Tag: Beauty
Beauty in Trinidad — Local Products and Where to Shop
My visit back to Trinidad was everything and then some. I got to see old friends and spend time with family and revisit my past. I also got to experience new places and things, and appreciate my country and culture in a whole new way. It was a whirlwind visit and just let me know [...]
Sanaa Lathan on Natural Hair, Hollywood, and Being the New Face of Pantene
Sanaa Lathan is no ingenue. As the star of such films as Love and Basketball, The Wood, The Best Man, Brown Sugar, Out of Time and most recently, Stephen Soderbergh’s Contagion — she began her acting career at Yale, performing in Shakespearean plays while attending the Yale School of Drama. Sanaa has been in top [...]
Travel Beauty — Makeup That Came With Me To The Caribbean
I travel a fair amount, so I am well familiar with the ins and outs of beauty on the go. When I pack my makeup bag, I tend to go for flat eye shadow palettes, multi-use products, and anything that comes in pencil form. I’ve got an always packed makeup travel bag, so at the [...]
Sam Fine’s Red Carpet Beauty Tips
In just about six weeks, the Academy Awards will be taking place in Los Angeles. And I’m not going to be watching it on TV this time. I’m gonna BE there, and instead of just critiquing the looks of the stars, I need to be thinking about my own look for a change! And yes, [...]
Afrobella’s Holiday Favorites Giveaway #3 – My CVS Beauty Club Faves!
Around this time of year it’s a beautiful thing to be given a gift — but it’s even more beautiful to be the gift giver. I reached out to some of my favorite brands to arrange special holiday giveaways for Afrobella readers, and I hope you love the products as much as I do! Third [...]
Afrobella’s Holiday Favorites Giveaway #1 – Kiehl’s Creme de Corps
Around this time of year it’s a beautiful thing to be given a gift — but it’s even more beautiful to be the gift giver. I reached out to some of my favorite brands to arrange special holiday giveaways for Afrobella readers, and I hope you love the products as much as I do! First [...]
The Essential Gift Guide for Your Favorite Makeup Artist!
If you have a professional makeup artist in your life, consider yourself BLESSED, bellas. Professional MUAs work so hard for the money. The makeup artists I know and respect take their craft SO seriously. They will spend all day on their feet at a shoot to get the right look. They sometimes have to sacrifice [...]
Meaningful Beauty — My Fave Things About Cindy Crawford’s New Skincare Line!
Beauty is about so much more than just the surface. Yes, layers of carefully applied makeup can help to improve the appearance, but the definition of beauty goes beyond that. When I first heard the name of Cindy Crawford’s new skincare line, I felt immediately attracted to the name, the concept, and of course the [...]
5 Holiday Gifts for the Beauty Obsessed!
Christmas is almost here, and if you haven’t completed your shopping yet….what are you waiting for? This weekend at the stores will be CRAZY! Lucky for YOU, Afrobella’s friendly makeup vlogger and reviewer Sherry Blossom (that’s @MsSherryBlossom on Twitter) is here with a truly helpful gift guide. Get into Sherry Blossom’s holiday gift guide for [...]
Naturally Professional — Marisa, Reliability Engineer
It’s been a long time since we left you with a Naturally Professional to step to! Or something like that… Bellas, the monthly series dedicated to inspiring women in the workplace to wear their hair in the style which makes them feel most free, confident and comfortable is officially BACK on both Afrobella.com and CurlyNikki.com! [...]
All Pumpkin Everything – Beauty Items With the Flavor of Fall
Now that the feast has been served and the leftovers have been put away, I hope you’re not sick of the flavor of the season! Pumpkin is everything right now, and the orange gourd-like squash is being incorporated into body and bath products, home fragrance and hair products because of its many astounding properties. Pumpkin [...]
5 Foolproof Ways To Wear Red Lipstick
Bellas! In the interest of always giving you beauty, style, and hair inspiration you can relate to and learn from, I’d like to introduce my newest Afrobella contributor. Sherry Blossom is a freelance makeup artist, mom, FDNY EMT, native New Yorker, and beauty blogger/vlogger. I first became aware of Sherry via Twitter, she’s super friendly [...]
Vote for Me and I Could Work The Red Carpet at the People’s Choice Awards!
Bellas, I don’t enjoy asking for votes or being the kind of blogger who is continually asking for outside support – but I’ve got a major opportunity in front of me, thanks to the CVS Beauty Club and the People’s Choice Awards — click here to check out out and vote! I was challenged to [...]
My Amazing Beautylish Beauty Social Experience
To quote John Lennon, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Let me give you some backstory of what’s been happening with me. This week, I was scheduled to go to India with a team of people from Aveda, to see how their charity money is spent and where their [...]
Home Devices vs. An Expert Esthetician — Which Do You Prefer?
For Glam.com When I was a teenager, I had awful acne issues. Blackheads, whiteheads, cystic bumps…you name it. The solution at the time was to send me to regular appointments at the esthetician for facials using their specially prescribed cleansers, potions and pastes. I remember the esthetician using old school tools (like this scary thing [...]
