I’ve been talking a lot about makeup the past couple of weeks and since I’ll be talking even more about it all of next week (given that it will be LMFF week), I thought I’d do something a bit different today.
Today, I’d love to show you some of my mother’s vintage trinkets. 🙂
Last month, I reviewed the Urban Decay NAKED SKIN foundation and found it a pretty good foundation. Along with that foundation, I also purchased the NAKED Basics eyeshadow palette on Boxing Day last year.
First of all, I have to say, I love the NAKED 1 eyeshadow palette. I didn’t review because frankly, it’s been reviewed to death. I don’t need to show you anymore of the swatches than you’ve already seen ages ago when it was launched. I don’t have the NAKED 2 palette but I truly, truly love the first one. Some say it’s overrated, some say the colours are too boring, but for me, it’s the best palette I’ve used and is the only one I use on a regular basis.
When I saw the review of the NAKED Basics eyeshadow palette on Temptalia, I wanted one too. Temptalia rated it with an A+ and gave it a “Temptalia Recommends“. She’s usually spot on on most reviews so naturally it ended up 0n my to-buy list too. 🙂
Welcome to another episode of BB Creamology! Can you believe this is already the 4th one? With three BB creams each episode, this one would mean I’ve reviewed 12 BB creams already. And there’s more to come. Yeah, I have THAT many BB creams. 😛
Today we’re going to Korea for our BB creams.
Anyohaseyo! 😀
When bloggers get together and talk shop, there’s a lot about blogging we can discuss on. Like when I met up with Paris B in February. We chatted till time was forgotten. I love chatting about blogging with this lady. She has plenty of pearls of wisdom to offer. 🙂
One of the topics we covered was a very interesting one about brands/PRS who push new products out to bloggers and getting bloggers to generate the hype quickly to the readers. I’m fortunate as I’ve only encountered very few pushy PRs who want me to review products within a short time frame just to create a buzz and meet the launch date. The thing is, you’ll soon notice that every other blogger would be blogging about the same lipstick or nail polish around the same time. I’m sure you’ve seen this going on and know what I mean.
Paris B told me stories about some of the ones she’s worked with, how very pushy and unpleasant they were and so on. I couldn’t help but think, man, I have it pretty good. 🙂
See, I do get where the PRs are coming from. Their job is to push the products out and make sure people know about them. They have to answer to the brands and fulfil quotas. If the product is a limited edition piece, it’s understandable to want to create a big buzz as soon as possible and to perhaps have bloggers create that hype for the brand. But if it’s not a limited edition item, I can’t help but wonder – what’s the rush? Why not wait it out?
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