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.
Nail Files by Age: Product Review—Illamasqua Nail Varnish
Fellow nail polish fanatics! While feeding my obsession for the loveliest nail lacquers, I have tried inexpensive drugstore nail polish brands, being pleasantly surprised. On the other hand, I have spent a questionable amount of money on prestige brands of…
Get the Look: Rashida Jones at the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
Rashida Jones stepped onto the red carpet at the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards looking striking and elegant. Her red carpet look was created with the help of Makeup Artist Jo Strettell for Maybelline New York. Jo was inspired by Rashida’s vivacious personality and created a look using Maybelline New York’s latest products. To…
- Beauty, Beauty Product Reviews, Body Care Reviews, CoverGirl, Demeter, Editor's Picks, Makeup Reviews, Nail Care Reviews, NatureLuxe, Skin Care Reviews, Zoya
Editor’s Picks: Play-Doh Inspired Beauty Products
Continuing our new tradition of putting a beauty twist on fun, random national holidays, we celebrate one of childhood’s most memorable mess-makers–Play-Doh! The modeling clay was first designed in the 1930s as a reusable, non-toxic, non-staining wallpaper cleaner by a…
- Arcona, Beauty, Bioligique Recherche, BioSilk, Mary Kay, Naomi Campbell, Nuxe, NY Fashion Week Spring 2012
Fierce Friday: Runway Ready Legs Like Naomi Campbell
Hands down, Naomi Campbell has the best legs on and off the runway. Unforntunately, long, lean, lovely latte-brown legs do not come naturally to many of us. While Naomi was "Born That Way", the rest of us who are genetically…
New Miss Universe Leila Lopes—Brown Beauty Bombshell!
Angola's very own Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe. The bronze African beauty stunned judges in the international beauty contest and captivated audiences worldwide. Born as Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes on February 26, 1986 to Cape Verdean immigrants in Benguela,…
Green Day Thursday: Top 5 Organic Red Lipsticks
Red lipstick is classic. From Hollywood starlets of yesteryear, to today’s pop culture idols of the runway and red carpet, red lipstick is eponymous with style, fashion and beauty. When red lips are done right—meticulous application, seamless blending of lipliner…
- Beauty, Goldwell, Hair Care Reviews, Kerastase, L'Occitane Body Care, Oilive Oil Root Stimulator, Oyin Handmade, Top 5 Editor's Picks
Team 20/20: Top 5 Conditioners for Textured Hair
Fussy follicles? Barn Yard hair? Chemical damage? Nothing is worse than a frazzled mane that defies gravity…… No worries! Whether your hair is short and sweet, or long and luscious, there is a hair treatment that will fix your frizzies…
Budget Beauty: Top 5 Mascaras
Does your perfect mascara requirements read like a checklist for the perfect guy? Smooth, easygoing and multitalented—we hear you! Thankfully, mascara is one beauty product that you could save on without skimping on quality. Today's top options are inexpensive and…
New York Fashion Week: Nicki Minaj Fashion Sense or Nonsense?
Seated between W magazine Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi and Anna Wintour at the Carolina Herrera Spring 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Theater at Lincoln Center on September 12, 2011, Nicki Minaj looked quite the anomaly. Apparently, celebrity…
- Beauty, Iman, IMAN Cosmetics, New York Fashion Week Spring 2012, NY Fashion Week Spring 2012, Valente Frazier
New York Fashion Week: Iman—White Done Right!
Who said wearing white after Labor Day was a fashion faux pas? Clearly they did not envision supermodel, iconic beauty and business mogul Iman gracing the crowds wearinmg at the 2nd Annual Elle FASHION/NEXT show wearinmg a white Rachel Zoe…
NYFW: Dashing Diva Nail Trends at Mara Hoffman, St John & AAU
Pattie Yankee and the Dashing Diva nail team have been hard at work backstage at Merecedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 creating hot and trendy nail looks. Here is the latest… Mara Hoffman Friday, September 9th Pattie Yankee worked with…
- Beauty, Celebrities, Fusion Beauty, Kimberly Elise, KORRES, Makeup Reviews, Simple Saturday Essentials, Tarte, Zoya
Simply Sexy Saturday: Kimberly Elise—Barely There Coral Cheeks and Lips
The key to a natural glow is complimenting your skin by matching your blush to your lip color as a quick look for the weekend. Kimberly Elise embodied natural glow at Robi Reed's end of summer celebration on September 3,…
Model Watch: Chanel Iman Covers November 2011 Elle
And yet another cover for our favorite desig ner/supermodel namesake Chanel Iman. Svelte, fresh-faced, with beach hair to boot, Chanel Iman graces the cover of the November 2011 Elle. Clad in Hervé Léger by Max Azria, faille parka, python miniskirt from Gucci…
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