Several news media sources have announced today that Deciem founder Brandon Truaxe has died (Source: WWD)! His cause of death has not be disclosed at this time but we have all been privy to Brandon’s possible mental disorder in his rants, ravings, and erratic behavior across social media.

The news of Brandon’s death was circulated via an internal Deciem e-mail sent to employees. Brandon died over the weekend and all stores and warehouses were instructed to temporarily close upon news of his death.

As you may know Brandon was removed as CEO back in October after announcing the Deciem’s complete shut down. Estee Lauder proceeded to step in and by court decision Brandon was removed as CEO but continued postings to his own social media account.

I’m actually quite sad to hear about this. Brandon’s mental health has always been a hot topic of conversation in the beauty world although, he has denied having any mental disorder. I am left to wonder if he might have committed suicide. I hope that’s not the case and I sure hope he was getting the care and attention he needed no matter what his issues were as he seemed like he needed it. Even though many have speculated about Brandon’s mental heath and potential drug use, myself included, I still found the news he died very shocking and sad!

My thoughts are with him, his family, and friends. This was quite sad to here today.

If you have mental health issues, feelings of depression or suicidal thoughts I do urge you to talk to someone immediately! Your life is very precious!

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Cerave Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Face Serum ($18.99) is a new ceramide and hyaluronic acid that a few weeks ago that sounded very exciting. As we all know, hyaluronic acid has become the gold standard in drugstore skincare releases lately (as well as a across the board in many mid and high-range skincare launches) and why shouldn’t it be? It’s a great way to hydrate skin as it plumps it while helping to retain moisture.

Considering what a trusted brand Cerave is and how they always pack their skincare with ceramides as well as as always have a short yet effective ingredient list made this a point of purchase for me. I did purchase it online and at the time no ingredients were listed anywhere. So, this was a blind buy of sorts but considering how great Cerave is in general I decided to purchase it without seeing the ingredients.

That was a mistake.

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Just a heads up there’s free shipping on all orders today at elfcosmetics.com (no promo code required) with no minimum and the Poreless Putty Primer is back in stock too! This is valid one day only.

Enjoy!

Where to buy

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My Maybelline Soda Pop Eyeshadow Palette review and swatches are pretty late considering by now the entire world likely tried out this palette. Sorry guys! Sometimes time gets away from me. I’ve actually had this palette since it launched a few months ago but just didn’t get around to reviewing it until now.

As you know Maybelline was going through some scented makeup trend this past palette and introduced this Soda Pop Eyeshadow Palette as well as a Lemonade Crazy Eyeshadow Palette too. I was actually really liking this trend and I hope as we enter Summer 2019 maybe Maybelline will introduce a few more! I hope L’Oreal (who also launched a few different scented palettes) also starts doing some again too!

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