Bobbi Brown Nectar Shimmer Brick
Happy Tuesday, ladies. 🙂 As I type this pre-dawn post by the dim light of my monitor and a small desk lamp in rain-soaked Novato, I’m closing my eyes and picturing Bobbi Brown’s Nectar Shimmer Brick ($38), a shimmery coral, on top of a pretty coral blush. YUM!
Dior Serum de Rouge
I can’t wait to try all eight of Dior’s new luxury lip treatments in Serum de Rouge ($32).
From left to right: Dior Serum de Rouge in Rosewood, Coral, Crimson, Raspberry, Beige, Mocha, Soft Pink and Nude
StrangeBeautiful Library of Color: Volumes 1 and 2
For the nail fiends and polish junkies of the world (I’m right there with ya!), the StrangeBeautiful Library of Color, Volume 1 and Volume 2 ($79 each, yowza!), are available for pre-order!
Yves Saint Laurent Poudre Compacte Matte Pressed Powder
SUPER CUTE! All six of YSL’s Compact Matt Pressed Powders ($46) have this embossed heart on the pan. Talk about love! 🙂
More good stuff…
- A set of four Michael Kors Island mini-fragrances (4 x 0.25 oz Eau de Parfum rollerballs) in Fiji, Capri, Bermuda and Hawaii, $40) (click here for a review of their full-size brethren).
- I dig the print on Chantecaille’s new Les Dauphins Palette ($77), but I’m not so sure about the shades…
- Would you throw down $95 for Le Meteir de Beaute’s concealer?
- Like that rabbit with the batteries, Clarins says their Everlasting Foundation ($35) keeps going and going and going…
- Have you tried the new Chanel base ($23) and top coat ($23) for nails?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
OOOOOOoooo!!! Bobbi Brown Nectar Shimmer Brick=MINE!!!!!! I am such a sucker for pretty looking products like that LOL!
Right? And it’s coral! I seriously almost fainted when I saw it, LOL!
Ohhh I would be interested in the Strangebeautiful Library of Colour polish collection. I am such a nailpolish fiend and have been since high school.
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I bet your nail collection is huge! How many bottles do you have?
Haha. I probably have in between 100 to 120 nailpolishes, which is more than an average person but definitely less than a nailpolish beauty blogger. 🙂 I have thrown away all of my polishes from highschool since they are so old and gunky. I do have a habit of buying nailpolish almost every week, since there are quite a few LE nailpolish collections that came out that are too beautiful and unique to pass up.
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The BB Nectar Shimmer Brick looks gorgeous!! I’ll be looking forward to swatches 🙂
I also love the StrangeBeautiful sets but I’m trying to be really tight with my beauty spending this year! eeeeep! I keep telling myself to use what I have already and stop hauling new stuff hehe.
It’s hard, especially when there’s always something new and exciting coming out. When’s the next time you’ll get to haul?
OOOOH and I will be waiting in anticipation for your review of the new Dior lip treatments – I want that Mocha shade but with my luck it’ll give my lips a bad reaction.
Oh no… are your lips very sensitive?!
I’m in love with the pressed powders, how pretty would those be to pull out of your purse for touch-ups?
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Oh, me too. Especially when the compacts are cute!
I am drooling over the nail colors. Unfortunately,I don’t think we have this brand here.
Bummer! Maybe Neimans ships overseas?
Never Enough Nails- I’ll see you at the BB counter, because that Nectar shimmerbrick is mine! 🙂
Karen, on a different note, and you PLEASE do a look with the Dior Pearl Glow palette? Pretty please!
Yes ma’am! My hair’s been out of control for a few days, but I’m going to try my best to wrangle it into submission so I can take some decent FOTDs, LOL! 🙂
how do you use those BB shimmer bricks – blush, eyeshadow??? I’ve always liked the look of them, but just don’t get how I should be using them.
You can apply the colors separate as shadow, or swirl them together to create a sheer, shimmery blush or highlighter. I like to pop ’em on top of brighter blushes, or sweep the color onto my arms, legs and shoulders during the summer for a little bit o’ glow.
Cool, thanks so much for taking the time to explain
I’m excited about the Dior Serum de Rouge and the Michael Kors rollerballs!
Me too. I’ve been dying to get the MK Island scents… now I have no excuse. 🙂 Plus, they’re portable!
I love that YSL’s little compact is Valentine’s-worthy! So cute!!
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I know, right? I love it!
That shimmer brick is too cute! I have the pink one (rose, or something?) And i love using the more whitish and lighter colors on my eyes. The bronze one makes my decolage glow and sometimes I just dust it on my legs for a shimmery glow. I wish my skin was oily, so I could buy that compact! It would be hard to make even a slight dent in something so pretty, though!
I love dusting the Shimmer Bricks on my legs, arms and shoulders in the summertime. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that they’re so pretty to look at!
Those nail polishes are HAWT!! The price isn’t so horrible if you break it down per bottle… <$10. Any idea if those colors are matte or not? I'm obsessed with matte polishes lately.
Hmm, I dunno. I found ’em on Facebook and asked what the finishes are… hopefully they’ll get back to me soon!
I love love love love Dior Rouge Serum! I have it in Raspberry and the colour fits me so well, it might just be made for me! I’ve had it for a while though, we’ve had them in Europe since October or something. I was wondering why you didn’t review them already…I love Chanel lip products but this one takes the cake in everything, well, everything except the smell. Amazing lipstick/balm/gloss/tint/pretty looking beauty product!
Oh no! What does it smell like? Smell is a big thing for me… if it’s sickly sweet then I can’t hang!
Well it’s a bit…chemical! But it fades away after a minute or so and it tastes just fine! The lasting power is amazing too!! Ah, I’m completely in love with this product.
The Bobbi Brown nectar shimmer birck looks really nice!! the colours are gorgeous!!
Might have to go and buy it and see…really looks lovely!
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i was looking at the chanel top and base coats…. interesting…
also the YSL powders look cool but they pulled all YSL counters from where i live…. and replaced them ALL with cle de peau. i dont even know why.
Hmm. I’ve heard Cle de Peau has some good powdered products… have you tried any of ’em yet?
Mmm I want the nail polish library!
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I gotta say, I’m not in love with the Dior Serum de Rouge… over-all it’s a fine product, but I’ve just not used it very much. I’m more of a moisturising lipstick kinda gal, (I love MAC and Chanel Hydrabase) and I thought the Dior one would be like a nice moiturising hybrid product, but it turns out the texture is too light/glides off (does that make sense? Sometimes it’s hard to explain!) a bit much for me, considering how much pigment it packs! I’ve got 840 Crimson (um kinda by accident,I meant to get raspberry but I got the wrong one, but I liked the colour when I realised at home so I kept it!) and it’s a nice shade, but when I wear such a bold colour I want to know it’s well in place and won’t get rubbed off/easily smear. When I wear it I’m constantly checking my pocket mirror. The packaging is amazing though, so pretty and luxurious!
But this post with all the excitement for ’em make me want to try it out again, perhaps dab it on so it feels more in place. Hmmm… off to the mirror to experiment! Have a great day Karen!
“oh,” i thought, “that nail polish set looks nice. pretty colors and terrific packaging, and two things i am, strange and beautiful. maybe that’s what i’ll ask the b.friend for for valentine’s.” but $79?!?! i think i’ll pick up, like, all the new sally hansen collections instead.
Hey Karen! I just thought I’d let you know, StrangeBeautiful polishes have been out for over a year now. There is a 3rd volume that launched last fall and it’s available on LuckyScent.com along with the first 2 volumes. All the polishes are cremes and very well pigmented. I reviewed Vol 3 and the colors are gorg. I have Vol. 1 as well and need to order Vol 2. The brand has a website, http://strangebeautiful.biz
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