So you know I love my oils. Facial oils are the mainstay of my skincare routine, and I’ve been using hair oils to keep my hair in good condition since I was knee high to a grasshopper. But using an oil as a makeup primer? Could this be step too far, even for me? Wouldn’t my makeup just look super shiny and slip off? Well, this new launch from Smashbox puts paid…
So one of my key things for 2106 is to actually do things for me. As I type this, it’s only 10pm and I’m sitting in bed, having come back from a lovely massage. Now, there’s a sentence I never thought I’d be in apposition to write! I actually can’t remember the last time I made time for me, just me, not me with my family, not me with my friends,…
The new year and all its promises of new beginnings normally come in to focus for me around halfway through January. With a birthday exactly one week into the New Year, I never even think about starting a diet until after that’s over and done with – who wants to be dieting and detoxing on their birthday? This year I was hit with a bad cold which really threw me for…
New season makeup trends are calling for fresh, clean skin and the no-makeup makeup look. Of course, “no makeup” really only means minimal makeup, so glowy, flawless, healthy looking skin is a must. While Asian skin doesn’t tend to show its age through wrinkles, what does give us away in the antiageing game is hyper-pigmentation and uneven skin tone. Yes, we’re lucky that our naturally melanin-rich darker skin tones help us…
I’ve spent the last month re-jigging ideas for the blog (and my YouTube channel) so expect to see some changes (all good ones, I hope!) in the New Year. But it occurred to me, it’s YOU GUYS who are my readers, so I really want to know, what would you guys like to see more of on Beauty Passionista? More beauty reviews? More tutorial-style posts? Are there any topics that I don’t yet…
