i have wanted to try a matte top coat for some time now. which is funny because i much prefer a shiny top coat over a flat satin-y finish. i own two matte color polishes but i just love the idea that i can make ANY polish matte if i want to with this alessandro [ Continue Reading … ]

i’ve been giving my skin a little break from using retin-a so i’m using this time to give a few new products a try! the first one is nuxe’s nuxellence jeunesse youth & radiance revealing anti-aging fluid. birchbox offered to send me this product to review and OF COURSE i said yes! “youth & radiance” [ Continue Reading … ]

i can’t for the life of me remember how i first heard about frownies. but when i saw them in the birchbox store i IMMEDIATELY added them to my cart. i am OBSESSED with anything anti-aging and even more so now that i have the lovely crepe paper skin under my eyes. reminder…i edit them [ Continue Reading … ]

did you know that january is “human trafficking awareness month”? i didn’t either. i was SHOCKED to read that human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world, second only to drug dealing. the united nations estimates that 27 million people are trafficked annually. i also didn’t know [ Continue Reading … ]

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