Miss Jaye Is Bringing Sparkle Back (YEAH!) With New Jewelry Collection!
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling the quarantine blues! I’ve been “painting my way through the apocalypse” with my Face Friday posts, which has been fun, but once I paint the face and take a few pics, I wash the makeup off. I hadn’t really made anything tangible for a while. I also hadn’t had a jewelry sale for a while – I have a virtual job, so I’ve been lucky that the whole lockdown and quarantine thing hasn’t really impacted me financially aside from losing money...
read moreRaising The Bar: Trying Out New Lip Products From BOMB The Lip Bar
Ugh, do you ever have one of those experiences where you try out a new brand, and then you kick yourself that you didn’t try them out earlier? That’s how I’m feeling about The Lip Bar right now. I’ve known about them for a while, and I’ve even seen some of their products at Target, easily accessible to my impulse-purchase-prone little fingers. I’m not sure why I’ve never tried them out, but it just never seemed to be the right time. As there has been more discussion of black-owned makeup brands...
read moreAnother Year, Another Accusation: Celebrating Pride With Morphe, The Sequel
It’s that time of year, y’all, where rainbows start showing up everywhere and suddenly everyone remembers that the queers exist, long enough to try and sell them some shit. This year, Pride has a slightly different tone because of all the protests around police brutality that are, frankly, long overdue. There are so many young queers today who don’t even know what Stonewall is, let alone the way that it shaped the trajectory of gay rights, queer politics, all leading up to their ability to put on booty shorts and dance on a...
read moreFace Friday: A Full Face Of Black Owned Makeup Brands – With No Fenty Or Pat McGrath!
Hello Champagne Dreamers! Welcome to the final Face Friday of Pride month, and this one is going to be a lot of fun: I’m using a whole face of a collection of amazing black-owned makeup brands. As much as possible, I’ve tried to stay away from the “big 3” that I used for the other June Face Fridays (Juvia’s Place, Beauty Bakerie, and Uoma Beauty) but I did need to pull a few minor things in – but I definitely didn’t have any Fenty or Pat McGrath! Want to know why that’s a big deal? Check out...
read moreJanessa After Dark: Photo Set By Roen Photography, Summer 2017
Hey friends! When we relaunched the World of Champagne, we had to rebuild a lot of our content, including photo galleries. As I was going through and looking at what had been reposted, I realized that I forgot one of the galleries – and on top of that, it’s one of my favorites! This gallery includes images from a photo shoot I did with Miranda Roen of Roen Photography in the summer of 2017, and these images were part of a series that I took to promote the launch of the first series of my podcast, Janessa After Dark! I’ve...
read moreMe, Myself, & M-M-M-Makeup: Reaching Across The Pond To Get My Hands On A British Beauty Collab
I have so many rainbow palettes. Sometimes I think about my collection and I’m a little bit overwhelmed by how many gorgeous rainbow palettes I have. Does that stop my from buying more? Hell no. I decided to pick up the Me, Myself, & MMMMitchell palette for a few reasons: It’s from Beauty Bay, a British beauty retailer that is similar to an Ulta – they carry a bunch of other brands and also have their own store brand. Except unlike Ulta, I keep hearing that their store brand is bomb as fuck! MakeMeUpMissa, a Scottish...
read moreBloom Where You’re Planted: Nabla Brings Pastel Perfection With Soul Blooming Palette
I’ve been wanting to buy and try the Soul Blooming palette for a long time; in fact, at one point I thought I had. When I was first learning Instagram (when it comes to technology, I’m basically your Nana), I got pulled in to one of those sketchy makeup brands that no one has ever heard of that soon disappear, only to return a month later under a different name. They were selling this pastel palette with pinks, peaches, and purples, and they were using a promo image of a pink rose on fire: The palette itself looked a little bit...
read moreFace Friday: Getting Electric Glam With A New BOMB On The Scene, Feat. Uoma Beauty
I’m so excited for the third entry in my Pride series of Face Friday posts featuring Black-Owned Makeup Brands (BOMBs) because it features a “new kid on the block” that is making such a splash and has some really wonderful products: Uoma Beauty! Now, if you’ve been reading my Face Friday posts for a while, you will recognize that name: ever since I discovered their Say What?! foundation, I have been absolutely obsessed! When they had their recent first anniversary sale, I snatched up two backups to make sure that...
read moreGarden Of Earthly Delights: Photo Set By Dirt Candy Productions, Atlanta, 2020
Remember those golden days of the distant past (i.e., 4 months ago) when Mean Miss Rona hadn’t settled in for her unwelcome visit and you could, like, go places and do things? Yeah, me neither. It feels like forever. Maybe that’s another reason why I’m loving the vintage 60s vibes that I’m getting from these photos! These photos are from one of my photo sessions with Brooklyn Ewing of Dirt Candy Productions at Days of the Dead Atlanta, January of 2020. They are giving me vintage 60s vibes, like Dark Shadows with...
read moreBOMB Beauties: JD Glow’s Galaxy & Metallon Shadows Bring The Business
The Year of Single Eyeshadows marches on, and today I’ve got something pretty fantastic for you. In the wake of protests over police brutality and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many others, important conversations that are long overdue are finally starting to happen in more substantial ways. This conversation about inclusion is also spreading beyond just the sphere of social justice and into all areas of life, including the beauty space. As part of that effort, I had already decided that the four Face...
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