Tag: Beauty

Impartial Review: Mazuri Olive Oil Sheen Spray

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I get hair envy on a daily basis, so when I was sent this sheen spray by Be Box (the subscription box for women of colour), I had to try it out. To make this review fair and uniform with my other reviews, I have laid out 5 criteria to test this product by: Smell, Effectiveness, Convenience, Ingredients and the ‘R Factor’, the meaning of which will be revealed later…

When I unwrapped this product, the first thing I did was smell it. So many hair products have such strong smells that they really put me off using them; there is nothing worse than meeting someone for the first time and getting knocked out by an overpowering cloud of hair product. This product smells amazing, the best way I can describe it is a gentle smell of the forest with a sugary topnote, sound strange, smells amazing.

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De-mystifying BB Creams

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Every once in a while, a new beauty product comes along and dominates the beauty market, and we rarely stop and think how this product is any different from the other products we’ve been buying and using quite happily up until now…

Following their success in the Asian market, they have quickly become a buzz word in the European beauty industry, but what is a ‘BB cream’? A ‘BB Cream’ can stand for blemish balm, blemish base or a beauty balm but they all mean the same thing, that is, a cream for application to the face which provides moisture, SPF protection and the sheer coverage of a foundation. The difference between a BB cream and a foundation is that a BB Cream should also include healing properties such as anti-inflammatory serums to make skin look younger.

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