Archives for May 2012

New! Maybelline Baby Lips NY Fashion Edition (Limited Edition) and new flavours: Mango Pie and Cherry Velvet

May 25, 2012 Paris B 40 Comments

The day lip balm takes on a limited edition flavour is the day you know that the cosmetics world has gone a little boinkers. Oh wait. There already is a limited edition lip balm out there! The world has gone boinkers! 😛 (not bonkers – that’s too normal)

maybelline ny fashion week limited edition

The Maybelline Baby Lips lipbalms are quite highly raved among lip balm users. It promises to give you baby soft lips with regular use and many people agree with this claim. It helps of course that its affordable too.

Personally, I’m not much of a lip balm user but I do have a couple of these Baby Lips lipbalms and the few times I have used them, they do live up to their claims of keeping lips soft. The up side is that they don’t leave my lips feeling oily. You know how some supposedly moisturizing lip balms do that? Slick on a layer and you get this oily or waxy film on your lips. Eww!

Maybelline, being a sponsor of the New York Fashion Week that was in February 2012, released a limited edition flavour in Protecting Berry in limited edition packaging. Limited edition lip balm, yo!

Simple Blogging Tips: Should you use a mobile theme for your blog?

May 25, 2012 Paris B 31 Comments

With mobile phones turning into mini computers in our hands, it is not surprising that more and more people are surfing the web on the go. The fact therefore, is that more and more people are reading blogs while on the go. I personally don’t on my mobile but I do so on a tablet sometimes.

do you need to use a mobile blog theme?

For bloggers, there is this universal wave to push blogs to display mobile themes or a mobile friendly version of our blogs to those who browse from a portable device. The pros say we should, because it loads faster and is easier to read. There are a few ways you can do it, from the complex (setting up a mirror site with mobile capabilities) to the simple (installing a plugin). If you use the WordPress.com and Blogger free platforms, its already done for you or you can switch it on in the settings (one of that).

But really, do you need it and should you use a mobile theme for your blog? For readers, do you prefer that a blog have a mobile theme when you read it on your mobile device?

Insta-Updates: Objects in a mirror are closer than they appear (and a video!)

May 24, 2012 Paris B 12 Comments

I just wanted to share one of my favourite pictures from last week.

I shot this while driving down the highway one evening with the setting sun at my back. Ok, I wasn’t driving. Its not safe to drive and photograph at the same time 🙂 Which is really how I managed to take this photo of the wing mirror.

Tackling ageing with an Ideal Resource : Darphin Ideal Resource Smoothing Retexturizing Radiance Cream

May 24, 2012 Paris B 41 Comments

Darphin – I love the name! Its so pretty and so French 😀 But I’ve never used anything from this skincare line before, has anyone? The Ideal Resource Smoothing Retexturizing Radiance Cream is the first item I’ve tried from the brand which, in Malaysia, is sold primarily through salons. It might explain why it hits my blind spot.

darphin ideal resource

This cream is, as you might guess from the name, an anti-aging cream, designed to reduce the appearance of fine lines and to make skin look more radiant. Darphin is one of those skincare ranges that use flowers and extracts of essential oils in their products. The cream itself has a lovely light scent of flowers and I like it. I find it relaxing – not such a bad thing in the mornings, when one has to get ready to face the day 🙂 I did run into a bit of fly in the ointment though… not literally 😉

Archives for May 2012

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