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15th January 2015

Laura Mercier Flawless Contouring Palette

First things first, let’s get some pedantry out of the way: Discrete means: Separate.  Apart.  Individual. Distinct. Discreet means: Subtle.  Unobtrusive. Private. Both the packaging and press release for this Laura Mercier Flawless Contouring palette promises you, (over and over): “DISCRETE” contouring.  This word they keep using, it does not mean what they think it means.  It has caused a couple of head-desk interfaces at […]

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13th January 2015

Lipstick Queen – Bete Noire Collection

I always love starting off the new year with a new collection from Lipstick Queen, and luckily the collections from Poppy King rarely disappoint.  When I found out there was a new “dark” collection coming, my little heart went pitty-pat, for Saint Wine is one of my all-time favourite lipsticks of all time, as regular readers might remember … Housed in a pretty purple square, […]

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12th January 2015

New Post on The Parosmia Diaries!

Oddly enough, I’ve been really busy with writing over the last couple of weeks, but a lot of it won’t see the light for a little while yet.  Priorities and the unexpandable nature of time being what they are, this means Get Lippie has had to take a bit of a back seat for a month or so, but I’m still here blogging away, don’t […]

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7th January 2015

Hair Disaster recovery with Headmasters

We’ve all done it.  Had a fit of “fed-up-ness” with our hair and gone and got the lot chopped off on a whim.  Now, I HATE getting my hair cut, forever fearing the “bad cut”, but nonetheless the week before Christmas, I did precisely what you shouldn’t, and booked myself into my nearest hairdresser (a branch of Headmasters that I’ve been to before, but not […]

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5th December 2014

Neom Perfect Peace Candle

Christmas, quite frankly, really isn’t a proper Christmas without a Neom Christmas candle on the go.  Every year I buy and light a 3-wick  Christmas Wish, and that’s how I know that the festive season is really underway.  I didn’t finish last years Christmas Wish, so I still have that to look forward to this year. This year’s addition to the Christmas collection is Perfect […]

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4th December 2014

Ormonde Jayne Etoile Candle

  Housed in a handsome, but unexpectedly brown glass jar, the Ormonde Jayne Christmas candle this year is a creamy-smooth blend of cardamom, amber and tonka.  Slightly spicy, with a hint of smoke, Etoile is a gorgeously grown-up scent for Christmas. It is smooth-burning, and comes with an incredibly high percentage of perfume oils in the formula, so this is one candle this will make […]

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3rd December 2014

Jardins d’Ecrivains “Dickens” Christmas Candle

 Possibly the most “traditional” Christmas scent we’re featuring this week, the Jardins D’Ecrivains Christmas Candle inspired by Charles Dickens is a gloriously spicy mandarin, pine, clove and … oud(!) scent.   Set up in 2012, and inspired by founder Anaïs Biguine’s love of literature and fictional characters, Jardins d’Ecrivains is an unusual and lovely little niche fragrance house to keep an eye on over the […]

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2nd December 2014

Maison Francis Kurkdjian Scented Candle Set

If you’re looking for a cute and pretty candle set, which is also well made, and will definitely give huge delight to the lucky recipient, this is the set for you.  Maison Francis Kurkdjian do lovely candles, and this box of little ones is no exception. Scented with a mix of powdery iris, spicy gingerbread, and with hints of peppery cedar – all of which, […]

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1st December 2014

Miller Harris Rose en Noir Candle

U It’s the first of December, and in Lippie-land, that means candles.  Christmas is coming, the nights are drawing in, the weather is getting colder, and tradition is all.  We don’t bother with a tree, but we do have candles on every available surface in Lippie Mansions.  Over the next week or so we’ll be bringing you our picks of the best candles for Christmas […]

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26th November 2014

NYK1 Nailac “Shellac” Starter Kit

We’re featuring our pick of the best beauty-related Christmas presents this week, and here we have a pro-gel nails kit for less than the price of those consumer ones you can get in Boots.  For £49.95 you can get a two colours, a UV lamp, and all the assorted top and basecoats, plus preparation bits and pieces in the NYK1 Nailac Starter Kit, which is […]

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25th November 2014

New post on The Parosmia Diaries…

You know when you start a new blog, and you get so excited about finally having written something for the new blog,  and then you eventually realise that you haven’t actually explained what the new blog is about?  That.  Whoops.  Anyway, the latest instalment on The Parosmia Diaries explains what parosmia is (and a couple of other things as well), and explains why it exists.  Sort […]

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24th November 2014

Gillan Battery Pouch from wowthem.com

 The post deliveries for Get Lippie arrive at my office.  My colleagues are used to random stuff turning up but nothing, and I mean nothing, elicited so many excited calls of “this is the best thing you’ve ever got” around the office as this little purple makeup bag. This is because the Gillan Battery Pouch has a little secret: Can you tell what it is?  […]