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12th February 2015

Lipsticks of the Week/Month/Quarter [Delete as applicable]

By Tindara   It has been a while since I detailed the lipsticks I’ve been wearing regularly. As Louise herself said recently in a Lippie missive, we may as well start calling it Lipsticks of the Quarter. But if you bear with me, I’ll let you know about a few new discoveries I am excited about. I’ve been watching quite a few Beauty Vlogs recently […]

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11th February 2015

Benefit Roller Lash Mascara

Hot on the heels of They’re Real, Benefit are shortly launching their new formula mascara, Roller Lash.  Lighter and less claggy (and easier to remove!) that They’re Real, Roller Lash features an innovative new brush:   Much smaller, and without the spiky ball on the end, the Roller Lash brush has tiny hooks on some of the bristles to catch and curl your lashes.  Let’s […]

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10th February 2015

Hourglass Modernist Palette in Exposure

 Not so much a review this, as basic eyeshadow porn.  Hourglass have recently released their Modernist palettes of five eyeshadow shades pressed into a single pan.  They’re beautiful. Packaging is the basic metallic brown, in a similar size to their multi-powder palettes, but it is inside where the magic happens: A blend of shimmering champagne, satin dark mauve, metallic taupe, satin blackened purple, and a […]

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9th February 2015

Get Lippie in The Scented Letter

If you’re already a VIP subscriber to The Perfume Society, then you may already have read the February edition of the The Scented Letter, which has this article in it.  Half a love letter to my husband – it’s the “Love & Scents” edition, after all! – The Smell of Love is … Gravy is also an account of my struggle with anosmia, phantosmia and […]

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6th February 2015

Triple Dry Anti-Perspirant

You may or may not know this, but I have a bit of a smell problem at the moment. No, not like that, but my parosmic condition means that I can’t smell myself (I can’t smell you, either, don’t worry), and not only can I not smell myself, I can’t smell any of the smells I produce, either.  Any of them.  Not a one.  No, […]

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4th February 2015

La Roche Posay Serozinc

I was talking to someone about my skincare routine the other day, and I realised that whilst cleansers come and go, whilst acids wax and wane, and whilst moisturisers pass in and out of fashion in the Lippie household, one thing has remained constant for the last three or four years, and that is Serozinc from La Roche Posay. It’s rather unprepossessing, really.  A mix […]

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2nd February 2015

Sunday Riley Artemis Hydroactive Cellular Face Oil

At this time of year, I always think a decent facial oil is an essential rather than an optional ingredient in your skincare regime, they add an extra level of protection to your skin in the wind and the rain and the cold, and they are a godsend on chapped and sore skin.  I have a few that I rotate (Clarins is an exceptional source […]

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23rd January 2015

Clinique Chubby Sculpting Sticks in Curvy Contour and Hefty Highlight

  Just a week after I featured one simple contour kit (with an unfortunate typo) along comes another, even simpler, one from Clinique.  Another extension to the astonishingly successful Chubby Stick range, this features one contour crayon, and one highlighter and is easy enough even for the most cack-handedly muppety of us. Really, it’s almost insultingly simple to use – draw a dark line where […]

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22nd January 2015

May Lindstrom: The Blue Cocoon: Beauty Balm Concentrate

I am always being asked what my “major skin concern” is.  Why, I’m not quite sure, but it is, apparently, one of the perils of being a beauty blogger. I’m not nearly that bothered about ageing as I used to be, having met a few too many over-botoxed harridans in my time, and I now see wrinkles as a badge of character instead of the […]

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21st January 2015

Vita Coco Coconut Oil

Okay, I admit it, I love luxury beauty products.  Anyone who has ever had even a slightly cursory glance through some of the posts on this blog will have noticed that.  £250 bottles of perfume, £35+ lipsticks, £50 eyeshadow palettes, £100+ skincare, all are abundant on Get Lippie and I’m not going to make any apologies for that.  I like what I like, and I […]

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20th January 2015

Ace of Base – RMK, Zelens Hourglass and Smashbox

Over on Instagram I’m always putting up pics of things that have recently arrived at Lippie Mansions, pictures of things I’m doing, and setting up pics of things that are upcoming for review.  My ugly mug isn’t on there too often, so you’re quite safe, and if you like pictures of random products and the occasional badly framed picture of something not quite in focus with […]

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19th January 2015

New Year, Old Me

By Tindara: Happy New Year! If you’re anything like me you will be utterly bored with all the “New Year New Me” nonsense and be wanting to shove anything “detoxing” up the jacksie with a rolling pin. At least, I think that’s what they’re recommending; I tend to switch off after someone mentions a detox. Instead, I’ve decided to do the exact opposite and track […]