Farmacy Wake Up Honey Eye Cream with Brightening Vitamin C is a new brightening eye cream that contains Vitamin C to treat dark circles. This new formula also, contains a blend of hydrating honey to moisturize drier eyes and caffeine to treat puffiness. Farmacy is calling it a lightweight formula that acts as a “dark-circle eraser” and that their clinical studies showed dark circles reduction by 100% in those who used the product. It also contains a cranberry peptide to smooth crow’s feet and fight wrinkles over time.

I happen to love Farmacy skincare but honestly, I don’t always buy into eye creams that promise to completely erase dark circles. I find that debatable. That being said I was very happy to see Farmacy introducing a new eye cream for Spring 2023 but sadly, my excitement died a quick death. I got a text that Sephora just got the item in stock and Rouge Member had early access. Yay! Awesome! I was all prepared to purchase it. It’s $45 a little pricy but I’ve dropped more on eye creams so, I wasn’t too put off by the price. The problem was as soon as I clicked on Sephora’s link I was presented with 274 five star reviews.

Groan.

This totally put me off. Farmacy sent out early releases to a variety of outlets. In return, they asked people to post reviews on Sephora. Great! I’m all about free products and reviews from real people versus youTubers but sadly, these reviews aren’t really helpful at all. It’s just a lot of raving and telling everyone how this immediately cleared up dark circles and puffiness. It totally turned me off and I ended up not purchasing it. I don’t understand why brands do this. Farmacy has a great cult following! I know many of you love their skincare as much as I do. They really don’t have to “buy” reviews with free samples. I think their products speak for themselves. This just seems so shady. But hey, it isn’t only Farmacy doing this. A lot of brands do the same thing lately.

If you check about 99.9% of the 274 reviews were all posted within the last day or 15 hours ago. I should hope these people had the product in their hands at least a month before pouring out their ravings.

Right now I’m a bit salty and won’t be purchasing Farmacy Wake Up Honey Eye Cream with Brightening Vitamin C. Maybe later!

What do you think of this new formula?

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Sephora

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Tarte Glowlight Skin Filter ($30) is a new all-over glowing skin highlighter that can be used to blur, brighten, and create a luminous glow on skin. Highlighters and eye brightening formulas seem to be going hard for Spring 2023 as everyone tries to capture the success of Charlotte Tilbury’s Hollywood Flawless Filter and E.L.F. Halo Glow Liquid Filter! I know currently there’s a bit of outcry about this as people feel like it’s a similar if not the same formula as Tarte’s Shape Tape Glow Wand and I can’t lie I thought the same. But Tarte is notorious for launching and relaunching similar products (they remind me of NYX in that aspect).

That being said, Glowlight Skin Filter is only available in six shades and Glow Wand is available in eight. It’s also a dollar more at $30 compared to $29. They contain some of the same ingredients which I compared below (the ingredients vary shade to shade on Glowlight) but for the most part, there is a good deal of more hydrating ingredients found in this new formula. The ones I posted were for the shade Sunkissed).

This new formula promises to blur, brighten, and hydrate and leaves skin with a dewy glow without looking shimmery or sparkly. It does contain mica so, I’d take the marketing with a grain of salt about being shimmery! I watched the small video on Tarte’s website they have of Jen applying it and I personally didn’t like the look. I screenshotted it below. It just looks a bit too oily for me. I’m really not a fan of glowy or dewy products on my skin. This formula can be worn alone, under your favorite foundation, over your favorite foundation, or just on the higher points of your face for a nice glow.

Without Foundation

With Foundation

No doubt they’ll do great with this. I’m personally not a fan of products like this but I’m sure it’ll fly off shelves as people really loved CT and E.L.F.’s version!

What do you think?

Is Tarte Glowlight Skin Filter something you want to try out?

Where to buy

Tarte Ulta Sephora

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Snag the Patrick Ta Major Headlines Blush & Highlighter Palette Vol II at sephora.com for $29! It ships free if you’re a rewards member.

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I’m all about grabbing a bottle of Clean Reserve Sparkling Sugar please and thank you! This is a new warm, spicy gourmand with fruity notes of Peach and Blackcurrant and a sprinkling of white musk. I think white musk sounds weird in a fragrance with fruity notes but I use an Arabian White Musk fragrance with apple in the mix and believe me it works incredibly.

As per Clean this is a fragrance inspired by a smile and a wink! It’s fun and flirty and has elements of soft pink sugar and ambrette for a sweet but not overly sweet fragrance. I absolutely love all the original Clean Perfumes and I have quite a few Clean Reserve ones but sadly, some don’t last as well as the original blends! I have hopes this works out for me as I’m quite excited for a nice, sweet gourmand from Clean. It’s something they haven’t really touched on before. This comes out at a great time as I haven’t yet indulged in the Fragrance Event at Sephora and will do with this new scent (although, I am guilty of indulging in Milk, Milk Bold, and Milk Expressive during the Savings Event for All Sale) If you haven’t already all BI, VIB, and Rouge get 20% off their orders using code FRAGRANCE20.

I’m waffling on a Clean Reserve Sparkling Sugar right now but the 20% is def making it a yes. I think I’m gonna grab it.

What do you think of this scent?

Worthy of a pick up?

Clean Reserve Sparkling Sugar is available now.

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Sephora

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Enjoy!

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Ulta

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