Mizon Multi Function Formula Snail Recovery Gel Cream Review

This week's review has been a long time coming, but here it is at last: my one, my only, my true beauty love: the Mizon Multi Function Formula Snail Recovery Gel Cream aka The Precious.

Snow White + Snail Gel = <3 4ever

You've heard me talk about it before, but like the mythical unicorn, it was always alluded to without details.  Well, the wait is over!  Let's do this!

Tonymoly Prestige Snail Lip Treatment Review

This week's review is of Tonymoly Prestige Snail Lip Treatment, which despite its impressive-sounding name, is an unremarkable product that makes a lot of fancy claims but is actually just a lip balm.

Reflective and chrome surfaces are a pain to photograph!

As you may know if you read my blog, I am snail-product obsessed.  So, I picked up this lip "treatment" expecting it to perform the same soothing miracles as my other snail products, but it turned out to be just another lip balm.  A nice one, but indistinguishable from any other regular lip balm, and unfortunately Tonymoly tucked some tiny lies into the product description that the ingredient list doesn't agree with.  Read on for all the gory details!

Skincare Discovery: Layering Multiple Products Part 2

In Part 1 we  talked about the techniques of layering skincare regardless of which products you use:

Part 1 contents:

• It's not always about the products you have, sometimes it's the way you use them
• Buy skincare, not makeup
• Application: pat, tap, or press to apply instead of rubbing
• Layer several different products, instead of an all-in-one product
• Layer 'fat over lean', like a oil painter

Onward to discussing products designed for layering so you avoid the pitfalls of over-moisturizing!

In this post:

• Sometimes more is more, when it comes to the number of products
• You can and should build your own custom lineup
• Examples of Brand lineups
• Example of a custom lineup

Skincare Discovery: Layering Multiple Products Part 1

This week in lieu of a review, I had planned to discuss a technique for applying moisturizer which had been completely alien to me called a "moisture bomb" or "skin bomb" or even "water bomb", although the latter is also used to describe specific products that are meant to accomplish the same effect.

*pat pat* Woooaaah moisture ~explosion~

However, I'll be posting about moisture bombs another day, because in order to understand why they are great, you first have to be familiar with how different the Asian skincare philosophy is from what we are used to, and it's made me a total convert because it's working better for me than anything else I've ever tried.

Part 1 contents (you are here!):

• It's not always about the products you have, sometimes it's the way you use them
• Buy skincare, not makeup
• Application: pat, tap, or press to apply instead of rubbing
• Layer several different products, instead of an all-in-one product
• Layer 'fat over lean', like a oil painter

Part 2 contents (link):

• Sometimes more is more, when it comes to the number of products
• You can and should build your own custom lineup
• Examples of Brand lineups
• Example of a custom lineup

Onward to discussing products designed for layering so you avoid the pitfalls of over-moisturizing!

Weekly Review: Tonymoly Catchu Wink Tony Tint in Cherry Pink

This week's review is of a simple little lip stain product: Tonymoly's adorably-named Cat Chu Wink (complete with winking kitty packaging) lip tint in #01 Cherry Pink.

I am not a cat person.  In fact, thanks to my allergies, I hate cats, because they have a sadistic affinity for anyone who will turn into a sneezing, swollen mess if they get within 5 feet, such as yours truly.  That being said, you cannot deny that the little cat face on this lip tint/stain is so cute it should come with a warning label. :3


Details:
Full product name: Tonymoly Cat Chu Wink Tony Tint #01 Cherry Pink
Purpose: A liquid lip stain, like Benetint.
Texture: Standard lip stain, very thin liquid which spreads easily and dries quickly.
Scent:  Very mild, vaguely fruity?
Quantity: 10ml and a little goes a long way.
Availability: I bought mine from ebay, it's also available several places online, and within the US it is available from prettyandcute although they were out of stock last I checked.
Price: Ranges from $4-10, so very affordable
Rating:  4/5 for better than typical stain dryness.
Repurchase: Definitely.  It's the longest-lasting and least drying lip stain I have tried.


Time for the full review, including pictures!

 But before we get to that stage, I would just like to give a shout-out to all those beauty bloggers who manage to take pictures of their lips without feeling like Quasimodo after you see how monstrous and uneven they are in close-range.   Read on if you dare!