(continued from Part 1 and Part 2)
My Holiday 2007 Top Ten List concludes today!
3. Lavshuca
I realized a while ago that Lavshuca achieved grand slam for me in 2007, as I purchased items from all the four seasonal collections this year. Its affordability means I am able to pick up great items from each season without spending too much money.
The Lavshuca Christmas makeup palette is a sweet finish of the year. It is a cute little palette with three eyeshadows, a lip color, and a lip gloss. It is also the first eye/lip palette since Lavshuca’s launch in spring 2006.
(image from www.kanebo-cosmetics.jp/lavshuca/)
Eye Color Select in PK-1 & BU-1 (my favorite Lavshuca items for 2007)
Jewelry Lip in PK-1 & RS-1
Gloss Stick in PK-3
Summer
–Cheek Color in PK-1
Fall
–Eye Color Select in PU-2
Color Conc Rouge in PK-1
2.
Paul & Joe
(image from www.paul-joe-beaute.com)
The Lip Gloss N in 001 Black-Tie is perhaps my favorite holiday item for 2007, with an mouth-watering berry-red shade plus beautiful multi-color shimmer.
1.
Dior
(image from www.dior.com)
Overall, Dior’s holiday collection has won it for me. First of all, the limited-edition item, DiorLight Jewelled Makeup Necklace, is another very pretty piece of collectible makeup item created by Dior. Secondly, I love the fact that Dior usually comes up with a full collection of makeup items for the holiday season.
Readers in the US might not feel that Dior’s holiday lineup this year is a full-on collection, and I think it is because only half of the collection is available in the US.
For holiday 2007, Dior has come up with two makeup looks, each featuring a set of Jewelled Makeup Necklace, 5-color eyeshadow palette, Rouge Dior Crème de Gloss, Rouge Dior lipstick, and nail color. One is a beige-brown look (with the #360 Amber Treasure eyeshadow palette) and one is a pink-plum look (with the #340 Secret Charm palette). I might be wrong, but I think only the beige-brown look is available in the US, while both looks are sold in Asia and Europe. (I am aware that only the beige Jewelled Makeup Necklace is available in the US.)
Below, you can see that the Dior Japan site has two sets of everything (apart from Style Liner and DiorShow Powder in Dreamlight), whereas the Dior US site only has the beige-brown look.
(image from Dior Japan)
(image from Dior US)
With a relatively complete collection featuring various items and different color tones and fronted by an adorable limited-edition item, Dior, for me, has the best holiday collection of 2007!
Related Posts:
Dior Pretty Charms
(holiday 2006 limited-edition item)
Loving Japanese Brands: Lavshuca
(the latest addition to my favorite Japanese brands)
Loving Japanese brands: Paul & Joe
(my personal take on Paul & Joe)
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
Hello PJ, just drop by to wish you Merry Christmas! :P
Would anyone happen to know the name of the model modeling the diorlight? I’ve been trying to find out for a year now.
In any case, great blog!
Hello Iry,
Merry Christmas to you too!
Hope you’ll have a great 2008 as well! :)
PJ
Hello Heidi,
Thank you for your kind words!
I personally don’t know the name of the model in the DiorLight ad. I will do some research on this, and I will let you know here if I find her name.
Thank you for visiting my blog! :)
The Dior collection is absolutely sweet and sophisticated.
Happy holidays!
Grayburn
Hello Grayburn,
Indeed, many of the Dior holiday items look feminine and sophisticated. I am definitely liking the look of this collection, not to mention that I used my Boots points to get the DiorLight necklace…
Happy holidays to you too!!
PJ