March 22, 2012

Soap & Glory Butter Yourself Body Cream Soap & Glory Foamy Fruity Body Scrub Soap & Glory Foam-Call Super Moisture-Suds

Soap & Glory is restocking up new bits at Sephora and Sephora.com for Spring 2012. This products are new for us however they have already been released as of last year in the UK.

I haven’t technically purchased anything from Soap & Glory in a while so I might be convinced to grab one or two of these products (but I still rebel at the price raise).

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March 21, 2012

Maybelline Pure BB Mineral Instant Skin Smoother BB Mousse Review & Swatches

The Maybelline Pure BB Mineral Collection is kinda old news in Japan. Its never been released in the US but it did make it’s way across much of Asia upon release.

It happens to be one of those products that throws around “BB” in the title to garner attention but really that’s not a reference to the formula being a BB Cream. I notice the words BB Cream and BB seem to float around a lot when it comes to foundation and base products.

Japan typically releases new products prior to us with different names. For example, our new Bouncy Dream Blushes are called Jello Glow in Japan. I’m mentioning this because I was curious if we might see this BB Mousse pop up here in the US at some point. We sorta have in the form of Maybelline’s new foaming foundation but…packaging is different as well as formula slightly.

I find Maybelline products exceed quality in terms of pigmentation and formula in Japan versus much of the catalog products we have here in the US market so I expected Pure BB Mineral BB Mousse to be something I rejoiced in but sadly it didn’t quite happen that way.

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March 21, 2012

Bobbi Brown Tinted Moisturizer Review & Swatches

Hey, know what time it is?

Tinted moisturizer time!

You might be living in a cold environment but us New Yorker’s are living the dream. It’s been Spring for the past month or more with temperatures that may go up to 80 this week.

Seriously, it’s pandemonium! The world may end soon.

Time to haul out the TM and get with the lightweight coverage and who better to do the job than Miss Bobbi Brown herself.

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