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Believe it or not, I found myself asking this question in my local women’s Facebook group this past April. Although, I was no stranger to worrying about forehead lines or Botox. I first started noticing my strong forehead muscles in middle school! I thought the folds that are created from natural facial expression were wrinkles! It wasn’t until I started blogging and posting on social media around 26 that I noticed what a settled line looked like! That is how old I was the very first time I tried ‘baby’ botox. I went on quite a journey from then to […]

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Designing Your Dream Home in A Rental Studio Apartment

January 23, 2026October 15, 2026

by Alice Christine

As someone who never intended to be living in a studio apartment in my thirties, making sure my apartment felt like my dream home was a top priority. After hunting for an apartment for months, I finally stumbled upon this quaint, private, but tiny studio apartment that I instantly saw huge potential in. With that being said, the potential was buried deep, deep, down. It took me YEARS to reach a point where I felt like I had gotten closer to that ‘dream home’ feeling in my tiny studio apartment. With the help of Pinterest, Amazon, Facebook Marketplace, family and […]

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HONEST Review of Innersense Organic Beauty by a Hair Stylist

March 28, 2025October 15, 2026

by Alice Christine

Hiiii and welcome back to G&L Beauty! I’m so excited to be writing today because I’m finally going to share my honest review of Innersense Organic Beauty. If you don’t already know, Innersense is a professional hair-care line of clean ingredient products created by two hair-stylists. Greg and Joanne Starkman founded Innersense Organic Beauty after they discovered a need in the market partially due to raising a child with William’s Syndrome. Can Professional Hair Care Products Even Be Clean? As a licensed cosmetologist, I’ve generally held the belief that if a product has natural ingredients, it probably wont perform to […]

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Navigating The World of ‘Clean’ and ‘Acne-Safe’ Makeup

February 13, 2025October 15, 2026

by Alice Christine

I’m so excited to share with you my latest ‘clean’ makeup haul! One of the hardest pills to swallow along my journey to healing from hormonal acne was that I had to stop using my ENTIRE makeup collection. Prior to meeting with a FNTP (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), I was completely in the dark when it came to being aware of my toxic-load. Not only were my makeup and skincare products full of endocrine disrupting ingredients, but pore-clogging ingredients as well! It was very overwhelming as a beauty lover to learn that I had to start from scratch and learn […]

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The Lazy Girls Guide To A Salon Quality Blowout

February 5, 2025February 17, 2026

by Alice Christine

When I was a baby stylist and worked in my first salon, the first service I learned to perform (after shampooing and sweeping) was how to give a salon quality blowout! I trained, and practiced, and broke my wrists in order to perfect this skill. Selfishly, I could not wait to be able to give MYSELF a smooth, bouncy, voluminous blowout at home. Little did I know, that is SO hard! Even for a professional! My hair is long, course, and thick so the amount of time and effort it takes to do a classic blowout prevents me from doing […]

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The Biggest Beauty Trend of 2025

January 24, 2025February 17, 2026

by Alice Christine

As a beauty professional, I do my best to stay up-to-date with the current beauty trends. Whether it be ‘old money blonde’, brow laminations, lash extensions, baby-botox, or almond shape nails! While I like to be aware of the current trends, on a personal level, I tend to go for what I like/what flatters me most. This is partially why I am predicting the biggest beauty trend of 2025 to be NATURAL beauty. Bringing It Back To Natural Two years ago, I had the realization after being blonde for over six years, that it was time to go back to […]

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My Travel Beauty Must-Haves

April 6, 2023March 3, 2026

by Alice Christine

We all know traveling light is a skill; and as a beauty enthusiast, it is no easy feat! This past month I took a trip out to Washington State. I was going to visit two of my best friends, Mari and Pamela. It had been almost a year since I traveled on a plane. There were a handful of travel beauty must-haves that I was really thankful to have! I knew that we would be taking an abundance of photos because I am nothing, if not a photo queen. I’ve also been on a MAJOR budget for the last year. […]

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Updated Review of Celebrity Hairstylist’s Hair Care Line IN COMMON Beauty

March 10, 2023July 30, 2026

by Alice Christine

Welcome back to Grace and Lipstick! Back in 2019 I wrote an in-depth honest review of Riawna Capri and Nikki Lee’s new hair care line: IN COMMON Beauty. I have, no joke, been using IN COMMON products ever since! As a hairstylist I love using these products behind the chair, as a friend it’s my go-to recommendation, and as a beauty lover it’s a staple in my shower. Naturally, I decided it’s time to give an UPDATED review and share more about why I love using IN COMMON beauty products. What is IN COMMON Beauty Let’s begin with what is […]

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Taking My Mental Health Seriously in 2023

January 1, 2023March 11, 2026

by Alice Christine

JUMP TO: TOP PRODUCTS OF 2022 I am depressed. Truthfully I think I’ve been depressed since early 2020. I started writing this post in my my head on Christmas morning while driving over to my parents house. As someone who heavily lives inside her head, it is tremendously uncomfortable for me to say this (or in this case, write it) out-loud. Because of this, I tend to feel incredibly stuck. I decided to write this post because by admitting out loud for others to see that I am indeed ‘depressed’ I will be held accountable (by my own understanding) of […]

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How I Healed My Hormonal Acne

August 30, 2022July 30, 2026

by Alice Christine

JUMP TO CURRENT SKINCARE ROUTINE Skin is the largest organ in the human body and has the profound ability to communicate to us what is happening within. Nothing taught me this more than when I struggled with a flare up of hormonal acne. I’ve always had acne-prone skin and struggled with it most of my life. It wasn’t until late July 2020 that I started to deal with horribly painful and deep cystic acne, triggered by my hormones. At the time, I felt like it would never go away, and that my skin would never be the same. Luckily, today […]