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TikTok Approved Products to Upgrade your Beauty Routine

TikTok has majorly impacted the sales of beauty products. One short video can make any under-the-radar product or brand become popular overnight or sell out entirely. The great thing about TikTok is that creators are recommending alternative products that give the same results at affordable prices and are available at your local drugstore or Amazon. So, here’s a list of some of the affordable products from TikTok that’ll revamp your beauty routine.

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Miss England Finalist Makes History by Being the First to Compete Makeup

Melissa Raouf’s goal is to inspire girls and women who have been victims of insecurity due to the fact that we live in a society that profits off them by marketing beauty products with photoshopped images and filling beauty pageants with women’s cosmetically altered faces. When taking this into consideration, why wouldn’t one think that beauty is synonymous with distortion? However, Melissa Raouf opens their eyes by becoming the first competitor in the 94-year history of the beauty pageant to compete without makeup.

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Lady Gaga Goes Makeup-Free for 2023 Oscars Performance

Lady Gaga stepped out on Sunday, March 12th wearing a beautiful Versace gown. Originally modeled by supermodel Gigi Hadid during the recent Fall/Winter 2023 runway show in Los Angeles on March 9th. Lady Gaga dazzled in the sheer black dress, a slick backup do, a diamond collared necklace and to top it off a fashioned red lip and smokey eyes.

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Oscar Nominees Received $20K Worth of Beauty Swag

The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, is one of the biggest television events of the year with lavish outfits, beautiful hair and makeup, and of course, the actors and artists we have come to know and love for creating our favorite movies. Although not everyone will win an Oscar, every nominee will leave with an official Oscars swag bag.

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How Instagram has Affected Beauty Standards and Self-Image

Nowadays, one can count on one hand how many stories or pictures are posted on Instagram a day without either a filter or makeup on. And because of this, Instagram has become an unrealistic sounding board for what beauty is supposed to be, a method of comparison. Instagram posts have become the thing with which one measures beauty. Yet God forbid you to post a picture where the sun isn’t hitting you just right, or your cheeks don’t have that “naturally” flushed look, or a picture where you’re not looking off to the side with a misty look on your face, unaware of a camera. Because the beauty one strives for now, is not only unreachable but spontaneous. Or God forbid the existence of a public picture that contains blemishes on the skin and portrays a normal human being with pores.

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Botox: Is it Worth it? Here are the Pros and Cons

Botox is a non-surgical aesthetic procedure that keeps you looking young forever. Well, sort of. Botox is a relatively safe procedure and is used by millions of Americans each year. However, every medical procedure has its pros and cons, risks, and benefits.

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Greenwashing: When Marketing is More Important than the Environment

Environmental awareness and sustainability have been a growing movement recently, and the push for brands to focus their marketing and branding domains on these issues has been higher than ever. However, even though eco-friendly actions have become more popular, many beauty brands have not hopped on this bandwagon. At least not in a sincere way.

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3 Best Beauty Launches of 2023 So Far

It’s a new year, which means new beauty drops! While 2022 supplied us with plenty of glamorous and innovative products, ranging from 3D blush palettes to hydrating lip oils, this year’s lineup is shaping up to be just as good, if not better, than last year’s. From a new celeb-fave Charlotte Tilbury highlighter to a surprising Fenty drop, let’s dive into some of 2023’s best beauty launches thus far.

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Valentine’s Day Picks to Achieve the Perfect Look

Whether you are having a get-together with friends, celebrating with your significant other, or just hanging out by yourself, Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to experiment with some new makeup products and looks! From dewy highlights to matte bold lips and eyeshadows, there are so many different ways to make a statement with the reds and pinks that go along with Valentine’s Day.

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5 Black-Owned Beauty Brands to Support During Black History Month and Beyond

Investing in Black businesses and sustaining our coins is a fantastic way for us to demonstrate our pride and show that we support the community. Black creatives have successfully flipped the script in the beauty industry. Since the beginning of time, black women have shaped the beauty game, and now we can elevate it on a broader scale. We can always find what we are looking for with a wide variety of brands offering products in skincare, makeup, haircare, body care, and grooming.

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The Problematic Beauty Standards of the ‘It Girl’ and ‘Clean Girl’ Trends

Social media has been telling us girls, how to look, behave, and thrive since the very beginning. A role that in the past was reserved for TV, female product commercials, and magazines has now been taken over by these multiple social interfaces, with one major difference: they’re collaborative—which means that on social media, we get to chip in, judge one another, scrutinize every aspect of someone else’s life, and of course, lie.

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Beauty Products Need More Universal Designs for People With Disabilities

In addition to aesthetics, you might not consider whether you have trouble distinguishing shampoo from conditioner if you have limited vision or if you have problems opening eyeliner caps when you have limited mobility. One in four Americans and 1.3 billion people worldwide with disabilities find buying a new product a disheartening process that many beauty lovers likely take for granted.

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