Beauty Swellness: Lancôme and Alber Elbaz — the Hypnose Show

Excited about the upcoming Lancôme and Alber Elbaz collab? This little video (click on the image above to link to the video) created by Elbaz and Lancôme, the Hypnose Show, will make you even more antsy for the super cute limited-edition collection, which launches on June 15th!

1 Comment June 4, 2013

Beauty Swellness: Amazon.ca adds beauty and health stores

Good news for you beauty addicts: Amazon.ca has added beauty and health stores to their site. Now, you can peruse more than 80,000 beauty and health products while you’re putting in your order for books or DVDs.

With a $100 Amazon gift card in my wallet (a gift from Amazon.ca — thanks!) I checked out the new shops…and while I planned on sticking to practical staples such as vitamin D and calcium supplements, I’m mighty tempted by all of the fantastic beauty brands in the store: Bobbi Brown, YSL, Dermalogica, Burt’s Bees, Aveda, Clarisonic, Shu Uemura, and too many more to name. These four items here are on my not-so-short list:

• Diorshow mascara. Hello, luscious lashes!
• Laura Mercier Secret Concealer, to help hide signs of the all-nighters I’ve been pulling.
• Coola Plant UV Sunscreen Body SPF 30. I’ve never tried this, but love their Citrus Mimosa sunscreen spray.
• Aesop Ginger Flight Therapy. I don’t get anxious when I fly but I do get antsy and impatient; I’m hoping this’ll help me chill.

What’s on the top of your beauty and health shopping list?

22 Comments May 17, 2013

Must-have mascara

I’m all aflutter over my latest beauty buy. Even though I have several brand new mascaras to test out in my beauty bins, I sprinted to Sephora this weekend to shell out my hard-earned cash on one.

Why?

Backstage at LG Fashion Week last week I noticed an editor’s super long lashes and I had to know if she had lash extensions on. Nope, it’s D.J.V. Beautinizer Fiberwig LX, she said, a mascara that creates the illusion of false lashes thanks to its fiber-film formula.

I love me some long lashes, so I knew immediately: Must. Have. Now. Hence my Flo-Jo-worthy dash to Sephora.

And my verdict? Love it. I bet I’m batting my long, luscious lashes so much it’d make The Rules authors proud.

Note: If you prefer fullness, you might want to try DiorShow instead (I did one eye in DiorShow and one in D.J.V. for a side by side comparison). Actually, come to think of it, I’ll try using D.J.V. with the Cover Girl Lash Blast that’s been my everyday favourite all season to add some volume to the mix as well.

1 Comment October 29, 2010