skin care
Cheap Beauty Tip of the Week: DIY Face Masks
Five-star spa facials are amazing. They’re also quite expensive. If you can afford to take time off of work and splurge on something as luxurious as a spa day, lucky you! But just because your broke doesn’t mean your skin has to suffer and you can’t pamper yourself. For all
Cheap Beauty Tip: Try Before You Buy
How many times have you bought a skin care or makeup product only to find that you’ve used it once or twice? Now, it’s just been sitting in your drawer months, maybe even years later after you’ve originally purchased it. What a waste of money! If only you could have
This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco
I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available
Cheap Beauty Tip of the Week: 5 Ways to Score a Cheaper Skin Care Service
Let’s face it. Times are tough. Not a lot of people these days have the extra money to splurge on a facial or a bikini wax. You shouldn’t have to let a sucky economy get in the way of your professional beauty regimen. Lucky for you, there are five thrifty
Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market
There are lots of cheap beauty, fashion, and art finds to be discovered at the African Market on 116th St. between Malcolm X Blvd. and 5th Ave. A holdover from a Harlem of yore,the market is open seven days a week, but I would suggest avoiding Sundays when the market
Cheap Beauty Tip of the Week: Wash Your Face
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that in order to have clear skin, you have to have clean skin. Clean skin doesn’t necessarily mean using a million different expensive products either. When it comes to skin care, a little bit goes a long way. Less is more.
Cheap Beauty Tip of the Week: Bangin Beauty Bargain Programs
Being beautiful comes with a price. Not all of us are blessed with the “I look beautiful naturally” genes. Most of us (myself included) seek help from various retailers, whether they are drugstores or department store counters for the products used in our own beautification process. Depending on where you
Cheap Beauty Tip of the Week: Cheap Sunburn Relief
What could possibly be more 4th of July than a three-day weekend full of hot dogs and fireworks? How about the infamous, nasty sunburn? Sometimes no matter how you shake it, there’s just no getting around excessive sun exposure on a long summer, holiday weekend. You may have been religious
Cheap Beauty Tip of the Week: Drink Water
Drinking water does a lot of awesome things for your body. Water prevents our bodies from getting dehydrated. Water can reduce the pain a hangover can cause. Water helps the cells in our body function. Water can act as an appetite suppressant if you’re into the whole weight management thing.