I'm not a huge fan of liquid lipsticks in all honesty. I'm a cack-handed muppet and there's a lot of scope for messy liplines when it comes to liquid products, when you add in the fact that one side of my upper lip is fuller than the other, well, liquid lipsticks are an entire world of pain for me. However, some shades can be worth the pain, is this red from Shiseido one of them? Let's see.
I like the sleek and tactile packaging, which mirrors the camellia on the packaging. RD413 is a bright tomato red, which is a little scary in the tube, even for a bright lip-lover like myself:
To my eye, this looked rather light and bright to me, and I was worried that even I wouldn't be able to carry off the shade. However, I was reassured a little on swatching, as, whilst it's a rather sheer formula (surprisingly), it's also a beautiful colour:
The red is a little on the orange side (my camera is definitely pulling out the orange tones here), but it's definitely a red, and it's beautiful in wear. However, I do have a couple of issues with the formula, it's sheer and glossy (oh so very, very glossy), but as a result, the pigments can appear a little patchy in close up:
In real-life it is less of an issue, as my lips aren't actually THIS BIG. Nearly, admittedly, but my head actually isn't three feet across, so you don't really notice the streakiness so much when my lips are in 3d rather than on a computer screen.
It's comfortable to wear, and non-drying, but it doesn't really have any lasting properties. The sheerness of the pigment make it more like a gloss than a lipstick, so it needs fairly frequent reapplication. However, some of the shades in this range are rather more pigmented, so I suspect this problem would be limited to this shade in particular.
Overall, this is a beautiful shade, but has it won me over to the liquid lipstick side? I don't know. I'd definitely try more from the range as it's a good, comfortable formula but for £23.50 a pop, well ...
The Fine Print: PR Sample.
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Even in the summer, I'm a big fan of facial oils. The opportunity came up to try a product from the range of Bodhi, and the Neroli Luce revitalising oil seeemed like the perfect choice, not least because ... well ... Luce is my nickname. But that's not the only reason I picked it, I swear!
Anyhoo. Bodhi is a UK brand that's been around for a little while now. Bodhi pride themselves on their ethical products, and quite rightly. All are free from parabens, sulphates, phthalates, propylene glycol, PABA, palm oil,
mineral oil, paraffin, petrochemicals, DEA, synthetic colours or
fragrances and animal ingredients, which is a heck of a list, and quite a challenge for a skincare brand. It's quite a tightly edited collection of products, which is slowly branching out into new items, but on the Bodhi website, you'll find facial skincare, shower gels, massage oils, and more. I can highly recommend the Jasmine Falls Relaxing Shower Gel, btw, it's divine.
Containing a blend of neroli, frankincense, sea buckthorn and evening primrose oil, Neroli Luce face oil is intended for normal to combination skins, which might be a bit dull, or have a tendency to be slightly blemish prone. After a stressful few weeks, my combination-oily skin was beginning to get me down, having lost its glow, and starting to get a little congested.
Neroli Luce is a slightly thick oil, bright orange in colour, which means its packed full of beta carotene, which has an almost instant brightening effect once applied to the face - I find that the orange shade provides a great optical illusion, making my rather rosy-toned face look a little more even as well, which is a god-send! Even though it's rather thick, it's actually quite light, and is easily absorbed into the skin, with a minimum of massage, meaning you don't need to wait a long time in order to be able to apply your normal moisturiser over the top.
You can use it morning or night, or both, but I tend to use it on mornings when I feel I need a bit of a boost (so that'll be every day at the moment, then), and the beautiful scent helps raise my spirits every time I use it. The combination of neroli and frankincense is a classic one, and I like to cup the product in my hands and breathe the scent in deeply before I apply to to my skin.
The bottle is small, around 15ml, but you use so little of it that I estimate it would last you a good few months, certainly I've been using mine every day for the last month and barely made a dent in the contents. At £32 for a product with this quality of ingredients, it's a bit of a bargain too. I'll be investing in a bottle of the Bodhi Desert Rose Rejuvenating Face oil for the winter months, I suspect.
Ingredients:
Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Prunus Armeniaca, (Apricot) Kernel Oil,
Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Oenothera Biennis (Evening
Primrose) Seed Oil, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Oil,
Citrus Aurantium Amara (Bitter Orange) Flower Oil, Boswellia Carterii
(Frankincense) Oil, Lavendula Augustifolia (High-Altitude Lavender)
Flower Oil, Pelargoneum Graveolens (Geranium) Flower Oil, Cymbopogon
Martini (Palmarosa) Oil, Cananga Odorata (Ylang-Ylang) Flower Oil,
Benzyl Alcohol*, Benzyl Benzoate*, Benzyl Salicylate*, Citral*,
Citronellol*, Eugenol*, Farnesol*, Geraniol*, Isoeugenol*, Limonene*,
Linalool* (*natural constituents of essential oils)
The Fine Print: PR sample.
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After featuring both the Guerlain Autumn and Winter collections recently, I got a few emails regarding the pink Rouge Gs from each, Madam Batifole and Provocative, so I thought comparing the two was a good idea:
Madame Batifole (left) is from the limited edition Madame Violette autumn collection currently on counters, and has a fishnet effect etched onto the casing. Provocative is from the Crazy Paris Christmas collection which will be on counter from November. Both are rather cool bright pinks, but there are differences:
Madame Batifole is the darker of the two, and Provocative is lighter. Contextually, Provocative appears the "warmer" shade, but is still quite a cool shade of pink.
Here are some more comparison shots:
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| Natural daylight |
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| With Flash |
Both are creamy shades, but as you can just make out in the flash picture above, Madame Batifole has a slightly more visible blue micro-shimmer in the formula. Provocative contains it too, but it's less visible in the bullet. On the skin, however, the shimmer is barely visible, it basically just adds a little depth to the shades and stops them appearing "flat".
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| Natural Daylight |
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| With Flash |
They're both highly pigmented, and creamy. Here you can see how Madame Batifole on the left is definitely a deeper shade, and Provocative is a little warmer in comparison, almost a bubblegum pink, whereas Batifole appears more magenta in comparison.
Here they are on my (quite strongly pigmented) lips:
I'd say that Madame Batifole is definitely the more dramatic shade to wear, being a little darker and deeper, Provocative is a perfect everyday pink shade, one I'd consider a neutral, but my tolerance to bright shades is quite high, and your mileage might, as they say, vary.
I tried wearing one lip of each to show how the differences aren't, actually, that dramatic. This is provocative on the top, and Madam Batifole on the bottom. Equally bright, equally pigmented, just one is a little warmer, and one a little cooler in comparison.
Personally, if I could only have one, I'd have Madam Batifole, as I'm a lover of the dramatic lip colours, but Provocative is a great everyday pink too. They're both gorgeous, frankly.
The Fine Print: One's a PR sample, and one was a purchase. It genuinely doesn't matter which one is which.
Mental note: I shall never wear the foundation featured in this post ever again, it looks terrible. I know.
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Not much to say today, aside from the fact that I'm boggling a bit that I've been married for six months now ...
Mental.
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I have literally spent months trying to track this bloody thing down. Every SpaceNK I visit, I stare forlornly at the hole where Mood (and Diffused) are supposed to be, and then turn, dejected, back out to the street after yet another fruitless shopping trip. FINALLY I managed to track this one down on Liberty. I'm still on the lookout for Diffused, btw, so if you find anywhere that has it, please, please, please let me know!
This one, however, is Mood, a light lavender powder designed to brighten most skintones. I'm prone to (admittedly very pale) sallowness, particularly when extremely tired, and this helps perk me back up.
The Ambient Light powders are milled incredibly finely, and don't contain any opaque pigments so they're rather light and ethereal on the skin. I find they they do give a "polished" look to the skin, and they have a rather glowy finish, so you need to apply sparingly.
Here you can see it swatched heavily on the right, and blended out on the left of my hand, and you can see the sort of finish you will get. I use this most days, in particular over tinted moisturiser. I like the brush too (although you have to buy it separately and it's £30), and it's great for diffusing the powder across the skin.
I prefer this to more traditional powders, as it never looks cakey, and doesn't look like you're wearing any makeup at all, which is the greatest thing you can get from your makeup.
Now, if only I could find the yellow Diffused version ....
The Fine Print: Purchases.
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