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13th October 2010

Review – No74 Hair and Beauty

There are some salons that you visit and you just know they’ve been designed straight from a catalogue of hairdresser cliches.  And then there are those that when you first wander through the doors, you know that they’ve been a labour of love from start to finish. No74 Hair and Beauty is one of the latter.  Situated in Clerkenwell, yet feeling like you’ve wandered into […]

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12th October 2010

Le Metier de Beaute – Le Cirq Kaleidoscope

This is the latest limited edition kaleidoscope palette from Le Metier de Beaute and it’s currently available from Selfridges.  I finally saw it in the flesh last week and simply couldn’t resist snapping it up.  Costing £65, it consists of (from top to bottom) a glorious almost duo-chrome grey/stone (Flamboyantes), a mauvish-taupe (Spectacle), burgundy (Enrichissant) , and a great matte purple/navy (Dynamique) at the bottom. […]

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11th October 2010

Winter Skin Preparation

I had a request from a reader to write about how to prepare skin for the coming winter months. I’ll be honest, I don’t change my skincare routine much unless the condition of my skin changes drastically, with that in mind, I’ll tell you what my current routine is, and what I’m planning to change when the weather gets colder. I have combination skin, which […]

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10th October 2010

Dear Mac…

Formidable nail polish is beautiful, but I’d like more than 36 hours wear, please:

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8th October 2010

Tresemme Naturals

I tell you, it’s very annoying when – before you’ve even tried a product – you’ve already written half of the review in your head, then when you do go on to try it, you realise that you’re going to have to eat half  the words you haven’t yet actually written. <sigh> So … I was introduced to Tresemme Naturals recently, the latest offering from […]

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7th October 2010

The Worst Makeover I Ever Had

Was at the Estee Lauder counter in the Liverpool branch of Boots a few years ago. I only really have myself to blame, I’d ignored a few of my own hard and fast rules about makeovers (namely the ones about ignoring advice from someone who has deliberately turned themselves tangerine, and – my bad – the one about women who willingly wear black lipliner in […]

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5th October 2010

Face of the Day – Berry Lips

Dark, gothic lipstick colours are very much the flavour of the day this season, so here’s my take on the look: I’m wearing Chanel tinted moisturiser, Edward Bess eyeshadow in Intimate, Dior purple eyeliner, and the lips are Daniel Sandler lipstick in Micro Berry. This shade, I’ve discovered, makes a really pretty stain too. Will you be wearing dark lips this autumn?

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4th October 2010

Pride and Joy!

Get Lippie moved house over the weekend, and I thought you’d like to see the reason I chose my new abode: In case you can’t tell (and I won’t be surprised if you can’t) that’s my new bath. It’s also a jacuzzi, power shower, steam room, and … er … something else. Doubles as a disco too, as you can see! I still need to […]

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2nd October 2010

So Annoying

I hate dodgy packaging: Just went to apply my (lovely) Alpha H Age Delay treatment eye cream, and the nozzle has decided to stay in the lid! Bye bye, eye cream, bye bye.

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1st October 2010

YSL Belle D’Opium

Launched in what must be one of the prettiest bottles I’ve seen all year, Belle D’Opium is the latest fragrance from Yves St Laurent. A “sister” scent to the original Opium, this is lighter, and designed – I guess – to be more of a complement to the current trend for the fruity-musky-woody stews that are all you can smell in modern fragrance these days. […]

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29th September 2010

Review – Webster Whiteman

One of the most surreal – and proudest! – moments of my blogging “career” to date was being invited to judge one of the awards for this year’s Creative Head Most Wanted awards.  I don’t, in all honesty consider myself a hair blogger, but I can’t deny that I am interested in hair, hairdressing and styling, so it was a great honour to be asked. […]

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27th September 2010

Wish List

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride, I guess … but anyway.  Get Lippie is moving house this week, and I’ve been streamlining my makeup collection as a result of having to share my storage space with a fellow beauty blogger (okay, it’s Mr Lippie) from now on. Now, me being me, all this clearing out, and donating of products to the deserving has just […]