Lisap C-Glos

A couple of weeks ago, I headed to a salon downtown and had the Lisap C-Gloss treatment put in my hair. It’s colour-free though it does seem to have a tint because my grey hairs are less noticeable and my hair seems to be a pretty uniform colour.

The treatment took 20 minutes to set, and then was washed out gently. It really did make my hair look a lot shinier and the whole time it was in my hair, I didn’t have to put any shine spray in it.

Lisap is an Italian brand of hair colour and their C-Gloss is a new product. Many salons carry the hairdye and are familiar with it so if they don’t carry the C-Gloss, ask them to!

The gloss lasts in your hair for 2 to 5 washes, and I’m finding that even on the 6th wash my hair is pretty darn shiny. I highly recommend it for special occasions or as an extra boost when you don’t want to colour your hair but want it to look nice.

MAC Dazzle lipsticks, they aren’t kidding!

In the midst of all the dark fall collections that have been popping up, MAC is reminding us it’s still summer! And I have two collections to prove just that, Dare to Wear and the fabulous Digi Dazzle Lipsticks. I, for one, say hooray!

These 13 limited edition lipsticks are exactly what I’m craving right now; sparkling and yes, dazzling color to carry me through the end of summer. Not that I can’t see wearing these through the cold months too, but to me glitter equals fun. And fun equals summer.

I will admit, while I am a fan of glitter on the lips, these didn’t do much for me just viewing them in the bullet. I think it’s my habit of looking to gloss whenever I want some action that led me to think “I’ve got lip gloss for this, why do I need glitter lipstick?” Oh, but getting these on my lips was a whole other story…

With these, you get the flash of a glimmery gloss, with the staying power of a lipstick. We’re not talking just a smattering of glitter either. These are bursting with glitter (see photo evidence!) Pure wall to wall glitter. But be prepared for it to migrate, I looked like I was making out with a disco ball after swatching these. Surprisingly the lipsticks feel less gritty than you’d expect. But don’t go in hoping for silky smooth, they’re not.

Plus, these are real chameleons. All three looked better on my lips than in the bullet. What a great surprise!

Liquid Lurex is a sheer gold with silver and a shape-shifter sort of glitter than transforms from fuschia to copper depending on how you are looking at it. Next to impossible to capture in a photo; in mine it looks gold in the tube, and kind of nude on my lips. But in person, you get a gold that flashes pink. This blurry swatch shows you the brilliance of the glitter. This is unlike any shade I’ve ever owned and is like a party in a tube (or preferably, on your lips!)

For a more subtle, but no less beautiful look, I adore Wham, a plummy brown with gold and a bit of the same shape-shifter glitter described above. I can see reaching for this a lot in the fall, as it’s warm but still fun. Check out a full face look with it on my Dare to Wear post.

Lastly, Naughty You is a bright, almost bubble gum medium pink with a ton of pink glitter. MAC describes it as neon, and I’m with them on that. It’s like Barbie’s disco-date-pink. Not a color I’d reach for, but surprisingly wearable with my warm-toned skin.

Clinique Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief

I have to say this.

Clinique makes some of the best basic moisturizers in the market. By basic I mean that if you just want something that takes care of dry skin, you should head over to the Clinique counter. If you want something that gets rid of wrinkles, makes you look younger, takes away the bags under your eyes, does your hair, picks your kids up from school, and gets dinner on the table by 6:30, then maybe look elsewhere.
But as far as basic moisturizers go, Moisture Surge Extended Relief will do you a solid. It’ll get rid of dry skin and make sure it stays away by putting a kind of coating on your skin. You won’t know it’s there during the day, but when you go to wash it off, you’ll feel it being dissolved away by your moisturizer. Pretty powerful stuff, it is, and all in a light gel base that makes everyone happy. Check this out at your Clinique counters – go for the bonus, but stay for this moisturizer.

Product Body Sugarfoot Scrub

My scrub review continues today with a look at the Product Body Sugarfoot Foot Scrub. If you haven’t tried anything by Product Body you really must. The products are made by hand and fresh, and they have a small number of ingredients in them which makes them truly fantastic because it means that you don’t just get a cream with a bit of shea butter in them, you get a cream that’s mostly shea butter!

Sugarfoot, like other Product Body products, is an excellent formulation. It’s thick but it foams a little when it hits your wet skin making a thick cream that’s rich and moisturizing while letting you exfoliate at the same time. Unlike most scrubs, it doesn’t wash off before you’re ready for it too, but it does wash cleanly and leaves your feet amazingly smooth and moisturized.

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

I just finished reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (the author of Atonement).

This book is so good that I’m now a die hard McEwan fan and want to read everything he’s written. The majority of the plot takes place over a couple’s wedding night but you get to know their histories and a lot about them throughout the novel. It really moves along, it’s a fairly easy read, and completely absorbing.

Pick it up if you want to read something short but soul-satisfying.