Archives for January 2009

Sass, Style & Substance Weekend Reads #1

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For this week’s best of Sass, Style & Substance beauty & fashion news!

eye4style
eye4style test drives lucy’s new Power Cardio Pant and the verdict is…

Gleaming Things
Celebrate New Year’s with a new jewelry contest from Gleaming Things and Twisted Silver – you could win a new pair of earrings!

A Touch of Blusher
A Touch of Blusher looks at Dick Page’s spring 2009 makeup look.

Beauty Match
32 of Hollywood’s trendiest and craziest crash diets to lose weight fast!

My Women Stuff
Stila Precious Pearl eyeshadow palette for Spring 2009.

Her Accessories
Celebrate the return of spring with yummy spring shoe styles arriving in stores. Bright colors, strappy sandals and bows are making a comeback!

Lancome Color Design Artists Mini Collection

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Inspired by nature and the environment, Lancome’s team of Color Design Artists have put together a mini-collection of products to reflect the beauty of nature based on their inspirations. Each mini-collection can be used to create a day and/or night look and you can be assured that each set of colors will match perfectly so there goes your headache of wondering if green eyeshadow will go with pink blush 😉

Each mini-collection has its own theme, and is sold both individually starting from RM65 or as a set in a special limited edition box starting from RM600. Here are the 6 mini-collections in no particular order. You know, they actually make a good starter kit for someone just starting to get interested in makeup 🙂 There’s a poll below so please take part!

Desert Desire by Zamri Zainol – Lancôme National Make-up Artist & Team Leader for LCDArtists

Lancome Desert Desire collection

Eyes

  • Ombre Absolue Duo #D04/#201 Love For Sale – RM105
  • Colour Design #608 Strass Bronzer – RM65
  • Le Crayon Kohl Waterproof Eye Pencil Liner #01 Raisin Noir – RM65
  • Amplicils Mascara Waterproof #01 Noir – RM93

Cheeks

  • Blush Subtil #26 Soleil Dore – RM105

Lips

  • Le Rouge Absolu #203 – RM75
  • Color Fever Gloss #200 Beige Paradise – RM72

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Stila Precious Pearl Eyeshadow Palette – Spring 2009

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Stila’s Spring 2009 offering looks promising! I am quite quite captivated by the eyeshadow palette which comes in that lovely slim packaging that I adore from Stila. It makes it so much easier to carry around and I don’t mind the lack of an applicator because I never use them anyway.

Stila Precious Pearl Spring 2009

This is the Stila Precious Pearl Spring 2009 eyeshadow palette and although it looks to be a hotch potch mix of cool and warm coloured shadows, I like it! Ok, the pinks make me balk a little but the cream-white, green and blue are calling my name.

*Paris B… Paris B… come buy me… * 😛
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Bobbi Brown Brights Eye Palette – Spring 2009

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When I first saw the picture of the limited edition Bobbi Brown Brights Eye palette, I was taken aback by a sense of deja vu. I knew I’d seen that multi-hued eyeshadow palette before… but where?

So, I thought and thought… And then, my memory returned.

Bobbi Brights Eye Palette

The Bobbi Brights Eye Palette reminds me of any multi-colored eyeshadow palette I have ever seen, from the no brand made in China ones I see on Ebay and at the pasar malam (night market) trying to pass themselves off as MAC, to the Markwins eyeshadow palettes at the pharmacies and drugstores, to the Coastal Scents 88 color eyeshadow palette. It even looks similar.

The Bobbi Brights eyeshadow palette has 35 matte colours and has a dimension of 6.3″ L x 4.25″ W open. Half that when closed and what you have is a relatively small compact palette with really tiny eyeshadow in it. I’m not fussed about the quantity, but the fact that they thought to fit 35 matte eyeshadows into one tiny palette is just mind boggling… unless it is premade that way of course 😉
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