...my idiot's guide to faking it without looking like it's fake, plus a quick trip into the future of beauty with a look at everything noteworthy from beauty's biggest trade show...
Ma’am that fake-tan Ted Talk was amazing and I don’t even dabble in ANY of that. Bravo.
Also RE: cooling, I have noticed a trendlet in the eyeshadow category. Tower28, Danessa Myricks, and Surratt all have shadows with a cooling sensation. Disclosure, I helped develop the Surratt one and I don’t recall “cooling” being a must-have, rather it was a nice-to-have.
Thank you re fake tan! And yes, the L’Oreal stick shadows that came out at the end of last year also have a slightly cooling thing going on and I recall the PR saying it wasn’t a flagged benefit. So I’m wondering whether this is the Korean texture influence infiltrating in an almost unintentional way. An increasing expectation that everything - even colour cosmetics - has to provide multi-sensorial effects…?
I’m delighted to know how many steps there are to a proper home fake tan regime. Because I just do my legs (and summer only at that) with Dove gradual tan as I have zero patience so can’t face doing my whole bod and can’t face the waiting around for it to dry and develop. I always wonder how much more effort it would take to do all of me properly, and now I know and will stick to my minimal effort version as I know my time and effort tolerance level too well 😂
The conference/innovation stuff was fascinating. I’m not surprised at all that K beauty was the star of the show. Their products always seem so elegant. I’ve used Japanese or Korean SPF for years and never found a UK SPF I like and can tolerate more than Biore UV Watery Gel SPF50 (and I am about to try a few more from Stylevana after a post by BritishBeautyBlogger about her faves). The brush on over-make up SPF top-up sounded really cool. I’ve only ever used the spray top-ups and unfortunately they sting my eyes like a mofo.
Haha you see I am so lazy about putting on body cream that gradual tans don’t work for me at all.
Agree on Korean / Japanese SPF. The nicest I found from a western brand many years ago, when all we got here was thick white stuff, was a Lancome product that had been developed for the Asian market.
But I do think the influx of Korean beauty is forcing western brands to raise their game esp re textures. Although over makeup spf spray will almost always sting as it’s usually got a load of alcohol in it. I’m keen to try this one too.
Ma’am that fake-tan Ted Talk was amazing and I don’t even dabble in ANY of that. Bravo.
Also RE: cooling, I have noticed a trendlet in the eyeshadow category. Tower28, Danessa Myricks, and Surratt all have shadows with a cooling sensation. Disclosure, I helped develop the Surratt one and I don’t recall “cooling” being a must-have, rather it was a nice-to-have.
Thank you re fake tan! And yes, the L’Oreal stick shadows that came out at the end of last year also have a slightly cooling thing going on and I recall the PR saying it wasn’t a flagged benefit. So I’m wondering whether this is the Korean texture influence infiltrating in an almost unintentional way. An increasing expectation that everything - even colour cosmetics - has to provide multi-sensorial effects…?
I’m delighted to know how many steps there are to a proper home fake tan regime. Because I just do my legs (and summer only at that) with Dove gradual tan as I have zero patience so can’t face doing my whole bod and can’t face the waiting around for it to dry and develop. I always wonder how much more effort it would take to do all of me properly, and now I know and will stick to my minimal effort version as I know my time and effort tolerance level too well 😂
The conference/innovation stuff was fascinating. I’m not surprised at all that K beauty was the star of the show. Their products always seem so elegant. I’ve used Japanese or Korean SPF for years and never found a UK SPF I like and can tolerate more than Biore UV Watery Gel SPF50 (and I am about to try a few more from Stylevana after a post by BritishBeautyBlogger about her faves). The brush on over-make up SPF top-up sounded really cool. I’ve only ever used the spray top-ups and unfortunately they sting my eyes like a mofo.
Haha you see I am so lazy about putting on body cream that gradual tans don’t work for me at all.
Agree on Korean / Japanese SPF. The nicest I found from a western brand many years ago, when all we got here was thick white stuff, was a Lancome product that had been developed for the Asian market.
But I do think the influx of Korean beauty is forcing western brands to raise their game esp re textures. Although over makeup spf spray will almost always sting as it’s usually got a load of alcohol in it. I’m keen to try this one too.
There is a self tan accessory which is brilliant for your back. https://share.icloud.com/photos/0b9pI3DBVXYDGFXerkB6jamRA