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Pucker Up With Pixi Beauty MatteLast Liquid Lip

We’re all looking for the perfect matte lipstick right? One that dries down to a perfect matte texture without drying our lips. One with all-day staying power and a range of lush colors. Well, today I’m happy to share the Pixi Beauty MatteLast Liquid Lip Collection because it delivers on all of that!

Pixi Beauty MatteLast Liquid Lip Collection

Admittedly, I’m more of a lip gloss girl than a…

Steal This: My Must-Have Moisturizer for Super Dry Skin

The cold, dry air of winter has already begun to ravage my skin but I have the perfect antidote to my winter skin woes. And yours too! My skin is dry on a good day but in winter I have super dry skin and that, we can’t abide!

The Pixi Beauty Hydrating Milky Mist is on my Must-Have, Holy Grail Beauty Products list and today, I’m going to tell you why.

Combat Dry Winter Skin With Pixi Beauty’s…

The Only Two Books I’m Reading This Month

When I sat down to write this post I realized that I haven’t done a What I’m Reading post since last year this time! How does that happen? But what better way to break my dry spell than with the bestselling book of 2018, the one, the only Becoming by Michelle Obama and You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero. Could there be a better pairing?! I don’t think so!

Of course, everybody and their mama is…

How To Save Big Bucks on Prescription Medication

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Quiet as it’s kept, I have several jobs: actress, blogger, auntie extraordinaire, etc. And one of my most important jobs is being the primary caregiver for my aging mother. As you can imagine, this particular responsibility requires a lotof work. Thankfully, my mom…

Effortlessly Host the Perfect Outdoor Party

The weather is warmer, the days are longer and now is the time to take your entertaining out of doors. With warmer temperatures in the spring and the fall, the opportunities for cooking out, grilling out or just chilling out are plentiful. I love it! Today I’m sharing my tips for effortlessly hosting the perfect outdoor party. Whatever your idea of outdoors is, patio, tiny terrace or a sprawling…

Cover FX Joins The 40 Shades Of Foundation Frenzy

Ever since Rihanna dropped her Fenty Beauty collection with 40 shades of foundation, beauty brands have been falling all over themselves to let us know that they too have 40 shades fever. Cover FX, a brand that’s been a friend to brown girls for some time, is the latest on my radar with 40 shades of Natural Finish Foundation. ANDI got to participate in a photo shoot promoting the foundation! Can…

Loving My Wendy Mignot Freshwater Pearl Necklace + A Giveaway

I am officially obsessed with pearls! It’s a big surprise to me too because I’ve never considered myself a ‘pearl girl’ but I am completely in love with my new leather and pearl necklace by Wendy Mignot. I’ve been wearing the Wendy Signature Freshwater Necklace in Rose every day and I love it so much because it’s beautiful and can be worn in at least three different ways. You know how I love a…

Double Down On Your New Hair Color With Color Ultime

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Last fall, I made a fresh start with a brand new hair color. My hair was experiencing a serious identity crisis and was in desperate need of an update. Luckily, Schwarzkopf color ULTÎMEcame to the rescue with a super easy, at-home hair color experience that I can’t stop raving about. I love the rich, vibrant color of…

How to Spring Clean Your Makeup Stash In 5 Easy Steps

Out with the old, in with the new! Spring is the perfect time to clean your makeup bag and put a fresh face forward. These five easy steps to spring clean your makeup will have you breezing beautifully into the new season in no time!

Gorgeous Guide: Spring Clean Makeup

As is the case with all spring cleaning, reorganizing and cleaning out your makeup bag will help you declutter and make space for…

Soak in the Sun with the Spring 2018 Rachel Zoe Box of Style

Spring is a time for refreshing and revitalizing and the Rachel Zoe Box of Stylefor spring is a great way to add a lot of luxe style to your spring wardrobe without breaking the bank. Not familiar with the Box of Style? It’s a seasonal style subscription box curated by the venerable celebrity stylist, Rachel Zoe, and it is one of the best subscription boxes out there! Not kidding. Check out the…

Full Color in Full Effect: The Oscars 2018 Red Carpet

The 2018 Awards Season came to a close with the 2018 Academy Awards and today I’m sharing my favorites from the 2018 Oscars Red Carpet. While the political speeches continued during the ceremony, the red carpet returned to it’s normal colorful self in the wake of the Golden Globes all black initiative.

Surprisingly, some of my favorite Hollywood style stars like Lupita Nyong’o and Kerry Washington

Laundry Room Goals: The LG Twin Wash System Brings Me Joy!

Doing laundry is therapeutic for me. There’s something very zen about restoring clothes to cleanliness and starting fresh. The swishing of the soapy water, the hum of the machines, the rumble of the spin cycle and the smell of fabric softener, oh, so good! I also get this feeling every time I wash my hair but that’s a story for another day. Today, we’re talking about the super fancy LG Twin Wash…

Okay lovely, I don’t usually cover movie premier red carpets because if I did, I wouldn’t get anything else done. But the red carpet for the premier of Marvel’s Black Panther was EPIC. It’s a nod to some of what red carpets used to be before the fashion industry took over. Actresses used to show up in outfits that were reflective of their personalities and sometimes in outright costume. Well,…

OK lovelies, it’s skincare follow up time! A few weeks back, I shared my first impressions of the Trophy Skin MicrodermMD Microdermabrasion System and today, I have the follow-up results I promised as well as a video demonstration. I got a bunch of questions when I did a demo on my Instagram Stories so I decided to post a more permanent video here.

What Is MicrodermMD

In case you haven’t read my…

I’ve decided. Instead of letting tech be mostly distraction or entertainment, I’m employing it to actually help me do stuff. Not just productivity, GTD-type schedulers and calendars, but the actual stuff of living. Improving my health and focus, adding quality time to my day and getting my life zipped up from the back as Judge Lynn Toller says. And since I’ll always choose quality over quantity,…

The 2018 Golden Globes red carpet was like none I’ve seen in recent history. The usual focus on fashion took a back seat to the Times Up Movement that seeks to end sexual harassment in the workplace. Hollywood walked the red carpet wearing black to show solidarity with a movement that has taken root in recent weeks following the sexual harassment and abuse claims against many of the industry’s…

I try a lot of beauty products. A lot. And I always see YouTubers doing videos for their beauty empties and it seems they have empties every month. It takes me forever to get to the end of a product because even if I love it, there’s always something new to try and write about. Well, I’ve decided to dedicate a quarterly series to my beauty empties. Welcome to my Gorgeous Garbage! 

Gorgeous…