Today is Mother’s Day here. It seems that Mother’s Day is celebrated at different times in some other parts of the world but lets just play along shall we?
I don’t usually fall in with the whole “xx Day” concept but I was talking to some people in the past week and we were talking about what interested us in terms of beauty and how we had that interest. It turns out, quite a few of us had been influenced by our Mums!
So I thought it would be fun to see if you too felt the same way. How has your Mum influenced your beauty routine; or to put it the other way around, how has your beauty routine been influenced by your Mum? Did she buy you your first lipstick? Did she pick out skincare for you?
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I was introduced to a new local (Malaysian) brand of cosmetics yesterday known as Covo Cosmetics and while I have my reservations about getting excited over a new player in the market without quite knowing how long it’ll be hanging around for, I must say I have been quite taken by the few items I’ve seen. After all, for a brand to succeed, they do need our support, don’t they? 
But I’ll tell you about it another time.
I wanted instead to very quickly share about one specific item that had me zeroing in on it as if my gaze was hooked by a tractor beam. It was the Covo nail polish in Maldives and if you have been following the nail colour trends for Summer 2013, you will understand why I singled this one out for special mention 
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I struggled for a while trying to start this blog post. This missing mojo thing quite a tricky one! But then I realised that I was being too silly and taking things too seriously. All you want to know is what is this I’m talking about and how I liked it! Now, that’s not that hard is it?
So what is this? This is the latest upgrade to the existing Diorsnow skincare collection which I believe maybe found in Asia only – home of whitening/brightening skincare. If you do know if it being available elsewhere in the world, do let me know! Last year, Dior introduced Icelandic Glacial Water in their Diorsnow range. This has been maintained this year.
What’s new this year is that silver bottle you see at forefront of the photo – Diorsnow Anti-Spot serum or the Serum Anti-Taches which tickles me to no end, because I keep seeing ‘moustaches’ everytime I look at it This product, as the name implies, serves to combat the appearance of dark spots with the stimulation for the skin to produce ‘filaggrin’ – a protein Dior labs found was lacking in areas affected by pigmentation. So the principle is thus – make the skin form more filaggrin and it’ll help calm the cells and reduce melanin production.
Does it work though? I pondered that because to be perfectly honest, I’ve never come across any product that can actually do much for the pigmentation spots no matter what they claim. Face it, topical products cannot do the work of laser. But I did derive some benefit from using it.
If you participated in the Dior x MWS product sampling exercise we had about a month ago, you will have received a deluxe sized sample of this Anti-Spot Serum in your kit. I hope you’ve tried it because here’s where you get to share your story 
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Ok admission – I’m really struggling to get my blogging mojo back LOL! No idea where its gone to be honest. If found, please return. I may offer a lipstick reward. I have my editorial calendar up but I keep pushing things back. So what better way to ease back into the swing of things than to talk about one of my favourite topics – blush!
I was looking in my drawer a while ago and realised that I have a few distinct categories of blush colours that I gravitate towards. I thought I might like to share little compilations from time to time and here’s starting with a very easy to wear category of light pink blushes.
Light pink blushes are one of the easiest ways to ease into wearing blush, especially if you aren’t too adept at applying them yet. Sure, the common lament is that the colour doesn’t show up. But you don’t want splotches on your cheeks. You want a natural glow to your skin, and if you need more colour, its easy to layer them on. Light pink is a good shade, because the colour is light, it gives you just a gentle perky glow and gives you a bit of colour without looking like you applied makeup. Absolutely perfect for the “Makeup? What makeup?” look. That said, not everyone suits pink blush so I am speaking quite generally here – not gospel ok? 
Here are 5 light pink blushes I own, that I like and use quite often to get you started. As a bonus, they’re all very easy to use too, even for newbies!
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