A lot of my friends use Vichy products so I know that they’re always interested in knowing which products are good or not. Vichy Aqua Thermal is the perfect rich moisturizer that’s not greasy. Try it if, like me, you have some dryness. I know my skin is a little flaky because of retinol and this is great on it. Watch the video for my full review.
$40 at Shoppers Drug Mart or online.
I thought I would make a tutorial showing you how to fill in your eyebrows. It’s really quite easy, and I use my Guerlain Eyebrow Kit, but you could use whatever dark shadow you have in whatever eyeshadow palette you’re using. Just don’t use black and don’t use black eyeliner! I like using a medium brown because it looks more natural, but the darkest brown photographs really well!
If you have ideas for what kind of videos you want me to make, leave me a comment and I’ll try to do them!
http://www.instagram.com/tv/B_A-fM1ppZJ/
@guerlain Eyebrow Kit.
@narsissist eyebrow brush
@sephoracanada eyebrow brush
You could use whatever flat slanted brush you have, but eyebrow brushes tend to be a bit thicker. Even a drugstore brush would work.
If you’re the type that doesn’t like a very dark or very brown bronzer, you have got to get your hands on Pur Minerals Mineral Glow bronzer. I’m not usually a fan of Pur Minerals products (and I realize that I’m in the minority here) because their colours go on quite ashy on my skin and some of the powders contain cornstarch which is terrible for acne prone skin.
However, the Mineral Glow bronzer isn’t one of those products. It’s just a lovely sheer glow of a powder that adds an extra oomph to your skin and your look. You’d put it on the same way that you would use any other bronzer, but the effect is decidedly more subtle.
You can get Pur Minerals product from home shopping channels or from the Pur Minerals Website.
Donna Karan’s Be Delicious Night is so different from the original Be Delicious which was bright and fresh.
This version is a different take from Karan’s original inspiration – it’s still full-bodied and made to represent full fast New York living – just at night, so it’s smoky. It smells more like incense with a touch of blackberry, and like I said, it’s a far cry from the original.
I wear it during the day which leads me to ask you – do you wear certain scents only at night and other scent just during the day?
Many women and makeup artists love to shop at MAC because their products let you be as creative as you want to be. MAC’s Chill collection is exactly in that line of thinking and offers products that are in stark contrasts of one another. See white eyeshadow meets black eyeshadow with a look that’s finished off with wintery pale lips. If you’re looking for everyday makeup, you won’t find it here.
My favourite items are the pigments offered with this collection. The Antique Gold glitter is in my makeup bag right now and it’s perfect for wearing wet for a dramatic night out, or sheer for just enough glimmer to make you stand out from all your friends.
This is what I’m using to do my eyebrows right now. Take an eyebrow brush, dip into the powder, and fill in where your hairs are sparse. So easy to do and still looks natural. Even though I have really dark hair, I don’t use the darkest colour in this kit – it’s just too much – and so I use the second darkest colour. That would be my suggestion, unless you really love a dramatic brow or you have sparse hairs to begin with.
Honestly, I’m not filling in my brows much these days, but this is my go-to if I have to be on camera, because for some reason, being on camera just washes your brows our.
$64 at The Bay. It only comes in 1 colour, which is universal. You can see that I haven’t used the highlighter colour because it’s just too pink and not for me.
I loved this perfume, but I don’t know if I still have it. Need to declutter my perfume collection!
Take a look:
The beautiful bottle that you see below is for Lancome’s fragrance, Magnifique. The bottle itself is heavy glass that really does have connotations of class and luxury and the brew contained therein lives up to its name!
Magnifique is a gorgeous blend that has the rose as its star ingredient which is fitting because the rose is Lancome’s signature flower. The rose in this one is sweeter thanks to the addition of saffron, but the fragrance remains a great one for the fall because of a smoky essence thanks to the Nagarmota, an Indian wood that makes this an unusual fragrance.
The scent’s face is Anne Hathaway, who was lovely in Devil Wears Prada. Ever since I saw that movie, I couldn’t think about Paris without thinking about her, and it seems that I’m not the only one.
Check out the advertising image with Ms. Hathaway and the accompanying commercials you’ll be seeing on television and on the Internet will take place on a dark Parisian night.
It’s a sweet rosy floral that reminds me of a rose-flavoured drink that I had a long time ago, but it’s not candy-sweet or old-lady floral. At the same time, I love it, my mother loves it, and anyone who smells me loves it too!
I loved using this Hyaluronic Acid which The Inkey List calls an oil, but it doesn’t feel like an oil. Apply it first and then follow with your other skincare. It sinks into your skin and doesn’t pill or feel uncomfortable.
Available at Shoppers Drug Mart for $7.99.
Tatcha is one of those beauty brands that has been around for a while, but kind of took 2019 by storm. I finally tried a few of their products and the favourite is definitely the Kissu lip mask. I’m using that everyday while I use the other products intermittently.
Which Tatcha products should I try next?
The prettiest blush ever… Gotta dig it out and find it.
MAC Cosmetics’ new line is called Rose Romance and it’s pretty great. It’s a collection of pink glosses, lipsticks, and face products that all go together. Many of the shades, especially the lipstick ones are for people who are more fare, but there are some picks that would look good on lots of people.
I have two favourites from this line. The first is the Rose Romance compact which is amazing. It is a pretty mauve pink colour and a peachy shade as well. The best thing about the compact (and you know how I appreciate pretty compacts), is that it has a rose design built into the powder. It’s not that there’s a rose printed on it – it’s that the entire powder is formed into petals so that the design is 3-D. Very pretty.
The other product that you must try from this collection is their See-Thru Lip Color. It pretty much blows every single lipstain out of the water because it’s a gel texture that’s really easy to apply and then layer if need be. There’s a sheer red colour, and then a colour that looks very dark in the tube, but actually wears like a pretty raspberry or a dark burgundy after 4 coats. You can do so many looks with the lipstains and I like to put some on every morning and then layer gloss depending on my mood. It just makes my lips darker and more pigmented and they just look naturally pretty. I am using mine so much that I’m tempted to stock up on some backeup tubes!
