This purple compact landed on my desk for editorial consideration late last year. I’ll be honest, when I first opened the compact, I wasn’t too impressed. The packaging was rather bland for my taste and the enclosed sponge was just useless (I chucked it as soon as I tore the plastic wrapping off the cardboard). [...]
Guerlain’s Meteorites Perles du Paradis: I Know I Said No More Balls But I Lied
The Guerlain Meteorites Perles do Paradis is a new addition to my jars of Meteorites in my makeup collection. I did say that I wouldn’t get another one of ’em Guerlain Meteorites, right? Err, please strike that off the record and pretend I never did give that statement. At all. Ahem. The Perles du Paradis [...]
Face and Body Sunscreens: Can They Be Used Interchangeably?
When I write about sunscreens, often the feedback I get is that people do use sunscreen on their face but they tend to “forget” the body. I had a chat with my mum, mother-in-law and aunties about the use of sunscreen when I was back in Malaysia last month (I’m on a shove-sunscreen-down-your-throat crusade, I [...]
More Urban Decay Naked Goodness with the NAKED SKIN Weightless Ultra Definition Liquid Makeup
Urban Decay is really jumping on the whole NAKED branding, aren’t they? First the NAKED palette, then the NAKED 2, NAKED Basics, NAKED foundation, NAKED nail polish and NAKED blush. Okay we get it! You want us to look good, er, naked? :P Hardy hah hah. I too jumped on the NAKED bandwagon a couple [...]
ck one Color 3-in-1 Face Makeup with SPF 8 Sunscreen: Thank Heavens You Don’t Smell Like The Perfume!
At the mention of ck one, it brings back lots of memories of my secondary school days. Days of students crowding at morning assemblies in a waft of ck one perfume. When I was 16, it seemed as though the very “in” thing was to go to school doused in ck one perfume. Heck even [...]