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Think you can’t pull off the orange lip trend? Think again. With our step-by-step guide, you’ll be stunning everyone with this bold lip color.
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Master the Orange Lip Look
New Dior Capture Totale Dream Skin
This is the primer that wasn’t.
If normal makeup primers are too heavy for your skin, and you need something that adds just a bit of slip and luminosity, then Dior’s new Capture Totale Dream Skin is going to be your best bet.
Formulated for aging skin, this is a cream that is light and has a touch of beige shimmer in it to make skin look more luminous. It makes wrinkles look less obvious and adds some hydration to the skin. It makes skin look… expensive.
This light lotion does have some silicone in it and so makes skin look smoother. The shimmer makes imperfections disappear, and over time, plant extracts make dark spots fade.
The cream is extremely light-weight, hydrating, and colour-correcting. It’s great as a primer because it allows foundation to go on so smoothly.
Pick it up at the Dior counter for $115. Yes, it’s more expensive than your regular primer, but it’s super light and you need one pump for your whole face, so the generous container will last a long time.
My Tips for Fighting Frizz!
Head over to CanadianLiving.com to read my tips for taming frizzy hair. I actually really suffer from lots of frizz (my hair is curly and dry) and so these are things that I actually do!
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Shine this Summer: Sebastian Shine Shaker Lightweight Shine Spray
Here’s the problem with most shine sprays: they don’t come in an aerosol bottle so you get a concentrated hit of shine spray what may be too much for your hair. If you’ve used a shine spray before, you know that less is more, and if you don’t use it with a light hand, it can weigh down your hair or make it look greasy.
Sebastian’s Shine Shaker deals with all of that because not only is it a lightweight shine spray, but it comes bottle in a small aerosol can. The can only emits a fine mist of product so you can apply a sheer layer of this spray and add just enough shine.
The spray is multi-purpose: you can spray it on dry hair for heat protection, or you can use it after styling to add a layer of shine to your hair. I use it both ways – I need the heat protection before using a straightener, and I like it as a finishing product too.
Pick it up at salons for $20.95.
Estee Lauder’s New Double Wear All-Day Glow BB Cream
A long-wearing glowy BB cream with SPF 30? I’m in. 
Estee Lauder’s new BB cream totally delivers and you’ll definitely want to get your hands on it for the summer.
This BB Cream provides light/medium coverage, and has a glowy luminous finish thanks to a tiny bit of shimmer in the product.I found that it sufficiently covered up acne scars, and discolourations, and yes, thanks to Double Wear technology, it does indeed last the whole entire day! The SPF 30 means that you can wear it daily and it will protect from the sun.
The BB Cream also contains Vitamins E and C to help skin look more clear over time. Oil-free and fragrance-free, this is one of the nicest BB creams to come out at a makeup counter. I like applying it with a makeup brush because this BB cream is quite pigmented and applying with my fingers just seemed a little too messy. Use a brush, and you’ll get a flawless finish.
$45 at EsteeLauder.com or at Estee Lauder counters.
Thursday Threes: evie Bare Basics Kit
It seems that there is no shortage of natural beauty products on the market, but what’s required is a proper edit of good products that have quality ingredients.
That’s why you need to check out the Green and Pure Organic Beauty store. They carry a selection of lines that are top-notch and well-reviewed. Think: Jin Soon nail polish (she’s the polish maven to New York fashionistas), Tata Harper skincare products, and our favourite, John Masters Organics.
Green and Pure introduced us to Evie, and sent us the Bare Basics kit ($129) to try. The kit includes a cleansing oil Makeup Remover, Toning Water spray, and Miracle Oil. All the products are:
- 100% natural formula with certified organic essential oils
- Free from paraffinum liquidum (Mineral oil), synthetic colors and fragrances, parabens, SLS surfactants and toxic chemicals
- Contains natural whitening and anti-oxidant properties
All the products smell amazing because they’re made with pure and essential oils so they smell amazing. In fact, that’s what Evie is all about: the products are made by aromatherapists so they are blended to smell amazing. The products free from synthetic colours and fragrances, SLS surfactants, harsh chemicals, parabens and petrochemicals.
The Bare Basics kit is fantastic.
The cleansing oil is smooth and completely melts your makeup so it slides off your face, and the Miracle Oil smells like roses and leaves skin soft and smooth. It’s the perfect dose of light moisture and is best used at night so that it has time to actually absorb into skin. Best of all, the Miracle Oil has just three ingredients: Rosa canina* (Rose hip oil), Rosa damascena (Rose Otto), and Natural Vitamin E. The Miracle Oil is $69 on its own, but I think investing in the whole Bare Basics kit is completely worth it.  I love that all the products have actual rose oil in them.
Check out Green and Pure online.
Orange You Glad You’re Reading This?
Many people feel that they will look orange after using a self-tanner. The truth is that every single self-tanner on the market uses the same active ingredient, and so whether you’re orange or not depends very much on your own skin chemistry. Those with very fair skin who don’t tan anyway will end up looking a little orange. Those with tan skin will look golden. It’s up to you to decide whether you like the effect or not.
From my experience: if you use self-tanner all over, it tends to look more natural. If you only do it for certain parts of your body (such as your legs), then that looks more obvious, usually because of the slightly orange tone.
New from Nina Ricci: La Tentation de Nina
If nothing else, the beautiful bottle for La Tentation de Nina will update your vanity. A matte hot pink apple with gold leaf accessories is super fresh and young and so pretty.
The juice inside is a fresh, fruity, floral – pretty much the standard for Nina Ricci Eau de Toilettes.
The top notes are bergamot and grapefruit, while the heart is a more gourmand blend of almonds, raspberries, lemon, and Bulgarian rose, and macaron. Think of this as a lemon-almond sugar cookie. The base of vanilla, white musk, and sandalwood do nothing to ground the fragrance, and it ends up staying mostly gourmand – mostly thanks to the vanilla.
Still, the light and fresh opening, combined with the hint of almonds make this a fragrance that’s not too sweet to the nose, and still entirely wearable.
$68 for 50ml. Available at department and drug stores across Canada. Limited Edition for this April.
Self-Tanner Reviews
It’s that time of year: we’re not fully into summer yet but it’s warm enough to switch from sweaters to tanks and from pants to skirts.
You’re wondering to yourself: I don’t look that pale do I? Everyone else is just as pale as I am.
And then a colleague comes back from Cancun and you realize that you need to either catch some rays or invest in the fake stuff, so you head to the mall, and can’t figure out what to choose.
There’s a plethora of self-tanners out there, with a range of different shades and finishes for all skin-types and skin tones, so we tried some of the most popular ones to help you figure out what to get.
Self-Tanner Guide
It’s finally June!
And that means that we want to look like we’ve spent more than a couple of days in the sun without spending more days in the sun… if that makes sense.
Interested in using self-tanner this year? Well, stay tuned because starting tomorrow we’ll be posting helpful hints on getting tan without the sun. Every day we’ll have a new tip or self-tanning product review for you. We’re reviewing lotions, mousses, waters, and sprays and we guarantee that you’ll find something that works for you.