A Beautiful Mess

FIVE APPS I’M LOVING LATELY

“I always love seeing what other apps people are using and I’ve gotten a few really great recommendations over the past year, so I thought I’d share a few that I’m loving (and using) lately.”

The Wall Street Journal

Your A-to-Z Guide to Skin Care Today

THE CULT OF skin care seems to have reached a fever pitch, with women (and men) accumulating costly, pleasingly packaged products to arrange in their bathrooms at a new pace. Self-taught enthusiasts, known as the “skintelligentsia,” exchange…

Biohacking with brooke

WHY YOU NEED MY NEW FAVORITE APP: “THINK DIRTY”

“First, let me start off by saying I am an app minimalist. I’m currently still in the Dark Ages with my iPhone 6S 16GB, so I barely have room for Gmail and text threads. I’m extremely judicious with app downloads, but my new discovery–the “Think Dirty” app–was a no-brainer!”

SASS Magazine

Girl’s Guide to Going Cruelty-Free

Walking into a drugstore and seeing endless aisles of makeup can be overwhelming. Now try to narrow those products down into ones that don’t test on animals…We owe it to our furry friends to shop cruelty-free! Here are some ways to get started:

Pop Sugar

What Happened When I Tried Nontoxic Makeup For 90 Days

I love makeup and make no apologies for it. I consider makeup a tool for boosting my mood or highlighting my favorite features, but I recently started to question my embrace of it. While listening to my local NPR station, I heard experts discussing a recent study about chemicals in cosmetics. I thought: could my form of self-expression be dangerous?

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Lead in lipstick

“You have to disclose if you’re buying a house there could potentially be lead in there. So why is it OK that we can educate people that there’s no lead on the walls, but then we can have it in our lipstick which is on our face?”