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Beauty Buys to Spoil Yourself with This Valentine’s Day
Regardless of your relationship status or your general feelings about this Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day is an excellent opportunity to show yourself some love. Thankfully, there are plenty of makeup and beauty gifts that are perfect to pamper yourself with this time of year. So either send this list to your other half as a not-so-subtle hint or start filling your digital shopping cart for yourself.
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Review: L’Oréal Extraordinary Clay
Mask
This mask was just okay. First, it smells TERRIBLE. Second, it’s such a burden to remember to put it in my hair before hopping in the shower. I’m a morning showerer, so adding any extra steps to my routine before I’ve had my coffee is asking a lot of me. Waiting around for 5 minutes with this smelly concoction on my head… yeah it’s not the most glamorous situation.
Which Little White Dress is Right for You?
Memorial Day Weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, along with the unofficial go-ahead to start dressing in warm-weather whites. While you don’t have to banish all dark colors to the back of your closet, there are easy wardrobe tweaks you can make to update your look for the season.
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Indie Brand Lingerie for Valentine’s Day
If you’re reading this blog, you’re a smart person, which also means that you know Valentine’s Day is pretty dumb. Glad we got that out of the way.
Despite the holiday’s flaws, it’s a great excuse to show someone you love them, and this year I encourage you to love yourself. V-Day is a top-notch #treatyoself opportunity, whether you’re in a relationship or not.
My Honest Review of Colourpop Ultra Matte Lips
One of the biggest beauty trends of 2015 was liquid matte lipsticks. They gained popularity with Instagram posts of big, plush lips dressed up in lip products by mostly indie brands. Now, larger companies such as Mac and NYX are finally selling their versions of the lipstick/lip gloss hybrid, so I’m sure these products will continue to rule in 2016.
A favorite makeup company of mine is Colourpop. All of its products are $10 or less and are really good quality. And while I love the look of liquid matte lips, most tubes retail for about $20 each, which can be a lot to spend on a makeup trend. So when Colourpop announced it would be releasing its own liquid matte lipsticks for only $6, the pretty part of the internet just about exploded. The first release quickly sold out (without me getting any), but since then I have placed a few orders with Colourpop and have managed to try out 7 of these bad boys.
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The must-have powder for oily skin
A couple months ago I decided I was fed up with looking absolutely #flawless immediately after finishing my makeup, only to have it all slide off halfway through my workday. I’ve got oily skin, and at about lunchtime, my nose and the cheek area near it would get so shiny. I’d try dabbing off the oils with my fingertips or blotting papers, but of course my makeup would come off with it.
This $5 makeup company is a game changer
Note: This is not a sponsored post. All products were personally purchased.
My obsession with makeup has grown significantly this past year. I started a subscription to Ipsy and I’m following at least five beauty bloggers on Instagram. I’m becoming that girl.
The Only Fall/Winter 2015 Collection that Matters
I’ll be honest—I’m way too busy to keep up with fashion month. And with the rise of social media, checking my phone for a few front-row Instagram pics is way quicker than riffling through entire collections online.
But when I saw some of the outfits from the latest Saint Laurent show, I knew I needed to see it all.
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How to make Valentine’s Day suck less
Valentine’s Day is a weird one for everyone, right? Couples that place too much importance on it come off as insecure and disingenuous. Single people who overcompensate for their loneliness with rants on capitalism or social media reassurances that they’re going to get drunk with ‘the girls’ on Single’s Awareness Day are bluntly terrifying.
Elisse Miller 