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Cushion Foundation Week Day 3: Clinique Super City Block BB Cushion Compact was a sleeper hit!

April 6, 2016 Paris B 22 Comments

Welcome friends, to Day 3 of Cushion Foundation Week on My Women Stuff!

This has been the new wave of foundations to hit our counters, popularised by Korean brands and formulations, so I wanted to keep it all in one place. What I’ll be doing over the next few days, will be to tell you what I think of the cushion foundation from a particular brand, and suspending all other regular programmes. The remaining cushion foundations will be from the Western brands, because that’s what I have on hand. At the end of the 5 days, I’ll do a quick round up with some general thoughts, and also tell you what I think about cushion foundations in general so look out for it then.

Today’s cushion foundation from a western brand, turned out to be a sleeper hit for me. It’s the Clinique Super City Block BB Cushion Compact and it turned out to be pretty decent!

Clinique Even Better Clinical Dark Spot Corrector & Optimizer serum is optimized with green tea extracts

February 18, 2016 Paris B 8 Comments

I haven’t used a “whitening” or correcting skincare product in quite a while, as I’m sure the regulars would have noticed. I used to, back in the day, but I soon wised up to the fact that they were all far too drying for my skin. So these days, I turn away offers to try this new whitening/brightening range and that new range. I’m just past all that.

Which isn’t to say that I don’t have a problem with skin pigmentation. If you’ve ever seen my bare faced pictures (which you will have, if you’re a regular) then you know I have a problem, but I’m not obsessed about it. So, why try this one from Clinique, you may wonder.

The short answer, is that the Clinique Even Better Clinical Dark Spot Corrector (formerly known as Derma White) was the one product that gave me noticeable (and very impressive) results the first time I tried it, back in the day. It was so effective for me, that I went through about 3 bottles of it, and told everyone about it. Worked for some, didn’t work for others. But I eventually changed my whole skincare regimen and stopped using it.

But this year, Clinique has upgraded the formula so the product is now called the Even Better Clinical Dark Spot Corrector & Optimizer. It’s still a serum, and it still targets dark spots and evens out complexion, but with an added ingredient extracted from Gyokuro, very expensive green tea from tea leaves plucked from tea leaves grown in the shade, that is packed with antioxidants and anti-irritants, to optimize the product efficacy. This helps calm the skin and prevent the exacerbation of formation of pigmentation.

The question therefore is, was this even better than the original serum I liked? 😀

For a Bare Pop of colour, the new Clinique Pop Lip Colour + Primer lipstick surprises

April 27, 2015 Paris B 18 Comments

Those of us who do our makeup shopping online would be familiar with the lament of not having proper swatches of colours to work from. When I was invited to give the new Clinique Pop Lip Colour + Primer a go, I was offered a selection of colours online. I didn’t really have their names so I picked something that looked “berry-ish” a colour I knew I’d wear daily and often. As much as I love my red lipstick, I’ve not been wearing them as often as I should.

When it arrived, I had a bit of an “Oh crap!” moment when I saw that contrary to what the online picture showed me, the shade was not a berry red as I thought, but a colour that verges on being “nude” or “neutral”. If there’s one thing I shy away from more than chocolate, it’s nude lipstick. (Look, I can’t be the only person out there who doesn’t like chocolate right?! 😛 )

The shade is 02 Bare Pop and in tube, it looked like a neutral, slightly pink-browned shade, with tiny little sparkles. My heart sank. If there’s something else I can’t handle, it’s lipstick with sparkles.

But my job, as it were, is to try the formula, so I gritted my teeth, pursed my lips and slicked Bare Pop on. It’s kind of hard to explain how it happened, but much to my surprise, Bare Pop has found its way into my daily lipstick pouch!

Paris Picks! The CC Cream Edition – 3 CC Creams I’ve been using recently

October 20, 2014 Paris B 22 Comments

You know, it took me a long while to warm up to BB Creams and it wasn’t until I eventually found some that actually worked for me that I actually warmed up to the idea of using them. By that time, CC Creams had come on the scene and I had a headdesk moment. I was going to have to re-learn the whole notion of alphabet creams again!

CC Creams, or Colour Correcting creams claimed to be an improvement on BB Creams. They boasted a lighter texture, and colour correcting pigments instead of mere tint. If you ask me however, barring some truly colour correcting creams that are basically primers to correct sallowness or redness in skintone, there is very little to distinguish BB or CC Creams. So you know what? Don’t bother. Just use whatever you like, whatever it may be called. Even if it be a GG (Glamorously Gorgeous) Cream which isn’t yet invented but which just might be 😛 Remember however, it is first and foremost a makeup item, not skincare so please clean it off accordingly and please do not attempt to sleep in it.

But because everyone loves labels, I thought I’d share with you 3 CC Creams I’ve tried that I actually like and use pretty often. It might surprise you that a popular CC Cream that was said to have started the whole trend isn’t here in my list, but you know, that’s life 🙂 I just found myself preferring these. So let me quickly share them with you because I’ve never reviewed them individually before this and I’ve got a tip for making these CC Creams work better for me! 😀

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