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Guest Post: Dazzle Dry Nail Kit Review

By Carleenp · Comments (0)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Today’s guest post is from Sam Radakovitz who tried out a Dazzle Dry nail polish kit:

Dazzle Dry is a quick dry nail polish system that was designed to cut the time you put into doing your nails. I’d like to describe Dazzle dry as a nail polish miracle. The kit I received included three different nail lacquers including rapid red, rose quartz, and heart of fire. It also included the nail prep, base coat and top coat.

The nail prep/base coat combination is designed to prepare the nail bed for application of the nail lacquer and remove any natural oils as well as nourish your nails. What was really nice about it is that the polish does try amazingly fast, so there is no long waiting and only one coat is needed. Normally with any other polish I use, by even the second day it is already chipping. With dazzle dry my nails almost looked the same after a whole entire week (picture below).

I would recommend the product for anyone who has a busy schedule. It’s like having your own manicure army at home. If you check out the Dazzle Dry website you’ll find more shades as well as other products.

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Categories : Nail Care, Nail Products

Tags : Dazzle Dry, Guest Posts, Nail Polish

L’Oreal Double Extension Beauty Tubes Mascara

By Carleenp · Comments (10)

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

L’Oreal has come out with a very effective version of a “tube” type of mascara. If you are not familiar with how tubing works, it essentially coats the lashes all around and lengthens them in a manner that forms tubes around each lash. These tubes look like little strings when you wash off the mascara. Blinc Kiss Me Mascara (read previous review) is the original of this type and is wildly popular, although I wasn’t really crazy about it. I do like L’Oreal’s version quite a bit though.

L’Oreal Double Extend Lash Extension Effect Mascara (also see the product at Ulta.com) is a two part system. First, a primer is applied, then a tubing mascara is applied over it. I am fundamentally lazy, so I get a bit annoyed by two part systems, especially if they aren’t really good. Fortunately, I found the L’Oreal Beauty Tubes mascara to be quite nice, so I didn’t mind the extra step.

L’Oreal Double Extension does a great job at lengthening. I got more length out of this mascara than any other that I have tried in the past several months. I also had few problems with clumping, and the mascara wore well–no flaking and such. It wears OK with contacts, but be careful about removing the mascara with your contacts still in because it removes in little strings. I don’t think one of those in your eye with a contact lens in would be pleasant!

Overall, I was quite happy with this one. I like it better than Blinc Kiss Me Mascara. Plus, it is much cheaper and can be found at any drugstore. I highly recommend this one!

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Categories : Makeup, Mascara

Tags : Blinc, L'Oreal, Mascara, Mascara Monday

Academy Awards Special: Pictures and Tweet the Oscars, Plus Heidi Klum’s Red Carpet Look.

By Carleenp · Comments (1)

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

If you take a look over in the right sidebar about half way down, you will see that I have added two applications especially for the Academy Awards.

The first will be running a stream of photos from the Oscars. This is a great way to get all of the latest celebrity red carpet photos as they come in. Why wait until Monday to browse the blogs and news services for photos. Get them as they happen!

The second application is called Tweet the Oscars. On this one, you can get updated Glam TV news and also read the ongoing twitter feed for the twitter tag #Oscars. You can also add your own Oscar tweet right from the application here on Beauty and Fashion Tech.

In the meantime, want to get a great red carpet look for less? Heidi Klum and makeup Linda Hay developed a look for this year’s red carpet that is available in a kit from Victoria’s Secret.

From the company:

This year, red carpet beauty is all about soft romance and classic Hollywood glamour. Supermodel Heidi Klum and celebrity make-up artist, Linda Hay, provided an insider’s look at Heidi’s red carpet look for the 2009 Academy Awards. To achieve Heidi’s subtle, yet elegant look, Hay uses a flirty, pink palate finished with chocolates and nudes for a soft, smoky effect. Now for the first time, anyone can achieve Heidi’s look with simple step-by-step instructions and only five products, all featured in the Victoria’s Secret Makeup Spring Look kit.

The set includes:

· Highlighter/Blush Duo in Fresh

· Eye Shadow Quad in Devoted, Primal, Rich and Champagne

· High-definition Mascara in Blackest Black

· Lip Gloss in Blush