Monday 14 July 2014
La Roche Posay - Rosaliac CC Cream (Daily Unifying Complete Correction Cream)
By Get Lippie
So, after saying the BB Cream craze has largely passed me by recently, I now find myself reviewing a CC cream, finally. And, I have to say, that I almost unqualifiedly love this one.
La Roche Posay has become something of a cult skincare brand in the UK. Almost ubiquitous in France, it's fairly difficult to come by in the UK, but it's well worth seeking out (even if they don't import my favourite product in the range: Serozinc to the UK at all), as there are very few skin conditions they don't treat, and La Roche Posay is a godsend for sensitive skin.
Redness is my major concern, and Rosaliac CC Cream is designed for redness prone sensitive skin, like what I have got. It's a fairly thick texture:
But it spreads very easily, and gives good coverage:
On skin it blends easily, melding nicely with the texture of your skin:
And, it is virtually undetectable once blending is finished:
This gives a fairly light coverage, but it does cover redness well, and gives a lovely, glowing satin finish. It reminds me a great deal of my beloved Chantecaille Just Skin, which is about the highest praise I can give it, to be honest. There are a couple of caveats to that, which, as Rosaliac CC cream is only a third of the price, are only to be expected. Wear time could be a bit longer, I do find I have to powder down in the mid-afternoons, but, for the price, this is very good indeed. Oh, and it only comes in one shade, which is frustrating if you're either very dark or very fair. I'm fairly pale, and this is good for giving me a glow, but if I were any paler, I'd struggle with it, I must admit.
It comes with an SPF of 30, so if you apply enough you won't have to use a separate sunscreen, but as I always use a separate sunscreen regardless, I'd ignore this, tbh. It's got a great texture, a lovely finish (provided you use powder), covers redness, feels soothing on inflamed skin, and best of all, it's currently on offer for £16.55 on Escentual.com I can't really recommend a tinted moisturiser more highly than this one, without you paying almost £60 for it, to be honest ...
The Fine Print: PR Sample. Photos for this piece were taken with a Nokia Lumia 1020 lent to me by Microsoft.
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Friday 4 July 2014
Colbert MD Skincare
By Luke
Whenever a leading member in the field
of dermatology brings out a skincare range, more often than not it’s
a good one. This is good news, because no self respecting member of
the strict regulatory bodies that govern this particular field of
expertise (such as Dr Colbert), is going to put their name to
something that is a) bad for your skin, and b) rubbish.
Dr Colbert MD is a bit of a celebrity’s
celeb too. He designed an advanced facial that had the Hollywood
elite queuing at the door, the Tri-Facial. This gently and
effectively uses light laser abrasion, and soothing botanicals to
increase the amount of collagen in the skin, and as it has minimal
down time it fast became dubbed as ‘The Red Carpet Facial’ with
A-listers popping in to quickly get their fix before they donned a
posh frock and strutted down the carpet in front the eyes of the
world.
Dr Colbert then got asked to produce a
serum for a celebrity whilst on a film set (where is often spending
time making sure that his clients look incredible), which he pretty
much knocked up athere and then, and has been using it ever since.
Then he made a facial oil that gave the skin not just an
extraordinary radiance that photographs beautifully, but also treats
the skin too.
From that point on, the range expanded,
there are currently nine products available in the UK, and is now a
fully comprehensive range that will knock your socks off. It did
mine.
I was asked to try the Colbert MD range
about a month ago and have been mightily impressed with the
simplicity of it. There are no complicated procedures, or multiple
products to get confused with. I have even had the chance to put
some of the products to the test when working on other human faces
than my own, and with rather excellent results.
At the core of the range is the QuSome
technology, which put simply is patented delivery system for the
active ingredients that gets them where they need to be in a stable
way and in the most effective manner possible. It does this by
encapsulating the active ingredients within an oxygen-proof ‘shell’
that makes them more potent when applied. Daily nutrition for skin,
in a pseudo ‘pill’ format? I’m in!
Without giving you a full description
of the whole range, I am going to pick the highlights.
The Balance
Purifying Cleanser, £38.
This was the first product I used.
I opened it up, and put a blob into my
hand uh oh, a gel. Generally I don’t get on well with gel
cleansers as they have a nasty tendency to be full of soap and foamy,
which leaves my skin feeling dry and at worst flaky.
This, I noticed immediately when on my
face, was a totally different texture.
It’s a soft gel that is so light you
barely feel it on the skin at all! It doesn’t foam wildly, and
certainly didn’t leave me feeling tight or dry afterwards.
Difficult for me to say how good it is at removing makeup, as I don’t
wear any, but skin was certainly squeaky clean afterwards. I have
tried it with a foundation on the back of my hand though, and it
seemed to get rid of that with no real effort.
The feeling is also slightly cooling.
I am not sure which ingredient this is, and in the recent humidity
was most welcome.
In it, there is also lactic acid (one
of my favourites) that gently exfoliates, and it has Ginko Biloba
which is a natural anti-bacterial. So it’s an all rounder this. And
the smell is just gorgeous too. A lovely light citrus scent,
naturally provided. Not artificially perfumed.
Do be sure not to hold this the wrong
way up when you take the lid off though as it has a tendency to
really pour out, when you only need a tiny little blobette. New word.
Look it up.
Stimulate The Serum,
£115
This was next (it was bedtime).
Claiming to stimulate the collagen
production in your skin, this is a bit of an all rounder too.
What I love about this, as with most of
the line, is that it is a once a day product. Either AM or PM. Under
your moisturiser at night, or during the day, or just under your
sunscreen. Wherever you can fit it in. The action of this is in the
name also. Stimulate, it is designed to wake the skin up,
revitalising the appearance of it, brightening and all the other
things we want from healthy looking skin.
It has Caffeine, and glycolic in it,
but is ever so gentle. Anyone who is worried about the acid content
of this needn’t be as it is very gentle indeed.
The Illumino Face
Oil, £100
This, for me, is the runaway favourite
product.
For many reason, but mainly because it
delivers INSTANT results, and the effect keeps getting better for
about half an hour after you have put it on your face.
Again using the QuSome technology,
compounded with retinol and vitamin C, this deep penetrating oil was
designed to give an almost supernatural glow to the skin, giving the
appearance of youth in al its dewiness. It has been used on red
carpet attendees for many years, as it is so effective, and really
photographs well. Makeup works superbly with it (but be careful, only
a tiny drop is needed here) either underneath as a sort of primer, or
dabbed over the top.
A nourishing treat too, it contains
Argan Oil, Passion Fruit Oil, Marula Oil, Yangu Oil, Borage Seed oil
all designed to feed and improve the quality of your skin, and boy
does it.
I used this recently when working with
some female body builders at the WBFF. The glow emanating from all
them was superb, and they all looked fantastic on stage. I would say
it would work on any skin except the very oil, spot prone types. But
dry skin will absolutely LOVE this as mine does.
There is also an Illumino Body Oil, which is of a similar composition which Dr Colbert tells us is used on all those
stunning Victoria’s Secret models for the shows to give them a
super sheen.
Tone Control Facial
Discs, £65
One of two of these sorts of affairs,
they are little textured pads which contain the product on them. The
ones I have are the Tone Control variety (as opposed to the others
which are re texturising pads, and they're very good ones too).
Gentle enough to be used morning or evening, these contain an
ingredient called “SymWhite” which targets darker skin
pigmentation from sun damage. Designed to give a more even tone to
the skin, and diminish any visible irregularities it also has anti
inflammatory ingredients that reduce redness.
I have used these for about three
weeks, and although I don’t have any real signs of pigmentation on
my skin, my redness (which I am very conscious of) is definitely
reduced. What I like most about these is the skin conditioning that
seems to go on. Skin is very smooth, and really overmoisturised.
Although it does say to use a moisturiser afterwards, I found this is
not always necessary.
The other thing that I love about these
is the little flap that acts as a handle! You don’t get any of the
product on your hands, and it is easily put over the face without
losing your grip and dropping it on the floor! It happens!
Colbert MD is available at SpaceNK
Stores nationwide.
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Thursday 3 July 2014
Soap & Glory Sit Tight Super Intense 4-D
By Luke & Laurin
The Fine Print: PR Samples.
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Luke says:
Soap & Glory always approach beauty
with an excellent sense of humour, and frankly I’m sucked in by it.
I know that there are people who don’t like their packaging
talking to them, but I rather enjoy it if it’s done well. So,
when you have a cream that is essentially about spending a little bit
of time rubbing something onto your bottom twice a day, you can
imagine that S&G had a few funnies up their sleeve. Enter the
new Sit Tight Super Intense 4-D. Revisited, and slightly
re-formulated for 2014 this is the new Firming and Smoothing
treatment gel.
Right off the mark here, I am very
careful to not use the words ‘anti cellulite’ as nowhere does
this claim to be that type of product. And let’s face it, none of
us are really sucked into that hype now are we? The product is
merely claiming a feeling of firmness after 14 days use, recommended
application of twice a day. With lofty sounding ingredients like
Pinkpepperslim-Lip-FBTM derived from pink pepper berries
(as if that wasn’t clear) and the Pressocapsular FirmplusTM
and FirmigenTM Caffeine thrown in for good measure
along with Sweet Orange Peel (the irony) Glycerin and Olive Oil. The
Super Intense also claims, as did the previous version, to work when
you’re actually sitting down as well by bursting the little nano
sized capsules of all the goodness mentioned above.
In theory this is an excellent idea:
that even by being sat on ones posterior the product will be working
to firm up sagging or droopage. So, fast forward to me in the
mornings post shower using the massager (handily included on the end
of the tube) rubbing this vigorously into my backside, and love
handles. All this in front of a full length mirror, although why I am
not sure. It’s not like I am in any doubt as to where my butt is!
The sensation: How can I describe this?
The box claims you can feel it working almost instantly, and this is
no lie. The previous incarnation of this product was quite intense,
so the now one being SUPER intense does to some extent live up to its
name. How to describe it? Well, imagine if you will, squatting in a
hot bath, standing up and then having a fan of cold air blowing
rather forcefully on your slightly red skin. It’s not quite a
menthol sort of coolness that occurs, but more a peppery sensation
where you are unable to quite pin point whether it’s burning or
just plain cold. Uncomfortable? No. Unnerving? Slightly. Fun? Most
definitely. It never failed to bring a smile to my face. Also,
having to go and mingle with housemates (once dressed) and grinning
to yourself about the party that was going on on your rear end, for
some reason pleased me. I can, however, understand that I find
pleasure in other places where people might not, and for some this
may be a little much. That said though, the next morning was less of
a sensational overlaod. I think perhaps I had gotten used to it, or
perhaps toughened up somewhat. Still some tingling, but not nearly as
loud as the very first application. Perhaps this was for the best.
As for firmness, well. Let me be
clear. There is nothing firm about the lower half of my body. I am
blessed/cursed (depending on your cultural preference) with a very
large rump, and frankly, have more than my fair share of wobbly bits
around the middle. Yes ladies, my name is Luke Stephens and I too
have cellulite. I like my Wine Gums and Curly Wurly’s too much.
Did this make a difference to that? Well who knows? I’m not likely
to get up in a pair of speedos anytime soon, much less a bikini so it
really isn’t important to me so much that I get rid of it.
It did however feel rather nice, and
the skin on my tummy and sides had a bit more snap to it. My backside, however, is beyond help. And If I was flexible enough to reach round
to see it in the mirror, I probably wouldn’t need this cream in the
first place.
And frankly, with that amount of
overstimulation on that part of my body in the mornings, who
cares?
My advice? Enjoy it! RRP £18 From Boots.
Laurin says:
At the point on the Venn
diagram where feminism and the beauty industry collide, you often
hear women utter the phrase “I’m doing this for myself” when
attempting to justify a cosmetic enhancement, whether it’s a
fondness for £34 lipsticks or an actual boob job. I believe them
when they say it, and I’ve been known to utter the words myself.
You wouldn’t be reading this blog right now if at least a few of us
didn’t take immense pleasure in painting strategic splotches of
colour on our faces, even if the only errand on the agenda is a quick
nip to Whole Foods for some coconut yogurt.
But listen: I haven’t
spent the last fortnight rolling heated serum into my thighs for the
pleasure of it. I’m single, I live in freezing London and I do not
make my living in the adult film industry, so I’m the only one who
regularly sees my thighs. In this case, I’ve been napalming my ass
every morning because I’m vain and...actually, that’s it. Vanity
is the only rational explanation for why I might be swayed by the
promise of another anti-cellulite potion when I know good and well
they aren’t permanent fixes.
I love Soap and Glory
products. I truly do. The packaging is fun, they’re well-priced,
and their “Make Yourself Youthful SPF 50” singlehandedly
converted me to the cause of daily sunscreen. And to be fair to them,
the packaging of their “Sit Tight Super Intense 4D” serum never
once mentions the word cellulite on the packaging. Instead, it
promises to “stimulate circulation” and “promote body
smoothing”. Except that the only reason my thighs aren’t smooth
in the first place is because of ALL THE LUMPY CELLULITE UNDERNEATH.
Since it’s unlikely
that you’ll ever see my thighs, and the pictures I do have of them
are in a password protected file on my laptop, you’ll just have to
take my word that they do look and feel fractionally “smoother”.
Maybe. I think. But I won’t be purchasing another tube when mine
runs out, for three reasons:
- THE BURNING, OH GOD, THE BURNING. About three minutes after you apply the quick-drying serum with the nifty rollerball applicator, it starts to heat. This is how you know it is working. It’s supposed to properly activate when you sit down, but it was so uncomfortable the first time I tried it that I spent ten minutes cooling my bum in front of an electric fan before I dared make it any worse. “I’d tell you why I’m late for work, but the resulting mental image has the potential to ruin our professional relationship” is not a sentence I ever care to utter on a Monday morning. Again. I gather that some people quite like the heating sensation, but I am not one of them. And now, my good friend Leo joins us from his caravan in Mantua Outfields to report on what happens when the applicator slips and goes a bit too far up. Leo, over to you:
Thanks, Leo. Don’t
forget to swing by the pharmacy on your way back into town.
- You’re supposed to apply this twice a day. I can just about remember to do it once. Also, see Reason 1.
- The pseudo-scientific language on the box makes me wonder if an angry Aldous Huxley is actually alive and working in marketing. Pressocapsular Firm-Plus? Puffdrain 82?
If you already exercise,
eat well, drink lots of water and still have a few stubborn spots,
you might see a bit of difference using this product. Or you might
not. I cannot responsibly suggest that you run out and spend £18 on
it. But if you are still tempted, I won’t judge you. Just watch
where you’re pointing that rollerball.
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Wednesday 2 July 2014
Bare Mineral Marvelous Moxie Lipgloss in Hypnotic
Lipgloss isn't something I associate with Bare Minerals very much. Lipstick, yes (their Marvelous Moxie range is very well, and aptly named), and of course, there is their iconic range of mineral foundations and powders, but ... lipgloss?
Look at it. LOOK AT IT! Oh, those prismatic pigments, this is so pretty!
And with flash, so you can see how the colour changes in different lights:
:sigh: so pretty. So very, very pretty.
Here's how it swatches in different lights:
Hmn ... lets try again from a different angle:
Okay, once more?
It's definitely more of a layering gloss, this one, I think. Here it is over Max Factor Lipfinity Just in Love from the other day:
Can you tell the difference from the original below?
So, Hypnotic it may be in the tube, it's rather ... subtle in the flesh. Lovely to look at, but simply not that exciting to wear, I'm afraid! It's a nice, non-sticky gloss, however, with a little hint of peppermint flavour, just a shame it's a bit underwhelming out of the tube. Some of the other BareMinerals colours are much, much better in the gloss formulation, I'll show you those soon.
Available from Debenhams costing £16.
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Tuesday 1 July 2014
By Terry - Cheek to Cheek: Cherry Cruise and Tint to Lip: Pink Palace
Enter By Terry, with a couple of stains perfect for the cack-handed muppets amongst us, and I'm happy to report that they're amongst the more affordable products in her range too, which is good news!
First, Cheek to Cheek in Cherry Cruise:
Best thing about this formula is that it is blendable. We have all seen cheek stains that stain from the very first instant it comes off the brush - STRIPES! - and have ended up with dolly-cheeks as a result, but with this one, you just drop a drop (two if you're braver than I am), rub it onto the fingers of both hands and blend into your cheeks. You'll have around a minute to play, and you won't get those little tell-tale circles on your mush.
However, nothing budges this stuff. It'll look the same when you come to take it off as it did when you first applied it, and that's fabulous. Just make sure you have kind lighting in your bathroom the first time you use it, as it can be easy to overapply when you're still getting used to it. I warn you!
Now, the Tint to Lip in Pink Palace, in the same two-phase formulation as the Cheek to Cheek above, it's purely for your lips:
Here it is both without the shimmer, and shaken to show the more opaque shimmery formula. A cooler-leaning raspberry pink, it is unusual for a lipstain in not going completely fuchsia as you might expect on the lips.
It is ... fairly ... long-lasting. It won't survive a sandwich, but a couple of cups of tea won't scare it completely off. Personally, I prefer the look of the tint without the shimmer on the lips, I think it looks a bit frosty with the shimmer and that isn't a good look on someone my age, whatever the shade, but the colour, for me is perfect. One coat is just enough to give my lips a whisper of colour, but you can build up the pigment for a more intense look.
Here you can see the differences between the colours more clearly. A bright cherry red, and a clear raspberry. Here's how they apply on the skin:
OBVIOUSLY I've overapplied! But you can see how the products stay runny when applied to the skin, which is what allows you some blending time. I wiped half of this off, and blended them out:
Again you can see the (slight) differences between the colours, and the sheen you get from shaking the product up. However for the cheeks, you really do only need a single drop, I probably applied enough for four cheeks here. The lips you'll probably need about two dips with the doe-foot sponge, more if you want to layer up. Both products have the classic By Terry rose scent, but it wears off quickly, and you don't have that nasty chemical after-taste with the lipstain.
Cheek to Cheek costs £29 and Tint to Lip is £22, which, in By Terry terms, is practically pocket change.
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