Makeup

Travel Makeup Essentials

Attending a university across the country entails lots of commuting. The travel days are long, and my skin doesn’t cope well with harsh airplane cabin conditions. But, I figured if Victoria Beckham can travel and look refreshed in her baggage claim candids, then I can, too. Upon further research, I discovered that my makeup was […]

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Lifestyle, Makeup, Style

Your 2015 Shopping Guide

It’s easy to get into a rut. A work-out rut, a style rut, a beauty rut, the list goes on. Believe it or not, I often find myself in a shopping rut. Stores seem to produce the same, boring merchandise season after season, with only a slight variation in color or style. YOU CAN RISE […]

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Hair

evo HAIR

A spot in my daily rotation of products is a highly coveted position. I’ll give any product a try, but it takes a lot for a product to earn some cred on my vanity. Lately, evo hair products have dominated my regimen. What is evo? The products are sulfate, paraben, dea, tea and propylene glycol free. They […]

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Makeup, Skin

Beat the Microbead

A conscious citizen wouldn’t dream of pouring chemicals into the ocean, or throwing a plastic bag onto the highway. But many of us are polluting in ways that we didn’t even realize. The problem? Microbeads.  These tiny plastic particles are in common “exfoliators.” Beyond their lackluster ability to exfoliate your skin, their life cycle continues down […]

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