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‘Beauty is a brand new space’: OPI teams up with Xbox for global nail polish collab

Kristen S. Sykes

On Tuesday, global nail brand OPI launched a product collaboration with Xbox, strengthening the notion that 2022 will be a banner year for all things gaming in the beauty world.

The collaboration consists of a 12-shade range of polishes with game-inspired names like “Pixel Dust” (shimmery dusty pink) and “Sage Simulation” (sage green). Through January, the complete collection will be exclusively available at Ulta Beauty in the U.S. It will roll out globally to other major retailers like Target.com and Amazon in February. This is the first gaming collab for OPI, though the brand has a long history of unique collaborations, including with Hollywood films. As 2021 closed out with gaming, the metaverse, and NFTs taking the central stage in beauty marketing, the collaboration suggests that the momentum will continue this year.

“Several OPI staffers are avid gamers, and we’ve been watching the world of gaming expand its audience

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Fashion & Shopping
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Emma Watson’s Net Worth Reveals if She Made More For ‘Harry Potter’ or ‘Beauty & the Beast’

Kristen S. Sykes

If you loved her as both Hermione and Belle, you may want to know about Emma Watson’s net worth and whether she made more from the Harry Potter movies or Beauty and the Beast.

Watson—whose full name is Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson—was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France. Her parents, Chris Watson and Jacqueline Luesby, were both lawyers. When she was five years old, Watson moved to England after her parents’ divorce. She would stay in Oxfordshire with her mother during the week and spend weekends with her father in London. In 2000, Watson was cast as Hermione Granger, a witch and one of Harry Potter’s best friends, in the movie adaptation of J.K. Rowling‘s 1997 best seller, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which followed Harry and his friends, Hermione and Ron Weasley, as they attended the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, while defending

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Mindful Shopping
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A new curiosity shop in Colorado Springs shows the beauty of dead butterflies | Arts & Entertainment

Kristen S. Sykes

The sight of dead things usually doesn’t bring a love song to mind.

Walking into this new downtown Colorado Springs shop, there’s a black Christmas tree covered with skeleton ornaments in the corner. Framed and unmoving insects hang on the walls alongside paintings inspired by horror movies.

It’s the owners, two bearded guys sometimes dapperly dressed up in flowery button down shirts, vests and ties, who make you want to play a Kacey Musgraves tune called “Butterflies.”

Maybe it’s because of all the butterfly artwork around the shop, but it’s also these lyrics: “And out of the blue, I fell for you.”

That’s how their love story unfolded.

Andrew Cronk and Chris Dantzler met on Sept. 14, 2020, for a lunch date. A month later on a Halloween trip to Salem, Mass., Cronk asked Dantzler to be his partner. By April, they had bought a house together in Monument. With

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Fashion & Shopping
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Olta Baraj, one of the top and most influential Instagram beauty, fashion and travel bloggers

Kristen S. Sykes

“Olta Baraj, one of the top and most influential Instagram beauty, fashion and travel bloggers”

It has been noted that people are pretty obsessed with beauty, so it’s safe to say that they spend a lot of time with their noses pressed to the screens of their laptops, avidly watching their favorite bloggers share their beauty and fashion secrets. To honor the ladies who fuel everyone’s beauty and fashion addiction through thick and thin, it seems like a must to go through their name, and mainly the most influential ones.

Olta Baraj, this name must be etched in the world of fashion and beauty blog, as one of the most influential Albanian bloggers of her age. 

What would the beauty world be without the best beauty blogs? On the weekend (or whenever—who are we kidding?), one loves nothing more than checking out what his/her favorite influencers are posting, from the 

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