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Chanel Spring Summer Makeup 2019 Vision d’Asie: L’Art du Detail is beautiful bar one confusing detail

February 15, 2019 Paris B 10 Comments

I think by now you’d realise that I’m a bit of a Lucia Pica fan-girl. Lucia Pica has been the Creative Director of Chanel beauty since 2016 when she kicked off the Le Rouge collection for Fall 2016.

Since then, I anticipate each beauty collection released from Chanel, knowing each time, that I will face a little surprise. Often pleasant. Thus far, I have yet to be disappointed.

For Spring-Summer 2019 Vision d’Asie: L’Art du Detail, Lucia Pica drew inspiration from light, colour and texture in Japan. Eyes are kept bright in the Les 9 Ombres eye palette (I don’t have it, and haven’t yet had the chance to see it but it’s similar in layout to this one from last year)

Lip are bright and lush in matte velvet textures. But it was one new item in the collection that had me going “What on earth is that? How do I use it? Will I even use it?!”

Your say: Do you use applicators included in makeup palettes and compacts?

February 13, 2019 Paris B 28 Comments

This is something that’s been bugging me for a while. I notice that new makeup items often come with an applicator. This is true, whether it comes from the pharmacy, or if it is a department store or luxury brand.

I open a compact holding a powder blush, and out will fall a little, scratchy cheek brush.

Or I open an eyeshadow palette, and out drops sponge-tipped applicators or random, skinny dual-ended little brushes.

More than once, I’d have to scramble around the floor picking up these little projectiles that fly out of my makeup compacts, much to my consternation.

So my question for you today is this – Do you use the applicators included with makeup? Are they good for anything?

I’m loving these 8 things and I think you will want to save your ‘ang pow’ money for them

February 1, 2019 Paris B 14 Comments

I have said that I do not want to be that blogger who pushes gift guides in your face. But I suppose I do, once a year, come the Lunar (Chinese) New Year.

However, it’s not conventionally a gift guide per se, as we don’t usually practice gifting of this nature at this time of year. So, it’s not a guide on what you can buy for others. Instead, it’s a gift guide for yourself – an idea on what beauty related items you could save your “ang pow” (lucky red packet) money to treat yourself 😀

That’s really the best part about the Chinese New Year isn’t it? Sure, it can feel like a hassle sometimes, and we are always pressed to look our best during the festivities, but “ang pow” makes everything a wee bit better. Those of us receiving it anyway! LOL! 😀 I know many people who read this are now at the giving end, rather than the receiving end, but there are always little windfalls that come by now and again – so consider this your “gift guide” to yourself 😉

So here are 8 items I think are absolutely worth saving your “ang pow” money for, and why I say so 🙂

This Spring-Summer, drench your lips with 18 beautiful shades in Daringly Distinct vivid matte colour or Daringly Demure glossy shine from Three Cosmetics

January 30, 2019 Paris B 11 Comments

Three Cosmetics isn’t new in the market. But I will confess that it is new to me. There is only so much attention I can pay to the numerous brands available out there, that I often miss many.

But because Three hails from Japan, I sat up and paid a little more attention. I have a bit of an affinity and soft spot for Japanese beauty brands and Japanese beauty products.

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Recently, I was presented with a selection of the brand new Three Cosmetics lipsticks in their Spring/Summer 2019 collection. And if there’s one thing that the Japanese can do no wrong for me, it’s in their lipsticks.

I have maintained (and I’m not often wrong) that the Japanese make the best quality lipsticks in the market. They are often underrated and unremarked upon (Western brands push their marketing harder) but if you want a lipstick that is of great quality, head for the Japanese brands.

Their drawback however, is usually in the pigment. Japanese makeup styles favour a sheerer, more glossy lip, because it complements the rest of their face.

But wait till you see these beauties in the Three Daringly Demure and Daringly Distinct lipstick ranges. They will blow you away! 😀

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