THE URBAN GIRL'S SURVIVAL GUIDE

Beauty Reviews

Beauty Review: Chanel Sublimage Eye Essential Regenerating Eye Cream

4th May 2010 by Laura, "Beauty Girl" View Comments

Product: Sublimage  Eye Essential Regenerating Eye Cream, $200
Rating: Let’s Just Be Friends
Ladies, during beauty week, we received a sample of the Chanel Sublimage Eye Regenerating Eye Cream.  We were giddy and excited and hurriedly tried it.  We were impressed by the results: our rather dark circles under the eyes appeared to become a few shades lighter [...]

Beauty Review: Pur~Lisse Pur~Lip Comfort

27th April 2010 by Christie View Comments

Product: Pur~Lisse Pur~Comfort Lip Moisturizer $22
Rating: Crush
We got this product as a free sample when a special someone gave us the pur~lisse skin care line as a gift, and wow! Is all we can say. We have had a long love affair with chapstick, lipgloss, lip venom, and vaseline, and yet our [...]

Beauty Review: Rouge Coco Hydrating Crème Lip Color

13th April 2010 by Laura, "Beauty Girl" View Comments

Product: Chanel Hydrating Creme Lip Color, $30
Rating: Crush

When I was a little girl, I bought my mother the most special Christmas gift I could possibly imagine: a bright red Chanel lipstick.  I somehow knew, at the tender age of 10, that Chanel was the cream of the crop and – clearly – my mother deserved [...]

Spring Collections: Laura Mercier

30th March 2010 by CityGirl View Comments

Yes, there is fashion week, and that is all well and good (and ok–sometimes kind of creepy, no?) and then there is BEAUTY product fashion week.  And that is far more interesting (if also, at times, slightly odd) and affordable on this citygirl’s purse. So that is why we keep talking about the crazy beauty [...]

Spring Makeovers

16th March 2010 by Christie View Comments

What is it about spring that brings out the IMMEDIATE need for a makeover?  Right now I’m hating not only my hair, but my face and my elbows.  Yes, it’s going to be a long season….I didn’t even feel pity for some of the ANTM girls on the season premiere when they got completely screwed [...]