Packaging: super cute and easy to use, although it does feel like you’re rubbing a glue stick all over your face. My lid never pops all the way down so it would probably come off if I kept it in my purse. Love the polka dots Formula: Nice! Kinda sticky, but I guess it has […]
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I love nail polish, it doesn’t take a genius to work this out, so when the kind people at Cotypr Australia sent me some nail polishes to try out I was over the moon! The nail polishes in question are the Complete Salon Manicure nail polishes from Sally Hansen. I was sent three colours […]
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Today on the kissiest of kissy days I decided to “road test” this Max Factor lipfinity lip colour in the very valentine colour of “hot” that I was sent to try out. I have used similar “long wear colour” products before and had found them quite drying and flakey so I was interested to see […]
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Two weeks ago I posted the following photo on Instagram praising Clinique on their beautiful formula and gorgeous shades of ” A different nail varnish” but lamented the lack of availability in Australia. Well here it is two weeks later and looky what I found in my local Myer during a sneaky browse through the beauty section […]
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Every now and then we get sucked in by the pretty pictures and the hype and fork over our hard earned dollars and cents and buy something that we later regret. Here are a couple of mine. 1. Dior 5 colour eyeshadow, Moonbeam. This was purchased about 6 years ago (infact I bought it on […]
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Here is a dirty little secret… I suck at eyeshadow! Well, I feel like a suck at eyeshadow! In reality I’m probably not that bad at it but I tend to stick to neutral eyes or a wash of cream shadow (think color tattoo; barely branded) and red/pink lips because lips are so much quicker […]
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NO! this does not require you to contort your body backwards to wash your hair but refers to the order in which you apply your hair products. Image courtesy of Google images. If you’re a regular beauty blog follower you will have probably already heard of “reverse washing” or “backwards washing” of hair. This […]
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Imagine my delight when a few months ago the Pantone colour of the year was announced and was ‘Radiant orchid” Why the excitement? Because only a few days earlier i had ordered the newly released Lollitint from Benefit cosmetics. I waited patiently for my order to arrive from the U.S so that i could play […]
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…without using terrible chemicals or ruining your Egyptian cotton towels. It seems pretty common sense right? Soap and warm water on a washcloth should take it all off. But like myself, many women today who wear sunscreen, primer and makeup on a daily basis find that the old soap and water isn’t doing the trick […]
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Photo taken from http://www.cargocosmetics.com/ Confirmed to me yesterday by a lovely sales assistant in store at my local Mecca. This is the top secret release that they were hinting towards on their facebook and instagram pages. Cargo cosmetics are the cool Canadian brand of cosmetics known for their excellent “back to basics” packaging (think basic metal […]
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Photo taken from kit cosmetics facebook page. From the company behind Kit and Mecca cosmetic stores comes the announcement (via their facebook and instagram pages) that a new “beauty brand is launching into #kitcosmetics next month” Automatically I thought of brands such as Tarte cosmetics, Cargo and Urban Decay which have been unavailable in Australia […]
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Its the cruellest of jokes, played on women in their twenties upwards and of course its usually caused by what we love most; product. I am speaking of course about Perioral dermatitis; a skin condition that usually affects women (between the ages of 20 and 45 years) and can leave you with painful, scaly and irritated […]
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