Preview, Photos: MAC Heirloom Mix Holiday 2014 Collection—Cremesheen Glass, Eye Kohl Pencil, Glitter, Lipstick, Mineralize Blush, Pressed Pigment Taking an over-the-top Pinterest beauty trend off your computer screen and into real life is a rite of passage for every woman. I have tried the halo braid (fail), the office-supply moon …

BeautyStat.com’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide Review: 15 Best Buys For The Beauty-Obsessed Gal: Clarisonic, LUSH, Charlotte Tilbury, Lancôme, Korres, FLOWER, Pixi – GIVEAWAY I will confess, I am a terrible gift giver. No matter how badly I want to have a pile of Pinterest-perfect presents lined up every season for …

It’s no secret that the right lipstick has near magical powers, taking your look from “meh” to vixen like a killer pair of heels or a new haircut. I like lunch hour cheap thrills; I’m the first girl to grab a coral or violet $8 bullet when my day needs …

Like every other twenty-something Brooklynite in a thrifted grandma sweater and blunt bangs, I count Alexa Chung as a style role model. Alexa Chung is a celebrity beauty icon for the girl that doesn’t like celebrity icons. No over-bronzed skin, no expensive-looking highlights, just undone British cool. I have, within the past 6 months, worn distressed …

Recently, a porcelain-skinned friend of mine whose skincare recommendations I totally trust swore to me that I simply had to try her new favorite concealer, Hard Candy Glamoflauge. “Hard Candy?” I had to clarify. “Isn’t that the brand that’s sold exclusively at Wal-Mart?” I love drugstore gems as much as the next …

My favorite part of Halloween, hands down, is getting to test-drive beauty looks that even I am too shy to rock in real life. Heart-shaped beauty marks for Marie Antoinette, triangle-shaped purple and pink blush for Cyndi Lauper, rhinestone faux eyelashes for… anything? So when I got the chance to …

For girly girls that came of age in the late ’90s, beauty was defined by teen mags like All About You, CosmoGIRL, and YM. We didn’t have YouTube gurus to show us how to use eyeliner and under eye concealer, and I spent hours locked in my room with stacks …

No one actually admits to loving lip liner. Lip liner is what we grudgingly draw on to hold our much sexier red lipstick in place. It’s what your kooky great aunt uses while she laughs at your mint-flavored millennial balm stain. And like everything else from the nineties, it’s poised to …

As an adult, I’ve learned that intense, serious pleasures can be even better than easy ones. Like single origin pour-over coffee, when I was once totally enthused about instant cappuccino. I have had a facial before… mostly at home, where I slather on my fave Ole Henriksen Blue/Black Berry Enzyme …

I’ve learned a lot as a beauty-obsessed-online-shopping addict. And one of the hardest lessons is that NYC mail is a high stakes game of luck and chance in good karma. Every Victoria’s Secret catalogue lands by my door just fine, but the latest beauty trends tend to go missing with a frequency …