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Don’t Let Halloween Scare Your Skin
Color blocking by Vargas Beauty & Arts Academy Avoid post-Halloween horror Skin! Use good skincare habits so that you don't still find green or blue makeup in strange places a week later. Failing to remove heavy makeup thoroughly is not a good thing! Old makeup...
Skin Type 2.0: What’s Your Complexion Reaction?
You've checked off your skin characteristics on the "What is Your Skin Type" page. You've figured out if you're normal, dry, oily or a combination skin type. Let's look beyond skin type and see complexion reaction types. THE LUCKY ONES: There are the lucky ones whose...
Summer Skin Recovery
Most of us enjoyed at least three months of sun-worshiping and hot weather. We spent hours outside, soaking up the rays (sometimes forgetting our sunscreen), digging in our gardens, being bombarded with salt water spray, soaking in chlorinated pools, and getting sand...
CurlFest, Isle of Hair-mony
In 2014, five women who embrace their naturally curly hair held their first CurlFest event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. This year, the women, called the CurlyGirl Collective, took over an entire island! Attendance at #Curlfest2019 is so big that it had to be held on...
Clean Hands, Clean Face
If We Must Wash Our HandsBefore Touching a BabyWe Should Wash Our HandsBefore Cleansing Our FaceIf We Must Wash Our HandsBefore Inserting ContactsWe Should Wash Our HandsBefore Cleansing Our FaceIf We Must Wash Our HandsBefore Putting On MakeupWe Should Wash Our...
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Roaring into the 20’s!
Had great fun at the 14th Annual Jazz Age Lawn Party Countdown to the Twenties on New York City’s Governors Island on Father’s Day! My outfit was a combination of things old and things new! My daughter made my hairpiece. I wore my mother's watch and carried one of her...
“Ain’t Too Proud” to Applaud!
Ain’t Too Proud deserves all its 12 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical! Ain’t Too Proud on Broadway: This musical journey is my childhood journey. It’s the story of The Temptations, Motown’s greatest vocal group in history. You could feel and see the...
The Makeup Show: the Must–Go Event for Professionals
I attended The Makeup Show press preview event at Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea. This will be a very exciting and timely show for professionals and students in beauty and cosmetics Sunday to Monday, May 5–6. James Vincent is Director of Education and Artistry. He...
Milestones of Black History and Women’s History Months: Female Beauty Industry Icons
As Black History Month flows into Women's History, it's time to talk about important Black women in beauty from past to present. My 25+ years in the cosmetics industry includes crossing paths with a couple of the icons on this list, leading me to work with one of...
Get Your Game Face On: Touchdown on Men’s Face Care
As far as most can remember, women have always been the target market for skincare, leaving men using bars of soap for everything: shower, bath, and shaving. This is why men tend to suffer from a variety of skin issues, including dry skin, oily skin, acne, premature...
Get Your Skin Ready for New Year’s Eve!
An invitation has arrived for a great New Year’s Eve party not to be missed. What to do so that you’re walking out your door with great skin and your best face forward? Day before the party: If you’re planning to have a professional facial, do it the day before so the...
Fall Into New Products at BeautyPress
Beauty editors and bloggers were able to see several great products up close at the BeautyPress fall Spotlight Day event. Cleansers, skincare with an unusual ingredient, makeup, eczema and dermatitis relief from around the world and back, easy facial hair waxing...
FashionWeek Brooklyn Designs the Borough
In addition to FashionWeek Brooklyn spotlighting established and new designers, it finds the best locations in the borough that can engage the community. FWBK's final two shows of the fall season took place at the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall! Designers of...
How I Become Grace Jones – Celebrity Impersonation Prep
Back in 1997, Devon Cass, a photographer, makeup artist and master celebrity impersonator, wanted to share his makeup tips with the average woman. Devon can transform the most ordinary-looking opera singer's headshot into a portrait of a high class ultra-diva that...
Stay Spa Soothes Summer Skin
It was a long wonderful eventful summer, a time when you are exposed to sun, extreme heat (lots of extreme heat in New York this year!). You're also subjected to all that's in the air that attracts to your skin like a magnet: salt water, pool water, “fresh”...
Curlfest Does Lit Again!
Another successful Curlfest event in Prospect Park! Each year attendance increases and this year's festival brought more than 20,000 colorfully dressed and colorfully coiffed people and their admirers to Brooklyn. The Curly Girl Collective's mission is "to create...
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Pat Collins
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Brooklyn, New York