Eep my flyaway hairs are NOT growing out of my cheek. Honest. One of my fave lip stains is Stila Yumberry Crush. It has a sweet cherry popsicle colour that adds just enough colour to me look alive and healthy. I like to apply it, let it dry, then put a coat of the original LipFusion Lip Plump gloss in clear. This is my HG lip gloss and has been [...]
When sprayed on initially, I smell a slight hint of a bitter fruit, namely grapefruit, despite the fact that descriptions of this scent found online don’t mention it. After a few minutes, the scent really warms up. It becomes a soft and cozy scent that has a slight hint of something powdery. This unique powder note is soft and smooth without venturing into the cliché territory of the innocence of [...]
No2 Dewy Papaya second from right I’m a sucker for a lip balm. I am also a sucker for luxe packaging and pretty colours. But, I am also quite colour phobic and tend to wear sheer glosses or my lips but better non lippy lippies. I was perusing the YSL counter and thanks to most delightful SA had fun trying this and that. She could tell by my next to [...]
I guess it has something to do with that “end of summer feeling” thats going on now. Thanks, Back To School Sales EVERYWHERE I GO. Ok, I’ll stop crying in a minute….Anyways, I’ve been craving a slightly darker more dramatic nail these days. I have some super vampy colours and reds but I wanted something in between. It doesn’t read as dark on the nails- more like the bottle colour. [...]
Bridge over St Lawrence River on Canada-US border…to heaven? Music: I seem to listening to a lot of soundtrack music theses days, which is kind of cool as that usually means discovering old gems. Maybe I’m watching movies late at night with terrific music I can’t always ID, but no fear. I have Shazam. I have fallen in love with my Shazam App on my phone for two reasons. First, [...]
A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future- Coco Chanel Well today is Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s birthday- she would be 128 today! There is no question that Coco Chanel changed the way we feel about fashion and how women dress. She shook off the girdles and boning and restrictive frou frou fashion from the turn of the century and gave us jersey, dropped waists, pants and cropped hair. Even [...]
I have always loved monoi oil- it makes your skin feel great, look gorgeous and smell delicious. Monoi (pronounded mah-noy) oil is made from a coconut oil that has been infused with Tahitian gardenias (also known as tiare) and has been used in the French Pacific for softening skin and hair forever. There really is something about the coconut-gardenia scent combination is so delicious and beautiful. It really does conjure [...]
Get me my perfume…and dab it on me…NOW Musks are funny shape shifting notes in perfume. They don’t smell the same to everyone, and one person’s “Ew that musk is so strong it makes me ill” is another person’s “Musk? What musk? I don’t smell any musk”. There are the 70s musks, that I personally love. Maybe it is the nostalgia for an innocent time with great music & clothes [...]
I am relentlessly in pursuit of soft moisturized skin. Of course, my crazy climate dictates different needs for different seasons and the summer usually means I can go a bit lighter than the winter with our dry central heating. If you read here regularly you will know that silicones are the bane of my existence. I can tolerate them in tiny amounts but I know that they basically just add [...]
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