I HIGHLY suggest you never ever download Tiktok if you’re sensitive about your age and being old because apparently Hard Candy hydrating Chilling Wonder Powder is some new, innovative technology. Seriously, if you aren’t 25 and under on Tiktok it means you are ancient. Grandma, born the day dinosaurs roamed the earth, recorded music on a cassette tape old. You’re OLD old on Tiktok! Older than you realized! Older than everyone else….! I did a Tiktok yesterday as some of my online friends over there convinced me somehow to get involved and I felt like the biggest dork on the face of the planet. I have new found respect for youTubers who get in front of a camera daily!

I learned just how much of a grandmother I am when I watched a beauty Tiktok influencer get super excited about the new Hard Candy hydrating Chilling Wonder Powder like never in her life had she seen such a thing. And she probably hasn’t because she is pretty young. But gosh, it made me feel positively like her mother’s mom’s mom.

I mean back in 2012 I was blogging L�egere Magic Water Cool Aqua Powder because at the time cooling powders were sort of trending in Asia but it wasn’t something common in the Western market even though MAC had covered it in 2011 with the MAC Venmous Villains Collection and the very cool Dr. Facilier MAC Magically Cool Liquid Powder which inspired an entire Magically Cool Liquid Powder Collection.

Later on in life Becca decided to reinvent the trend with their Becca Hydra-Mist Set & Refresh Powder (it’s on sale currently at Ulta! Stock up if you love it as Becca goes bye bye soon!)

But anyway, this girl, just totally thought Hard Candy was doing something BRAND NEW AND SUPER EXCITING. It is exciting that there’s a new budget option available in a chilling powder. But new? Nope….been done before. It’s kind of fun though watching someone getting excited about something for the first time!

Hard Candy�s Sheer Envy Chilling Wonder Powder is a sheer, translucent, non-drying loose powder with a hydrating, cooling formula that delivers a refreshing cool feel during application. It can be used to set makeup for a smooth, flawless finish.

It’s available now at Walmart for under $6 bucks.

But between you and I, it’s not new or innovative and we’re not old. We’re just well seasoned.

Where to buy

Walmart

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I know the disappointment is real that there hasn’t been any cool Becca sales. This has my hopes alive that Becca is going to come out of the gate strong in the Fall and storm the castle and be all like, “HEY YOU GUYS! We’re here to stay! We got an injection of capital from an anonymous billionaire and we’re going to be making you highlighters for many years to come!” Rumors are circulating that Smashbox purchased Becca’s formulas which gives us some hope.

But even if Smashbox did purchase the formulas it doesn’t mean the old packaging will stick around. Which begs the question when the hell will there be a big sale on Becca? I’m waiting, you’re waiting, where’s the sale Becca?

There are some minor sales to be had!

Here’s the goods:
Becca Zero Face + Lip Glass Highlighter $12
Becca Travel Size First Light Priming Filter $10
Becca Travel Size Backlight Priming Filter $10
Becca Travel Size Ever-Matte Poreless Priming Perfector $10
Becca Hydra-Light Smoothing Lip Scrub $8
Becca Zero No Pigment Foundation $18
Becca Hydra-Light Plumping Lip Mask $9
Becca Sunlit Bronzer $19
Becca Hydra-Mist Set & Refresh Powder $19
Becca Ever-Matte Poreless Priming Perfector $19
Becca Ignite Liquified Light Highlighter $19

I know this is all really disappointing but I do have some good news to spread! Marble Slab Creamery’s has Cheetos Flamin’ Hot Ice Cream and Shake. Ok, so, I am guilty of putting Flamin’ Hot Cheetos on all sorts of stuff but never in my ice cream…..! I dunno how I feel about slurping down a milk shade with chunks of Cheetos in it….

But ya know, YOLO right? Gotta get our kicks somewhere!

Where to buy

Ulta

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Serious talk. Is Hempz like the only drugstore brand who caters to the gourmand and fruity lovers out there? Seriously, if you walk into Harmons you’ll have an entire two aisles dedicated to body lotions, potions, and shower gels but none of them smell like candy or fruit or pumpkin spice. Why is that? Am I the only person around that WANTS to smell like sugar, spice, and apricots!

But hey, we got Hempz and they’re all like, “Bitches like apricots! Let’s do an apricot collection and hells, we’ll even throw in clementine too!”

I dunno how but I’ve become this girl that stalks all the Hempz Seasonal Collections lately. I really dig on their Holiday launches! I still have two tubes of Hempz Butter Me Up! Salted Toffee Herbal Hand & Foot Creme. You’ll have to pry those tubes out of my cold dead hands one day if they aren’t re-released this year!

You know me…I don’t buy into the Hemp Seed Oil and CBD beauty trends but Hempz I make an exception for.

Their new collection for Summer features a sweet mix of apricot mixed with the zesty of clementine to create a juicy, tart blend. The collection is available in a body wash, body lotion, antibacterial hand wash, and even a Apricot & Clementine Herbal Scalp & Body Scrub. Although, it deserves to be said, I question any exfoliating product that can be used on your body and your scalp…..yeah, mmmm, I dunno about that….!

You can get your Hempz Apricot & Clementine fix at Ulta before you leave for band camp this Summer.

What’s your fav Hempz product? P.S. Select Hempz is on sale this week at ulta.com!

Where to buy

Ulta

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Truly Unicorn Fruit Eau de Parfum launched today and it makes me want to be a pretty little pony again! Or maybe a mermaid….! Yeah, you know what, I want to be a mermaid. Seriously though, remember when Tarte ruined mermaids and unicorns for the WHOLE DAMN WORLD! I am being utterly serious that the damn unicorn and mermaid makeup trend made me legit hate both mystical creatures with a passion! This from a girl who watched Legend two thousand times and Splash about a thousand.

I can only admit this to you guys but I never pictured myself riding into the sunset with Tom Cruise on the back of a unicorn…it was more like I wanted to drink the blood of a unicorn with Tim Curry. He looked hot as in Legend. Whoa Zaddy! Let’s bath in unicorn blood together and stay forever young.

Truly has become the hottest brand on Tiktok. They really go hard over there with the advertisement. They shill that boobie polish potion stuff like it’s their job. Oh wait, it is their job. Sorry…I lost my train of though because of Tim Curry. By the way, has anyone actually tried their whole Boobie Skincare Collection? I mean here I am taking incredible care of my face, my under eyes, my neck…am I somehow missing out on some step in my skincare by not exfoliating and hydrating the girls with serum and moisturizer?!!??! Who even knew you had to serum up your breasts….! This is where I can make a REALLY inappropriate comment but I won’t. Sorry, I have no filter at all.

Anyway, since Truly’s currency of choice in the beauty world is body and bathing it was only a matter of time before they did a fragrance right?

Truly Unicorn Fruit Eau de Parfum is based off their Unicorn Fruit Skincare Collection and features the same notes as that line with a mix of acai berries, matcha, and rose. It’s supposed to be a sweet, fruity scent. Having none of the original unicorn collection I can’t share what it smells like but my inner 12 year old girl demands I buy a perfume that’s called Unicorn Fruit. You should too so I’m not alone.

Truly Unicorn Fruit Eau de Parfum is available now for $48.

Where to buy

Ulta

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So, this is going to be a long story about how I fell in love with Bruce Boxleitner. You might want to grab a cup of tea, maybe a blanket, and snuggle down on the couch because it does lead into the new Dolly Parton Eau de Parfum somehow, someway! You know I like a good rambling story….!

I can’t really tell you what year it was but I think I was eight at the time and I happened upon a rerun of the Gambler on TV one day and I was riveted by it! As in glued to the TV screen! I mean, it really does deserved to be mentioned that I’m not much of a Western TV or movie kind of girl and I’m surely not one of those girls growing up hoping a cowboy would whisk her off her feet and we’d live happily ever after on a ranch somewhere. I’m the girl that was waiting for a Doctor in a little blue box to whisk her into a time vortex (particularly one that wore a long scarf or maybe a white pair of Converse or maybe a bow tie or maybe a celery stick tucked into his pocket….)!

Anyway, watching the Gambler brought about a lifelong love affair with Bruce Boxleitner. I’m not a blue-eyed, blond-haired kind of girl but Bruce had that certain raspy quality to his voice that really made my little eight-year-old heart go pitter-patter. Later on in life I watched reruns of Scarecrow and Mrs King and our relationship were solidified at that point and I knew we’d get married one day, have 2.5 children, live in a house with a picket fence, and I’d burn dinner every night while he was off being an International Super Spy only to come home to me and say, “It’s ok honey! I know you burn boiling water but I still love you!” Technically speaking I did hook up with a super geek, if not a super spy, and he tells me all the time, “It’s ok you burn boiling water we can order from Doordash!” So, essentially I did get my happily ever after. It just wasn’t with Bruce Boxleitner.

My love of Bruce somehow led me into watching weird Kenny Rogers movies and at the time I was somehow under the assumption he and Dolly Parton were a married couple since she was in every single movie I watched with him. My eight-year-old brain didn’t understand the relationship they had going on in movies didn’t actually translate to real life. YEARS and I seriously mean YEARS later I was told they weren’t married and where in the world did I get that idea?! Needless to say I felt a little heartbroken. They just seemed the perfect couple….

So, yeah, Bruce, actually introduced me to Dolly on some level.

My taste in music is eclectic and maybe extreme in some cases. From Madam Butterfly to Rammstein to Pink Floyd to Broadway Show Tunes to Kermit the Frog singing the Rainbow Connection to In This Moment…my play list of music is everywhere but somewhere in between all that there was always a Dolly Parton tune to be had. I belt out Jolene like a champion in the shower.

Earlier this Summer Dolly introduced her first fragrance to the world. And this became an epic event! I think it’s because Dolly somehow became as epic and iconic as Betty White. She represented the light side, the good in people, she reminded us we should be nice and humble…during the Pandemic she was somehow the poster girl for hope in humanity and reminded us all, “WE GOT THIS!”

I was excited to see her fragrance launch on HSN.com recently and yes, I did buy a bottle. I’m not much of a celeb fragrance fan but over the years I’ve come to love a few and I gotta admit Dolly’s perfume really does spark joy. I can’t quite put my finger on it but it does smell like something I already own! I wasn’t sure I’d like it but it actually smells wonderful. The notes are mandarin, peony blossoms, jasmine, vanilla, sandalwood, musk and patchouli. It’s a slightly sweet, unaggressive, pretty little floral scent!

I’m glad I purchased it! I’ll have a review it soon! Excited to hear about it?

Did anyone smell it yet?

Do share!

Where to buy

Macy’s

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