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The Costs of Cleansing (And What Makes It Worth It For Me) + a New Favorite Cleanser
Washing my face in the morning and evening is, as it is for many, a highlight of my day. I love the refresh and reset of a good cleanse,...
May 10, 20246 min read
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Beauty Buzz Spotlight Youtuber Bernadette Banner's Victorian Skincare Routine
Hello lovelies! Today, I come to you briefly to share about a fascinating video I just watched, historic fashion and lifestyle blogger...
May 8, 20241 min read
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I'm Breaking Up With Synthetic Vitamin C
Vitamin C (scientifically known as L'acorbic acid) is widely touted in the skincare for its uses in neutralizing environmental damage...
Apr 30, 20243 min read
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Product Review: Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask
Have you ever tried a product that the moment it touched your skin, you knew it was just the thing that it need? Like it felt it had...
Apr 20, 20243 min read
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Product Review: Apis Apotheca Bounce House Vitality Reboot Mask
Springtime is often my skin's finickiest time of year. Between seasonal allergies creating more inflammation, skin shedding more as it...
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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Beauty Buzz Spotlight: Style Theory Video "Skincare is a SCAM!"
Style Theorists is a fun and informative YouTube channel I have dabbled in watching on occasion that makes videos encompassing a lot of...
Mar 25, 20242 min read
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Product Review: Saie Mascara 101
Saie is a fairly new and up-and-coming Green Beauty brand that entered the scene at Sephora online as of early 2021. They are a small,...
Mar 12, 20243 min read
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Potential Problems With Beauty Product Consumer Claims
We have all seen many a product boasting words like "improves skin texture", "shrinks the appearance of pores" , or "reduces fine lines...
Feb 29, 20243 min read
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Beauty Opinion: Making up for the Impossible
Before and after images have been something rife in the beauty and wellness industries for decades. Suddenly, a face splotched with...
Feb 21, 20243 min read
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Reviewing 6 Scents From Dedcool
Few brands typify avant garde modern like Dedcool Perfumes. A cleanly formulated, mostly organic, vegan and cruelty-free brand, the...
Feb 12, 20247 min read
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Product Review: Glossier Ultralip
There's nothing like a good bold lipcolor for winter, and especially as the glamour and romance of Valentine's Day comes fast upon us. ...
Jan 31, 20244 min read
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My Favorite Product Discoveries of Late 2023
As always, 2023 was a year filled with the enjoyment of the indulgence of beauty products. Being in mid-January of 2024 now, I've taken...
Jan 16, 20243 min read
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So This Is Christmas...
And I pray it is a fun and blessed occasion for all. I hope everyone has a wonderful time enjoying the holiday whatever you celebrate...
Dec 20, 20231 min read
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Reviewing 3 Products from Blissoma Skin
St. Louis-born holistic skincare brand has risen to the top of my skincare affections latel. Similar in ethos and aesthetic to brands...
Dec 11, 20234 min read
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3 Winter Skincare Staple Items
Winter is a time of very exciting get-togethers and activity, and often with that comes the occasion to dabble in extra fun, sparkly,...
Dec 8, 20234 min read
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Reflections on Self-Care
"Self-care" is a term that I hear more and more. Since the 2020 pandemic, a time when many of us had the opportunity to capture moments...
Nov 30, 20235 min read
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Happy Thanksgiving 2023
Hey everyone, Just taking this moment to wish you a glorious Thanksgiving to you and yours. May your day be filled abundantly with any...
Nov 17, 20231 min read
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Product Review: Jones Road Beauty Miracle Balm
Famed makeup artist, book author, and beauty entrepreneur Bobbi Brown shocked the beauty world when she stepped down from her...
Nov 17, 20235 min read
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3 Common Skincare Testing Mistakes
If you are reading this blog, you will well know that I make a hobby and craft out of trying beauty products and most especially skincare....
Nov 2, 20233 min read
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Wonder Ingredient for Skin: Chocolate
In preparation for Halloween, I thought it might be fun to take a look at my favorite treat and its benefits for our skin. Rich, bitter,...
Oct 26, 20232 min read
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Skin Secrets of India
Steeped in holistic habits of physical health, spiritual wellness, and beauty, India is a culture that I am fascinated by and thought it...
Oct 18, 20233 min read
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The Many Moods of Masks
Masks are synonymous with spa day-esque self-care rituals. The classic images of slumber parties and pampering in a long, hot bath...
Oct 4, 20233 min read
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My Current Top 3 Products for a Cozy Skin and Bodycare Routine (and 2 Honorable Mentions)
My passion for beauty products means much more to me than the artistry of color and a makeup look or my academic interests in ingredients...
Sep 27, 20237 min read
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Product Review: Ranavat Luminous Ceremony Cleanser
Ranavat is gorgeously presented line of Green Beauty skincare that seeks to blend founder Michelle Ranavat’s vision of “modern alchemy...
Sep 17, 20233 min read
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Scalp Exfoliation: Why You Should Do It
Exfoliation is a long-talked about topic for good skin health for both the face and the body. A lesser-mentioned topic, however, is...
Sep 13, 20234 min read
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3 Ways to Amp Up Your Skin's Moisture
I struggle with dry skin on my face and most especially on my body 24/7, 365 days a year. Today, I thought I'd try and consolidate some...
Sep 6, 20232 min read
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6 Scents of Henry Rose
Actress Michelle Pfieffer found she missed wearing fragrance during her pregnancies and raising her young children, during which time...
Aug 31, 20237 min read
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The Methods of Attack for the Breakout: A Skin Theory
I have talked a lot about methods of skin healing and rebalancing on La Petite Rose and have reviewed many a product also aimed at...
Aug 22, 20234 min read
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Product Review: Summer Fridays CC Me Vitamin C Serum
Summer Fridays has charmed my heart (and my skin) with another gorgeous product. This time, it is their CC Me Vitamin C serum. While I...
Aug 16, 20233 min read
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Blush Basics 101
Blush has become a makeup item I've been loving recently. After trying testing quite a few over the years, I thought I'd compile some...
Aug 10, 20232 min read
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5 Skincare Myths (And Rebuttals to Them)
In the plethora of skincare advice that is out there, common things get spread around that may or may not be necessarily true or as true...
Aug 3, 20233 min read
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If I Could Only Use One... (Makeup Edition)
Both for this blog and just throughout my life, I have tried many a different makeup item and have many of the same types of products...
Jul 22, 20233 min read
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Product Review: Summer Fridays Cloud Dew Oil-Free Gel Cream
Summertime skincare always brings, for me, a particular challenge. How do I continue to keep my skin moisturized and hydrated but...
Jul 19, 20233 min read
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What is Witch Hazel?
Few ingredients, especially in the world of Green Beauty skincare, are as powerful and multi-faceted as witch hazel. The most common...
Jun 30, 20232 min read
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My Picks for Summertime Facial Cleansers
It was officially the summer solstice yesterday. And whether you are just starting to to truly feel the heat or have been baking for a...
Jun 22, 20234 min read
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Product Review: Bareminerals Mineralist Hydra-Smoothing Lipstick
Bareminerals is by far one of my longest- standing beloved brands in all of beauty and especially cleaner, more natural-based beauty. ...
Jun 15, 20233 min read
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3 Summer Fragrance Notes I Have Been Loving Recently
I have been a lifelong perfume lover, and always love trying new scents and bath and body items. But as I have mentioned several times...
Jun 8, 20234 min read
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Beauty Opinion: Innuendo in Beauty
It is no secret. Sex sells. We know how it saturates movies, television, stories, and sensually-posed models in all manner of...
May 30, 20235 min read
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Gushing About Skincare (Random Products I've Been Loving Recently)
One of the joys of writing La Petite Rose is simply just sharing my passion for the little random beauty finds that I happen to discover....
May 17, 20234 min read
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3 Perfumes that Have Impressed Me (from Floral Street Perfumes)
I thought we might do something a bit fun and different for product review this week, and I would share with you my thoughts on not one,...
May 10, 20236 min read
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Product Review: Ingredients Wellness Face Serum
Ingredients Wellness is a new-to-me Green Beauty skincare range that caught my eye when surfing the website of the eco-beauty boutique...
Apr 27, 20234 min read
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Why I Choose to Invest in Skincare Before Makeup (The Advantages of Investing in Skincare)
I think you can tell from reading my blog, or just by the fact that La Petite Rose even exists that I love all things in the realm of...
Apr 25, 20233 min read
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Product Review: Live Botanical Nourishing Cleansing Oil
Live Botanical is the Green Beauty brand to most recently capture my imagination (and my heart). They are a small-batched, wildcrafted,...
Apr 15, 20234 min read
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How Aromatherapy Works (And What Scents Work for What)
You have often read, and I'm sure felt, about how a long, hot bath with smelly-good oils after a long, hard day make you feel like a...
Apr 10, 20233 min read
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Gamechanging Products In Green Beauty Makeup
I talk a lot about Green Beauty (natural beauty, clean beauty, eco-friendly beauty-- whatever you want to call it) here on La Petite Rose...
Apr 4, 20234 min read
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Beauty Products that Just Make You Feel Like Spring!
Hardly anything excites me more than seeing the first burst of flowers bloom in my yard each Spring. Their colors and freshness...
Mar 17, 20233 min read
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Product Review: Jones Road Beauty The Mascara
As I have mentioned before in other articles and reviews here on La Petite Rose, mascaras marketed as being either "clean" or "Green"...
Mar 11, 20233 min read
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Cleansing Mistakes You Might Be Making (And How To Fix Them)
Even as little kids, we were made to learn importance of washing our faces, and as teens and throughout adulthood it becomes something we...
Mar 6, 20235 min read
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Skin: The Forgotten Part of Our Immune System And What That Could Mean for Our Skincare Routines
As much as we want to keep our skin plump, healthy, and glowing for how we look and feel about ourselves psychologically, we often...
Mar 1, 20235 min read
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Beauty Quick Tip: A Key in Healing Dry or Damaged Hair (And an Insight into Our Body's Power)
My friend and I were talking the other day, and she was relating to me her story of recovering from bleaching her hair for a Halloween...
Feb 19, 20233 min read
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