Makeup & Beauty

Makeup & Beauty

Easy (And Weatherproof) Braided Updo

You know those milkmaid-type hairdos you always see celebrities wearing on red carpets with ball gowns, and the look is both odd and oddly cute? I always liked the fancy outfit/slightly disheveled braids dichotomy, but it also always seemed…kind of like a pain.

But with the humid weather on its way, a braided updo is quite the little problem-solver, and so I cobbled together this look, with low side braids that are sweet and casual without being too twee - it's a 'do that's both simple and completely weatherproof, and that works for everything from a wedding (maybe not your own, though) to a day at the beach.

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Makeup & Beauty

Huffington Post: Right-This-Minute Beauty Favorites

Thanks so much to the Huffington Post for today's feature!

Click here for some right-this-minute beauty favorites (including the African Marula Oil that I've been applying every single night and LOVING despite the fact that Kendrick thinks it's incredibly weird, a cheap drugstore pencil that's an instant eye-brightener, and the lipstick that you may have noticed I've been wearing every single day).

Makeup & Beauty

Go For The Gold (Makeup)

Spring means a lot of things. It means my hammock reappears in our backyard (this weekend this weekend!), that I start eating potato salad in truly amazing quantities, and that I am something other than "miserable" on the trip from bed to shower in the morning.

The truth is that I'm a little nervous about this particular spring because every notch that the thermostat ticks up means we're that much closer to summer, which means we're that much closer to Deadlines One and Two (both of which I'm so, so excited about, and also more than a little anxious about)…but mostly I'm just SUPER FREAKING HAPPY IT'S NOT COLD ANYMORE. Because that winter was straight-up terrible, and if you're on the East Coast you know what I'm talking about

Something else that Spring means: I get back into gold.

Makeup & Beauty

How-To: Bright Purple Eyeshadow

{ Plum Pretty Sugar robe; Swarovski earrings }

I've been breaking out the bright eyeshadow shades a ton over the past couple of months, and this weekend - which was full of trips to the garden center for flowers, outdoor grilling, and bouncy-castle-inclusive fairs - I thought I'd go for the purple. In the past, I've incorporated purple shades into smoky grey or chocolate-brown looks, but it's been more about giving the look depth than spotlighting the color.

New season, new beauty. Let's try spotlighting.


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