I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but there’s a growing number of serum foundations in the beauty market lately. We have Rimmel’s Lasting Finish Foundation With Comfort Serum, Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Gel Foundation, Bare Minerals BareSkin Pure Brightening Serum Foundation, Bobbi Brown Intensive Skin Serum Foundation and many more. Some of them have the [...]
Bloggie Wednesday: How I Started Beautyholics Anonymous
Happy hump day, my lovely chickadees! Since I’m celebrating my blog’s 8th anniversary this month (okay, technically it should have been last month but I, erm, forgot), I thought I’d share with you a personal story on how Beautyholics Anonymous was born. Long time readers will know this so please do bear with me but [...]
Finally, Finally Got To Try Out Sleek Blushes!
Sleek blushes have probably been talked to death in the beauty blogosphere and YouTube-land and they’re really nothing new. You must be wondering why the heck then am I writing about them now when they’ve been out for ages? Well, these blushes are particularly special to me because 1) I’ve actually never tried any Sleek [...]
Upping My Skincare Ante With Cosmetic Skin Solutions’ Retinol 1.0 Creme
As much as I preach about using good, anti-aging ingredients in skincare, it actually took me a long time to get into using retinol. Believe it or not, I was actually scared to use it. “Go slow with retinol“, they said. “Use in tiny quantities in case it irritates your skin“. I read up a [...]
Ego Pharmaceuticals Factory Tour: Want To See How Your Skincare Products Are Made?
Note: This is an image-heavy post. When I started blogging about beauty, one of the items in my blogging bucket list (yes there is such a thing!) is to see how beauty products are made. I’ve used a LOT of beauty products over the past, oh I don’t know, 25 years and one thing I’m [...]