It’s the reason I couldn’t wait to get home and open up my Lust 004. That damn red glitter lip the girl in the Lust 004 video wears, shown at the Sephora stores. It’s so simple, and yet so not simple. Like, who do you know that will actually rock a whole bunch of glitter…
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From afar, this lip look may not seem as dimensional as it is. But lucky on-lookers up-close would be able to see that I created my own playful pucker with the Pat McGrath Lust 004 Blood 2 lipstick and a mixture of the gold and red glitter pigments. Easy as 1-2-3. After applying the lip…
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I’ve been craving a liquid, metallic gold lip for the fall and winter. Created from the Bloodwine Lust 004 collection by Pat McGrath, this gooey metallic gold lipgloss isn’t as scary to re-create as it may seem. A two-step process is all it took. Using the gloss from the lipstick kit and mixing in the…
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By no means am I obsessed with any particular type of beauty product. However, I will admit to my former odd habit I developed in my late teens for buying the latest nail polish on the shelves in CVS or Rite Aid. Becoming a beauty editor at EBONY.com years later didn’t change this beauty ritual…
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Oh, and let us preface this by saying that it’s #BlackOwned. Now, remember that time we talked about Girl + Hair and their amazing new Under Hair Care line formulated specifically for women who love to rock a weave? No, well go read about them now and then come back to this article. But, for…
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For many people, they know Courtney Adeleye as a healthy hair blogger, entrepreneur, and Founder and CEO of The Mane Choice. But, the story runs much deeper than that. If you are from Detroit like I am, you know that it was often hard growing up in a city of high economic struggle. But, I’ve…
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It’s been one of the most taboo throwback makeup looks that so many women are still afraid to bring back. Blue eye shadow. I still kind of cringed at the thought of it, remembering Christina Aguilera’s blue shadow disaster, circa those terrible blonde cornrows in 2001. Icy blue eyes were slapped on every teenage pop…
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Remember that time we showed you the lovely “Thieving Bandits” color from the (#BlackOwned) Gold Label lipstick collection? Well, it turns out there was another swatch I forgot I shot, and it looks fabulous on brown and darker skin tones. It’s their “First Class” orange-y, reddish shade. With dollops of blue tints (at least, it…
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You know how beautifully brown is all about that brown owned beauty life? Jumping for joy after finding out BHue Beauty was a Hispanic-owned beauty brand is an understatement of my reaction to the news. Searching high and low for black owned beauty brands is already a day worth of work. However, it’s proven to be a…
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Mineral foundation has never been on my radar. Ever. For some time, there was an internal thought that I’d ever find a mineral foundation that didn’t make me look ashy. The instinct to actually find my “mineral match” was non-existent. Shopping for it in department stores wasn’t easier than in the drugstores (which rarely if…
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