Have you checked out Coterie yet? It's a new members-only site featuring collections of popular beauty products and brands.Coterie will be launching holiday gift guides on Monday. Here are some of the featured specials:Get 3 Julep Nail Colors for $23 and with your Julep purchase choose between the Glow on Age Defying Hand Brightener or Facial for Hands Glycolic … [Read more...]

I've been trying a variety of different nail designs lately and Mark gave me the idea to do stained glass nails. I guess men do have some good ideas - haha! I actually thought it was a great idea and fairly simple to achieve. It turned out to be easier than I thought too - even on the left hand.  I used 5 colors for this mani and only 3 easy steps. Read on to … [Read more...]

I'm going on a little trip this weekend to celebrate my birthday, which is on Monday. Since it's a short trip I don't want to bring too much with me, only the essentials. I won't need 8 different eye shadow palettes!I wanted to share just a few things I'm taking with me.A case for my contact case.Say what? A case for a case? Well, I really couldn't pass up this cute case from … [Read more...]

I was browsing Fall makeup trends the other day and came across a few smokey brown eyes. I realized that I've never featured any such look on my blog, so I had to do one!The key to this look is using brown eyeliner instead of black. Brown makes for a much softer, less intense look.  This is great if you're going for natural makeup or just want to try something … [Read more...]

I recently got another Target Beauty Bag in the mail (the review for my first one is here).  Target would send out these bags filled with samples and coupons every once in awhile, free to whoever signed up. This particular bag was their last one.These aren't deluxe-sized samples like the ones you get in subscription boxes, but it's still cool to be able to try a few … [Read more...]