Holiday Gift Guide 2016: Best Stocking Stuffers

Our annual DelectablyChic! Holiday Gift Guide is back and reporter Tara Uzra Dawood begins with Best Stocking Stuffers: LUSH COSMETICS: Lush Cosmetics’ Bubbly Shower Gel or Rose Jam Shower Gel.  The former has a citrus scent, while the latter is pure roses. Bubbly has skin-moisturizing properties and is made from Vine Leaf Infusion. Rose Jam is made from vanilla […]

Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Selfies – Best Gifts for Yourself

Last week, we our holiday gift guide suggested the Best Gifts for Everyone Else.  Now, we are on to “Selfies” – Best Gifts for Yourself – a very popular and au courant part of our Annual Guide. Best Bath Product to Gift Yourself: We absolutely love The Body Shop Frosted Cranberry Shimmer Lotion 250 ml.  […]

Maybelline New York’s Winter Collection: Baby Lips

Like many women, I have way too many lip glosses/lipsticks/lip balms.  But then again, like many women, I also have more than one bag, and it’s just convenient to have “too many” lip colours so I would always have something in a bag.  Thus, when Maybelline New York’s Canadian PR company sent me an email […]

Elle Canada’s Fashioniesta: Cars, Food, Shopping and Beauty!

Last week, I had went to Elle Canada’s style/meet-and-greet designers event at the Fermenting Cellar at Toronto’s Distillery District.  The event, called FashionIESTA (the event was a partnership with the 2014 Ford Fiesta) featured a bit of shopping, as well as a panel where Elle Canada’s editor-in-chief featuring some of Canada’s most well-known designers – […]

Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Best Stocking Stuffers

The Holiday Gift Guide 2012 continues with Best Stocking Stuffers. One of the most fun parts of Holiday shopping is selecting the best stocking stuffers.  There is such variety in size, shape, texture, and so forth, but ultimately, the gift has to be small enough to fit a Christmas stocking! Here are our 2012 Top 5 […]

Maybelline: Toronto Fashion Week’s New Make-Up Sponsor

You might have already read my post at DelectablyChic! about MasterCard being Toronto Fashion Week’s new title sponsor, but this morning, I found out that L’Oreal has been replaced as well. The new cosmetics sponsor is Maybelline!  Maybelline is the official make-up sponsor for Fashion Weeks around the world, including Berlin and of course, New […]

Asian Beauty Obsession: BB Creams

BB creams, or blemish balm creams, originally used to protect and smooth out very sensitive skin caused by laser surgery is the latest beauty phenomenon in East Asia.  Practically every line, ranging from local names to western drugstore brands like Maybelline to department store lines such as Bobbi Brown and Clinique carry them.  Most formulas […]