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Holiday Makeup Products To Use Right Now

You may have been focusing a lot on your holiday party outfits, but don’t forget about your face! After all, you want your makeup look to match how dressy your clothing is. Start off with a beautiful base and then give your eyes, lips, brows, and cheeks the royal treatment. Dazzle everyone around you with deep or glossy lips, defined brows, high cheekbones, and standout eyes. During this time of year, many beauty brands come out with a variety of palettes that are extremely versatile and contain a so many colors that you can use to change up your look whenever you want to. Scroll down to see some products you will love using right now. All items shown are free of animal testing and not...

Health, Beauty, & Food From Around The Web

There have been some interesting stories and videos up lately, so we thought it only made sense to do a round up for you guys. Whether you are looking for some healthy food options, great workout advice, or even beauty products to add to your arsenal, you’ll find it in one of these posts! Health’s Healthiest Smoothie Orders Ordering a juice or smoothie when you’re out can have the opposite effect of what you want, IF you aren’t paying attention to what’s in each cup. In this post, Health tells us what the healthiest items to order at Robeks, Jamba Juice, and Planet Smoothie are. This way you get the most nutrition for your calories. Desi Perkins’ Flawless Skin Routine In this video, she doesn’t use any foundation, but...

Brand to Know: Votre Vu

Votre Vu is a French beauty brand known for its small-batch, cruelty-free skincare and makeup. For quite the impressive time span, the company lab has been around for over 80 years and three generations. Between the scents, ingredients, and carefully tested formulations, Votre Vu is brimming with high-quality products that you are going to love adding into your daily routine. Les Sorbet Frozen Serum, $140 This is the first time we’ve ever had to make trips to the kitchen to finish our skin-care regimen. Les Sorbet is one of the company’s most popular items and is stored in the freezer. Yes, it is cold when applied to the skin, but the effects are immediate because of that. Your face will look tighter, plumper, and firmer, right after...

Cruelty-Free Holographic Makeup

Whether you call it holographic or prismatic or rainbow, there is a whole new whole of makeup out there that will make you feel and look like a magical unicorn. These products have gorgeous color and shimmer to them, and what’s amazing is that with every move that you make, the colors will reflect the light amazingly and even change color. All products being featured here are cruelty-free, so paint up your face without any guilt! Modern Minerals Infused Eyeshadow Sphere, $16 This is probably one of the fanciest eyeshadows we’ve ever laid eyes on. It’s infused with rose petal, honeysuckle, and then blended with coconut. Kat Von D Alchemist Holographic Palette, $32 There are so many ways to use this palette and you get so many colors. Wear...

How To Achieve Flawless Beauty

Spring is right around the corner and we are super excited. There is something about the warmer weather that makes us want to lighten up on not just our apparel, but our makeup as well. As we shed heavy looks, we’ve come to rely on some cruelty-free makeup products that give off a natural appearance and flawless finish. Bonus is that we don’t feel it melting off our faces as temps get higher. See what’s been making an appearance in our morning routines! Keep in mind that you don’t have to use all of these products. You can use them all or pick and choose for your needs that particular day. Milk Makeup Blur Stick, $36 Literally fill in pores and ‘blur’ skin with this versatile product. Wear...

Site We Love: Petit Vour

Where in the world have we been? We only just discovered Petit Vour and are face palming ourselves for not knowing about it sooner. Petit Vour sells some of the most luxurious, vegan and cruelty-free products available in makeup, skincare, hair, bath, body, and lifestyle categories. Can’t figure out what to buy or want to test out everything that’s out there? Then sign up for the subscription box service instead! In addition to selling full-size products, Petit Vour offers a beauty box for just $15 a month or $180 for the entire year. Each box will contain over $35 of product with free shipping. Click here to sign up! Check out some of the vegan, cruelty-free, non-toxic products that we are crushing on so hard right now. French...

5 Beauty Tips You Must Try

We love our beauty products! We love them so much that along the way of testing and sampling and watching YouTube videos, we’ve come away with some fantastic tips that we had to share with you. From the perfect cat eye to how to avoid patchy foundation, we hope you get as much use out of these tips as we do. The Perfect Cat Eye Paula’s Choice Gentle Touch Makeup Removers, $23 Pssst. It doesn’t have to go on perfectly. If you can’t draw on the exact shape you want, erase excess liner with a Q-Tip dipped in makeup remover to do so. Erasing can provide the precise lines you are looking for. Patchy Foundations Cover FX Custom Infusion Drops, $48 If you’re a bit behind on exfoliating, or have found...

Cruelty-Free Brand: NYX

NYX is one of the hottest beauty brands out there right now and it just so happens to be cruelty free. The company has so many fantastic beauty products to choose from and the prices are very affordable. Not only that, but the array of color options is fantastic. Be sure to check them out if you see a stand in your local drugstores. If you can’t find it in stores, they offer everything online at nyxcosmetics.com as well. Check out what NYC products we are currently obsessed with. Velvet Matte Lipstick, $7 On point! These matte lipsticks are super saturated and have really great staying power. We love how they don’t dry lips out. Pore Filler, $25 Fake perfect skin with this smooth and lightweight pore filler. It creates...

2016 Cruelty-free Sunscreens

Summer is here and it’s time to enjoy the outdoors as much as possible. Be sure to protect your skin from harmful rays by slathering on some sunscreen. While daily sunscreen application is a must, I know there are some of you out there who forget to do so until the summer season is upon us. If you’re looking for some new sunscreens with SPF to try out, here are some fabulous cruelty-free sunscreen options. Beauty tip: When using on the face, apply after your moisturizer, as you want it to be the top layer on your skin. tarteguard 30 Sunscreen Lotion Broad Spectrum, $32 JASON Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30 $8.54 Kate Somerville Daily Deflector SPF 50+ Sunscreen, $48 YES to Cucumbers Nature Sunscreen SPF 30, $8.99 COOLA Sport Continuous Spray...

Cruelty-Free Brand: Bite Beauty

Oh, how we love Bite Beauty, let us count the ways. Actually, forget about love. Hopelessly fallen for and stalker obsessed is more like it. Bite Beauty has pretty much got you covered when it comes to your lip care needs. Not only does Bite Beauty have incredible lipstick formulations, but the colors are on point and the company is cruelty free. I still remember my first Bite Beauty purchase! It was Bite Beauty Luminous Creme Lipstick in Tannin, a wonderfully rich red that I still have and use today. I’m not sure if they still offer the crème version, but the Tannin shade still exists within their offerings in other reincarnations. Side note: I’ve been a fan of Bite Beauty for years and had no idea...