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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

SugarPill’s Fun Size Palette Is A Bite Sized Celebration Of Brights

Posted by Janessa Jaye on March 2, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

SugarPill used to be the Grand Poohbah of colorful makeup; a few years ago, you couldn’t watch a YouTube video about colorful makeup without hearing this brand referenced throughout. The rest of the world was still in the throes of rosy neutral madness created by the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette, so it was nice to see a brand so unabashedly embrace color. But as the rest of the world has come around to color and most brands have some iteration of a rainbow palette, things have been a little quiet from this delightful indie. Their...

Natasha Denona Wants To Help You Feel The Love

Posted by Janessa Jaye on March 2, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Holiday makeup is a ubiquitous parade of gift sets and minis, glitter packaging, and utterly giftable fluff that starts flooding the market around August and doesn’t stop until it’s time to pack the tinsel away. With the holiday releases starting so early, it’s easy to get fatigued, especially when so few brands actually offer anything new and instead just give us rehashed concepts and mini versions of best-selling products. By the time the winter holidays happen, it’s hard to even remember what was released and...

Jeffree Star Gives Us A (Blood) Lust For Purples

Posted by Janessa Jaye on February 28, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

(Normally reviews are going to come out on “Makeup Mondays” but with the hype about this palette being so fresh – and the shipping actually being super fast and allowing me to get a review out while the interest is still high! – I decided to add the review to “Face Friday.” Hopefully you enjoyed it, but don’t forget to check back on Monday for brand new makeup content!) February was a tough month for my budget: I started off the month hurting from the Jeffree Star Valentines Mystery Boxes (check out...

Face Friday: Celebrating Black History Month With Some Amazing Black YouTube Beauty Creators

Posted by Janessa Jaye on February 28, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Hey makeup fam. So I’ve been trying to decide what it is that I want to do with the “Face Friday” posts. I recently posted a step by step makeup look that I did using the Too Faced Tutti Fruitti collection (if you missed that, you can check it out HERE), and while I really liked that post and I want to do things like that from time to time, it’s pretty labor intensive, not only to capture the photos at each step but also to upload and edit. I know, whiny creator problems, right? I had originally planned to come into...

Fenty Hopes To Make A Big Splash With Little Palettes

Posted by Janessa Jaye on February 24, 2020 in LifeStyle | 1 comment

I know that everyone likes to act like Fenty invented makeup and pretend that no one had an inclusive shade range before RiRi dropped 40 shades at launch (which is admittedly impressive for a new brand), but Fenty has had some definite missteps along the way. Perhaps the biggest of these is a lack of a strong eyeshadow palette in their permanent collection. Their first palette, the Galaxy palette that came out with their first holiday collection, was lackluster at best, and the follow up, the Moroccan Spice palette, got pretty mediocre...

Merch Vs. Makeup: The Jeffree Star Valentine’s Mystery Boxes

Posted by Janessa Jaye on February 24, 2020 in LifeStyle | 0 comments

Let me start by saying that I love mystery boxes and subscriptions boxes, and overall I think that Jeffree Star has done a great job of bringing together interesting collections that have some exclusive items, some staples, and a few surprises. I am also a big Jeffree Star Cosmetics fan and I own a lot of his products, so when I buy them I always assume that there are going to be a fair number of duplicate items (although I’ve had pretty good luck with getting at least a few new items that I didn’t already have). I don’t...

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:...

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