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Second post in a day? I must be out of my wits xD
Today I thought of revisiting my old make-up bag where I keep old make-up products. This is what I found:
It may not seem like a lot to some, but to me they sum up to a disturbing number... I'll count them for you- 40 Biotherm lipsticks/glosses that I had been buying religiously a long, long time ago. They have survived my "getting rid of it" tendencies, probably because I paid a lot to get them- cheap lipsticks, they were all thrown away. Now I'm disgusted of the sight and this is why:
- Because most of them have gone off- if not all!
- Because I don't think that a white (!) lipstick or a yellow lipgloss are very flattering and easy to wear... What was I thinking back then?!?
- Because of their relatively short expiration date, I could save my money and invest it into make-up brushes of top quality...
So I decided to enforce myself a lipstick/lipgloss ban, until I finish some of these first. I hope I'll manage without buying new lip products for at least 6 months!
Have you been under a make-up product ban recently? Did you stay true to your initial goals?
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Hello my lovelies!
Today I accidentally discovered this little web service and I've been playing with it non-stop for hours!
Quoting from Wikipedia:
"Musicovery is an interactive and customised webradio service. Listeners rate songs, resulting in a personalized programme. Reviewers have commented that unlike services that are governed by the user's choice of artist or genre, this method results in more discovery of artists to which the user might not otherwise have been exposed".
There are so many ways to customise your music; you can choose between the 4 extremes of the "mood" or/and the "dance" tags, or you can choose your favourite music genres, or your favourite decades- thus limiting the selection down to your very favourable!
Tip: If you're bored of registrating at the site, you can visit Bourjois and click on the pink music note button (located at the right down of the screen). That's how I found it on the first place!
I hope you find it a lot of fun, like I did ;)
Happy blogging and reading and commenting to everyone!
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Hello my lovelies!
Random post again, this time about my thoughts on beauty commercials.
I've been reading a lot of posts from fellow bloggers where they mention their anticipation of summer. My feelings on the arrival of summer, though, are mixed. Overall, I'm not excited about it- to say the least. Let me explain myself; summer makes me anxious.
Please don't get me wrong for saying this, I'm not trying to gain any compliments out of it- I probably shouldn't complain about my body, but here's the thing; I don't feel comfortable exposing a lot of skin. I may be slim, but that's not enough. I feel my arms are always swelled up, my legs looking too slim or too fat...
Where I'm going is this; I'm not intimidated by beautiful and fit women on magazines or at the streets. My alarm bell/shock emerged from those adverts on tv with cellulite creams and slimming pills. As if someone was telling me "don't fool yourself, you HAVE an issue of weight/cellulite and if you don't do something about it you're doomed".
I'm typing this while being aware of all businesses' basic law of creating a need +then fulfilling it, but I still can't get this phrase out of my head. Knowing that skin exposure during summer is inevitable, it makes me even more vulnerable to such thoughts.
I really want to know your opinions on the subject. Do these kind of commercials dispirit you in a way?
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Hello my lovelies!
Didn't I tell you that I was going to get my hands on those little cuties?
[left: colourless- no spf, right: peach, spf 15]
I've been using this colourless stick over the last month, so now I can share my thoughts with you:
Pros-
- The packaging! First impressions do count, don't they? I hated the plastic pot packaging of the previous Korres lip butters, it felt so light and cheap! This one is more sturdy, the twisting mechanism works fine, and the minimal decor- perfect!
- It is adequately moisturising and helps heal my lips from chapping and dryness. I found the previous lip butters in the pot not moisturising at all :(
- Its texture- it's a hard stick that won't melt in the tube, but is soft enough to be applied smoothly on the lips. One thing though; when the weather was cold, the product would "harden" and it was a bit difficult to apply- but I believe that this happens with most lip treatments... Now that spring is here, it spreads on my lips like a dream.
- The colour effect- after trying all shades at the store, they felt more like a tint of colour with a healthy shiny finish, not glossy-shiny like the pot lip butters... You can tell that I didn't like those, huh...
- Oh, and it's affordable. That's always a plus ;)
Cons-
- The smell? Don't let the tag "mandarin" fool you, this doesn't smell of citrus at all. In fact, it has a very light scent of cocoa butter? beeswax? I'm not sure! Which brings me to...
- The lack of the ingredient list on the packaging, which is a big turn-off for me... No extra stickers or packaging for this purpose, oh no! One might say that there's no space on the tube to insert the ingredient list and still looking "minimal" and "hip", but I can recall the new Apivita lip aids that have used the ingredient typewriting to their advantage.
- As most lip treatments in a stick, it goes out really fast...
So, that's it with this review. I'm going to try every tinted shade, starting with this peachy one. Please let me know if you've tried any ;)
Happy blogging and reading and commenting to everyone!
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