Good Habits: Brush Care 101

As many of you well know, I'm a self-proclaimed brush whore - and I know I'm not alone. How many of you have invested hundreds of dollars (if you're brave enough to total up what you've spent over the years) on brushes, but don't take proper care of them? Properly cared for, brushes can last forever. I remember the first time I washed one of my makeup brushes. It had never even occured to me that

TotalBeauty Saga Continues

After over 12 hours of promising a response to his TotalBeauty blunder, Emrah finally posted a response on YouTube that is completely lacking. Interestingly, his video has comments disabled. Here's the video:I've watched this video several times. First off, Mr. CEO has yet to apologize to beauty bloggers for being unprofessional, unedukatd uneducated, non-journalists. Kovacoglu states that Total

Blogger Product Review Uproar

The blogging world has been a focus of major controversy in the last couple of days. It began on Sunday, with an article published by the AP Newswire that the FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims and payments. The opinion held by the FTC is that "Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, $500 gift cards or even thousands of dollars for a 200-word post. Bloggers

A Day at IMATS

After the fantastic time I had at The Makeup Show, I was really looking forward to attending this year's IMATS (International Makeup Artists Trade Show) show. It was quite a bit different than I had imagined it would be.My first clue should probably have been the date of the 2 day long show: Father's Day weekend. Immediately, it became a one day show for me, even though I had a two day pass.

No Mr. UPS Man Means You Still Have Time To Save!

As I wait impatiently for Mr. UPS Man to show up with my ingredients for the Diamond Perfect Finish (which better come today!), that means you still have an opportunity to register for our newsletter to get your super secret discount code to save 20% on your purchase of our latest and greatest product!I did have enough of the sample ingredients used to be able to at least fill a jar to

Shhhh... Just Between You and Me (almost)

Woo Hoo! For those of you who follow me on Twitter, or read a couple of posts down about the review from Melissa Street of In My Professional Opinion, you know that I've been hintly lately about a new product coming in. Mostly, I've been referring to it as the "Super Secret Diamond Stuff" (yes, it has diamonds). Now it's finally got a real name: Diamond Perfect Finish. It should be here by the

Want To Feel Really Good Inside?

You might remember a post I made at the beginning of May that the blog A Girl's Gotta Spa was hosting a "Mom Get Glamorous" sweepstakes for one lucky and deserving mom. That winner of nearly $2300 worth of girlie stuff was announced last Friday. Trina Davidson was absolutely shocked to hear that her husband had entered her in the contest, and more floored to find out she had won! Check out her