Clarins White Plus HP Whitening Velvet Emulsions

In January 2012, Clarins Singapore introduced two new members into its whitening range (White Plus HP Sea Lily Enriched) at all Clarins counters islandwide. Thanks to Clarins Singapore, I was given the opportunity to try out both these 2 latest products - The New White Plus HP Whitening Velvet Emulsion and Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF20.

By combining active ingredients with proven whitening properties, the White Plus HP Sea Lily Enriched products offers the most advanced protection against hyperpigmentation both inside and outside the melanoctye...the unique ingredients used in the White Plus HP Sea Lily Enrich range..

• Sea lily extract - controls the extension of dendrites, the "arms" of melanocytes which deliver melanin to cells in the epidermis. 
• Alchemilla extract - slows the excessive transfer of melanin to the epidermis.
• The combination of raspberry extract ( a highly stable vitamin C derivative) and biotin (vitamin B8) slows the synthesis of melanin. 
• Tannins from alchemilla and flavonoids from raspberry and parsley enhance the natural draining mechanism in skin by increasing the resistance of blood capillaries. 

The precious extract of an exceptional flower with whitening powers ..Sea Lily 

Full Ingredients Lists of Clarins Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF20 & Whitening Velvet Emulsion: 

Recommended Method To Use Clarins Whitening Velvet Emulsions:

Prices/Contents: 

• Whitening Velvet Emulsion $92 (75ml) 
• Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF20 - $100 (75ml)

Trying the products for about a month: 

Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF 20 is enriched with meadowsweet extract that helps protect skin against shine due to the heat. It also contains UV filters and white tea extract to provide protection against harmful environmental factors and the sun. I am currently using Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF 20  as a day moisturiser and Whitening Velvet Emulsion as a night moisturiser. You can also use the latter as both a day and night moisturiser. 

Both emulsions have the same ultra-fluid and soft textures that make application a breeze.. First I spread and warm the product in my palms before patting the emulsion onto my skin. As it is very light weight and non greasy, the product absorbed almost instantly when I patted it on my skin. And Voila! ~ skin feel amazing soft and velvetly smooth! In the past 1 month of usage, I have noticed that my skin has become much smoother and clearer, and looks luminous! These products have nice floral scent.. I can still smell the light floral note within the first 1- 2 hours upon application, and the scent just uplift my mood instantly... 

Another thing I like is both these products come in pump bottles so it makes dispensing the emulsions totally convenient and quick!

Here is me wearing Clarins Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF20 with Clarins Skin Illusion Liquid Foundation. Tested and proven, Clarins Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF20 enhances my makeup and makes my base makeup last longer too!

Try out this new Clarins Whitening Velvet Emulsion SPF 20 now and hope you will love it as much as I do...

Also don't miss out on Clarins latest Facebook's Contest ~ Share Your Luminous Moments & Win!~

Over $2,500 worth of Clarins products to be won! Submit your entry before 18 March! Do check out Clarins Facebook Fanpage and Clarins Singapore Website for more details. 

Flaunt your Luminous moments right away! ('',) 

Clarins Colour Breeze Spring Make-Up Collection - Gloss Prodige

Clarins Singapore has recently launched Gloss Prodige - a collection of intense colour and shine lip glosses from the Colour Breeze Spring Make-Up Collection. 

Gloss Prodige dresses lips in pure, intense colour with a high-shine finish. Lips are smoothed, defined and plumped to perfection. The secret to the shine effect and intense colour....

• A new generation Clarins Complex used ~ Suprashine Colour Complex
• The Maxi-Lip peptide and hyaluronic acid help enhance fuller looking lips
• Radiance-boosting pearls optimize the way light is reflected on the lips
• Highly concentrated, finely ground pigments are evenly dispersed within the texture that is enriched with ultra-shiny polymers to ensure an intense glossy finish and even colour. 

Clarins Gloss Prodige Intense Colour & Shine Lip Gloss is available in 8 vibrant shades... 

Full Ingredients List for Clarins Gloss Prodige Intense Colour & Shine Lip Gloss:

Price: $35

Contents: 6ml


Presenting my collection of Gloss Prodige lip glosses - (left left to right) - 03 Rose, 04 Candy and 08 Papaya

Trying the colours...

Clarins Gloss Prodige Intense Colour & Shine Lip Gloss - 03 rose 

From the tube, 03 rose appears to be a shimmery beige shade but when I wear it on my lips, it turns out to be a light neutral pink shade which imparts much shine without any sticky feeling.



Clarins Gloss Prodige Intense Colour & Shine Lip Gloss - 04 Candy

At first glance from the tube, 04 candy did not attract me out of the 3 shades, as it looks like a deep purplish-pink, and I was afraid it would appear to be something dark but surprisingly, I actually love how the colour brightens my complexion. When I wear it, it appears a nice sweet shade of pink as it name suggests. - So Candy-licious! 

Clarins Gloss Prodige Intense Colour & Shine Lip Gloss - 08 Papaya

Last but not least, here is 08 papaya. A lovely orangey-peach shade with gold shimmers that looks a bit different from the usual pink and neutral shades. This shade really looks gorgeous on lips. 

All of these 3 shades look really different, and it depends on what type of look you want to go for. (In the above 3 pictures, I had actually wear the same eye makeup, but applied a different Gloss Prodige shade.)  It is hard to choose which one is my favourite, I love them all. These lip glosses melts onto my lips when I apply them and it has a yummy-delicious flavour with notes of blackberry and licorice. The gel texture with the shiny pearl complex, gives a nice glossy finish to my lips. No oily nor sticky feel!!!  And thanks to the raspberry oil, it made my dry lips feel nourished and hydrated during wear. I am really addicted to wearing my Gloss Prodige lip glosses these days!

For more product information and latest promotions, visit  Clarins website or join Clarins SG Facebook Fanpage now.


Special thanks to Clarins Singapore for sending me this lovely collection of highly addictive lip glosses to try out.

Sasatinnie 360° Electrifying Extreme Lengthening & Volumizing Mascara

Sasatinnie 360° Electrifying Extreme Lengthening & Volumizing Mascara helps to create a fascinating eye look in a flash! Offering mascara coverage for every eyelash, the gentle motion of the rotating brush easily coats, lengthens and volumizes your top and bottom eyelashes with every turn.

Looks like a normal mascara on the outside, BUT there is something unique about this mascara... it runs on battery and it has a rotating brush!

As the product already comes with 2x LR1130 batteries, we basically just need to remove the insulation spacer to sort of activate the batteries. To use the mascara, press the button (as shown in picture, button just located near the insulation spacer) on the cap to activate rotation, select the rotating direction.

Clockwise: for top eyelash

Anti-clockwise: for bottom eyelash

Instructions as shown on packaging:

Here is how the brush wand looks like:

And trying it on my short and sparse eyelashes..

Before:

 After using Sasatinnie 360° Electrifying Extreme Lengthening & Volumizing Mascara:

This is my first time owning a rotating mascara and I am addicted to using it, and I use it very often because it is really fun and give great results. I do not have to coat my lashes in a zig-zag motion with this rotating brush mascara, because the rotating motion coats every single lash on its own. All I have to do is just slowly work my brush from the root to the tip of my eye lashes. Tadaa.. within less than a minute, my eyelashes look so much longer and volumized! Now my lashes can be seen! I also love the fact that it manages to separate each strand of lashes without any clumps.

Thank  you Kiyora from SASA Singapore for sending me this interesting Sasatinne mascara to try out and also this lovely Natio Gift Set ..

 

This Natio lovely gift set is great for your personal travelling use or as a gift; it consists of:Pep-up Body Cleanser (30ml), Heavenly Hand Cream (20ml), Intensive Moisturising Day Cream (20ml), Gentle Foaming Facial Cleanser (20ml) and Paw Paw Lip Balm (20ml) and a cute white with green polka dots pouch. I actually used this set when I went for a recent short holiday and I like these products as they contained different blends of essential oils, certainly made me more relaxed and rejuvenated after using them. These five Natio travel size products are all Made in Australia. You know what, the lip balm is even bigger in size than my Kiehls' lip balm (15g)! ('',)

Sasatinnie 360° Electrifying Extreme Lengthening & Volumizing Mascara retails at $35.90 and available at all SASA outlets, while the Natio Gift Set retails at $39.90.

New Elizabeth Arden Prevage Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream

For the last one month plus, I have been religiously using the latest Elizabeth Arden Prevage Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream every night and I am seriously loving the effect that I get/see every morning when I wake up. This night cream also comes in one of the most innovative containers I have ever come across in a skincare product. (will share more details about the packaging later on for sure..)

So what is so special about Elizabeth Arden Prevage Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream?

This intensive overnight moisture cream with advanced Idebenone technology was specially formulated to work during the night in synch with skin's sleep cyle. This innovative system fuses Idebenone with a skin compatible ester to provide a time release reservoir of Idebenone on the skin. 

Key Benefits of PREVAGE Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream:

• Reverse dryness with intensive moisture
• Enhance skin's own natural nighttime repair process
• Smooth, soften and retexturize skin's appearance
• Restore skin's natural resilience for a firmer look 
• Fight lines, wrinkles, discolorations and sun damage
• Give skin a rested, restored and more radiant appearance

Full Ingredients List of PREVAGE Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream:

• Idebenone - A powerful antioxidant to repair and protect skin from environmental assaults, such as visible signs of sun damage, lines, wrinkles, dryness, age spots, discolorations. 
• Mega Complex-A - complements the age-fighting effects of Idebenone. 
• Retinol Derivative - smoothes lines and wrinkles and retexturize skin's appearance
• Lemon Peel Extract - softens the appearance of age spots and discolorations to give skin a brighter look
• Vitamin E -  restores and conditions skin 
• Colorless Carotenoids - enhances the benefits of Idebenone and promotes a firmer appearance

Have you ever find it troublesome to use skincare product that comes in a jar/container form? 

For me, I will use a clean cotton bud to scoop out some of the cream from the jar/container to prevent any unnecessary contamination of the remaining product. That is why I would prefer my skincare products to come in pump and tube form packaging, more convenience I find... And yes, this new PREVAGE Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream packaging does looks like the normal jar right? BUT dont be fool by the appearance of this normal looking screw-top jar... Cause this is one of the most innovative containers that I have used for a skincare product.. 

Notice anything special now that I opened the cover?..(by the way, the orange part is NOT the cream, it is made of silicone-material.. so where is the cream and how do I use the product?)

New Elizabeth Arden Prevage Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream comes in an innovative airless jar with a one touch dispensing system, customized for Elizabeth Arden , which keeps the product sealed and fresh. I just need to press the pop-up button to dispense an appropriate amount for my whole face. The more pressure you press onto the button, the more product will be dispensed. However for this cream , a small dollop just does the job. 

PREVAGE Night Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream has a distinctive scent that can only be found in Prevage products. I think that is the scent of Idebenone - the single most powerful antioxidant for protecting skin from environmental assaults. Hard to describe the scent in words, but I can assure you it has a light yet unique pleasant scent. I have been using Prevage Night Cream every night and I find that the texture is lightweight and absorbs well into skin, spare a minute or two to massage the cream into skin and the goodness of the ingredients will work while you are asleep. Recently I only sleep like 3-4 hours every night, and although I woke up feeling very tired, my skin does not show that I was lack of sleep. (No tell tale sign on my skin that I had late nights, unless I kept yawning though!) . It just gives my skin a radiant and fresh appearance, as if I have slept for a full 10 hours the previous night. The result is really that unbelievable and noticeable! My skin also appears more moisturised, smoother and softer after more than one month of use.   

You just had to try out  this new Elizabeth Arden PREVAGE Night Anti-aging Restorative Cream packaging to believe that its proof (on our skin) not promises that you will be getting from using Elizabeth Arden Prevage line! 

Once again, thank you Elizabeth Arden Singapore for inviting me to your Prevage Bloggers' Preview at this really nice and cozy Suite@ Hyatt Hotel. And another Big Thank You for this lovely product! I may not have enough sleep and feeling all tired, but with Prevage Night, I can still have radiant-looking skin! ('',) 

More product information, visit Elizabeth Arden Singapore Website.

Healthier Hair With TK Trichokare

TK TrichoKare (pronounced: try-ko-care)  is a holistic hair and scalp care centre that provides European herbal hair remedies, catering for all hair conditions, problems including hair loss, greasy scalp, dandruff and many more. Started by a certified Trichologist and being the first ISO 9002 certified Trichological centre in Singapore, TK TrichoKare provides a comfortable and luxurious environment for its customers to enjoy pampering hair and scalp care treatments through premium European herbs. TrichoKare’s treatments are all validated by Trichologist and TrichoKare’s products are formulated by herbalist.

And just last week, I got the chance to try out TK Trichokare Hair Loss Defense Treatment at its Wheelock Place’s outlet.

Before I go on to share with you about my experience, check out its cozy shop’s interior...

Before the start of the treatment, the friendly and knowledgeable consultant performed a detailed hair and scalp analysis to diagnose the root of my hair and scalp problem, and recommended the appropriate treatments that were suitable for my hair problem.

My oily scalp and clogged follicles are the main culprits of my hair loss problem and the consultant explained that it was due to my underlying sebaceous glands producing excess sebum, most probably a result of hormonal changes, heredity or stress etc.  One simple remedy is to cleanse my scalp, and nourish my hair follicles and scalp through Trichokare’s hair treatment that uses only natural premium European herbs like Rosemary, Lavender, Nettles, Jojoba , Aloe Vera , Burdock, Horsetail, Sage and Leopard’s Bane that are trusted by European herbalists for centuries.

This is where I was seated during the treatment, a cozy area with nice and soothing music. I was served by a friendly Hair Specialist named Yvonne, who started off by asking how was my day and introducing herself, a good way to interact with customers and made them feel welcomed.

The first step of the treatment was to cleanse my scalp and hair. I was led to the hair-washing area and the first thing Yvonne did was to cover my body with a big  thick towel ,because it was indeed pretty cold there. Feeling all relaxed and comfortable, Yvonne started to shampoo my hair and scalp with a minty shampoo, I can still remember how COLD my scalp felt even until now. You see the temperature of the outlet was pretty low, plus the shampoo-ing gave a very cooling and minty effect on my scalp. In short, it was VERY COLD then, BUT I was enjoying every moment of it because the massage done on my scalp felt AMAZINGLY SOOTHING & RELAXING.  After she rinsed the shampoo, I thought she would proceed to condition my hair, but I was wrong, she continued to pamper me with second round of shampoo-ing  and massaging, and told me that double cleansing will ensure that the scalp will be thoroughly cleansed. How NICE!

Then I went back to my seat where Yvonne continued with the next step of the treatment in which she massaged a mask called Energizing Serum onto my scalp. It felt more like a shampoo to me, because there was foam seen as she massaged the serum onto my scalp.. but it’s a form of hair mask to nourish my hair scalp and follicles. That massage went on for a good 10 minutes or so, before Yvonne rinsed off the hair mask and blow dry my hair.

I was pretty surprised when Yvonne placed this warm bean bag/cushion-like thingy over my shoulder and gave me a relaxing shoulder massage. The constant heat produced from the cushion certainly gave me much warmth during the treatment!

Yvonne also treated my hair with some hair oil to nourish my hair ends, before giving my scalp and hair an Infrared light therapy, to kill any bacteria on scalp and to penetrate the products onto my scalp.

Yes, Smooth and silky hair at the end of the whole treatment, but mostly importantly is there any improvements on my greasy scalp? Pictures of my scalp were taken again after my hair treatment…

I was delighted that I was able to see improvements on my scalp condition in just one session – my scalp was much cleaner, not so oily and my hair follicles were  opened  (the way healthy hair follicles should look like).  I certainly enjoyed my relaxing hair treatment session and was pampered by the friendly and professional Hair Specialists.

The good news is there is a promotion offer specially for you…

Hair Loss Defense Treatment @ $59.99
Plus complimentary Delicate Kare Hair Bath worth $49

Register for the special offer now at www.tk-hair.com/blogger.

For more information on Trichokare’s treatments and products, do visit Trichokare’s website.

Thank you TK Trichokare and The Sample Store for inviting me to try out this pampering hair treatment.