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21st November 2014

It’s Christmas!

Well, nearly … To the left: Candles of Christmas future.  To the right: Candles of Christmas past And Christmas at Lippie Mansions means candles.  LOADS of them. Coming up over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring candles from Cire Trudon, Neom, Elemis, Ormonde Jayne, Rachel Vosper, SpaceNK, Miller Harris, Fornasetti and much more besides. How do you guys get ready for Christmas? This post: It’s […]

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20th November 2014

A day in the life …

… of a parosmic.  My latest post on The Parosmia Diaries, on triggers, good smells, bad smells, and how an elephant with gastroenteritis can affect my whole day, is now live.  Please pop on over and take a look, I’d appreciate it!   This post: A day in the life … originated at: Get Lippie All rights reserved. If you are not reading this post […]

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19th November 2014

Adventures in Ageing

© Andy Gotts MBE 2014 – reproduced by kind permission      By Tindara I’ve posted previously about being a big woman and how much my creativity with make-up and fashion helps me feel confident and ready for the world. Recently, though I’ve been battling some other demon. I’m really starting to feel my age in my face. Those of you who know me or […]

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17th November 2014

New Blog …

 Don’t worry, Get Lippie’s still running, but I’ve started a new blog to detail my travails with parosmia.  It won’t just be me whining about living with a new disability, I promise, but it will detail my personal journey, alongside talking about the discoveries I’ve made about the condition, the occasional book review, and … perfume reviews!  You haven’t lived till you’ve tried to review […]

Nails Uncategorized
7th November 2014

Lacquer Lab’s Novella Collection

By Emily Lacquer Lab is a brand I must admit I hadn’t come across before; the shame! Founded by mother-daughter duo Amanda and Emily earlier this year, they produce toxin free (AKA, free from the five main nasties: Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), Formaldehyde, Formaldehyde Resin, Toluene or Camphor) fashion-focused varnishes that are seriously ticking my polish boxes. The best bit; they are made in the UK! […]

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6th November 2014

Deep Down: DHC Pore Cleansing Oil

By Laurin Here is a list of instances in which I will notice a pore on someone else’s face: When they point them out to me. Oh, actually, not even then. I bring this up because the product I’m reviewing this week, DHC Pore Cleansing Oil, claims to make pores less visible. I’m going to ignore this claim because other than squinting really hard at […]

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5th November 2014

Shampoo to Sun Cream Snippets – Green and Spring, Living Nature, Murad, Nutra Nail and Trevor Sorbie

By Get Lippie Team  Green and Spring Revitalising Exfoliating Body Wash and Body Lotion Green and Spring Revitalising Exfoliating Body Wash is so refreshing! Minty zingy fresh. I love it. You feel like you’re really getting somewhere with this stuff, though, as with all minty bath and shower products please be careful where it ends up. You know what I’m talking about, don’t make that […]

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4th November 2014

Sleek Eye and Cheek and Precious Metal Highlighting Palettes

 By Tindara This week I’ve been wearing more eyeshadow than usual. I admit that generally my habit is to wack a bit of smudgy liner or chubby eyeshadow stick around my eyes, finish with mascara and some kind of eyebrow pencil and move on to blush and lipstick. I am to lipstick as a problem hoarder is to month old newspapers and dusty odd souvenirs. […]

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3rd November 2014

Bobbi Brown Smokey Nudes Eye Palette

Being rather cool-toned, most “nude” palettes are too brown for me.  I’m pink (and red) and white, mostly, and shades of beige and tan just look orange on my exceedingly pale face. Urban Decay Naked, for example, lovely though it is, might as well be neon orange for all the use I get out of it. However, when a nice, slightly greyed “nude” palette turns […]

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25th October 2014

Guerlain Christmas 2014 – L’Ecrin 2 Couleurs in Cygne Noir

And so we reach the Black Swan section of Guerlain Christmas 2014, with the release of the L’Ecrin 2 Couleurs eyeshadow palette in Cygne Noir, and very pretty it is too.  I rarely expect much from the eyeshadow duos from Guerlain (I’ve never bought one, for example), but this one did make me do a little “ooooh” of joy when I opened it: Black and […]

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24th October 2014

Guerlain Christmas 2014 – Gloss d’Enfer in Rouge Parade & L’oiseau de Feu

Alongside the Rouge G in Rouge Parade, and topcoat for nails in L’Oiseau de Feau, Guerlain have also released matching Gloss d’Enfers for Christmas.  The Gloss d’Enfers are hugely pigmented glosses, almost liquid lipsticks traditionally, so it’s interesting to see a clear gloss in the formulation too, Here you can see that Rouge Parade is an opaque bright fire-engine red, and L’Oiseau de Feu is […]

Nails Uncategorized
23rd October 2014

Guerlain Christmas 2014 – L’Oiseau de Feu Topcoat for nails

There’s been a nail polish in the last couple of Christmas collections from Guerlain, and this year is no exception.  Last year we had the sublime Sulfurous which might just be one of my favourite nail polish colours ever.  This year, there is a pale gold polish in Coque D’or, and this, a gold-leaf topcoat L’oiseau de Feu. Now, straight off the bat, I’m going […]