Beauty
Our mission at Blingingbeauty.com is to bring beauty news and reviews to readers from the beauty industry. Our categories include skin care, body care, hair care, makeup, and fragrance. From high-end luxury beauty brands to budget-friendly beauty brands, we cover it all.
Our reviews are honest and from a professional and layperson's perspective. While our focus is for a Black audience, our expertise applies to all skin types and colors.
Tracey Brown, the editor-in-cheif and founder of Blinging Beauty is an expert in beauty products, ingredients, makeup artist, and esthetician.
Beauty News focuses on new product launches, as well as celebrity get-the-look articles.
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Nail Files by Age: Review—NYX Salon Formula Polish in Smooth Operator
I've been on a journey to nail laqueur shimmer-land and I've come a long way. I have progressed from refusing to try nail polish with a shimmer finish to now being an absolute fan of metallic and shimmer polish formulas.…
Team 20/20 Product review: Reviva Labs Camphor Cleansing Milk and Camphor Lotion
Looking for a facial cleansing routine that is cool, refreshing, hydrating and gentle, right? Here's a effective budget friendly pick for your twenty something skin looking for a breather from pesky pimples. If combating acne isn't stressful enough, try keeping…
Headlines: Top 5 Serums for Frizz-Free Hair
Winter is upon us and with it comes rain and various other forms of humidity that wreak havoc with frizz-prone hair. Aside from the common maintenance of washing and conditioning, textured hair—whether relaxed, natural, curly or straight—benefits from a treatment…
- Alba Botanica, Beauty, Budget Beauty, Burt's Bees, Editor's Picks, Everyday Shea, Hugo Naturals, Palmer's, Skin Care Reviews
The Minimalist: Top 5 Budget Moisturizing Lotions
Dry, rough skin is nothing to chafe at. I should know, having spent enormous amounts of time and money to combat the embarrassing but common condition. Nothing says ‘neglect’ like ashy appendages, and at all times of year, I give…
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Up in Smoke: Joan Smalls Jewel Tone Smoky Eye
Smoky eyes do not always equate with dark, grey and black smoldering eye makeup. A bright, beautiful jewel-toned smoky eye like Joan Smalls wore to the 8th Annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards is a very user-friendly and wearable twist on the…
Bling or Ding: Editors Predictions for 2011 AMAs
Team Bling may not be red carpet authorities, but we can certainly share our combined cattiness about the fashion sense or nonsense on the red carpet at awards shows—Bling or Ding. Move over Joan Collins and Necole Bitchie, you don't have…
LA Loves: Miracle Skin Transformer Body SPF 20
My legs are my best feature, so I take extra care to glam my gams with a nightly regimen of body treatments and body butters. My ultimate goal is to bare my pampered legs next spring in haute dresses, shorts…
Hair Affairs: Get Red Carpet Ready with göt2b & Celebrity Stylist Larry Sims
Want to copy the coveted hairstyles of the 2011 American Music Award nominees? With a little help from göt2b hair stylers and celebrity stylist Larry Sims, you’ll be on your way to a rockin’ ‘do in no time. Sims predicted the red carpet…
- Beauty, Jack Black, Made From Earth, Men's Grooming, Men's Skin Care tips, Menaji, Menaji, Molton Brown, Molton Brown, Nelly, Yu-Be
Manly Man: Nelly Celebrates His B-Day & His Lips Haven’t Aged a Bit
Manly man Nelly partied like a rock rap star as he celebrated his birthday with sexy swagger at Vanquish on November 17, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. BET and Centric Executives, Stephen Hill (BET) and Kenard Gibbs (CEO, Soul Train) and…
- Beauty, Bobbi Brown, Bourjois, Nicole Scherzinger, Nicole Scherzinger—Classic Smoky Eyes, Smashbox, Smoky Eyes, Urban Decay
Up in Smoke: Nicole Scherzinger Smoky Eyes
Nicole Scherzinger, of the Pussycat Dolls, works the smoky eye look with a fierceness. Her brown skin and dark hair lend to the classic smoky eye look with that's based on black eyeshadow and liner. This heavy-hitting smoked-out eye is not easy for the…
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Up in Smoke: Rihanna—Fierce Smoky Red Eyeshadow
Where's there's smoke, there's fire. Makeup artists turned up the heat by engulfing lids in various blasts of red— crimson, scarlet and ruby— for Spring 2011 and Spring 2012. To successfully translate the flashy, flaming-red eyeshadow fad from the runway…
- Beauty, Bite Beauty, Caudalie, Jane Iredale, Korres, Smoky Eyes, Solange Knowles, Solange—Organic Smoky Eyes
Green Day Thursday: Get the Look—Solange with Organic Smoky Eyes
Red carpet rebel, style impresario, DJ, natural hair rocker Solange has our vote as the most impressive defiler of trends of the moment. Solange never fails to please the eye when she makes a public appearance and she keeps us…
The Minimalist Product Review: Living Nature Clear Lights Tinted Moisturizer
Even, clear, well-moisturized skin is a must-have no matter the season. Of course, during this time of year, it can be a bit more difficult to achieve as temperatures drop and humidity declines. I like to keep my routine fuss-free.…
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