Fashion and Beauty Ethics: Fair-Trade, Fair-mined, Cruelty Free

In my posts, Ethics in Fashion: Labor and Environmental Concerns and Ethics in Beauty and Fashion, I discuss several concerns regarding the fashion and beauty industries including pollution, waste, and labor.  In terms of pollution, contaminating water sources, dumping, and the chemicals involved in manufacturing and dying fabrics and garments caused for birth defects and…

Acrylic Nails: Are They Damaging?

  (Cover Girl Glossitinis UV Reactive Polish: for a Club Kid Glow) I rocked stiletto nails from Halloween through February, and yes, they totally destroy your nails. At one point, the nailtek was filing my nails, and they’d flap back & forth like paper! It’s been several months and they’re still brittle, peely, and uneven, but…

Nails & Drink Aglow: Covergirl Glossitinis

Cover Girl Glossitinis are UV reactive nail polish, giving you the club-kid effect under black light! The color I’m wearing is NeonLight and appears black but looks navy in sunlight and glows blue in black light.