This is a shade that matches me very well and it's almost like using an eraser - if you ever found perfect match for your skin tone, you'll know what I mean. But I also enjoy this formula, as it suits my dry skin and it doesn't look obvious. Coverage is about medium and finish is glowy. It doesn't slip into lines, but it also doesn't hide their appearance, nor of pores. It has niacinamide high on the list, then centella asiatica, several extracts and oils, adenosine, and ceramides.

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My most used foundation all year round, but especially in colder months when my skin is more dry than usual. Formula is a typical liquid foundation and different for a rich moisturiser-like original CC in the silver tube. Coverage is light-medium and it has a glowy finish. Ingredients are good, just as at the original and it has niacinamide high on the list, as it's meant to be a brightening formula. It doesn't photograph well, but in person it looks fresh and it doesn't settle much into my smile lines.

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One of my favourite concealers especially since formulas for dry skin are not that easy to find as I realised. It's more like a foundation, than a typically thicker concealer. It layers well, it melts into the skin, looks natural, yet covers quite a lot for such a lightweight formula. I'd say the coverage is about medium, it's not full, but it covers circles well and red spots reasonably well. I quite like this for blemishes because it looks a lot less cakey than pretty much all concealers I've tried, though it doesn't stay on as well as matte formulas and it can slide off.

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A beautiful peachy pink that doesn't pull too warm-orange on me. It has gold shimmer that's in a lot of such shades and this gives a lovely glow to the cheeks. I should have also included shade 50 Pink Pop in the picture, which is a baby doll pink with a silver/highlighter glow. These are some of the cheapest blushes you can get, but the quality for the price is great. Pigmentation is good (for my pale skin obviously) and the formulas apply smoothly.

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Last year shade 10 Tickle Me Pink was one of discoveries of the year, but since I got this one, I use it almost exclusively. It's so easy and quick to apply. It blends seamlessly and gives the cheeks that healthy peachy-pink flush. I just use my fingers to do it and it's a shade that also looks good on the lips.

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A creamy lipliner with great pigmentation and better staying power than most formulas. 006 Line Leader is the type of colour I wear most, a muted nude-pink with some peachy tones that's similar to SuperStay Ink Crayon in Lead the Way, but a half a shade lighter and more pink and Maybelline's Color Sensational Lip Liner in Dusty Rose, except it's just a hint more peach.

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Max Factor has yet to disappoint me when it comes to their lip glosses and this is another great formula. It's thick and comfortable, it feels balmy almost like a lip oil, so it's a great substitute for a lip balm.

A decent alternative to Seche Vite that's more easily available. It dries the nails almost as quick, though it's not the promised 40 seconds, but in a minute or two it's dry to the touch.

An eye cream with a low amount of retinal. I've been using all over the face for most of the year and I already repurchased it once. It has 2% liposome retinal, but also ginseng extract (10%), niacinamide, adenosine, hyaluronic acid, cholesterol, ceramides, a peptide and a couple of oils/butters. Texture is a light lotion, but it feels like a moisturiser on the skin. It has a typical gingseng scent that I encountered at Sulwhaso products. My skin likes it, I feel it has improved a bit overall and there was no irritations or dryness at this formula.

Though it's an eye cream I use it as a regular face serum. It promises a lot - to smooth out under eye wrinkles and minimize pores. It's a claim that's clearly too bold, but it has an insanely long ingredients list that has everything you can imagine, though likely in trace amounts, but it has everything from hydrolysed collagen niacinamide, centella asiatica, a ton of extracts, allantoin, adenosine, ceramides, peptides, arganine…. It's a medium thick cream and it sits on the skin for a time. I've been using it daily for a big part of the year and my skin likes it.

The SPF I was most fond of this year. It doesn't feel greasy and I can easily apply 2-3 fingers worth of product. It's has some shine at the start, but it quite quickly settles to a matte/invisible one on my (dry) skin. It has no scent and it doesn't irritate my eyes. It's just nice. I've spent a lot of time in the sun with it and it protected me well.

I've loved the hand cream and the scent of it for years, but I never tried hand soaps before and I was delighted by this formula. Texture is unique, as though it feels light and doesn't really foam well, it's like a body lotion has been watered down, so it feels nourishing on the skin, yet it doesn't leave any residue. The scent is also heavenly, their classic shea butter scent, the same as the hand cream.

I loved this immediately. It's very similar to the hand cream, so it has rich texture, but not super thick and it spreads easily on the skin. It absorbs fast enough, but the best part for me is that it leaves this velvety finish on the skin. The latter feels softer because of that than if I use the lotion - maybe I should have included the lotion as well, as I've been using it daily as a face moisturiser.

Both of these smell very, very similar to Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Cream/Cheirosa 62, especially the shower gel is a good approximate. I compared the body cream to my original cream and I smell more plain vanilla instead of the much richer salted caramel and pistachios, so they are not the same, but it’s instantly recognizable as a sort of a dupe, especially if you’re not fussy. Texture is lighter that SdJ, but it still does the job. Both of these are a fraction of the price of the originals.

These are both lovely and specially the conditioner works great for my very dry, difficult hair. The shampoo foams well on the first wash already and it doesn't leave the hair with that squeaky clean, overly-stripped feeling that I need to avoid.The conditioner has yellow beads in the formula and instructions say to rub the formula in the palms of the hands to make them burst before application. Together with the shampoo these two make my hair feel so nice, essentially high-end level care. My hair is properly nourished, it feels silky and the ends feel better. Both smell exactly like the (discontinued?) Herbal Essences Hello Hydration line, a sweet tropical scent mixed with a type of creamy coconut scent.

This is hailed as a dupe for Olaplex - it's not, it's more of a dupe Joico K-Pak Intense Hydrator as both are packed with hydrolised proteins and aminoacids. I also like it has Amodimethicone high on the list as that always works well for my hair. It has ceramides (a.k.a. "hair cement") and a bunch of extracts. This is one of the best products I've tried. It makes my hair feels so nice - airy, nourished and silky. Along with some leave-ins even the bleached part of my hair dries smoother. It's a protein treatment that doesn't leave the hair stiff, so there's no need for an extra conditioner after it. Texture is easy to spread in a small amount, which is nice to see, since this is only 100 ml and if it were thicker, I'd probably use it up in 3 uses. Many people mention scent in reviews of this, but it's nothing special, just a classic hair salon cosmetics scent.

A classic silicone hair serum with dense shimmer. This adds a nice amount of glossy shine, plus it's a type of serum that can be used anytime, so on dry or damp hair.

Black XS was my fragrance in the past and this barely shares any DNA with it, but it was love at first smell when I tried it years back in the shop. To me Pure XS is what I wanted Olympea to be - it starts with this amazing salty popcorn note that makes it so unique. Then I most smell orange blossom, but it quickly becomes a soft vanilla scent. The rest of the notes include coconut, ylang-ylang, peach, white musk, ambrette, sandalwood and amberwood. This is the 30 ml size so it comes without the gold snake, which might make this bottle more recognizable to you.