In today's blog post, Blossy shares her encounter with a coworker who recommended a sunscreen. She reflects on her experience with different sunscreens and discusses the drawbacks and benefits of each. She also expresses her concerns about purchasing beauty products from Amazon due to fake products. Meanwhile, she considers trying the recommended sunscreen.
Category: BBA Musings
When Did Makeup Peak?
I'm interested in hearing your saucethoughts, Beautiful Blossoms! Has makeup peaked around 2016, when beauty vloggers were hawking left and right about their OGs, their favorites, their must haves, etc.? Or have we yet to witness the peak of makeup? And yes, just as with fashion, makeup styles go through cycles, but in this current …
BBA Musings: The Older I Get…
As I approach the annual celebration of having orbited around the Sun on Earth, a painful bout with sciatica had me looking at my lip product stash. It has been quite some time since I bought a lip product, and after a quick urgent care visit for pain management (because sciatica will never go away), …
For 2023
You know what I haven't done for the longest time? Play with my stash. The ongoing pandemic (The WHO and no government agency is going to convince me the pandemic is over π) has definitely prolonged my indifference towards playing with my stash, but with the passing of my grandfather, I find myself staring down …
Cosmetics: Recession-Proof (No More?)
It was a widely-held belief that the cosmetic industry is (almost) recession-proof, and it's easy to see why - how many times have makeup lovers declared that their favorite makeup item would have to be pried from their cold, dead hands? Or the countless times that if a decision had to be made between makeup …
Beauty in the Time of COVID
There's... arguably a lot of material for me to blog about regarding the beauty scene and the elephant in the room - inflation.
Happy New Year!
It's been a super long time since I last wrote on the blog - unfortunately, I just had too many life events taking place that required every ounce of my strength and attention to resolve and/or power through (some are recurring issues), leaving me very little time to focus on this blog. But believe it …
BBA Musings Round 2: Post-Coronavirus
But do people really make a point to stare at how well the makeup was applied at the part of the face that's essentially covered most of the time
BBA Musings: Sponsorships
My head is so far removed from the ideas of sponsorships and influencers that I hadn't realized that I inadvertently signed up to be one, albeit I was hardly active. I even got the badge that tells me I'm one. π
The Ugly Truth of Dramageddon 2020
If you're in the beauty community or YouTube scene, at some point you must have heard a sliver of the ongoing meltdown involing Tati Westbrook, Shane Dawson, Jeffree Star, and James Charles, colloquially known as Dramageddon. Because of the fact that there has been more than one instance of Dramageddon, I've added the year to …