I left for a few months but Too Faced is still over here marketing to the tween demographic and making me feel as old as hell! They just dropped Too Faced Fairy Bomb Fragrance Body Mist for Holiday 2025 and I have to say going from Too Faced Better Than Sex Perfume to “Fairy Bomb” Fragrance Body Mist is a big leap. I was one of the few people that actually liked Better Than Sex Perfume! I mean, look at this bottle:

And now we got this:

Yeah, a little different I’d say! But let’s not be quick to judge. What are we looking at with this new Too Faced Fairy Bomb Fragrance Body Mist? Ok, I read the notes, it isn’t all about smelling like teen spirit. We got some fruity top notes that include Apple, Madarin, Lemon and Pear with a floral heart that includes Lily of the Valley, Freesia, and Jasmine. And the finish more mature notes that include oakmost, amber, sandalwood, and musk. Too Faced is marketing it as a warm, effervescent scent. Unfortunately, it is $28 for a alcohol-free, water based formula which makes me question if it’ll have any lasting power at all.

Although, this does reek of Too Faced Holiday 2024 and the Too Faced Charmed Life Set Maximum Plump Lip Gloss & Key Chain that made us all question our age it seems like maybe this fragrance won’t be completely marketed to tweens. We’ll have to smell it first and see though.

As for me, well, it’s skip! I think I’m doing good over here without Too Faced Fairy Bomb Fragrance Body Mist in my life. That being said, I will do a little sniff scent if it pops up on my radar. This will likely end up on the sales rack before the Holiday season even gets here. Le sigh!

What’s your take on Too Faced Fairy Bomb Fragrance Body Mist?

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Ulta

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Wakey wakey! Time to get your hair smelling like vanilla birthday cake because Briogeo Vanilla Birthday Cake Don’t Despair, Repair! Deep Conditioning Hair Mask is back for a limited time. Anyone know those people who are all like, “I don’t want to smell like food!”? Who are these crazy people because I can’t! My face when they say that:

I want to smell like cake with whipped up vanilla butter cream! I want to smell like just baked cookies! I want to smell like cupcakes with pink frosting! I can’t relate to the “I don’t want to smell like food” people at all! For those our little gourmand fan girl might I present to you the return of Briogeo Vanilla Birthday Cake Don’t Despair, Repair! Deep Conditioning Hair Mask. Briogeo dragged this up from the dark realms of their haircare vault and are now offering it up for a limited time. I’m tired and I’m jet lagged so don’t quote me on the exact time and date this originally launched but I remember stupidly hauling one at the time and regretting it. I normally use the Don’t Despair, Repair! Deep Conditioning Hair Mask twice a week and a jar will last me quite a while. After hauling that one jar of the Vanilla Cake I was nursing it for quite a while and when I went back for more it was too late! Briogeo really meant it when they said limited edition! Imagine my surprise when I got an email it was returning.

It smells like the most delicious cake with creamy frosting! Plus it’s the same awesome formula. Thick, creamy, with plenty of nourishing ingredients like B Vitamins and planet proteins that hydrate, smooth, and strengthen hair.

Briogeo Vanilla Birthday Cake Don’t Despair, Repair! Deep Conditioning Hair Mask is back from the grave for a limited time and just in time to add to your cart of you’re buying anything from the Ulta 21 Days of Beauty sale.

Enjoy!

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Ulta

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Here’s Juju at a Rare Beauty Event in Thailand. Proceed to gush, melt, and just fan girl out to this man with me because did you ever think that you’d see him at a Rare Beauty Event (the endorsements are endorsing)? I mean, if you told me hey, so and so is endorsing Rare Beauty would he be the person that came to your mind? “People think I’m obsessed with this. But I’m okay with it, I am obsessed with it and um I think this is an obsession that doesn’t hurt anyone…”

If you know, you know, if you don’t, well, dm me, I’ll give you a complete history and profile breakdown including special access to never before scene edits (Just don’t ask me his shade of Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Tinted Lip Oil Stain! I have no idea! Somethings have to remain sacred!). You’re welcome!

But really all this was just an excuse to use to post about the new Rare Beauty Perfume. Yes, Rare Beauty has a perfume upcoming! Rare Beauty isn’t new to the fragrance world. We’ve gotten not one but two different fragrance mists from the brand over the course of the last three years. Both of which were quite lovely if not long lasting.

Rare Eau de Parfum by Rare Beauty will be available August 7th at Sephora with early access on the app starting August 6th. The 50 ML bottle will be $75 or snag a travel spray for $30. According to reports the formula is not only vegan and cruelty for but ideal for sensitive skin. Rare Beauty continues to grow globally with sales reaching 400 million in 2024 which was 14% higher than the year before. A fragrance launch seems like the perfect addition to the main line particularly with the success of the Bath and Body Collection they already released. The nose behind the scent is Perfumer Jérôme Epinette. If you be familiar that name that would be because he’s worked on fragrances for both Byredo and Atelier Cologne (which of my fav brands).

What does Rare Eau de Parfum smell like? My mind did go to Sol de Janeiro as it has notes of caramel and pistachio….! Interesting! There’s pink pepper here as well with a warm vanilla heart, ginger, cocoa beans, sandalwood, tonka beans, and skin musks. It seems very much like the Rare Beauty Comfort Fragrance but perhaps with more complexity as that, too, is a skin scent. The launch of the perfume also includes four different Fragrance Layering Balms in Floral Peony Blossom, Amber Vanilla, Fresh Bergamot and Woody Oak to customize the perfume. This also introduces newer fragrance lovers to the art of cocktailing different fragrances. Each of the balms will be $19 each.

I’m looking forward to trying this out. How about you?

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Sephora

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Wakey, wakey friends I’m alive. Sort of. I’m actually currently sitting in a golf cart, in stupid degree humidity, typing this up on my iPad as my dad golfs. Why he thinks it’s ok to golf in the heat is beyond me but here we are. I’m temporarily safe from getting out of this cart to actually put in the effort to sport with him since he has his little old man group he is hanging out with today and I’ve turned into the Caddy Mate for all of them. When did my dad get old? And also, why is it so hot? Also, also, Ariana Grande has a new perfume. Ok, let’s get into that because I have thoughts.

Ariana Grande LOVENOTES Plush Vanilla Eau de Parfum is about to drop and I’m not blind buying. Look at me being all adult about my perfume purchases. Are you proud? Tell me you’re proud of me! Go on now. I’m listening. In all seriousness, Ari’s perfumes are normally a safe blind buy for me as I tend to love them. Are they a little juvenile? Yes. Am I an adult woman that wants to sweet? Also, yes. When Aria decided to drop LoveNotes back in in Fall 2024 the only thing going through my head was how do I capture all these Pokemon? Because here we had four different fragrances but only one was dropping in North America. The rest were scattered across the world.

Each fragrance was a love letter to a different part of the world from Ariana expressing messages of joy, gratitude, and affection. The US, Australia, UK, and the rest of Europe each got one exclusive fragrance. Here in the US we got LOVENOTES Pink Woods Eau de Parfum which was a fresh floral fragrance with notes of jasmine, tonka, and cashmere woods. I immediately purchased it online without having to smell it because I just like Ariana’s fragrances and I was convinced I’d love this. I didn’t. But it’s my own fault as I’m a gourmand girlie and this was a floral fragrance. That being said I did think it was going to be interesting none the less. It wasn’t. It just smelled like linen to me and that’s not my bag at all.

Fast forward and Fall, my dearest friends, is on the horizon and the drops are starting to happen! One of which is this new Love Notes Plush Vanilla Perfume. It’s being described as an older sister to Mod Vanilla which sounds promising. It’s a warm, sweet gourmand which checks off all the marks for me that has key notes of vanilla macaron, cashmere woods, and amber crystals as well as orange blossom, sugared petals, and warm amber. The only problem is they contradict themselves in the marketing and proceed to say it’s a delicate, fluffy, playful vanilla as hey, how can Mod Vanilla’s older sister being playful and fluffy when Mod Vanilla is already pretty girlish and fun and Plush Vanilla is supposed to be darker. Hmmmmm!

Is it a safe blind buy? Probably not. So far, LoveNotes has proved a little disappointing with that first launch so, I’m practicing caution if I do indulge in Lovenotes Plush Vanilla! How about you? Are you a fan of the original release and are you eager for the new one?

Ariana Grande LoveNotes Plush Vanilla launches the first week of August.

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Sephora

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Friends! How are you? I miss you all so much! And I’m sorry I’ve been MIA but I’ve been busy with life, the universe, and everything. I’m trying to slowly back my come back! Life has been pretty busy lately. I’ve been traveling, enjoying Summer events, and just busy being silly over here! Yes, I still love beauty but it’s just taken a backburner lately. Sometimes you need to take a break from the things you love the most so you realize how much you miss it!

I heard E.L.F. Jelly Pop Primer is making a come back and instantly I ran over here to blog about it. Because it’s Jelly Pop Primer and it needs to be screamed about it. Maybelline Grippy Serum Primer is my new current fav but I will forever be a Jelly Pop girl. I love how tacky it is, adore how makeup sticks to it like magic, and really think it just makes things look so much more flawless. It returns this Friday along with a new Jelly Pop Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm and a Jelly Pop Luscious Lip Mask plus the return of Jelly Pop Glow Reviver Lip Oil. I’m pretty excited about this and will absolutely purchase a few tubes when it drops! Are you a fan of the formula?

The past two weeks I’ve been spending time with my soulmate aka my online best friend turned real life best friend. Picture it. It’s 2020, we’re deep in lockdown mode. I download Tiktok and spend way too much time doom scrolling because during lockdown all we had was time right? I laugh and comment on a Tiktok and suddenly I’m on the fast tracking going 100 miles an hour to becoming the fastest friend with the guy who posted it. Suddenly we are talking daily, learning to cook yummy meals together because I burn boiling water and so does it! We end up taking a Jamie Oliver online Masterclass together (but we’re still a little hopeless)! I mean, how cool are we right now? At one point, we nearly burn down my house and his apartment as we attempt to make the perfect mushroom risotto which by the way we did using the microwave because we found a “quick recipe” online to do so. Don’t worry, Jamie wasn’t the one that endorsed that method. We end fangirling out to dramas together, game together, and I even met his boyfriend last Summer when he came to New York on a business trip.  We laughed a lot, we shared a lot, we texted, video called, and acted like two tween girls together for the next few years of our lives. We exchange gifts on our birthday, during the holidays, and just because. We’re over here living the best times of our online life together. 

And suddenly years flew by and I’m not even sure how that happened because it seems like yesterday I laughed at his Tiktok. He lives a million miles away but last week we finally got to meet. We went to Mexico together, saw Jeff Satur in concert, went to the Heart Killers meet (like, all four of them, together, in the same room!) and screamed so loud that we both had sore throats the next day. What is my life right now? It was pretty special considering Jeff so rarely makes it to this side of the universe. This week, we ended up eating all the things. He wanted to go to Olive Garden, he wanted to go to Wendy’s, etc…etc….the list if crappy restaurants and foods he wants to try is endless. I can’t believe I had to sit through endless salad and breadsticks with him but I did it haha! He weights about 140lbs soaking wet so, I’m not really sure where the food is going. At one point he asked me where the nearest Buc-ee’s was and I had to break his heart and tell him that would be Texas.

Here’s the thing though…! I was so nervous when it was time to meet him for the first time. Hand shaking, knees knocking, almost about to cry nervous. We had spent so much time together online but I was really scared he wouldn’t like real life me. What if the magic we had online didn’t work the same way offline? My boyfriend kept telling me how much I was overthinking it and I had no reason to feel the way I did but I was just scared as hell anyway! I mean, I met my Whovian Reddit group recently and that was a little awkward.

So, what happened next?

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