Me Oh My Girl Halcyon beach days are here again! Even though the energy of summertime is about being wild and free and comfortable in your skin, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to ditch makeup and hair altogether. But paring down and perfecting your seaside-beauty routine means less distractions from what really matters: soaking […]
4eyesphotography.com, Makeup by Kim Do I’ll never forget the last-minute call I got to do a bride’s makeup on the day of her wedding. As I prepped and primed the wife-to-be, she revealed to me that she and her groom had both lost their significant others on 9/11. And that’s not all: Ten minutes later, […]
Shape Summer is the season to take a little more off… makeup, that is! When the mercury starts to rise, it’s all about lightening up your beauty routine. Bare skin — sun-kissed with a brilliant golden glow — is summertime’s quintessential look. Keeping a fresh face through sun, surf and sand requires a special set […]
Tweezerman Beauty can be a fun — no, an obsessive endeavor that usually begins as a modest interest and then blossoms into a full-fledged compulsion. We at The Makeup Blogger know this all too well. Whether we started out as dilettante beauty buffs or career makeup mavens, we’ve all done a few strange things in […]
Huffington Post The other day, I committed to a cycling class, champagne lunch and a writer’s deskside — all within a span of three hours. I first cursed myself for signing up for the cycling class before developing a game plan based on this fact: There is no way in hell I can take a […]
“I’m the worst at remembering to use concealer… or maybe I just haven’t found ‘the one’ yet. I should be put in makeup jail for that,” says Erika Brooks Adickman, our social media manager. It’s true. Finding your holy-grail concealer is one of the greatest beauty pains of all time. Case in point: For over […]
The first “grown-up” makeup I ever bought was a Cover Girl eyeshadow trio of shimmery earth tones. At the age of 15, I just followed the directions on the package: Dust the lightest shade from the lash line to the brow, the middle shade along the crease and the darkest shade along the upper and […]
