raves for two makeup products

A few months ago Good Housekeeping issued their best of products for 2012.  Their recommendations were based on controlled studies where the testers actually reported visible differences.

I wrote about the ones I was interested in last August, and slowly I have been buying the ones I listed, as the need arose.

When my mother was here, I heard a lot of, “You are such a pretty girl.  But you should wear a little makeup. ”  She said this to me while I was wearing makeup.

Saturday I went to Bloomingdales Chanel counter and Holly made me up.

Holly was great.  I left the counter feeling glamorous, and wanting to buy everything.  It was Holly who convinced me otherwise.  “You don’t need our compact (#1) finishing powder if you already have one; yours will work just as well.  And as for the makeup brush, ours is $45 but you can probably find one cheaper that is just as good.  And, will you really use it?  It’s not worth buying if you know you won’t use it.”  So I left buying only the two products I came into buy.

Lift LumiereTeint Fluid ($65)

·      a light to medium coverage makeup

·      got the color 20 Clair, as I am very light-skinned, some may say pale

Ultra Correction Lift Cream ($150)

·      SPF 15

·      very rich

·      firming day cream for face and neck

·      I’ll use the Le Mer at night

Rationally I think that if I could bring Holly home with me, she could use the makeup I already have and I would still look as good.   

Today I get up and try my two new products.  I love them both.  The cream really does feel luxurious and  — dare I say — lifting.  And the makeup?  I typically hate makeup and use instead a tinted moisturizer.  But this one is gorgeous.  It lives up to its name of being luminous, and is light and not cakey at all.  It doesn’t feel like I am wearing any makeup, but my skin looks so much better.

Hate to admit it, but maybe my mom was right!