Apparently, impulse-buying Steve Madden wedge shoes five minutes after laying eyes on ‘em (at a budget-busting P1,900.00) failed to purge me of my shopping demons. So splurge again, I did. Yet I really can’t regret my latest buy; I’ve already written about it in a past entry as the best lip balm I’ve come across.
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Archive for November, 2008
Here are some kitchen-beauty remedies I’ve personally tested and rate highly in terms of effectivity. I’ll go so far as saying they work better than stuff you can buy in the drugstore, so try them out!
Facial scrub: Finely ground coffee and olive oil
A teaspoonful of finely ground coffee (I use Great Taste) mixed with a [...]
A stain in the mind
You shit. You crowd out my own thoughts. Memories, sticky little suckers. Tell me, can I wash out the dirt in my mind? can I wring out my brain and hang it up to dry? No. It’s never gonna be like new. I’ve got a stain in my mind. Fuck you
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So ever since my hormones took over I started getting all persnickety about odors and I became very particular about deodorants and antiperspirants (yes! there is a difference between the two!!). My all time fave used to be Secret (unscented) until for some reason (don’t know if my olfactory system got damaged or I bought [...]
I stumbled upon this product quite by accident, more accurately, due to a little Beauty Bar fiasco I had.
The craziness of that encounter proved to be propituous as the item I randomly picked to buy turned out to be another inexpensive product (Php150) that actually does what its supposed to.
J.R. Watkins Lemon Hand & Cuticle [...]
Great Beauty Finds from Beauty Bar (Part 1)
Burt’s Bees Lip shimmer
Its packaging proclaims Burt’s Bees Lip Balm as the world’s best. Personally, I feel that the title still goes to Kiehl’s Lip Balm No. 1 (at the time I started using Kiehl’s I had gone through several drugstore brands and despaired of even finding one [...]
So whats the lowdown on this highly sought after product whose popularity is still on the rise? What can mineral make up give you that other branded cosmetic products don’t?
.. Well it’s all natural baby! So it claims, since the ingredients are supposed to be from minerals (I know.. the name already suggests that.. [...]
Now there’s a product thats true to its name. The L’Oreal Infalible Never Fail Lipstick comes in 12 different shades and has recently been re-packaged to include an extra tube of the topcoat. Along the line of “long- lasting” lipsticks this has been ranked #1 in my list!
L’Oreal Infalible Never Fail Lipstick Compact
The compact doubles [...]


