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  • Rakuten Birthday Week: Met Gala 2019 Edition
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    Met Gala 2019: Ebates Edition Featuring Skin Care & Makeup

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    Met Gala 2019: Ebates edition featuring beauty breakdowns for Janelle Monae, Serena Williams, Tracee Ellis Ross and Zoe Saldana. To celebrate twenty years of savvy shopping, Rakuten (previously Ebates) teamed up with 400+ stores to offer 15% back on accessories to travel & vacations this week! In Tax Day Flash Sale 2019: Celebrity Beauty ID Edition, I highlighted the following beauty brands: bareMinerals Becca Cosmetics Charlotte Tilbury Smashbox But since skin care is a topic I haven’t covered in a while, I’m sharing the skin care brands in addition to the makeup used on stars for Met Gala 2019. Take a look at the beauty breakdowns for Janelle Monae, Serena…

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    This compilation of black-owned highlighters for deeper skin tones has been in draft for a bit. At first, I wanted to showcase great highlighters that looked beyond on richer skin tones. If you follow any makeup Instagram accounts, then you know highlighters are, well, lit (pun intended). Inspired, I created this quick list identifying highlighters from black-owned businesses. Every entry featured is on my shopping list. My roundup is quite small, but our fellow entrepreneurs are launching new beauty businesses daily. It’s only a matter of time before I can provide a more impressive list of glow-getters. Staying faithful to my focus on black celebrity beauty, I have tracked down several black…

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    Last season, I yearned to know what products the Empire makeup department used on their leading ladies. I was absolutely famished for beauty tidbits so I hit up IMDB to see who was working in Empire‘s makeup department. I briefly exchanged tweets with the show’s chief makeup artist Beverly Jo Pryor (who was so warm and generous) for a time, asking what shades Taraji wore in certain scenes and with particular outfits. Unfortunately, there was not much she could divulge but I understood. As for Anika, Grace Gealey replied to me and another fan on the ‘Gram to say her makeup artist Jessica Williams used MAC Pro Longwear Lustre Lipcolour in ALL Nighter on her in the episode “False Imposition.” Did you know? You can…

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