Guerlain Abeille Royale Daily Repair Age-Defying Serum Review

Circumstances had made me an adventurer in latest skincare on the market: the Daily Repair Serum from Guerlain's Abeille Royale line, which aims to firm, smooth and lift the skin. In fact, past studies had shown the superb ability of honey in treating wounds and injuries, there's something about honey being a natural healer.

Bee beautiful with Guerlain

Guerlain's signature symbol is none but bees. Their new product is a spin-off of the brand's origin - a nectar made from bee's by-products, and the Abeille Royale face oil which was launched last year.

Reach the highest for your skin with La Prairie

La Prairie is a luxuriant skincare brand originating from Switzerland. It surely belongs to the top-tier brand among the skincare market, more expensive than the double Cs, and it's highly exclusive. I was so honored to be invited to the launch of their new Cellular Power Serum. Guess where the event is:

It's Sky100 Tower on Kowloon side of Hong Kong. Yes, who can go higher than that? Only La Prairie! The launch took place at the foyer of 100th Floor of Sky100 building. Behold your breath when scrolling down the gorgeous seaviews and pictures from up on cloud nine!

The picture above is to the West of Hong Kong, the pic below is the side facing the Victoria Harbour, I did some enhancement with the lighting of the below pic so you could see the buildings clearly.

Ok, enough sightseeing and let's talk about the the launch. 

 

La Prairie had invited Peter Find - the executive chef at the Ritz Carlton hotel to teach us about super-foods that help to enhance your skin. Scroll down and prepare to drool. Hello caviar, fresh seaweed, strawberries, red grapes and salmon!

The amazing part of the snacks he made is that they're all bite-sized! Absolutely guilt-free indulgence and every bite is filled with skin-powering anti-aging elements! 

Now coming to the star of this launch - the Cellular Power Serum on the left. 

It is the latest technology breakthrough by the scientists at La Prairie. It is formulated with Swiss Snow Algae, Phyto Stem Cell Extract, Tissue Guidance Matrix and Skin Renewal Peptide. The powerful ingredients are sourced from Giant Knotweed, Blue Microalgae (hence the slightly blue tint in the serum you are about to see later), Heart Leaf Globe Daisy, Blue Lotus and Resvertrol. 

The new serum is targeted for first lines on the skin. It offers protection and defense by activating the skin's  regeneration and recovery ability. The powerful ingredients will help the skin to fortify its strength and resilience towards aging elements we encounter in the environment.

Now let me show you the actual serum and my thoughts on it. The bottle is silver in color and comes in a 50ml bottle. I used two pumps for my whole face after applying my toner and before moisturizer. It sinks in quickly and doesn't leave a trace. My skin instantly felt smoother. The blue 'windows' on the bottle allows you to see the inside. Look at the last two photos I took, once the serum was applied, the surface of my hand became smoother and the area where I applied the serum - the surface lines became almost invisible, say if you compared with the lower part of my hand in the same pic. The complex formula of this serum helps the skin to reconstruct and boost its immunity to anti-aging elements and help to fight aging.

Bottomline: Amazing product that tackles the effect of first lines and gives your skin an extra immunity and anti-aging boost. If you're wondering what to get for Mother's Day, this will be it.

Clarins Double Serum Review

A few months ago back in September 2012, Clarins came out with a new version of their well-known Double Serum. The serum was an infusion of both water (hydric) and oil (lipidic) elements. Having tried this at the counter, a few weeks later I caved when they're having a nice GWP promotion. Here's how it looks:

 

Blogger Meetup with Georgina from Coffretgorge!

Can I start this post by saying: You totally spoiled me Georgina!!!

Yesterday Georgina from Coffretgorge and I met up, and we went to "shorten her shopping list". LOL. She was very thoughtful to know my birthday is coming up in a month's time and brought me so many goodies! We also arranged a swap hence the bunch of things you see here. I left out a few items at home and by the time I got home last night I remembered I forgot to bring along the mask she wanted! Stupid me -_-

She got me the Goatmilk body lotion I was looking for on my wishlist (OMG I didn't know people read that page!!), a beauty essence/serum from Etude house, Korres Lip Butter (been wanting to try Korres for agesssss!), Kanebo loose powder in a separate jar ;), Lunasol eyeshadow palette, a lip and cheek tint, Coffret D'or glitter liner, a seashell-shaped compact mirror, and an orange(!!!) blush from The Face shop!

THANKYOU SO MUCH George!

We went to Cle de Peau to try their famous concealer stick, and we had the SA to try on our eyes. The coverage was GREAT even though she applied a thin layer, I think I'm sold on that concealer *_* I didn't get it but Georgina did, and the SA gave each of us a sample of their cream foundation!
Thanks to George for helping me to pick this shade, I got the Shu Uemura blush in M Pink 33C as well *argh, more blushes?!?!*

On the left: Shu Uemura M Pink 33C. On the right: my HG lilac blush from Benefit "I Lotused You Looking". You probably can figure out why I bought the Shu blush now, hehe I was looking for a dupe of the Benefit one (will do a separate post on that later).

After putting the two side by side, although the Shu isn't as lilac as Benefit, but it swatched nicely in the store haha!!

Are you getting anything from the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales :D?

happy thanksgiving xx

It's NOT a haul! *AHEM*

I've probably said this many times already that I'm 'on a no-buy'. But every single time the results proved the aforementioned phrase was a epic fail. LOL To give you some insight into my uncurable obsession and hobby, here's what I did today: sorting out a CP (custom purchase) with the wonderful Justine today (thanks to Sheila for introducing us to each other!). I was struggling to get some NARS blushes but then I abandoned the idea.

In case you didn't know, I offer CP for Kanebo Lunasol Christmas Coffret ^_^ along with other brands like Canmake, Shu Uemura, Shiseido Maquillage, Sofina, RMK, Majolica Majorca, Jill Stuart, Paul & Joe, well pretty much every brand that has stores in Hong Kong.

What you see in the picture below is not my haul, they're items given to me by my friend who worked in a beauty magazine.

On the left is Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate (launched a month ago I guess?), it's a beauty serum, so far I've only tried a few times intermittently, will do a full review on it later. Then is the Burberry eyeshadow in Pale Rose (review here), MAC Tartan Tale Follow Your Fantasy eyeshadow (review here), FANCL Liquid Foundation, MAC Antique Green pigment, MAC Venomous Villains eyeshadow single in Vile Violet. And Bliss roller-ball EDT on top of the picture. There's also a lip liner from MAC unpictured here.

The EDT from Bliss: looks so sleek and the scent makes me think of the ocean, which resembles the bluish color of the tube too.

My right eye is feeling a bit weird for few days, think I might be having an eye infection @_@ meaning I have to stop using mascaras for a few days even though it's in my plan to use it up.

On an unrelated note, here's some dessert porn...haha!

Do you have a sweet tooth?

xoxo