Beauty Product Junkies

I've had good luck with the Cover Girl Last Blast mascara, so I was excited to read NadiaPotter's review of Cover Girl Professional All In One Mascara in the group Beauty Product Junkies. The mascara claims to magnify your lashes while still looking natural, and to "find lashes you didn't know you had." I'll turn it over to NadiaPotter for the scoop:

I bought Cover Girl Professional All In One mascara, the mascara that is supposed to give you everything... Well, it doesn't, of course. It promises so much, but it doesn't do the full job.

It didn't give me volume, and I did have a little clumpiness. It does give a "natural effect," like you don't have on a mascara that "magnifies" your lashes at all. If you already have big and curly lashes, maybe it would look good on you. But I don't, so, I won't use this one.

Looks like I'll stick with my Lash Blast. Share your stories in Beauty Product Junkies, and maybe I'll post yours here, too!

Over in the Beauty Product Junkies group on TeamSugar, the members have been posting step-by-step breakdowns of their daily makeup routines, complete with before and after photos. What brave souls!

I absolutely love this idea, so I've asked several users if I can post their routines here. I also invite you to join the group and post your own routines. Who knows? You might just end up featured on BellaSugar too!

Today's makeup routine comes from CocoChic, who shared her tips for a simple but polished daytime look. (Her nighttime look, she admits, would be much more complicated.) To see her step-by-step routine, read more

In addition to my weekly Beauty Mark It challenges — including this week's about SPF lip gloss — the Beauty Product Junkies group on TeamSugar hosts its own weekly Beauty Marking challenges.

Most recently, the Junkies went hunting for something I've been coveting: a good deep conditioners. For the first time since high school, I'm wearing my hair long and slowly remembering all of the special needs that long locks require. Thankfully, the Junkies have found some great options for me. You can see the highlights here, and I've chosen my favorites from the conditioner challenge below.

Beauty Mark #1: Frederic Fekkai Overnight Hair Repair ($195), found by Audreystar.

Beauty Mark #2: Neutrogena Triple Moisture Deep Recovery Hair Mask ($6.99), found by Jennifer76, Ms Gemini, and TNGirl.

Two more, so read more

In addition to my weekly Beauty Mark It challenges — don't forget this week's foundation stick challenge — the Beauty Product Junkies group on TeamSugar hosts its own weekly Beauty Marking challenges, complete with great write-ups by the users. So from time to time, I'll be scouring the BPJ picks and featuring my favorites here.

For last week's challenge, the Junkies went hunting for their body moisturizers. You can see the highlights here and here, and I've chosen my favorites from the moisturizer challenge below. Now you have no excuse for dry skin.

Beauty Mark #1: Eucerin Original Moisturizing Lotion ($10.14), found by Colormesticky.

Beauty Mark #2: The Body Shop Mango Body Butter ($17.50), found by CocoChic.

Two more moisturizers, so read more

One of my favorite beauty blogs on the Web is actually right here on TeamSugar: Created by our very own Atoxicsparkle, it's called Beauty Product Junkies, and it has more than 1,700 members. If you're a fellow junkie, you should definitely check out BPJ: This is an incredibly active group where users post everything from product reviews to Beauty Marks to instructions on how to achieve different looks. There are also weekly Beauty Challenges, where users Beauty Mark their favorite products.

I'll be featuring the results of those challenges on BellaSugar, along with other occasional BPJ content. So, if you're a Beauty Product Junkies member, don't be surprised if you get a message from me asking to feature one of your posts on BellaSugar. (You can always say "no thanks.")

I love reading Beauty Product Junkies just for fun, but Atoxicsparkle and the other members have also been a huge help as I was gearing up to launch BellaSugar. So thanks, guys! Anyway, if you aren't familiar with this group, be sure to check it out.

Thanks to atoxicsparkle and her Beauty Product Junkies Blushing Bride Challenge, where you can see a slough of bellissima blushes in cream, powder and stain forms perfect for all types of brides. You gals have created a really beautiful blog entry, so I decided to share three picks from the post for all to see! Keep up the great work! To see more user favorites, click here.

flutterpie's recommendation is Bobbi Brown's Bridal Face Palette, $50. Although this is technically discontinued, there are many of them still available and brand new on eBay. I am anxious to check this out actually. In theory it sounds fabulous, but it's surprisingly gotten a lot of mixed reviews.

audreystar 's choice for the best all-time bridal blush is MAC's Powder Blush in Dessert Rose, $18. This is an awesome pick. I am a huge fan of this color - in fact my Mom has been wearing it for years. I guess Mom really does know best, huh?

To see one more bridal blush found by DC Star just, read more