This little bargain of a lip crayon really reminds me, shade-wise, of Estee Lauder’s Nude Velvet. I’ll pop the photo of that below for those who don’t want to read the review from a few month’s back – you can see that they both have that peachy tone that is quite flattering. It’s far more…
Ta-da! Here it is, the first of the Gift Guides. And we begin (rather frugally for me!) with the idea of ‘gift splitting’, which, for the uninitiated, means buying multipacks or gift sets and dividing the items up into new gifts. The possible combinations with gift splitting are endless – you could give simple little…
Oh bonjour Chanel Illusion d’Ombre in ‘Mirifique’: you are tres tres amazing. You allow me to create the sexiest, poshest, coolest eye makeup known to the human race, and you allow me to do it in a matter of seconds. With just my fingertips. Adding Mirifique to your eyelids is the cosmetic equivalent of wearing…
Oh ho-ho! Experimenting with festive red lips, I came across this little beauty of a product: Pixi’s Lip Blush in ‘Love’. Check out the intense red pout above! This felt-tip pen lip stain is so easy to use – the fine tip outlines precisely whilst the edge can be used to fill in the gaps….
I mentioned this little palette in my Bonfire Beauty video – it’s a gorgeous little selection of shadows and blushes called ‘Living the Life in Laguna‘. Stila have produced a number of these palettes (five, I think?) but this is my absolute favourite. It has a great pinkish coppery eye shade that’s spot-on for this…
I seem to be relying on the same few makeup products at the moment, which is no bad thing! It cuts down deliberating time immensely, I just pull out these little beauties and get started! It’s a wonderful thing when you find a little routine that works well for you. I don’t see it as…
I have been absolutely shattered this week (burning far too many candles at all ends!) and so my dark circles have made a bit of an appearance. I thought that I’d do a little video about my favourite cover-ups – with a few extras such as eye creams and highlighters thrown in for good measure….
Hands off, Terry – your sheer-expert foundation might be ‘by’ you, but now it’s all mine! Absolutely stonking beauty product of the week prize must go to By Terry’s Sheer-Expert Foundation. It’s so ridiculously glowy, but it has no shimmer in it at all. Wearing it is like being lit from within – look at…
I’ve written about Daniel Sandler’s Watercolour Blush before, but I thought it was about time I revisited it because this is a truly magnificent product. You have to use it very sparingly and you have to be prepared to do a little blending, but once the Watercolour is in place it will not move. It’s…
ARGH! Retraction, retraction, just so I don’t make a complete tool of myself! In the October Beauty Roundup I talked about the Clarins Passion Face Palette and I used it as a subtle illuminator on my cheekbones and under my brows. This is not an illuminator! After a number of uses, it seems that the…
Spotted at Duty Free when I was en route to Oslo a few weeks ago, the Bobbi Brown Nude Pink Lip Palette. The range of shades in the palette are really appealing, I think! If you were in the market for a selection of quite neutral shades but didn’t know quite which shade to pick,…
Hooray! The second instalment of the Autumn Winter 2011 Makeup Collections videos! This one features Chanel, YSL (which many of you will have viewed the other day, but lots of people couldn’t see the Vimeo clip so I’ve re-included it) and Sisley. So very high-end, but everything is extremely beautiful. There are some amazing textures…
I’m not overly fond of lip ‘plumpers’ but this one is a little different. Becca Lip Plumping Moisture Gloss doesn’t try to burn my mouth off with what feels like a kilo of concentrated jus de habenero pepper and I thank it for that. I don’t particularly want to look like a blow-up sex-doll anyway, thanks…
I am totally smitten with Miners’ new Matte Factor lip paints. I can’t find a single thing I don’t like about them, apart from the smell/taste, which is like a Nightmare in Vanilla. They go on smoothly as can be and then dry quickly to a matte finish – which, unbelievably, doesn’t dry out my…
OK, first of all I have to admit that I feel ever so slightly bad pitching two products from the same family into full-on war. It’s not a nice thing to do, especially when one is a speccy geek who stinks of fish and the other is a flash younger brother who probably drives a…
I have produced a series of videos showcasing some of my absolute favourite cosmetics from the Autumn Winter 2011 collections. Today we have Dior and their incredible Nude Smoky palette, the special edition Blue Tie compact and the amazing Rouge Serum lipstick. (My can’t-live-without product of the moment!) Then there’s a more dramatic eye courtesy…
I have grown worryingly attached to my Dior 3 Couleurs Smoky in ‘Nude’. It’s really a very, very subtle palette of neutral tones – unlike the other shade combinations in the range, this one doesn’t create a smoky eye in the usual ‘defined’ or ‘feline’ sense, but makes the lids look a little sultry and bruised….
I am incredibly excited by the autumn offerings from Yves saint Laurent. In particular the cream eyeliners – ‘Effet Faux Cils’ – and the beautiful darkest blue nail polish. I’m really into the idea of using navy, or very very dark blue, instead of black. Just to make it a little bit more modern and interesting. So…