Chủ Nhật, 4 tháng 12, 2016

6 Investment Beauty Products That Are Worth the Splurge

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For beauty geeks, the struggle is real when it comes to shopping for beauty products with a heavier price tag. On one hand, you want to treat yourself, while on the other, with a one year (or less) expiration date on many of the products, sometimes you just don’t think it’s worth breaking the piggy bank. So what’s a beauty loving gal gotta do? Trust the experts, of course. Luckily, we’ve got just the right people help you out. To give you a little guidance on what beauty products are actually worth the splurge, we asked our Beauty Panel to weigh in. From a customizable (and organic) lipstick to an anti-aging saviour, see six tried-and-true beauty products you need to add to your shopping basket, stat.
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Stephanie Lau
Toronto | Fun Size Beauty

The perfect lipstick is worth the investment. I’m talking perfect colour, perfect formulation and perfect packaging. You’ll know it when you pick it up and swipe it on your lips. It’s a lipstick that you can wear for any and all occasions.
Jav shotacon

My perfect lipstick is one that I customized at the Bite Beauty Lip Lab. Made in Toronto, Bite Beauty is formulated with food-grade ingredients (it’s so good that you could eat it!). The Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick formulation ($55 for one lipstick or $80 for two) is my all time favourite. It has a slightly shiny finish and feels like butter on the lips. In terms of colour, it’s a warm, muted berry that’s slightly deeper than my natural lip colour. It smells like citrus and mango and lime, a combo that I picked out myself. Every time I put it on I feel like a million bucks. And why not spend a million bucks on a lipstick that will make you feel like a million bucks too?

Colleen Conroy
Vancouver | Blush Rouge

I Got a $1000 Hair Makeover—K-Pop Style




There’s probably no one within my social circle that doesn’t know about my obsession fascination with anything that comes out of South Korea. Whether it’s K-drama, K-pop, K-beauty or K-fashion, I’m infatuated with the culture. But now that I’ve mastered the multi-step skincare routine, bedazzled my nails and survived my first scrub down (and lived to tell the tale), I’ve just about checked all the boxes when it comes to a full K-beauty treatment. All except one: hair.
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When it comes to South Korea’s beauty influence in the west, hair care doesn’t come to mind (at least not yet). However, if you were to step foot in Seoul, it’s evident that hair is a major player in the beauty game, with not one girl without colour-treated hair on the streets of Seoul, and shelf after shelf of adorable hair packs, essences and tools. But with a culture where A-list stars (and their stylists) dictate what’s hot in the beauty world, we’re not surprised to see Seoulites rocking every single colour of the rainbow.

So on my recent trip across the pond, I decided to drink the Kool-Aid and get a hair makeover. But I wasn’t going to settle for a cut and blowout. No, I wanted K-Pop-worthy hair. So I messaged celebrity hair stylist Kim Sunwoo and marched myself (and my overgrown bob) to SoonSoo Salon in Cheongdam-dong to see if he was game to update my look. (He was, obviously.)