The Daiso Detergent for Puff and Sponge is the stuff of legends. How can something so impossibly cheap work so impossibly well in getting your makeup sponges and brushes looking so clean and as good as new? How??
Well the answer really, is that its a detergent. One formulated for cleaning makeup sponges, but a detergent nonetheless. I’d heard a lot about it for ages, and back then, the only Daiso in town was at The Curve i.e. too far for me to get to. Thankfully for good friends, I got my hands on this iconic Daiso product.
Now, I must say that this Daiso Sponge Cleaner is da bomb. It cleans makeup sponges and restores them to look as good as new. If you’ve ever fretted over your foundation sponges and wondered how to get the stains out of the sponge or puffs, this is your saviour. If you use it to wash brushes, even the filthiest of brushes cannot withstand the cleansing powder of this liquid detergent as I’ll show you below. It is THAT powerful!
However, despite the many raves and recommendations to use this for cleaning makeup brushes, I personally do not recommend it for makeup brushes and I’ll tell you why.
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Xin Nie Kuai Le! Gong Xi Fa Cai!
That’s me wishing all of you lovely readers a very Happy and Prosperous New Year! Well, tomorrow at any rate 
Today, being the eve of the new year, is when we all return home to be with our families and enjoy the Reunion Dinner. The feasting starts tonight! 
Actually mine started yesterday because I came back earlier Tomorrow sees us welcoming in the Year of the Dragon with a leap and a bound and it would be interesting to see just how it will turn out for us all.
As is traditional at this time of year, MWS will be on hiatus while I go home and enjoy the festivities. In our part of the world, I know there is a long break on so if you are travelling, I wish you safe travels.
To everyone else celebrating the new Lunar year, I wish you Gong Xi Fa Cai and may the Dragon year bring you even more happiness, health and prosperity!
Be back soon… once the CNY cookies and tidbits run out… 
xoxo
Paris B
So, the Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is just around the corner now, and its the time most of us meet up with relatives (love it or hate it!) and spend time with our families. This is also the time we go around to visit friends, to catch up over the year that we never bothered to stay in touch. It was more fun as kids when I’d have lucky red packets to collect (cash FTW!) but now I don’t get it anymore, its a chore 
But if there is one consistent thing about Chinese New Year, it is the weather. Over here in the tropics, it tends to be boiling hot at this time of year. So much so, we call it “Chinese New Year weather”. And if you try traipsing around houses in this heat, you will inevitably find your makeup melting. Well, I have a solution!
I discovered the Smashbox Photo Set Finishing Powder in the Behind The Lens set that came out at Christmas, and I swear by this to keep melting makeup at bay. I think having a face primer under the makeup helps some, but the icing on the cake is really the Photo Set Finishing Powder.
I wore this one day, trudged around the city in the hot hot sun and still looked pretty much pulled together by the end of it. It somehow just managed to hold foundation without running or melting, blush colour looked pretty vibrant and the only thing I might see melting somewhat was eyeshadow.
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Many people have asked me in comments and in email about whitening products and spot correctors. I’ve tried quite a few in my time but the one product I’ve actually cared about enough to repurchase and which I personally recommend is the one by Clinique. This was launched about 2 years ago as the Derma White Clinical Brightening Essence, and you can read my review on it by following the link if you like.
Quite honestly, this is about one of the better brightening essences and spot correctors I’ve tried. It does what it says and does not dry out my skin nor leave it feeling tight. I’ve finished it up and bought my own and even that one was on its last legs by the time I got wind that Clinique was consolidating things and changing the name of this product.
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