Summer is almost here and we all know what that means: sundresses, cut-off shorts, and endless selfies to show off that glowy, sun-kissed skin. Just in time for every make-up lover's summer shopping haul, renowned Atlanta based makeup artist, Noorface, launched the face oil every woman needs in their make-up kit, Skin Glass Pink Crystal.
Lightweight and fully organic, Skin Glass Pink Crystal is an oil that gives the skin a natural soft pink highlight without being dramatically blinding. Its smooth texture and consistency allows you to incorporate it into your everyday foundation or moisturizer for a dewy yet wet finish. The tube-like applicator is efficient and enables you to control just how much of the product you use on a daily basis.
"I was seeing a lot of trends for glowy skin and like over exaggerated highlight, which wasn't realistic. Almost too much cake face, and if you guys are familiar with my work then you know I like to keep it super simple, very clean, kinda like that photoshoot skin," Noor said during a recent event debuting the revolutionary product. "So, that was my inspiration for skin glass to get the everyday person, the everyday girl to get that glowy skin without doing the most. Just shake it up, pop it on and you look like you just came out of the spa."
For those of you with oily or combination skin, Skin Glass powder acts as a highlighter and mattifier without amplifying your oil spots. It helps you to appreciate your melanin in a different way. With Skin Glass Pink Crystal, brown girls can safely stray away from the highly favored gold highlighters and opt for a rose gold radiance. Its soft pink tint compliments darker skin tones.
"Skin Glass was birth off women appreciating their natural, beautiful skin without anything to heavy on it. It was very important to me to use organic oils. So, it is organic and it just gives you a beautiful glow," she explained. "It's not meant to be an overly pigmented highlighter, it's not meant to be any of that. That's why I have two options, you have a liquid and a powder. So, if you did want to step it up, you have the powder you can apply on top."
With a makeup career spanning over 10 years, Noor noticed the lack of highlighting products enhancing women's natural features and decided to fill the void.
"I never thought in a billion years that I would be doing this. The whole point of Skin Glass is I wanted something for myself that I didn't find in my kit," she continued. "I was like well what if I just made a label for this? What if I just put in a box? What if… that's how it just kept going."
From its raving reviews and diversity amongst consumers, it's obvious Skin Glass will be featured in all of our best selfies this summer. Trendsetter Willow Smith was recently photographed rocking the Skin Glass glow on both her face and body.
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For the perfect dash of radiance this summer, visit Noorface.com or Noorface on Instagram to learn more!
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The pair often says they’re two sides of the same coin. Skylar is an Aquarius. She attended art school, paints, and loves poetry. She’s more than happy to let the couple’s management firm and agency, Kensington Grey, handle their admin work. And, she loves to sleep in. Temi, on the other hand, wakes up early. He’s a Virgo. He loves a to-do list and regularly checks in on the couple’s brand partnerships spreadsheet to make sure everything is on track.
Because his storytelling was steeped in his love of technology, he didn’t always think of himself as a creative person. “Where I [am] the dreamer who wants to pluck things out of the sky and spend all day with my head in the clouds, Temi [is] so good at grounding me and helping me figure out how to make things make sense on paper. We just work together in such a complimentary way,” Skylar says.
It’s been more than six years since Brooklyn-based couple Temi and Skylar started dating, and nearly four since they cemented their working relationship. On TikTok and Instagram, the couple’s travel, fashion, and home content regularly rack up hundreds of thousands of views. They’ve worked with brands such as Coach, Aesop, Away, and Liquid IV, bringing their vibrant perspectives to every campaign they execute. Still, nearly two years since both Temi and Skylar committed to full-time content creation and creative directing, the couple says their romantic connection remains their priority.
“We told each other we would much rather go back to full-time jobs and preserve our relationship than to be full-time freelancers, barely getting a night's rest [and] barely kissing each other because we're so busy shooting,” Skylar says.
Working from home can make it hard to separate work from personal life for any entrepreneur. It can be even more challenging when your business partner is also your lover. Temi and Skylar had already used couples therapy as a tool to help them effectively communicate with one another. When they ran into challenges while working together, their therapist helped them set physical boundaries to help combat the issues.
"We told each other we would much rather go back to full-time jobs and preserve our relationship than to be full-time freelancers, barely getting a night's rest [and] barely kissing each other because we're so busy shooting."
“It actually took us doing very specific physical things to create boundaries between work and play in our relationship,” Skylar says. “So, for instance, we will only have conversations about work when we're out of bed or we're at the table or in the office. Initially, when we started, we had to light a candle to say that, 'Okay, this is a space where we're connecting, we’re not talking about work.' We needed really hard boundaries at the top. And then it became a little bit more organic.”
The boundaries have been crucial to implement, especially because the couple began working together so naturally. When the pair first met, Skylar was NY-based a social strategist for BuzzFeed and was using content creation to drive business to her lingerie company. She was shooting her own content. Temi was working for Microsoft in D.C. He’d recently traded in his DJing equipment for a camera. “I've always loved taking pictures,” he says. “Even when I was a kid, my African mother would wake me up at 3:00 a.m. [during a] party, and be like, 'Come take the family picture.'”
Growing up, Temi says he watched his parents support each other and be the true definition of partners. He knew he wanted the same for his own relationship. But, the couple also wanted to make sure they were being financially responsible. The pair didn’t quit their traditional jobs until they’d saved up two years' worth of their cost of living. And, Temi received his Master of Business Administration from New York University with the knowledge that it could either help him advance in his corporate career or be applicable to his business with Skylar.
Temi and SkylarCj Hart @hartbreakToday, they say their working relationship is more of a “quiet dance.” They still implement some of the boundaries they learned in therapy, but they also lean into their natural strengths and deep love for one another. When we speak, Temi has planned a date for the couple to see Princess Mononoke in 4K IMAX and added it to their Notion so they can factor it into their busy schedules. “I fully plan to date for the rest of my life,” he says.
Skylar says the couple doesn’t just wait for date nights to check in with one another, though. This often happens in the mornings, after Temi has made her peppermint tea and poured himself a cup of coffee. When they ask each other how they slept, she says, it’s not just a “nicety.” It’s a genuine question meant to foster connection.
“A lot of it happens during the day in the midst of work. We'll stop and we'll hug. Or we’ll slow dance in the kitchen,” she says. “Sometimes it's hard to set a whole date night when you have 7,000 things going on. So, we must grasp these moments and check in when we can. And I think it's become so organic to us that I actually didn't even realize how often we do it. But all day long, we're like, 'Are you good? I felt like your energy shifted,' because we're best friends, we just know. We just feel it happen.”
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