I don’t know about you, but I spent the summer drenched in sunshine! Not literally, but I did wear a lot of Clarins Sunshine fragrance. When I first smelled it, I had an instant sense-memory of my first ever foreign holiday, it was so redolent of Ambre Solaire, the beach, and bubblegum, that I was instantly ten years old again, right there on the shop […]
I already said a fair bit about Plant Love during the makeover part of Organic Wednesday, so this won’t be a long post! I’ve tried a few ranges of organic colour cosmetics recently, and I have to say that Plant Love is definitely a cut above as far as I’m concerned. The colours in the eyeshadows are strongly pigmented, they’re easy to apply and blend […]
So, something a little different this week. As promised, every Wednesday I’ll be seeking out and reviewing organic beauty goodies, but this week I’m bringing you a makeover first, and a full review later. I’ve heard a fair bit about Plant Love over the last few weeks, and when Puresha offered to send me some of their range of cosmetics to try in a makeover, […]
Remember Sharon? She was going to a Bizarre Ball, and we tested a makeup look for her a few weeks ago. Well, the ball was on Saturday, and we redid the makeup for it. Taking into account what we did last time, I didn’t take the black as far up the browbone this time, and gave it a more pronounced winged shape at the edges. […]
I love doing makeovers, I love seeing the transformation you can make in someone’s deportment and demeanour just by giving them a little colour, even with a relatively simple transformation like this week’s: Meet Sarah: Sarah’s gorgeous. I love her cheeky freckles, and she has beautiful grey-blue eyes. Talking to Sarah before her makeover, she wanted a quick, simple, easy, and above all GLAM look […]
I don’t do these often, as I’m completely cackhanded at applying nail varnish, but I had to post about this colour, I love it so much. It’s a lovely, velvety, chocolatey-purple shade, not too warm, and not too brown. It’s a cream finish, with no shimmer or glitter. It’s rather unusual, and reminds me a great deal of the colour of proper, old-fashioned cocoa powder […]
The Background: A couple of weeks ago, I was one of the lucky winners of a competition run by the lovely people at Organic Surge. The prize was a girly night out at an exclusive screening of Sex and the City, and, alongside plying us with wine and popcorn, we also all received a goody bag filled with their range of skincare treats. The Blurb: […]
Today, I wore my new L’Oreal Studio Secrets 411 lipstick. It’s a lightly pink “nude” shade, and I bought it as part of my ongoing quest to find the perfect nude lipstick. What I want is a lipstick that’ll make it not look too obvious that I’m wearing it, yet give me a polished look. Here’s how it looked on: L’Oreal have arranged their Studio […]
Last week, I may have gone a bit crazy buying lipsticks … I really shouldn’t buy any lipsticks whatsoever, the collection I have already numbers three figures as it is. I went through my handbag the other day and realised there were 12 lip products in there: 8 lipsticks (including the five you see below), three glosses and a balm. I guess you could say […]
So, Gok Wan has launched his first body-care range at Boots. In all honesty, I’m not sure what to make of this, it promises “sassy and seductive” products to make all women feel “gorgeous”. Gok says “I feel passionate about my girls and believe you deserve to feel fabulous, no matter how much time you have or whatever your budget is”. Now, I […]