ThisThatBeauty vs. Hyperpigmentation

Grab a cup of tea, a big bowl of (ThisThatBeauty’s fav) popcorn, glass of vino, yummy cocktail, or what ever it is you reach for when you settle in for a good read. This article promises to be the longest post in ThisThatBeauty history.
I am often approached regarding my exact skin care routine. I must [...]

ThisThatBeauty’s Exclusive Coverage of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall/2010: Iman Cosmetics Backstage at Arise African Collective

Faithful ThisThatBeauty readers know that the Arise African Collective show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week is one of my personal favorites. For the last two season, I have had the pleasure of covering both backstage and the runway.
For the Fall/Winter 2010 season of the African Collective, unfortunately due to scheduling conflicts, I was not able [...]

Spring Trendspotting: Smashbox Heartbreaker Collection

Smashbox’s spring 2010 color collection, Heartbreaker, is a fun and flirty offering that is filled with bold and vibrant spring shades. This is precisely the energizing jolt of Spring makeup you seek after a cold dreary winter of subdued tones. Heartbreaker (which makes me hum this lil ditty by everyone’s favorite Meltdown Diva) embodies trends [...]

ThisThatBeauty Digs in the Crates: Chocolate Snow Bunny Face of the Day

In honor of our current crappy snow condition, I have decided to dig in the crates and re-publish a FACE OF THE DAY piece I published during a really big snow storm in 2008. Enjoy!
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Happy Snow Day folks -
Brrrr…..How’s everyone holding up in this snow?
Most of us have been confined to our homes all day [...]

Spring Trendspotting: Cool Bright Makeup

If cool brights float your beauty boat, Spring promises to send your heart sailing. This season we’re seeing bursts of cool vivid brights. The key tones include lavender, lilac, turquoise, violet and aquamarine blues. YSL, Guerlain, Dior, and The Body Shop all deliver cool bright palettes that are sure to please. See for yourself!

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Felicia Walker [...]

Spring Trendspotting: NARS

Nars’ spring 2010 collection exudes elegance and style with a versatile colour palette made up of hot pinks, electric sky blue, lilac and rose gold. Created and photographed by François Nars, the Nars Spring 2010 make-up is “confident, cosmopolitan and polished.”

Featuring supermodel Amber Valletta, the look is glamorous and sophisticated with picture perfect skin and [...]

Spring Trendspotting: Orange ya glad?

Finally a return to one of the biggest trends of my early makeup wearing years…orange! Back in the day, I swear you couldn’t tell me nothing. I boldly rocked semi matte orange lips and never once apologized. The return of this trend for Spring is ushered in in a refined and wearable fashion. Bobbi Brown, [...]

Spring Trendspotting: Ice Ice Baby

For Spring the temperature outdoors will warm up but the makeup goes icy…Ice Ice Baby!
Many major beauty brands have based their Spring collections on the ice princess theme. To pull off this trend, you will need cool tones of sky blue, turquoise, lilac and icy white in your makeup rotation. The cool tones on the [...]

Spring Trendspotting: Sun-kissed Makeup

Baby its cold outside but the bitter chill that is characteristic of January never stops the makeup obsessed from looking forward to Spring makeup trends. Like clockwork, every season about this time, Spring collections are launched. This season you will see many emerging color stories and trends.
One Spring theme to catch my attention is the [...]

Laura Geller Real Deal Concealer

When conversing with my friends, family members and beauty girls about cosmetics, lately it seems the current makeup holy grail quest du jour is the perfect “concealer”. Everyone I talk to is in search of that perfect concealer to camouflage unsightly dark circles and banish ugly blemishes. So when I recently came across a concealer [...]

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