Dior Poison Girl

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Henna

Dior’s Poison is such an iconic scent, and is basically synonymous with sophistication from the 80’s which is when the scent came out.  I remember relatives picking it up at Duty Free when they travelled or buying it on the plan, so it has certain connotations for me. 

Poison Girl, which is out now, targets a younger set – although I don’t know if you’re going to be buying Poison Girl simply because your mom wore Poison. 

The bottle will bring back memories.  While Poison was in a red bottle, Poison Girl keeps the original apple-like shape of the bottle, but now it’s a mauve-pink colour.  It’s an Eau de Toilette which is lighter and easier to wear.  

The juice inside also smells “younger”.  It’s a fruity sugary gourmand perfect for those who like their scents with a touch of confectionary.  It’s very feminine at the same time, with base notes of sandalwood and musk, but also lots of the tonka bean that stays throughout the length of this scent. 

You can pick up Poison Girl at Sephora, The Bay, and other fine fragrance retailers.

$72 for 30 ml, $95 for 50 ml, and $135 for 100 ml. 

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New Dermalogica Daily Superfoliant

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Henna

This large bottle is filled with finely milled charcoal and other exfoliants, as well as a foaming cleanser that really makes skin feel clean.

Dermalogica’s Daily Superfoliant is brand new and adds to the brand’s already well-known exfoliators.

It’s different in its category because it comes out as a powder and you mix it with water.  AS soon as you do, it foams up and you can rub it on your skin.  The powder is so finely milled that you’ll feel a slight grittiness but not actually a scrubbing feeling like there is with most scrubs.

Because there’s also cleanser in the formula, this is great at wiping off remnants of makeup or previous cleanser.  Your skin is super clean but also brighter because of the scrubbing.  You can use it daily, or as often as your skin can handle it.  My skin is pretty oily so it can handle a daily scrub.

Available at Dermalogica.ca or at skin spas for $79.

 

 

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Beautitude, Beauty with An Attitude

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Henna

I love the wholesome concept behind beauty lines that are made for pampering yourself.  Truly, it’s so important to take care of your body because it gives you such a sense of well-being – pair it with a good workout and you get the meaning to the idea that summer bodies are made in the winter.

Beautitude is made by sisters, Chrisanthy and Catherine Boriamos, whose family is behind one of the biggest sugar and salt importers in Canada.  They wanted to create a body line that used those ingredients, and so Beautitude was born. It uses ingredients that are natural and good for your skin. 

 

One of their products that really focuses on using quality ingredients is the Pardon my Polish sugar scrub ($50) which uses raw sugar instead of white sugar. The raw sugar is a bit rougher on the skin but it doesn’t dissolve as readily as white sugar, so it really holds up to a good scrub.  It’s mixed with hazelnut oil and avocado oil so that it’s moisturizing too.

The best way to use this is to get in the shower, get your skin wet, and then turn the water off.  Rub it in while the water is off so that none of it gets washed away before you’re ready.  Rinse off and then towel dry your skin.  The oils will stick to your skin, but not the scrub.  Your skin will be nice and moisturized while also being soft and smooth.

Follow up with their The Baume body oil ($40) which is light and silky but still moisturizing. 

You can get Beautitude products from their website and also from salons and spas across Canada.

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OPI’s new Fiji Collection

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Henna

If you’re getting in the mood for bright tropical colours after this cold winter season, then OPI’s new Fiji collection for Spring 2017 hits all the right notes.

Pinks, blues, yellows, is what’s in store in a range of shades that are creamy and shiny.

Colours are:

Two-Timing the Zones
Living on the Bula-Vard
Getting Nadi on my Honeymoon
Poly want a Lacquer?
Do You Sea what I Sea
Is That a Spear In Your Pocket
I Can Never Hut Up
Super Trop-i-cal-i-fiji-istic
Suzi Without A Paddle
Coconuts Over OPI
No Tan Lines
Exotic Birds Do Not Tweet

Here’s Poly Want a Lacquer. It’s basically the perfect spring colour.

Here’s Coconuts Over OPI which is a pretty basic, but not so basic shade.

The collection is available at salons and The Bay right now.

 

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New Shea Butter Intensive Hand Balm

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Henna

L’Occitane first became known stateside for its amazing hand cream which was made up of 20% Shea Butter.  It’s greasy but it works. 

If that wasn’t moisturizing enough for you, know there’s a Shea Butter Intensive Hand Balm which is 25% Shea Butter and it’s even more luxurious and moisturizing. It has a very rich feel and melts as you rub your hands together, and what’s great about it is that it forms a film over your hands so that they’re protected from dry heat or air conditioning.  Cuticles are instantly smoothed down and your skin just feels softer and smoother.  I rub it on every night before I go to bed, and its keeping my hands feeling comfortable even after I wash them. 

Pick it up online  or at Shea Butter boutiques for $40.

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New L’Oreal Infallible Paints

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Henna

Wearing colour is always going to be daring and fun, and to help you make the most of your look, there’s the new L’Oreal Infallible Paints collection.  There are glossy Lip Paints, Infallible Eyeliner Paints, Infallible Blush Paints, and Infallible Eye Shadow Paints. 

A quick review of the Eyeliner Paints ($12.99): these are like marker-type eyeliners with a super fine tip that’s not too soft, so you can really control the kind of wing that you want.

The Lip Paints ($12.99) are glossy but super pigmented.  The darker colours are more difficult to wear because you need to be precise with the colour, but they work really well on top of lip liner.  Because they are so pigmented, they do last a long time on your lips provided you don’t eat or drink anything.  Once that’s done, then you’re going to need to reapply.  I’ll always love a matte lip simply because of how long-lasting they are, but I like that the glossy lip is making a comeback!

The Infallible Blush Paint compact ($19.99) is my favourite – the blushes are pigmented but not so much that they’re difficult to work with – they actually blend really nicely into powdered skin and they last a really long time. The price makes this a real bargain and it’s comparable to more expensive palettes that are out there.

If you want to play with colour, I suggest giving these a try – they colour payoff of all of them is amazing and they’ll work with every skin tone.

Available now at Amazon.ca and mass retailers everywhere.

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New Givenchy Dahlia Divin Le Nectar de Parfum

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Henna

Givenchy has a new flanker to its popular Dahlia perfume, and it’s the Dahlia Divin Le Nectar de Parfum.  It has a lot of the same notes: woods, rose, musk, but it’s now enriched with a top note of tonka bean and vanilla which makes it smell decidedly sweet.  

These notes take Dahlia Divin into a gourmand territory.  The top notes of mimosa are sweet, the middle smells sweet, and even the floral musky drydown has sweetness in it.  

This is definitely a feminine scent and appropriate for the winter months, when it’s nice to wear something warm and sweet to combat the dry nature of cold weather.  It lasts a really long time, with the golden mimosa notes really stealing the show and being quite apparent throughout the day.  

The packaging is beautiful – gold thread around the neck of the bottle, and gold leaf throughout the heavy glass stopper on top.  It makes for a precious addition to the vanity.

Available online and at Sephora and The Bay.

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New Drybar Double Standard Cleansing and Conditioning Foam

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Henna

Drybar’s new Double Standard Cleansing and Conditioning Foam was basically made for people who wash their hair daily – those of you who workout regularly and then need to wash the sweat out of your hair, this is for you!

Washing hair daily can be really drying on the hair, and that’s usually why we need to follow up with conditioner and lots of styling product.  Our hair just can’t take being washed so much.  Double Standard is a gel to foam cleanser that washes your hair without any of the suds.  It goes on like a foam, but feels like a slippery conditioner.  It cleans your roots but makes your ends feel moisturized.  

If you don’t have very dry hair, chances are that you won’t need to follow up with conditioner, but if you have frizzy dry hair, then you might want to reach for a conditioner.  

My hair is dry and prone to tangles but I’m finding that I can use just the Double Standard and that’s enough cleansing and conditioning for me – but I’m following up with styling products anyways. It’s not exactly a co-wash (a conditioner used to cleanser your hair) but it’s really a cleanser that has moisturizing properties.  Magically, it leaves your hair clean but also detangled and hydrated. 

Drybar recommends you use this daily, and then use regular shampoo and conditioner every 2-4 washes, and I have to agree.  After a while, I find that the oils have built up too much and I start to miss the squeaky clean feeling that regular shampoo and conditioner gives me, so I shampoo and condition once a week, and use just conditioner or Double Standard the rest of the week when I’m washing my hair.  It’s perfect to toss in a gym or pool bag, because you just need to take one product with you instead of two.  

Pick it up at Sephora or Nordstrom for $38.39.

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New Nars Velvet Matte Lip Pencil Colours

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Henna

Nars now has 10 new colours of their Velvet Matte Lip Pencil.  The Velvet Matte Lip Pencil formula is great for those people who want the look of a natural-matte lipstick, but don’t want anything dry on their lips.  The Velvet Matte lip pencil kind of glides on and feels comfortable on your lips.  The finish is more satin than dry matte, and it looks very natural.

The new colours are on-trend.  There are nudes and pinks, which are always in style, but there’s also a super trendy deep plum, a stone lilac, a chocolate brown, and a burgundy.

The pigmentation is medium-coverage, and wear is better than that of a regular lip pencil – I find that they kind of stain so there’s a bit of colour left even after eating and drinking.

The 10 new colours are:

Get Off (pink beige)
Intriguing (rose pink)
Do Me Baby (chestnut rose)
Famous Red (bright pink coral)
Endangered Red (Oxblood burgundy)
Lets Go Crazy (Vivid Pink)
Pussy Control (lilac)
Dirty Mind (deep lilac)
Lonely Heart (chocolate brown)
Unspoken (midnight blue)

Available March 1, 2017 exclusively at Sephora and Sephora.ca, and May 1, 2017 at all other retailers such as Hudson’s Bay, Murale, and Nordstrom.

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New Buxom Plumpline Lip Liner

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Henna

Meet my new favourite lip colour – it’s Buxom’s Plumpline Liner in Femme Fatale which is a blue-based pink which makes your teeth look brighter and whiter.

Now, if you’re like me, and you don’t like the tingling/burning sensation of traditional lip plumpers, then don’t worry.  This lip liner has none of that.  It’s meant to help you achieve the look of more plump lips by you simply lining the outside of your natural lipline and then colouring within it.  I already have plump lips, so it’s not in my routine, but I did enjoy using this because precision is so necessary when you’re using a very bright colour on your lips.

The formula of this liner is on the dry side but it’s smooth enough to make a liner on your lips without skipping or tugging.  If you have dry lips already, this won’t be forgiving but you can make it work but applying a light layer of moisturizer or balm on your lips and then putting this on.  It will still be very dry and matte although it probably won’t stay on as long.

It also comes equipped with a mini lip brush on the other side, which blends the liner nicely if you need it to do that.

Although Plumpline is a matte lipliner with no shine or gloss, it lasts about as long as a regular lipstick, so eating and drinking does wear it off.

Pick it up at Sephora stores for $20.  Available in 20 shades, ranging from nude to natural to super bright.

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