beauty trends

  • #BizTalk – Makeup Trends and the Pro Artist

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    Makeup trends are great and all, but remember as professionals our job is to define and set the trends, not just blindly follow them…     On Sonia Roselli’s fantastic blogazine Glossible, I read an article she wrote entitled “The One Makeup Trend That Needs to Die”. It was all about the current Highlighting/Contouring obsession […]

  • #MakeupMonday – #TarteCosmetics Rainforest After Dark

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    I had the good fortune to be invited to a launch event for Tarte Cosmetics fall 2014 collection: Rainforest After Dark. The new collection features Tarte’s ever popular Amazonian Clay-based cosmetics in new products, formulas and color schemes. What really caught my eye in the new collection was the limited edition cheek and Eye- color […]

  • I Love Face Oils

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    A little ode to my love of beauty face oils and which ones I’m loving currently*… (*As of 2014 when this was written… look for an updated post soon although many of these oils are still available and still lovely. This post may contain affiliate links) Like nearly everyone in beauty-landia, I love face oils. […]

  • #MakeupMonday – In Praise of Coral Lip Colors

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    It’s not Red, it’s not Pink, and it’s not Orange. Coral is simply Perfect as a lip color… (may contain affiliate links) Coral Lip colors. Love them love them love them. Yes, that was three “love them”s in one post. Oh wait was that a fourth? Yes. That is how much I love Coral lip […]

  • #MakeupMonday: The Rise of the Beauty Box

    Beauty Box subscription services rise and fall quickly. In the time since this was written I could have covered at least 50 other beauty boxes, seriously. We’ll do an update on this soon but for now most of these Beauty Box services are gone but BirchBox and GlossyBox reign on… Back in when I was […]