To all the women I love.

Thank you for sharing your life with me. Thank you for loving me unconditionally; for loving me when I had forgotten how to love myself. For reminding me of my worth as often as I needed to hear it; for opening up your home to me and letting me stay with you and your family when I didn’t want to go home.

Cat Graduates!

I remember when my sister told me she was thinking about grad school; then I remember her applying, THEN her receiving her acceptance letters – you read right, she had multiple programs to choose from. Fast forward three years and it was time for her to graduate! We had her session at the USC campus […]

Lomelti, I mean Lomeli

There’s a funny story behind the title. I met Mayra approximately 8 years ago and to be honest, for the first year (or more, who really knows?) I had her name spelled incorrectly in my contacts. I don’t know why there was a “T” added ~ I remember laughing until I cried when she noticed […]

The benefits of working from home during the pandemic

This fall was shaping up to be an exciting season for beauty. We were prepared to reenter the world, thinking about our office and back-to-school beauty looks. In a survey conducted with 784 Byrdie Beauty Collective members, 47% said they’d be wearing makeup often as social restrictions ease and daily life returns to “normal.” That […]