A new year, a new favorites and more than a couple of new products. Well, if I'm honest with you, I think all of these products were results of shopping trips from November onwards. Welp! My bank balance. But it's all done in the name of research, and these were the newbies that made the cut. 

For the longest time, I'd sworn to have found the perfect foundation brush. Actually, three weeks ago, if you asked me if I'd trade in my Sigma F80 for any other brush, I probably would've looked at you like you sprouted three heads and turned a shade of neon green. No biggie. But even though I was more than content than the offering I had on hand, as soon as the handle started wobbling from over-abuse, the restless brush addict in me started searching high and low for something that could par with the slowly retiring Sigma F80. 

L'Oreal and I never seem to be love at first sight. My current favorite mascara (and almost HG status), the L'Oreal Telescopic and I had a complicated love/hate relationship at first (read here). Miss Manga and I were no different. 

I know. I know. I've been late again with The Update again. Whoops. School's been going on for 2 weeks now and we're really hitting the ground racing running. My schedule has also been a mess these two weeks as teachers have been rearranging classes and lectures to fit their busy schedule. That means hanging around in limbo, wondering if we're supposed to do the presentation in two hours or in a week. 

I'm hesitant to call anything a dupe unless it's virtually the same thing. Hence, by my standards, this is by no means a 'dupe', but it's definitely an alternative (and spoiler alert, even better in my opinion) to the MAC 224 brush.