Collab Queens: Alyssa Edwards and Jackie Aina Bring Some Much-Needed Diversity To The ABH Lineup
Unpopular makeup opinion: I don’t get the buzz about Anastasia Beverly Hills. I don’t really like their formula, their pans are tiny (though I am tempted to buy the Norvina Pro Pigment palette, which is much more generously sized!), and the color stories are bland and super repetitive. They are powdery as fuck and the shimmers tend to get really crumbly right away. Now, all of that criticism somehow hasn’t stopped me from amassing no less than 6 of their palettes: Modern Renaissance, Subculture, Prism, Riviera, and now the...
read moreSo Jaded Palette: Kathleen Lights’ Newest ColourPop Collab Is Precious, But Pricey
Let’s just get it out there: So Jaded, the new Kathleen Lights collab palette with ColourPop is $39. Thirty-nine. Fucking. American. Dollars. Clearly I bought it, so I got over my shock and revulsion at this elevated price point, but this is a growing trend among some of the most consistently inexpensive brands like NYX and Morphe, to start putting out “premium” products that are larger or in collaboration with influencers or some other reason to charge some brand new price point unheard of for the brand. I remember the In...
read moreLetter From The Editor: 7 Years & Still A Beautiful Disaster!
Dear Champagne Dreamers, Well, August came and went without my annual letter to the editor, talking about what the last year had been like and what I was looking forward to in the year to come. It was actually pretty representative of the last year that I’ve had running the World of Champagne as well as all of my other side projects – hectic and behind schedule! I’m fairly certain that last year’s letter talked about the launch of the YouTube channel, and here we are again at another anniversary and the channel is...
read moreRebranding Can Be A Circus…But There’s Beauty In This Menagerie
You know I’m a whore for a good liquid lipstick, and no one did a better formula than Makeup Monsters! They were one of my OG faves when I was first trying to figure out how to wrangle this kind of product and not end up with it drying to a stain all over my face. The formula was light and watery painting on very easily, but it was opaque and offered not only great coverage but pretty fantastic lasting power. Darkness Prevails, their black shade, won the first ever black liquid lipstick Makeup Thunderdome, beating out Jeffree...
read moreMorphe X Jeffree Star Brings Color…And Controversy?!
Another day, another drama! When Jeffree Star announced part 2 of his collaboration with Morphe, including a 30-pan artistry palette, people were a little surprised considering that JStar’s own brand is known for their high quality, high performance, higer price point eyeshadows. I’ll include the reveal video below so you can watch the whole thing if you want, or you can skip to the quote that seems to have fueled the latest made up scandal in the beauty community: at 2:58, Jeffree says When me and Morphe were talking about what...
read morePretty As A Peachy Queen: Two New Palettes For 90s Babies & Halloween Hotties!
These palettes may both have different moods…but each one is presenting a total #Mood! I’m talking about two palettes from Peachy Queen: the 90s Baby palette and the new Spirit Board palette. One is bright and neon and nostalgic. One is dark and shadowy and sultry. But whether you prefer to bo bright or go home, or you want to go over to the dark side, both feature Peachy Queen’s fun color story and overall quality. I have reviewed one other Peachy Queen palette, the Kush Queen palette, and while I didn’t think it...
read moreJanessa After Dark: Photo Set By Miranda Roen, Roen Photography, Summer 2019
Alright Champagne Dreamers – are you ready for the biggest, brightest, and baddest collection of photos from Miss Jaye’s recent shoot with Miranda Roen of Roen Photography? We know we are! Not only as these photos glamorous and just a little naughty, some of these images will also be promo images for the upcoming third season of Miss Jaye’s original podcast, Janessa After Dark! After a spooktacular second season focused on those who love and make horror, we can’t wait to see what Miss Jaye is going to cook up to...
read moreMiss Jaye Is Back To Let You Have It, With A New Episode Of JANESSA AFTER DARK, Feat. Crystal Connor!
Season 2 of Janessa After Dark is winding down, but Miss Jaye still has a few horror-themed tricks and treats up her sleeve before she calls it a wrap! One of those treats is a brand new episode feature horror author Crystal Connor, a trusted name in terror! Crystal is the proudly self-published author of horror novels for adults including The Spectrum Trilogy and a collection of short stories called And They All Lived Happily Ever After. She also created a children’s book of scary stories related to global myth, folklore, and urban...
read moreNeon Love: Two Palettes To Light Up The Night By Blush Tribe & Peachy Queen
6-year-old me is living for the neon moment that seems to be sweeping the indie makeup world! About a week ago, I shared my review of the new Lime Crime Venus Vivid palette, a neon-esque brights palette that was rainbow Lisa Frank goodness all day long! But those shades were more bright, vivid shades that were neon-inspired. What about actual neon eyeshadow shades? Can a makeup brand truly harness the electric pleasure of pure neon? Two new palettes are certainly trying their best: Blush Tribe’s Neon Dreams Revamped and Peachy...
read moreThat Hashtag Life: Ruby May Cosmetics Offers #Mood, #Vibes, & #Brights Mini Palettes
I’m not a millennial, but sometimes I act like one: I actually found Ruby May Cosmetics through an Instagram ad for their Street Art palette. It was a lovely bright rainbow palette, but I wasn’t sure about the brand; there are a lot of those cheap Chinese dupe brands out there that advertise on IG, so I waited. One of the performers from Arizona that I follow posted something about a pageant that he was competing in, and one of the sponsors was Ruby May, so I decided to give them a chance. But as is the story of my life, when I...
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