Easy Drugstore Makeup Look for Work/School

I’m a simple makeup girl – I’d much rather splurge on skincare instead of makeup because I want my skin to look so good that I don’t feel the need to wear a lot of makeup. Sometimes it’s hard to find drugstore recommendations of makeup for Black girls, so I wanted to change that! Here’s…

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Advancing as a Forensic Scientist

I work full time as a forensic scientist, and it’s a dream job for the girl who’s loved true crime and CSI since I was like 11 years old. I love what I do as a forensic toxicology analyst, but I want to move further up in my career. As an analyst, I do the…

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Project Pan 2021 – Decluttering My Beauty Stash

2021’s beauty decluttering project is here! (Check out what I used up in 2020 in this post) Project Pan, inspired by Beauty News, is a plan to completely use up beauty products to get them out of my collection. I don’t want to waste them and just throw them away if they still work fine…

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Best & Worst in Beauty | 2020 Edition

All year, I’ve been on a mission to declutter my overflowing beauty product collection. Some was given to me in gratis from my time working at Sephora, others I purchased even though I knew I didn’t need more stuff. I’ve been tracking my progress through my Project Pan and Empties monthly updates, and today I’m…

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Self-Care Tips That Got Me Through Grad School

Featured Image by RF._.studio from Pexels Part 2 in my Self-Care in STEM series is all about the self-care techniques that helped me get through grad school. (Part 1 was on my self-care in undergrad & my first job out of college – read Part 1 here) Grad School After working at my first job for 3 years,…

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