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4 Dec

These Holiday Makeup Trends Will Fill You With Glee

These Holiday Makeup Trends Will Fill You With Glee
PeopleImages / Getty Images It’s almost that point again! Your whole family can be gathering for holiday dinner. You enthusiastically sit at your vanity, reaching on your favorite red lipstick and gracefully move it across your lips. That is, in fact, before you add a glitter shadow that hasn’t been touched in ages. The final touch is timeless, reminding you that preparing for the vacations is directly fun and nostalgic.  In other words, it’s a time to embrace colours, glitters, and more to precise our joy for the season. Makeup trends may also help us step outside our comfort zone and take a look at different looks we otherwise might never consider. Kelly Bellevue and Halle Tims, generally known as Halle J,...
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29 Nov

These Beauty Influencers Share How They Keep Stress Down

These Beauty Influencers Share How They Keep Stress Down
Instagram The vacations are a time for us to turn out to be closer to our family members. Also they are a time for girls to be overburdened by the season. We're expected to cook, clean, decorate, get the kids dressed, and attend Thanksgiving dinner as if we didn’t run on anxiety the entire day.  Still, we sit on the table having fun with our prepared meal while catching the shade our member of the family threw us. Deeply exhausted, we suck it up for the sake of “getting along.” Meanwhile, we're drained beyond belief and counting down the hours for our guests to depart so we are able to release ourselves from the shackles of our makeup, bra, and wardrobe.  Dear women,...
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29 Nov

Product Of The Week: EADEM Le ChouChou Lip Balm

Product Of The Week: EADEM Le ChouChou Lip Balm
Composite by India Espy-Jones In an industry where there may be an awesome amount of product launches day by day, Product Of The Week helps you chop through the noise. To enable you find your latest beauty and wellness favorites, this series highlights the tried-and-true products that our writers can’t live without. 2024 has been the yr of lip balms and lip oils, with most beauty brands releasing at the very least one version of those products. The trend in lip balms, nevertheless, found a latest standard set by indie brand EADEM with its Le Chouchou Lip Softening Balm.  EADEM is understood for its stellar products and formulas that work for everybody, but specially cater to the various needs of BIPOC skin. When...
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28 Nov

The H Word: What’s The Deal With Hydroquinone? –

The H Word: What’s The Deal With Hydroquinone? –
Shutterstock / Dean Drobot Through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to supply economic assistance for American employees, small businesses, and industries. It also included a provision banning the sales of over-the-counter hydroquinone.  Very similar to a Russian nesting doll, major laws passed in Washington is commonly full of smaller, less-publicized provisions. As an alternative of voting on each item individually, lawmakers can bundle multiple issues right into a single piece of laws. For a long time, dermatologists have referred to hydroquinone because the ‘gold standard’ on the subject of treating hyperpigmentation—which is more common on Black skin—including skin conditions like melasma. And studies have shown that when used under...
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