by Paris B · 50 comments
in Blush, Bronzer, Eyes, Eyeshadow, Face, FOTD, Lips, Lipstick, Makeup, New on shelves, Palettes
When Pantone announced that the colour of the year for 2013 was emerald, I could not help noticing that many brands didn’t utilize it for teir Spring collections. We saw mostly pinks this year. But for Summer, Dior is rectifying that with a vengeance!
The theme for the Dior Summer 2013 makeup collection is the legendary bird of paradise that flies through the skies, never touching the ground, free, flamboyant and elusive. Truly, who has ever seen a bird of paradise? (not the flower 
) Drawing on a sunny, tropical theme inspired by the Amazon jungles of South America, the Dior Bird of Paradise collection is lush and green, with tropical brights included.
I had a little preview of the collection yesterday and wanted to share with you a sneak peek of the products available, and what they look like when applied by the expert hand of Dior’s Pro-team International Makeup Artist from Spain, Junior Cedeno (who is also a super cutie and amusing to boot!) 
Just a quick one and I’ll have the more detailed swatches, tips etc to follow in time to come.
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Hi everyone, this is a short note to let you know that from today, blog posts will appear every other day or two until I get back on my feet. I had a rough day yesterday and I don’t have the mood, inspiration nor inclination to blog about beauty just right now. Things will go back to normal soon, but till then, I don’t want to leave things in the lurch so slowing down is the best compromise. Emails and comments will take me a while. Thanks for bearing with me 
xx PB
I love MWS readers. They ask the most interesting questions and give me loads of ideas for blog posts and some of you have also given me some good ideas on blog layout (which I’ve been working on and tweaking, if you’d like to take a look at the navigation bar above ). But today, its about a question that reader pondsandleaves asked in her comment on a post 2 weeks ago.
My post was about hair removal where so many of you lovely ladies chimed in with your interesting ‘hair-raising’ experiences (since I have none to share). But Pondsandleaves wanted to know what you thought about bikini waxing. I thought it was very interesting, so here it is.
What are YOUR views on bikini or brazilian waxing?
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Dior has been on a bit of a roll in recent times. This April sees them reformulating the Addict lipgloss, adding more Addict Extreme lipsticks and earlier this year, they quietly reformulated their mono eyeshadows. Now, stop for a moment and BREATHE! Settled?
Ok, the mono eyeshadows. I had some of the old Dior mono shadows. I don’t know if anyone remembers them. One of the earliest was in a trapezoid shape, slightly raised from the pan. It reminded me of chocolate. You know those little bars of chocolate wrapped in colourful paper that you get in Quality Street multimix packs? No? Ok, you need to get yourself a Quality Street bag of choccies after this ok?
They changed the monos after that into an oval shape pan. I didn’t have any from that but it was also because I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the oval pan in a square case. Screwed with my geometrics
The next incarnation came about as a rectangle pan with the cannage pattern embossed on it. I think I have one from then but it was too glittery so I never actually really used it.
Am I talking to myself here? Does anyone remember all these incarnations of the Dior mono eyeshadows? Well, nevermind if you don’t remember, because here is the newest design – a square pan with the Dior ‘logomania’ logo imprinted on it. This Dior logo is the one used on all the Dior canvas bags and whilst not as modern as I’d imagine it to be, is quintessentially Dior. Based on my observation there are 3 formula that can be used wet and dry, and I have here, 3 colours to show you, and to tell you what I think about them and also to show you how they look worn together. A bit of ground to cover so settle back
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I rarely talk about shops opening here and there but I wanted to share this one, because I’d been waiting for this store to re-open in the city for so long.
Ken’s Apothecary opened in Bangsar, KL sometime back in 2000. Their store used to be along the row of shops facing where Bangsar Village 2 now stands and I remember then, reading about it in the newspaper.
Anyway, I was young and impressionable and for some reason, I was drawn to the article. It might have been the name – Ken’s Apothecary – because really, how many of us actually hear the word “apothecary” bandied about these days? It was old world and I liked that. Unlike apothecaries, which are essentially pharmacies, this one had a very narrow niche with a focus on niche and luxury fragrances and brands. I was introduced in the newspaper article to the likes of Annick Goutal, T. LeClerc and Laura Mercier, to name just a few brands that was carried in store. Brands whose names were alien to me at that point.
Someday, I told myself, I’d visit this store which I had built up in my head to be an Aladdin’s cave of wonders. I did, a couple of years later.
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