Using...used...gonna use..

Happy Pre-Christmas: I hope you all try to enjoy preparing for it, and leave the stress for what it is, when possible.

Just a good ol' roundup of the things I am using...used...gonna use:

from top left- clockwise

• I've gotten some new lipsticks lately. I have the Le Metier de Beauté in Dubai and this week received an Edward Bess in Midnight Bloom. The Balmshell lipgloss is a GWP
• I also emptied my Sana Hadanomy Collagen Mist and gotten myself a new one; it's intensely neutral and soothing for days that your skin needs it, and I feel it actually does something in terms of adding moisture
• Samples: Jouer Lip Enhancer lipbalm and curious about Rodial Dragon's Blood Sculpting Gel. The Jouer doesn't do that much plumping, but it has the perfect consistency as primer before lipstick/gloss.
• I digged up my Beauté the Kose Eye Fantastist from an older collection: WOW! that was 2008!  (see here when I got the set). It's a glowy champagne-hued highligher that I'll be using during the holidays for making my eyes appear slightly dreamy & angelic.  

Beauté the Kosé Xmas set

Joy oh joy...my Beauté de Kosé set arrived today. It arrived within a week after ordering, so that is lighting speed for this international chickee. Big thumbs up for facial-shop.com.

Oh la la, the box looks really luxurious, not unlike a expensive wine box or a niche perfume box...


Little products wrapped in tissue paper...

Ohh, the gorgeousness....

I have already swatched the eye glosses and lipgloss, and I lovvvvve them. But I cannot bear swatching the blusher yet: look how pretty it is in its virgin state:

It looks like an engraved snow crystal with tiny golden sparkles...how could I harm that blush?

But anyway, I will swatch it this weekend....le sight....