Month: April 2008
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Ok, Its Not Strictly Beauty…
But for anyone with a passing interest in handbags, this book – Bringing Home The Birkin – is a must-read. Author, Michael Tonello found the ultimate golden ticket – a way to skirt round the infamous waitlist at Hermes for the world’s most wanted handbag – The Birkin. With wealthy clients, luxury travel and some…
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You Can Look…
But here’s another one that us Brits can’t touch unless we hotfoot it to the States. Coach make beautiful leather bags and inexplicably they don’t retail over here. However, while the bags are exquisite, so is the more recent Coach beauty round up, including this bottle of fragrance. I almost don’t care how it smells;…
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Supersoft Skin
I’ve been a fan of AD Skin Synergy for years….this oil is such a treat for skin and literally packed with goodness. I can hardly list all the ingredients that go into this wonder oil but here are a few: organic rosehip seed oil, organic rose (high altitude), organic roman chamomile, organic lavender, palmarosa, neroli,…
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Suspect Package
Thank you to my pals at Soap & Glory for sending out press boxes with the above sticker next to my address label. Guys, A) I don’t think the delivery man knows that Sexy Mother Pucker is a lip gloss, and B) Anything with the word SEXUAL slapped across your parcel isn’t good. His look…
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Taggers!
Thank you to the impossibly glamorous Jetsetgirls (thejetsetgirls.blogspot.com) and gorgeous JessG at Cult Beauty (cult-beauty.blogspot.com) for tagging me…….I can’t really work out how to tag back so hopefully my thanks and a namecheck will do instead!
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Stay Out Cold
Having put the icy Play & Rewind (see several blogs down) to the test, I can report that it failed totally on a technical issue – in that it didn’t cool down as it was meant to. You only get one go at it so I’ll never know whether a frozen face would have been…
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Good To Be Clear
There can’t be any doubt what these supplements I found on an Italian website are for. You can check out their even clearer advertising imagary on http://www.naturalproject.it/. Probably not when you’re having breakfast.
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A Toast
Toast, home of droopy clothing for the colourless, have upped their game by introducing some shades other than beige and grey. They’ve also got a neat little bathroom and toiletry section that includes Rose & Rose Geranium or Lavender & Petitgrain Dusting Powder. At 25 pounds for a pot of dust, I think its really…
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Flaming Beauty
Designer’s Guild candles – hitherto rather boring – have suddenly got extremely glamorous. Lime Flower, Guirlande (herbs) and Capucheen (rose) are all as beautiful to smell as they are to look at. A golden rule for mainstream beauty and fragrance retailers is not to bother trying to sell a candle for more than 20 quid…
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NYC Shopping List
After two years in the creative process, luxury cosmetics line Le Metier de Beaute is about to hit counters in the States. With sleek packaging, extensively researched formulas and sheer but bold colours, this brand is ultra-luxy, opening for business in Henri Bendel NYC on May 1st. Its just one more thing to add to…
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Two C’s Worth An A
It’s no secret that I’m a Chanel girl through and through – I’m genetically programmed to walk down Old Bond Street and do a sharp right straight through the doors of the store. More often than not its purely looking but every now and again I can’t resist a bag. Lucky then that Chanel’s beauty…
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SurPrize
Yesterday saw the CEW(UK) beauty awards – an industry insider event where beauty experts, editors and buyers vote for their favourite beauty products. Anyway, swanky lunch at the Park Lane Hotel, glamour unlimited and mercifully brief speeches from the award winners. A couple of the presenters of the awards had a tricky time announcing the…
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Out Cold
I’ve just been sent an intriguing product – Play & Rewind from IcyBeauty. Two self-cooling mono-doses of very cold (its says freezing but not sure it actually is) serum to be applied as a dual system…one (Play) before you go out to boost up your complexion and get it glowing and plumped, the other (Rewind)…
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Red It Yet?
Dainty Doll is a new range aimed at red-heads who find it hard to get tones just right for their unique colouring. Girl’s Aloud star, Nicola Roberts is the brains behind this beauty, and its available through http://www.jellypongpong.co.uk/. Biba-pop-diva packaging, and sheer, wearable shades give it credibility and hopefully longevity.
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Bite Me Valerie
Just when you thought an eyebrow transplant might be a bit, shall we say, out there, along comes tooth tattooing. Get your favourite celebrity, pet or historical figure imprinted permanently on your smile. On second thoughts, don’t. www.toothartist.com