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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

Neon Love: Huda Beauty’s Newest Obsessions

Posted by Janessa Jaye on July 15, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

The world has gone crazy for neon, and I’m living for it! I’m a child of the 80s, where Lisa Frank’s neon acid trip illustrations were the hottest thing every school shopping season, girls just wanted to have fun in day-glo fabrics, and the world had this artificial brightness that only neon can create. I adore it! Huda Beauty recently added three new palettes to their Obsessions line of 9-pan mini palettes: the Neon Obsessions in Pink, Green, and Orange. They retail for $29, $2 more than the previous Obsessions palettes...

Black Moon Cosmetics – Why Won’t You Let Me Love You?!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on July 8, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

I can’t remember which YouTuber turned me on to Black Moon Cosmetics’ liquid lipsticks, but I’ve been using them for a while, and I love them. I have about ten shades, maybe a dozen, and they are all really pigmented, apply dreamily, and dry down to a beautiful matte without being super uncomfortable. It’s not my favorite formula, but it’s definitely in the top 5 and I have legit tried almost every formula out there! I love the lipsticks and I love supporting indie brands, so when I heard that they were...

I’m Shining Bright Like A Diamond, Thanks To Lemonhead LA

Posted by Janessa Jaye on July 5, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Y’all, Lemonhead LA was already one of my favorite places to get glitter – in my mind, no one will ever beat Lit Cosmetics for loose glitters, but the Space Paste and Space Jam glitter gels from Lemonhead have totally changed my glitter game. Well, recently I was looking at their site, and I don’t know if this is a new service they offer or if I just had never noticed it, but you can have them create your very own custom glitter blend. What?! How fantastic is that! I’ve always wanted to have my name on a makeup...

Are We Over The Rainbow? Pride Makeup & Engaging Charitable Capitalism

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

Alright, this post is going to be a ltitle different than my typical LifeStyle sections posts. It’s part review: I have a bunch of products that were released in celebration of June being LGBTQ Pride month. I want to show you some swatches and tell you my thoughts. I love rainbow palettes, I love bright palettes, and I love glitter so most of these collections are totally right up my alley! But now that Pride month is officially over, I also want to explore the idea of “charitable capitalism” and engage with whether or...

Sugar Rush: Jeffree Star’s Jawbreaker Collection Has Arrived (Thanks To Beautylish…)

Posted by Janessa Jaye on June 27, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Alright, y’all – strap the eff in, because this is going to be a lot! Jeffree Star just released his new Jawbreaker collection a week ago today (as of when this is being published!) and I swear it’s like a piece of my goddamn soul. At this point, if I had ever thought about having a makeup line (which I really haven’t) I couldn’t anyway because Jeffree Star has already channeled every piece of my soul and turned it into a color story. Usually I’m late to the party with these reviews, and the reason is...

Twenty-Five Years Of Viva Glam

Posted by Janessa Jaye on June 7, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

This is going to be one of those nostalgic posts where someone lets you in on how old they are by telling you about how great things were “back in the day” (but not in a creepy, racist “Make America Great Again” kind of way), but because it’s me it’s going to be a nostalgic post about makeup. I recently picked up the 25th anniversary addition of the original shade of MAC Viva Glam, and it brought me back to my earliest experiences with high end makeup and reminded me of when MAC was the absolute leader in...

The (California) Golden Touch: Midas Cosmetics Sparks Up Some Glam With The High Times Palette

Posted by Janessa Jaye on June 3, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Ready for more cannabis-fueled makeup goodness? Strap in! If you’re keeping track, this is the 4th makeup palette I’ve reviewed on this site that is marijuana-themed. I started with the OMFG Kush palette from OMFG Cosmetics in April, and in May I did a double review on the Melt Cosmetics’ Smoke Session palette and the Kush Queen palette from Peachy Queen. But pot is huge in the beauty space right now, so here we are again, this time trying out a 12-pan palette from a new indie brand I’m trying out: the High Times...

Gettin’ Lucky With Irish Beauty Brands

Posted by Janessa Jaye on May 31, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Recently I had a weeklong work trip to Cork, Ireland. Besides being an amazing opportunity to see a new place, try some new food, and get a sense of another culture, I figured it would also be an opportunity to check out some Irish and UK-based beauty brands. I had a little bit of knowledge of some indie brands from the UK, but I wasn’t sure what kinds of brands might be based in Ireland, so I started searching on YouTube and I found a makeup artist from Cork, Christine O’Connor, and watched a couple of her videos and then...

Come As You Are: Invoke 90s Grunge Vibes With Karity Cosmetics

Posted by Janessa Jaye on May 27, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

I was an 80s kid and a 90s teenager, so I’m loving the wave of nostalgia that’s coming now – mostly because it’s been taking the BEST of those eras and making it bearable. Seriously, if you look back at what the 90s were really like, there was some awful, ugly stuff happening then. Bib overalls. Flannel. Chunky heeled shoes. But there were some elements in terms of color stories and influences that actually look pretty cool. The end of last year into this year is when we really started to see this trend emerge...

Sparking Up Some Glam: Melt Cosmetics’ and Peachy Queen’s Pot-Themed Palettes

Posted by Janessa Jaye on May 24, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

I’m definitely late for 4/20, but I’ve got a couple of palettes that will help you spark up some glam at any time of the year. Marijuana is sort of a trend in the cosmetics industry, with some products like Milk Makeup’s Kush mascara actually including CBD oil, and there are a number of palettes that are getting in on this green trend. If I’m honest, I’m not a huge fan of marijuana personally because the smoke irritates my lungs terribly (though in Seattle, where they have legal dispenseries, I’ve been...

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