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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Green Day: Top 10 Eco-Friendly Beauty Products
I never thought I would be the girl to go all-out for natural, green, organic eco-friendly beauty products, but I have. My organic brand choices vary from drugstore to luxe, and they all work with amazing efficacy. Of course, double-duty…
Tyra Banks Rings the NYSE Bell; Launches New Website
I guess I should be more excited about Tyra Banks new website TypeF than I am her hair color, but I’m not. I guess I’m late on Tyra’s return to the dark side, but I think she looks fab with…
What I Learned From My Interview with Pat McGrath: Be Obsessed
I had the pleasure of interviewing the most awesome makeup artist ever—Pat McGrath, (the creative genius behind D&G and CoverGirl and the deft hand behind almost every designer ad in the glossies) during New York Fashion Week (Spring 2011). During…
- Beauty, CoverGirl, CoverGirl Queen Collection, Don't Do That!, Eva Marcille, IMAN Cosmetics, Tarte, Vapour Beauty
Don’t Do That: Eva Marcille’s Bronzer Overload
When I was a makeup trainer I traveled the US and Canada and I saw the how the geography dictated a woman’s makeup application. Hands-down, the queens of bronzer were the women of the OC—Orange County in Southern California. I…
Win it: Brow Diva Eyebrow Makeup Collection
Are you an eyebrow fanatic? Always looking for the perfect brow product? Well, I tried Brow Diva products and became a believer that this is a great line. So, I’d like for one reader to enjoy the products too. These…
International Women’s Day: Top 10 Black Women Who Have Influenced Me
It’s the the 100th International Women’s Day. So I have to give props to women who have made a difference in my life. 1. Rosia Lee Ivey My maternal Grandmother. August 20, 1912-October 24, 2010 She taught me the most…
What I’m Loving Now: Physician’s Formula Organic wear® 2-in-1 Bronzer & Blush
If nothing else, there is a resounding theme in my blog that evidences my love of double-duty products. I would say that I am pretty much obsessed with beauty goodies that multi-task. Additionally, I can’t live without blush. A day…
Product Review: Brow Diva Eyebrow Makeup
I certainly consider myself a Brow Diva. I think every self-respecting makeup artist HAS to be a brow diva (or devo); sculpting the perfect brow is the ultimate exercise in makeup expertise. As such, I have used every single tool…
- Beauty, Celebrities, Clinique, Cover FX, CoverGirl, Dr. Brandt, Get The Look, Illamasqua, Kerry Washington, NYX Professional Makeup
Get the Look: Kerry Washington at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards
Kerry Washington looked stunning in a white Zac Posen gown at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards. The new matte makeup look Kerry has been sporting is soft, diffused and pretty. Kerry’s signature nude lips and sculpted cheeks perfectly set off…
Get the Look: Amber Riley at the 42nd Annual NAACP Awards
Makeup artist Mylah Morales has been with Amber Riley of Glee fame throughout the 2011 awards season and she was thrilled to work with her again for the 42nd annual NAACP Image awards. Mylah went for full glam with a…
Top 5: Hand Creams for Cold Weather
It's been a rough winter and it's taken its toll on my hands. I forget to wear gloves, I wash them frequently and I'm constantly using hand sanitizer. All of those can make hands dry and chapped. Even cuticles…
- Beauty, Black Opal Beauty, Celebrities, CoverGirl Queen Collection, DuWop, Gabrielle Union, Illamasqua, Mary Kay, Tarte, Wet n Wild
Get the Look: Gabrielle Union at the 4th Annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon
The women at the 4th Annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon at the were looking lovely and like such ladies; it was a pleasure to view the photos. My stand-out favorite beauty of the day was Gabrielle Union. I…
Halle Berry Watch: Red Carpet Elegance
Halle Berry is one of the women that I am obsessed with watching on the red carpet—I’m always excited to see what she’s wearing, for better or for worse. Her last two outings she had this split personality thing going…
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