Category: beauty

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Go Green: Top 3 Green Polishes for Spring 2012

Feb 14.12 / Lindsay

This year keeps threatening to be one of the most colorful years we’ve seen in a long time. Almost every S/S 2012 runway was filled with blinding, energetic color, and it’s contagious. Go Green in Spring! For some reason, the green polishes that are sprouting up (trololol) everywhere have captivated my attention more than the [...]

8 Places To Get Free (Beauty!) Samples

Feb 08.12 / Lindsay

What’s more Broke & Beautiful than free? Nothing! So we have launched on a massive mission to find the best places to score free samples with purchase. Snag that new moisturizer you were dying to try (bonus points if it’s on sale) and pick up some freebies in the process!

Grappa

Nov 25.11 / Lindsay

Grappa is a famous grape-y brandy out of Italy. It also happens to be the name of my favorite new lipstick by Borghese. I received this super-intense, super-intimidating color over the summer while I was exploring my new (at the time) love for lipcolor. Out of the box – as you can see – this [...]

Budget At-Home Spa: Your New BPFs (Best Products Forever…s)

Sep 27.11 / Lindsay

Whenever it starts to get dreary outside, I always think: stay home. It only lasts for a while, but when it’s murky and wet outside, gazing out the window while I’m safely wrapped in a blanket with a cup of tea is one of my favorite feelings. Taking yourself out to a day at the [...]

Play It Up: Your Polygenic Phenotypic Character

Aug 19.11 / Jennifer Nicole

After my stylist finished coloring my hair, I turned and looked at her, my face tilted upward toward the bright lights above. “Your eyes are green! When you came in here, they were brown. I changed your eye color. I am a genius!” Until recently, my dark hair and olive skin played down my hazel [...]

Birchbox: A Cheap Box of Love

Aug 11.11 / Lindsay

I finally broke down and signed up for the monthly sample-delivering club, Birchbox. When I first heard of it, I was super unsure… It could have been a scam, it could have been a rip off. But when I saw that one of my favorite PR girls took a job working with them, I knew [...]

TMI Tuesdays: Miracle Tool?

Jul 19.11 / Lindsay

During this whole July Challenge extravaganza, I’ve been presented with the joys and the pitfalls of self-maintenance in the beauty department. Basically, there weren’t NOTD (Nails of the Day) photos for the first week or so because, well… things got ugly. Real ugly. Nail polish everywhere, cuticles shining with metallic polish, paint somehow dried on the underside of [...]

Prabal Gurung + Sally Hansen

Jul 13.11 / Lindsay

There’s nothing I like more than a designer collaboration that ends up in my price range. I was pretty excited to hear about the Sally Hansen collection (which Prabal Gurung helped create and used in his videos featuring Rye Rye). All of the colors featured in the collection are available in your local drugstore (& [...]

Mani-Pedi Tip: Pretty Pedicures…While Hiking

Jul 05.11 / Jennifer Nicole

As Lindsay and I were getting our matching mani-pedis last Thursday, she surmised that hers was worth the money because “I won’t be wearing shoes all weekend.” (Someone spent the fourth barefoot on an island – jealous much?) I surmised, a bit sadly, that I don’t think things through. My plans for the weekend? Hiking [...]

July Challenge: Mani-Pedi

Jul 01.11 / Lindsay

When life throws me signs, I try to pay attention. Not that every pattern is a sign, but sometimes, they’re undeniable. In the last 6 years, I have had two pedicures and a manicure – both within the last two months. I know, right? This is a potential addiction and, man, those can move pretty quickly [...]