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Pill Poppin’: Getting Glam With SugarPill’s Capsule Collection Palettes
I’ve been waiting for SugarPill to do something to excite me. Don’t get me wrong: I love, love, love their liquid lipsticks (especially the teal glitter-infused Arctic Sparkle collection!) but I got into SugarPill because of their amazing, pigmented, colorful eyeshadows! Their Fun Size palette is great, but it was tiny and I think it’s limited edition, so it hardly feels like it counts. They’ve been playing in Lip Land for a while, and it’s been great, but I just kept hoping for something new and exciting for...
read moreFace Friday: ORANGE You Going A Bit Overboard With This Monochromatic Look?!
Editor’s Note: This post does contain two products from Jeffree Star Cosmetics. I explain more below, but I did not have viable alternatives for these products. I will not be linking those products, and if you would like to see my full statement about Jeffree Star Cosmetics and its inclusion on this site, please check out this post, Goodbye, JSC. XOXO – Miss Jaye Hello Champagne Dreamers and welcome to another Face Friday! This week is a little bit bananas – or perhaps we should say oranges?! – in terms of the...
read moreIntersectionality In The Cosmetics Aisle: Danessa Myricks & The Pride Makeup Question
Hey friends. So this is going to be a review of the Pride bundle from Danessa Myricks (a rainbow collection of 6 neon-infused cream and liquid colors) but before we get into the fun, shallow stuff I want to take a moment to revisit something that I’ve talked about before, most recently in my review of the Morphe Pride collection for 2020. When it comes to “conscious consumerism, I recognize that I often find myself in unpopular territory. People often complain about people “rainbow-washing” their sites in June to...
read moreSummer Slump: Trying Out Gerard Cosmetics’ Lip Products
August is here, summer is almost here, and all I can say is: what in the ever-loving fuck was that?! Between Miss Rona ravaging the country, COVIDiots and tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists deciding that wearing a piece of cloth on your face was the beginning of a secret plot by Bill Gates to kill everyone, and 45 blundering ever closer to a dictatorship by deploying military forces against citizens protesting police brutality against black and brown people, this summer has been one shitstorm after another. Didn’t know you were going to...
read moreFace 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 moreIs It Love – Or Is It Just Stupid? Haus Laboratories Stupid Love Palette Sings The Blues
As someone who grew up with all of the various incarnations of Madonna, from material girl to sex goddess to euro-trash cowgirl and beyond, it’s very interesting to watch Lady Gaga’s career grow and change. The constant comparison of Lady Gaga to Madonna is perhaps annoying to both women, but not completely unwarranted: both women tend to push the creative envelope and survive by continual reinvention; in the more capitalist sense, both have expanded their creative ventures from music/dancing into acting and product development....
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...
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