Big Kid
How To Give Makeup Advice To Your Teen
Girls and their makeup and their mothers. The best thing for you to remember, despite your life experience, you know NOTHING so get others involved to help.
Big Kid
Tips for Teenage Skin & Hair
Some helpful tips and things we wish our mothers had taught us about taking care of our skin and hair when we were teenagers.
Beauty & Style
Panic! At the Sephora
Has one of the Smackdown’s most beloved make-up brands been discontinued? Say it isn’t so! (HINT: It isn’t so.)
Beauty & Style
Now I Lay Me Down To Nap…Should I Wash My Face First?
Hi Amy, I have a sleep disorder, Idiopathic Hypersomnia. I’m being treated, but my meds haven’t gotten sorted out yet to where I don’t have to sleep during the day. This is my dilemma: I get up in the morning, wash with the Purity cleanser,…
Beauty & Style
The Tracks of Your Tears: How to Repair Your Makeup After Crying
How to Repair Your Makeup After Crying Hi Amy, I have a somewhat strange question to ask. I am about to go through a number of events (an IVF cycle, a close friend’s wedding, sister’s graduation) where I will definitely be crying, but still need…
Beauty & Style
Smackdown Field Trip: ISO the Perfect Concealer
Well. Whew! What a week last week was, with all the not-updating I did. However, a true advice columnist never rests and never stops bossing people around, and last week was no exception. I went to New York to meet up with AlphaMom’s own Isabel…
Beauty & Style
Aging Eyes: Where No Eye Cream Has Gone Before
Amalah – I am really noticing my age in my eyes, and am interested in trying some products to make them look better. What I can never tell is where you are supposed to put said products. Under the eyes, yes, but do you put…
Beauty & Style
Green for a Day: Homemade Beauty Treatments
This morning’s beauty ritual: Yes, really. I’m soooo expensing my grocery bill, y’all. So, as promised, after Googling homemade beauty recipes far and wide (here’s just a sampling of what’s out there), I opted to go with whichever ones I could make without a special…
Beauty & Style
Does Preparation H Reduce Puffiness Around the Eyes?
This is a serious question. Not global warming serious, but you know… Does Preparation H reduce puffiness around the eyes? Does it shrink things other than butt pustules? Amy, I know that you are a cause-driven individual. I’ve seen your pink hair. We’ve all seen…
Beauty & Style
Eye of Darkness
Dearest Amalah, I have a problem so, duh, who better to answer it than you? There are dark circles under my eyes. Huge, dark, purple circles that NEVER go away. I’ve had them since I was a kid (now 24) and I’m starting to get…