I wished for long to tell you about the two most pleasant cosmetic discoveries of mine, but it’s always been so little time to gather my thoughts. Meanwhile those two jars have returned me the hope in humanity and beauty industry. In Autumn I had such a spleen like “all these crèmes are the same, and there’s nothing to wait from them and make-up collections are so dull that it’s easier to hang” – it was really like hanging (that’s one of the reasons Yana was nearly the only one blogging)
So, I’m announcing you two products that have brought back my blogging mojo, as BBB once said.
At first, it’s peeling-gel for deep purification Rosegel Skin Clear from Suhada (my first experience of Japanese Suhada use is described here).
I’ve already told you many times that exfoliating Sebium by Bioderma is the best peeling product by all means. I always have it in my bathroom. Rosegel made me doubt which of them should have the first prize.
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Sometimes funny coincidence happens in our lives. Right about the moment Julia was posting the announce of the first mascara in a case with mirror from Noir G de Guerlain I’ve been trying to open this very same case and to pull out the thing one’s supposed to dye eyelashes, while in more than 1000 kilometers from Julia. While doing that I used nearly all my offensive language reserve, although I’ve always been thinking it’s endless. 
Specifically for smart girls like me there’s a sticker on the case with instructions in three languages – English, French and Farsi, I guess.
At first, I never read instructions. Secondly, even if I do I usually don’t understand a word in them. Подробнее
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Dears. In the nearest future the avalanche of spring collections will fall on you. We – and Julia especially – have strongly contributed to this by posting promo pictures of the main trendsetters Сhanel, Dior, Givenchy, Guerlain so to say everywhere. Soon it’s going to be a second avalanche of swatches (everywhere, and surely, here too). And then the third – of glossy pictures in magazines.
Traditionally, I’m spending my time on watching the pictures from shows for the umpteenth time, dividing them into trends, forming the main ones and by dissecting my own brain every imaginable way and trying to cut off what can possibly be cut off. The thing is that you can surely pay no attention to all the trends and buy whatever you’re given according to the «mimimi I want it!» principle. You also can announce your independence from all these trends and buy nothing at all according to the principle «not a cent to the enemy». And finally there is a sensible approach of buying more or less reasonable minimum that will comply with the trends and won’t make you to get bankrupt. Surely, there is some flawed dependence in a word “comply”. Although I prefer to admit it proudly and to let it go into more or less peaceful course.
So that’s why.
And for fun too, surely. Although unfortunately unlike Autumn-Winter 2011-2012 there’s not much to laugh at. All the trends that matter more or less are most commercially decent and boring in a way. But the advantage is that you can wear them.
So the main trend again are eyebrows.
You can’t pretend to have a trendy look without them even if you buy all the Chanel palettes and all Dior polishes. The evidence from Dolce&Gabbana, Oscar de la Renta, Marni, Lanvin, Balmain is below.
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A niche perfume brand with a very special concept was launched at TSUM a couple of days ago. The founder and the inspirer of a brand, Clara Molloy has come to present it. Clare has created MEMO 5 years ago. She had been in book publishing and luxuryindustry earlier and has always been travelling a lot. Clara is Spanish, her husband is from Ireland, and so she says that theyareproneto travel.
Clara has decided to turn her journeys into aromas that remind of them after publishing a book about 22 famous perfumers of our time. One of these perfumers was AlenorMassenet who has created Only The Brave for Diesel, Emporio Armani Night, John Galliano Parlez-Moi d’Amour, Lancome Tresor Sparkling. And now – all the MEMO aromas.
MEMO article was published on elle.ru and I’m copying the most interesting parts for the blog.
- Our brand is devoted to travels – Clara says. – Each aroma refers to some geographical place, ether real one or created in our mind. The phrase that characterizes the brand is «The journey is the destination». Every fragrance is like a journey itself because it has its start, middle point and ending.
Clara Molloy in TSUM department store
- How did you come up with the idea of making aromas particularly about journeys? Why are journeys so important for you? Подробнее
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My dears, I start fulfilling the recklessly made promises ) The first in the list is Roja Dove that I’ve met in Cannes and have already told about it here. He is a person that is unique in all respects. There is no perfumer equal to him. A perfume historian that are really rare too. He is a wealth of knowledge, filled top to bottom, and not just knowledge – irony, cynicism, snobbery, common sense and life experience. A dude that likes rocker wristbands and black shirts.
He is openly gay in the sense that it’s not just he does not hide, but he quite even advertises that. The man who has opened the perfume boutique on the 5th floor of Harrods’ and has created the range of it in a really unaccustomed way – by persuading the great perfume brands not to remove the economically disadvantageous masterpieces from their production but to produce them in small amounts to be sold in this boutique, where there are no regular showcases and everything is hidden in black boxes. Those who know, they’ll find what they need.
Ether misanthrope or philantropist, ether romanticist or cynic, but more likely – all in one. Подробнее
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Since 15 of December at TSUM department store the exclusive sales of perfume started – perfume that nearly no magazine had “for testing” because the quantity of the flacons was strictly limited (1 000 flacons in a whole world) and didn’t include press-freebe. I was lucky to get some drops of this strong, stretchy, slim fragrance created around the scent of a flower, the smell of which I can not remember – iris.
If yesterday I was asked about the smell of iris itself I would really have nothing to say. But if I’ll be asked tomorrow as an excellent student I’ll report that it smells like La femme Bleue from the “high line” fragrances collection by signor Armani – Armani Privé. And I’ll definitely get an excellent mark. It’s like sometimes you think about life and come to the idea that it’s “like a good movie” and forget what’s initial and what’s not. Подробнее
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As we wrote before, Ellis Faas brand had finally appeared on the Russian market – it was launched in TSUM and Tsvetnoy Central Market in Moscow on December 6, 2011. Ellis came to Moscow for the launch of the brand – this is when we had a chance to talk to her (the inteview was published at elle.ru).
- Ellis, everybody must be asking you one and the same question, but still – why are all your products of fluid texture?
- Well, they ask even more often why they are all packed in pen-like bullets!
- This was exactly my second question!
- I simply wanted to create something universal. Same size. Same shape. This was the plan – to create something compact and beautiful, with which you can make your own set. I wanted to get away from the traditional square-shaped packaging of powder, shadows, anything that can be broken. As for the texture, I think that solid powder textures can not completely blend into the skin, they kind of lie on it. This is why all products come in same sized “bullets” and they all are fluids – luquid texture is better for skin.
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We know that many of you were dying to get Jo Malone tea collection at our year results.
Dear friends, you don’t need to be dying no more because in March (right before the 8th of March) we’re going to have a new limited collection called London Blooms.
“Gardening is a form of a self-expressing. Especially in England” – a press-release informs us. And we can guess that London Blooms are going to be about English flowers.
I want to tell those who haven’t read about this collection in the western sources that there are three new perfume compositions and the bottles are decorated with flower patterns.
Peony&Moss
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In comments to interview with Ellis Faas elia-chaba said, that all lipsticks of the brand has something brown in shades. I wanted to show the ones that I have (and also hav a closer look at them myself – maybe I don’t see that brown?).
I have 3 Ellis Faas lipsticks: two reds Yana presented to me and the one more I’ve got after the interview. They are: Creamy Lips L101, Milky Lips L201 and Glazed Lips L306 (which is actually more a lipgloss than a lipstick, but I consider all this very relative).
And please don’t judge the quality of photos, I’m training to shoot with the light and it;s hard.
So here they are:
Left to right: Creamy Lips L101, Glazed Lips L306, Milky Lips L201
From up to down: Creamy Lips L101, Glazed Lips L306, Milky Lips L201 Подробнее
Mona di Orio, the perfumer, died on 9th December. Tomorrow she’ll be buried at Zorgvlied cemetery in Amsterdam, ander the Japaneese cherry thee, the ceremony will start at 11 a.m. there is a lot of white flowers that she used to love – white tulips, white orchids, white lilies. We’re pleased with the fact there’ll be some tulips from beauty insider too. We gave some money for that to Alexey Dubinskiy, the owner of “Aroma-tech” shop who has left to Amsterdam.
And I’m still sad.
So, this is the reason why I’m writing this now. To say “thank you” and to hope that it’ll be easier or at least brighter. To tell the truth, all these farewell “thank you” are not for the ones that are gone. They are for those who remain. Подробнее
