Heyo! I got an e mail from Davina, with a question that made me laugh. “How do I put on/apply false eyelashes? I’ve always wanted to wear them but just haven’t because I didn’t know how. I am going to a Christmas party and want to do something extra to my look.“ Davina, thanks for…
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Ask Afrobella – Questions for The Makeup Girl!
Since I positioned myself as the go-to bella for random beauty questions, I’ve started to get questions that are sometimes out of my league. When a particularly difficult one came my way, I just had to ask The Makeup Girl. And in her quest to find the best answer, she deferred to her friend Avin…
Meet The Makeup Girl!
My background isn’t in cosmetics, I just have a fascination with the products and with the industry. So I always need to turn to my fellow beauty writers and bloggers to make sure I’m saying the right thing. Whenever I’m researching a product, I turn to Makeup Alley, but when it comes to getting advice…
Ask Afrobella – Holla! Great Beauty Buys for Under Five Dollars!
One of my new MySpace friends wrote in with a very valid point. Hey Ms.Afrobella! I love your blog especially your tips and spotlights (my favorite so far is your Eartha Kitt one). I would actually try some of the products but some of them are so expensive! I need to get a job ASAP!…
Ask Afrobella – For Men
So I got a rare (possibly the first and only) question from a male reader recently. That made me happy, realizing that Afrobella is being read and enjoyed by men and women alike. I’ll try to be more inclusive from now on. Guys, feel free to ask me whatever hair or skin care questions you’ve…
Ask Afrobella – Avoiding Eyeshadow Creasing
I discovered a new product that I’m itching to try to help with eyeshadow creasing! It provides an answer to a recent question one of my readers asked. So here’s another Ask Afrobella for all y’all. rkj asks: I have an eye shadow question. How do you keep the color from creasing? I’m new to…
Ask Afrobella, Part Deux
Sorry I haven’t been on my hustle this week, y’all. I’ve been fighting off a cold. I’m at about 75% right now, so instead of staying up till 2 in the morning writing Afrobella stuff, I’ve been drinking Nyquil and passing the hell out before The Colbert Report. Sad but true. I have lots of…
Experiencing Iman
This past May, I had the celebrity encounter of a lifetime; following a wee article I had written about Iman coming to Miami to promote her makeup line (specifically her new Second to None Stick Foundation), I was invited to dinner at the Setai with the one-named beauty icon. I can’t begin to tell you…
Ask Afrobella
I’ve been getting a lot of reader mail, so I’m starting a new semi-regular feature, Ask Afrobella. Now I am not calling myself an expert by any means. I have never been to cosmetology school (although I always yearned to be a beauty school dropout), I was so frustrated with the painful rigors of relaxing…