• How to make a transition to cruelty free makeup

    Oh boy, this is going to be a long one 🙂   Starting the New Year, we tend to set some goals and resolutions for ourselves for the upcoming months. It feels only natural while starting a new cycle, as we feel inspired to make New Year better than the previous one and make ourselves bloom in every imaginable way. In case some of you might be thinking of transitioning to cruelty free products, I wanted to share my advice…

  • My plan for 2021

    I have been playing with my makeup today (groundbreaking news, I know) and I have looked at my makeup inventory.  My shopping habits have not been the healthiest in the previous year (blame it on the pandemic if you will), so I have accumulated a number of items, which made my makeup collection a bit bigger than previous years. Ok, a lot bigger. I was actually quite happy with my existing makeup collection in 2019 and made most of my…

  • How I got into makeup

    Today I wanted to tackle a topic of how I got into makeup and how I went cruelty free with my makeup collection. Generally, I have always been drawn to makeup and what make up can do for your facial features. I am pretty sure that my mom bought me my first mascara and an eyeliner one summer (back in the 90s), when I was about to start either 7th or 8th grade of elementary school (middle school in US…

  • Hello world!

    My name is Iva and welcome to my blog world. Ok, who starts a blog in 2021?! Isn’t that so 2005? Oh, well, I am a late bloomer and frankly you tube is too big of a pill for me to swallow right now. #iamachicken #maybesomeday #personalgrowthontheway Year 2020 has been a mixture of weird and challenging times, (oh, what an understatement!), so I wanted to make a place where I can write about the things that make me happy.…