For French makeup artist Violette, beauty is all about expressing your individuality and embracing your authentic self. It's a philosophy that she's held on to throughout the last 17 years of her impressive career. A self-taught makeup artist, the New York-based Parisian has established her name as one of the most sought-after creatives within the beauty industry, with stints at Dior Makeup, Sephora and more recently, Estée Lauder as its Global Beauty Director. Some may also recognize Violette ...

Beauty experts, they’re just like us! Well, kind of. Of course, most of us don’t possess the professional know-how when it comes to prepping a celebrity for a red carpet sparkling with flashbulbs or assessing the health of a person’s complexion, but many of us do have one thing in common with the industry’s best makeup and skincare experts: Amazon! Despite having access to quite literally any product in the world, over the years I’ve discovered that even the most prestigious experts s...

Just sayin'.Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of crazy-expensive beauty products that are well worth every penny. I own a few, and I’m pretty darn dependent on them! However, there are just as many crazy-expensive beauty products that have vastly more affordable counterparts that are just as, and sometimes even more efficacious.  In an overly saturated industry it can be hard to know where to turn, but in honor of Amazon Prime Day, (and all of the stellar deals!) I’m here to shed lig...

There is an interesting feature on each of the product pages on Nordstrom’s site. There’s actually a spot below the sizing drop-down section that showcases if and how many fellow shoppers are actually viewing that particular item at that time. So essentially, you can more or less tell if a piece is in "higher demand" based on the number of people considering the item.We decided to take a scroll through the pages of fashionable basics and pulled out those versatile picks that have higher de...