Hi hi BIC 🤩 allow me to introduce myself . . .

[KhyleyBT]

Hellooo 👋🏾 my name is Khyley, and I’m overjoyed to be here posting as the new Community Marketing Associate! While I’m a newbie to the Community team, I’m no stranger to Sephora and just celebrated my 3rd Sephora-versary back in August! I previously worked in digital production where I launched and maintained products on site – Fenty Eau de Parfum and the Davines brand launches were a couple of my prized hatchlings. I’ve had the privilege of working with my legendary teammates @AlexBT, @GeorginaBT, @CarolBT and @LexBT as part of Sephora digital, and have had major FOMO peeping all the fun you guys were having over here without me 🤭 So it is a dream come true to be able to say HERE. I. AM. in THEE Beauty Insider Community ✨

I can’t wait to get to know all of you and thought I would kick it off with some rapid fire about moi! Prior to Sephora I worked in marketing at a nonprofit arts org in San Francisco and was a contemporary ballet and modern dancer 🩰 I have a passion for vintage anything and everything and am often thrifting or perusing antique fleas for my next great find! Beaches, parks and the yoga studio are my happy places and how I like to spend my free time 💗

As a former dancer, my affinity for beauty started at a young age doing stage makeup for performances. This is where my love of a statement red lip + winged liner combo was born and is always in my back pocket for a special occasion lewk. My everyday routine is much more barefaced and focused on making sure the skin is skinning 🌟 Here are some of my go-to’s for both vibes:

• Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Alpha Beta® Universal Daily Peel Pads

• ILIA Lip Sketch Hydrating Lipstick + Lip Liner Crayon Blue Note
• LANEIGE Bouncy & Firm Eye Brightening Sleeping Mask with Peony + Collagen Complex™ .7 oz / 20 g

• OLEHENRIKSEN Banana Bright+ Instant Glow Moisturizer with Niacinamides and Vitamin C 1.7 oz / 50 ml
• PAT McGRATH LABS PERMA PRECISION Liquid Eyeliner Xtreme Black 

Where are my fellow skincare indulgers and classic makeup lovers at? Reply with your faves pretty please because my collection is never complete. Can’t stop, won’t stop and so excited to meet you all 😍 

xo, Khyley 

[danielledanielle]

@ather, you're too sweet  🙌🏽🫶🏽

[bakeamuffin]

Welcome @KhyleyBT it’s so nice to have a new face in the BIC 😄 You’re going to love it here!! 

I’m a total skincare girl but love a good deal so lately I’ve been sticking to The Ordinary and they are not letting me down! I especially love the The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 Hydrating Serum. it just keeps my skin looking and feeling so hydrated and fresh 🙂

Hope you have so much here, Khyley! 

[ather]

@bakeamuffin  Yes!!! Great deals are the best!! 

[KhyleyBT]

Nice to meet you @bakeamuffin 😊 I'm also a big fan of the Ordinary, especially their serums!

[WinglessOne]

Welcome to BIC, @KhyleyBT, and congrats on fulfilling a work-related dream! My own work background is a mix of customer service, front end dev, content writing & strategy, UX design, and design standards (which is how I wound up working so closely with my ex-employer’s legal team, for better or worse 😅), so I totally understand the joy of seeing your work launched to production or put into official internal practice. So, congrats on your launches too! 

I’m very much into skincare and helping others with it. But lemme big-ol’-caveat the following favorites list: some of these products are faves because they treat specific issues of my particular skin. (It’s mostly-dry combo and quite reactive/inflammation-prone, with hyperpigmentation and high sensitivity to nearly all essential oils plus all forms of lavender.) With that out of the way, here are some of my fave skincare products: 

• Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster for Redness Relief 1 oz/ 30 mL 
• Peach Slices Redness Relief Azelaic Acid Serum 
• Abib Mild Acidic pH Heartleaf Fit sheet mask 
• Abib Calming Facial Soap Heartleaf Stone (not a true soap since it contains no lye) 
• e.l.f. Pure Skin Cleanser 
• The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + HA Serum and its sister, The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum  
• Avène RetrinAL 0.1 Intensive Cream (a 0.1% retinaldehyde serum) 
• CeraVe Moisturizing Lotion 
• Paula’s Choice BHA 9 Treatment 
• Paula’s Choice RESIST Advanced Pore-Refining Treatment 4% BHA 
• Paula's Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster 0.67 oz/ 20 mL 
• COSRX Low pH Niacinamide Micellar Cleansing Water 
• COSRX Pure Fit Cica Serum 
• The INKEY List Oat Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm 5 oz/ 150 mL 
• Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen Invisible Broad Spectrum SPF 40 PA +++ 
• and I can’t leave out good ol’ Aquaphor Ointment, which I love as lip balm, extra moisturization where needed, skin protector against Chicago’s subzero winds in January, and more 

…and that’s already kind of a long list, so I’ll stop there. I do have a small set of core routine products that get used daily. Other products orbit that core; I alternate ‘em into my routine, or use some only when needed. I used to love the DDG Universal Peel Pads and will still travel with them sometimes. I stopped using them mostly because their second step contains (or did at the time) retinol, and I didn’t want to double up on vitamin A. 

Makeup favorites will be another long list, so… maybe I’ll come back later with that. 🙃 I’ll just say lipstick’s been my favorite makeup item since I first began wearing makeup in the 1980s. One of my favorite things to do is mix a custom lipstick shade using 2 or more shades of Danessa Myricks Beauty Colorfix - Multi-Use Eye, Cheek & Lip Waterproof Liquid Pigment and a tiny bit of Aquaphor. Pat McGrath’s LuxeTrance lipsticks were some of my faves (still are, since I still have several of ‘em), but I do also love the MatteTrances. Also loving NARS Powermatte High-Intensity Long-Lasting Lip Pencil which is almost as good as my all-time fave crayon formula (Lipstick Queen Cupid’s Bow crayons). Heck, I could make a long list of just my favorite lipsticks, but I’ll spare you. 😂

Glad you’re here with us, and I love your photo! Reminds me of Holland, MI during tulip festival season. It’s a beautiful photo of you. 

[KhyleyBT]

Hi @WinglessOne and wow, thank you for the warm welcome and this FAB list of recs 😍 I've tried a few on here but you're also inspiring me with some new ideas. Love hearing about your work background as well, and in agreement that tulip fest is the best 🌷 this pic is from a Wooden Shoe Tulip farm in Oregon last spring 🧡

[CynthieLu]

I love that you make up out own custom lip blends with DM's color fix. @WinglessOne 😍  I have a small collection of DM but I haven't gone over to the colorfix side yet. How do they last as lippies for you if I can ask?

[WinglessOne]

@CynthieLu  For me, the custom Colorfix blends last about as long as most cream lipsticks. They’re not transfer-proof because I use Aquaphor in my mixes. I’ve used a Colorfix shade solo as a lipstick only once, but I don’t recall how long it lasted on my lips… it was a few years ago. I’ve used Colorfixes under glosses a few times though, which of course makes them no longer “liquid matte lipstick” and not budgeproof. They pair nicely with Fenty Gloss Bombs, Pat McGrath LUST Glosses, Linda Hallberg’s Infinity Glass, and of course Danessa’s own “glazed” Colorfix shades. I bet you could layer a Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Poutsicle Hydrating Lip Stain over a Colorfix shade to tweak or amplify the Poutsicle color, if you wanted. I think you’ll have fun experimenting, when you’re ready! 

The only major downside to those custom mixes is not being able to reapply away from home (say, after a meal). I could put some of my custom color in a very small airtight jar and just reapply on the go with a lip brush. That’s what I should do. Then I could premix larger portions to use throughout the next week or 2. 

[CynthieLu]

That's exactly it, re-applying away from home. I do like the idea of putting it in a little pod, then it could be taken to go. @WinglessOne that's handy. 😉 Thank you for sharing. 🙏

I think I'm a little intimidated by color fix, I don't have that many liquids in my collection atm. But I'm sure I'll dive in eventually. I do find myself checking them out/investigating them pretty often. Plus, the color range is so big and it keeps growing. 💖

[WinglessOne]

@CynthieLu  An easy way to get used to Colorfixes, or any other multi-use pigments, is to use them as either cream eyeshadows or eyeliners. You don’t even need to mix a Colorfix with a mixing medium: just use it as-is. The matte Colorfixes are very good and easy as eyeliners, and they’re a good way to practice applying and blending liquid/cream eyeshadow. When you’re ready to play with ‘em, I mean. No need to rush out and buy 1 or 2 Colorfix tubes right this second. But eventually, maybe just start with 1 or 2 shades to use on your eyes. 

I’ve been using Colorfix (and other Danessa Myricks products) for, gosh, 6 or 7 years… I still have some tubes of long-ago discontinued shades. 😅 The learning curve’s not really that steep since they’re pretty easy to work with. Only tricky thing is how quickly the mattes can dry down (if you don’t use a mixing medium with ‘em)—though Danessa might’ve reformulated the mattes with her very recent “re-release” and new shades, so now they might give more playtime before drying down to budgeproof. The Colorfix matte and metallic shade ranges used to be larger than they are today, but I assume she’ll eventually bring some shades back, maybe renamed or slightly tweaked. Though all you really need to create any matte shades are Primary Yellow, Primary Blue, and Primary Red, plus shades Blackout and Lift to adjust shade/tint. I mean, all a painter really needs are yellow, blue, red, black, and white to create any colors they want, but having more colors of paint (and more shades of Colorfix) makes things much more efficient. 😂

[CynthieLu]

I love color theory! 💖 @WinglessOne Art class was by far my favorite in highschool. 😉 Don't feel the need to answer my onslaught of questions but I really appreciate you taking the time. 🙏

My biggest concern about liquid pigments is creasing on my eye lids, it's why I tend towards powder for everything, I have lots of little lines etc.. on my lid. I have a fab eye primer ( NARS Pro-Prime™ Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base Original ) do you think that would work well with CF's formula or do they not need a base product? ( I've heard of Nude CF being used as bases for looks?)

[WinglessOne]

@CynthieLu  Ah, if you know color theory, then you’ll have little to no trouble mixing Colorfix shades. 👍 I haven’t painted in years, so Colorfix tubes are kind of a nice way to still feel like a painter, just without needing to stretch a canvas. 😂

Any eye primer should work fine with the Colorfix formula. I don’t use NARS’s eye primer anymore, but I’m sure it’ll play nice with Colorfixes. Whether or not you even need primer really depends on how oily your lids are. My lids are less oily than most people’s, plus they’re hooded, yet I’ve never had a Colorfix eyeliner smudge away or transfer above the crease. For eye looks aside from liner, I almost always use some type of separate lid primer out of habit: my hooded eyes usually need a grippy primer (to keep shadow from fading and transferring) more than a smoothing primer. I think a Colorfix would stay put on my lids without primer, but might not work well for me as a primer itself since I need something with a slightly tacky texture to hold other shadows in place. That’s also why concealer never works for me as a primer. But if you don’t need a grippy primer, then a Colorfix might work well as a primer. I can’t say it’ll smooth out your lid lines though. You’d need to try that and compare it to the NARS primer. 

Now I’m thinking back to high school (and jr. high/middle school) art class. Which art form was your favorite? Mine were definitely drawing/sketching and sculpture, with watercolor as a close second place. I did love acrylic painting, but watercolor had much easier cleanup afterward. 😅 Photography was a separate art class, and another of my loves. 

[CynthieLu]

Ahhh yes okay! @WinglessOne that makes sense, I'm not sure how it will behave on the area but if/when I ever play with color fixes I'll test out the different ways it behaves with it without my regular eyeshadow primers. 🙏

Art class is such a happy memory for me. We were blessed with an incredible teacher. I took it every year in high school, even thou I had no plan on art in my future. 😉 I loved so many things about it. We did sections on Art History going all the way back to Egypt and all the way up to different movements happening thought the 1900's. Painting just felt so good. You loved sculpting? Do you remember things you made? I enjoyed it, but out of everything  I found it to be the most challenging. ( But I still have one sculpture I made my hand on my dresser, it holds my rings and hair elastics.😉)

We were so lucky to have the teacher we did. She was so nurturing and encouraging. I'll never forget her. One art class she wanted us to try something inspired by pop art. I asked her if I could make something out of things I found around the school. She let me go walk the halls for trash and discards. I ended up making a giant slice of cherry cheesecake from what I found and I guess for a decade or two she hung on to it as a prop for her classes. I wish I'd gone back to visit, people would tell me about it thier visits but I heard she retired. I regret not going back and telling her how amazing she made my high school experience. 

[WinglessOne]

@CynthieLu   Aw, such great memories of your art teacher. ❤️ Too many people underestimate the lasting influence of a really good and caring teacher. (In the US, most public K-12 teachers are very underpaid despite having one of the most important and demanding jobs in this country.) My favorite teacher was actually my kindergarten and 1st grade teacher; she was many kids’ (and parents’) fave because she genuinely took a nurturing interest in each of her students. I wish we could clone her and your art teacher for thousands of other kids, though I know there are plenty of great teachers out there today. 

I gifted all my school-made sculptures away. My parents might still have one of my dragons. And this reminds me to look into renting some studio or workshop time/space in the city, because I’ve been wanting to sculpt again but you know, I don’t have a kiln at home. 😅 

[CynthieLu]

I feel that really powerfully, caring teachers who nurture students and encourage have such a powerful and lasting impact. It's not a requirement of the job its something they bring themselves. Imagine a child or youth never experiencing it, these fantastic people are rare from my experience.  I think your right, they are out there though. 🩷

I don't know if the break down for funding for schools is similar from my area to yours, but I do know teachers in my area are underpaid and wind up buying supplies for thier classrooms themselves because it's not in the school budget. I agree with you it's one of the most important jobs, and definitely demanding.

I hope you do! It sounds like a huge passion project. You made a dragon sculpture?? That's so detailed! Sculpting is hard. 😉

I'm glad to hear your pieces are still around, if your parents have one, that's really sweet!  My school artwork has long since disappeared but I always thought dragons were fascinating. I loved to pencil draw them. I made this crazy old chest into a large pop art dragon but I have no idea what happened to him. 🐉 I haven't thought about these old projects in decades thou!

[GG84]

Hi @KhyleyBT welcome to BIC! 
I’m not so much a skincare junkie (anymore) I prefer Botox these days with a medical skin grade routine to follow. 
I AM however a hair junkie 😬 I did the unthinkable this weekend and regrettably counted ( and categorized) all my haircare. 
All professional: 

26 open/unopened shampoos

17 open/unopened conditioners

15 open/unopened masks/treatments 

5 open bond builders 

10 creamy leave in conditioners (open/non) 

8 spray in conditioners (open/non)

7 scalp treatments open 

18 oils/serums open/non 

5 heat protectants open 

7 dry shampoos open 

33 various styling products (open/non) 

I have a problem. 

[CynthieLu]

Ngl, I'd **love** to hear your ranking of hair products and what you think are HG @GG84 😉😉

[Titian06]

@GG84 - This is not a problem--you are testing them for science! 😁🥼⚗

[greeneyedgirl107]

@GG84 love this inventory!  

[KhyleyBT]

Hi @GG84! And WOW that's an impressive hair collection! Sounds like you've got your own personal salon going, ready to take on any hair concern that arises and I love that for you 👏🏾 I agree with @danielledanielle that there's no problem here 😉

[danielledanielle]

@GG84 

Problem? I see no problem.