Last year, I had decided that I was going to stop relaxing my hair for a few months in two thousand and eleven. Therefore, after braiding it for some time, I decided that I was going to wear a weave for a change, and that was how I ended …

I purchased this product based on the smell. I love the scent of Irish Spring. I do not know what it is about it, but the smell is so fresh and wonderful. I am old enough to remember the old commercials about it smelling …

This does a fine job of holding short hair in place, but it does not work nearly as well for long hair. I bought this for my husband and it will hold his style in place and still looks very natural. For my long hair …

This is a brand new product on the market so it is very difficult to find at the moment. I ended up purchasing mine on Amazon because I called around to the local places that carry this brand and none of them were going to get …

I purchased this mascara because one of my friends on an online forum metioned to me how much it made her eyelashes look really dramatic, and every time she bat her eyelashes, it was like a gust of wind! Now after she made that joke I was sold, whether …

One of my favorite scrubs is the Lush Ocean Salt Scrub. I own tons of scrubs from the natural ingredients ones and even the expensive ones from departmental store. I too buy from the drug store however of all the scrubs I own, the one that I use most of …

This is another great product from Philosophy. I have my love and hate relationship with this brand name. I have purchase a lot of their product after being hooked by their marketing tactic only to find them not working as greatly as advertised. However there are also days when my …

This is one of my favorite products from Ramy. I have been using this for what have seemed like forever and no I am not going to give them up for anything else. They are girl’s best friend as they are an aid to wearing your make up for long …

I am a big fan of teeth whitening. I used to have it done in the dentist office for a big fee once or twice a year however most of the other months I am indulging in oral care at its best. I have this mentality that even if I …

My relationship with Philosophy has been hit and miss type. I sometimes love them while sometimes hate them. However that did not stop my interest and curiosity when I saw the Philosophy Microdelivery Peel Treatment Wash. When I saw the Microdelivery Peel treatment wash I can only think of …

Aside from my monthly purchase for Lush bathing products, I also indulge in Skindecent’s product. I do not buy from them as regularly as I did with Lush however I have been a customer for Skindecent’s product for over a year now. My love for bathing products is as …

This is one of the revolutionary products for blush. I am not a big fan of Smashbox product. I remember buying a pallete and a lip shine from Smashbox and nothing else. However my friend was a great fan of Smashbox and she kept telling me how great the Smashbox …

Allow me to vent out again my frustration with loose powders in pots, I don’t want to be stuck using pots to eternity. Blame it on the pot itself, which needs to be mechanically tilted for the powder to come out – the powder comes sifted and sits …

I perused a copy of Nylon magazine last month to catch up on publications I have stacked in my table (that are now back issues). Gone were the days when I could devour more than one magazine in a single day; I have no time at all. …

I have been a make up junkie all my life. I purchased my first eye liner when I was in high school. I even draw a little of eye liner to school hoping to look prettier. Yes, I was caught wearing them however a girl just got to try to …

My current state of mind towards makeup is paying too much attention to foundations lately. And that was encouraged more by the free products I’ve been receiving in good timing. I am writing about the Beauty Touch foundation in a shade named fair beige. I was …

The Product
The container is a tiny 3.5-mL triangular plastic tube with a long, slender, silver cap where the brush-tip applicator is attached.
As for the scent, I could barely smell anything from this.
This has a thin consistency.
I was able to buy this on eBay for Php95 or around UD$2.
My Experience …

The Product
This soap is placed in a white box with a black and purple design.
This has a mild floral soapy scent that I really like.
This has a hard consistency but gets softer after number of times of usage.
The retail price for a 100-gram bar is around Php40 or almost …

The Product: The container is a black hard plastic compact with an attached mirror inside.
This has no strong scent.
This has a medium to full coverage depending on application.
The retail price for this is around Php60 or around US$1.40.
My Experience and Opinion
To start off, Caress is a local cosmetic brand …

The Product
Kandi Korn shade is three layers of different colors. The top part is a shimmery baby pink, the middle part is orange with tiny hint of shimmers, and at the bottom is yellow with hints of shimmers too.
The container is a slender plastic tube with a black cap …

The Product
The container is the same with the Vaseline lotion. It is a plastic bottle that has slight curves at both sides. They also have ones in budget foil packs.
This has a sweet orange soapy scent that is quite strong but not really nauseating.
This has a creamy consistency and …

The Product
The container is a hard plastic tube with a chrome-colored cap where the doe-foot applicator is attached. The tint itself is transparent red in color.
This has no particular or offensive scent.
This has an initial thin and watery consistency but as it gets older, it starts to get thick.
The …

The Product
Fair Lady shade is a pinkish white color that is ideal for girls with light skin tone.
The container of this pressed powder is a unique paper-based compact where you have to pull the cover up and inside is a built-in mirror with the powder puff. The total weight …

The Product
The container is slim plastic tube with a black screw cap where the doe-foot applicator is attached.
This has no particular or offensive scent.
This has a creamy consistency and a little oily.
I was able to buy this before for Php120 or for almost US$3 but I believe this could …

The Product
Lilac Shine shade is an old rose pink color with a hint of lilac and micro shimmers.
The container is a classy silver metallic tube where the top part of the cap is see-through which shows the actual product and color inside. The total weight of this lipstick is …

The Product
Strawberry shade or flavor is a glittery transparent orange color instead of red.
The container is a clear plastic tube with a black cap and a roller ball applicator inside. The total weight of this product is 8.7 mL.
This has a sweet, medicine-like scent, and it tastes sweet too.
This …

The Product
The container is a sleek and slim plastic tube with a black screw cap where the doe-foot applicator is attached. On top of the cap is the color indicator of the shade. For this particular shade, it has a red color on top.
This has no particular scent or …

The Product
This is placed either in 12-mL sachet or a plastic squeeze tube.
This has a nice floral, fresh soapy scent.
This has a creamy consistency and light blue in color.
The retail price for this conditioner is ranging from Php4 per sachet to Php100 plus for bottles or US$0.09 to US$3 …

The Product
Innocent shade is a matte brownish dusty rose color.
The total weight of this lipstick pencil is 1.8 grams.
This has old lipstick scent but I did not detect any weird taste, however.
This has a creamy consistency when applied on lips, prepped with a lip balm.
I was able to buy …

My sister bought this face wash on a buy one get one free offer. She then gave me the free bottle to try it out. It had cost her £2.89 and the plastic bottle contained 150mls of face wash.
This particular face wash is designed for dry sensitive skin types. …

Over the past few years I have tried several different types of dyes in this range, and not once have I been disappointed. The final color I get has always been what has been written in the box, and I have also found that the colors do not fade …

I bought a tub of Jolen Bleach some time back from Boots in order to bleach my hair. It is available as a standard or a mild formula. I didn’t think the mild version would work as well, so I decided to buy the standard version instead.
The product comes …

I once saw this product being advertised and I decided to give it a shot. The color I got was 10B; Extra Light Beige Blonde, and that is what my review is going to be based on. There is a wide range of colors in the range, though, but …

My natural hair is very difficult to handle, and it usually looks very untidy unless I do something to it. It is long thick and wavy, and I usually have difficulty in managing it. Hair straighteners are therefore very necessary for me, especially if I intend to wear my …

I adore Elizabeth Arden products and in my opinion, Elizabeth Arden products as a whole are very high quality products and offer wonderful results. I have seen a lot of advertisements for Prevage and I really wanted to give it a shot but its price discouraged me. At £98 …

I have recently decided to try out using eye shadow, and one brand that I decided to give a shot was the Boots No 7 Perfect eye shadow. I chose this first because this brand makes a very wide range of colors for eye shadow, so most tastes are …

I am not a big lipstick fan, but I got this particular one a while ago for free and decided to give it a try. I got the darkish pink color, thought I haven’t found out what exact shade it is. Boots do a a very wide range of …

I have tried a number of mascaras over the past, and one of them that I liked a lot was the Boots No 7 Extreme Length Waterproof Mascara. The Number 7 mascaras are a wide range, but I find this particular one the best of them. It comes packaged …

My underarms get very sweaty, so I used to favor underarm products that were labelled “extra-strong” or “for excessive sweating” to assure myself that my armpits will stay dry and odor-free. However, perhaps due to an increase in stress in my day-to-day routine, I have noticed that even extra-strong …

I am very fickle when it comes to beauty products. I almost always think that there are better ones out there than the ones that I am using, or that my needs change over time so the products that I use also need to. So when I stick to …

Prior to using this product I looked on its back label to read the active ingredients. However, I was dismayed to find that it said that the only chemical it contained was fluoride, and for a moment I thought it was a bit of a sham and was about …

I have a habit of not having any specific company I buy makeup from from. I usually find new products to experiment usually with products that are new in the market. The Maybelline SuperStay Lip Colour ad claimed it could say on for 24 hours so I decided to …

I have been using this product for years. I have tried numerous other products along the way, but I always end up coming back to this one because it gives good results and is not too expensive. I like the look of a subtle tan, especially in …

When my usual conditioner stopped working on my hair I had to set out in search of a good conditioner. My hair is fairly thick in texture but has some patches where my hair tends to be fine and frizzy. I had been using the Fructis Conditioner …

I normally do not use a separate lotion for my hands I just use my body lotion on them and in case I have dryness from dishing washing and such I would use Vaseline on my hands. But ever since we moved to a bigger apartment my hands …

I love Dove body washes. It is perhaps the only body wash that I keep going back to all the time. Even if I every planned to buy something else the moment I am at the store looking for options I always come across a new body …

Olay complete skin care starter trio is a facial cosmetic cleansing system that I found while browsing the aisles of my local super Wal-Mart. I always go to Wal-Mart to purchase my facial regimen products because they are always affordable, and are always in stock–depending on what time I …

For as long as I can remember, my hair has been nearly impossible to do anything with. It doesn’t hold curls, it frizzes to ridiculous heights, and it takes hours upon hours to straighten. That last part isn’t true any more though, thanks to the Remington Wet 2 Straight …

This is my favorite foundation because it is mineral. It feels good on my skin and is healthy for my skin. I hate the feeling of most foundations. Most foundations don’t even look good on my skin and make me look like I have a uneven skin tone. I …

Nars nail polish is a good quality fingernail polish. I have bought it a few times and overall it is great. The color stays on my fingernails and toenails for a very long time. The color does not chip off like most nail polishes do. I like this nail …