L'Oreal Voluminous Naturale Natural-Looking Volume

Looking for natural-looking and finally found the mascara. I love this bag and look. I liked the look of this, which I got in a goodie bag at the Sundance Film Festival. It's not too heavy, not clumpy, and indeed natural-looking without being barely-there. However, a natural-looking mascara should not take so much eye makeup remover to come off. Underwhelmed.

That said, if you're looking for a decent mascara for less than $8, you could do a whole lot worse than this one.

BeneFit Lash Lovies

Now you've done with this talk I will describe the product.

BRUSH: None.

FORMULA: As creamy as you want it to be.

APPLICATION: Takes some extra time due to the necessity of squeezing product onto a clean wand (where did I leave that darn thing?).

LOOK: BRIGHT! Lash Lovies' raison d'être is wild, out-there colors like green, purple, red and pink. No black or brown. Thickening and lengthening are probably beside the point.

WEAR: Very very good, thankfully.

PACKAGING/PRICE: Adorable tiny squeeze tube, labeled to match the color of the mascara. If this sort of product intrigues you, I heartily recommend hunting it down on Ebay.

Fun with gun

have something to tell about this product. I've tried and liked. As mentioned previously, I am currently in the middle of moving house, aka hell on earth. As also mentioned previously, the only perk so far to all the packing has come in discovering all sorts of products I forgot I'd owned. It's like shopping, but with money I've already spent on items I've long since banished from my mind.

And if Saturday's excavation is anything to go on, I went through a very keen Bobbi Brown period in 2001, but quickly lost track of all my purchases before I got much chance to use them. In addition to the very useful Lip Palette 2001 (containing various lip colours, lip shines, and lip shimmers in: berry, sand pink, brown, shell pink, peony SPF 15, cocoa SPF 15, cassis, salmon, raisin, and crimson), I also had quite a lot left of my Bobbi Brown Foundation Stick in Sand. But my favourite rediscovery was a Bobbi Brown Eye Palette 2001, a collection of five eye shadow colours: bone, slate, sable, gunmetal shimmer wash, and raisin summer wash.

So after a long day of packing, wearing no makeup and with my hair scraped back into a ponytail, I thought I'd treat myself to some playtime with my new (old) products.