Archives for March 2017

My Top 6 Beauty Products in The Malaysian Women’s Weekly (and the MWS10 Giveaway winners!)

March 31, 2017 Paris B 20 Comments

Do allow me a little “syiok sendiri” (loosely translated to “narcissistic”?) moment because look Ma! I’m in a beauty magazine! LOL Yes, it’s been a while, and no, it never gets old.

Thank you to The Malaysian Women’s Weekly for picking me as a “Malaysian Celeb” 😉 Hey, that’s what they say on the cover! “100 Beauty Brands Malaysian Celebs Love” so although I was categorised as a “Beauty Insider” (beauty blogger la 😛 ) I’m pretending I’m a celeb, just like everyone else featured (a celeb no one knows nor recognize LOL! But hey, I’m fine with that!)

If you’ve arrived here from MWW, welcome! I hope you enjoy your visit 🙂

Basically, MWW (Just 1 letter away from MWS – serendipity! 😛 ) asked if I could pick about 10 beauty products that I loved. They chose to feature 6 of my picks – yay! Regulars will be familiar with my picks because I’ve raved about them enough. You might even be sick of them (please don’t be. They are very good products! 😛 )

This is in the April 2017 edition of The Malaysian Women’s Weekly, if you’re interested and no, they unfortunately didn’t identify me as Paris B, but you should recognise the website, even if you don’t recognise my face nor name they used.

And speaking of favourite products, 3 out of 6 on my MWW list made it to my massive 10 years of MWS giveaway! And you’ll be pleased to know that I’ve FINALLY picked the 5 winners 🙂

We now have Grown Alchemist in Malaysia and I bring you 2 minutes with the brand and co-founder

March 30, 2017 Paris B 6 Comments

I first came across the Australian brand, Grown Alchemist, thanks to my friend, Tine, who gifted me a hand cream, many years ago. I liked the aesthetics, because it had that whole tin tube with vintage style writing on it. Smelled good and felt good too. But you know what? I thought it only sold body products. That’s first impressions for you! It wasn’t very popular then, and distribution was fairly limited to Australia at the time.

grown alchemist in malaysia

When I found out that the good folks at Ken’s Apothecary were bringing in the brand (FINALLY!), I got a little excited. I still thought it was a bath and body brand though (and I love nice smelling bath and body products!) … until I came upon their counter in the store and went “Grown Alchemist has skincare too?!”

That upped my interest tenfold LOL! 😀 I was privileged to be at the recent press launch introducing Grown Alchemist, in the presence of its founders, Jeremy and Keston Muijs, so not only got a little insight into the brand, but got to play with some of the products, and speak to Jeremy one-on-one to gain some insight into the brand, and I thought I’d share the info with you 🙂

Your Say: Have you ever felt pressured to buy something you didn’t really want?

March 28, 2017 Paris B 45 Comments

I buy a lot of crap. Rather, what I affectionately call “crap”. You don’t actually take me that seriously do you?! I spend a lot of money on beauty products and products for the kitchen and home (don’t even get me started on the kitchen – I want every new and potentially useful item I can find out there!) but often, they are fairly thought out purchases.

Sometimes I stumble and do the odd splurge on something I might not actually need but which catches my eye. Usually, it’s something pretty or something fairly frivolous like a perfumed scented shower gel or a scented candle, or a storage container (I’ve got a thing for storage containers – God help me when I go to Ikea or Daiso 😛 )

But you know what irks me? Being pressured into buying something I don’t really want. Tell me you’ve been put in that situation too? We can share in each other’s misery 😛

I found The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2% serum just … ordinary

March 27, 2017 Paris B 54 Comments

Those of you who are in tune with the going ons in the skincare world would have come across The Ordinary – a somewhat ordinary sounding name of a new range of skincare that is so revolutionary, it’s pretty much rocked the world of skincare enthusiasts. It’s also received rave reviews online from many big names in the industry. The key reason is the price because products in The Ordinary range are very very affordably priced, for what is supposed to be very potent and effective ingredients. So affordably priced, it makes you wonder if there’s a catch.

Because they are the brainchild of the people behind Deciem, the other popular brand for effective products that don’t break the bank, I was more comfortable picking up a few pieces, sight unseen. I bought directly from the Deciem website although you can get The Ordinary in a few other places online (not retailed in Malaysia at time of publishing – please don’t ask. The info about product availability is always detailed in all my posts wherever I can, especially local availability where possible. However, I’m not a fan of product resellers or pre-orders or bulk buyers so I never recommend any. I’m all about buying directly from trusted sources, never from Instagram or Facebook and I suggest that you do the same /climbs off soapbox).

The first product I was most excited to try was The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2% (I’ll call it The Ordinary Vitamin C serum for short) as I’d just run out of mine and was raring to try more Vitamin C products as I find them very effective.

The Ordinary Vitamin C serum slides in at under US$10 (£5) and I was curious as a cat with its 9 lives intact. There were so many raves for the brand online – might this be my wallet’s saviour?

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