{please visit Smashbox here}
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Smashbox Cosmetics doesn’t need an introduction–most internationally known, award winning cosmetic lines don’t. No, founders Dean and Davis Factor (great-grandsons to the legendary Max Factor) have adequately introduced to woman world wide the uber chic line of cosmetics they created in 1996 after countless requests from the celebrities and makeup [...]

{please visit Ele Keats here}
I am always inordinately pleased when designers successfully merge the transcendental with the avant-garde. After all, women who hold forward thinking philosophies on health, beauty, and spirit deserve a little more than roughly shaped crystals strung on strands made of hemp.
Ele Keats understands, as is evident with her eponymous collection [...]

{please visit Lulu Beauty here}
For Miss B. and I, entering into a Sephora is not unlike the rush Tom Sizemore probably feels when he crosses the threshold of a house of ill repute. So many lip glosses, so little time. We’re sure that’s what Sizemore is thinking, too.
Miss B. knows every mascara created, [...]

So August is just around the corner, and you know what that means: a new theme!  Of course we won’t divulge the fabulousness we have in store for next month when we have two more incredible designers to unveil in July.  But, we will let you know a little bit about next month because we [...]

{please visit Kelly Rae Roberts here}
I’m hard pressed to not love a woman who owns a lime green leather couch.  There is a certain confidence, a healthy disregard for the pragmatic and staid that goes into making such a purchase.  And, truly, in a month devoted to all things full of beauty, there isn’t much [...]

{please visit Prismera Design here}
One of the perks that comes with doing The Bright Side Project is discovering all the wonderful talent out there, particularly unsung independent brands. Another one of the perks is that we get to highlight and feature brands we know and love. And if we happen to feature an indie [...]

{please visit flourish bath & body here}
The greatest thing that has come out of The Bright Side Project (besides of course the many smiles it produces) is that I can always find someone that has an equally as unique idiosyncrasy as myself, in doing so the world seems just that much smaller and I like [...]

{please visit Modern Printed Matter here}
We do love paper around here.  We scout it, buy it, collect it, hoard it, and eventually, grudgingly, we mail it.  But that’s okay, because that means we can scout, buy, collect, hoard and mail it once again.  Of course, this all flies out the window when we are talking [...]

{please visit Branché here}
There is nothing that rankles my cankles more than Hollywood bedroom scenes. No, not those kind of scenes (although sometimes I do think, seriously?). No, I’m talking about the scenes where some whippet thin starlet wakes up to the sound of chirping Blue Jays, stretches her long limbs like a [...]

{please visit Sycamore Street Press here}
At the end of the day, life is beautiful. Even when it sucks, it’s still beautiful. This belief is the cornerstone behind The Bright Side Project, and the reason even on our gloomiest days Miss B. and I try to focus on the positive–even if that means another [...]