Face Friday: Bald, Bare, & Beautiful In Browns Feat. Tarte & ColourPop!
Y’all, the world is putting me through it! As you may know, I am a thicker milkshake, and when I sweat, I start in the hair on the back and sides of my head. It’s gross, and it’s the primary reason why I keep my hair pretty short; any time I’ve tried to grow it out, one instance of vigorous activity sends me running for my stylist! Well, with lockdown in full effect I knew it was going to be quite some time before I could let the professionals handle this mess, so I took matters into my own hands – literally! I...
read moreFace Friday: You’re The One, With This Rubber Duckie Inspired Look Feat. Custom Lashes By The Real Mary Kelly!
Rubber Duckie, you’re the one! Get yourself to the tubbie and get ready to bathe in the ridiculousness that is this Rubber Duckie-inspired look! For previous Face Friday posts I’ve focused on specific palettes, but for this one I wanted to go with a theme and just use whatever from my collection seemed best suited to achieve it. And I had the cutest inspiration: custom lashes from my friend Mary Kelly! You’ll see those closer up below, but for now, here is the final look! I tried to do duck lips in this picture, but I...
read moreBOMB Uoma Beauty Invites You To Indulge In Carnival & Color!
I’ve been eyeballing black-owned makeup brand Uoma Beauty for a while now, but things just didn’t come together. I was in Arizona when the brand was first launching in to Ulta stores, but none of the stores in the Tempe area received the display while I was there, and then I returned to the land of the pale people, and none of our Ultas seem to have received this brand. I was intrigued to try the foundation, which launched with 6 formulations in a total of 51 shades, each one relating to the most comment concerns related to that...
read moreEverything’s Cancelled, But Look Festival Ready In Your Bunker With Milani’s Ludicrous Lights
Apocalypse or not, I’ll be looking good… It’s weird to be in the middle of a national health crisis and still be writing articles about makeup. It seems a little frivolous, you know what I mean? But while we’re all quarantined at home and the world crumbles around us, this seems like a perfect time to get lost in the arts and creative projects that give us happiness. So while this is a review, and reviews are often a way to help you decide whether or not you want to purchase something, don’t ever feel like...
read moreLunar Beauty Brings Pastel Perfection With Strawberry Dreams
I know I’m super late to the party and nobody gives a shit, but when I got the Lunar Beauty Strawberry Dreams palette I knew I needed to do a review. Gurl. This palette is really good. I actually am pretty impressed with all of the products that Lunar Beauty has been putting out. I am not really a Manny fan – when he says, “If you don’t like me…don’t fucking watch!” I’m like “Don’t have to tell me twice!” But even if I’m not a fan of his content, I can still appreciate...
read moreFace Friday: Live The Pink & Blue Fantasy With Lunar Beauty, Uoma, & Milani!
Since we’re all in lockdown, it’s time to serve up some fantasy makeup looks! For this step by step Face Friday, I’m doing a fun dramatic look partially inspired by Harley Quinn and featuring several brands/products that I’m in the process of reviewing including the Uoma Beauty Say What?! Weightless Soft Matte Hydrating Foundation and Stay Woke Concealer, the Lunar Beauty Strawberry Dream palette, and the Ludicrous Lights collection from Milani. This look is definitely drag-y, and it’s not for the faint of...
read moreWhatta Glam, Whatta Glam, Whatta Glam, Whatta Mighty Good Glam – Milani x Selt-N-Pepa Collection
R U Ready…for a fabulous makeup collaboration between drugstore darling Milani and queens of 90s hip hop Salt-N-Pepa? Ready or not, they are here and they didn’t come to play! From the moment I heard “Let’s Talk About Sex” in small town North Dakota, I didn’t know what to do and I was obsessed with these brazen, beautiful, talented women! When I heard that they were not only putting together a makeup collection but doing it with one of my favorite drugstore brands, I knew that it would have to be mine. ...
read moreBeauty…But Has It Lost It’s Edge? Urban Decay’s Wired Palette
Urban Decay – what happened? You used to be that cool girl with the gorgeous, ride-or-die colorful shadows that everyone was dying for. When I was first getting into makeup during my undergrad, Urban Decay was sold next to Manic Panic hair dye in head shops, in lipstick tubes that looked like shell casings. I had a deep maroon shimmer lipstick called Gash. They were the go to for colorful shadows long before Sugar Pill showed up with their Barbie Dreamhouse aesthetic. When I first discovered luxury makeup and started exploring the...
read moreFace Friday: Making Franken-Makeup With Some Old Faves!
There seems to be a community of beauty addicts who love making “Franken-Makeup” – combining existing products in interesting ways to get unique, customized blends. Of the YouTubers that I watch regularly, Nisipisa is someone who often customizes and blends together products in her collection. One of the most prominent proponents of DIY makeup is Safiya Nygaard, whose videos combining “every lipstick in Sephora” and the like have been so successful that she recently had a collab with ColourPop where they...
read moreGlitch, Please! Is Ofra’s Liquid-To-Baked Eye Palette A Top Performer?
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am obsessed with Ofra’s highlighter formula. Like, obsessed. When there was a sale over the holidays, I stocked up on no less than 9 shades of the shimmery, gorgeous baked powder formula. I wish that they had a wider range of colors available, especially when it comes to wilder or more vivid shades, but I generally think they have a solid collection of colors that meet most of my highlighter needs. I’ve also heard some not so complimentary things about their eyeshadow formula so I...
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