Bright red lips used to scare me. Think 80s. Shoulder pads. Dynasty. Alexis Carrington. That’s what bright red lips were to me. Scary, highly intimidating and not at all my thing. It can age you instantly if it isn’t done right. Not long ago, bright lips came back in fashion. Suddenly young ladies were sporting [...]

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When Almay’s Smart Shade Perfect & Correct Primer landed on my desk for review, my first thoughts were “woah how cool is that bottle?” and “how did they get the two creams to form like that?“. My nerd brain immediately went to breaking the bottle apart just to see how it works, and not even [...]

I remember my very first blush. It was given to me by my mother about 10 years ago, from one of her gift-with-purchase packs. I don’t think it was sold individually as it was quite a small, square one. The blush was by Estee Lauder. It was a very subtle nude blush, and back then, [...]