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Imperfections, meet kindness-my thoughts after going makeup-free for a month

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I was sitting in a chair, my back facing a huge mirror in my grandmother’s closet. My aunt, who is really more like a sister since there’s a small age difference between us, asked me if I wanted to put on some makeup. I was just staring at her while she layered her lashes with endless coats of mascara. She sat me down on a chair, curled my lashes, added some mascara and a red lipstick, teased my hair and said “what do you think?”…

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Tips for repurposing your candle jars + keeping them clean

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It’s no secret that I have a slight obsession with candles. I always have one burning and love switching them up, depending on my mood. This, of course, has turned me into a bit of a paranoiac. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, only to get up and check that I’ve put out all the candles. But hey, better safe than sorry, right? I love reusing my candle cars for things like storing some beauty bits,…

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Beauty

What’s in my makeup bag: February

I have to say that I’ve been doing pretty well in terms of not buying any new makeup. If I’m not mistaken,  the only product I bought over the last couple of weeks is the Pillow Talk lippie. I won’t say I wasn’t tempted, but I keep reminding myself that I really want to become a bit more mindful about my beauty-spending, since I’m pretty much drowning in products. My husband keeps joking (or not really) that pretty soon we’ll need a bigger…

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Beauty

Skincare: the good, the bad and the fab

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What would you expect from an ideal skincare product? Most likely, it’d be that it lives up to its claims. Doesn’t happen too often though, does it? Even if you end up loving a product enough to repurchase it over and over again, it rarely happens that they actually “transform your skin overnight!” I recently browsed through Sephora’s website and come across a product, which shall remain nameless, that I’ve seen all over Instagram. A fun color seems like something that’d…

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Your inspo for the week: 10 quotes to get you through a bad day

Ever have one of those days when nothing in particular goes “wrong” but you feel a bit… off? I had one of those days today. I was at work, trying desperately to catch up on a few deadlines and everything kept going wrong. I found it so difficult to focus and ended up redoing half of my work about three times. At one point I had to step away from my desk, take a few deep breaths and try again.…

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