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For some, going to the nail salon is a blissful, relaxing experience. You show up, pick out a color, and someone else shapes, buffs, files, and trims your nails, while you lie back, completely untroubled. Sadly, the experience is quite the opposite for me. Getting my nails done is a chore. Maybe I’m just a freak who’s obsessed with her phone, but the thought of being hands-free for an hour is a nightmare. It seems like the second I give my hands up to the nail technician, everyone I know wants to make plans and discuss our lives in utter detail. I’m squirmy and uncomfortable (I’m constantly told to relax my fingers, over and over again), so I’m always messing them up and annoying whoever is doing my nails. 

Basically, I hate getting my nails done. Unfortunately for me, I love having my nails painted and trying new colors. It’s equivalent to putting eyeshadow or lipstick on; it’s a way to express how I’m feeling and try trends. So, you see my dilemma here. Instead of galavanting about with bare fingernails this spring, here are the trends I’m trying and how I’m getting them at home.

 

1. Mint + Sage Green

 

2. Bubblegum Pink

 

3. Cream + Beige

 

4. Sky Blue

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Feeling that weekend freedom 🌤

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5. Creamsicle

 

6. Fuschia Pink

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Pink for summer 💗👙🎀💅🏼

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7. Yellow

 

8. Lilac

 

9. Bright Red

 

10. White

 

What nail colors are you excited to try this spring? Share with us in the comments!

 

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This is the first spring where I don’t have finals to look forward to, and it couldn’t be better. I’m ready to wear pastels and bright pink lipstick and pick flowers and drive around with the top down in my convertible and dance around to country music. I’ve never been much of a spring gal. It’s busy and always just felt like a lead-up to the other good seasons of the year (you know, summer, fall, and winter). But this year, I’m going all out, and my beauty and fashion is the first place to get the royal treatment. 

Every year, we’re told to “spring clean” and declutter to get rid of all the excess we have in our homes. And while I’m all for getting rid of what doesn’t serve you, I’m also down to try some products to get me excited and ready for the new season ahead. FabFitFun does all the work for me, providing me with fun, new products to try every season at a fraction of the cost.

#1. I’ve been loving FFF for over a year now, and it just keeps getting better every time. It always feels like I’m getting a deal, which makes the box totally worth it.

#2. The box isn’t just about beauty products. Every season, FFF includes home decor, travel essentials (like the one we’re obsessed with below!), clothing, and more. You’re not just trying beauty products every time, which makes the unboxing so much fun.

#3. FabFitFun makes subscribing beyond easy. You sign up for whatever box you want, and you can cancel at any time. Easy-peazy.

#4. If you’re like me and hate surprises, you can see some of our favorites from the box below. Woohoo!

Snag your first box for $10 with the code EVERYGIRL! Keep scrolling to see all of our favorites from the box, or just wait until it arrives at your door. You’re about to love this! 

 

 

Spring 2020 FabFitFun Box Preview

Use code EVERYGIRL for $10 off your first box

Revive Light Therapy

GLO Wrinkle and Anti-Aging Light Device

This light-therapy wand is a beauty-lovers dream. It has red, auburn, and LED lights to stimulate collagen and bring life to your skin without harsh creams or acids.

Elemis

Peptide4 Night Recovery Cream-Oil

Elemis is well-known in the skincare space and is used by makeup artists and celebrities alike. This cream-oil hybrid moisturizes like an oil while feeling lightweight like a cream.

Calpak

Set of 3 Packing Cubes

Our entire office gasped when we opened the box and saw these. We swear by packing cubes to help us fit everything in a tiny carry-on on trips. Spring break, here we come!

tarte

Rainforest of the Sea Drink of H2O Hydrating Boost Moisturizer

This water-based moisturizer will be everything come hot, summer days. We already love Tarte's makeup, so we're excited to try their skincare too!

Tarte

Tarteist Pro Glow Highlight and Contour Palette

Speaking of Tarte makeup, we're so excited for this highlight and contour palette. It contains both creams and powders to give you a sculpted, defined look.

111Skin

Rose Gold Radiance Booster

This highlighter/skincare combo is perfect for natural makeup days. Add this to the top of your cheekbones for a radiant, just-got-back-from-vacay glow.

West Elm

Indigo Tie-Dye Bowls

It's no surprise our editors are big West Elm fans, so to see these gorgeous tie-dye bowls in the box was very exciting.

Summer & Rose

Navy Diamond Tote

This tote is perfect for your next beach vacation. It has woven handles that make it easy for carrying all of your essentials and is even big enough to fit a towel!

Donni.

Ribbed Sweater Coat

As much as we want to pretend it's finally warm out, we're still holding onto our sweaters a little while longer. This cardigan will pair with all of your favorite basic tees and tanks to add some extra warmth to your look (or for when the office AC is blasting!).

Murad

Rapid Collagen Infusion

This skincare treatment is said to minimize the look of fine lines and wrinkles by using collagen amino acids to plump the skin. Murad is a brand we all know and love, so trying out a new product from them through our FFF box is always fun!

 

Amber Sceats

Double Coin Necklace

If you've ever looked at an Everygirl fashion story, you'll know we love layering gold necklaces to add a little pizazz to an otherwise basic outfit. This necklace set makes that so easy to do as it's already put together!

Gravity

Weighted Sleep Mask

Our editors love sleeping with a weighted blanket (it's truly the most relaxing sleep in the world), so when we saw this weighted sleep mask, we were all heart eyes. It blocks out the light while hitting those pressure points (like your temples) for a deep sleep.

Jaboneria

Marianella Imperial Jade Body Oil

This body oil is perfect for reviving your rough, dry skin from the cold winter. Apply it before bed, and you'll wake up with soft, supple baby's-butt skin.

Green Goo

Hibiscus Plant-Based Body Scrub

Exfoliate all the dead skin away with this body scrub. It's made with coconut oil and shea butter, so it'll moisturize while it's exfoliating your skin.

Aria Beauty

Luxe Detangling Electroplated Brush

This detangling brush gets rid of tangles without pulling on the hair. The bristles are longer than a normal brush to reduce the stress and weight on your scalp.

Aveda

Damage Remedy Daily Hair Repair

If you use heat on your hair several times a week, this hair mask both repairs the damage already done and protects against further heat damage. We call that a win-win.

Caravan

Diamond Woven Rug

We love that FFF doesn't exclusively include beauty products. Getting this adorable, durable rug in our box got all of us excited wondering where we'd put it in our homes.

Don’t forget: use the code EG10 for $10 off your first box!

 

 

This post was in partnership with FabFitFun, but all of the opinions within are those of The Everygirl editorial board.

 

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We’re big fans of the YouTube Beauty Community here at The Everygirl. We’re constantly talking about our favorite creators, their best looks, and buying pretty much everything they recommend. The YouTube beauty world is honestly what we have to thank for some of the biggest trends in beauty—we’d never be baking our undereyes or curling our hair with straighteners or using men’s post-shave balm as a primer if it weren’t for the beauty YouTubers who taught us how. 

Alongside the various techniques YouTube has taught us, the phenomenon of the ever-so-popular “empties video” has truly taken over our subscription feeds. Every beauty YouTuber has made an empties video (if not five), and everyone who even knows just a glimpse of beauty YouTube has seen one. The concept is simple: show everyone what’s in your trash and talk about if you loved it, if you’ll buy it again, and how long it took you to use up. 

So being the beauty-lovers we are at TEG HQ, we decided to create our own empties series. Every month, all of our editors will share a few of our own empties—from skin, hair, and makeup products to candles and vitamins and home items—and give our unfiltered review on each of the products. Some of them we’ll love and need to repurchase ASAP … and some we’ll celebrate finally finishing them up. If you’ve ever wondered what our absolute favorites (and not-so-favorites) are, this is the right place to be. It’s finally time for our trash cans to shine!

 

St. Tropez

Purity Bronzing Water Face Mist

Let me start with this: I am naturally very, very pale—not in a cute way, in an I-have-the-flu way. Because of this, I have tried literally every self-tanner you have ever heard of. I have tried expensive ones and drugstore ones and of them all, this is absolutely, hands-down my favorite way to tan my face, and I NEVER HEAR ANYONE TALKING ABOUT IT. Anyone who self-tans knows that your face fades first, so I spray this on after cleansing, and it magically turns my face into the most natural-looking fake tan I have ever seen in my life. It's better than the Isle of Paradise Tanning drops, it's better than whatever you're using now—it never looks muddy or overdone, but makes you look like you truly spent the afternoon in the sun. This is probably my 10th bottle and I will always re-purchase it. This is in my top five favorite beauty products, no questions asked. Spraying a clear water on your face and it turning into the perfect, even tan sounds too good to be true, but I promise, it is not.

St. Tropez

Purity Water Gel

To reiterate, I have tried every self-tanner you have ever heard of, and this is my fourth bottle of this bad boy and I already have another one purchased. I like to look as dark as possible without looking clearly artificial, and this one hits the nail on the head. It's super long-lasting and makes me the perfect just-got-back-from-vacation tan I've ever witnessed—and it's the most scent-free one I've ever tried. This one is also my go-to before big events—I can put it on at night and wake up the next day knowing that I won't look crazy or need three showers before I'm an acceptable color, which puts it at the top of my list. This line is truly incredible. (I've tried the Purity Bronzing Mousse as well, and found that this one is darker).

 

The Ordinary

AHA + BHA Peeling Solution

I remember when The Ordinary first came out and I was absolutely shooketh by the fact that everything was seemingly under $10. I immediately bought everything I could and this miracle liquid was (and still is) my favorite product they make. Doing a chemical peel at home sounds dicey, but I actually really love how my skin feels after this. You spread a thin layer all over your face (it's BRIGHT red so you look like your face has been turned inside out, and yes, it is alarming), wait 10 minutes, and then rinse. After rinsing, my face is so smooth it could give Hitch a run for his money.

Maelove

Cleansing Oil

I've jumped on the double cleansing bandwagon in the last year, much to my own annoyance, because when I finally get around to washing my face at night, I am so tired I could collapse in place. But I genuinely think the benefits of the ol' double cleanse outweigh the interminable length of my nighttime routine. I've tried tons of cleansing oils and a lot of them sting my poor, sensitive eyes or make my face feel a bit grimy. This Maelove one is like a beautiful breath of fresh air. It's really gentle going on and makes my face feel so utterly soft it's basically kitten fur. I follow it up with my Avene Cleansing Gel and I feel like the Queen of Double Cleansing.

 

Milk Makeup

Kush Fiber Brow Gel

When I first picked up this brow gel, it quickly became my holy grail. I love the color selection—nothing is too grey or too warm—and it adds just the right amount of volume and hold to the brows. I love that it doesn’t make my brows sticky or clumpy either. I don’t naturally have thick brows (somehow the only parts of my body that aren’t ~thick~ are my brows and hair—rude), but I love the look of brushed-up, model-esque brows. It took a while to get through this, but I’ve since found a cheaper and better brow gel at the drugstore!

Jergens

Wet Skin Shea Oil Body Lotion

LOL, I bought another one of these when I was halfway done with the bottle because it’s truly my favorite body care product of all time. I’ve gotten my mom, my grandma (who has strictly used just Dove pink soap since the beginning of time), my friends, and even my ex (his next GF has so much to thank me for) onto this body moisturizer. I use it while my hair conditioner is setting, and it makes your skin soft without feeling greasy. I pat my skin dry when I get out of the shower, and if I really want to glow, I’ll go in with a body cream.

Covergirl

Lid Lockup Eye Primer

I wear eyeshadow pretty much every single day, and I’m always on the hunt for the best eye primer. Right now, my favorite is the Urban Decay Primer Potion (an oldie, but a goodie!), but this comes in as a close second, especially considering the price. Because I use primer every day, it’s very easy to go through the product, so I love having this budget option in my arsenal!

 

Olehenriksen

Banana Bright Eye Crème

How I feel about eye creams is how I felt about toys as a child: I'm really into one until a shiny new one comes along. I have tried many eye creams in my life, and this is the first one to ever reach empty status. Of all the eye creams that promise to brighten (my Keurig knows how much I need help brightening the under-eyes), this one packs a secret ingredient (spoiler alert: it's banana powder). Add in super ingredients like vitamin C and collagen to reduce signs of aging, this eye cream truly packs a powerful punch (and smells amazing). It's my favorite cream to put under makeup because it instantly soothes and hydrates, so I have one last little drop I'm saving for a special occasion before I head to Sephora for my next tub (it will also be the first eye cream I purchase twice!).

 

Kristin Ess

Weightless Hydration Daily Scalp + Hair Mask

Living in the south, I spend most of the year either (a) covered in sweat or (b) reworking my beauty routine to accommodate for potential sweat. It’s just a fact of life that I have come to accept. Yes, I did get a little pampered during my four-year stint in Los Angeles where humidity doesn’t exist and no one knows how to drive in rain (aka the faintest sprinkle), but now I am back in the boob-sweat belt of the United States and embracing my future as a dewy drenched princess. All of this to say, it’s hella annoying that for my eight-week “winter” (yes, the air quotes are strong y’all) reprieve, I have to spend it dealing with my scalp freaking the f*ck out. This isn’t some little sprinkle of dandruff that your Dad’s old bottle of Head and Shoulders can take care of. This is full-blown-chunks-of-my-scalp-coming-off-nightmare. That’s why every night during fake winter, I say a little prayer of thank you to the goddess above that Kristin Ess blessed my world with a scalp line that is affordable, conveniently located at Target, and smells amazing. This is my second year using her magic scalp potions and after trying other methods with limited success, I always return to her line. TYSM KRISTIN ILY.

Shiseido

Perfect Cleansing Oil

This face cleanser is like that really good looking guy on Tinder that you had big hopes for. Everything starts off great and by date two you’re already mentally packing for the exotic summer vacay you’ll take together while convincing yourself the weird memes he sends you are endearing … and then by the end of date four when he cannot remember what you do for a living, you text your roommate begging her to call with a fake life emergency because if this date lasts a moment longer you simply can’t continue with life. When I started my journey with this cleanser I loved it. Most oil cleansers come in a tub with a spoon that doesn’t make for ideal shower application, so for packaging Shiseido nails it. But with every pump, I was less impressed. By the time it was over, I was relieved to toss it in the recycling bin and move on. It works fine, but for $34 I want to be blown away and simply put: it was lackluster and lasted forever. I already ordered my old faithful to replace it: Clean It Zero.

Anthropologie

Vanilla & Fig Candle

Despite being married, I have a whole host of secret-single-behaviors that I still get to partake in thanks to my husband working an incredibly daunting job. If I’m being dramatic and exaggerative (hello, it’s me so OF COURSE I AM), I’ll say they are my greatest joys in life—but please do not relay that to my pets, aforementioned husband, friends, family, etc. One of these behaviors is expensive candle hoarding. When Anthropologie has a sale, I buy this candle in Costco-level bulk. I convince myself it’s affordable which is a real loosey-goosey argument but oh well. I burn them year-round, in every room, and like the aspiring bougie bitch I am, I consider it my signature home scent. I just finished off my last one and am already waiting at the window for the UPS guy.

boscia

Matcha Magic Super-Antioxidant Mask

There are very few (beauty-related) things that bring me more joy in this life than a good face mask. It's the little things, guys. I impulse-bought this one, but, when trying to decide which mask to use, kept coming back to it. It has a scent I think is pretty calming and always makes my skin look and feel great. I'm already missing it, so chances are good that it'll get repurchased VERY soon.

 

Aveeno

Sheer Hydration Daily Moisturizing Lotion

Everyone warned me about the Chicago winter but up until recently it really wasn’t “that bad.” Once it started getting consistently freezing, however, I switched to a new moisturizer and it has made such a difference to my wind-battered face (courtesy of a walking commute).

I instantly noticed my skin feeling and looking healthier, plus any product that has “with soothing oat” on the label I am definitely buying.

 

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