Hello pretty palette! This is Dior’s My Lady Healthy Glow Complexion, it sits in a bit of a gray area between an illuminating face powder and a highlighter. For me, I tend to group illuminating face powders into the highlighter family because I personally prefer a more matte complexion with some areas highlighter. I tend to feel an all over face illuminating gives my skin a greasy look.

Back to the actual product, first the design. It’s an amazing design of different ropes intertwined together, absolutely gorgeous! And I love that it is quite heavily embossed so it would take many applications to cause the design to fade way (as opposed to overspray which disappears after just touching the product). The powder itself is incredibly finely milled, it has a very light shimmer to it and I would consider this more pinked toned than neutral or yellow.

The thing that makes me lean closer to a face powder is how subtle the shimmer is when applied to your face. It’s barely noticeable in my photos and that’s after quite a heavy hand. The effect is far more natural in person and if you like skin with a gentle sheen, then this is actually quite perfect! Plus there is no notable scent which makes using this a lot more pleasant!

Another bonus, this powder did come with a Dior Kabuki brush, which is incredibly soft and luxe in appearance, I however will not be using it with this product just because I prefer Kabuki brushes for powder foundations or face powder rather than illuminators. Still lovely brush though!

You can purchase this product for £48 from Harrods, I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet.

When I first laid eyes on Chanel’s nail polish collection for Summer this year I knew I had to own Bel Argus and Azure, they looked amazing in all the promotional photos I found! But what did surprise me was how incredible these were in person. It’s hard to tell by photos alone, and worse for the promotional photos, but these two polishes have just a subtle duo chrome effect to them, making them look amazing when under the sunlight. As always, all swatches are 2 coats with no top coat.

Azure

A beautiful metallic turquoise polish with a slight duo chrome effect, it can tend to look slightly yellowish under certain lights. A gorgeous shade, turquoise appearing to be a rather big hit within the Summer 2013 collections this year!

Bel Argus

A stunning duo chrome blue / purple shade, and my personal favourite because blue is my favourite colour! The only complaint I have is that the pigmentation for this particular shade runs a little weak and so extra care needs to be taken to ensure your nails have complete coverage.

Lilis

Last one, a bright orange red shade with the finest of golden micro shimmers. Probably the most pigmented polish from this collection, if done right just one coat is all you need.

If you’re interested, you can pick these up at your local Chanel counter for $39AU at either Myer or David Jones.

Who doesn’t love Korean cosmetics? I know I do! Not so recently a co-worker of mine brought back a pretty impressive haul of Holika Holika products from Singapore for me! His mother runs a Asian cosmetics store in Singapore and when she heard I was a beauty blogger she very generously wanted to send me some products from her favourite brand to try out. Least to say I was very grateful and blown away!

First product I wanted to start with was the mascara. This mascara is based off fibre wig technology, which seems pretty common among a lot of Asian cosmetic brands, basically it coats each lash with this rubbery formula creating tubes. It doesn’t smudge throughout the day at all which is amazing! I’ve found that more fibre wig mascaras don’t give very good volume, however this particular one was probably the best volumising fibre wig mascara I’ve tried out thus far.

The wand is very flexible and based of rubber with a little spiked ball at the end, due to the shape of my eye I could only really use the little ball at the end, my eyes weren’t big enough to sweep this mascara through traditionally. The up side is that it allows me to grab every little lash in the inner and outer corner of my eyes much easier than with a traditional wand.

When I first tried out this mascara I had no idea it was fibre wig, so I went along with my usual method of cleansing that evening, put on my cleansing oil and noticed it wasn’t breaking down my mascara as it usually does. I thought maybe it was a strange waterproof formula. However once the water hit my face the mascara fibre tubes just fell off instantly, which is when I realised it was working with fibre wig.

The thing about fibre wig that is they don’t smudge off like traditional mascaras, instead the little tubes around each lash simply fall off when exposed to warm water. Which makes removing them at the end of the day very simple, and prevents you from getting panda eyes

All in all, I really love this mascara. I wouldn’t say it’s as volumising as mascaras such as Lancôme Hypnose, but it’s perfect for everyday when you are going for a more natural look.

Unfortunately my co worker’s mother does not have an online store (They are working on one atm) I’m sure you’ll be able to search for this online, but if you happen to live in Singapore then you can pick this up for $20SGD from Isetan Department Store, B1, Wisma Atria, Orchard Rd, Singapore.