Archive for July, 2010
Jul
31
Beauty Review: Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess Self-Tanning Milk for Body vs Shiseido Daily Bronze Moisturizing Emulsion
Recently I’ve been using these two bronzers to give some summery color to my pale skin 
Here are my impressions.Promise:Shiseido Bronze Emulsion “promotes a gradual natural bronze color and dramatic silkiness with daily use”Estee Lauder Self Tanning Milk “dries quickly, leaves a radiant glow”, “even golden color starting in under an hour”Packaging:Shiseido Daily Bronze Moisturizing Emulsion
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Jul
28
Beauty Talk: Skin Care By Age: 20s - Laying The Foundation
Just as everything in our life skin care should be age appropriate. Skin needs differ at various stages of our life. In your twenties it is mostly about prevention measures and controlling breakouts, in your 30s it is often about sensitivity, in forties, you deal with lines, sun spots, skin dullness and in 50s you face loss of firmness. I have researched skin care and skin issues by age before
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Jul
22
The Blonde is Back
Big news! My natural-looking-highlighted-hair days are over… I went blonde again! Just couldn’t stand looking at myself in the mirror any more… One day I just felt bursting with deisre to have lighter… brighter… blonder hair… So what do I do? I just call up local (quite prestigious and expensive) salon and make an appointment to dye my hair. Why didn’t I go to my usual hairdresser? The answer is
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Jul
17
Beauty Shopping: Shopping in Brussels, Belgium
Traveling on business and for pleasure to Brussels a week ago I was looking forward to doing some shopping! Our hotel was right next to Grand Place so I did not get to shop at the world famous Avenue Louise…sigh… No time for long taxi rides…In fact in the end I am not even sure what the name of the street I was shopping at was … there were numerous brand names Zara, Sisley, Pimpkie, well
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Jul
12
Beauty Radar: Sunscreens For Sensitive Skin
So what’s on my beauty radar this month?I am always looking for a sun screen specially developed for sensitive skin. Or even better a moisturizer for sensitive skin with high (at least 30) sun screen built into it. The latter seems to be extremely rare… However, here are a couple products protecting sensitive skin from the damaging sun rays that I recently came acrossNeutrogena Healthy Defense
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Jul
08
Dove Deodorant Giveaway Winner
Sorry for the delay with announcing a winner for Dove Deodorant giveaway that ended actually last month on 20 june. Sorry sorry - been extremely busy! The lucky winner is Bryanna Pavlish! Congratulations! She must have received her prize by now! Hope Bryanna is enjoying it as much as I do
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Jul
07
Beauty Review: Arbonne Re 9 Advanced Line
Usually I don’t do samples reviews. I have so many full size products waiting for reviews that I have no time to test and write about sample sized products. But this time I made an exclusion. I was contacted by Kellie, Arbonne Consultant. She sounded very excited about the new Arbonne line called Re 9 Advanced and wanted to know my opinion about it. in addition , I have heard soooo much about
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Jul
01
Beauty Shopping: Dior Eye Shadows and Estee Lauder’s Bronze Goddess
I just cannot help myself when I see makeup in golden shades… So when my eye caught Dior’s eye shadow from their summer 2010 collection Golden Spotlight 616 I could not resist… I just had to have it… It took me 1 minute to think… or not to think it over and I bought it right away… Beautiful… beautiful eye shadow with a wet intense sparkling effect… aaaahhh I love it!I also decided
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