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Lise Watier - Pastel Power Illuminating Beads
Lise Watier recently launched their Spring "Pastel Power" collection in stores, and, like a moth to a flame, I was immediately drawn in by the super-feminine packaging. When I was offered a makeup...
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Lipstick Queen Medieval Tinted Treatment
It takes a special kind of gumption for a young girl of 18 to start her own lipstick line because she is unsatisfied with the options around her. And that's exactly what Poppy King did in 1992 when she...
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Lise Watier Quatuor - Pastel Power Eyeshadow Quartet
As I mentioned in my review of the Pastel Power Illuminating Beads, I was initially a bit hesitant about the limited edition quad in this collection. Although I don't have a problem using pastels, it's...
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Becca Beach Tint - Strawberry, Dragonfruit and Watermelon
Becca Cosmetics are known for a natural, healthy, skin-focused aesthetic - and what better to encapsulate that aesthetic than their signature product, the Beach Tint? These are supposed to be...
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Clarins Rouge Éclat (Radiance Range) Collection - Palette Éclat Face and...
Sometimes it's difficult to get excited about complexion products. Eyeshadows and lipsticks - those have colour and whimsy and drama. Complexion products tend to be those workhorses that go...
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Collection: Vintage Guerlain Météorites
I've been inspired by Eugenia from Ommorphia Beauty Bar and Toya from Beauty Obsessed to start a series on my makeup collection. It didn't take a lot of convincing, as I love collection posts more than...
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Clarins BB Skin Perfecting Cream SPF 25
Clarins has officially jumped on the BB bandwagon for Spring/Summer, with their brand new BB Skin Perfecting Cream SPF 25. The press release indicated that this cream "illuminates, smoothes and creates...
View ArticleMy week in Youtube - Haul, Drugstore Lip Palette and Perfume Collection
I just posted a youtube video featuring my most recent acquisitions. Can I just say that the Revlon Super Lustrous Lipsticks are by far my favourite drugstore lipsticks? The cream finish ones, anyway....
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Spring Sakura ob for Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited Supreme Shine - Princess Coral
First of all - how awesome is it that Shu Uemurafinally has a Canadian e-commerce site?? They do carry Shu at some Holt Renfrew locations and at the Sephora in the Toronto Eaton Centre, but it's so...
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Spring Sakura ob for Shu Uemura Cleansing Oils
Does cleaning your face with oil sound counter-productive and strange? If so, I understand. I felt much the same way until a few years ago, when I first discovered the traditional Oil Cleansing Method....
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Clarins Rouge Éclat Lipstick - Woodrose
Clarins has come out with a new line of lipsticks for Spring/Summer, to coincide with the Rouge Éclat limited edition collection. Like another recent addition to the line (the BB Cream), the Rouge...
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Marcelle Kajal Kohl Eyeliner
I don't often wear a smokey eye - it suits me well enough, but generally I prefer a cleaner eye look. In the course of testing out makeup, though, I sometimes have to go in an unplanned route with my...
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Pupa Glossy Lips Ultra Shine Lip Gloss - 300 Very Nude, 201 Pink Diamond, and...
Wow, this post brings back some memories. Back many a moon ago, I had a different beauty blog (which shall remain nameless), and one of the very first products I reviewed was from Pupa. I had a...
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Flower Beauty Color Play Crème Eyeshadow - Orchid-ing Around and Time Willow...
I adore Drew Barrymore. She is a beautiful, intelligent, successful lady who has managed to rise above the typical Hollywood child star story, and I admire both her commitment to her causes and her...
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Annabelle CC Colour Control Instant Perfecting Base and Pressed Powder
If you thought BB creams were a craze, just wait for the storm of CC creams to flood the market. Promising to deliver all the skincare benefits in a lighter finish formula, plus colour correcting...
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Pupa Vamp! Mascara
I like volumizing mascara - but I need the feathery, "natural" sort of volume, not the dozens-of-spider-legs volume. In other words, I want that mythical creature of mascaras, the one that will give me...
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MAC Extra Dimension Skinfinishes - Definitely Defined and Shape the Future
If you've been reading this blog for a while, then you know what a fan I am of the gélée tribrid texture that both Estée Lauder and Mac have starting featuring in the last couple of years. (If you're...
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YSL Rouge Volupté Shine - #9 Nude in Private
I love the gloss-lipsticks hybrids that are currently dominating the market, especially the ones that are an even mix of bright pigmentation and transcluscent shine. They are such a great option for...
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Flower Beauty Shadow Play Eyeshadow Quad - Smoke and Mirrors
After my disappointment with the Color Play Creme Eyeshadows, I was glad to see that the other eye product I chose to get from Flower Beauty was much more user-friendly and generally well-executed.The...
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MAC Extra Dimension Eyeshadows - Opalesse, Triple Impact, Smoky Mauve
I have quite a few of the gelée-textured eyeshadows from MAC from the previous two outings, so I really wanted to be choosy with the current MAC Extra Dimension collection and buy only the shades that...
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