Live-Streaming Interactive Lifestyle Shows

If you love lifestyle shows, then you’ll really love VS1. For those of you who haven’t heard me chatting about it yet, this is a new app that broadcasts shows in real time, and lets the audience participate. I’m one of the first hosts, and if you tune in, you can help the engineers perfect the app just by participating. …

Too Faced Love Tutorial

In this video, I’m showing how you can use the Love palette by Too Faced to create a causal, everyday look. Normally, when I create makeup tutorials, I like to edit them with lots of cuts to jazz up the experience. But today, since today I’m creating more of a natural look, I went for a laidback approach. This was …

New Maybelline Product Unveiling/Tutorial

This box of newly-minted Maybelline goodies arrived on my doorstep Christmas Eve day. Maybelline didn’t even wait to send Santa down the chimney with it. With these treats, my holiday excitement reached fever pitch early, and ran late…because, naturally, I’ve been experimenting with them ever since. Here’s a video of my Maybelline package unveiling, and a tutorial showing how to …

Braid Tutorial

These pictures were taken when I was in Manhattan on business. While my friend, Kylee, and I rode into the city, we watched ads on a screen in our cab. The hottest NYC hair trend was obvious…braids, braids, and more braids. The style I’m wearing in these pictures was everywhere. Kylee said, “I bet I can recreate that look on …

Travel Talk: NYC Sugar Fix

The pȃtisserie, Baked by Melissa, was such a regular stop during my Manhattan stay that the ladies who worked there became treasured friends! If you are in that city and love sweets, this is a great place to put on your to-do list. Melissa’s macarons will keep you coming back for more. And in case you’re wondering, I have it …

Create a Subtle Cat Eye in Under Three Minutes!

This fast, easy tutorial even incorporates drugstore products! Your bank account will thank me. So, let’s enter Makeup Land and get to it… To get the products that I used: NARS Concealer: Velvet Luxe Shadow Brush (Similar): Maybelline THE ROCK NUDES: Maybelline COLOR TATTOO: NYX Super Fat Eye Marker: NARS Foundation: NARS Browning Powder: Kate Somerville Hydrating Mist: SEPHORA Bronzer …

Matching the Flowers

We were on our way to a Toronto garden party when we were stopped by the sight of this magnificent cathedral with a beautiful garden in full bloom. It seemed to me like Toronto had a stunning cathedral on practically every corner. The people there were so welcoming. They did not mind one bit when we wanted to stop and …

How to be Beautiful with Mary Kay Cosmetics

While I was in Toronto, I filmed two videos that I’m very excited about! Right now, I’m in Video Editing Land, sorting through all my travel footage. So I’m not ready to show you that, but I’m excited to post something I filmed as summer was entering its final stretch, and loved doing. Here, I team up with Byanka, a …

My Sold-out Premiere

Last weekend, my short film, In Memory Of, premiered at the Carlton Cinema in Downtown Toronto. It completely sold out! The manager set up all the metal chairs he had in the back, and that wasn’t enough. So many more people clamored for tickets that he let some of them watch while standing, squeezed into corners, and even sitting on …

As Promised…

I’m posting more pictures from the time when I housesat. These ones were taken at a neighbor’s home. This entire experience made me feel fabulously alive. When I arrived, I had just finished a huge project and felt exhausted. Then, as if by magic, temporarily taking up residence in a place where I was exploring new turf and knew no …

Are You a Flower Goddess?

My mom definitely is! She is the head of the landscaping committee for her condo association. On my way to an event, I stopped by to admire her work, and took pictures among the flowers in my new Rebecca Taylor dress. After all, it perfectly matched some of the roses! What I find amazing about my mom is that she …

Learning Tinashe’s Choreography

If you’ve seen Tinashe’s choreography to Superlove, you know it’s super-sexy and super-fun. So today, I’m teaching a step-by-step tutorial. You’re guaranteed to get your calorie-burning on in this one! It’s that fast and loaded with athletics!! And if you’d like to see Tinashe strutting her moves in the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv44srAsAo4 (:44-1:04) </

The Perfect Fancy Dress

Are you looking for the perfect dress for a fancy event? Have you ever heard of Sherry London? It’s a certified gown goldmine! For me, that was a well-kept secret until I received an email from the company. As soon as I laid my eyes on Sherry’s beautiful gowns, I didn’t have to think twice about endorsing this line. If …

Easy, Colorful Makeup Tutorial

Beauty-Loving Babes, here’s a fun way to do fast summer makeup. It only takes a few minutes, and looks like you spent an hour at the spa. These colors intensify green eyes, but look radiant on anyone. So without further ado, let’s jump in! Here are the products that I used to create this look. You might have noticed that …

Pillow Talk Series

Are you a smooth operator when it comes to dating? Or, are you the queen of mishaps? I’d like to say that I’m the former, but the truth is that there’ve been plenty of times when I wished for a dating do-over. With college girls getting ready to go back to school, I was thinking about one of my funniest …