Welcome to the LifeStyle section of the World of Champagne! All of the great makeup content you expect from Miss Jaye is housed right here! As this is our largest content section, we wanted to make it a little easier to find past posts. Looking to see if Miss Jaye has reviewed your favorite brand? Done! Want to see all of Miss Jaye’s Face Friday walkthroughs? Easy! Be sure to check out our archives section where you can find an A to Z Brand Index for product reviews as well as collections of themed posts. You can find the LifeStyle section archive HERE.
Face Friday: Miss Jaye Gets Back Into The Swing Of Things With A Full Face Of Fenty Beauty!
Ugh, it’s been so long since I did one of these! I’m excited to be back with another Face Friday walkthrough, and I’m especially excited to give you a full face of Fenty Beauty! I recently did a video that was 12 Black Owned makeup Brands (BOMBs) that aren’t Fenty and Pat McGrath. I didn’t mean any disrespect to those brands, but they are already pretty established and don’t need that much more hype to be successful. So when a whole bunch of prominent YouTubers started doing “Full Face of BOMB...
read morePrelude To A Kiss (Goodbye?!) – The Final Lime Crime Venus Palette…For Now
I knew it was going to happen. I’m not much a completionist, but some things just get to me in that way, and the Lime Crime Venus palettes are like that for some reason. I picked up the Chroma palette back in May (that review is available HERE!) and I mentioned that if I had been able to get the Exposed palette on the Ulta site for half off, I would probably end up with it. Well, that’s exactly what happened, and here we are. I don’t for a second believe that Lime Crime is done with their immensely popular Venus line, not...
read moreGoodbye, JSC
This is going to be a rather long post, but let me give you the TL:DR up front: As of July 2020, I have decided that I will no longer be reviewing Jeffree Star Cosmetics products on my website, the World of Champagne, or my YouTube channel. I am not disposing of my products, as that kind of waste is not something I support, but I will not be featuring them on my channel. I may occasionally use a product I already own in a Face Friday post if I don’t have a viable product alternative available for the look I want to create, but my goal...
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 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 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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