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Hey there Champagne Dreamers!

If you were a fan of the Makeup Forum on the previous version of the World of Champagne, you are going to LOVE LifeStyle by Janessa! Not only will we be posting great beauty and skincare related content here, we’re also in the process of building out a sister website, LifeStyleByJanessa.com, that will feature makeup articles and reviews, videos, tutorials, giveaways, and more! And we’re also going to include an online shopping experience for my hand-crafted jewelry line, Fit For A Queen Designs!

Look for the new site to launch soon, and enjoy all new makeup content down below!

XOXO, Miss Jaye

Kaleidos Embraces The Future Of Makeup…But Time Isn’t Always On Their Side

Posted by Janessa Jaye on February 3, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

YouTube done got me talked into some shit. But I sorta like the shit, so I’ll let it slide. Let me explain. So many of the smaller YouTuber that I love have been singing the praises of indie makeup brand Kaleidos Cosmetics. They came out with some 6-pan shadow palettes last year with really beautiful packaging, and I was intrigued but not breaking my neck to get them. They were cute, but I go against the current trend of wanting smaller and smaller palettes. I want variety, I want color! But when they launched a collection of...

Face Friday: Full Face of Too Faced Tutti Fruitti Collection – Glam & Gorgeous!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on January 31, 2020 in LifeStyle | 2 comments

Alright kittens – we’ve got something a little different for you! I’ve been working feverishly to figure out the technology to FINALLY launch my YouTube community in 2020, and one of the types of videos that I love to watch (and therefore really want to make!) are Full Face/One Brand challenges! But some brands are better at certain types of color stories or looks than others, and if I’m going to have enough products to do a full face anyway, I want to do it up big! So my plan is to do three complete looks for each...

Melt Cosmetics – I’m Just Not Sure This Amor Is Really Eterno…

Posted by Janessa Jaye on January 17, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Yes, let’s just lay it out there: I spent $58 each on these palettes. Fifty. Eight. Dollars. Each. I need to get myself right with the lordt. I’m not one to place blame for my own financial shenanigans at the feet of others’ and I am totally to blame for giving in to the hype, but can we just talk about how just about every YouTuber I watch regularly was literally sucking these palettes’ dicks right through the back of their head? If they didn’t have both (and many had both!), they definitely had the Muerte...

Melt Cosmetics – Radioactive Stack Gets Palette Upgrade, But Can We Survive The Fallout?

Posted by Janessa Jaye on January 13, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

The Amor Etrno collection from Melt Cosmetics seems like all anyone could talk about on the YouTubes…don’t worry, we’ll get there (review of the Vida and Muerte palettes coming Friday!) but for now I want to talk a little bit about a palette that showed up and was pretty quickly forgotten in the ecstasy that was lavished upon the holiday collection: the Radioactive palette. The Radioactive palette is sort of old, and sort of not. Four of the shadows have existed for a few years in one of their hockey puck-like stacks:...

Kesha Rose Is Raisin’ Hell In The Beauty World

Posted by Janessa Jaye on January 6, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Kesha is getting ready to release a new album, but that’s not the only creative endeavor the pop icon has been working on: she recently released a small collection…or brand…or collab with indie brand Hip Dot. Actually, I’m not really sure what it is – she announced it as if it was its own brand, but it’s only available through Hip Dot and comes in Hip Dot branded packaging. But whatever it is, the palette in the collection includes 12 gorgeous shades and I was all the way here for it. The rest of the...

Guess Who’s Back? Norvina Pro Goes Mini

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 16, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

B1Good things come in small packages, right? Just when you thought that Norvina and Anastasia Beverly Hills might just settle the fuck down and take a minute to breathe, they announced the release of two more palettes in the Norvia Pro Pigment line: the Mini Pro Pigment Palette volumes 1 and 2. These small 9-pan palettes are similar to the Huda Beauty Obsessions palettes and come at a similar price point ($29 each). Although they seem to be standalone palettes that you could use with any of the larger palettes, the volume 1 is definitely in...

Look Who Thinks She’s Fancy: Miss Jaye Gets Bougie with Natasha Denona

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 13, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

This year has been a lot, y’all. I started the year trying out a low buy, and failed miserably after just a few months. I might do a separate post about the whole experience, but it was a combination of all kinds of things including saturating my media consumption with bad examples to follow and a lack of desire to follow through on the project. Oh yeah, and the fact that I am an emotional shopper and I didn’t have a contingency plan for dealing with those. I guess I thought that I would just conveniently stop having them? ...

Violet Voss Delivers A Sugar Rush – But When Was This Sweet Release…Released?!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 9, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Don’t get me wrong, I love me a deal. And finding the Violet Voss Sugar Crystals palette in the Sephora sale section for $25 (regular price, $42.00) off was definitely a deal! I like Violet Voss – I don’t know that we’re in love yet, but we’re definitely in like! – and I am crazy for brights and rainbow palettes, so this was a definite find! But how did this little number escape my cosmetic obsession until it was already marked for the clearance bin? I knew I had to do a little digging. I searched for...

Neon Nightmares: Ruby May Cosmetics Stumbles With Messy Neon Lights Palette

Posted by Janessa Jaye on November 4, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

So I’ve generally been jiving with the vibe from Ruby May Cosmetics: the Hashtag palette collection were a little fussy, but fun color stories and great shimmers, and the Pop Zombie palette was an improvement on the previous palettes with a super fun and bright selection of shades. I also have their Purple Kush palette that I haven’t written about but am planning to include in an upcoming video project. When I went to buy the Pop Zombie palette, they were actually having a special where if you spent $30 or more, you got the Pop...

The End Of An Era…But For Real This Time? Maybe?!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on November 1, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Ok, so recently I brought you a review of the new Venus Immortalis palette from Lime Crime; not only was it a gorgeously on trend color story and worthy of the Venus collection that was, at a certain time, a trend-setting series of palettes, but it was meant to be the final palette under the Venus name for the brand. It had a few little hiccups, but was generally pretty good and I loved the color story. I felt like it was a fitting tribute to the collection, especially with the unexpected 180 degree shift from the Venus Vivid palette that...

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