Review: Look by Bipa Detangling Artist

I have a new favorite hair brush!! The Detangling Artist brush from Look by Bipa. I love it.

Let's take a look. I bought the most colourful version:

It has a good size and in comparison to the Tangle Teezer (click for review) it is a bit stronger in its pull without hurting. I love it. And with its 8,99 it's cheaper as well.

If you think about buying it - I would recommend it. :)

Love,
Valerie

Look by Bipa - World Wide Girls

Bipa released a huge and cool looking new collection. I just had to share it. I love the design.

They have an eyeshadow kit (don't buy it, pigmentation is crappy!), mascara

manicure set, make up bag

tags for your suitcase and so on and so forth *gg* There are even two gorgeous looking trolleys, but I already have one. 

I couldn't help it - I had to buy some things. I ended up with the Manicure-Set:

There is also a travel-sized hairdryer I couldn't resist. I haven't tried it yet, but doesn't it look adorable.

Have you seen the LE? I find it great, the eyeshadow kit sadly did disappoint, but the rest are great items everyone can use. The design is definitely gorgeous which is another plus.

Love,
Guinevere

Look by Bipa Coloured Sand Polishes LE

Hello lovelies,

Looking forward to the weekend? I do, even though it will only start at Saturday evening. Thanks Uni!

I recently discovered a new nail polish LE by Bipa, sand polishes, nothing new, but one of them is a really special, beautiful shade. Let's take a look.

There are six shades:

glitter lilac

 deep red

 glitter coral

 glitter black

 deep blue

 glitter turquoise

They one that really stands out is "glitter lilac", of course I had to have it. *gg*

It's even prettier in real life, escpecially in sunlight, but right now sun is really scarce.. I absolutely love this one, I might get "glitter coral" as well, not sure yet.

The are available for six weeks and cost 1,99€, which is more than fair. They are longlasting and this one was opaque after two coats. :)

Did you already see them or even bought some??

Love,
Guinevere

Look by Bipa - Special Effect LE

Look by Bipa released a new collection with some beautiful new "special effect" shades.

I only bought "blue crush", but all of them seem interesting.

Love,
Guinevere

Look by Bipa's New Brushes!!

When I strolled around my favorite Bipa store I saw these:

Two new brushes by the Look by Bipa brush range! In the awesome pink and white design. Let's take a look:

Stippling Brush

Blender Brush:

Front and center:

Stippling Brush: As you all can see this is no stippling brush. A stippling brush is much more packed and denser. I would say it's a soft powder brush and it does a very good job.

Blender Brush: This is a blending brush and a nice one. It works lovely without being harsh.

I absolutely love them. The only drawbacks were a horrible plastic smell which clearly came from the packaging and the design of the packaging also pressed them in a flat shape. They really should overthink that..

But no worries, as soon as you wash them the smell is gone. After the brushes are out for a while the shape gets normal as well. The performance is great.

My absolute favorite is the Blender brush, it's great and exactly what was missing in their collection. I posted already about the other Bipa brushes here, but the pictures all went to hell when I had this horrible disaster with my picasa web albums.. :(

If you want a new review/pictures of their other brushes let me know.

Love,
Guinevere

Look By Bipa "Magical Skin LE"

At the moment, there are so many amazing drugstore limited editions released, it's crazy.. I'm gonna do a post about it next.

One of them is definitely from Look by Bipa:

There are three face powders (left side) and two blushes, a rose and a peach one. And look at the shape they gave the products!! You can use them wet and dry, which might be handy for the powder :-).

I got the peach blush, cause the rosa one looked really plain. 

It's named "Peachy Pearl" and looks soo cool.

It took me quite some overcoming to use it for swatches:

It's sheer, but buildable. This swatch above is three layers. 

It's such an amazing item, I mean simply the look of that blush makes it worth buying. At least, for me. *g* That it works nicely is a good benefit too. ;-)

They cost 3,99€ for those of you who are interested.

Love,

Guinevere

Review: Look by Bipa - Kissing Lips

Hey lovelies,

I found these a week ago and fell in love. They are limited edition and I'm a sucker for limited editions and siiince they are only 2,79€ and I bought them during the 15% off offer, it certainly was a bargain.

I got two shades: "Rose Kiss" and "Love Kiss". They reminded me of MAC's Kissable Lipcolours and they still do. Non-sticky, pigmented gloss in lovely shades.

Pretty, right? I hate that I forgot to take a picture of the display.. There are a couple of rosy colours, one nude/brown one and a red and gorgeous looking coral shade.

Some swatches:

"Rose Kiss"

"Love Kiss"

So beautiful..

Well how is the wear time? Unfortunately, not that amazing..

There is no stickyness at all. It's super comfortable to wear. :-) It stays well on the lips, but after a good hour or so the colour is gone, but the gloss is still there. After three hours everything is gone.

Personally, this is okay for me, certainly okay for 2,37€. As "sad" as it is, especially regarding the fact that I own quite a few glosses *gg* I don't have much experience with glosses.

I tested my Kissable Lipcolours from MAC to get a comparison and they perfom the same. The colour is a bit longer visible, but the glossy feeling is gone way sooner than the ones from Bipa.

In a nutshell: I think for this price the glosses are great and definitely worth a try, but be quick, they are limited edition.

Love,

Guinevere

My Nail Care Routine

I love nail polish, but unfortunately nail polish doesn't love me.. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those girls who has pretty nails without doing anything for it.

In fact, I have horrible nails. They love to break and my cuticles regularly look like no one's taken care of them for years.. Nevertheless, I try my best to keep them nice and neat.

Today, I'm gonna show you my routine. :-) It works perfectly for me and gives me at least three days of pretty looking nails. One key product: the Look by Bipa Cuti Clean Gel.

My Tools:

What we'll need for the actual manicure: buffer, the Cuti Clean gel, cuticle nippers, cuticle pusher, a file.

To take care of your nails afterwards (optional): a moisturizer/balm of your choice for cuticles and a nourishing nail polish.

A before picture:

Let's start:

I start by using nail polish remover to remove any residues and wash my hands. After that I buff my nails to even them out. Then I apply the gel on each of my nails.

It's really important to put a thick layer of gel on each nail:

I usually let the gel sink in for at least 15 minutes and after that push back the now softened cuticles with my pusher.

 I use a very thin one and in my opinion that makes quite a difference. I have a thicker one from OPI and I hate it. This is mine:

After I pushed the cuticles back, I scrape off the excess skin/cuticle. For this I use the scraper at the other end of my cuticle pusher:

Now it looks like that:

I wash away the gel and the excess cuticle and it already looks much better:

Now I use the cuticle nippers to cut off the loose cuticles and we have the end result. For the finishing touch I used the balm and Nail Tek nourishing polish.

I'm completely happy with that routine and the key is the Cuti Clean gel. It loosens and dissolves the excess cuticles perfectly.

I hope this was helpful. :-) I couldn't be without it. This is my third bottle Cuti Clean gel and it's almost empty. *gg*

Love,

Guinevere