I'm a bit of a Meteorites completist, I admit. So, when I was brutally mugged by this compact at the Guerlain counter at Vienna airport recently, I didn't mind too much. I love Meteorites, and have almost every edition they've done in the last ten years. It's very sad, as I rarely use them, because they're not very portable. I do love the glow you get from the little pearly balls though, there's nothing quite like them.
The Meteorites compact is very prettily embossed, and, because it's plastic (boo!), it's actually quite light, which improves its portability. I chose the shade medium as it contains a little more yellow, which is good for covering up my redness:
It still has the same incredibly finely milled texture, and slight pearlescent glow that you get with the beads, but they have been pressed flat in the compact, which contains apricot, lavender, white, pink and beige which are meant to correct redness, sallowness, and dullness on the skin.
Once swirled together, however, these shades blend together to form a translucent powder which is excellent for setting a slightly too-dewy foundation, without leaving your skin "flat" or chalky-looking.
So yeah ... couldn't resist. It's actually in stores now and will cost you £40. It'll last you practically forever though.
The Fine Print: MOAR Duty Free!
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If you're going to accidentally check-in far too early for a flight home, then you can do much, much worse then spending three hours at Vienna airport, to be honest. It is huge, mostly deserted, and the shopping is fabulous. There is also a branch of the amazing bakery Demel, so you can spend your last few hours in Austria in sophisticated comfort with a hot chocolate and a cake or three ...
Did I mention the shopping? I did go a bit mad in duty free, so prepare yourselves for a couple of posts where I talk about things you can only buy abroad for a day or two, but first I couldn't resist picking up this Dior Addict lipstick in Hypnotic Plum. I love that it has the Christian Dior logo running right through it (somewhat contrary to what you might expect from a collection labelled "Tie Dye", but I digress), and the colour is very natural, and great for a "My Lips But Better" look.
A sheer plum, with a sheer peach section running through the centre - this isn't just an embossed logo on the top - this is light and exceptionally glossy, and a perfect lipstick for people who hate opaque shades (strange people though they are), but who still want to look slightly polished.
You can see from the bullet just how glossy this is after one swipe, Hypnotic Plum is a perfect rosy mauve on skin, ideal for just evening out paler lips, and adding just a whisper of colour to darker ones. Lasting time is rather slight, this being both sheer and glossy, but it doesn't dry lips out.
For my liking, the other shades in the Tie Dye collection from Dior are rather wishy-washy pastels which I would have trouble wearing, but Hypnotic Plum is rather lovely. The collection is in store now, and the lipstick will cost £25.50, which is rather on the pricey side for something this sheer, but it is a nice, caring formula on the lips.
The Fine Print: Duty-free, bitches!
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Me, I can't resist a candle at any time of the year. I know that some people think candles are just for winter, but in this dark and damp late "spring" that we're having at the moment, it seems like an ideal time for having candles around to brighten up the dark afternoons, and cool evenings. Josephine, the latest fragrance from Cire Trudon (long one of my favourite candle brands), is perfect for summer.
Prettily clad in pale frosted blue, instead of the brand's signature dark olive glass, Josephine is a soft and gentle floral composition, a slight departure from Cire Trudon's slightly heavier and usually rather masculine scents.
Inspired by the gardens of the Empress Josephine (she of the "Not tonight ..." infamy), it's a really very pretty, very flowery and very lovely candle indeed. The smell has hints of citrus from bergamot and kaffir lime, then I mainly smell powdery rose and iris. Ladylike is definitely the word that springs to mind.
As always, Cire Trudon candles burn cleanly and evenly, dispersing their scent both throughout their burn time and just when sitting wherever you put them.
The blue glass version is limited edition for the summer, but the scent will be in the permanent collection (in the green jars) later this year. All in all, a lovely way to bring a beautiful garden indoors in this sun-deprived "summer" we seem to be having this year ...
The Fine Print: PR Sample
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No, really, I'm not! I just have impingement in my shoulders caused by severe bursitis (basically, I can't move one arm much at all) and typing is a bit of a problem at the moment ... oh, and I've been away! The above picture should give you a clue where I've been ;) A bigger post coming up about Eurovision later this week, hopefully.
Doctor assures me normal typing can resume next week, so fingers (gently) crossed!
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Apparently, just writing "I LOVE THIS STUFF" doesn't make for a proper review, but I've always been a bit woolly on what constitutes a real, "proper" review, so that will have to do. I've tried other hair serums, of course, but only the Paul Mitchell Super Skinny seems to weigh my hair down enough to keep it from frizzing up at even the tiniest opportunity, without weighing it down so much that my hair goes lank and flat.
It wasn't the first serum I ever used, of course, that would have been John Frieda, but this is the only serum I buy over and over and over again, and it works whether I'm wearing my hair curly or straight - I've found that some serums are good for one or the other, but rarely both, and as I never know what mood my hair is going to be in till I've woken up, it's good to have versatility in my styling products!
What's the one styling product you'd never be without?
The Fine Print: PR Sample
The Even Finer Print: We're not featuring full fragrance reviews on Get Lippie at the moment owing to illness - please see The Parosmia Diaries for more.
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