Bobbi Brown Spring '12 Long-Wear Eye Collection Swatches and Look // Bobbi Brown 春季持久不脫落妝品

Bobbi Brown's Spring Color Collection theme is Long-Wear that lasts from coffee to cocktail hours, the lineup includes Long-Wear Eye Pencils, Long-Wear Cream Shadows, Intensifying Long-Wear Mascara. Alas, I told myself, my search for a pencil liner that stays put on my lash line is finally over! I'm an avid fan of pencil liners over liquid liners any day, and the latest release of Long-Wear Eye Pencils from Bobbi does not disappoint!

Bobbi Brown的春天的顏色款式的主題是12小時持久不脫落，春季陣容包括持久不脫落眼線筆，持久不脫落的膏狀眼影，和持久不脫落睫毛膏。天啊，我立刻告訴自己，終於可以結束搜尋一支持久不渾染的眼線筆了！我每天畫眼線之餘, 幾乎只使用眼線筆 (可刨的那種)，而Bobbi Brown新出的眼線鉛筆令我喜出望外！

Review: DiorShow Iconic Mascara

received this mascara sample from Sheila during the beauty blogger meetup swap in London. It's a sample sized mascara and contains 4ml of product.

Here's what the bristles look like, a big thumbs up for the dense bristles!

The bristles might not be well-captured in the photo, but they are not aligned in a parallel manner. Towards the tip of the comb, the bristles kind of make a turn and swirl their way to the top (if that makes sense at all, lol).

Here's how my lashes looked like after application. I lined my eyes with Stila x Barbie eyeliner pot in Cobalt Clutch, which is an electric blue. I didn't expect this mascara to do a lengthening job, but it did lengthen it a bit.

I woke up with a sleepy left eye (does this happen to everyone? or some people?), I do find it weird, sometimes my eyes are of equal shape but sometimes they're not. I curled my lashes with a Shu Uemura lash curler.

Immediate thought:

The consistency of this mascara is pretty thin, i.e. no sticky paste or fibre-like threads hang on to the comb when I pull it out from the tube, which is good news, it means less messier application! (unlike Majolica Majorca lash expander's comb...but more on that in a separate post, maybe). However, the consistency is so thin that I didn't feel like my lashes are well coated. It didn't volumize either. Yet, the bright side is, its so thin that it doens't clump your lashes, I don't need a lash comber (those mini ones) to comb the clumped lashes.

What it says on Sephora's product description:

"A mascara with an innovative oblique brush that curls and defines lashes. "

Well, there you are. This statement is very well said, this product did what it claimed to. It doesn't claim to volumize, doesn't claim to lengthen. I like the design of the brush that prevents your lashes getting clumped.

HOWEVER, look at how it turned out after 6 hours:

The mascara had fallouts and these deposited in the undereye area, which made me look like a racoon. I found this happening to my Majolica Majorca Lash Expander too. But hey, it's Dior, so you're not expecting it to have fallouts, eh?

Verdict:

Won't purchase it in full size because of the fallout issue. But the brush design is worth checking out when hunting for HG mascaras in future!

Tweezerman for Benefit!!!

Hey beauty fans out there! Benefit has updated their website and Facebook page with their new product line: Tweezerman for Benefit! This range includes:

1) Tweezerman for Benefit ProCurl Lash Curler ($20 USD with 3 replacement pads);

2) Tweezerman for Benefit Slant Tweezer ($25 USD);

3) Tweezerman for Benefit Pointed Slant Tweezer ($30 USD);

4) Tweezerman for Benefit Brow Shaping Brush ($12 USD).

I was a regular patron of Benefit Brow Bar (eyebrow plucking service), and I noticed my beauty consultant used Tweezerman to pluck my brows. Tweezerman is difficult to find in Hong Kong, I'm not sure if the stores in HK will carry this range of products. But honestly I have to admit that Benefit's brow-plucking service package was very nice, they not only plucked my brows, my beauty consultant always make sure that I look flawless just before leaving their Brow Bar, i.e. they try to put some foundation and primer on me afterwards, there wasn't even a shred of plucked brow on my face :)

Have you tried their Brow Bar?