I was in the process of posting my next set of awesome beauty finds when I came across a deeply touching documentary about beauty in the African American culture. The film is called "Dark Girls" and it examines the experiences of dark-skinned women, mainly vis-a-vis their lighter-skinned counterparts. It will premier at the Toronto Film Festival in September, so watch for it.
A Profound Interruption
Happy Easter everyone!
I was in the process of posting my next set of awesome beauty finds when I came across a deeply touching documentary about beauty in the African American culture. The film is called "Dark Girls" and it examines the experiences of dark-skinned women, mainly vis-a-vis their lighter-skinned counterparts. It will premier at the Toronto Film Festival in September, so watch for it.
I was in the process of posting my next set of awesome beauty finds when I came across a deeply touching documentary about beauty in the African American culture. The film is called "Dark Girls" and it examines the experiences of dark-skinned women, mainly vis-a-vis their lighter-skinned counterparts. It will premier at the Toronto Film Festival in September, so watch for it.
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.
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.
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).
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.
