Beauty

Cellulite contouring or spirit crushing?

With spring suddenly here after snowing just a few weeks back, women in the Midwest are in a desperate panic. It takes a special kind of inner-calm to be thrust into swimsuit season like a bullet out of a battery-operated semi-automatic nerf gun and not completely lose your shit when you walk into Target (for the third time this…

HUSH, it’s a girls best beauty secret

The weather is finally turning colder here in the Kansas City area which means our girly skin could get rough and dry if we don’t take some immediate steps to block out that dry badness. Lucky for me I got the first, hot off the cooking pot, batch of this amazing new solution from my…

Forget Falsies, Go 3D

Besides the shoe fetish thing, you could say I’m a mascara whore. I will go to great lengths to find the best, most long-lasting, easy to apply mascara. Because without mascara you are still, essentially, naked. And truly (tangent here) you can look even more fabulous naked with these two ingredients: shoes and mascara. That’s…

Hello highlighting – using illuminators

We’re busy, we’re tired, we’re active, awesome women. But we don’t always have that desirable lit-from-within glow. That is why they invented illuminator cream and I love the stuff! Combined with contouring and you won’t believe the different it can make for your face. it Cosmetics has a creme illuminator, Hello Light, that I love…

Bombshell worthy eye shadow review

I don’t know why I don’t already have every color offered by CoverGirl in their bombshell shineshadow because I love it! It’s a cream shadow. I received mine for free – so now that we’ve disclosed that I’ll tell you more. Put the tiniest dab of the cream on your finger or an eyeshadow brush…

CC Cream Review

Good Monday morning to you! You probably know that BB and CC creams are all the rage. What’s the big deal? Well, for a lot of women it’s a one-step makeup regime. Rather than moisturizer, primer, foundation and more, one can often use a BB or CC cream for it all. Studio Gear Cosmetics sent…

Stock up on shampoo!

Just a quick reminder that the Beauty Brands liter sale is going on right now.  I’m heading in today to stock up on shampoo and conditioner for just $12.99 a liter because that is going to save me $32 off my favorite!!! And I’ve been wanting to try the Amika brand ever since last summer…

Cailyn Tinted Lip Balm Review (in Big Apple)

By Sarah Bain Hello Catwalk Queens!  I was lucky enough to try out the Cailyn Tinted Lip Balm too (product provided by Cailyn Cosmetics)!   I sampled it in Big Apple, a super bright red. I’m not a huge lipstick person, but love a great gloss, so I was pumped to try this product. The packaging…