Beauty

We are at the end of June, and I thought it would be cool to list off all my favorite, go-to products this month. Please note that affiliate link have been use in this post. Products will show an (*) I make a small percentage on anything you buy through my link. It will not cost you any more or affect you in any way at all. So it all start with those saying my skin is like butter or so glowing. Most people ask me serious questions about skin, or where I got my accessories from. Let’s round everything thing up. On today’s post I am sharing all my favorite/ go to products of the summer. Croc Embossed  Crossbody Bag This little bag is so cute! I get so many compliments on it when I do get to dress up a little. Self-quarantining has definitely put a halt on a lot of my plan. However, when I do go out to get some fresh air safely, I take this bag with me.  Neutral colors, and greens have been my go to colors for the summer.  Can you believe I only spent $13 bucks on it? It is from Shein and …

Hey lovelies! I’m back with a new and improved Beauty Talk. If you know, makeup is a big part of my life. I like to look good, and enhance my beauty.  Yes, I love to do m own makeup and I do it everyday.  So, it is only right I share all my go-to products. On today’s post I am doing just that, sharing my favorite products. This post is extra special to me. To go out on bang for Black History Month, I am sharing all my favorite black owned beauty brands, black collaborations, and such. Note: some of these products that I am featuring are not black owned products. However, the product could be very inclusive for Black skin, or the products is collaboration. Will be specified respectively. FashionLayn’s Beauty Picks  Favorite Skin Care Product Sunscreen should worn all year round.  I have been sticking to my sunscreen routine. This sunscreen I am featuring by far the best sunscreen I have ever used in my life. To be honest, I have been consistent with using the Black Girl Sunscreen because I love how it gives me beautiful glow. Ultra sheer and no white or purple residue.  This is …

Let me tell you now, this is a judgement free zone…okay lol! Now, I am not trying to purposely mess up my skin, or hair. Something I have too many things on my to do list, tired, or just plain lazy. I have been know to neglect my self. Last month, I told myself I need to be more intentional when it comes to taking care of myself. Living a healthier lifestyle includes, taking care of body, skin, and nails. We all have bad habits. We are guilty of doing something that is not the most healthiest to ourselves. When you know better you do better. So, this is my beauty “hit list”. I’m saying goodbye to all my bad beauty habits in 2019. I am looking forward to being better me, because I know better. On today’s post,  I am sharing my bad beauty habits and how I have and will break them. Bad Beauty Habits I Am Leaving in Behind BAD HABIT #1| Sleeping In My Makeup I am the biggest offender.  I have slept in “full face” of makeup so many times. Waking up to smeared mascara, skin looking so dry and clogged. Wearing makeup to bed …

Hello Beauties, I am back with another Beauty Talk. I am so excited to be doing this again! I decided to bring Beauty Talk  back because this one of the most successful blog post I ever did on my blog.  Inside of showing y’all my favorite products, I thought it would be cool to show y’all my favorite products for the FALL SEASON ! So, let’s have a little Beauty Talk on the blog. Remember makeup is simply a enhancer to all the beauty that your already have ! Favorite Skin Care Products Fall season leaves my skin super dry I need my skin to feel like a baby’s bottom (left to right) Upper Canada Green Tea “Detoxification” Face Sheet Mask : 5 pack $11.50 Upper Canada Pearlessence Vitamin C + Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum : $5.99 TJMaxx Clinique Moisture Surge 72 hour Auto-Replenishing Hydrator: Starting Price $12 Sephora **Trying the tester size Clinique Moisture Surge Face Spray: $25.50 Sephora  ** Tying the tester size If you read my last Beauty Talk post you already know about my hostile dry skin !! It can be really combative in the fall. So first I have been trying out these tester size …

Hello Beauties, Yes today we are going to have beauty talk. Lets talk about 10 of my favorite beauty products currently! I was inspire to do this post by InStyle May Magazine! (Sidenote: Zoe Kravitz is on the cover) Annual they have awards for the best beauty buys, judge my panel industries pros. Let me tell you now I am not a pro with it comes to beauty but I am pro in what I like. Basically I like what I like. Also, I been feeling a little insecure about my face after having oral surgery. SO …… beauty talk ! Favorite Skin Care Products Face soft like a babies bottom – sidenote I have dry skin !  (left to right)  Shea Moisture Daily Glow Priming Moisturizer: $11.99 at Target  Mario Badescu Skin Care Facial Spray with Aloe, Herbs, and Rosewater: $7 at Ulta  Shea Moisture Daily Hydration Overnight Face Oil: $8.99 at Target These products have been helping combat my hostile dry skin ! I use the Mario Badescu Facial Spray right after I cleanse my face and after I set my makeup. Really you can use it at anytime.  I just love that hydrating and refresh feel it gives …

Let me just tell you me and Fenty Beauty have been having a long time issue with each other. I have been on a long journey just trying to get my complexion color. Lord the first day I tried it was all sold. Then I tried again had my color no money to spend. Just a up and down relationship. Fenty help me… help me please! It was a point in time I couldn’t even test the shade out. So I guess for a few months. Long story short I got it in my possession. Baby this is what you came for.. Lighting strikes every times she moves … AND EVERYBODY WATCHING HER ! Yess… I finally got my Fenty Beauty Pro Filt’r Soft Matte Foundation. Just in time for Rihanna’s birthday. I found my foundation color at the Sephora in Chicago on Michigan Ave before her birthday ! Yes hunny I got my color is 420after is being sold out for like forever.  This is consider a soft matte complexion products. It it a medium to full coverage foundation and it is build able. This is my new favorite foundation. I have been using this foundation for two days and I am in …

Gift Guide for my Single Ladies for Valentines Day So Valentines Day is around the corner.   I already know the struggle being a single woman I’ve been there. So don’t get in your feelings because you don’t have anyone special to share it with. Please don’t get jealous of the our Twitter and Instagram feed of all the V-day gifts that get posted ladies.  I am a firm believer that you do not need to wait for someone to love you to enjoy Valentines Day. Love yourself hunny. Now  somebody told me that buying a gift for yourself  for Valentines is  pretty pathetic. Hmmmmmm so buying myself a gift and loving myself is pathetic.. Don’t get me to speculate. LOL. To my single hunnies and my ladies that are taken if you want to buy yourself something for Valentines Day go for it.  Self-Love is the best love. We can’t expect to love somebody fully if we don’t love ourselves first. 1: Thigh High Boots: If you want to feeel extra sexy get some sexy thigh high boots. I know when I put my thigh highs on…. girl I walk a little taller. I feel like a “bad gyal”. …

Aye it my birthday!! So freakin awesome !! I am officially 28 years old today.  I am so thankful to be allowed to see another year. Another year to do what I love, to be with my family and friends.  Team Aquarius ! Over the past year I learn a lot about myself. Learn how to cope with my anxiety, learning that its not all about me. I make it a point to get better each year with age. So this is Chapter 28, the pre 30 crisis. Lol  the year of when you start lying about your age. Maybe your under pressure with getting you life together. Or when you body start breaking down. I know its you! The one that getting sleepy in the club before midnight. LOL  Embracing the struggle. I going face getting older head on !  You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream !! – C.S Lewis So on todays blog post I thought I could introduce myself. I feel like my reader to should know I bit more about me.  SO why not give you 28 Random things about me !! I’m letting yall in   …