Archives for September 2010

How quickly (or slowly) do you dig into your new purchases?

Paris B 50 Comments

I was admiring my NARS haul that I showed you the other day. In particular, I was admiring the Tzarine eyeshadow duo. It looked so perfect with all the hetchmarks intact and looking pristine and beautiful.

Nars tzarine eyeshadow duo

I admired it for all of 10 minutes (to enable me to take the requisite photos) before I dug right into it for swatches and to try it on my eyes.

I guess I don’t have too much sentimental value for new products. On the other hand, there are very pretty palettes that the brands have been churning out in the past year that make it almost impossible to dig into.

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Focus on Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus Wrinkle and Photo Damage Corrector

Paris B 29 Comments

Back in August I got me grubby paws on the (then) new Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus serum. It is touted as a Wrinkle and Photo Damage Corrector. My eyes zeroed in on the words “Photo Damage Corrector”. Have I mentioned I have pigmentation? Yes, a million times or so 😛

clinique repairwear laser wrinkle and photo damage corrector review

Gah! How did that picture get so big?!

But when I read the copy, I realized that the Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus does not target pigmentation sort of photo damage. Rather, it targets the fine lines and winkles sort of photo damage. Hmm… since I’ve been using this serum and that serum I gotta say that I’m already keeping fine lines at bay. But I gave this one a shot anyway.

So, whilst I cannot tell you if it works well to diminish fine lines and wrinkles (another serum took care of that already) I can tell you that my skin took to this one like a duck to water. It could be all those peptides and Vitamin E and C, packed into one potent serum, that did it because my skin was starting to look pretty good, plus I found a side benefit I’ll tell you about further down 😉

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Masquerade! Paper Faces on Parade! Smashbox Masquerade Eyeshadow Palette

Paris B 24 Comments

Ever since I saw pictures of the Smashbox Masquerade collection for Fall 2010 I was smitten. I’ve learnt that I like Fall-Winter colours best because I have a penchant for dark eyeshadow and deep colours. Light shades just work better as highlighters or accent colours but I do much better with dark colours for the eyes. Hence my love for the new Smashbox Masquerade Eyeshadow palette.

smashbox masquerade eyeshadow palette photo

I showed you this one before I left on holiday. I used it throughout my holidays but since my camera’s gone, I have no looks to show you 😛 Which is why I had to wait till I got back to work and started using makeup again to show a couple of simple looks.

I’ve got a couple of simple looks and swatches after the jump below.

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