Our Story

About MyBeautyFavs

What started as a beauty blog in 2016 sharing makeup swatches and tutorials has grown into a lifestyle site covering all our favorite things — including online entertainment and gaming.

MyBeautyFavs launched in the fall of 2016 as a personal project — a place to share honest thoughts on makeup, from drugstore finds to high-end launches. Over the next few years, the site grew into a small but dedicated community of beauty enthusiasts who appreciated real swatches over perfectly lit PR photos and genuine opinions over sponsored fluff.

The site covered everything: Anastasia Beverly Hills palette launches, Huda Beauty's expansion from lipsticks into eyeshadows, the NYX collab era, Sephora VIB sale hauls, generation beauty events. At its peak the beauty archive ran to 108 posts — each one written, photographed, and published by someone who genuinely loved the subject.

2016
MyBeautyFavs launches
First posts: Anastasia Beverly Hills Ultimate Glow Kit swatches and a ColourPop Terracotta Edit review. The beauty era begins.
2016–2017
Beauty blog at its height
108 posts across two full years of coverage. Brand events, Sephora hauls, tutorial collaborations, and an active reader community in the comments.
2018–2022
Life evolves, so does the content
Publishing slows as the writer's interests expand. Lifestyle, streaming, gaming, and entertainment start taking up more time than makeup tutorials.
2023–2024
Discovering online casino gaming
The writer goes deep on US-facing offshore casinos — testing sites, analyzing bonuses, tracking payout speeds. The same methodical review approach that worked for beauty products turns out to work perfectly for casinos.
2025
The transition
MyBeautyFavs officially pivots to online casino and lifestyle content. The beauty archive is preserved. The same honest, first-person voice carries forward into a new subject area.
2026
Top 10 casino rankings, updated monthly
The current site — a regularly updated ranking of the best US-facing online casinos, tested with real money, reviewed in plain language.
Ryan Garcia
Lifestyle Writer & iGaming Reviewer

Ryan has been writing online since 2016, starting with beauty content and eventually finding a second home in the online casino review space. The connective thread across all of it: testing things properly before recommending them, writing in plain language, and not pretending something is good when it isn't. Ryan tests every casino on the site with a real deposit before including it in any ranking. When something changes — a payout slows down, a bonus terms gets worse — the recommendation changes too.

About our review process: Every casino listed on this site has been evaluated with a real deposit and real play. We assess payout speed, bonus terms and wagering requirements, mobile experience, customer support responsiveness, and game library depth. Sites are re-evaluated on an ongoing basis — a site that's good today can slip, and we update our rankings when that happens.

Affiliate disclosure: Some links on this site are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a commission if you sign up through them. This never influences our rankings — we only recommend sites we've tested and would recommend regardless. Our beauty archive readers knew we'd never recommend a product just because a brand sent it for free. The same standard applies here.

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