I don't know about you, but I can spend hours in the beauty hall of a department store, going from counter to counter, testing things, swatching things, desperately trying to avoid makeovers, sniffing products, touching products, poking things. Yes, I'm a bit of a beauty geek, I know.
But, when a department store has a special event going on in their beauty hall, I'm even more likely to pop along and poke more things! I didn't know this, but twice a year House of Fraser hold their "Beauty Confidential" event, which has some fabulous offers, events and wonderful competitions, both online and in their 63 stores around the country. This year's event starts tomorrow, 23rd April, and runs for two weeks up until 7th May.
What can you expect? Well, in their main offer, if you spend £50 in-store on beauty at House of Fraser, or on HouseOfFraser.co.uk, you'll get a whopping £10 off any of these beauty essentials:
1. Gucci Guilty Fragrance
2. Lancôme Visionnaire Serum
3. Decléor Baume Intense Relax
4. Clinique Moisture Surge Intense Skin Fortifying Hydrator
5. Guerlain Noir G Mascara (my favourite! And, at £25 instead of £35, an unmissable bargain)
6. Clarins Hand and Nail Treatment Cream
7. YSL Rouge Pur Couture Lipstick
8. Dior Forever Foundation
9. Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye
10. Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream
House of Fraser are also holding two competitions, both of which have completely wonderful prizes. Firstly, there's the Espa Day Spa package competition where you can win a day at the (completely beautiful) Spa at the Corinthia Hotel, worth £350. I've been lucky enough to spend an hour at the Corinthia spa before now, and I can promise you that this prize is not to be missed!
Or, if a spa day doesn't float your boat, you could try and win an overnight stay at the achingly trendy Babington House, which comes complete with a treatment from the wonderful people at Cowshed.
There's also a wide variety of in-store
events from brands such as Guerlain, Shisheido, Nails Inc, Creme de la
Mer, Thierry Mugler and Clarins, so keep your eyes peeled for what's
happening in your local store!
As if all that is not enough, make sure you follow @HouseOfFraser on Twitter, as they'll be doing a daily giveaway too, with their hashtag: #beautyconfidental Oh, and you might want to keep an eye on the House of Fraser Facebook page too, you never know ...!
What are you waiting for? Get shopping! Make sure you pick up a copy of their Beauty Confidential magazine while you're there, too.
The Fine Print: This has been a sponsored post on behalf of both the House of Fraser Corporation, and the Lippie Wedding bank account.
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My final giveaway this week is probably my favourite, to be honest. I'm giving away a full month's supply of Pure Gold Collagen supplement, which would normally retail at £107. I'm all about the supplements at the moment, and this is one of my favourites. Okay, that's mainly because it tastes absolutely delicious, but still, it's not a hardship to take a supplement if it tastes, good, right? I'm just nearly two weeks into my regime at the moment, so keep your eyes peeled for a full review once it's over! Collagen is absolutely essential to healthy skin, and this is an easily absorbed way to take it, alongside some more essential vitamins and minerals too, such as vitamins, C, E and, B6.
Pure Gold Collagen is a cult product that is regularly sold out on the Boots website so this giveaway might be the only way to get your hands on some, so get entering!
Important note: Pure Gold Collagen is not suitable for vegans.
As most of my readers will know, I'm not actually much of a one for fake tan, but this one struck me as a bit different. The main reason I don't much like fake tan is because I am lazy. Very, very lazy, and, well, fake tan takes a lot of effort to maintain, all that exfoliating, moisturising, applying and showering off for just a couple of days of tanned skin? Meh. Vita Liberata, however, has fixed at least part of that, with their new pHenomenal Tones tan, which promises to last between two to three weeks! For a lazy bum like me, that's something I'm willing to try.
Currently available at Boots in shades Fair and Medium, Vita Liberata are offering one lucky reader of Get Lippie the chance to try their pHenomenal Tones tanning mousse in Dark. It comes complete with a tanning mitt, so you won't get your palms dirty! The kit sells for £37.50.
Rafflecopter will take you through the rest, you get one entry for leaving a comment on the blog post, and if you decide also to like Get Lippie on Facebook, you get an extra entry.
Good luck, and happy tanning!
See anything you want swatches of?
And with flash:
And a better look at the palettes:
I could have bought a CAR for this ... :weeps:
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Beloved by celebrities such as Jade Jagger and Sienna Miller, the Sarah Jones London range of organic body and face products is rapidly gaining a following in the Lippie household too. They're luxurious, but not too budget-busting, and the Rose Kiss toner is what I turned to recently when I ran out of my beloved Darphin Intral toner. It's a real pleasure to use, and I'm looking forward to trying more from the range, ASAP. I love an organic range that doesn't look like it came from someone's kitchen, and this is a rather lovely range indeed.
Sarah Jones have very kindly offered to let one of my readers pick a product of their choice from the range to try for themselves, so go take a look at the Sarah Jones London website here, then let me know via Rafflecopter what you'd like to win (don't forget you get an extra entry for liking Get Lippie on Facebook, too):
With the changing of the seasons, sometimes it's really nice to get a change of look to your makeup too. I popped along to John Lewis on Oxford Street last week, and treated myself to a Bare Minerals "makeunder" tutorial, which I enjoyed very much indeed. Bare Minerals is new to John Lewis, and to celebrate, until the 27th April they're inviting people along to undergo makeunders of their own.
If you're new to to mineral makeup, or just need a new look, the format is excellent, the makeup artist will do half of your face in easy to follow steps, and show you how to recreate the look for yourself. The makeup artists are friendly, and easy to relate to, and won't leave you looking like a drag queen!
I opted for a blue smokey eye, which I adored - and for reasons beyond my control, which I can't show you here today, but I'll recreate it for you soon. Here's the products they used though:
If you want a "Bare Makeunder", then email: events_oxford_street@johnlewis.co.uk
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Just felt like giving a bunch of stuff away this week, so I got my people to speak to some people and see what I could offer to my wonderful readers, and there's some fabulous stuff coming up. I'm doing a different giveaway every day, so make sure you keep checking back to see what's on offer!
Don't worry there will be some regular posts in between too, so there's stuff to read as well ...
My first giveaway is a goodie bag of three So...? fragrances, one each of So ...? Kiss Me, So ...? Brit, and So ...? Sinful. The So...? fragrances are fun and fresh, and they have a scent for almost every occasion, so why not get yourself entered into the draw?
With that in mind, let me introduce you to Rafflecopter, which I'm hoping will make running the giveaways easier, let me know what you think. Primary entry terms is for you to leave a comment on this post, but you can gain a bonus entry for liking Get Lippie on Facebook too, if you like. Rafflecopter will show you how ...
Yeah, it's not a normal Week in Lipstick today - there's too many of them! But, I was wandering through my lipstick collection the other day (like you do), and I realised I have a few Chanel lipsticks. Just a couple, you know:
Expect swatches by formula starting later this week:
Just ONE Chanel lipgloss. I'm appalled at myself, I really am.
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I know! Two "Lippie Loves" in one week! I spoil you people ... [ahem] ... anyhoo, I thought these curved nail files and buffers from former Apprentice contestant Tom Pellereau were going to be a complete gimmick, and I was all ready to write a deeply sarcastic review of them, but I used them, and, well, they're brilliant.
Regular readers will know that I regularly refer to myself as a cack handed muppet. And the reason for that is because I am ... well ... a cack handed muppet. I am so cack handed and useless that I don't really file my nails (or pluck my eyebrows for that matter, but that's a tale for another blog post) because I always, and I mean always mess it up. Surer handed people reading this will be boggling, I'm sure, but it's true.
Anyhoo, I'm digressing, but these are really brilliant. The curve of the files is perfectly calibrated to make them easy to use, and I found getting a great shape on my nails (I prefer a curved shape, personally) was very, very easy. Basically, you just make one or two sweeps from the edge of the nail towards the centre and your nails are shaped and filed in one easy motion. No sawing, and they're very quick. The buffer takes a little more getting used to, but the curved surfaces work really well on that too.
The file has two usable surfaces, one rough, and the other a little smoother, and the buffer (incidentally, has anyone else ever noticed the proximity of the F to the G standard QWERTY keyboard before? Just asking ...) has the traditional four surfaces. I didn't find the buffer worked particularly well on getting rid of nail ridges, but it does give an excellent shine.
The files are reasonably priced at £4.49 each, and they seem quite durable, the packaging states that they'll last up to 12 months. Personally, I hate the spelling of the name - anyone who knows me knows I'd have an issue with it - and I could definitely live without the inventor's face being all over the packaging (I always find it a bit creepy, to be honest, and, as I don't watch The Apprentice, it's almost entirely redundant) but the product itself is, in my opinion, a complete winner.
I'll be buying myself the travel version asap. It's cute in its little pink spiral to protect your stuff from getting scratched. The files are available on Amazon, in Sainsbury's, and they'll be launching in Boots later this year. You can take a look at the official Stylfile website here.
The Fine Print: Sample. Get Lippie is not affiliated in any way with Sir Alan Sugar, but I did used to own an Amstrad emailer phone. Oh, those were the days. I binned it after a week. Anyone remember Betamax?
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