Whoa, has it been a long time! Happy belated New Year’s, dearest readers; I sincerely hope that everyone had a joyous and restful holiday season - something I did not have. As you may know, my n...
After all the running around, shopping, cooking, and headaches the holidays are actually here! The Beauty Spotlight Team wishes you a happy and very healthy Christmas, Chanukah and New Year. May 2012...
I cannot remember the last time I had a Christmas tree; I think I must have still been living at home, and I miss that little plastic piece of green joy. Admittedly, I always wanted a real Christmas ...
I now have something else that I can blame Nathan Branch for: my new love of Mast Brothers Chocolates. Nathan is the ultimate enabler, sending me links of fragrances to try, books to read, and foods ...
It’s now time to complete my little guide to perfume shopping in NYC! My first installment took us along Fifth Avenue; my darling Kenny and I wore out our noses at Bergdorf Goodman, Henri Bendel...
The holiday season is upon us. Is your shopping done yet? Take a break, sit by the fire grab a cup of coffee or cocoa and gather some great gift ideas from your favorite beauty bloggers! Joey is hypn...
(picture borrowed from this lovely blog) The sign of a well-composed fragrance often lies in the reactions that wearing it generates. Usually, when I try a new fragrance on, I often will “ooh” and “a...
On Sunday, I had the wonderful opportunity to take another ‘fumehead from out of town (hello my dear Kenny!) around NYC on my grand perfume shopping tour. (A John McCracken piece at MoMA called "...
Its time to peek into another Beauty Spotlight Team members makeup bag, and this week Zuzus Petals will show just how much she can squeeze into a tiny bag. What minimalist essentials might be hiding ...
It’s been some time since I’ve featured Aroma M on my blog. In the same vein, it’s been some time since Aroma M launched a new fragrance. Since Maria McElroy did her part and brought to us a new addi...
Happy Post-Thanksgiving and Black Friday Weekend, everyone!I am so worn out from what was just a very, very lovely weekend (minus the excruciating migraine that struck me down Sunday AM); because of ...
The holidays are heating up for the Beauty Spotlight Team. We’re all so busy but it doesn’t stop any of us from bringing our love of beauty to you. Most of us have picked out just one of our many pos...
I just wanted to get a quick word out about the wonderful BeautyBloggers.org auction, pioneered by the Arm of Beauty and Doom, KarlaSugar! The BeautyBloggers.org auction is a joint effort combining t...
As I post this tonight, I wanted to take the time to reflect back on today - Thanksgiving, or as I like to call it, Turkey Massacre Day. I have had a lot of terrible luck lately. Any of you who ...
I have a penchant for the generally disturbing and disconcerting. I’m not sure if it’s the ex-goth in me, or the absurdist in me, or if I’m just a morbid little bunny. I just appreciate the atypical,...
Obviously, over the past week I have been thinking a lot about temporality and the fleeting nature of, well, everything. Breakups are wonderful thought exercises in existentialism for sure - a painfu...
Of course, in the insanity and confusion that is my life right now, I forgot to post Styrch’s Mystery Makeup Bag this weekend! Here it is below (click on the bag!): I’ve met Styrch before, and she’s ...
I write this with a sincerely heavy heart. I need a bit of a break from my blog, at least through this week. My relationship - which you all knew about, and knew meant the world to me - en...
The Beauty Spotlight Team always has excitement in store for you. Whether you are in the mood for fragrance, lipsticks, eye products or giveaways there’s something for you. If you want to put in your...
If you read yesterday’s review, you would know that Kate Walsh Boyfriend was a dismal failure on my boyfriend. Serious scrubber status, to be honest. To make it up to him (and to cover up the sacchar...
(picture from the Sephora website) My love of Kate Walsh Boyfriend has become a bit of a joke amongst myself and my blogger friends. If you remember, when I visited the Sephora Sensorium with @alyssa...
Over the summer, I received a fun little package from Glamour Doll Eyes of six eyeshadows to review. I had been interested in Glamour Doll Eyes for some time, and I jumped at the chance to pick six c...
Happy Monday, everybody! Today’s post brings you the continuation of my reviews on the Alima Pure Holiday 2011 Limited Edition Collections. Two weeks ago, I brought you my glowing review of the Cold ...
Hi everyone! Its time for a look inside another Beauty Spotlight Team members makeup bag! This week it is Older Girl Beautys turn to pull back the zipper and see what she keeps close at hand. By...
Hi everyone!I apologize for not posting this week. The beginning of this week was very difficult for me, emotionally. As some of you may know, I’ve been out of work due to renovations at my job since...
Hi everyone! I wanted to do a quick PSA, since there’s only about a day and a half left in October.October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as I’m sure you know. I’m going to try to avoid ...
Our makeup mavens have more exciting beauty news this week: giveaways, reviews and a new website with a weekly podcast to discuss makeup and trends!Is your makeup doing a disappearing act in the midd...
1) The Fall 2011 Bergdorf Goodman Beauty catalogue is an exercise in excellent photography. Somehow, it made the Prada Candy bottle look stunning - it was probably helped by, on the adjacent pag...
In my last perfume review, I took an intimate look at the scent of my boyfriend, and explained exactly why I fell so head over heels for Opus Oils’ Dirty Sexy Wilde.Now, I touched briefly on the conc...
I know that Halloween hasn’t even arrived yet, but that isn’t stopping me from looking towards the Holidays...as in, the Holiday collections that our favorite brands are bringing out! Yeah for new ma...
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