If you’re anything like me, you plan and look forward to a vacation a couple times of the year to a sunny beach with or without your loved ones. I think about what I’ll wear and what size suitcase will fit all of my clothing options with room for souvenirs. And as I grab my toiletries, I consider make up that will be easy but will also withstand the heat. This time I was prepared to be a little more natural with a couple pops of colour. I was looking forward to the sun kisses making my skin the right shade of bronze so that besides a little highlighter, mascara, and a beautiful lippie I would ..read more

Hello Love, It’s been a while and I’ve seemed to just make it in to wish you a Happy Black History month (Black history can be celebrated every month) and to hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day. It’s been quite the time since I last posted here, but I’m determined to get this one out before March 2023 officially rolls around. I’ve been noticing somethings and I thought I’d share them with you and hopefully encourage you too. For example, The 90s came back into fashion without mercy. Denim overalls, skinny penciled on eyebrows , dark lined lips (this one is a good one), mid and low-rise je ..read more

I was born early in the morning on this day, so it seems fitting that I use these early morning hours of my birthday to be useful once more and to reflect on some things. I’ve been feeling guilty of late about the good things in my life ,and even some of the good things in the periphery of my life, as well as some of the good things to come. I know this sounds absolutely absurd, but maybe you’ve been where I am. You thought life would look different even though it isn’t bad or you thought certain things would always stay the same, but they haven’t. None of it is bad per se, even when it is ..read more

Imagine my excitement when the Female and Black owned brand Propa Beauty asked me if I would like to receive their lipstick collection! I was thrilled! I loved Fighter, a deep smooth brown I picked up a while back, but the whole collection…YES PLEASE!!! Propa Beauty is a brand that just spells out classy determination and chutzpah! They started creating colours and launched during the pandemic and it already looks like a successful company in my opinion, but what do I know. Their product just is that good and the sales are amazing even for us international shipping types. Propa focuses on the ..read more

Hi There! A lot has been going on since we last spoke and you know what?…that’s OK. I won’t apologize for different rhythms or new life experiences. This life is a journey. I thought I’d share a planned and much needed detour with you. At one point it seemed as though I was wearing more lipstick during the pandemic but when I got my new job, I had to wear a mask more often and slowly the amount of lipstick I wore dwindled down. I’m saying this with faith and hope, we’re coming out of this thing and masks are optional just about everywhere which means I can choose to adorn my lips again without ..read more

Happy New Year! Yes, I know I’m late, but I decided to pause or selah for the month of January. I just needed to reset and think without the prompts and distractions of social media. BUT I never stopped thinking about how we can celebrate a whole new Black History Month. I think 2022 will be the year where I stop and intentionally feel all the things. I will celebrate and rejoice. I will stop and consider. I will comfort others who have comforted me, I will intentionally see and celebrate, so let’s start with the month of February. As you probably know by now I love me some black owned and fe ..read more

Well Hello there! I just had to jump on to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I’m grateful to be alive even though this is our 2nd or 3rd one in a pandemic I think…I’ve lost count and almost lost hope. Seeing people put the extra effort into making it work and trying to celebrate amidst new restrictions and variants gives me some more hope. It’s been hard to be a lipstick lover these last few months because I just don’t get to wear it as often. I’ve also learned that the shape of your mouth under a mask can also determine how much smudge and smear will happen. For example my top lip is slightly s ..read more

roy g Biv What comes to mind when you see the colour Blue? Perhaps it’s the sky on a perfect cloudless summer day or the ocean waves on a tropical vacation. Maybe it’s your favourite flavour of slushy at the local corner store or a flashback picture from the 70s where blue eyeshadow was so misunderstood . Maybe it’s deeper than that and blue represents feelings of sadness and depression on cold Winter nights. Blue can represent many things for us, so let’s be intentional with our use of the colour blue and maybe use it to express our feelings or repurpose it to do something spectacular lik ..read more

I am thankful… for life- we saw a lot of death over the past 18 months for a lot of reasons I still can’t fully understand …for family and friends – perhaps I took their nearness for granted in past years, but I know how precious they are especially after losing some …for provision/financial security- we were all affected by the pandemic and watched as so many entrepreneurs struggled to keep businesses open and food on the table …for moments of joy- a smile is so precious and because of the need for safety and health, I can go days without seeing one in person or someone else seeing mine …for ..read more

Well it’s that time of year again. The time when it feels like a new year is starting at the end of Summer and everything else enters a season of reset. Another school year has started and parents can breathe a sigh of relief because someone else will entertain their kids for 6-8 hours a day. The rest of us now deal with more than the usual Summer amount of traffic and pedestrians everywhere as we watch Autumn descending onto our sunny land… Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com Well this is usually how it goes, but coming out of a pandemic, at least I hope we’re coming out, many of those sighs ar ..read more