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16th April 2015

Amazing Cosmetics Concealer in Light Beige

A concealer so good even my bathroom clock is smiling … I don’t really use concealer. There.  I said it.  I’m really lucky in that I don’t get zits very often any more, and that was all I ever really used to use concealer for in the past.  In the last couple of years, however, sleep issues alongside ongoing health and stress issues mean that […]

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15th April 2015

Clinique Turnaround Revitalising Instant Facial

For me, Clinique are really knocking it out of the park at the moment – you might have noticed I’ve reviewed a fair few of their products recently – and they’ve just added an entirely new skincare range: “Turnaround”, to their line. To me it looks really interesting, as it is for skin with has lost some luminosity through stress or other factors.  Well, colour […]

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14th April 2015

Elizabeth Arden Sunkissed Pearls Cream Eye Shadow Stylos

Now, if you had asked me recently what my favourite cream eyeshadow stick/wand/pencil/crayon/whatever was, I’d have answered the Laura Mercier Caviar Sticks I featured yesterday, but I was incredibly pleasantly surprised by these limited edition “stylos” from Elizabeth Arden when they arrived a little while ago.  These babies last.  And last, and last … it is safe to say I definitely saved the best for […]

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13th April 2015

Laura Mercier Caviar Stick in Rose Gold

I’m still on an eye pencil kick I’m afraid, but I’ve saved my absolute favourites for this week.  This is Laura Mercier’s Caviar Stick in Rose Gold.  I may be wrong, but I think these were the first “cult” shadow sticks on the blogging circuit, and I’ve always had a soft spot for them. Rose Gold is a lovely easy to wear fleshy shade, perfect […]

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10th April 2015

Charlotte Tilbury Colour Chameleon Eye Pencil in Amethyst Aphrodisiac

I’m on a lazy makeup roll this week, and a bit of a pencil kick too, which brings me to Charlotte Tilbury’s cult range of “colour morphing” pencils, the Colour Chameleon range.  They are gorgeous pencils, but I did find the “colour morphing” claims a little incomprehensible until I figured out that the colours that were “morphing” were your eye colours, not the pencil shades. […]

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9th April 2015

Laura Mercier Lipliner in Plumberry

I’m not much of a one for lipliner, and I am definitely not much of a one for matching my lipliner to my lipstick, I much prefer to match my liner to my lips, after all, you’re not supposed to see lipliner anyway, are you?  My lips are a pale rosy mauve naturally, but I do have a fairly strongly pigmented natural lipline (particularly on […]

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8th April 2015

ByTerry Ombre Blackstar eyeshadow sticks

I mentioned yesterday that my makeup routine takes me around five minutes, and it does.  Some days, I can barely be bothered applying makeup at all, and so a little liquid liner and a bright, bright lipstick is all I do, over a CC cream, or something. On the days when I want a stronger look, I increasingly find myself reaching for eyeshadow sticks, as […]

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7th April 2015

Clinique Sculptionary Cheek Contouring Palette – 02 Defining Berries

Contouring is the trend that just will not die, isn’t it?  Here’s yet another ostensibly “contouring” product, the Clinique Sculptionary Cheek Contouring Palette in 02 Defining Berries, which is actually just a (very) beautiful blusher, and is all the more useful for it not being another pan of brown goop. Since it turned up, I’ve not wanted to use any other cheek product at all… […]

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1st April 2015

Alpha H Liquid Laser Cleansing Oil

As well as being on a bit of a lipstick kick at the moment, I’m currently obsessed – and I do mean obsessed – by cleansers.  Having recently discovered, and loved, Oskia Renaissance Cleansing Gel, I am currently using that and this Liquid Laser Cleansing Oil in semi-permanent rotation. Another oil-gel-based product, the Liquid Laser range is suitable for older, or duller skins, but is […]

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31st March 2015

Philips Sonicare Diamond Clean – Pink Edition

Since I became parosmic last year, toothbrushing has been a major problem for me. More regularly than I would wish (and definitely more regularly than you imagine), just the simple act of keeping my teeth clean results either in tears or vomit, and usually both.  As such my toothbrush occupies a place of much more importance than it used to do. I bought a new […]

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27th March 2015

Pommade Divine

After swatching 15 lipsticks in one go last Sunday, my lips were sore, sore, sore – not so much from the lipsticks themselves, but from the wet wipes I had to use to remove them all – and so this little pot of well-named divine goodness really came into its own. A rich, thick, spicy balm, Pommade Divine was first produced in the early 19th […]