2017 Green Beauty Holiday Gift Guide (Black Friday Through Cyber Monday)

  Greetings dear readers!  I hope everyone in the U.S. had a wonderful Thanksgiving with loved ones, and ideally lots of awesome food.  Of course the end of American Thanksgiving means that Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday are now upon us.  I wasn’t going to do this…

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Delicious (and Healthier) Warm Drinks for Cold Weather (that Are Not Coffee)

  There’s no doubt that a warm drink is one of our favourite ways to warm up on a cold day.  But we usually tend to go for the same drink day after day, whether we are headed to our pantry or our favourite coffee shop.  Not to mention that…

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Brown Skin, Green Beauty and Microblading: What You Need to Know

  Green beauty purists – this post is not for you.  While this blog is mainly a way to share my thoughts and experiences with clean beauty, particularly skincare, I also like to keep things real – especially when it comes to brown skin beauty.  This post is not so…

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The Best of Summer 2017

  Daily blogging and vlogging trends a few times a year and, for the first time ever I briefly considered participating in a daily blogging challenge: Blogtober.  Fortunately, I quickly came to my senses and decided against it.  However, in researching the idea I was inspired to create a new…

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Ice Cream Scented Lip Balm? Yes, Please!

There are some things in life that, when you discover them you can only ask “where has this been all my life?!”  My most recent lip balm discovery is one of those things.  After Hurricane Irma ravaged the Virgin Islands on September 5, 2017, we, like the vast majority of…

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