1 Year Blogoversary!

I can't believe it's actually here! Le Renifleur is 1 year old today! Over the course of the 12 months, we've seen a bunch of design changes, changes in how we write posts, and looking back at our first reviews, we've "matured" so much in the writing category!

It just feels like yesterday when Emilie and I started the blog. Time flies! Thank you to all the followers (it means a lot) and just to everyone who's ever left a comment, and all the other bloggers that have answered my thousands of questions. And of course, Emilie, for being the best friend and co-blogger ever to exist in the whole world.

I'm going to go process this all, and I hope you guys enjoyed the special blogoversary posts this week! I'll link to them below in case you missed any, and I'll be back posting tomorrow!

Blogoversary Kickoff 
Bath & Body Works: Sky, Sun, Air
10 Amazing Beauty Hacks
Yves Saint Laurent: Belle D' Opium
NEW: Maybelline Baby Lips Crystal Collection
Bath & Body Works NEWS

Blogoversary Beauty Hacks!

Hey guys! Today, I thought it would be fun to list some really cool beauty/skincare/haircare hacks! I'll put in some proper graphics later today, since I'm in a time rush right now, so check back later to see them!

1. Use a toothbrush to remove dead skin from your lips! Brush them gently, in a circular motion.

2. Wash your pillowcases often, or invest in a silk pillowcase

 to help stop acne!   

3.  Coconut Oil makes a fantastic lotion and eye-makeup remover! (I think I need to do a post on the miracles of coconut oil.)

4. (I think this is my favorite!) Use rubbing alcohol to fix broken powders, eyeshadows, and blushes!    Cover the powder (in the compact) with plastic wrap, and mash it up with the back of a makeup brush or paintbrush. Take it off, add a few drops of rubbing alcohol, smooth it over, and let it dry! Check out the tutorial at the Beauty Department.

5. For a DIY Gel Liner, hold a regular eyeliner pencil under a lighter for a second. Let it cool down for 15, and now you'll get an intense smudge!

6. Apply concealer in a triangle shape to conceal under eye circles. You can also use cucumber to
calm down puffiness!

7. You can use a spoon as a guideline for winged eyeliner.

8. Use a rubber band or bandaid for a perfect French tip!

9. Use shimmery eyeshadow in the corner of your eyes to make them look more awake and bigger.

10. Now, the most important..... Apply perfume at your pressure points: neck, behind ears, wrists, behind knees, and elbows.  

That's all for now, but make sure to check out this list from Buzzfeed, which is pretty cool!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/diy-beauty-hacks-every-girl-should-know

NEW Baby Lips! (Baby Lips CRYSTAL)

Hey guys! SO. Huge news! I saw on Nouveau Cheap a couple days ago that there was a spotting of the new spring line of Baby Lips- the Crystal Collection!

CVS accidentally posted them on their website, but have since then taken them down. 

The new colors are:

Pink Quartz

Twinkling Taupe

Beam of Blush

Gleaming Coral

Mirrored Mauve

Crystal Kiss

If the names are any indication, it looks like they're going to be shimmers! 

I honestly cannot wait to see how these look! If you've seen them, leave a comment below, and I'll be sure to post if I see anything more! 

Keep your eyes peeled!

http://nouveaucheap.blogspot.com/2014/01/coming-soon-maybelline-baby-lips.html?m=1

Yves Saint Laurent: Belle d' Opium

Guest Post by Ruby

Belle d'Opium perfume, by Yves Saint Laurent is a sweet but seductive, refined but naughty perfume. With the smell of casablanca lily, gardenia, jasmin, incense, peach, white pepper, tobacco, hookah accord, fruity notes, amber, sandalwood, patchouli, and smoky notes, it is a bewitching and fantastic perfume. 

The bottle is blue, with a gold circle and a red wick printed on it. 

"The new addiction by Yves Saint Laurent. A mysterious woman, a powerful and unsettling seductress, ingenuous but dangerous. Her perfume is a bewitching and luminous new Oriental fragrance. An overdose of rare and precious ingredients: Casablanca Lily, Incense, Jasmine Absolute. "                                           

                                                   -YSL description

When you sniff out Belle d'Opium, by Yves Saint Laurent, an overpowering and sweet and bewitching scent fills your nose. It smells fruity with touches of a spicy floral smell, but if I have to give it one name I would name it this:

Mysterious. 

The lasting power of this is short-moderate, and it doesn't last all day, unfortunately.

Belle d'Opium by Yves Saint Laurent is good to wear on special occasions, like parties and chic night outs.  

The prices are:

1.0 oz. $49.00
1.6 oz. $69.00
3.0 oz. $89.00 

This post was written by Ruby, a friend and guest reviwer for Le Renifleur 

Bath & Body Works: Sky, Air, Sun

Hey guys! I've posted about the preview to this a week ago, but the B&BW spring line "Sky Air Sun" is officially out in stores as of tomorrow. It's been online for a couple days, but I decided to wait until the release!
This is sorta a big release, and it's also a Blogoversary post!

The three different scents in these collection are:
Sky: Violet Lily
Air: Pear Blossom
Sun: Golden Magnolia

Before we get to the scents, can we take a moment about that packaging? Hold the phone, it's amazing. (I actually found that the font used is RNS Camelia...because you totally wanted to know that...)

Sun's packaging is probably my favorite, but they're all super pretty!

Anyway, they're all floral scents (mind pear blossom, which has pear), are available in these forms:

Lotion
Shower Gel
Fine Fragrance Mist
Diamond Shimmer Mist
Triple Body Moisture Cream
Glowing Body Scrub

Travel Sizes: Lotion, Shower Gel, Fragrance Mist

Also, a DIAMOND shimmer mist?! According to the website, these shimmer mists actually have REAL DIAMOND DUST in them. That sounds like some pretty cool stuff.

Now, to the reviews!

Violet Lily Sky is definitely my favorite! This scent is probably the cleanest of the collection, and the violets and lilies smell like heaven. At first, I thought that Sky was like Rome Honeysuckle Amore, but I don't think they can be anymore different. After that, I compared them to all the other lotions, and I think it's safe to say that Sky is completely it's own fragrance, in fact, I think that all 3 scents in the collection are really unique. I'll be honest, I thought this one would be the most generic, but I absolutely LOVE this one! 100% recommended.

I don't think that there's really any pear scents that aren't discontinued, so this one is really good! I've never really been a big pear person (scent-wise, because they are delicious to eat), but this one is absolutely perfect! I wouldn't personally buy a perfume of this one, (I'm more of a floral person, save tropical fruits for the summertime) but if you're a fruit kind of person, definitely check this one out!

I was the most excited for Sun, and though Sky took the #1 spot, this scent is so perfect. It's a really sweet floral scent (duh) and it almost smells like someone took a ton of fresh little sugar crystals and grew a flower out of that. Once again, for this one, I haven't smelled any other scent that smells like this one. It's really, really sweet, probably a bit sweeter than Velvet Sugar and definitely sweeter than Paris Amour. Unlike those, however, it's a really natural sugary scent, and you can tell immediately that it's a really sweet and natural flower scent.


Overall, I think that you guys should definitely check these out! If you're a clean scent lover, check out Sky, a fruit person, check out Pear, or a sweet floral person, check out Sun! You'll probably love all of them like I do. After all, what's not to love? They're all super unique and I can't wait to smell the fragrance mists.

If you check them out, let me know what you think, and if you see the diamond mists, let me know! Also, make sure to come back tomorrow for Day 3 of the blogoversary! (and make sure to follow to keep up to date on the newest reviews and posts!)

Talk to you guys tomorrow!