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After picking up this brush at IMATS I have been in love with it. This powder brush is perfect to set your foundation daily. Bdellium Tools has quickly become my favorite brush line to use in the past year or so. I’ve found that this brush works well to powder my face after foundation with both translucent and colored powders, but I also love it to blend out blush! You can find this brush online for under $20. It will make a great addition to your collection. Thanks Bdellium!
I’ve been wearing Addiction NV Cosmetics‘ lipstick in Perfect Peck a lot lately, so I thought I’d share it with you on the blog today! I really love this lipstick formula, and the cherry on top is that they smell delicious as well! I definitely want more lipsticks from this line because they are awesome.
Perfect Peck is a pretty pink with a hint of coral to it. It has a lovely creamy finish to it.
It is gorgeous on the lips…such a pretty color for spring in my opinion! I’ve been wearing it a lot lately since the weather in LA is so hot right now!
You can really see the orange in it in this last shot. It’s a great lipstick to try if you like pink but are afraid of orange, because it’s somewhere in between…a beautiful coral! Addiction NV’s Kiss and Tell lipsticks can be found online for $18.
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Yesterday DHC launched their Kakonjuka collection, a line that is composed of Japanese and Korean botanicals to soothe, hydrate, and fight fine lines. This 3-piece collection includes a lotion, essence, and cream that are intended to be used together to fight aging and dry skin. These products contain Maitake mushroom, Platycara strobilacea, Licorice leaf, Great burnet, Purslane and Reishi mushroom to help hydrate and prevent aging.
The Kakonjuka Lotion is a hydrating toner that is intended to be used after washing your face. The Kakonjuka Essence is a rich, milky booster that is similar to a serum in my eyes. The last product, Kakonjuka Cream is a fine-line fighting moisturizer. Each of these products retail for $32 each, or as a set for $79.
The Kakonjuka Lotion is a nice gel toner that works well to prep the skin for the other products. All of these products have no added colorants or fragrance, so it’s all natural color, a brown, is kind of hard to get used to. It’s also hard to tell if it’s removing any extra grime from my face! It does the job, but wasn’t a standout for me.
The Kakonjuka Essence is a creamy serum that is applied after the lotion. It kind of looks like a foundation when you pump it out, because it does have the natural brown color. I find that it just moisturizes my skin and not much more.
And lastly, the Kakonjuka Cream is a perfect nightly moisturizer to use on any skin type. I find that using it in the day would be too much for my oily skin, but at night it’s perfect because I wake up with ultra-smooth skin. I’d say that this product was the winner for me, because it did the job well. The other products are great too, but this is the one I saw the most difference with. But, when using all of the products together you will wake up with super smooth skin.
Again, this product is a natural grey-brown color, which is kind of strange and hard to get past. All of the products smell a little strange too because there is no added fragrance, which is actually a good thing, because fragrance is known to cause breakouts in skincare products. If you can get past that, you will love what these products do for your skin. I will say that I find myself avoiding these products if I don’t feel like dealing with the smell! I’d recommend these to mainly people with dry skin that are looking for anti-aging, but it works for my 20 year old oily skin as well, just when used at night.
Find the Kakonjuka line starting March 1st online!
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I received this mascara in one of my Birchboxes and I was pretty excited to try it, because I love getting mascaras! LashXtend is a fiber mascara that will physically lengthen your eyelashes (temporarily of course) as well as volumize. I typically find that fiber mascaras only lengthen for me, but a good tip is to use a fiber mascara and then use a volumizing mascara afterwards for a faux falsies result.
As you can see on my lashes, it’s nice and does add length to my lashes, but has virtually no volume. For $24 (on birchbox), I’d skip this mascara because you can find better options at the drugstore. One of my next posts will be about eyelash extensions, I have had so many people asking my opinion on them and I thought it was timt t was time to try them out. I found a great girl at Winnipeg eyelash extensions and I am giving her a try this week.
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Brows are important…and Urban Decay knows it! With UD’s handy brow box you can shape and fill your brows to your heart’s content. I like to use the lighter shade on the right on the front end of my brows, and then use the darker shade to fill in the arch and tail of my brows. I then use the wax in the bottom drawer to set my brows in place. This has been my favorite brow kit for all of 2012. It’s just the best!
I really like the natural but clean look I get using this beauty. And it’s only $29…which actually isn’t much considering you’re getting 2 different brow powders along with a ton of wax! This is one of the products I’d say you NEED.
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