The one change you may have noticed when we came over to thenotice.net? Ads. Which is to say, we now have a few tucked away in our sidebar, and as unobtrusive as they are, they still do exist. Unfortunately, hosting your own domain, attaching an email to that, storing your files in the mysterious depths of the interwebs… all those things cost money, and as a University student, I’m not exactly made of it.

(Actually, I’m pretty sure that, by definition of being a human, I’m not made of it. Hmm, food for thought.)

Anyhow, I wanted to give a bit of a shout-out to our two most recent advertisers, Subversive Apothecary and Vicious Cosmetics. Why? No particular reason, it’s not contractual or anything — I just think they’re awesome small businesses that deserve a bit of love. So, please do give ’em a click when you have the time!

Just a bit of background: Subversive Apothecary is based out of Virginia, makes all its products in the good ol’ US of A, and doesn’t test on animals. They sell just one product, an anti-ageing serum, and even have a page on their site that breaks down and describes all of the ingredients that go into the serum! (The serum, for the record, is free of both parabens and silicones. We approve!)

Vicious Cosmetics, our other small-business advertiser right now, is owned and operated out of Florida. They have a much larger range of products — right now, it’s just a huge range of really vivid eyeshadows, but they’ll be expanding into lip products soon, too. They support animal activism and being green, and you can ship them your empty Vicious packaging for a discount. (Sorta like Back-2-MAC. Cool, right?) Oh! Plus, they have swatches of their products up on their site, which is also pretty awesome.

So… yeah. Give ’em a look; they deserve it! I mean, all our advertisers technically “deserve it,” but I like supporting small businesses (and I hope you guys do, too!)