The Glow Up: Anastasia Beverly Hills Moonchild Glow Kit | Review + Swatches

  The Anastasia Beverly Hills Moonchild Palette Some of you are probably looking at this palette and saying, “Huh?! What is it?!” I’ll admit, if you haven’t been following this year’s highlight trend as closely as the presidential race, you might have missed this one. Highlighting, or strobing, is about “using reflection on high planes … Read more

Today I Tried a Bee Venom Facial + I Cried a Lot

Bee venom has become a very popular alt-wellness anti-aging treatment, presumably since the Duchess of Cornwall openly attributed her age-defying wrinkle-reversing results in 2010 (source), and gaining popularity again in thanks to Goop founder Gwenyth Paltrow’s 2016 interview with the NYT, where she mentioned that she’s tried “apitherapy,” or bee-stinging therapy. What exactly is a bee venom facial, … Read more

Moor Mud in Skincare: Research + Product Review

Today I’m reviewing another celebrity favorite treatment: Moor Mud. Moor mud isn’t just one extract: it’s a thousand extracts in one. Moor mud is composed of decomposed herbs, flowers and grasses in special (moor-like) conditions over the course of thousands of years. Over 1,300 natural, organic plant enzymes, bio-minerals, trace elements, amino acids, fatty acids and vitamins … Read more

This $7 Mexican Cream is the NERD Skincare Dupe We’ve All Been Waiting For.

In my lastest installment of “what ever shall I do about my awful cystic acne?” I found that sulfur was not only any awesome alternative to harsher acne-fighting ingredients (like benzoyl peroxide), but that it also completely dried out my cystic, hormonal acne. Poof! Gone. Just like that. NERD Skincare’s acne lotion was doing this … Read more