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What I Learned from a Professional Skincare Conference

- Beauty

As a creator, I get a lot of skincare products to test out and share with you guys.  I’ve shared some of my faves on my Instagram and gave you all my honest opinion.  But let’s be real, most creators are not dermatologist.  We can tell you that one particular eye cream we prefer over another because of consistency or how we wake up the next morning, but we’re hardly qualified to give you the real professional long-term effects.  I…

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Top 5 Workout-Ready Makeup Products

- Beauty, Fitness

Since I joined Equinox, I started to want more out of things. My fitness club gave me everything I wanted (and things I didn’t even know I needed, like Kiehls products and a spa), so why shouldn’t other aspects of my life. I wanted to eat better and have the food that goes in my body give me more nutrients than it did before. I wanted quality investment pieces in my wardrobe so I get more wear out of my…

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Sanctuary Found – My Experience with Botox and Fillers

- Beauty, Lifestyle

Before I met Dr. Naz, I decided I needed to stop smiling in 2019 to prevent wrinkles. I had been to other plastic surgeons for fillers and had a mixed bag of results – some fillers worked great and other I felt like I spent a lot of money for no visible result.  Dr. Naz literally saved my smile and made me feel comfortable in my own skin without the “overdone” look. Let me start by saying she didn’t ask…

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Hair from Dry to Revived with L’Oréal Paris Elvive

- Beauty

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of L’Oréal® Paris Elvive.  The opinions and text are all mine. Over the last several years I’ve been on a roller coaster ride with my hair.  I got in line for the ride in 2011, buckled up and started to go in 2012. Since then, it has been up and down (and sometimes off the track). My hair is naturally very dark, brown and curly.  I’m Puerto Rican so I…

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Summer Hair Care with Sassoon Salon

- Beauty, Collaborators

    With everyone ditching the hair ties and letting their hair flow loose in the summer, it’s super important to make sure we’re keeping our hair healthy and happy. Sun exposure and pollution strip your hair of essential oils, leaving hair brittle and dehydrated. Naturally radiant and silky hair is something we all strive for, and achieving it may not be as hard as you think. The experts at Sassoon Salon can be your saving grace.   For the past…

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My LED Light Therapy Experience

- Beauty

  If you guys have been following me on Instagram (here) for a while, you’ve seen my weekly InstaStory of myself at Skin Sutra Medspa, getting LED light therapy. I’m going to be talking in this post about the treatment, why I use it myself, my experience with the treatment and my results with some makeup free before and after shot??  For those of you guys that haven’t heard of LED light therapy before, it is exposure (by a creepy-baby-looking-mask)…

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Venus Freeze Me – An Interview with Skin Sutra Medspa

- Beauty

If you follow us on Instagram and Snapchat, you know how much I love the Venus Freeze facial.  I’ve been going to Skin Sutra Medspa in Fairfax every week for the past month and have definitely noticed the difference in my skin!  My skin is tighter, smoother, and those pesky fine lines (I really have to stop smiling so much…) are fading fast. We interviewed the sweet and talented Skin Sutra Medspa owner, and we are excited to introduce you to…

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Utopia Found at Sassoon Salon

- Beauty, Collaborators

Hair is funny isn’t it?  We’re all a little more obsessed with it than we probably care to admit.  We cut it, dye it, shave it, straighten it, curl it and everything in-between.  Sometimes bad hair can set the mood for your whole day!  So we set out looking for hair utopia and found it with Sassoon Salon and their new collection, aptly called “Utopia”! u·to·pi·a yo͞oˈtōpēə/ (noun) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.  …

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Makeup Tips Over 30

- Beauty

  Ugh.  Aging.  Am I right?  When I turned 30, I started to realize that even if I was using the same makeup techniques, the end result was different.  Probably the most noticeable difference was the creasing.  I had to make some changes and I’m sharing with you my top 3 tips on doing your makeup over 30.   First, everyone’s face is different.  You might not notice aging until your 40… good for you… *insert sarcastic thumbs up here*…

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Daytime Smokey

- Beauty

I took my everyday makeup look and played up my eyes for a look that can transition easily from day to night.  Here’s the details and brands that I used for this look! I prefer to use a dark brown shadow to fill in my eyebrows.  Chelsea and I use different types of makeup and tools to do our brows.  What do you all think about a how-to showing our different techniques?  I used the Urban Decay shadow in “Faint”…

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