Month: March 2010
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Love & Toast Comes To SpaceNK
If you’ve ever Googled Love & Toast, you’ll find an surprising amount of sites dedicated to toast before you’ll ever find the official Love & Toast site (www.love&toast.com). There is one under construction and only (a cute) look-book that you can see now. But, in case you can’t be bothered to wade through all things…
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Jeanne Lanvin Fragrance: La Rose
I adore pretty packaging and highlight this fragrance as my personal packaging perfection. With a genuine Lanvin label adorning the bottle and two dusky pink tulle pompoms attached to the cap, the use of fabrics on glass is just delicious. In fact, I’m so taken with the pompoms that I’m actually going to find a…
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Philips Lumea Review
Hair removal..just one of life’s irritating essentials, but for the life of me I cannot bear a hairy leg or armpit. So, faced with waxing, shaving or sugaring, I tend to go for the strip wax at home option on legs and bikini, but cannot deal with that under my arms. I’ve always – unhappily…
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Shu Uemura To Pull Out Of US
There are going to be some deeply unhappy US beauty girls who won’t be able to get their Shu Uemura fix since L’Oreal made the decision to pull their US operations. The official statement goes: “Going forward, we decided that L’Oreal USA would be better served by focusing on our other strategic luxury brands like…
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Tom Ford Private Blend Lip Color Collection: Reviewed
Right, here we go – Tom Ford Lipstick as it really is. Twitter this morning was full of talk about whether £30 is too much to pay for a lipstick…given that the Tom Ford Lipsticks are £35 each then some may baulk at that. However, expensive as they are, these are lipsticks that really do…
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Less of Jonathan Ward?
In this instance, less is good. Let me explain. Candle artisan, Jonathan, did a spot of research among his most trusted clients (latest including Dannii Minogue) and discovered that £30 for a candle is fine to spend oneself as a luxury treat but is a little too steep to spend on a friend (and I…
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Beauty Geek? Moi?
I’ve wanted to post about my little stash of Chanel make up for ages, but time got the better of me. Anyway, here are just a few of my favourite ever Chanel limited editions: 4 Fleurs De Chanel, Feeries (2008) each pod of colour shaped like the Chanel Camelia, Quatuor Boutons de Chanel (2009), Levre…
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Chanel Limited Edition: Chanel Orient Extreme
Rumoured to be sold in Chanel Boutiques exclusively, this limited collection is based on The Terracotta Army originating from Xi’an in China. A gold and black manicure, gold and black eyes. Hmm..a very strong look for summer launching in May. Nail Colours are: Black Velvet, Illusion D’Or and Gold Lame. Source: www.lushiousbeauty.nl
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Now This Is A Palette! Lancome Summer
Hot off the blogsphere at www.chicprofile.com a sneaky look at Lancome summer. This is the kind of make up that makes my beauty heart sing. Absolutely amazing.
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More On Tom Ford Lipstick
When the 12 shades hit the shelves later on this spring, you can almost guarantee a sell-out. I’m loving the design; sleek and elegant in ivory and gold and like the sound of the ingredient list that includea soja seed extract, Brazilian murumuru butter and chamomilla flower oil to make the texture creamy, plus a…
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Vending, Vending: Body Shop Machines
If you can’t get enough of your Sweet Lemon Body Butter or Strawberry Body Polish, if you live in the States it’s no longer a question of tracking down the nearest Body Shop. The Body Shop Vending Machines…er, sorry, Automated Retail Points will be popping up in airports and shopping centres. There now, a place…
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Guerlain Summer Colours 2010
Ok, I’ve found my ultimate summer eye quad. The Ombre Eclat Ombre Perlees (limited edition) shades are perfect, perfect for me and wonderful for working the nude look without looking actually dead. Also love the sheerness of the lipshades: KissKiss Baby Limited Edition Nourishing Lip Balm Delicate Nudes, £20. I’m having a real Guerlain moment…
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Oh Dear, Daily Mail: Mixed Messages.
For once, Liz Jones has it spot on in her regular Liz Jones Moans column for the Daily Mail. She takes a pop at beauty adverts, in particular the TV ad for Nivea Visage Q10, for implying broadly that women should be taking responsiblity for their skin feeling pleasantly touchable to others, never mind themselves.…
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Trish McEvoy Bronze Collection Summer 2010
I like small, edited collections like this – perfect for the beauty baffled. This is just lovely quality make up with no drama, gentle and wearable shades and easy application. Its out on counter next month (April).
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How Is Your French? Une Cosmetics from Bourjois
I’ve only got the scantest of information about this new brand from Bourjois launching end of April/beginning of May, but it looks really quite exciting. The ‘natural’ range, with eco-packaging and Eco-Cert ingredients looks like an encouraging step towards deleting toxins from cosmetics, and forthcoming beauty innovations such as new mascara brush designs and ‘portion…