I love wandering around foreign supermarkets (heck, I love wandering around supermarkets in the UK too - I'm a bit odd that way) looking for things I haven't seen before. On this trip, I picked up a few bits and pieces which, whilst not all that interesting in themselves - they're things like shower gel and deodorants - are different enough from the stuff I can get in the UK to have made me want them.
Here we go:
Shower gels. Rhubarb and custard! Seriously, why can't we get rhubarb scented products in the UK? Whilst I'm the first to admit I don't really care for fruity scents, as soon as I saw this one, I flipped and had to buy it. It smells, almost precisely like rhubarb and custard flavoured boiled sweets. I love it. And hey, rhubarb is a vegetable. So there. I also bought the vanilla and pain d'epices scented variety. A creamy smelling shower gel complete with tiny bits of "gingerbread" in the formulation, this smells good enough to eat. I won't though. But it's tempting.
Yeah, I went a bit crazy buying deodorants. I'm an idiot and had forgotten to pack one, so when I spotted these, in scents difficult to find in the UK, I had to pick them up. From left to right we have an amber scent, a vanilla scent, and a green tea and mint. I can't believe no one makes an amber scented deodorant in the UK, it's a beautiful soft-smelling deodorant, which will layer beautifully with any number of my perfumes this winter. I bought the vanilla because hey! Who doesn't want pits that smell of cake? And the mint one? Well, I go a bit wibbly when it comes to body-products that smell of mint, so this one just had to come home with me. It'll pair wonderfully with my Guerlain Herba Fresca perfume. Might be one to save for the warmer months though.
Cotton wool. I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to cotton wool, surprisingly. I have to have pads, and they have to be embossed ones. I find them so much better to use than just plain smooth cotton wool, especially when it comes to removing nail varnish. Embossed cotton wool just seems to work better with liquids, and smooth cotton wool works better for creams and lotions in my experience.
Here you can see the edges of the pads are bonded - slightly - and you have both a smooth and a rougher side. I may have accidentally bought four packs of this back ...
Anything caught your eye?
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I don't think it's legal to come back from a trip to France without a lipstick as one of your souvenirs. Well, if your blog is called Get Lippie, you kind of have to, don't you? And, if it's France, well, that lipstick has to be red.
I spotted the Rouge Baiser lipsticks on our last trip to Paris, and had been kicking myself ever since for not picking one up, so this time, I was a woman determined to get hold of one.
I adore the packaging:
The pewter case (sadly, plastic), the sunburst detailing, it's too gorgeous for words. If I were a different kind of blogger I'd be saying all kinds of wanky crap like "c'est magnifique!" and "tres chic!" but I find that kind of pretentious Franglais irritating beyond belief, so you'll have to settle for me saying "gorgeous" instead. So there.
Because it is.
Did I mention that it's red?
A semi-matte finish, the red of 302 (and I can't pretend that I'm not disappointed the shades have numbers instead of names, because I am) is a blue-based highly pigmented shade, that covers lips in one coat. I don't find it particularly drying, but, like most long-lasting lipsticks (Rouge Baiser state that this is a "comfort long last lipstick) it's not as emollient as many other lipsticks you might have tried in the past, but it slips well over the lips, and you won't feel like your lips have been run through a shredder if you've been wearing it for a few hours.
It's a classic red shade, and I'll be wearing a lot this winter. What was best about it, was the price: 13 Euros. For the packaging alone, I'm happy to pay that price! I bought a separate shade to give to my mother for some French Christmas glamour for her too.
Do you buy cosmetics when you're away? What do you look for? Tomorrow I'll be showing you some supermarket purchases that I just couldn't resist buying whilst I was away ...
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Just a few - a very few - snapshots of my weekend in Paris:
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Normal posting will resume tomorrow ...
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It's been a while, but it's back, back, b a c k!
Here's what I've been wearing on me mush over the last seven days:
From left to right we have:
Lanolips Lemonaid (love this stuff, particularly when my lips are really dry and hard in the cold weather, this softens them up a treat.
Dior Lip Polish, shade No 2. Similar to the above, but leaves a slight milky pink colour behind
By Terry: Terrybly 302 Fanatic Red - you'll be able to read more about this lipstick later on in the week.
Chantecaille Lip Chic - Tea Rose. One of my default lip shades, there is barely a week that goes by that I don't reach for this one.
Poppy King for No7 lipgloss in Glamour. Lovely light pink shade that perks up my lips a treat.
Clinique Lip Smoothie in Strawberry Bliss - this came as part of a GWP recently, but it's a shimmering My Lips But Better shade, that I wore more or less the entire time I was in Paris this weekend.
Tom Ford - Indian Rose. As with the Chantecaille above, this is a shade I reach for again and again and again. I'm going to need a backup.
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It's been - with one notable exception, a neutral kind of week.
Here are some (blurry - sorry!) swatches:
What've you been wearing?
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No real post today, for as you read this, I'm in Paris. I shall be eating, drinking, getting a facial, hitting the Christmas markets, and - of course! - doing a little shopping. I'll be back next week with some (edited) highlights for you. In the meantime, here's a little something to look at:
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