Fun and statistics sometimes do go well together (Sheldon Cooper would approve). Fun fact: did you know that in 2021 Americans spent around $180 for their yearly supply of cosmetics, perfume and bath products? Yearly. For all of it, makeup, skincare, fragrance and body products. Fast forward to 2022, to a survey conducted in October 2022, we learn that, that month, over 40 percent of consumers were spending less than they normally do on personal care. This leaves us with an educated assumption that, for most people, any shower/bath product costing over $50 is considered not just expensive, but very expensive.
Following dry winter months, our nails and cuticles need some sprucing up, even if we've been pretty diligent with hand and nail care, and especially if we haven't. Quick solutions? Yes, there are! Rita Remark, global lead educator and nail artist at Essie, and Thea Green, founder of Nails Inc. share with us how to repair nails with minimal effort and investment, as well as which nail trends are staying for spring of 2023 — spoiler alert — aura nails are still trending, and we've got some aura nail designs here you didn't see coming.
If you like your makeup to be served vegan, you happen to be in the right place right now. Looking to February 28th, the National Vegan Lipstick Day, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to present you with some utterly delicious vegan lipstick newness; well...perhaps not delicious in the gourmet sense of the word, but most certainly vegan-inclusive.
We are so grateful for the existence of hybrid makeup products and hybrid skincare products. They cater to our minimalist skin care phase/need, they multitask, they offer us a two-in-one kind of product. As any beauty lover (myself included) would say — we very much like our options. Especially on those days when we wish or need to streamline everything in the day, including our morning skin care.
Are you in negotiations with yourself? The bangs vs new color one particularly? Well, Valentine's is very much over and some may have gotten kissed, and others may have kissed something goodbye; whenever we find ourselves starting fresh within ourselves, be it in or after love, with career or educational switches or changes, or even in quietly deciding on changing our personal patterns, let's be honest: our hair is the first one to take the proverbial hit. For some reason, our spruced up life has the effect of us wanting to do something to our hair.