Product Review - Lancome Hypnose Drama

I am a massive fan of Hypnose, I've used it constantly for years. Well, I say constantly, I've had occasional flirtations with Max Factor, and Benefit Bad Gal once in a while, but I always come back to Hypnose. I found it's lengthening and fattening properties to be second to none.

But ... I've always liked the original Hypnose, Lancome attempted to improve the original a couple of years back with an "Onyx" version, which I really didn't like at all. It was supposed to sparkle, and leave your lashes glossy with a shine that was meant to be visible to all. It didn't do any of those things, that I could see. It was just a slightly runnier version of the original formulation, and it dried out very quickly after only a few uses.

So, when I discovered Lancome had reformulated yet again, I was exceedingly sceptical, especially when I noticed it has a curved brush. I am notoriously cack-handed at the best of times, and to be honest, I've never really seen the point of these curved brushes. But I gave it a go anyway ...

And, I'm very glad I did, setting aside that I still don't entirely see the point of the curved brush, it's a very good update to the formula. It lengthens, and thickens even better than the original formulation, and, most importantly, it lasts better too. Some of my friends complained that the original used to flake, I never had that problem, but it didn't wear well much after about six or seven hours on me, I used to notice.

The Orange-Faced Lady on the Lancome counter said you could layer up to 12 coats, but I think that way madness lies. I notice a massive difference after just one coat, and two coats is more than enough for anyone, I would have thought.

So all in all, this is an excellent addition to the already superlative mascara range from Lancome, I'm a complete convert.

Pics of lashes to follow ,,,

Flipping heck ...

Honestly, this blog keeps winking out of existence - and deleting my posts - willynilly. Hopefully Google is keeping an eye on it now after all my complaining.

Coming next, Lancome Hypnose Drama review. I'll be updating all my how-to's shortly with photographs too.

Have updated my links with other blogs I'm enjoying reading at the moment - UK ones for now, I'll add the US links later.

Where Have I Been?

Good question!

It’s all been a bit hectic chez Get Lippie, I spent half of the summer designing and producing make ups for Blackheath Halls’ production of Orpheus and Eurydice, which was great fun – especially the young Laban Dancers who played evil spawn in the Hell section, and had to be made up like skulls! Really tested my skills to the limit there … and my patience at times, but it was both aces and skill.

I also designed Amor, who had to look very sophisticated and beautiful, this was by far the best make up I did for the show, also took longer than the dancers:

Sadly, you can’t really see that she’s wearing A LOT of make up – it’s what I think of as a classic French make up, porcelain skin, bright, bright red lips, and a thick line of black liquid liner. This was from the initial make up test run, we beefed it up for the performances and added an almost smokey eye to the classic French look. We were very lucky that we had amazing looking women in the show, so much so that my role was practically unneeded!
Finally, I had to produce a beautiful, glowing “bridal” look for the role of Eurydice:

You can’t see it too well here, but there are lots of corals, pinks and blush colours here, but I tried very, very hard to avoid the “painted dolly” look you can get sometimes for a bride. I think we got the glow down quite well though! Also in this pic, we have Orpheus, who basically needed cheekbones, a lower eyebrow, and general mattification. Luckily, the amazing Wendy Dawn Thompson had great cheekbones already, so there wasn’t a whole lot to do.
Have also spent a fair amount of time trying to get my personal shopping business in order, but more about that later …

Hello!

I'm in the process of moving my posts from my old blog, but welcome! Some people might recognise the pieces on here already, but I've found them to be the most interesting posts from the blog that ran from 2004 onwards.

Keep checking back regularly for hints, tips, and general how-to's.

I'll be updating this weekly, and I'm hoping to have some interesting articles and the odd give-away too. Thanks for dropping by!

How To: Apply Liquid Eyeliner

I bring you the step by step guide to putting on liquid eyeliner ...

1) buy one with a good brush (fine, with straight bristles and a good natural point)

2) arrange dressing table/mirror/se

lf so that your elbow is resting on the table and the mirror is at eye level

3) tilt head back so that you are looking down your nose straight into the mirror with your eyes half closed

4) hold eyeliner brush like a pen

5) steady head with relation to face - depending on hand size/finger length/brush type you can either rest your chin on your hand or rest the tip of your little finger on your cheekbone - you'll need to practice a bit to find a comfortable position that leaves the brush pointing down at a slight angle so it clears your eyelashes and so you can still see the end of the brush clearly in the mirror. Keep both eyes open so you can judge distance properly

6) with the brush pointing slightly down and the tip right up against your top lashes, about 1/4 of the way along your lid (1/4 of the way out from your nose) sweep to far end of lid, staying close to lashes. Push a little harder over the middle half of the sweep, then gradually take the brush away so it is barely touching the skin by the time you reach the end of the line (tilt the line up a bit at the end if you are planning to go a little beyond the lash line )

And there you go! Piece of cake. Go away, try it. You'll look marvellous. Sorry, marvellous-er.

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