Makeup for Maturing Skin

Realizing your skin is not what it used to be can be a bit rough on the psyche, but you’ve got a friend to get you through! I made a new friend at the Dior makeup counter at Nordstrom yesterday and am giddy with my new foundation. It may be time to put that dimestore…

MAC Magic Mascara – Really!

Mascara does not have to be expensive but it does have to be amazing to make it on our list. I picked up the miniMAC Magic Extension mascara as I was waiting to check out at Nordstrom Rack. Yes, I was a sucker for the point-of-purchase aisle. This one was a good one! A little…

Products we love

Cleansing foam Acure Need an affordable face cleanser that does the job? I’ve been using this gentle foam for a while now and am really enjoying it’s light feel and excellent cleansing power. Usually, I pick it up at Whole Foods when it’s on sale. I also use it to clean my makeup brushes. If…

Cellulite contouring or spirit crushing?

With spring suddenly here after snowing just a few weeks back, women in the Midwest are in a desperate panic. It takes a special kind of inner-calm to be thrust into swimsuit season like a bullet out of a battery-operated semi-automatic nerf gun and not completely lose your shit when you walk into Target (for the third time this…

HUSH, it’s a girls best beauty secret

The weather is finally turning colder here in the Kansas City area which means our girly skin could get rough and dry if we don’t take some immediate steps to block out that dry badness. Lucky for me I got the first, hot off the cooking pot, batch of this amazing new solution from my…

Forget Falsies, Go 3D

Besides the shoe fetish thing, you could say I’m a mascara whore. I will go to great lengths to find the best, most long-lasting, easy to apply mascara. Because without mascara you are still, essentially, naked. And truly (tangent here) you can look even more fabulous naked with these two ingredients: shoes and mascara. That’s…