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Sweet Sixteen: Clinique Clarifying Lotion
When I was in my 20s, my godmother recommended that I start a proper skin care regimen. The gist of her argument was that just because I looked amazing and youthful right then didn’t mean that I could...
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Sweet Sixteen: Dermalogica Soothing Booster
OMGGGGGGGGGGG. Why does my skin still insist upon breaking out? I am surely peri-menopausal at this stage, I really can’t continue to be brewing spots at that time of the month, can I? Oh, yes, I can....
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Sweet Sixteen: Bliss Vanilla + Bergamot
I’ll always remember the first time I got a whiff of Bliss’ cunning combination of vanilla and bergamot: I was working as the art director of a super cool magazine, and one of my colleagues just about...
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Sweet Sixteen: Voya Lazy Days
I have always loved seaweed products. I used a powdered version for the bath {Seavite? I think so} that really required a strong drive to use, as it made a complete and utter mess of the bath after it...
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Sweet Sixteen: Jo Malone Body Créme
Everything about Jo Malone feels rich: the beautiful cream-and-black branding, the boxes, the ribbons, and most particularly, the heavy glass tub that contains the luxurious body créme. There is...
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Sweet Sixteen: Lancôme Visionnaire Advanced Skin Corrector
I don’t believe in Santa. I don’t believe in the Tooth Fairy. And I don’t believe in products that claim to make your skin younger and radiant. I simply don’t. I believe that if you start on a regimen...
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Sweet Sixteen: Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse Multi-Use Body Oil
I am sensing a trend. I really like things that smell nice. I don’t know, maybe there are people out there who don’t care about how things smell? Or disagree with me as regards what constitutes a...
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Sweet Sixteen: REN Hydra-Calm Cleansing Milk
This is number fifteen in the series, woo hoo! And I’m waffling about what the finale is going to be… I am not a big fan of cleanser. Based on the post I am working on re: day creams v night creams, in...
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Sweet Sixteen: Almost There!
Well, here we are, almost on the last installment* in the first long-form editorial feature on brightandbeautyfull.com. I just had a bad moment in which I thought that I had miscounted and actually had...
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Sweet Sixteen: Karaja Super Longwear Semi-Permanent Soft Eyeliner
Aw! All done: here’s the last entry in the brightandbeautyfull.com Sweet Sixteen Sweepstakes. The sixteenth and final product was only slightly influenced by the discovery that I had very little make...
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