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Make Up Dupes…?!

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Have you ever been using a drugstore product and thought to yourself, “Hmmm this reminds me of…(insert high end product name)” or vice versa with a high end product?

Did you know that many of the high end companies we love are actually owned by one of the well known drugstore cosmetic companies?

YSL, Lancome, Georgio Armani, and Urdan Decay all have the same parent company L’Oreal.

Even Essie and EM by Michelle Phan and many more are owned by L’Oreal.  I love L’Oreal, it is one of my favorite drugstore make up brands.  You may remember that I also love Maybelline, it is also owned by L’Oreal.

 

 

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Here is a list of the companies that are owned by L’Oreal:

  • L’Oréal Technique
  • L’Oréal Professionnel, (including ARTec and Innate)
  • Kérastase (created by L’Oreal in 1964)
  • Kéraskin Esthetics, (created by L’Oreal in 2007 and specializing in skin care professionals.)
  • Matrix Essentials, (founded by Arnie Miller in 1980 and acquired by L’Oreal in 2000.)
  • Mizani, (founded in 1991 and bought by L’Oreal in 2001.)
  • PureOlogy Research, (founded in 2001 and acquired by L’Oreal in 2007.)
  • Redken 5th Avenue NYC, (founded by Paula Kent and Jheri Redding in 1960 and acquired by L’Oreal in 1993.)
  • Shu Uemura Art of Hair
  • Carol’s Daughter
  • Carita
  • Decléor

L'Oreal Dupes? | lookingjoligood.wordpress.comL’Oreal Luxe

  • Lancôme
  • YSL
  • Giorgio Armani
  • Biotherm
  • Cacharel
  • Diesel
  • Viktor & Rolf
  • Ralph Lauren
  • Kiehl’s
  • The Body Shop
  • Shu Uemura
  • Stella McCartney
  • Clarisonic
  • Guy Laroche
  • Paloma Picasso
  • Urban Decay
  • Maison Martin Margiela
  • Yue Sai
  • Helena Rubinstein

Consumer products

  • L’Oréal Paris
  • Ombrelle
  • Garnier
  • Maybelline
  • Nyx Cosmetics
  • SoftSheen-Carson
  • Carol’s Daughter
  • Créateurs de Beauté
  • Essie
  • Magic
  • EM Michelle Phan
  • Niely Cosméticos
  • Colorama

Active cosmetics

  • Vichy
  • La Roche Posay
  • Inneov
  • Skinceuticals
  • Roger&Gallet
  • Sanoflore
  • Dermablend

One good thing about L’Oreal is its standards on animal testing:

“L’Oréal no longer tests on animals any of its products or any of its ingredients, anywhere in the world. Nor does L’Oréal delegate this task to others. The rare exception allowed is if regulatory authorities demand it for safety or regulatory purposes.”

Did you know that L’Oreal owned all of these other companies?  Are any of your favorite brands owned by L’Oreal?

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My Recent Good Reads!

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People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges
Obviously from the title you can probably already tell that this book is hilarious!  Especially if you are a mother you will relate to almost everything written in this book.  I really loved this one!

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
This book goes into great detail about the foot binding rituals.  It is also a great story about the complexities of realtionships with others and with yourself.  I was thinking about this book for a long time after I finished reading it.
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
This isa trilogy that covers the time from right before the first World War up until somewhat recent history. I recently read all three of the books in this Century Trilogy.  I highly reccommend the first two, the third one is only ok.

The Good Girl
You know how recently all books want to say they are “the next Gone Girl”?  I kinda hate that… I think that this on claims the same. Despite that, I still highly recommend this book.

Dark Places and
Sharp Objects
Don’t get me wrong, Gone Girl is awesome, and if you haven’t read it, you should!  Instead of reading “The Next Gone Girl”, why not just read another book written by the author of Gone Girl.  Both Sharp Objects and Dark Places are amazingly creepy reads.
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My To Read List

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I love to read!  I love to go to the library and pick out new books!  These are the books that are on my current to read list.  Have you read any of these?  What did you think?
Click here to view Audiobook details for The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood
Click here to view Audiobook details for In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume
Click here to view eBook details for At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
At the Water’s Edge
Sara Gruen
Click here to view eBook details for Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
Secrets of a Charmed Life
Susan Meissner
Click here to view Audiobook details for The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Diane Ackerman
 Do you have any good reads to suggest?  I would love to hear what you are currently reading as well!
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What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty Book Review

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What Alice Forgot by Laine Moriarty Book Review | lookingjoligood.wordpress.comDon’t let the 487 pages frighten you away!  When you reach the end you will be wishing for 400 more pages!

Laine Moriarty is one of my favorite authors!  She has such a talent for writing that you feel as if you are part of the storyline.  I became so engrossed with this book that I couldn’t put it down.  I am usually in bed and asleep no later than 11, nope not with this book!  I stayed up until well past 3 am just so that I could finish reading What Alice Forgot!

So yeah, this book may be categorized as chick-lit, but I found that it really made me think about my own life. If something were to happen to me and I were to forget the last ten years of my life, what would I think about my “new” life? Would I be surprise by what I have become?  How have my relationships changed?  Would I be surprised at the ones that are better, or which ones have changed for the worst? Have I become the person, wife, and mother that I thought I would be ten years ago? Would I be proud of the decisions that I have made over the last 10 years? This book really made me think about all these things.

Here is how Laine describes What Alice Forgot

“I realized that memory loss is a form of time travel. So I came up with the idea of a woman, Alice, who loses 10 years of her memory. She thinks she is 29, pregnant with her first child and blissfully in love with her husband. She is horrified to discover she is 39, with 3 children and in the middle of a terrible divorce. It’s like the younger Alice has travelled forward in time. Readers tell me that what they liked best about this novel was how it made them think about the choices they’d made and wonder how their younger selves would feel about the lives they are leading now.”

“Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over.”

This is one of my favorite quotes from the book:
“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It’s light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you’ve hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you’ve seen the worst and the best– well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”

The Alice we get to know is in this book is so relatable and likable that you will become enthralled with her life!  I give this book 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend you read it!
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