Soap Opera Digest
April 16, 2002
Product Queen

I tell ya, there's nothing like prowling a giant drugstore for a beauty fix, though my cover is starting to get blown. Girls recognize me now in the makeup section and circle me like great whites. I've even caught a few of you with your "Product Queen" pages ripped out from your Digest clutched faithfully in your hands! You know who you are…

You'd think that now that I own a cosmetics company I'd be over looking at beauty stuff, but noooooo, I still get jacked up researching products for this little page that I write. And I still love playing in other people's stuff!

L'Oreal has really gotten its act together in the past year. I can always count on it for a few great finds. If you like a loose powder, they make a neat one called L'Oreal Translucide Naturally Luminous Loose Powder. Now, I'm not wild about L'Oreal's pressed powders yet, but I do really like this loose one. Why? Because there is luminosity in the formula. It has a slight "glow" to it, and you gals know how I love glowing. When used correctly, and very lightly, it doesn't make your skin look "powdery."

It comes with a puff, but I wouldn't use a puff with it. A big, soft, fluffy brush is always the best bet with loose powders. It keeps the application to more of a "dusting," yet still sets your makeup or evenly distributes it over bare skin. My Cat Cosmetics Kabuki Brush is a perfect example of the brush I am talking about, or try to find one like it. A quality brush will last for years, and you can also use it for bronzing and color powders like blushes, as well.

L'Oreal also makes a new lip gloss in a little silver tube called Glass Shine High Shine Lip Gloss. It's so very nice. I bought Glistening Pink, but all of the colors look nice. My only gripe is that I went through it in less than a week, which is not good. Lip glosses should have more lasting power than that, but it is pretty.

Doreen Gillis, the stunning makeup artist from ONE LIFE (and also Cat Cosmetics) told me about the cheapie drugstore brand called Prestige. I only researched its Vinylwear High-Definition Shine lip glosses that come in a wand/tube, not the potted ones, but I found four pretty colors: Spark, Glaze, Vinyl and Alloy were nice and sheer, with a price tag under $4. My only complaint is that they are a bit sticky, but Doreen loves that because she says any gloss that stays on after eating a Macintosh apple works for her. For $3.59, I'm not going to split hairs. A deal is a deal.

See ya next month!