Pick Three: Cruelty-Free, Fair, Olive, Dry Skin. The Drugstore Won’t Give You All Four Four filters, zero products Hello, beautiful people! Today I’m talking about why there is no cruelty-free fair olive foundation for dry skin at the drugstore. The first foundation I ever owned, in the mid-90s, was the palest shade of a drugstore…
Cool toned brow products are hard to find, especially at affordable prices. Most brow pencils, pens and gels pull warm, orange or even green on my very fair olive skin. This is my collection of the cool toned brow products that work for me, updated for 2026 with my current go-to eyebrow pencils, how I…
Hello, Hex Squad! Today I’m sharing some of my favorite alternative makeup brands to try in 2026. This is not an exhaustive list of every single alternative beauty brand in existence, only the ones that I’ve personally shopped at and purchased from. All opinions, as always, are my own. I do also mention if any…
Hello beautiful people! Today I’m sharing the best cruelty free makeup primers for 2026. I first wrote this list in 2014 as a top 10. My favorites have completely changed since then, so I’ve rebuilt it into two sections: my 13 favorite face primers and my 13 favorite eye primers. I have dry, sensitive skin,…
Hello beautiful people! Today I’m sharing the best drugstore olive foundations and concealers with you. Drugstore olive foundation is almost a contradiction in terms. Fair shades at the drugstore reliably come in peach or pink, rarely neutral, olive shades start at medium depth when they exist at all, and porcelain and fair olives like me…
Hello, beautiful people! Do I have olive undertones? I get asked this question all the time, especially since my Lisa Eldridge Shade 2.5 review, because once people hear the phrase “fair olive,” something clicks. If every foundation you’ve ever tried turned pink like a sunburn or orange like a pumpkin, you might be one of…