I walked past the store front of the Annick Goutal store at Bangsar Shopping Centre about a week ago and saw that store window was dressed in a lovely soft mint green! I always love looking into the Annick Goutal store. I once saw a father and daughter in there buying a fragrance close to Mother’s day. Lucky lady!
But the new store window told me that the new Petite Cherie fragrance is out! 😀
If you have noticed anything by now when we talk about blogging and beauty blogging tips, is that there is no “must” or “should” 🙂 However, there are some “rules” or practises that are so established that everyone tends to follow suit. One of this is in product photography of new items.
How often have you come across a product review of a colour cosmetic that features a used product? Not often, I’d warrant. Most of the time (and I’m just as guilty of this) the product will be photographed in its brand new pristine state before a blogger uses it. There is something so beautiful and pristine about a brand new piece of makeup and it looks gorgeous in photographs.
And yet, how often have you, as a blogger, had to push aside using your makeup simply because “I haven’t photographed it new yet!” Again, I’m perfectly guilty of this. But you know what? I plan to change all that very soon because I’m not going to slavishly follow this practice anymore and I’ll share with you why.
If you own a beauty blog, I’m sure you are guilty of this too right? And I know readers will appreciate seeing products brand new too 🙂
When I last went off to the beach, I took with me a range of skincare for hydration. It was a range of products I’d been using at the time, and to my surprise, I’ve become quite devoted to 2 of the products. I’m almost halfway though the bottles which is why I figured I’d better tell you about them before all I have to show are empty ones 🙂
The products in question are from the Laneige Water Bank range which is targeted at hydration. This is one of Laneige’s bestselling ranges but when I first tried it two years back, I wasn’t terribly impressed. It was only when I picked up a bottle of the Emulsion meant for normal to dry skin in Korea, that I actually found myself liking it. Moral of the story, don’t write off a product at first go because skin can change 😉
I will tell you about 3 products today from the Water Bank range, but I will tell you here that I only like 2 of them. The other one, you could easily do without since I can 😛 Please feel free to let me know if you disagree though.
BB Creams are something I still do not quite get, all said and done. Yes, I have my faves that happen to come from 2 different ends of the price spectrum – Dior and Garnier and you do not get more diverse than that! I much prefer using a liquid foundation because to me, that’s what a BB cream aspires to be. Fans will of course disagree, but that’s how I roll 😉
Quite interestingly, here on the bandwagon is American brand Dr. Brandt with their own version of a BB Cream. The Flexitone BB Cream, as the name may imply, offers a formula that enable it to match to all (or rather, most) skin tones while offering anti-aging, radiance and smoothness and moisture to skin. All this, and SPF30 PA+++ to boot. Sounds promising right? Let’s see how it fares.