Color Sensational Kisses Janine Falcon

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This week's Style Collective kiss is from popular blogger and Beauty Geek, Janine Falcon!

Janine is a writer, editor, makeup artist, and founder of the award-winning beauty blog www.imabeautygeek.com, the first by a former magazine beauty editor in Canada.

ChickAdvisor:
How did you start your blog?

Janine:
It started with Facebook stat updates. Really! My goofy updates got great feedback from FB friends (granted, they're all friends), which made me think, "Hmmm... blogging." In addition to being my own boss, I'd be able to write about beauty and style in a way I felt would reach women who wanted attainable ways to feel good about themselves. My first post, which is all about compliments, hit the blogosphere on May 1, 2008.

ChickAdvisor:
Who is your Beauty Icon?

Janine:
Honestly, my icons are people who can make the person in front of him or her feel wonderful. I'm a particularly huge fan of so many of our Canadian hair-and-makeup pros -- you'll see their names in our best beauty and fashion magazines -- especially when they work with women who don't always see their own beauty. (I adore makeovers for that reason.)


ChickAdvisor:
Which shade of Color Sensational lipstick caught your eye?

Janine:
Omigod, I want them ALL, the colours are insanely gorgeous. In an effort not to appear way greedy, I focused on Mauve-ulous, a deep berry shade that makes me feel daring.

ChickAdvisor:
What was it about that shade that got you?

Janine:
Deep shades are an easy way to add glamour to a simply made-up face. After a day of meetings or writing, I'll bust it out to dress up my face for an evening press shindig or cocktails.

ChickAdvisor:
What part of being a Beauty Geek is the most glamorous?

Janine:
Press shindigs, actually, whether day or evening (in the photo above, I'm actually at the Holt Renfrew Spring 2010 fashion preview.) PR pros find the best restaurants and locations to hold their product launches and often arrange for us to meet with and interview celebs such as Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker, and talented beauty experts of equal calibre, such as Serge Normant, Harry Josh, David Babaii, Ted Gibson, Val Garland, Greg Wencel, Paul Venoit, Diana Carreiro... I could go on!

ChickAdvisor:
What is the least?

Janine:
Deadlines.

ChickAdvisor:
We can only imagine what your makeup stash looks like! Can we take a peek?

Janine:
Behold an on-the-job selection from my bridal-beauty makeup kit: