I love a gel manicure for vacations, weddings, and as a general pick-me-up. I haven’t been to a nail salon in months, so when I stumbled on a gel manicure kit that was only $26, I thought WHY NOT! The overall huge pros of doing at-home gel manicures? The cost savings, for one (my salon usually charges $48 plus tip), as well as the fact that you can do it whenever! I tried this for the first time at 10:30pm one night. With no dry time, I knew I could have my mani done and get …
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My 2019 Commitment to Cruelty-Free Makeup + The Best Cruelty-Free Beauty Brands
For months I've been working on switching my makeup over to cruelty-free brands. Since starting to make the change, I've been thinking about how I'd talk about it here. It's been about six months since I started this journey, and I feel like "why not now!" Why cruelty-free? I've been an animal lover for as long as I can remember. When I started reading more about how makeup brands test their products (or the ingredients in those products), I got pretty uncomfortable. The idea of labs full of …
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My first experience with filling in my eyebrows was in 7th or 8th grade when I was having my makeup done for the school play. (One of the moms was a Mary Kay consultant, so she volunteered to do everyone's makeup.) I couldn't figure out why anyone would actually want darker eyebrows, because it seemed like everyone I knew was trying to pluck theirs away. I've experimented with a few products over the years (I started with this brow sculpting product), and then in December last year I had my …
