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Hello and welcome to Be Well Beauty! Makeup and skincare have always been passions of mine, and I plan for this blog to be an avenue for sharing these passions with others, the way you’d recommend your favourite lipstick to a friend. While the emphasis will be mainly on “green” or eco-beauty products, my philosophy with regards to most things in life is balance. I’m just as much a sucker for anything in the New In category of sephora.com as I am a really cleanly formulated farmer’s market find.

I discovered green beauty in one of my many attempts to clean up my diet. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2010, and while traditional prescription medicines have quite literally been lifesavers for me, I am also interested in living a more holistically healthy existence. Every now and again I will experience flare-ups of my disease, which prompts me to put my diet and lifestyle habits under the microscope for closer examination. While I still struggle with what I put into my body, learning about what I put ON my body has been a much more enjoyable journey.

I have no training in makeup artistry or chemistry, and my full-time pursuit is my love of fashion. I learned about green beauty almost exclusively from the Internet, with the exception of a few great books. All this to say that I am certainly not an expert, but I’ve tried out enough products over the years to know what I like and what works for me. Consider my thoughts, but know that they are by no means authoritative. I hope that BWB will be a forum for discussion, learning, and of course great makeup!