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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

Low Buy Year – January Update

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

Well, it’s the 15th of January and I’ve already used up my 5 item slots for the month AND used my special birthday gift slot. Oy. Let’s back up. If you read my previous post, I decided that 2019 was going to be a low buy year. I’ve set certain limits for myself about the number of products I can buy in a month, gave myself a couple of little “cheat” opportunities, and am working to control my spending. So far I haven’t gone over, but when I had used up 4 of my slots by January 5th and used up the...

Oh Lordt! 2019 – The Year Of The Low Buy!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on January 6, 2019 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

It seems like everyone is jumping on the trend of Low Buy and No Buy years in the YouTube beauty space, and never one to shy away from an outrageous trend I decided to join them. I’ve been watching a fair amount of videos by Hannah Louise Posten who spent all of 2018 on a No Buy Year (not only with makeup, but several areas of her life). Now, the name is a little misleading: a No Buy year doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t get to purchase anything, and everyone establishes their own rules for their personal projects, but...

Redesign Series #5: Serving Sunset Vibes with Violet Voss & Huda Beauty

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 31, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

It’s been a minute, so as we’re getting ready to leave the makeup mistakes of 2018 in the past, I wanted to do one more palette redesign post. I’m sure 2018 will serve us up a whole new kind of mess, and there will definitely be more of these to come, since the sun is setting on this year, I figured it was fitting to look at redesigning two palettes that are serving up some sunset vibes…or at least they could be, if I had anything to do with it: the Violet Voss Hashtag palette and Huda Beauty’s Desert Dusk...

SugarPill Joins The Ranks At Ulta With New Capsule Collection

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 30, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Ulta and Sephora have both been working to expand their brand selection over the last year or so, but I have to say: maybe it’s just because so many of the brand’s they’ve acquired were already some of my indie faves, but Ulta definitely seems to be winning. Their commitment to providing brands at all price points, rather than focusing on luxury like Sephora does, may be the key to their success, or Sephora’s close ties to troubled retailer JC Penney could also be contributing. Whatever the reason, Ulta has added...

New Year, New Look: Announcing House of Champagne Designs!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 30, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Hey there Champagne Dreamers! Miss Jaye here. It’s just about time to put 2018 in the books and forge ahead into an exciting and challenging 2019! A new year is always a great time to make changes and resolutions for the year ahead…unless that resolution is a diet, because that shit will get left behind before the first week of January is even a memory! One of the changes I wanted to make this year is to overhaul and update my line of hand-crafted jewelry. I originally called the line Fit For A Queen because I wanted to create...

Happy Holiday Collections Feat. Jeffree Star Cosmetics

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 24, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Holiday collections come out earlier and earlier every year, to the point that when it’s actually Christmas it’s hard to remember what the holiday releases actually were – unless it’s ColourPop, and then the answer is every-damn-thing since August. I decided to wait until Christmas Eve, when it’s way too damn late to order it for a gift anyway, to post my review of Jeffree Star’s holiday lipstick collection, not because I’m a Grinch but because a bitch has been busy, y’all! I’ve been...

Kick Off The Year Of Glitter (A Little Early) With Lemonhead LA!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 8, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Ok, so last year about this time, I declared that 2018 was going to be the year of glitter. And I tried, I really did. But there were so many great matte products and metallic finishes that I just lost track of my glittery declaration. I did rock some mermaid scales a la tarte on a few occasions, but I wasn’t nearly as glittery as I had intended. But now I’m here and I’m ready to take my glitter obsession into outer space, with Space Paste. Space Jam, and Glow Jam glitters from Lemonhead LA! It took me a while to pull the...

Still Stanning For Juvia’s Place: Warrior 2 & The Afrique Collection

Posted by Janessa Jaye on December 1, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

I mean, never say never or whatever, but I can’t imagine a scenario in which I don’t buy a palette from Juvia’s place. As of now, I have every single eyeshadow palette and both of the Saharan blush palettes. If it’s a color story I’m not as interested in, sometimes it takes me a little longer to add them to the collection, but they always make it there eventually. I haven’t been as obsessive with their lip products (I only have the three that came with the Festival and Afrique collections) or their...

Join The Cult: Bad Habit Beauty’s Luxe Line

Posted by Janessa Jaye on November 28, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Let’s get this out of the way, right away: people feel all kinds of ways about dupe palettes and the companies that make them. I can understand why people get upset, but I’m generally willing to give them a try. I am a makeup addict, so a lot of times if I buy a dupe palette I either already have the palette and want to do a comparison (this is what happened with the Lime Crime Venus palettes) or didn’t like it enough to pay the full price anyway (what’s cute at $16 isn’t nearly as cute at $50!). If a palette...

Monster Makeup: Cosmetics For The Glamorous Ghoul!

Posted by Janessa Jaye on November 22, 2018 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Who says a girl can’t be creepy and cute?! I know Halloween is over, but I get a little bogged down in the onslaught of Christmas cheer, so I decided this year, just in time for Black Friday sales, that I’d put together a post about some of my favorite creepy brands and monster collections that help make it a Halloween Spooktacular every day of the year! There are lots of great indie brands out there that are keeping the beastly in their beauty, and even some more mainstream brands have been putting out chilling collections! ...

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