Category: Makeover

There was a time when I had allllll the products. All. Of. Them. As a former beauty editor, one of the best parts of my job was the steady stream of products I received every single day. When the very first box came, filled with my very first Kiehl’s products, I was hooked! Since then, I’ve seen […]

Until now, my approach to aging could be compared to that bird that hides its head in the sand. Or a little kid plugging his ears and saying: “I can’t hear you I can’t hear you!” I ignored it. (But in a mature way.) If I felt young and looked young, I reasoned, then the […]

Listen, God already did his part. We were all born dewy-skinned and rosy-cheeked and flawless, but somewhere between 15 and, well, now, we’ve lost a little bit of that glow. Maybe it was age or heredity or teen acne that never quite went away, but I suspect it was something far more sinister. I suspect it was birthday […]

I used to love makeover shows, but I was always slightly dejected when each episode was over. There was no miraculous makeover in the cards for me. I was already giving it everything I had. But was I really? Sure, I was doing most of the big stuff, from semi-regular haircuts to flattering everyday makeup, but some […]

Eyebrows are sort of a big deal in my family (as is hair removal in general, but that’s for a different blog). When I was in junior high (that’s what we called it then), my mother would heat honey to make “halawa” for waxing our legs, eyebrows, even arms. She took it very seriously. (We are Egyptian, […]

Kevin isn’t really my first love. Makeup is. I read about it, write about it, shop for it, and collect (some may say hoard) it. But there’s one thing I don’t do with it. Wear it. Well, I do, of course, but I wear pretty much the same thing, day in and day out. And […]

Hollywood mom Brooke Burke always looks gorgeous, and I especially adored her soft, pretty hair at the Emmy’s. The Relaxed Romantic Faux Bob created for Brooke by her stylist, Jonathan Hanousek, is fairly easy to replicate. Jonathan shows us how, step by step: “To create volume and body and hold I applied Wen Pomegranate Nourishing Mousse […]

This morning, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to appear on the popular Jacksonville-area show, First Coast Living. But let me back up. When I received confirmation on Friday that I would be shooting the (live!) segment today, my first thought was, naturally, what I was going to wear. Here are the rules, roughly […]

Are You a Fancy Mommy? Recently, a friend’s young daughter exclaimed: “Wow, now that’s a fancy mom! Look, mommy! That’s what I mean. You are a mom but she is a fancy mom:  Her hair is nice, her skin looks shiny, she has a nice sweater. You need to put some water and cream on […]

Fellow stylist and mom Fawn Cheng had some more inspired ideas to share with Beauty Mommy readers. Read on for more!   Getting Your Girly Back “I’ve always been a girly girl and I’ve always loved anything and everything glamorous, but it can get nutty especially with the first baby or if you have multiples […]