May 19, 2020

What Are You Most Insecure About and What Beauty Product Do Use To Make You Feel Better About It?

Some people use makeup as a mask to help them with their insecurities and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Makeup is an empowering tool that goes a long way at making us feel better about insecurities we may have. It makes us feel pretty when we aren’t feeling so pretty! It makes our dark circles magically disappear. It makes our noses slimmer. It tackles the difficult job of concealing scarring or acne or dark spots.

Isn’t it a little miracle that something as simple as putting on red lipstick makes us feel like we can take on the world?

I use makeup as a bit of way to hide away my own insecurities. Do you?

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May 18, 2020

Welcome Back to the Year 2000 When Lancome Juicy Tubes Were Popular

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Someone at Lancome was brainstorming recently and they were like, “Guys, guys, guys! Let’s bring Juicy Tubes back!” Yup, their back! Lancome Juicy Tubes are back and available for your purchasing pleasure at Sephora and we’re back to the year 2000. And that’s ok, I’ll re-live Y2K if I can get out of COVID-19.

For the record, just because Juicy Tubes left the building back in 2018 didn’t mean I wasn’t still into glossy lips. If anything at all, I was still on a quest to find all the best glossy glosses and make them mind (still am I). It hasn’t been that long but I can’t remember being completely gaga over Juicy Tubes. They were nice, the formula was ok, but I don’t recall have any pokemon disease to collect them all when they were around.

Are you happy Lancome Juicy Tubes are back or are just eh on their return?

Lancome Juicy Tubes are available now at Sephora.

P.S. How you doing over there? Welcome to Monday! I think it’s Monday! Naa, seriously it really is Monday. I’ve been pretty good keeping track of the days even though I joke about not recalling the day of the week. We have to have some sense of normal right? Keeping track of the days seems normal to me! I’ve been up since 5AM and trying to get some posts all sorted. I don’t really have much cleaning to do. At this point every surface in my home is sparkling because cleaning and organizing stuff is somehow therapeutic for me! I know I’m off my review game lately and I’m sorry! I’m trying to get back into that head space soon for you! Is there something you’ve been wanting to see reviewed? Drop me a line and let me know. Please take care of yourself today. Be safe if you’re at work or outside.

Where to buy

Sephora

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May 18, 2020

Oh Hey, Too Faced Papaya Pop Eyeshadow Palette How You Doing Today?

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We spoke about the new Too Papaya Pop Eyeshadow Palette that’s being added to the Tutti Frutti Collection for Summer 2020 a few weeks ago. It had an early preview launch on QVC and it’s now available at Ulta if you want to pick it up.

I know some of you are tired of peach palettes but I never really get tired of them. They are just my jam. I love peaches and corals especially for Summer looks. Although, in reality, the shades don’t really look all that peachy! I do see a duochrome in there which may excite some people! I think some of the original Tutti Frutti Eyeshadow Palettes weren’t quite what I wanted but I can see myself picking up Papaya Pop. And yes, it does smell like papaya because we’re all 7 years old and need scented makeup in our lives like we need scratch n’ sniff stickers.

The palette includes the following shades:

  • Bikini Optional
  • Mai Tai Me Up
  • Papaya Don’t Peach
  • Island Fling
  • Ay, Papaya
  • Umbrella Drinks
  • W’Sup Beaches

Will you be scooping up the Too Faced Papaya Pop Eyeshadow Palette?

Too Faced Papaya Pop Eyeshadow Palette is available now.

Where to buy

Ulta

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May 18, 2020

It’s A YOLO Makeup Day Start Opening That Makeup Vault I Need to See What’s Inside

If you read my long-winded Instagram post yesterday you know I spent part of the day opening up Star Wars Collectibles that I purchased on May 4th. It was a just because moment…! I sat on the floor, I hauled it all out, and I ripped into with my teeth.

About 75% of it was never supposed to be opened at all. I was planning on displaying in the packaging or hoarding it away somewhere. But if this current situation has taught me anything at all it’s you only live once. Let me tell you, I even threw out the damn boxes. You know I always keep the boxes right? There was a time in my life when I used to keep all my MAC boxes. I mean, even shades that were permanent I’d keep in the box. WTF was I thinking?

Remember when MAC pigments were all the things? I used to buy a backup of LE shades. Another thing, I’ll never truly understand about myself. Why am I buying backups of all this crap? With age, comes plenty of experience as I never, ever buy backups of anything anymore. My makeup stash is massive I do NOT need to do the backup thing because I’ve realized most everything can be duped at some point. A few years ago I came to the epiphany that I really needed to start using the makeup I purchased. I used to store away all my limited edition makeup pieces. I still have a perfectly pristine Givenchy Prisme Solitaire Precious Diamond All Over Powder in my beauty vault and the sad thing is now it’s too old to actually enjoy. I do wish I used it when I purchased it instead of hoarding it away like a magpie.

It didn’t take COVID-19 to make me realize I should enjoy my makeup though (it did take it to realize I should be enjoying my collectibles though!). I realized that makeup is meant to be enjoyed even special limited edition pieces should be cherished and used because life is too short to hoard all the beautiful things away. I do urge you today to go through all your beautiful makeup, stuff you haven’t used or you’re saving for a rainy day and just enjoy it. Life is too short, we only have two eyes, one set of lips, and one face. We are unfortunately not Zaphod Beeblebrox! So, go forth my lovely beauty junkies and open the beauty vault.

And pretty please tell me what’s inside your beauty vault that you haven’t used!

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May 18, 2020

I Guess Everything My Sister Told Me About the Flamingo Razor Is True….!

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Hi, I’m a member of the Dollar Shave Club because I have no shame and shave my legs with men’s razors. Who needs a fancy Venus Razor when I can buy a Mach3 Razors and get the job done like a world class champion. Hey, if nothing else I’m all about truth around here! Remember, I did confess to buying men’s razors in the past.

I’m a girlie girl you know this and I love all the pink frou frou razors as much as the next girl but in reality, I get a way smoother shave from a dude’s razor. Come on, be honest with me, you know when Summer comes and Venus starts putting out peach scented razors you’re one of the first people in line to buy one of those bad boys.

My sister recently purchased a Flamingo Razor from Target and she Facetimed me a few weeks ago and she was like, “THIS DOESN’T WORK! It doesn’t have a moisturizing strip!” The first thing, that entered my head was shaving cream. This girl does not understand the use of shaving cream. She relies on those moisturizing strips like they are going to perform a miracle shave for her. I kindly explained to her, “You’re using it wrong. Even if it doesn’t have a moisturizing strip you should use shaving cream because it’ll make the glide a whole lot better.” I mean, even with the moisturizing strip, which is a nice little extra to have around, you still need shaving cream in my humblest opinion.

Fast forward a few hours later to another Facetime call, “It still isn’t working even with shaving cream!” Dude, do you not know how to shave your legs? Must I step you through these things…! She ranted nearly 30 minutes about the horror of the Flamingo Razor.

Anyway, I decided to give it a try. Flamingo recently launched at Target so, I picked one up online and gave it a go. She’s right. It sucks. I never knew how important that damn moisturizing strip was until it was gone. Flamingo’s pretty nifty in some ways. She has five blades, all of which are sharp, she’s cheap as day old chips, and she’s pretty if not basic. But she drags like a mother even with a full leg of shaving cream on. I honestly, never realized before how helpful that little moisturizing strip was. It really create a smoother glide. Flamingo has perks for sure but without that moisturizing strip it just doesn’t give me the smoothest shave in the world.

Have you tried the Flamingo Razor?

Does it work for you?

Where to buy

Target

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