an extremely young codebase and is still only in beta (b) Impala only supports a small subset of SQL and does not support UDFs or other ways to combine structured and unstructured data in the same query, so calling it an "analytical platform" might be a bit of a stretch).
Group 4 (Hadoop-based BI solutions)
Often lumped together with group 3 products, group 4 products are often confused as being competitive with group 3 products. However, just as business intelligence tools and analytical database solutions are highly complementary and were often packaged together in the pre-Hadoop world, the same is true in the Hadoop/Big Data world. Therefore, Datameer, Karmasphere, and Platfora, all of which function as a business intelligence layer above Hadoop, are capable of working closely with the group 3 products (with announcements along these lines already starting to begin).
In conclusion, although "Big Data" is an enormous and rapidly growing market, one single data management software product is not going to rule the market. Rather, there are four major groups of data management solutions within the Big Data space; and while there is fierce competition within each group, at the macro level these groups can not only co-exist, but are highly complementary. In the long run, it is likely that the 2-3 leaders in each group will emerge and share the Big Data pie.
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Recently, in a shopping frenzy at the website of a very highbrow Brazilian publisher, who by the way makes beautiful books, I acquired an exquisite (if somewhat disturbing) edition of Aesop's Fables. In continuing with a self taught storytelling education I've been taking, I wanted to compare modern narratives with the very ancient, basic kind of story that is a fable. After reading about half of the book, I gave it up, in theory because I had already learned what I needed but mostly because I got bored (Aesop, it seems, was better at dishing out life lessons than coming up with stories that didn't involve donkeys and lions). What I learned is, basically, that fables are mostly guided by their purpose, which is to enunciate a "lesson" and then support it with a story so it becomes clear and makes sense (on paper, this happens the other way around – you read the tale and then the lesson – but I imagine the creative process demanded thinking up the lesson first). Because of this, the stories themselves were very short and its characters very simple – they only existed to carry a message across. Not by nothing were most characters animals, as animals carry with them some constructed qualities (donkey – dumbness/stubbornness, lion – courage/pride) that demand little to no characterization by the author. The fable's characters are caricatures and don't intend to be relatable, as they portray simple, black and white situations.
This changed over time, when most stories began to acquire a different purpose: to entertain. As entertaining is a much looser objective, stories began to last longer, letting situations play out in their own time (sometimes, in order to entertain more, they would even play out in unexpected ways). But still, characters throughout most of history depended on socially constructed concepts of "hero", "villain", "sidekick", "damsel", etc. Nobody washed the dishes, nobody did the laundry – characters existed mostly to act out the situations they were put in, which demanded that they be two dimensional exaggerations far removed from actual human beings. This all changed with the advent of literary realism, when authors around the world began challenging the romantic notions that had dominated literature up to the 19th century and their characters began acting more like human beings. They were good, yes, but also bad, brave, lazy, generous, petty – in short, everything we are.
Characters throughout most of history depended on socially constructed concepts of "hero", "villain", "sidekick", "damsel", etc – but now we need to know the people behind the characters.
With every new medium, the cicle began anew – which is fair, after all, it would be too much to ask of the first moviegoers that they not only accepted the moving images in front of them, but also to deal with actual people (gasp!) in the plots. The same goes for television – only when The Sopranos (or, some would argue, Seinfield) broke out as a mainstream hit did we begin to see people, instead of generic pastiches, become the norm in television narratives. Nowadays, I would daresay that, in any medium, characterization has taken a role as important than plot, if not more, which is to say: what happens is as important as to whom it happens. We have a need now to know characters, their backstories, their struggles, their dreams. We need to empathize, or we just won't surrender our disbelief.
All of this to say, I saw Robert Stromberg's Maleficent the other day and didn't like it. Having seen an excellent performance of Wicked last fall in New York, I was expecting something along the lines – tell the story of how the good girl became the witch, completely subverting story elements to surprise the viewer. But, whereas Wicked opens with the news of the witch's death (seemingly good news) and then proceeds to make us empathize with the poor green baby hated by her parents, Maleficent opens in the most traditional of ways, with a "once upon a time" in which we meet a lovely little fairy called Maleficent (and here began my distaste for the movie, as Maleficent, I assume, comes from the latin mal, "evil", and facere, "to do", so it would mean "evildoer" – why would a nice little fairy be called "evil doer"?). We then see various terribly cliched scenes (the little girl says good morning to and plays with the magical forest inhabitants, she meets a human boy, they play, she falls in love) that are nothing more than flashes of a corny love story we've heard thousands of time. We then learn of a terrible king that means to destroy the forest Maleficent lives in, which leads to a horrendous battle scene – it literally made me cringe. It's neither small enough to be realistic not large enough to be impressive – it's just awful, like someone trying to remake Lord of the Rings but with a quarter of the budget. Then, to provoke Maleficent's fall to the dark side, she's betrayed by her lover, who cuts her wings in a completely character-incoherent scene (we're supposed to believe that he turned from shy, selfless and in love to heartless and greedy) and gives them to the king, which makes him his successor. To Angelina Jolie's credit, the scene when she wakes up to find her wings are gone really moved me; it's one of the few scenes in the whole movie that shows us a three-dimensional person on the other side of the screen.
All in all, it takes the movie thirty full minutes to get to the most anticipated scene – the cursing of Aurora at birth. This is when I realized what was wrong with the movie: the pace was off. It was going nor fast nor low enough – instead giving us twenty minutes of flashes, which doesn't really allow for good characterization. Take the aforementioned Lord of the Rings – on the first seven minutes of the movie we're told the whole story of the One Ring, which spans centuries, but then it slows down to a normal pace, never speeding up again. Those centuries in seven minutes are necessary for introduction and context, but then the story is allowed to breathe, and the characters to develop, for three whole movies. Still, I thought, maybe after the cursing scene the story will slow down and we can begin to get to know Maleficent a little bit more (since her "turning bad" is nothing more than making it rain and raising a thorny wall around the woods – she doesn't seem to be really evil). No such luck.
In another twenty minutes, the movie arrives at the second most important plot point: Aurora meets Maleficent and they begin a friendship out of nowhere. Aurora, it should be noted, is by then fifteen years old – so at the 50-minute mark, the movie has shown us flashes that span more than thirty years of story. No wonder all characters are so cliched. The movie tries to portray Maleficent as a non-traditional character (not quite the hero, not quite villain) but continuously fails to show us a bad side – even when Aurora is a baby, she's constantly protecting her, her most evil act being the smirk on her face as she does so. She is a hero with no condemning qualities, just as Stephan (the king and her former lover) is a villain with no redeeming ones (he doesn't seem to love even his own daughter, as the first thing he does when he meets her is locking her up in a tower). Aurora is the perfect damsel in distress; silly, Pollyana at all times, believing everything to be magical and good – it almost makes you wished she pricked her finger on the spinner (which, incidentally, happens twenty minutes after we first hear her talk – see what I mean about pace?) sooner, so she spent a larger portion of the movie sleeping instead of irritating the viewers with her attitude. Due to these terribly rapid pace, the characters have no choice but to behave as their stereotypes command – whenever they don't, such as when Stephan betrays Maleficent, their attitudes seem fake, out of the blue and in service of the plot.
At the fifty-minute mark, the movie has shown us flashes that span more than thirty years of story – no character can survive that pace.
I've always considered there are two ways to tell a person's story, and can be illustrated in two movies about two very important women in the history of England. The Iron Lady, the 2011 movie in which Meryl Streeps portrays Britain's only female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, chose to show us Margareth's whole live in its 100 minutes of length. Sure, it does so through flashbacks of a now dementia-ridden old lady, but still, the story simply moves too fast, and we never get to either know or care for Mrs. Thatcher. The other movie, 2006 The Queen, in which Helen Mirren portrays Queen Elizabeth II, opts instead to introduce us to the monarch by focusing on a single event: the death of Lady Diana Spencer in 1997. In most of its 97 minutes, the movie retells the one week after Lady Di's death – which allows us to get to know all those involved (mainly the Queen and Tony Blair) and get a sense of who they are. Whereas in the first movie you're dumped a ton of information and expected to make sense of all of it (The Iron Lady heavily relies on viewer's knowing of the events portrayed to keep up the pace), the second simply presents a main event and shows the characters reaction and evolution throughout. Needless to say, I believe The Queen's path is the one that should be followed.
Sadly, it's not the one Maleficent chooses. Trying firmly to be true to its source material (which is a mistake, since, after all, the original Sleeping Beauty movie made no effort to justify any of Maleficent's actions) it becomes a boring sequence of contrived scenes. Even it's "shocking twist", which comes when a dumb irrelevant prince tries to wake Aurora from her slumber with a kiss and fails, was spoiled by Disney itself a year earlier in Frozen – true love's kiss cannot come from meeting someone and falling in love the same day, we learn, but by lasting relationships built through the years and tested by hardships. Which is a nice message (one that is geared more towards Disney creatives, which spoon fed us false concepts of love all throughout our childhood, than the audience) but one we only need to hear once. Nothing in this movie is original, either in concept or execution. One doesn't get to care about any of the characters or is remotely surprised at any turn of events. I only wished the pace had been more even, instead of slowing down and speeding up with no consistence, so that we could get to know the people between the "once upon a time" and the "happily ever after".


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I bought this in Light Blonde, hoping for a cheaper alternative to MAC Fling. While the color is somewhat warmer than Fling, it's close enough that I might have considered repurchasing - until I realized something. You wouldn't know by looking at it, but there is much less product in this one. The MAC Crayon at $14 is .09g, while this one cost me $6.99 but is only .05g. (Now I know why that useless comb is on the product end, rather than the cap.) True, you can buy it on sale or use a coupon, but unless it's a BOGO free deal, there's not much difference in price. I think that's rather deceptive, given that it's a drugstore brand. There aren't even any testers to see the colors. I would have liked to compare this to the Dark Blonde shade, but given that I love MAC Fling, there's no reason to buy this again. (The only thing I like better about it is that the bright green packaging stands out in my case and I don't have to dig around looking for it.)
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I used to use MAC brow pencil in Lingering. But I started using this as it is comparable to MAC. I have been using the dark blonde shade and it is a natural match for me. I cant stand to not have my brows filled in b/c I have to have the shape defined with pencil to see it so I go thru pencils very quickly. Probably one every 4-6 weeks so it was adding up with MAC. Luckily these are cheaper and go on sale often so I can get them B1G1 and stock up. The only complaints are the silly comb; which I use to brush my brows into place but would really prefer a brush to blend. And I wish I could see when Im running out. It sucks to be doing your make up and have one brow done and there is none left for the other side! So Ive learned to keep more than one at a time. Ive bought several of these and will continue to repurchase.
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I have highlighted/blonde hair and I bought the lightest color pencil they have - I think it's light blonde to blonde. It's a great eyebrow pencil. Goes on silky smooth with a continuous sharp tip. Didn't find a use for the comb on the end, but that's OK. My only gripe is that it lasted me less than a month, therefore I removed one lippie. I would have to turn it up more than once while using, which is probably why I ran out so fast. I don't use a whole lot, either. It just goes quickly. Other than that it's great. Perfect color match - wonderful application. I just wish there was more product for the price I paid (about $7). I will definitely repurchase, though.
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I really like this eyebrow pencil, it goes on smoothly and is easy to use. I bought this in light brown, which matched my brows perfectly you can also build the color up if you need to. It is alot easier to use than most because it is so thin. I would prefer a brush on the end, instead of the comb but other than that it's great.
Very good drugstore find. It's cheap and you can always buy more at the drugstore if you run out. This brow pencil is slim -- way thinner than I had expected! It doesn't twist back down once you turn it, but I'm very careful so I don't have much of a problem with that. I have this in "Dark Brown." This has a waxy (think crayons) consistency which helps it to stay on longer, but it's not overly waxy and soft like the Wet n Wild Brow and Eye Pencils. The super fine tip is great for exact shaping, as opposed to the soft natural shading that you can get with traditional pencils or brow powder. I suggest using the Define-a-Brow for shading in small patches only, not the entire brow. It is rather pigmented, especially if you press too hard, so make sure to use a very light hand to gently apply. For softening up brows that look too fake or severe, I like to go over them with the brush on the cap of my Rimmel Professional Eyebrow pencil (the old version has softer bristles) or a spoolie brush. I don't use the comb on the other end of the Define-a-Brow at all, unless it's to separate clumped mascara on my lashes.
EDIT: I bought the Define-a-Brow in "Dark Blonde" and it's going to be my new HG brow product! Now that Shu Uemura is no longer going to be sold in the US, I've been trying to find a replacement for their amazing (but way too expensive) Brow Pencil. The little red Maybelline Twin Brow Pencils in "Blonde" have the same hard texture with a shade similar to the Shu Uemura Brow Pencil in "Seal Brown," but they don't offer the same precision and exact shaping like the Define-a-Brow does! I'm so glad that I decided to pick up "Dark Blonde"! If you have black hair like me, you should definitely try using brow pencils in a taupe color, usually labeled for blonde hair. It will look a LOT more natural then using something that's too dark or black. I still have the Define-a-Brow in "Dark Brown", but now that my makeup skills have improved and I know better, I will reserve it strictly for a full-on dramatic makeup look. For everyday use, I will be reaching for "Dark Blonde!"
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Good concept and great color match. I bought the Medium Brown. I like the comb, but I wish it had an eyebrow brush instead like Merle Norman eyebrow pencils. It's too thin a pencil, I like a wider stick. I really don't like that I have to keep turning it several times to get enough product out while I'm applying it. I also don't like that you can't retract it. I don't know if I will buy this again. I may keep looking for something better.
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These are somewhat comparable to MAC Eyebrows Crayons. They are slim, self sharpening and have a nice texture.
I prefer MAC's because the colors are better and the texture is somewhat better.
The bright green packaging of this pencil is hideous (matches nothing in my case) and the little comb thing is useless (except for on lashes, maybe?) but the price is very economical if you if you don't want to spend your money on something that is going to be gone in about two months anyway if you use it everyday!
I bought this in Medium Brown and it is slightly lighter than the color Spiked in MAC's formula, but is about the same tone (neutral).
Ok, I am going up to a 5 lippie rating because after trying a few drugstore brow pencils I found that the shade is very natural and the texture is very smooth and not too waxy!!
I was so glad to find this at my local Fred Meyer store. For years Maybelline has made an automatic eyebrow pencil, but not in blonde (they do make their twin pack pencil in blonde).
I bought two of these, one in dark blonde and one in light blonde. I can wear both colors fine (light blonde hair, fair skin). and they both give a natural but defined look.
I hope they continue making this.
This brow pencil works exactly the same as the MAC brow pencil!! Excellent drugstore find! I will repurchase for sure!
I bought this on a whim at WalMart and surprise - I love it! Great substitution for MAC liner, color is similar and so is packaging...can't beat the price. Dark Blonde which is perfect for me. The small comb on the end is a plus.


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Grey County overspends on winter maintenance
Eccles looks to be Grey County warden
The mayor of West Grey wants to be the 2015 warden of Grey County.
Desboro community rallying around Klages family
To describe the past eight months in Joe and Sarah Klages' life as a difficult challenge would be understatement.
Winds down trees, disrupt power
Wind gusts of up to 100 kilometres an hour left more than 87,000 people without power across Ontario late Monday night.
Grey County gets help for homelessness programs
Grey County has received more than $300,000 in additional provincial funding for its homelessness programs.
Wanted man arrested in Walkerton
A man wanted by the OPP in connection with an incident Monday in Wingham was arrested in Walkerton Tuesday evening.
Province plans to protect pollinators
The Ontario government has announced it will be taking steps to protect pollinators like bees, birds and butterflies.
Police seek wanted Kincardine man
Police are looking for a 27-year-old Municipality of Kincardine man who is wanted on outstanding warrants.
Wind storm does number on power lines
Wind gusts of up to 100 kilometres an hour left more than 80,000 people without power across Ontario late Monday night.
Midwives Grey-Bruce
The miracle of life and birth is a beautiful thing and throughout history midwives have been there to bring people into this world.
Mental Health: It's time to Talk
Mental Health: It's time to talk - a live chat will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Brantford Public Library.
Tory MP advises colleagues to wear recorder
A Tory MP has waded into the sexual harassment on the Hill scandal by suggesting parliamentarians wear recording devices at all times.
Rare white lion cub born at Omaha zoo
A rare white lion cub has been born at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, zoo officials said on Wednesday.