Erica's Favourite Things

I have been stacking the makeup drawer lately and I am excited about my purchases. I finally found a mascara that enhances my lashes. It separates, lengthens and thickens in one coat. It's Chanel's Inimitable mascara and it is as good as they come, especially for someone like me with thick, but short lashes. This is the best mascara I've found thus far. I will be honest with you, it's not cheap (is Chanel ever cheap?), but it's totally worth it.

Second, is Yves Saint Laurent's Effet Faux Cils (long-wear eye liner). This is the best gel eye liner I have used. It's better than Bobbi Brown's version and comes in colours ranging from black to dark cherry. It goes on smoothly and stays on all night long, even in hot, sticky environments. Bonus: it also makes a fantastic cream eye shadow that benefits from incredible colour saturation.

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Sunshine

Finally! I have found what I've been looking for. Ladies, I have trolled this city looking for a sunshine yellow eyeshadow. Indeed, it is hard to find and instead, I kept finding gold. Oh, you can find gold up the ting-yang, but yellow? Good luck. Well, luck found me and I found my colour in Shiseido luminzing eye color in YE 306. Yes, Shiseido. Not even Makeup Forever could properly fill this order (it turned up green on me). Ah, I feel complete.

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Sweet Deal

Your girl's got your back. I was feeling under the weather and so I  decided to open my wallet in Murale (they had 20X the points) and use the gift card my dear friend got me for Christmas. One of the spoils of my bounty is Cargo's colour palette in Tahiti. The colours are rich, the texture is soft and the amount of actual product gives a lot of bang for your buck. And guess what? The price is only $30 for four colours! That's a Cover Girl price for Bobbie Brown quality. I am knocked-over impressed with these--the quality is better than what you find at MAC, but MAC does have the lock on selection.

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A Frank Discussion

As you may or may not know, most bloggers are nocturnal, so for some strange reason I decided to stay up 'til 5 am and watch a few episodes from Oprah's last season. One episode, in particular, featured legendary supermodels such as Christie Brinkley, Beverly Johnson and Stephanie Seymour. What is particularly interesting is their frank discussion about what it's like to be beautiful, what beauty means for a women, among other subjects. Here is the show (make sure you click on "close ad and watch as free user" or "start video now" button at the bottom).

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

Dior Vernis has a reputation of being a top-notch nail polish, one which stays on for a long time and does not chip. For Spring, Dior has two new colours--Water Lily (green) and Forget-Me-Not (lavender)--that smell like roses. Pretty pastel colours that smell like roses? I'm going to hunt these down this week.

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