beauty travelogue

  • #MakeupMonday – Post Travel Beauty Recovery Routine

    makeup to go blog Lauren Brooke Cosmetique Organic Sweet Chai Lip Scrub post travel recovery

    After periods of travel, a solid post-travel beauty recovery routine helps me bring my skin and hair back to life… Regular readers may know that I work in the San Francisco Bay as both a makeup artist and a makeup educator on a regular basis. I generally drive to the Bay because I need my […]

  • #MakeupMonday – MUJI – Makeup Organization Paradise

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    I found makeup organization paradise, and it is called MUJI… This article originally appeared in 2014. Sadly, MUJI left California in 2020 🙁 . Fortunately, us Californians can still order from the website (the only remaining West Coast store seems to be in Oregon.) A couple of months ago, I was introduced to MUJI USA […]

  • #MakeupMonday – Rediscover Frends Beauty Supply

    frends beauty supply

    I finally made it to the newly revamped Frends Beauty Supply! I could not be more happy for them or for the makeup community. Frends Beauty Supply has been around since forever. 1940, to be exact. In the mid-90s it changed ownership and came back into prominence as one of the “big three” of the […]

  • On The Set: Clothing Company Shoot SF Bay Area

    It is now 2024, and of course this is the type of content that lives on my social media. In fact, I started my Instagram in 2012 so that’s probably why I never made another of these types of posts lol. This company didn’t live long, but this was a super fun shoot! I was […]

  • #MakeupMonday Special Edition – Notes from the NYC Makeup Show 2011

    If you follow my blog for my creative industries clients where I talk about the jobs I’m currently doing, you ‘ll note that I’ve been working like a maniac of late. As such, I did not get to go back east to hit the NYC edition of Metropolitan Events The Makeup Show. Have no fear, […]