I previously wrote about my regular visits to the Kanebo International Salon for my facials and Tine (who also goes to Kanebo) asked me to review them so I shall.
I first visited the Kanebo International Salon in Bangsar a couple of years back, when I came across a promotion in the newspapers for their facials. Since then, they are my regular facial salon.
This is what I like about going to the Kanebo Salon:
Courtesy of Life & Style – click to enlarge
At one time, the fashion trend was NOT to match your bags to your clothes or to your shoes. Everyone abhored the concept of looking “matchy-matchy” so you have pictures from the past where you see people wearing a riot of colours.
However, I have always lived by the rule which I read about in a magazine once: Never wear more than 3 colours at any one time. This includes clothes, bags, accessories and shoes. More than 3 colours turns you into Harlequin and no girl needs to look like a clown.
This excerpt from Life & Style seems to tell us however that these days, the fashion trend is to match shoes and bags. Your clothes don’t necessarily need to match although Posh Spice aka Mrs. David Beckham does. Wearing the nude/neutral colour she’s wearing, it looks fine. But imagine that in red or pink and ouch! We’ll need sunglasses.
I unfortunately do not subscribe to matching bags and shoes simply because I don’t like changing my bags all the time to match my shoes. I also love colourful bags (I’m not afraid of colour, and I hardly own any black or brown bags!) but I don’t love colourful shoes as much so choice will be quite limited for me.
How about you? Do you do the matchy-matchy thing?
Whenever you look at the pictures of models and actresses in the glossy magazines, do you find yourself wondering why you don’t have that smooth, flawless, no-pore look that they do? Lets leave air-brushing and photoshop aside.
I’ve seen many girls in real life, who also have that same flawless look. You can’t photoshop someone you see in the flesh! I suppose having flawless skin and small tiny little unnoticable pores is every woman’s dream. But here are some products recommended by Elle magazine that could help.
There is no guarantee that these cleansers will help minimize pores, but they will help keep your face clean and keeping your face clean is the first step towards having great skin. I’m happy that they recommended St. Ives Apricot Scrub as well. Its the best facial scrub I’ve tried and possibly one of the cheapest. I know it doesn’t work for everyone, but my skin is loving it!
Elle has a good article on minimizing pores under “Spotlight on Pore Minimizers” in their September issue (USA Edition). I’ve attached the article here (click to enlarge picture).
Strawberrynet is running a Special Purchase which is tempting me to no end.
I like loose powder eyeshadows, and they are having the Guerlain Iridescent loose powder eyeshadows on sale for US$19 each. These were limited edition from Christmas a year or two back and I missed out on them then. Now, I’m sorely tempted to get them because I’d heard they are really nice.
There are 3 colours available – Fairy Gold, Fairy Silver and Fairy Pink. I’ve heard a lot of raves for Fairy Gold and Fairy Silver. Still toying with the idea of getting one 😛 Does anyone have this and should I succumb?
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