There are just days left for the 2022 shopping season. Here are a few suggestions to help make your shopping experience smoother.
BEAUTY
Lady Gaga’s Triclone Skin Tech Medium Coverage Foundation comes in 51 shades. It’s pure perfection. You can’t go wrong with this medium buildable coverage. This is luxury at an affordable price delivering high performance and providing a weightless, clean foundation that helps reduce redness, evens skin tone and protects from environmental stress.
AEVA, an African American owned beauty brand, is an affordable choice that delivers pigmentation. CEO and Founder Fancisca Francois is on a mission to create diversity, one beauty product at a time. They create cruelty-free and vegan, multi-purpose products.
FOR THE HOME
Pretty Rugged Original Blanket
This blanket is soft enough to keep you cozy, yet rugged enough to handle the outdoors with ease. This is an award-winning versatile blanket that features the brand’s faux fur and innovative waterproof, windproof, washable RuggedTex nylon.
Chantal Cookware is durable and stylish with every pot, pan and kettle crafted to the highest FDA health and safety standards. In addition to American expectations, Chantal’s ID21 series also exceeds the incredibly detailed testing of the German LFDG (Lebensmittel und Futtermittelgesetzbuch).
FRAGRANCE & CANDLES
Replica By Fireplace & Beach Walk Set
Inspired by the iconic Maison Margiela fashion “Paint Drop” pattern, this limited-edition Beach Walk & By The Fireplace Eau de Toilette 2x30ml set will embark you on a colorful and arty holiday season.
Perfect Pair Jazz Club Set
This two-piece set features a Jazz Club fragrance and candle and is inspired to bring in the aroma of fine aged liquor and burning cigars in an intimate jazz club.
Boy Smells began as an experiment in candle-making in the kitchen of co-founders and partners Matthew Herman and David Kien. Now Boy Smells is currently carried in over 750 retail locations (300 in the U.S. alone), across 35 countries on six continents. Every scent is a winner.
THESE ARE ALL AFRICAN-AMERICAN-OWNED BRANDS:
BEAUTY
Rihanna’s new favorite lip mask smooths, conditions and plumps. Just in time for the holidays is Fenty Skin Plush Puddin’ Intensive Recovery Lip Mask ($22) made with coconut & castor oils, pomegranate & jojoba oil complex, pomegranate sterols, Barbados cherry (Acerola), vitamin C and vitamin E.
Created by Dana Jackson, in 2011, after she was diagnosed with lupus a diagnosis that completely changed her life. To deal with certain symptoms of the disease, she stepped into an all-natural approach to beauty and wellness. All the products have completely natural ingredients, with her skin soufflé a cult favorite.
Evelyn Nyairo, an environmental scientist, founded Ellie Bianca crafting vegan and cruelty-free skin-care products. The products that have caught the imagination are the Rose Skin Oil, Breathe Bath Salt and the Luxe Day/Night Serum.
Kayla Phillips, who is a touring musician and founder of Foxie Cosmetics, deals with chronic pain, so in 2015 she started making soothing bath bombs and salts and later expanded to create hair, skin and body products and fragrance. These products are cruelty-free, sustainably made, handcrafted, packaged and shipped by Phillips herself.
COFFEE
Simpli Press, a French Press without the mess, features a stainless steel ultrafine double filter and coffee basket system that results in grit-free, flavorful coffee and easy removal of grounds. Inscribed with pre-measured brewing guidelines for that perfect cup each and every time. Design made with high-quality materials: borosilicate glass, stainless steel and silicone.
CLOTHING
Coco and Breezy was founded in 2009 by Corianna and Brianna Dotson; the goal was to create sunglasses with solid detail and superlative quality. One of the fan favorites in the line is the Avatars.
Created by Hussein Suleiman, Jefferson Osei, and Abderrahmane Trabsini, this Amsterdam-based men’s and women’s clothing brand was made to be easy, wearable and stylish enough to wear separately or with other things from your closet.
Mother-daughter designers Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka started House of Aama to explore “the folkways of the Black experience by designing timeless garments with nostalgic references informed by historical research, archival analysis and storytelling.”