Cyclomethicone is a common ingredient in the beauty industry. The products you can find it in run the gamut of deodorant and antiperspirants to sunscreens, hair care products, moisturizer, perfume and more. Let’s get into it! What is it? Cyclomethicone embodies both multiple and/or individual cyclic siloxane materials. It is derived from both silicon and oxygen. This ingredient is in the form of a clear liquid. It contains no alcohol and has no smell. Why is it in my beauty products? One of the benefits of cyclomethicone is its ability to provide a smooth texture that glides on skin in
Author: Kristen Grace
Beauty junkie, food obsessed, and constant wanderer.
Week in Review #18
This week has been anxiety ridden and stressful all because of the Coronavirus. Coronavirus, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. People are dying, events are getting cancelled and there is a severe lack of toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Plus, the stock market is only plunging into an abyss. But whatevs, it’s the return of my week in reviews, so let’s check out what happened: I’ve been fan girling over Cargo’s Blush “Catalina” since it makes me look all healthy and natural. I talk about seeing the National Museum of Natural History and looking at giant gemstones!
Currently Listening to: 25 by Adele
This album is a breakup guide to all the teenagers out there. I say this because from the sound of it, Adele has been dumped. A LOT. As a side effect, she’s learned to craft some ridiculously classy songs in response to breakups. Really, you could do far worse than to emulate Adele when your heart has been trampled on. And there are so many different types of breakup on the album. There is the regretful, I’m-so-sorry song of “Hello” that everyone and their pet cat has heard on the radio. It’s hauntingly beautiful. Although it’s clearly about her inability
Creamy Crab Croquettes
Many times I choose a recipe simply because I think it’ll be a challenge. You could think of it almost as an invitation to fail, because failure means I learned something. Spoiler alert: I did not fail. This recipe was oh-so-delicous. So delicious that my significant other became homesick. It reminded him too much of food served at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. It was the best compliment he could’ve given me. The recipe of course is for Creamy Crab Croquettes stolen from Beyond the Plate. We couldn’t decide which way was better–fresh out of the fryer or straight out
Adventures in Shopping: TopShop T-Shirts
You know, I’ve heard a lot about TopShop but have never actually shopped there. After perusing their website for awhile, I realized it was more or less a trendy rabbit hole where I found myself saying things like, “Why so many crop tops?” “What is that supposed to be?” and surprisingly enough, “Why are all the t-shirts so boring?” I mean, how many solid colored t-shirts in different lengths of crop top could one store sell anyway? Clearly, t-shirts is not the section I should’ve been wandering around in but that’s what I’ve got today. The t-shirts I would purchase
Five Favorite Things – February 2020
My Kitten Callie – I adore her. She has conversations with me and demands to know where I am if she can’t find me. She’s obsessed with giving me cuddles and likes sleeping on top of my head. She loves her sister and makes everyone happy with her instant purring! My Kitten Evie – Evie just wants to make sure every one is happy. Furthermore, she likes to sleep in my bed under the covers with head poking out and everything. Do you know how insanely adorable this is?! She greets me with a giant “MEOW!” every time I come
Jewelry at the National Museum of Natural History – Washington D.C.
I didn’t take many pictures, because the gemstones were so bright they were actually blinding my camera. Check it out. Can you imagine the bling that was happening in real life? I feel like it was damaging to the eyes to look at these babies straight on! You really do have to see these gems in the flesh to realize just how brilliant they are! Obviously, we had to stop by and see the Hope Diamond. You know, the one that seems to be cursed and kills everyone. It is huge and ostentatious. There is some jewelry that I lust
Cargo – Blush in “Catalina”
Pale girls, look no further. I have found your blush. It’s this sweet baby doll pink that can either give you that just-been-out-in-cold-weather flush or that healthy coloring that tricks people into thinking you work out and eat healthy. It’s great because you have to try really hard to overdo this. Like REALLY HARD. It definitely fits the “buildable color” category more than the “intensely pigmented” side of things. I love that I can slap it on in the morning, without having to be careful with it. Ive reached for it every day this past month, and I’m falling more
An Open Letter to Seattle, Washington
Dear Seattle, I visit you occasionally but it should really be more often. However, depending on the day and the hour (and, let’s face it–traffic), you can be kind of a pain-in-the-ass to travel to. Besides, you can be a wee bit expensive when I decide to do things like buy artisanal wines, macarons, bread, cheeses and meats so I can be bougie and have the best movie snack EVER. Unfortunately, you are the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. Although I’ve usually bemoaned the fact that you and my favorite piroshki stand are roughly an hour and a half away,
ALL the Kitten Pictures
I recently announced my adoption of two beautiful kittens, Callie (short for Calvin Klein) and Evie (short for Yves Saint Laurent). Check them out in all their wonderful kitty-ness! This was the VERY first picture we saw of them. They are the two in the back. It was this that made my fiancé and I fall in love. Little Miss Callie, in the flesh (fur?). This was her at about 10 weeks old. Can’t you just see the sass in her? She will often meow for her sister and for us. She has to know everyone is okay. She’s an