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Mented Helped Me Find My Nude Makeup Groove

August 13, 2019 by afrobella 8 Comments

Mented Helped Me Find My Nude Makeup Groove

For years, my lipstick loving life was all about color. The bolder and brighter, the better. Hello, when given the opportunity to come up with my own color I devised All Of My Purple Life. I LOVE a vibrant lip color. But I also realized that I leaned heavily on color to give me courage….

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Filed Under: Beauty, Makeup Tagged With: African American makeup, brown lipstick, Indie Beauty Products, indie brand love, Lips, lipstick, Mented Cosmetics

What’s A Hydrafacial? Inside My Exfoliating, Moisturizing Skin Improving Experience

July 11, 2019 by afrobella 3 Comments

What’s A Hydrafacial? Inside My Exfoliating, Moisturizing Skin Improving Experience

My experience with facials goes back a long way. Back in high school when my teenage hormones caused my skin to wild out, my mom started sending me for regular facials at a popular chain of Caribbean aestheticians. Back in my Miami days, I wrote a popular spa review column and got facials all the…

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Filed Under: Beauty Tagged With: clear skin, facial, Hydrafacial, skincare, spa

You Deserve – Here’s How My Weighted Blanket Changed My Life

June 6, 2019 by afrobella 4 Comments

You Deserve – Here’s How My Weighted Blanket Changed My Life

I knew I had an unusual sleep pattern, and it was becoming a problem that affected my days. I knew I had a propensity to stay up later than normal. I knew my cats were easily able to rouse me at 3 am when my husband seemed able to sleep through anything. I didn’t realize…

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Filed Under: Beauty Tagged With: beauty sleep, health and wellness, product review, sleep, weighted blanket, wellness

New Orleans Gets the Spotlight For Professional Black Girl Season Two

April 8, 2019 by afrobella Leave a Comment

New Orleans Gets the Spotlight For Professional Black Girl Season Two

Dr. Yaba Blay is a woman I admire on several levels. You know the kind of woman who achieves all the things, inspires others, somehow keeps multiple plates spinning and looks gorgeous and undeniably cool while doing it all? She’s THAT kind of Professional Black Girl. Just by way of introduction, Dr. Yaba Blay is…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Featured, Issues, Pop Culture, Reviews Tagged With: #PrettyPeriod, #ProfessionalBlackGirl, beautiful black women, Dr Yaba Blay, media, Pop Culture, Professional Black Girl

Vegas For Grown Folks – My Recommendations for Hotels, Spas, Restaurants and Gambling-Free Fun

February 13, 2019 by afrobella 26 Comments

Vegas For Grown Folks – My Recommendations for Hotels, Spas, Restaurants and Gambling-Free Fun

Vegas has had many variations of the same reputation – a place for debauchery and decadence, gambling and drinking and secrets best laughed about later. The ultimate bachelorette/bridal shower/baby shower/girls’ weekend/getaway to remember or forget destination. It can be all that and more, and it’s usually all of that in just one weekend. For many,…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Travel Tagged With: Afrobella Travel, Las Vegas, travel, travel tips, Vegas

Black Girl Sunscreen – Discover My New Favorite SPF and Interview with Founder Shontay Lundy

August 15, 2018 by afrobella 4 Comments

Black Girl Sunscreen – Discover My New Favorite SPF and Interview with Founder Shontay Lundy

I’ll admit that I wasn’t a daily sunscreen user until my mid twenties. I grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and then went to college in Miami so trust me, I got plenty of regular sun exposure. But like many of us people of the sun, I thought of sunscreen as a heavy paste that…

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Filed Under: Beauty, Health and Wellness, Reviews, Skin Tagged With: Black Beauty, Black Girl Sunscreen, Indie Beauty Products, IndieBrandLove, sunscreen, sunscreen for black skin

MAC x Aaliyah – All The Details Behind the Collection

July 3, 2018 by afrobella 3 Comments

MAC x Aaliyah – All The Details Behind the Collection

I still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news, that awful day that the world lost Aaliyah. I was in college in Miami. Aaliyah was born in 1979, like I was. Her music was undeniably part of the soundtrack of my upbringing. Seeing the dates of her life flash across the news…

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Filed Under: Beauty Tagged With: Aaliyah, Beauty, celebrities, Eyes, Lips, mac cosmetics, MAc x Aaliyah, makeup, Makeup Muses

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