Wowza, are those lashes real?
I don’t think I have ever been as excited over mascara prior to trying Yves Rocher’s Volume Vertige Lash Curler Effect mascara. I have tried many mascaras and they all have amazing claims, but very few actually live up to the hype.
From Yves Rocher:
Discover the first brush with a reservoir© for maximum volume after the first application! The Volume Vertige Lash Curler Effect Mascara‘s reservoir brush© maximizes and intensifies the volume of your lashes. Enriched with Elemi Gum, a fixing botanical extract, this formula leaves the lashes naturally and perfectly curved for 12 hours*!
I thought this was going to be the usual PR mumbo jumbo and then I tried it. First I applied it without my beloved Shu Uemura eyelash curler and I thought it was pretty good, it lived up to the claims. Then I gave it a try with the curler, and bazinga, it left me with some fab lashes.
I think that most mascaras claim that “false lash” effect, but this was the first one I have ever tried where it looked like I had eyelash extensions on (and I used to have eyelash extensions, so I know what they look like).
The brush itself is kinda weird; it’s curvy but has product in the middle, so it dispenses product as you brush it on.
As you can see in the photos, my lashes look amazing. I am so impressed with this, and best of all, it’s super affordable. For only C$12 you can get false lashes the fake way. And don’t worry, I won’t tell your secret ;).
Please note, I was sent these products by PR. All opinions are my honest own.
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One of the hottest trends for fall is red eyeshadow. Although it isn’t a conventional colour to wear, if done right, it’s super pretty.
Now I know what most of you are probably thinking, “won’t it make my eyes look red?” That was my first thought about it, but after actually trying it out, it’s super pretty and edgy.
Here’s how I pull it off.
1. Put on your face makeup and then we are going straight to the eyes. With a white cream shadow, like Covergirl’s Flamed Out Shadow Pencil in Crystal Flame, apply this all over your lids.
2. With a cream red shadow, like Covergirl’s Flamed Out Shadow Pencil in Red-Hot Flame, apply this in your crease and in the outer corners of your lids, and blend it out.
3. To make this look a little more wearable, apply a grey-coloured shadow to your crease over the red. I used Covergirl’s Flamed Out Shadow Pencil in Ice Flame.
4. With a black powder eyeshadow, apply this over the grey. I used Covergirl’s Flamed Out Shadow Pot in Molten Black, which is a black with silver shimmer in it.
5. With that same grey pencil, apply this along your lower lash line. Then, with the red pencil, apply this also on your lower lash line, but towards the inner corner of your eyes.
6. Line your upper lash line with a liquid eyeliner, winging it out (I used Lancome’s Art Liner in Noir) and then curl your lashes and apply a few coats of mascara. I used Covergirl’s Flamed Out Water-Resistant Mascara in Black.
Finish up your face with bronzer and blush and then apply a nude-pink lipstick. I used Marc Jacobs LOVEMARC Lip Gel in Strange Magic (obsessed with this).
And there you have it! A pretty cool look that will have you looking smoking hot.
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First there was tinted moisturizers, then BB, now there’s CC!
Standing for Colour Correcting, CC creams are taking the beauty world by storm. CC creams even out redness, along with providing skincare properties, like sunscreen, anti-aging, hydration, blemish protection, etc. They do provide coverage, however, it’s less coverage than you would get with a BB (beauty balm) cream.
I got to try out the Olay Total Effects CC Cream, which helps to fight the seven signs of aging (fine lines and wrinkles, uneven tone, age spots, provides gentle exfoliation, dryness, moisture barrier, and luminosity). The cream, which comes in a 50 ml bottle, also has SPF 15.
Available in three shades (Fair to Light, Light to Medium, and Medium to Deep), the product works by combining the essential Glucosamine Complex (the combination of key ingredients that allows the CC product to go beyond instant coverage to provide long-term tone correction and anti-aging benefits) with N-acetyle Glucosamine (which works with moisturizing niacinamide to improve the skin’s moisture barrier, visibly reducing the appearance of hyperpigmented spots and improving the overall evenness of skin tone).
Since I already love my BB creams (especially Diorskin Nude BB Cream), I was excited to try this guy out. I do have some redness and spots on my face, but nothing too dramatic. When you squirt some product on your hand, it’s a swirl of a nude colour and a white shade which you mix together. As always, I dotted this all over my face and then buffed the product in. The results were a sheer coverage, definitely sheerer than my beloved BB cream gives me.
Wearing no makeup.
Wearing Olay’s CC cream.
Full makeup.
Overall, I wasn’t in love with this product. I like how it has sunscreen in it, but most BB creams have this as well. This CC cream left me with a pretty sheer coverage and worst of all, I could feel the product on my skin. Let me put it this way, when I use my Dior BB cream, it seeps into my skin, leaving me with a pretty nice coverage; whereas this product, I would feel it on my face and when I touched it, it would leave some product on my fingers even hours after I applied it. Not sure if that was a CC thing or an Olay thing, but I wasn’t too impressed with this.
Personally, I would just stick with a BB cream. In my eyes, it does the same thing… maybe if you were a more mature woman (50-plus), I would try this out, but I much prefer a BB than a CC.
Olay Total Effects Tone Correcting Moisturizer with Sunscreen has a suggested retail price of C$32.99. Are you excited to try it?
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