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11 Common Makeup Mistakes

TotalBeauty.com

11 Makeup Mistakes You’re Making Without Even Knowing Sure, you don’t need anyone to tell you how to apply eyeliner — but are you wearing the wrong one? Find out This is a TotalBeauty.com makeup mistakes article Don’t you hate it when you realize — at the end of the day — that you’ve had [...]

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Bionic Homemade: Hot Chocolate Face Mask

DIY homemade hot chocolate face mask

Welcome to another installment of Bionic Beauty Homemade with Joycey Couture! Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s day- if there is only one thing in the world that is a certainty in life it’s that we all have chocolate in the house this time of year. Once regarded as bad for our health, research has proven that [...]

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From low-fi to high-fi: Makeup help for all budgets

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Looking for the best bang-for-your-buck in the makeup aisle? Aren’t we all these days? I know my personal “fluff” beauty budget is beyond tight. I’m pinching half pennies at this point. Hence, I thought this new feature on Total Beauty might help us all out. It’s got ideas for those of us watching every makeup [...]

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A quick-start guide to Fall 2010 makeup trends

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Can you believe that it’s almost September? I don’t know where the time has gone. It seems I was just planning articles for Spring 2010 and now I’m brainstorming ideas for Halloween makeup tutorials. It’s craziness, I tell ya! Anyhow, as an “intro” to this Fall’s beauty and makeup trends, I’m linking to a guide [...]

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Bionic Review: Urban Decay’s Ink for Eyes cream liners

Bionic Beauty Review - Urban Decay Ink For Eyes cream eyeliner

Urban Decay launched their “Ink for Eyes” cream eyeliners in the fall of 2009. I finally got my mitts on Zero which is a true pitch black. Five other colors round out the collection: a deep blue (Binge), forest green (Loaded), dark violet (Empire), dark cool-toned brown (Demolition) and a clear sparkly liner (Pyrotechnics). All [...]

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Bionic Review: New eyeshadows by MakeUp Designory

MUD-CajunSpice-shadow

Here’s a new brand for Bionic Beauty readers- MakeUp Designory, also called MUD. I’ve got two of their eyeshadows to swatch and review for you as a “quick intro” to this makeup brand! First up… Cajun Spice eye shadow ~ Cajun Spice is a brilliant copper eye shadow packed with mica (i.e. shimmer). It applied [...]

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My new Hard Candy eye shadow stick

Bionic Beauty review - Hard Candy makeup - brown Eye Shadow Stick

I grabbed some new makeup goodies while perusing the Walmart beauty aisle, among them a cream eye shadow stick by Hard Candy. The color is officially called Soiree. It’s basically a neutral, copper brown with plenty of mica for shimmer. It glides on easily and didn’t crease too badly throughout the day. If you want [...]

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Does your makeup match your inner beauty?

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Total Beauty has a new quiz up that I thought might make for some fun discussion. Basically it asks 10 questions to analyze your personality and creates a few makeup suggestions that would suit you. As most of you know, I’m happy being bold with my makeup; but I’m also completely happy just wearing lip [...]

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Makeup trend: Black lip looks for real life

Glitzy silver and black glitter mascara from Sally Beauty Supply stores

I know black lipstick isn’t for everyone, but if you are interested in trying out the trend… here are some tips and looks to play around with. And you don’t have to be a Film Noir star or a goth chick to pull them off! Face – Purely Cosmetics mineral makeup in California Blonde mixed [...]

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