Beauty Basics

  • #MakeupMonday – Foundations for Every Face

    Foundations for EVERY face… let’s get inclusive in our foundational products… I am a 40-something-year old deep complexioned African American woman. As a child of the 70s I come from a land before time when cosmetic options for women in my skin-tone range were pretty much nonexistent. Fairer skin-toned women of color could try to […]

  • #MaquillajeParaGo – Maquillaje de cinco minutos

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    For this month’s installment of Maquillaje Para Go! Delia walks us through her “Maquillaje de cinco minutos” aka the five minute makeup “get out the door” routine. Welcome back to our Mauillage Para Go correspondent Delia! As previously mentioned Delia took some time off to welcome a new addition to her family! We’re glad everyone […]

  • #MakeupMonday – Mature Skin Makeup

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    If you have only ever worked on 19 year old models with perfect skin, working on a client needing mature skin makeup can seem quite daunting but it need not be. Working on mature clientele – or working on yourself if your skin is starting to show signs of “maturity” – is just a matter of knowing how products work on the skin and what products to use when.

  • So You Wanna Be A Pro Artist Revisited

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    It’s been a while since the launch of the So You Wanna Be A Pro Makeup Artist series, so I thought it’s high time for a lil revisit and update. Because one thing for certain, the Creative industries are ever-changing… The “So You Wanna Be A Pro Artist” series is original content conceived and written […]

  • #MakeupMonday – Favorite Lip Glosses 2012

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    Two years ago, early in Makeup to Go!’s existence… I wrote a piece about what I felt were the “top lip glosses” at that time. Funny how time flies because a lot of those lip glosses are no longer on the market. This is both the ecstasy and the agony of being a makeup fanatic; […]