Sappho's journal

Discover how to use Skin Luminizer (aka illuminator, highlighter, shimmer) in your natural makeup arsenal, to create beautiful, radiant skin that feels weightless and gives off a healthy, effortless, dewy glow. Chiaroscuro In drawing and painting, chiaroscuro is the use of light and...

JoAnn Fowler, SAPPHO Founder & Emmy-nominated Makeup Artist If we are fortunate, we grow old, but that is not to say there are not challenges on the way. Skin reacts to the elements, to nutrition, to genetics and to how...

Written by Jass Stupak, Certified Holistic Nutritionist. 5 top tips to tackle internal skin care. You may not think that your gut health has any correlation with your skin, but it may be the answer to many of your skin troubles.

With most challenges, there is usually more than one solution and sometimes, even many steps to those solutions. In the case of choosing the right makeup for oily skin, it is not just cosmetics that have to be considered. Skin...

2020: Holidays with a twist It’s holiday season, this year with a major twist – a pandemic – which means many of us are not travelling to see one another and some will be wearing a new fashion accessory: a...

The blustery weather has hit and even in cities like Vancouver where it rains a lot, dry skin is a common challenge! The environment has a huge impact on the biggest part of our body, our skin, and since our...

Fall is the season for makeup... This summer was marked with many going totally natural and omitting wearing much makeup, whether because of spending more time outdoors, in the yard or less time at work, while this fall is one for getting...

Natural looking skin (hurray!), glossy lips, lived-in eye makeup, and more... We sorted through Spring 2020 makeup trends and picked our favourites for our latest, pre-pandemic, beauty photoshoot. Shying away from bright neon eyeshadows and futuristic graphic lines for our...

When trying to achieve a natural everyday makeup look or that desired 'no makeup makeup' look, people often turn to organic makeup brands to find the right products. Our Essential Foundation, a bestseller since JoAnn first created Sappho in 2008, works...

For over 30 years of my life I used beauty products not only on my face and body but professionally on thousands of people.  I now know, from years of research, that these products were and continue to be chock-full of toxins that are linked to tragic outcomes from cancer to birth defects. I believe we can help save the world – by purchasing safe, vegan personal care products.