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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


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


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


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


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


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


Beauty Opinion: What's Going on with the Beauty Industry (and our relationship to it)?
I recently caught wind that one of my most relied-upon beauty brands, Glossier is in talks for coming to Sephora in early 2023. On the...
Oct 9, 20224 min read


Beauty Opinion: When the Cost of Beauty is Just Too High
I have been thinking a lot recently about the connection between health and wellness and beauty, or rather of what we think of as...
Jul 31, 20223 min read


A Poem for Mother's Day
This week before Mother’s Day I have been pondering a lot of issues concerning aging. My own mother is struggling with the decision of...
May 1, 20222 min read


Beauty Opinion: When Beauty Isn’t Very Beautiful
The Thanksgiving time period always seems to inspire me to be more reflective, yes, on the things I am most grateful for and am blessed...
Nov 7, 20214 min read


Beauty Opinion: Beauty and Politics and the Downsides of Brand Activism and Cancel Culture
As someone who would describe herself as a lover of beauty since early childhood, makeup and skincare have continually been something of...
Jun 1, 20215 min read


What Exactly is “Slow Beauty”?
Much like buying secondhand clothing is an ever-growing and rising practice to stem the tide of and put a buffer on the social and...
Apr 7, 20213 min read


3 Types of Foods That Can Lead to Skin Inflammation
As the New Year gets underway, we often strive to to take positive steps in the wellness sphere to start things off with a clean slate. ...
Jan 13, 20214 min read


Doing Some Beauty Good (Beauty Gift Ideas With Charitable Tie-Ins)
The Holiday bustle is starting to buzz. and for many of us, I think the Season is going to be even more of a reprieve than ever. While...
Nov 11, 20203 min read


A Beauty PSA
Hi friends, It was recently brought to my attention that a very common ingredient used in many beauty and self-care items, talc and...
Apr 22, 20201 min read


Some Problems With the Term "Clean Beauty"
The phrase “Clean Beauty” is often used as an alternative to the term “ Green Beauty” to describe products made with plant-derived or...
Apr 8, 20202 min read


Beauty Opinion: Sales Tactics Within Beauty Marketing (And Who is Not to Blame)
It is not yet Thanksgiving, but for months, we have been seeing that the flood Holiday beauty collections and enticing discounts is in...
Nov 13, 20194 min read


Misleading Claims in Beauty Advertising (And What to Keep in Mind)
For all the fun aspects it brings us, the beauty industry is a business. It's easy to forget this when searching for a remedy to a...
Sep 11, 20194 min read


3 Terms About Animal Welfare in Beauty (And The Differences Between Them)
One of the most passionately- held ethics for many consumers of beauty products is one of animal welfare when it comes to both animal...
Jul 24, 20193 min read


Beauty Products Worth (and Not Worth) Your Money
My sister said to me once as a joke, "expensive mascara is stupid". And in truth, this article could stop here. Yes, it is my opinion...
Mar 4, 20196 min read
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