Odd though it may seem, I’m not – actually – a big fan of makeup shopping online. I like to see, touch, swatch and even smell the products I’m buying! Also, when I decide I want something, I want it RIGHT NOW. None of which is possible from the comfort of your laptop, alas … Despite that, I do, occasionally buy things from beauty websites […]
Be afraid, be very afraid … for have I found the perfect Valentine’s present for you! Guyliner. Oh yes! But not just any guyliner, there’s also mascara and concealer in this handy kit. It’s like the lovely people at http://www.guyliner.co.uk/ have been reading my mind! And for just £20, I can finally make all my “dating an 80’s rockstar” fantasies come true*! Oh, I’m going […]
I love me some Bourjois, I think they’re actually my favourite high street brand. I find their products are very high quality for the price point (even as I notice that price point is creeping ever-upwards these days), but it’s fair to say that my makeup collection contains a sizeable collection from the brand. When I discovered they’d relaunched their entire collection of “Little Round […]
In the book Perfumes: An A-Z guide, they give the perfumes a star-rating, which is * for dreadful and ***** for classics that will stand the test of time. I, however, am not as educated in perfume as I wish to be, and so, can’t really rate perfumes against each other as Luca Turin and Tanya Sanchez do in the book. Also, I tend to […]
I’m a very lucky woman, for Christmas this year I received not one, but two Tom Ford lipsticks! Smoke Red on the left, Bruised Plum on the right there, excellent choices from MrLippie’s mum! But, before I go on to review them, can you see what I noticed about them? Clue, one isn’t closer to the camera, nor are they at an angle… Pretty though, […]
Pastels schmastels. If there is anything I really don’t like about spring, it’s the insistence that we’re all going to be prancing around in pastel shades on eyes, nails and lips and clothes. I don’t do pastels. I think pastels only really suit six years olds. There, I said it. And … breathe … Now I’ve got that off my chest, I’ve been made very […]
Utterly infatuated with green nail varnish, I am. I went, last year, from not ever being able to imagine wearing it to owing more green nail polish shades than I do, say, pinks! This colour, a delightfully greyed-out khaki is Essie Sew Psyched from their a/w 2010 collection. It’s a mini-bottle, I didn’t suddenly sprout man-hands overnight! It’s wearable for the office – I think […]
The week before last, I announced the start of “Project Perfume“, where I’m going to attempt to sniff about 10 new (to me) perfumes a month in an attempt to educate myself about scents, their composition, and to see if I can finally, once and for all, identify that particular ingredient in certain perfumes that makes me want to vomit. I’m a one-woman perfume machine […]
I’m away this weekend, having the family Christmas that had to be cancelled owing to the recent terrible weather, and I thought you might like to see what I normally take with me when I go “travelling”. This little baby is the veteran of many a trip – in fact you can tell how old it is by the old-style logo on the front, Trish […]
Jack Howard is a man on a mission. Having conquered the hairdressing world of the US with his missionary zeal for Balayage, training (amongst others) the Frederick Fekkai salons, and becoming a senior portfolio artist for L’Oreal Professional along the way, he’s now here in the UK and he’s determined to spread the word. Balayage is the art of painting the hair with light, creating […]
Alongside the palette I showed to you yesterday, Dior have also released two lipglosses to go alongside, one a cool silvery grey and one a light, cool, milky coral: Flash 707 is the one that caught my eye back in December, and I was intrigued as to how it would work in person, but when I saw 654 Pearl, I felt duty-bound to pick that […]
Saw this palette a couple of weeks ago at a preview and fell in love with it, but it’s taken till now for me to get set up to do swatches! For Spring/Summer 2011, Dior have gone for cool greys and pinks, which makes a refreshing change from all the bronzes and corals we had last year. I have a selection of the products from […]