It’s spring time and, even though it’s not the beginning of the year, it is always the time when I start to look for new fragrances to buy. I enjoy searching for new fragrances during this time of the year because my favorite types of fragrances are more suitable for spring and summertime. This year, I found many new fragrances, and some past released fragrances, I want to add to my fragrance collection. It has been a year since I wrote a post about which new fragrances I want to purchase, so I decided to write a new and updated post for this year. Continue reading “Fragrances I’m Interested in Purchasing- April 2023”
Category: Dior
Favorite High End and Luxury Advent Calendars for 2022
This year’s economic problems has not been easy to shop for Christmas presents. I am no exception. Still, I really enjoyed browsing high priced advent calendars. Of course I can’t afford to purchase anything I look at, but I still wanted to see what kind of products a high priced advent calendar will come with.
After looking at so many advent calendars, I favored some more than others. Just for fun, I decided to write a post for Blooms showing my most favorite high end and luxury advent calendars for 2022. Continue reading “Favorite High End and Luxury Advent Calendars for 2022”
Christian Dior’s Dior Addict Lip Sugar Scrub Review
For many years, I really enjoyed using Christian Dior’s Dior Addict Lip Sugar Scrub. Out of all the beauty products I ever purchased from Dior, the lip scrub is the only product I never want to stop purchasing and using. It has been a favorite of mine for such a long time. Despite being a favorite product, I never wrote a review about it here on this blog! After loving the product for such a long time, I decided to finally sit down and write a review about one of my favorite beauty products of all time.
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Favorite Dior Beauty Atelier of Dreams Gift Sets for Holiday 2021
After waiting for weeks for Dior to release their beauty gift sets, Dior has finally released them for purchase. I wanted to buy one as a self gift, but after looking at my beauty product collection, I’m confident that I won’t need anything until mid 2022. Despite this, I enjoyed looking at Dior’s gift sets on their official website.
Even though I have no plans to buy myself anything until 2022, I wanted to share my favorite gift sets from Dior’s official website. Since this is just for fun, I included some products that will be well out of many people’s price ranges (Including mine) but I liked the look of or the products anyway. Continue reading “Favorite Dior Beauty Atelier of Dreams Gift Sets for Holiday 2021”
Christian Dior Toile de Jouy Lion Dessert Plate (Red Colorway)
Last year, I talked about ordering something from the official website of couture brand Christian Dior, better known as Dior. Even though I really liked what I purchased, I decided to delay talking about it online (Aside from this post when I talked about my shopping experience with Dior) partly because I didn’t think it was a great time to talk about anything luxury and partly because I didn’t care about posting photographs of it. This month, I felt ready to talk about what I purchased from Dior.
I’m not sure if I talked about this in a post, (I probably did. I just didn’t read through my posts to double check my memory…) but I wanted to buy myself something from Dior in order to commemorate the end of my doctor’s visits to a specialist I saw for a serious illness I suffered from since I was a teenager as well as my successful journey back to good heath. After browsing Dior’s website and seeing many things I wanted, I also knew I didn’t have the money to buy myself anything that I originally wanted to. Some of the items I wanted included a hand back (back then costing over $4,000 USD), a card holder ($300- $500-ish), and a scarf ($300-$500). Since I wanted something more affordable that is not make up, I decided to search the website for something I really want and can afford.
My searching paid off because, much to my surprise I found Dior has fine dinning china with the Toile de Jouy design on them. I love the Toile de Jouy design, but I always wished I could own something with the design that I could display and not use in everyday life. The plates fit my requirements perfectly so I picked one with a design that worked perfectly as a gift to myself for healing, continuing to live a healthy lifestyle, and my efforts paying off. Continue reading “Christian Dior Toile de Jouy Lion Dessert Plate (Red Colorway)”
Further Thoughts On The New Miss Dior 2021 Scent (And In Store Photos of The Fragrance)
Back in September, the Ulta Beauty I usually frequent released the new Miss Dior eau de parfume. The scent is a new version of Miss Dior for 2021 and I wanted to smell it. When I saw the perfume for sale, and a test bottle available to use, I took the opportunity to smell the scent and see if I like it enough to purchase whenever I have the money to do so.
5 Favorite Fashion Books to Give as Gifts for Christmas 2020
For many years, I collect fashion books. Some of them are for specific collections or fashion houses, others are about fashion styles from specific time periods. Some are coffee table books while others are actually textbooks that are used by colleges and professional costume designers to create historically accurate books. And, like anyone who has a large library of books on a specific subject, I have books I love more than others.
Recently, I started to go through my library of fashion books and realized some of the books in my collection would make great gifts for anyone who wants to give one to a friend or family member for Christmas. I narrowed down the group of books to five of my favorite fashion books that would make great gifts for Christmas. As of December 2020, all the books on this list are still in print and are in my own personal collection. Some may be more expensive than others, but I’m capping the price point of under $100 USD. All the books are currently available on Amazon as of December 2020. Continue reading “5 Favorite Fashion Books to Give as Gifts for Christmas 2020”
My Experience Ordering from Dior’s Website for the First Time
After a lot of thought, and searching Christian Dior’s website, I found the present I wanted to give myself as an indulgence for my recent positive health prognosis. Even though it will take a while before I’m completely recovered, I still wanted to treat myself. The problem was it’s Dior and it’s expensive. Although I couldn’t order a handbag or wallet like I originally planed, I did find something I’m very confident I will enjoy owning. It was my first time ordering from Dior’s website, so I wanted to talk about what it’s like ordering from Dior, how the shopping experience went, and what I think of ordering from Dior in general. Continue reading “My Experience Ordering from Dior’s Website for the First Time”
Favorite Dior Dresses from the Fall/Winter 2020-2021 Haute Couture Collection
Dior released the video of their fall/winter 2020-2021 haute couture collection on July 6, 2020. The video, which can be seen on YouTube here, popped up on my YouTube recommendations the day before it premiered. When July 6, 2020 arrived, I sat down, watched it, and loved so many of the designs from the collection. I had a hard time picking out dresses I liked from Dior since Maria Grazia Chiuri took over as head designer. Although there are many designs I liked, I also felt like it wasn’t something I could wear with normal curves to my body. It was frustrating to see a fashion house I loved growing up but now as an adult can’t wear. But the 2020-2021 collection was an exception.
There are many dresses I would love to own, if I was going somewhere I needed to wear a formal dress, as well as an 1890’s style dress that makes my Steampunk side excited to see as “fashionable” in 2020. Because there are so many dresses I love, I wanted to feature my favorite dresses in this collection.
All the photographs in this post are from Vogue US’s coverage of the collection. You can see the coverage of the collection here.
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Dior Capture Youth Age-Delay Advanced Creme Review
Last year, after a weather change, I began to experience very dry skin. I normally don’t have this problem, but after recovering from a serious antibiotic resistant infection, I noticed my body is changing in many great ways, and in other not so great ways. Including my skin needing more moisturizer. I knew my skin would eventually need more moisturizers that I usually use, but I didn’t know how badly it would effect my face skin!
After raiding my samples from Sephora and Macy’s, I found a sample tube of Dior Capture Youth Age-Delay Advanced Creme. Ever since my infection, I need to be careful what kinds of skincare products I can put on my face and skin in general. For the most part, I cannot put skin care products that are not hypoallergenic. After doing some research, I discovered that this cream is advertised as hypoallergenic and would work for my skin. So I gave it a try.
After using it for almost a week, I decided to buy the full sized version of the creme. I ultimately purchased the 2019 gift set that included the full sized version of the creme, two serums to use with the creme, and a pouch. After using the full sized version of the creme, without the serums, I learned a few things about the creme that I wanted to share. Continue reading “Dior Capture Youth Age-Delay Advanced Creme Review”