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Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Tom Ford Skin Illuminator - Fire Lust
Tom Ford's summer offering this year is pale, pretty and rather on the sheer side. I've a selection of the products to show you, and I'm starting with the Fire Lust Illuminator, which is a lovely golden apricot shade, which you can use either as a highlighter or mix with your foundations for a sheer-er dewy finish.
A little of this goes quite a long way, it has good slip, and is a beautiful shade.
It's full of micronised pearl pigments, and is rather pale when blended
As you can probably tell here. I blended half of the swatch out, and you can see the effect on the skin is rather ... subtle. As a highlighter, on my skintone, it's not all that effective, but I think on either a much paler, or even much darker skin, the effect would be more pronounced.
That said, this does mix beautifully with foundation. I've mixed this with Estee Lauder Double Wear, and Double Wear light, and the mix gives it a gorgeous dewy finish, but still with a nice amount of coverage, I really like it.
Tom Ford Skin Illuminator in Fire Lust is a limited edition product, and is on sale at Selfridges now for £46.
More from this collection coming up later this week.
The Fine Print: PR Sample
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Monday, 27 May 2013
A(nother) Week in Eyeshadow
Another week, another week of eyeshadow ...
Top row: L-R
NARS Lhasa with Tom Ford Plum Absolute liner
Tom Ford Platinum Cream Eyeshadow with Estee Lauder Extreme Emerald shadow as a liner
NARS Grand Palais with Clinique grey Quickliner
Bottom Row L-R
Tom Ford Pink Haze Cream Eyeshadow (full review later this week) with Clinique Intense Plum Quickliner
Shiseido RD711 Palette with Clinique Intense Chocolate Quickliner
Bourjois Shadow No74 with Estee Lauder liquid liner from the Bronze Goddess collection
All mascara is YSL Babydoll, look out for the review of this later this week ...
How's your week in eyeshadow been?
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013
The Beauty Bible are looking for testers!
God, I love Beauty Bible, and I've been a member of a number of their testing panels for about ten years now.
Currently they're looking to recruit ladies over 35 for their latest version of the Natural Beauty Bible (the last one of which has a couple of my - anonymous - quotes in!), all you have to do is click here to apply to take part: http://beautybible.com/email-us/id-like-to-be-a-tester/ they'll be putting their panels together soon.
Bear in mind: it costs £30 to take part (only payable if you're selected for a panel - it's free to apply), but you do get ten products to trial, and they guarantee that the value of your parcel will be at least £100. And you might get your comments in the book too! Through testing over the years, I've discovered amazing products from the likes of Paul Mitchell, Bobbi Brown, Kanebo, Sensai and other brands that I wouldn't have heard of if I hadn't been a Beauty Bible tester - they're partly responsible for me being a beauty blogger in the first place!
I'll not mention the moisturiser that was like trying to rub cheese into my face, however ...
Whoops
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Monday, 20 May 2013
Bliss Fuzz Off Facial Hair Remover Review
Now, I don't have a moustache, but, if I did, I like to think I'd rock it a bit like this:
Sadly, as the moustache I most definitely do NOT have is a little wispy thing, I can't rock it with this kind of panache on a daily basis, so I generally leave it be. Waxing your face is painful and can leave you with bruises if you do it wrong (allegedly - this cack-handed muppet doesn't wax anything without several glasses of wine and a panadol beforehand, so it might not, now I come to think of it, be the wax's fault ...) and bleaching is time-consuming, smelly and fraught with the dangers of mixing the chemicals yourself (is it just me, or is it simply impossible to know if you have twice as much cream as powder with that stupid little spatula you get in the pack?), so I don't bother with my facial topiary, frankly. Life is too short for moustache-care, and fake-tanning if you ask me.
However, being a beauty blogger, particularly a beauty blogger interested in lipstick, like what I am, means you get to see your face in EXTREME CLOSE UP very often. You know the kind of close up where a tiny line becomes the Grand Canyon, and your pores look like craters of the moon? Like the strongest magnifying mirror you can find, times a bajillion? Well, you don't really want to know what lip-hair looks like under those conditions, frankly ...
So, when Bliss unexpectedly sent me a tube of Fuzz Off, I was slightly bemused. As I don't have a moustache, and bearing in mind that the aforementioned moustache I do not have is left in a state of benign neglect for approximately 50 weeks of the year, I wondered if I'd ever use it. Then I was cropping some lipstick swatch pictures, and realised that there's no time like the present, and decided to give it a go.
It promises to work in three minutes, and to smell nice, which is about all you can ask for, really. Oh, no chemical burns would be good too, and Fuzz Off delivers on all three counts. It's quick, easy to use (you basically spread it on the affected area with the nifty spatula built into the tube, then remove it three minutes later with the other side of the spatula), and doesn't make you wonder who's been at the rotten eggs whilst you're about it.
However, it's £12 for a tiny 15ml tube. I'm not sure how long it would last (although, I will say you don't need a huge amount, and, as you're getting rid of hair from the root, I don't think you'd need to use it all that often, to be honest), but that seems a bit pricey to me. That said though, if I DID have a moustache (which I don't, remember?), then I would buy it, as the design of the tube is excellent and easy enough for even the most cack-handed of muppets to use, and it works very, very quickly.
I wouldn't, however, recommend it for extremely sensitive skins, as there's a chance of irritation, I did find my skin was a little pink after using, but this didn't last long, and hey! No moustache!
The Fine Print: PR Sample.
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Sadly, as the moustache I most definitely do NOT have is a little wispy thing, I can't rock it with this kind of panache on a daily basis, so I generally leave it be. Waxing your face is painful and can leave you with bruises if you do it wrong (allegedly - this cack-handed muppet doesn't wax anything without several glasses of wine and a panadol beforehand, so it might not, now I come to think of it, be the wax's fault ...) and bleaching is time-consuming, smelly and fraught with the dangers of mixing the chemicals yourself (is it just me, or is it simply impossible to know if you have twice as much cream as powder with that stupid little spatula you get in the pack?), so I don't bother with my facial topiary, frankly. Life is too short for moustache-care, and fake-tanning if you ask me.
However, being a beauty blogger, particularly a beauty blogger interested in lipstick, like what I am, means you get to see your face in EXTREME CLOSE UP very often. You know the kind of close up where a tiny line becomes the Grand Canyon, and your pores look like craters of the moon? Like the strongest magnifying mirror you can find, times a bajillion? Well, you don't really want to know what lip-hair looks like under those conditions, frankly ...
So, when Bliss unexpectedly sent me a tube of Fuzz Off, I was slightly bemused. As I don't have a moustache, and bearing in mind that the aforementioned moustache I do not have is left in a state of benign neglect for approximately 50 weeks of the year, I wondered if I'd ever use it. Then I was cropping some lipstick swatch pictures, and realised that there's no time like the present, and decided to give it a go.
It promises to work in three minutes, and to smell nice, which is about all you can ask for, really. Oh, no chemical burns would be good too, and Fuzz Off delivers on all three counts. It's quick, easy to use (you basically spread it on the affected area with the nifty spatula built into the tube, then remove it three minutes later with the other side of the spatula), and doesn't make you wonder who's been at the rotten eggs whilst you're about it.
However, it's £12 for a tiny 15ml tube. I'm not sure how long it would last (although, I will say you don't need a huge amount, and, as you're getting rid of hair from the root, I don't think you'd need to use it all that often, to be honest), but that seems a bit pricey to me. That said though, if I DID have a moustache (which I don't, remember?), then I would buy it, as the design of the tube is excellent and easy enough for even the most cack-handed of muppets to use, and it works very, very quickly.
I wouldn't, however, recommend it for extremely sensitive skins, as there's a chance of irritation, I did find my skin was a little pink after using, but this didn't last long, and hey! No moustache!
The Fine Print: PR Sample.
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Sunday, 19 May 2013
Pink Grapefruit Sugar Cookie Recipe
I don't bake very often, but I've been sitting on this recipe for a while now, and today I just had to get my bake on! I got inundated with requests for the recipe when I posted the pics on Instagram, so I thought the best way to get the recipe out was a blog post. Normal makeup-based service will resume soon, I promise...
Ingredients:
300 grams granulated sugar
114 grams butter
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons pink grapefruit juice
1 tablespoon pink grapefruit zest
256 grams plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
half teaspoon ground cinnamon
quarter teaspoon ground ginger
Pinch of salt
Sugar for dusting
Method:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, 180 celsius, or gas mark 4
Cream the butter and the sugar together, then add the egg, vanilla, juice and zest, and mix thoroughly.
Sift together the flour, spices, baking powder and salt, then mix into the wet ingredients, and mix till you have a soft, sticky dough.
Place tablespoon sized balls of dough onto a lined baking sheet, approximately two inches apart (cookies will spread a great deal), and sprinkle the tops with a little sugar, then bake for approximately 10-12 minutes, removing from the oven once slightly golden, and the edges have set.
Cool on a rack. Makes about 24 cookies.
You get a very crisp cookie with a slightly soft centre, and just a hint of zingy grapefruit. Enjoy!
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Monday, 13 May 2013
A Week in Eyeshadow ...
In a change from my normal "Week in Lipstick" posts, I thought a week in eyeshadow might be in order.
Man, I need to step away from the taupe a bit, eh? All mascara is YSL Babydoll (full review coming soon) and most eyeliner is Tom Ford Noir Absolu except at bottom right, where it's Illamasqua Havoc...
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Sunday, 5 May 2013
Lippie's Lust List #5 - Urban Decay Eyeliner Vault
Released on May 2nd, this set of 40 of Urban Decay's eyeliners is stunningly beautiful. I want it very much.
However, it's £240 so it can sod off.
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