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Tips for successful Event Makeup when your makeup needs to look great all day and all night… contains affiliate links) I recently went makeup shopping with friend and colleague, Kallah Maguire – stylist and owner of The Emerald Scarab – and she echoed a complaint I hear fairly often from women; How do I keep […]
This post is an oldie, but 100% Pure Cosmetics is still a thriving makeup brand in the “clean beauty” realm. Check out their website for the current offerings… As I mentioned in my article on Bay Area Beauty, I was thoroughly impressed upon visiting the headquarters of 100% Pure Apothecary**, purveyors of 100% Pure Cosmetics. […]
As mentioned previously, I’m a huge fan of the developing trend of organic/naturally derived and/or vegan cosmetics that are coming into the marketplace. But no product does anyone any good if you can’t find it anywhere, so before I go into talking about the various product lines I’ve discovered, I decided to take a moment […]
At this year’s IMATS in Los Angeles I discovered the line Armour Beauty, and it’s ‘Rock n’ Roll culture’ inspired lip glosses. Normally, saying something is “inspired by rock n’ roll” is a pretty meaningless, however these glosses walk the talk. One of the two lip glosses I picked up is named ‘Gazarri’s’, which is […]
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics (OCC) is a cosmetics line founded by pro makeup artist David Klasfeld. Makeup lines started by makeup artists – NARS, Stila, Make Up For Ever, Shu Uemura – are generally my favorites because they are developed by people who know how makeup should act, what it should do, and how it should […]
