Monthly Archives: March 2012

Nails of the Now: Misstique by Missguided

March 31, 2012
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  I went into town today – forgive the generalisation but EVERYONE had blue nail polish. Everyone!  Chanel have just launched three blue shades of Le Vernis and every beauty counter lady was rocking them.  Every other lady in town was rocking some form of blue nail, although possibly not all Chanel. They all looked pretty good though, blue nails are absolutely having a moment. Thanks to coincidence  my burgeoning psychic powers, I was also rocking blue nails today! Missguided nails in “Misstique”. I got this free with a magazine last year and never paid it much attention before. However, I really should have because it’s a stunning nail product. In the image above you can see how the lovely smooth finish and shine makes my real nails look like impossibly neat false nails. I’ve applied one-and-a-half coats of the blue polish and topped it over with a quick coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri. I am…

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Unmissable Eyeliner Alert!

March 30, 2012
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I read a lot of beauty blogs and I get all the best information from them – I don’t trust brands half as much as I trust bloggers. When a product is going to be really good, I kind of expect to read a rush of posts raving about it. This is part of the reason why I’m completely blown away by this product. I know it has been reviewed but nothing stuck in my memory as being “OMG BUY IT NOW” so when I saw it in store I was all *shrug*… alright then. Since I have tried it I honestly don’t know why beauty bloggers are not raving like angry cats about it! This £2.99 liquid liner is insanely brilliant! Image taken from http://www.collectioncosmetics.co.uk Collection 2000 Extreme 24 hour felt tip liner is brilliant. I’ve used felt-tip pen liquid liners before and been disappointed. The colour is usually too…

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In Praise of Bronze: L’Oreal Glam Bronze, your weekend awaits!

March 29, 2012
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The sun has absolutely got his BEAMIN hat on today and it’s shaping up to be a gorgeous weekend, so I think it’s about time we talked about a bronzer. Way, way back in the mists of the forgotten season that is Winter, L’Oreal did a really good Gift With Purchase in Boots at Christmas. So good that I expect many of you got it too. Looking back I can scarcely believe how good it was. There was a full size gorgeous nude lipstick, a full size Contour Kohl eye pencil (which I have used almost daily since) and a full size Glam Bronze Trio in Blondes. There were some sample sachets and money off coupons in it too, all when you spent £15  which I needed to do anyway get in! I sampled it and swatched it and tried it not long after Christmas, which is when I took…

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Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus Foundation Review

March 28, 2012
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Along with a few Clinique freebies, the latest issue of Cosmopolitan had a mention of foundation samples available at Clinique counters in Boots. I realise I’m probably getting a reputation for reviewing any foundation I can get my paws on by this point, but it’s fun so… why stop? When I went in to Boots the Clinique lady gave me a sachet sample of Shade 03 in the Repair Wear Laser Focus . I told her that I know Clinique shade 03 is too dark for me so she did me a little pot of the Shade 02 instead. I could see when she did it that this was also much too warm for me, however, I wasn’t buying anything and it was just for a try so we’ll see past the shade mismatch for the purposes of the review. Everybody in? Good, let’s try it! Above is Repairwear Laser Focus Foundation shade…

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FOTD: A Blue Look for a Blue Day

March 27, 2012
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Hi Everyone! I’m back  I’ve had such a crazy busy weekend and missed blogging SO much! So much so that I’ve actually been feeling a little sad and blue. Fortunate really as when you’re confused and sleep deprived anything can be an inspiration, and if I were feeling jealous or passionate I might have clashed with my blouse… So, feeling a little blue this morning when I got ready, the Face Of The Day ended up like this: This is a work day so I am going for subtle Products used: Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation (I’ve mixed Shade 100 and 200 for a custom match with my skin) Sleek Luminous Pressed Powder in Shade 01 Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer in Shade 2 Cosmopolitan Eyebrow Kit Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion Original Collection 2000 Smokey Eyes Palette (medium silver shade) Calvin Klein Eyeshadow in Moonstone Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Crystal…

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Body Shop Brow Kit – the hero returns?

March 22, 2012
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We have been to Crazy Brow Town on this blog before. I’m going to go out on a completely spurious limb here and assume we ALL love Crazy Brow Town and eyebrow make up as much as I do. Ahh… lovely minds in concert. So… back in the 90′s The Body Shop launched an eyebrow powder that was brilliant. In a tiny rectangular green case, it had a single pan of dense powder shadow and a cute stiff green brush which folded neatly in half to store inside the case. Never having used a brow powder before, I didn’t know how good I had it back then. Boy I Had It Good Back Then. Needless to say, The Body Shop don’t make the original brow powder anymore. It’s so out of date that you can’t even find a picture of it on Google Images anymore. Do you still own one of…

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Beauty’s Most Wanted

March 20, 2012
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No proper post tonight because Superdrug have a promotion on the Live XXL colourants at better than half price £2.69 so I can afford to attempt to dye myself purple ahead of the party this weekend! Whee! See the offer here (not affiliated, just pleased)   For a really great beauty post, please head over to Robyn’s blog for her EYELINER TUTORIAL with video and step by step bullet points! From the comments I see around, Eyeliner tutorials are probably the most wanted thing in beauty blogging, so I know a few of you will definitely want to check it out.   Since I get a few hits searching for it, I thought I’d share these pictures of the Outdoor Girl Crackle Polish I picked up at Poundland a few weeks ago… This is over the top of the Barry M Nail Paint 309 “Strawberry Ice Cream” with a top coat…

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Nails of the Day: Pink and Perky

March 19, 2012
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So many lovely new nail polishes, so few hands! On Thursday I wondered about trying a “thing”. I know that painting the ring fingernail a different colour is a “thing” but I thought I’d just go for the thumbnail instead… I’m not sure if I’ve pulled off the Eddie Izzard-described trick of  Looking like a dick > normal > cool > super cool > stratospherically cool > Looking like a dick.  Possibly! I quite like the colours together, the pale pink is Revlon 180 “Pink Again”  (Poundland £1!) and the bright pink is Nails Inc 041 “Walton Place” with a clear top coat over it. It’s available here but mine was a present from my friend Katie <3. Nail “thing” or nail “fail”, I quite liked it. I’m off to paint them again now. What’s your favourite nail trick?

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Lancôme Visionnaire Advanced Skin Corrector Review

March 18, 2012
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Pictured above – 7ml sample size of Lancôme Visionnaire LR 2412 4% as provided for my consideration.   I’ve been a fan of serums for several years. Despite my relatively tender age of 31 I enjoy using serums as part of my skin care routine for two reasons. The first is what I think of as the Loveliness Factor, there’s the nice feeling of applying something lovely smelling that feels delightful to my freshly cleansed skin to do that little bit extra to look after and nourish it. Then there’s the Effectiveness Factor  or the “Hey! That really IS better!” effect.  Remember when there was a run on Boots No.7 Protect and Perfect serum because skin scientists had shown it genuinely was effective? This was no surprise to me as I’d been using it since it came out and it did make my skin better!  Sadly, I had a very bad…

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Simple Eye Makeup Step by Step 3: Bold Mess Eyes

March 17, 2012
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Is there an episode of The Simpsons where Homer is eating the chocolate flavour out of a tub of Neopolitan ice cream, finishes it and yells “MARGE! We’re outta ice cream!” and throws the vanilla and strawberry portions away? Well.. it was something like that anyway The reason I ask is because this is analogous to my relationship with the green eye shadows in Urban Decay palettes, for, oh, my entire twenties. And the reason for that is the way I’ve done my make up for absolutely years involves a lot of green eye shadow. Tonnes. A whole big mess of it. I started this step-by-step series because my friends kept asking me how I did my eye make up. This particular way is how I have done my  eye make up for most of my make up wearing life, so it would seem dishonest not to include it. However, it’s not sophisticated,…

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