Ego Trippin’ With New LORAC Summer 2015 Alter Ego Lip Gloss Collection
Though I’m more of a matte lipstick lover, I do occasionally enjoy the playfulness and the pop of shine delivered by a funky lip gloss.
Though I’m more of a matte lipstick lover, I do occasionally enjoy the playfulness and the pop of shine delivered by a funky lip gloss.
Streaky, heavy, chalky sunscreens that leave a white residue behind hardly create the best canvas for a selfie-worthy makeup look.
Summer beauty routines tend to revolve around convenience, speed, and practicality, with tinted moisturizers and CC creams replacing loose mineral foundations and powders that are likely to melt right off our faces, easy-to-apply lip pencils with crayon-like tips occupying the space in our makeup bags typically reserved for richer and creamier lipsticks, and waterproof cream shadows adding a touch of luster to our lids in lieu of powder shadows blended, layered, and diffused to perfection.
Known as one of Japan’s “Three Holy Mountains,” Mount Fuji, located on Honshu island, is an active stratovolcano with a cone-like shape characterized by a harsh tundra climate at the summit.
In the realm of fantasy fiction and film, magic rarely transpires without the deft waving of a powerful wand.
I believe I speak for a large portion of the female population, when I say that I hate blowdrying my hair when it’s 90+ degrees outside — not to mention painfully humid and muggy.
Maybe it’s because I grew up in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, where the beach was always just a stone’s throw away or because, as a kid, my father cultivated his love of sailing and, as a result, packed up his entire family nearly every weekend for a new seafaring adventure, or maybe it’s because my mother was always so enamored by the ocean that she’d spend hours painting sandy expanses and crashing waves, but, whatever the reason, I feel the most serene, joyful, and pure when I’m by the ocean.
Shopping for mascara within a drugstore’s beauty section can prove to be the most befuddling, frustrating, and aggravating experience ever — after all, there are countless mascaras promising to give lashes 8, 9, and even 16 times more volume or to plump lashes by 200%, or claiming they’ll arrange your lashes into the perfect fanned-out shape, define and curl even the tiniest of hair, and coat them with jet black pigment.
There’s nothing like a fresh coat of paint to liven up a home — and nothing like a fluid, sheen-heavy, wet-looking lip color to brighten up one’s face.