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Please forgive me for being unfashionably late for the party, but I’ve had a few things going on lately. Ahem.
For the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival, we at Chic Critique are offering a $25 gift card to Sephora! (Where else?)
To enter to win, peruse our site a bit, check out some of our reviews and tips and tricks. Then leave a comment telling me about a beauty product you love and one you love to hate. (It doesn’t have to be from Sephora.) Or if that’s too difficult, you can just compliment my hair. Flattery will get you almost anywhere.
The giveaway is open to US residents only and closes on Friday, or whenever I get around to it. It’s good to be king queen.
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I love Olay’s in shower moisturizer. Even in the winter time, if I use this product every day, I don’t have to use lotion very often. Great stuff. It is getting harder to find, though, so I wonder if P & G is going to discontinue it. That has happened with a couple of their products that we used to buy.
I love Patricia Wexler Face Brightening Moisturizer.My face has a healthy glow when I use it. I love most L’Oreal products but I hate their Infallible Lipcolour.It does stay on a long time but it’s dry and I keep having to reapply the gloss that comes with it.
I love Avon eyeliners and Jillian Dempsey blush.I hate all Avon perfume!
I love Bare Escentuals mineral foundations and blush.I hate eyelash curlers–I’ve never mastered using one.
I love Cosmedicine Medi-Matte Oil Control Lotion from SEPHORA.It’s great for my oily skin. I hate a lipstick I just bought from Cover Girl only because I can never pick the right shade of pink!
I’ll start with the hate: All mascaras, none of them work for me.
I do love the Moonlight Path line from Bath and Body. It smells so good.
And you have great hair.
I Love Mary Kay’s mascara in the silver tube, it does wonders for my eyelashes. I have been using it for about 6 months now. I was a previous Maybelline mascara junkie-you know the pink tube. But I will never go back now!
I also used Bare Minerals for years but have just found the E.L.F. line carries a mineral line that works just the same and only costs $5 a container!!! Wahoo!
I loooove my straightening iron. For some reason, after high school, my hair got wavy. Then curly. Then wavy again. And now..well, I don’t think it can decide. And my lovely straightening iron has helped me and my hair through this crazy time!
I don’t really have any products I hate, I don’t think…oh wait yes I do! Any lipstick that is ‘long lasting’. It dries my lips out something terrible, and I’m only 24, but it makes my lips look like my Grandmother’s! (Sorry Mama!)
P.S. You have gorgeous hair!
I’m with all the others that love their bareMinerals. With sensitive, combination skin this is the first and only foundation I’ve tried that doesn’t make my face break out and Honey loves the way it looks so natural on me.
The product I love to hate is mascara. Most of them either smudge or flake off during the day leaving me with charcoal stuff all around my eyes or they are so waterproof that I can’t get the stuff off. But my go-to-one-minute-face is mascara and lip gloss. Just those two items and I look a little more put together.
I love Philosophy products and Dirt hair paste by Jonathan. I hate lip plumpers. They sting!
Yipee! A chance to win anything to/from Sephora is the greatest. A new love for me is the Stila Hair Refresher. I just bought it from Sephora last week and I can’t say enough about it! As for hate, it’s the Chi hair straightener. I guess it’s more of a love-hate relationship since it works.
I love MAC eyeshadows and brushes. I love Clinique Superfit concealer and their mascara. I love to hate my expensive hair products… Paul Mitchel hairspray, Redkin shampoo and conditioner. I hate that for anything decent, you must pay an arm and a leg.
I couldn’t just pick one product I love so I have to tell you about both of them. I cannot live without my Bumble and Bumble styling wax and my Burt’s Bees wax lip balm. LOVE THEM!!!!
The product I’m not loving right now is Bumble and Bumble’s styling cream. Atleast in CA they had to change their ingredients because they say the product is eco friendly/organic?, but CA felt there was too much alcohol in it and made them change the ingredients. Needless to say, the product does not work the way it use to. It’s like putting extra water in your hair, not a styling/hold product. Yuck!!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love Ponds cucumber textured facial cleansing wipes. I love them so much. My face feels awesome after I use them.
My sister-in-law is in love with the Bare Minerals makeup, and I want to try that.
Thanks for the giveaway.
I have to be perfectly honest. I really don’t know much about beauty products. I am a stay at home mom of 4 great kids, 3 boys and 1 girl (ages range from 5 months to 6 years). I us Aussie shampoo and that works great. I don’t wear much makeup but I do soooo want to take my hubby out on a date and some new makeup would be great!!! I’ve heard of Sephora before but never tried any of their products. Please consider me!!!
Wow! Your hair looks fantastic! Look at all that body and shine. Wish my hair looked as pretty as yours.
I love mascera. I use the plain ole drugstore Cover Girl one in the purple bottle, with the non-clumping brush. Never leave home without it.
I hate…. washing my face before bed. The water drips down my fore-arm, the washcloths get nasty, etc.
Thanks for the giveaway! I love Sephora!
I love Mary Kay mascara
I hate Mary Kay eye shadow (not enough pigment)
Thanks for the giveaway.
I got two Sephora boxes in the mail this week… thought it was Christmas!
My favorite is Smashbox’s Photo Finish Primer. Makes everything all smooth and satiny.
I hate eyeliner… I mean, come on. It’s so labor-intensive.
Hi there! Please enter me in your contest!
Let’s see…products I love.
I love the John Frieda Brilliant Brunette shampoo and conditioners. They smell great, and you can tell right away when you use the shampoo that it’s going to leave your hair nice and soft. I hate when I use a shampoo and it leaves my hair so dry I have to use three times the amount of conditioner I’m supposed to use.
Um…something I don’t like. Hmmm…
I don’t like Clairol Herbal Essence shampoos and conditioners because of their stupid commercials (they’re insulting) and they have WAY too much scent in them.
The end.
I love Urban Decay’s Lip Venom and Tarte’s cheek stains. I love to hate Hard Candy’s nail polishes because even though they’re supersparkly they chip in literally ten minutes. Nine bucks for a chipfest is not my idea of a good time.
Love to try the Lip Venom…sounds dangerously delightful.
Ok, I cannot live without my Bobbi brown cream corrector and concealer. Love it! I also cannot live without the Bobbi Brown eye cream. I still use Mary Kay facial moisturizer. My sister is a licensed esthetician and make-up artist and she uses it from time to time too.
I’m just a preppy mama who is obsessed with all things monogrammed and preppy who indulges in make-up and pampering products. Glad I found your blog!!
I really haven’t committed to any one product and for that matter keep trying different ones, I just need something for wrinkles, age spots, blotches, bad hair and you name it I got it. I have never tried Sephora so would love to add it to my list, it just might work the best.
I’m a Sephora fanatic! My favorite product is Urban Decay’s primer potion–that stuff is absolutely amazing! I’ve yet to find a beauty product I really hate, but I’m not a huge fan of the mineral makeup trend–maybe I have weird skin, but none of it seems to work for me.
I love Burt’s Bees body wash. Smells so good and is so gentle. I Love to Hate Dove Bodywash–NO it is NOT better than ice cream. Sorry!
I love Idealist by Estee Lauder. Makes my skin feel like silk. I am not loving my Arbonne face lotion. It isn’t doing it for me.
i cannot live without my juicy tubes by lancome… but i abso love sephora…
I too swear by Oil of Olay, however I branched out and tried some Aveeno the other day. OMG… heaven on my skin before bed. I’m lovin ‘ it.
I love Philosophy products and I hate waxing strips. They hurt!
I have enjoyed your reviews and have taken some notes for future reference!
Not sure what my favorites are, I went years being faithful to some products, eventually they changed or I did!
I love Neutrogena foundations and Oil of Olay moisturizer, Clinique lipstick and Neutrogena lipstick, Revlon nail polish.
There is really nothing I hate that I can think of, but I have sensitive skin so I prefer fragrance free and sensitive skin formulas if available.
Thanks for the great reviews!
Now this looks neat.
One beauty item I don’t care for is eyeliner. I can’t stand putting it on. I’ve worn it less than 5 times in my life.
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I like things simple. I love 2 in 1 Shampoo and Conditioner.
Hmm, don’t know if others would consider this a beauty product, but I really enjoy Neutrogena’s Oil-Free Moisture SPF 15. I can’t really think of a beauty product that I love to hate.
Once I bought this Revlon creme eye shadow and it BURNED my freaking eyelids! I felt like my eyes were on fire for like 2 minutes. It looked really good though… so I kept using it and I’d sit there screaming inside my head while my eyes felt like the firey depths of… something firey. I’m surprised it didn’t make me blind. God I was a stupid teenager.
I have been sold on this site ever since you told me how to apply my liquid eyeliner! I use it every day now and I don’t have to keep washing off my mistakes anymore.
Smiles!!!
my new fave product is id bare minerals makeup! it really does cover up blemishes!
my least fave are eyelash curlers. we are not friends.
enter mine as well: http://www.taking-back-control.com
it’s lonely over there.
Love bare minerals and all the lip glosses that sephora has. I can not come up with anything i hate though or at least not at the moment.
Darling that haircut suits you perfectly! thnx for the sweet giveaway
i absolutely LURVE purity made simple by philosophy. the best facial cleanser EVER.
something that i don’t lurve? hmmm. gotta say i am not at all digging anything that attempts to smell citrusy, but falls short. (maybe that’s because i’m pregnant right now?)
I like Covergirl Lashblast
Not so much: Covergirl Tinted Moisturizer
i like dior air flash foundation.. its the best thing i have ever used. and so convenient because its an aerosol
I love Sephora!! I get most of my goodies there. I was overwhelmed the first time I was in there, but am addicted now.
LOVE Nars creme eyeshadow in Mykonos and lip gloss in Chelsea Girls. Love to hate? hmmm… can’t think of anything in that category. But your hair is lovely!
I would be lost without my Merry Hempsters Vegan Lip Balm. It is the best vegan balm I have found. I loved Burt’s Bees, but after becoming vegan I had to stop using it.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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BTW, your hair looks fabulous!
I love Burt’s Bees lip balm.
I hate expensive products that smell funny and don’t work.
Maybe I’d get some of those tweezers you featured on your site a week or so ago…
I love Naked Naturals shampoo!
I don’t like cheap dollar store make-up.
I love Bare Minerals! I hate self tanners that get on your clothes! Yuck!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love my LUSH skincare line.
Hate- Burts Bees facial scrub. I felt more oily after I washed.
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