I wasn’t thinking Spring when I originally saw the Chanel Quardra Eyeshadow Palette in Lilium for Summer 2011. All that green had me thinking Fall but than the combination of browns and greens had me at rebirth, renewal, Spring….
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Last week, we were morbidly fascinated with a pageant mom who candidly spoke about giving her eight year old daughter Botox injections for wrinkles but we weren’t shocked. We’ve reached a pinnacle in our relationship with those crazy pageant moms and anything they do nowadays is far from shocking….they’ll try anything once including waxing, botox, and prancing their kid in a thong on stage if it means winning!
Turns out the “Botox Mom” just wanted her 15 minutes of fame…!
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SPF, a necessary evil. It doesn’t have to be though…it should be an easy (emphasis on easy) product that blends seamlessly in with our daily skincare regime.
Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Targeted Sun Defense Stick SPF 50 makes sun protection easy and simple!
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Accessories…almost as exciting as cosmetics aren’t they? Dunno about you but brushes, sponges, makeup bags, and other beauty accessories do it for me almost as much as a brand new gloss or eyeshadow.
MAC has brand new Accessories available for Summer.
Here’s the deets!
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- Trader Joe’s Shells With Brie and Asparagus
OMGZ! So delish! And easy to make! Whenever I make this from scratch I find the Asparagus comes across bitter but Trader Joe gets it down pat plus it takes all of 4 minutes to heat up in my microwave! Nom!
- Figaro Ceng’s Hair in Devil Beside You
Go youTube up Devil Beside You and behold Figaro Ceng’s hair. It’s the epic, stuff of legends! I’m obsessed with it. I need to know how much gel was used here…anyone know? I mean Mike’s hair was legendary but than Figaro steals the entire drama with hair so big it could compete with the world’s largest building.
- Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Camellia
Loves it! Refreshing green tea! The perfect Summer fragrance!
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Either I wasn’t really paying attention before or I’m correct in saying that dark spot treatments are hitting the beauty world hard lately.
Clinique’s Even Better Clinical Dark Spot Corrector started the skin lightening revolution and now it seems everyone wants a piece of the action.
The new Lancome Bright Expert caught my attention recently….
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When the going is good you might as well milk that cash cow.
The Biebs recently collaborated with Nicole by OPI to release several shades of nail polish. I admit I laughed at this release but than I remembered I’d have probably purchased it 20 years ago if New Kids on the Block were pimpin’ it…sigh…the embarrassing trails of youth.
Hangin’ tough yo!
Never say Justin Bieber doesn’t have a master plan to take over the beauty world as we know it because he’ll be cashing in on a new fragrance soon.
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While the rest of the world’s mothers were telling them NOT to wash their face with soap, my mum was probably the spokesperson for doing it. The lady has never used fancy cleansers, moisturizers, or skincare of any kind. She’s always been a really no nonsense kinda mum and I love her for it.
As for washing her face with soap? Well, my mother would probably heartily recommend it but I personally avoid doing so.
But of course the masters behind simple skincare, Philosophy, have created a bar of soap for your face and your body…Purity in a bar?
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The biggest highlight of my blogging life was when I made it into the Etude House Newsletter. Since the newsletter is released in Korea only at Etude House Boutiques I was floored that my blog had made it so far across the world.
Earlier this year I was happy to share with you that I was in the New York Times and today I’m a bit giddy to have been quoted in the New York Post on Jennifer Aniston’s new fragrance. It’s not really a big deal, just a sentence or two but I consider it a huge compliment to appear in print in a popular newspaper particularly ones like the Times and the Post.
If you have the paper you can flip to page 37 for the article or you can read it online at www.nypost.com
As cool and refreshing as a peach soda sounds might I say that having it in an eye & lip makeup remover formula makes it double wicked and tempting?
My Beauty Diary recently released a range of skincare collection entitled My Tea Time one item included with the collection is their new Peach Soda Eye & Lip Makeup Remover. Damn these Asian companies, they really know how to tempt a girl……doesn’t the name just beg you to buy it?
I had to have it!
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I danced around the house and sung I feel pretty in Julie Andrew’s haughty British accent this morning. It’s that damn L’Occitane en Provence Pivoine Flora Petals Eye Quartet…the shades just make me feel oh so pretty, witty, and gay! I was actually all of these things before the palette but the palette helped emphasize my sheer awesomeness….I’m kiddin’, I’m kiddin’ but seriously the palette is one of those soft, feminine little numbers that makes you feel pretty just staring at it.
The new Pivoine Flora Collection is an ode to the graceful beauty of the peony flower that sways gently in the breeze like a dainty little ballerina!
Let’s check out the palette!
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I’ve been waiting to tell you about the new MAC Prep + Prime Beauty Balm SPF 35 since earlier this week but the press release just ended up in my inbox today!
W00t!
The product was originally available at select Travel Retail locations throughout Asia. I believe mine was purchased in Japan via a Duty Free shop at the airport. I’ve had it for a while now but didn’t review since it was so difficult to locate in the US however I’ll be reviewing mine tomorrow and I think I’ll indulge in the US version as well to see if the formula is the same or different from the Asian release. I suspect it’ll be the same overall though.
Let’s have a look!
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I wish Park Si Hoo would stop posting hawt pics of himself on Twitter, it’s distracting me from work.
It’s one of those days I’m procrastinating madly….! How about you? Must be the upcoming weekend.
Anyway, I was test driving Urban Decay Lip Love Honey Infused Lip Therapy this week and I remember why I didn’t love MAC Honey Salve, the gawd awful cat pee taste. Not that I go around tasting cat pee mind you, don’t get any wrong ideas…but damn honey anything really tastes rubbish…anyone agree?
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Now that we are finally seeing BB Creams on our shores I thought I’d take a second to answer the question, What’s the difference between Tinted Moisturizer and BB Creams?
I already see alot of questions rising up about how BB Creams are the same as Tinted Moisturizers or questions about the differences between the two….I want to emphasis that BB Creams and Tinted Moisturizers are too vastly different products. The concept is somewhat the same but the ingredients and performance of the two products are very different. Although I will say so far the US releases I’ve played with from Dr. Jart are quite disappointing and do indeed act more as a Tinted Moisturizer than a BB Cream.
BB Cream stands for Blemish Balm Cream. The product was originally created by Germany dermatologists to help patients who had gone through laser skin surgery. The product was meant to soothe and regenerate the skin tissue.
The craze was born in Korea (most BB Creams and the best performing ones in my opinion are from various Korean Brands) when famous actresses started wearing the cream on their faces. The product slowly started branching out from Korea to Japan, China, Singapore, and other parts of Asia thus creating a very hot trend.
Most BB Creams are created in one shade but some are created in two and if you’re lucky some even go so far as to offer three or four shades such as Missha. It’s rare though that more than one shade is created. I’ve heard alot of ranting about this but you do have to remember that BB Creams originated in Asia where there is one dominate skin tone…
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