Archive for July, 2009

Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 3:08 pm by admin

Review: Caress Evenly Gorgeous Exfoliating Body Wash and Beauty Bar


Okay, so it’s a mouthful to say (why can’t companies just come up with small cute names???) But here is my review of the new Caress products.

Being a dude, I’m usually not into smelly bath soaps. Especially if they smell like food. I’m just not into smelling like vanilla cupcakes. However, I REALLY liked this Caress Body wash and soap. They really knocked this one out of the park.

First, it’s cool that they incorporated the smell of burnt sugar. Love it. It really is delicious smelling without being perfum-y. the scent is actually very sexy, so if you are into the fresh smelling products, this may not be for you. To me, this is a soap you use to seduce someone…something you use when you are about to slide into your Victoria’s Secret..you really want to turn another person on, and it shows…..:)

The texture and color is great too…..I also love the packaging.

The one downside is that it does have quite a few chemicals in it..so it’s definitely not an ‘all natural’ products. But, it’s sooooooo worth it.

And the prices are great…so you can feel sexy and have great skin and not break the bank.

Great job, Caress!!! Keep up the good work!!!

Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 2:57 pm by admin

Q-Tips Vanity Packs


As a pro makeup artist, one thing I can tell you I love are Q-Tips. And I do NOT mean “cotton swabs”. There is a huge difference. Some things you cut corners on, and others are well worth the price. Q-tips are one of those beauty tools that I always have on hand.

In case you don’t know, they now have some great vanity packs. They contain the same old dependable, high-quality, more cotton at the tip Q-tips, but they come housed in pretty and colorful boxes. You might say Q-tips are now available in high style! I love these boxes…so cute, and much better than the blue box they are known for.

You can also go to the Q-tip website to get pro tips by Troy Jensen and Mally Roncal!

So, go ahead and splurge! I did, and I love them!!!

Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 9:25 am by admin

Amazing Review for Christopher Drummond Beauty

And no, I did not pay her to say this!!!

I am very excited to tell you about this fantastic range of pure mineral makeup! It has just been released into the UK!

For any of you out there that are beauty junkies, please read on, I am pretty sure I have just discovered the best mineral range out there!

Christopher Drummond is a US Celebrity makeup artist and also has been a model for many years.

After being in the fashion industry for a long time and having to wear lots of makeup for shoots etc, he quickly realised how bad makeup could be as his skin regularly broke out.

He began to work on a makeup range himself as nothing he found in the Industry was exactly the kind of product he wanted to use.

After a few years of testing and trialing formulations, the brand is now in full swing and receiving rave reveiws.

Mineral makeup is all the rage these days, but many are quite below the bar of being decent. Some of the major cosmetic brands are bringing out mineral products but they are still not 100% natural nor do they contain the best quality minerals.

Christopher Drummond Beauty has many glowing positives to his range.

His products are some of the best I have tried. The foundations are so fine and just glide over the skin, and give you the healthiest glow, but this is not the best part! The best part is, each product has super antioxidants blended into their formulations.

He has used specially blended organic and 100% vegan ingredients such as Açai, green tea, calming botanicals, balancing essential oils, and anti-inflammatory soy isoflavones and fruit extracts which help to treat the skin and actually make it ‘better’ the more you use it. So for people with Acne, you can use makeup and not make the problem worse, if anything it will help heal it faster!

We all think that skin is far better off without makeup on it but that is no longer true. When we have nothing on our skin, we can actually make it vulnerable to pollution and the environment, air itself these days, is no longer pure.

Minerals help to protect and calm the skin. If anyone has a reddened skin that gets quite hot at times, Mineral makeup will benefit you immensly.

I have a very sensitive skin at times and I know that it is always more uncomfortable before I put mineral makeup on.

Now I have tried many brands, some quite good and some average but I do not think I will try anything better than Christopher Drummonds products.

I did a photoshoot the other day myself and before the makeup artist was there, I put on the Christopher Drummond Veludo Foundation powder and also used the Finale Face powder to set the makeup.

The makeup artist was amazed at the fact that I had done this myself and also because of the products that I had used. She did not believe I hadn’t even used concealer!

She also did not need to touch up my face at all during the shoot! There was no shine and no patchiness even after hours of it being on my skin.

We were both amazed, I had a good close up look at my skin 7 hours after the shoot had started and I couldnt believe how perfect the makeup looked.

The range consists of

Christopher Drummond VELUDO Velvet Foundation
Christopher Drummond CONCEALER
Christopher Drummond FINALE FINISHING POWDER
Christopher Drummond SAÚDE PELE Radiance Booster
Christopher Drummond For EYES
Christopher Drummond For Lips
Christopher Drummond For CHEEKS
Christopher Drummond Kits
Christopher Drummond Try-Me Sizes

I have tried out the three products below: Veludo Velvet foundation, Finale Finishing powder and Saude Pele Radiance booster. All are equally as good as each other.

This is the kind of makeup you try and think, this is what I am supposed to use, there is no better.

We all want perfect skin and if we don’t have that, we want our makeup to look perfect. Well, now you can have that!

If you don’t want to get the full sizes straight away, you can order small sample jars to test out. They start at £4.00 and you will get a few uses out of them.

Christopher also has a fantastic Youtube channel with over 70 videos. There are great tutorials and reviews of his products. I also like seeing how just how lovely a person he is too, and it doesnt hurt that he is pretty darn cute as well!

To find out more about his products in the UK please visit: www.justbeautydirect.co.uk

And to visit his own website please visit: www.christopherdrummond.com

Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 9:24 pm by admin

Titanium Dioxide Free Makeup


This is an actual email that I just received. I did not edit it in any way…I just thought I would share it with you…this makes all my hard work worth it!! www.christopherdrummond.com

Christopher, I like you so much. You seem like such a nice person from the video I saw. I found your make up because I was looking for a titanium dioxide free make up. I have melasma and have heard that titanium dioxide darkens melasma so I havent been wearing any make up lately. It seems your products are the only ones that dont have it in them. I ordered a sample and tried it. When my boyfriend came home later that day he said I looked radiant and couldnt stop looking at me. I told him about the make up. He said he never would have guessed I had make up on but that I just looked healthy and glowing. Thank you for creating these products. All the best to you…

Friday July 24th, 2009 at 8:35 am by admin

Top 10 Worst Beauty Products

here are the top 10 worst beauty products, according to Total Beauty

1. Physicians Formula Retro Glow Ultra-Dramatic Mascara for a false eyelash effect
1.3 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
2. Conair Shiny Styles
2.1 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
3. Rene Furterer Triphasic Anti-Hair Loss Regenerating Serum
2.1 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
4. Revlon Fabulash Waterproof Mascara
2.2 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
5. Philosophy Dark Shadows Illuminating Eye and Upper Lip Cream
2.3 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
6. Wet n Wild IdolEyes Retractable Eye Pencil
2.5 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
7. Stila Lip Rouge
2.6 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
8. Sally Hansen No-Heat Gel Hair Remover For Face and Body
2.6 TotalBeauty.com average member rating
9. Avon Healthy Remedies Detox Patches
2.7 TotalBeauty.com average member rating