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Not too long ago, I decided that maybe it was time to switch to a cream blush. I've used powder for years, but I keep reading that "older" skin does better with creams. I'm 40, which isn't particularly old but isn't exactly young, so I sort of have older skin, but I also have oily skin that breaks out.
Also, I am lazy and not interested in spending more than maybe eight minutes putting my face together in the morning. And that includes doing my hair.
So the cream blush: I did what any media savvy woman does these days and I started Googling. And I found ... nothing. Not one single helpful article or post or ANYTHING about cream blush, never mind cream blush and oily skin. And then I did the next best thing and started asking my friends. Of course THEY knew the answer: cream and oil do NOT mix. Stick with powder.
Thank goodness for friends, particularly the kind who can give great beauty advice.
Being beautiful isn't about what you put on your face or hair; it's about being comfortable with who you are. Beauty doesn't come from a tube or a bottle, we all know that, but those tubes and bottles are a lot of fun. Especially if you have a trusted friend to tell you which ones to try and give you the straight scoop on what works and what doesn't. Fortunately, BlogHer is that friend!
We are proud (okay and REALLY REALLY EXCITED) to announce the launch of BlogHer's BeautyHacks, a community site where BlogHers can dish about getting beautiful. Our crack team of BeautyHacks editors will dig deep into their own makeup bags and tell you all about what they are using and how it's working (one editor has even promised to try the mythical Preparation H for crow's feet treatment). This is beauty advice from people you can trust. I promise. We will be posting a hack of some sort -- a product review or a how-to -- four times a week. Hacks will be seasonal, which means that we're starting off right now with summer beauty products. Posts will cover hair, skin, and makeup -- everything from lip gloss to face masks to deep conditioners. We will test high and low end products, and stuff we mix up ourselves (mayonaise hair masque, anyone?).
But BeautyHacks isn't about telling you what to do -- it's about building a body of knowledge about what works (or doesn't work) beauty wise. We have great editors testing fantastic products, but we need more than just this small group -- we need YOU, too. Have a product you love? A strategy that always works for you? Write your own hacks post and help us create a comprehensive guide to what's hott and cool in beauty. We want to be THE place to go for the latest dish on what makes us beautiful. To do that, we need your knowledge and experience, too. On Mondays we will highlight the best of the previous week's editor and member posts, the hacks that we ALL need to see. So get your beauty on and start posting.
BeautyHacks isn't about an idealized image of what is beautiful; it's not about changing who you are or how you look to meet someone else's fantasy. BeautyHacks is real women dishing about real beauty -- about what they have in their makeup bags and medicine chests and refrigerators. BeautyHacks is about what all of us do to be beautiful, every day, in our own bathrooms. It's about how we navigate our individual beauty needs and desires, and how we find the beauty in ourselves. We hope you will join us -- ask questions, suggest products, write your own hacks posts right here at BlogHer. Together we can make the world a more beautiful place, one face masque at a time.
Now who has an eye cream to recommend? Because I need a good one, and soon.
