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My Review of the QVC Beauty Advent Calendar

February 24, 2017 2 Comments

So I’m a couple of months behind in posting this review of my QVC Christmas Beauty Advent Calendar, but here it is. The first year I purchased this beauty advent calendar, I discovered several new beauty brands that I never heard of and fell in love with a couple of products that I quickly realized that I couldn’t live without. Last year’s calendar held a few new surprises, but it still contained several of my favorites! In November (2016), my friend Cindy A. and I ordered our Christmas Beauty Advent Calendar from QVC. We anxiously counted down the days until […]

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How to Get Your (Faux) Glow On

May 26, 2016 No Comments

Summer is quickly approaching, and if you’re like me, you’re white as a ghost. I stopped going to a tanning bed almost a year ago, and my skin went from a nice golden tan to a pasty white. So how do I get my glow on now? I fake it, of course! You could go to your local drugstore and get some cheap self-tanners, but sometimes you get what you pay for and you end up orange. Now that’s not pretty! Sephora has a a great variety of self-tanners, so here are some self-tanners that can help you achieve your faux […]

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Beauty Review: QVC's Christmas Advent Calendar

December 27, 2015 No Comments

Just before Thanksgiving, two of my friends and I purchased the QVC Christmas Advent Calendar. Katy, Cindy, and I couldn’t until December 1st so we could start discovering some of QVC’s top selling beauty brands, like Josie Maran, IT Cosmetics, Mally, Kate Somerville, philosophy, and others. Each morning at work, we could excitedly talk about that morning’s beauty gift, whether it was a moisturizer, a perfume, a mascara, or a lipgloss. It featured 24 hair, skin, or fragrance products from 21 different beauty brands. It contained sweet little surprises every day! Unbeknownst to the other, we each put on the […]