I love the Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure polish collection - I even stated at one point, that if Zoya's polishes had the same type of brush, I'd probably not ever have a need to buy the CSM polishes. The brush is wider and flat, with a shaped tip to...
Good for accenting or as an interesting blending shade; but the base color is deep enough and the duotone shimmer is such that it might be a bit challenging to use this as a highlighter. Even if the base color matches your skintone, there's still the blue duotone. (Though someone...
Interesting gold with very faint green tones, similar to a few other eyeshadows I have…but with a much better color payoff and smoother application. I wish I'd picked up a second jar of this when I had the chance. Sadly, I thought to myself, “You really have quite enough...
A little softer than some of my other coppers…but not pale or washed out. Just not as much of a metallic finish, and slightly less than 100% color payoff. This shade is definitely orange, not a coppery-brown with orange tones.
In spring 2010, I bought another package of Regenerist Serum. I was starting to get a skincare regimen pulled together, and didn't want to splash out money on the super-expensive serums' full-size products until I knew that they worked for me. (Yep, you guessed it: warehouse store again.) I gravitated toward...
A serum has higher concentrations of certain healing and moisturizing ingredients. Moisturizers may be partially absorbed by the skin, but their main purpose is to form a barrier between skin and the elements, keeping in moisture and keeping skin from drying out. Serums, by contrast, all are formulated to penetrate...
This method also doesn't require tons of steps - another plus. (When removing darker polish, which tended to stain my cuticles, I originally tried cleaning the edges with a cotton swab, to get rid of that “staining” bit and clean that area. Needless to say, I didn't use that method...
The Sparkle 2 palette came out in October 2012; but I only got it this past August. (And yep, it was another of the goodies that <a href=“http://www.sirvinya.com” target=“_blank”>Sirvinya</a> brought over to me when we met up with Numindan and Drew in Atlanta...
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